Happy Monday!
Time for some Link Love!
We’ve got an interesting week planned here at theNetFool.com. First things first, our Fight to End Poverty is winding down and will conclude on next Saturday, the 28th. You can win some HUGE prizes generously donated by Motive Interactive… so take a look and move on the opportunity if you have the time. I’m going to do an interesting series of posts over the next week on building up your own “Get Paid To” GPT website. This is something that I know a lot of people have been asking about… as we would all rather be business owners than business customers. Let’s check on the week that was:
- Garry Conn – How Can I Attract More Visitors to My Website?
- Thou Shall Blog – Are You Making This Mistake in Building Trust?
- The University Kid – How to Make Money from Your Blog
- John Cow – Make Your Applications Work Together, to Work Better!
- The Germz – Top 50 Ajax Tools, Scripts & Solutions
Starting us off… it’s the man, the myth, the legend Garry Conn, showing everyone how to attract more visitors to your nice website in a Q&A type setting. Then, Thou Shall Blog brings a nice anecdotal piece on building trust in your business. The University Kid stays active with a post about how to make money from you blog… specifically through list building. John Cow puts together a nice article on how to make your applications all work together as one, increasing efficiency and ease of use. Finally, the Germz talks Ajax with the top 50 tools and solutions that use the service… definitely a cool list!
Stock Market Update
The markets were in free fall last week, and this has not really changed entering the new week. Over the past six trading days, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been down about 10%… ouch. 
Equities are definitely scary at this point in time, as we have created new lows in the market and are starting to see things decay beyond points that we thought were possible.
At this point, there is wide speculation that America’s banking system will be nationalized. The first step in this would be to take 40% of Citigroup under federal control. While the number has been estimated between 25% and 40% (with America hoping for 25%), it is really uncertain. Essentially, the government here would dilute the common stock of Citi in order to get a control of one of the largest lenders in the world. Nationalization of the banking sector is something that the United Kingdom has really already done. While many think it would be a bad idea long term… it could prove necessary to keep our private sector from failing.
When will an investment in equities be worth yoru while again? It’s really tough to say… as a lot of investors are running to the bond market, or just staying with their cash under the mattress for the time being. At this point, we almost expect a bear market rally… but it still hasn’t come, which is a major concern to many. Hopefully we will see something pick up this week, but who’s to say!
Blogosphere Update
Alright, alright, I didn’t get any posts out last week (save the link love). The problem was essentially my sleeping patterns with THON. Dance Marathon (formally “THON”), as many of you know or have heard me talking about, is the largest student philanthropy in the world where we 
raise money for kids with cancer. The “big event” as it were was this weekend at Penn State University, so I spent all weekend (20+ hours at least) in our basketball stadium dancing for kids with cancer. While it was widely speculated that this would be the first year we wouldn’t top numbers from last year, THON raised almost $7.5 million for cancer treatment and research this year… which beat last years numbers by around a wide margin! I suppose that charity is recession resistant, eh? 
Hopefully you readers can excuse my absence for the week. To make it up to all of you, this week we will be covering the exciting world of “Get Paid To” programs… and specifically how you can start your own GPT company. This is something that is highly requested throughout the internet, so hopefully we can all learn something new here. I have a multi-parter in the works, so expect that this week!
Stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting
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Looking forward to the GPT posts, I don’t know too much about that whole area and would like a solid introduction.
Some good links to some superb articles posted. I have read most of them now and can honestly say they are all good articles written by quality bloggers. Thanks for sharing.
This week’s link love is great. those were great posts Garry conn’s post was superb.
I think the best were the one from Gary Conn. We can never have enough traffic, great tips.
Thanks for the great links.
I wish I could take part in the THON. That’s a very noble goal
Monday link love is posting a link to sites or blogs, usually unsolicited, that you enjoy, admire, or find useful.
Thanks for the great links. I looking forward to geting more links here.
Some good links to some superb articles posted.