Do you think I forgot about LINK LOVE?!?!
Let’s get into this week’s run down! 
This was honestly one of the longest weeks of my life, haha. When you have a combination of a two-day business trip and the first week of school back in classes getting things in order (and catching up on already missing school for a trip!)… it’s a deadly combo. Things may have taken a toll here, but that is out of the way and since I am in a competition with Cash Tactics… I need to get the ball rolling! But before we talk about that, let’s get into the best posts for the week:
- Blogtrepreneur – Make Money with Your Own Job Board
- SEO Revolution – 16 Steps to Dominate in CPA/Affiliate Marketing
- Smarter Wealth – The Importance of Having Banners
- Suite J – Are You Still on Track?
- The Money Making Blog – Tips to Make your Blog Stick Out!
We start out with an awesome tutorial on raking in cash from a “job board” website. Blogtrepreneur shows us some resources that you can use to house job boards on your website and profit on the traffic. Next, we have an awesome list from SEO Revolution that tells you exactly how you can dominate your way through affiliate marketing. My buddy Smarter Wealth posts a simple, but important post on the important of having banners for your blog or website… something too many people don’t do! Sweet Suite J gives what I felt was the best post of the week… and awesome motivation piece that has some killer advice, such as setting your desktop wallpaper for motivation (mine is a picture of Avril 
Lavigne… does that count?). Finally, the MM Blog runs through some great tips to make your blog stick out; just a few simple steps that can really enhance your readership.
Stock Market Update
It’s been rough waters out there in the markets. Now that we head into earnings season… we might get a fist-full of bad news, or some unexpected upward momentum? We’ll have to wait and see how companies report their fourth quarters before we lock in judgment on this one. It would seem that our bad opening to the new year just got quite a bit worse, as we again trended down on all of the major indices in the U.S. and around the world. Leading the charge? Financials! Down a whopping 16% on the week led by Bank of America and Citigroup.
We’re increasing the bailout plan??? Argghhh!!! President Barack Obama (will be signed in today) has continued to urge Washington to boost stimulus plan spending to get the economy growing again… despite the sizable amount we have already given. The new plan calls for $825 in stimulus (compared to President Bush’s $700b proposal), including $550b in spending and $275 in a tax cut. I know that bailouts make everyone feel good for the time being, but let’s get real here… we need to stop. This is getting out of control. 
What’s Happening in the Blogosphere?
A lot of the small-cap bloggers are posting some great information nowadays… it’s nice to see those new years resolutions coming in strong! I made a couple of pivotal moves this week personally, including signing up for a new newsletter account on Aweber (the leading newsletter/opt-in service). I am hoping to capitalize on revenue here and possibly convert some new readers toward my blog. This is more of 
a long-term goal than anything else… but I wanted to have a system in place to start building a list.
Affiliate Summit West happened this week (January 11-13 2009) in beautiful Las Vegas. This is pretty much becoming the biggest affiliate convention in the United States, and hundreds of companies were represented in this most recent event. A lot of my friends went down to pick up new tricks of the trade, teach seminars and network with potential clients. Overall, it seemed like a solid event… and you can see some pictures and a quick recap here. This is always a huge commotion, and it seemed like a lot of fun. Next stop… Affiliate Summit East in New York City in August 2009!
I’m going to be looking for ways to branch out with my personal network, and wanted to get the ball rolling with a nice newsletter that can follow me around. One interesting tool that I have come across is called OptIn Comments by my boy Ian Fernando. I’m definitely going to be picking this thing up, as it can convert ANYONE that comments on your blog into a subscriber. By using Aweber in combination with OptIn, you could have everyone that comments automatically subscribed to your newsletter (following email confirmation of course), and can really boost your income as a result! I highly recommend checking this WordPress plugin out while it’s cheap.
Back to work, let’s keep positive and stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting
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Thanks a lot for the link love Jim
I have to say I am VERY excited to wake up to a link love- my favorite post anywhere of the week. Can’t make any comments on the links yet as being a work day it will take me most of the day to squeeze it in between my real work. Thanks for making my day.
Oh ya valentine is coming soon, so in advance i wish u all Happy valentine day.
Twitter: @melvinblog
January 20, 2009 at 10:57 am #
But for this day and more days to come people will leave the internet to witness…”obama!” LOL…
I like Blogpreneur’s idea as using job boards for traffic and more money for your blog. This will be a new feature for my new blog design
Good Link Love. I like blogtrepreneur’s and smarter wealth’s posts. and All the best for your competition with cashtactics.com
Thanks for the great links.
Link Love is one of my favourite posts. I look forward to them each week!
Nice link love this week…I thought Smarter Wealth’s posts was pretty good and definitely something every blogger needs to be doing.
Sophie
http://findcollege.info – helping you navigate the social jungle that is college!
Hi there Jim,
Great post! Yes, the bailouts seem to be getting a bit bizarre!
Thanks for the link love and for including Blogtrepreneur.com!
Good stuff Jim! That plugin looks killer. I had been looking at another one that was similar, I hadn’t seen this one. I think the one I saw was called action comments or something like that. But it’s the same concept…so good stuff.
I haven’t been over here in a while man! Good to see ya still droppin the love!
The plugin looks sick. I’m gonna wait for the free version though. Did you figure out who was spamming your blog?
I like Blogtrepreneur’s post & Great link love overall.
Once again, good luck with the contest with cashtactics
For a minute I thought I missed you at the Summit! Sorry you weren’t there, I’d love to meet you in person! Will you be at the NY one?
Twitter: @jimvesting
January 21, 2009 at 10:34 am #
I will be if somebody cool buys me a plane ticket, Summit pass, room and board
I think this is the preparation for the valentines’ day. Am I right?
Hi Jim,
825b too damn much, thats going to be a real mess when it finally exploded in our faces. I hope this is not going to provoke a bigger crisis.
A bailout may help in the short run, but it will not take away a company’s piss poor management!
Thanks for the linkage and also for the kind words, sir!
Glad to see you hooked up on Aweber. I don’t know how I feel about Optin Comments yet, but I’m definitely into pushing subs through Aweber. I don’t use it through my SuiteJ blog yet, but I will when I change the design.
Do you ever go to blog/affiliate conventions? I’m going to try and hit one sometime in late 09.
Cheers!
Jay
Twitter: @jimvesting
January 21, 2009 at 10:35 am #
Nah, I don’t typically go to any conventions. Heck, this might change in the future… plus I need to go to NYC sometime soon anyway haha
I LOVE THE NET FOOL! It’s an awesomely design website with some very useful information! Plus Jim Rocks!
The stuff about love is worth commenting and discussing.It is one of the eternal subjects in the world. It is not so frequent in blogosphere.
This is great info, I wonder whats going to happen now that they increased the bail out. 825 billion dollars is a lot of money.