Here’s to another great edition of….
Sunday Link Love at Jimvesting dot com!
From talking about a great way to start off the New Year by making some money with “best of 2009” lists, to an all-inclusive 2008 stock market recap to get everyone caught up… it seems like we really held some attention this week! Before we go forward, let’s do it like we always do and have a look back on what happened for the week, this time around ending January 10th, 2008:
- The Keyword Academy – 5 Places You Can Look for New Keywords
- Inspired Money Maker – Top Ten Real Reasons Why You’re Not Rich
- Frogstr – Will Businesses Have to Deal with Personal Branding?
- Linkers Blog – Taking Article Marketing to the Next Level
- Jim Kukral – Beyond the Website – Using Social Media and More!
We had some great material coming out this week… so let’s start with the Keyword Academy. This is a relatively new blog, but gives some great advice including their post on looking for keywords. My buddy Paul from Inspired MM wrote a very top-notch article on why you AREN’T making money online. The theory goes: eliminate the bad, increase your earnings! My man Ben from Frogstr wrote up a clever piece on the future impact of social media and what he calls “personal branding.” The crazy linker decided to run through, step-by-step, how to article market 
and make real profits off of it. Finally, online guru Jim Kukral brings you an awesome and motivational presentation video about using social media and the “whole web” to see things from a different view and get your business cookin’!
Stock Market Update
Could this have been exactly the fall I predicted last week? We fell 4.5% this week on the markets, with all ten sectors of the market in the red for the week. After a dismal (but expected) jobs report, it seemed that no news was good news for investors. This is what we should be expecting in a long market recovery. We were riding high on the past two weeks of gains heading into, and crossing over, the new year of 2009. However, the typical economic recovery from a recession is slow and steady… so we shouldn’t expect to rebound like crazy and make it out alive.
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 7.2% (up from 6.8%) on a report issued this week. I expect this to climb at LEAST over 8%, as companies are continuing to cut jobs and few are actually increasing hiring… to say the least. Industrial manufacturing giant Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced that they would indeed be cutting more jobs in its commercial airplane business, and oil & gas giants Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) and Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) followed suit by announcing similar cutbacks.
Blogosphere Update
Is the blogging world really in a slump? One trend that I have noticed is that a lot of the “big bloggers” are slowing down in their writing efforts. On the other hand, I have noticed several newer bloggers making a stand and getting a nice boost in traffic. A New Year’s resolution to start a 
blog perhaps? I just wish that the more established writers would get back in their groove and write up some posts!
My buddy Ian Fernando is holding a huge contest for a new affiliate network called “Express Revenue.” I had to give him a hard time about the ridiculous prizes… but hey, it’s all in good fun when you are making money together. Derek from Click Consultants put up a new radio podcast show, this time about using affiliate marketing strategies.
If you guys haven’t signed up already, there is a great magazine out that is all about affiliate marketing and making money online. I’ve picked up a few tips and tricks that I love, and I feel that the magazine is especially beneficial to beginners or people new to the industry that want to get a taste of how things work. The magazine is called FeedFront, and is put out by the guys that run Affiliate Summit every year. Best of all… it’s free! Get a free one-year subscription by signing up here!
The Upcoming Week at Jimvesting.com
It’s going to be tough getting a huge week out… but I’m going to do my best! I’m actually going to be traveling on Tuesday and Wednesday for an interview with PNC Bank for a summer internship. Additionally, I’m traveling today back to Penn State for the next semester. So we could witness a late-week rally into the weekend around here… but you will get some great posts because I have ideas ready to go! 
That’s it for this week… stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting
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Hey Jim! Thanks a lot for the love, I’m happy you enjoyed the post!
Man, I didn’t know about that CRAZY contest Ian is holding. I had a look at the prizes and I was like…what the…
Also, thanks for sharing all these other links and I wish you good luck for your interview, I’m sure you’ll kill it!
Twitter: @melvinblog
January 11, 2009 at 7:08 am #
Actually after winning a ton of ml contests last year, Im looking forward to start this year w/winning that contest..
Yeah dang melvin.. you won it all!
Who doesn’t like contests, especially those with very juicy prices (not ridiculous prizes like the one you mentioned,
). I noticed a couple running at several other blogs. No doubt, they help to keep things active.
I really enjoy the Sunday link love posts- not only do you do a great recap but I always find at least one new blog to subscribe to.
I enjoyed the Keyword Academy article this week- you can never learn too much about keywords and SEO.
Thanks for the great links.
Loved the Frogstr post this week. Definitely worth of the link love!
Thanks buddy!
Hey Jim! Another Sunday Link Love
Well done.
Anyways, thanks for letting us know about Ian Fernando’s contest.
Good posts all the way this week too. Thanks for mentioning . Looking forward to see more on Jimvesting this week
I also follow Keyword Academy. I agree, there is superb keyword info there. That site was create by Courtney Tuttle, who also runs Courts Internet Marketing school which is even better. I learned a ton from that blog.
what a crazy contest! Over $600000 in prizes
That is a pretty crazy contest. January seems to be the month for affiliate contests on blogs though. It’s great to see a little bit of variety as well.
I’m also holding a Motive Interactive contest on my blog, check it out if you want. Some great prizes there as well.
http://ironblogger.com/ironblogger%E2%80%99s-challenge-for-the-cure/
Thanks for the link love Jim. I will continue to read your blog so I can add one of your posts to my new section called “Sunday Posts Office Links”
Hi Jim,
Those were great articles, I like The Keyword Academy – 5 Places You Can Look for New Keywords, we always need places to look for profitable keywords.
You are right. There seems to be an epidemic of bloggers block going around the blogsphere. I am no exception either!
Those are quality articles. I especially appreciated the one by linkersblog. I really like how you do this wrap together with the pictures, and rants on different things. My favorite is the blogosphere update. I wish there was like a blogginggossip newsletter or something. Where you can get the scoop on what’s happening everywhere. Like which blogs are being sold, which ones have updates… I would do it but it would be sooo much time researching. Maybe I could get a group project doing it or something.
These are some real greats picks for the week
Inspiring!
Hi Jim,
Seems like there’s a lot of blogging “resolutions” since 2008 proved to be a tough year for many… maybe they’re turning to making money online by blogging?
This is my first visit here and looks like there are some cool things happening
Asher
It is nice seeing popular blogs giving some link love to the smallers blogs.
And that is how blogs get popular..
Jim,
I’m starting to try to get in on some of these contests, they are kind of fun. I’m getting a little bit of traffic from the 125 ad, thanks again for that!
Mmm yummy readings again.. By the way, how do you make your choices for link love anyway?
Thanks for the links, I really like the inspiredmoneymaker.com article. Great post
Another great list of excellent reviews. Bringing article to next level is one of the best.
great sunday link love!
subscribed to a few blogs. you always provide a good recap on these post 
Dennis,
Just came across this blog. First of all I really enjoy your post. They are fun and refreshing. I love a good contest, don’t participate in many anymore but I appreciate the interactive feedback between a blog and their readers.
I have bookmarked and will be returning I am hooked
Megan