If you are a regular reader of my blog, there’s a good chance you either own your own website or you plan to do so someday. And very likely, you are either monetizing your site by showing ads, or you are considering it. The ad market is in a slump right now, along [...]

Posted on May 28th, 2009 by DazzlinDonna
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Tomorrow I’m going to make a special post, and I’m looking forward to making it. But before I do that, I wanted to share a blog post I just finished reading elsewhere. There are a couple of things I say often:
1. I am not rich, but I make a living by working [...]

Posted on December 29th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
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Occasionally, I’ll explore methods of making money online without having experience with it myself. Generally, I only like to pass on things I’ve tried, so that you get the benefit of my experience. Sometimes, though, I know people who have the experience that I don’t, and I will occasionally allow them to guest [...]

Posted on December 8th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
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If you do any affiliate marketing at all – occasionally or as a large business – you should consider adding a new free tool that can make a huge difference in your affiliate earnings. This awesome new tool is a URL shortener called Cli.gs. For those of you who may not be familiar [...]

Posted on November 26th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
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Every now and then I feel like it’s my duty to remind people that they should begin their new career of starting an online business from home – while they are currently working in one of those “real” jobs that forces you to get up every day, get dressed, get in your car, and drive [...]

Posted on November 10th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
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Performancing has finally opened up their new 125×125 ad service to everyone and EVERY blogger should sign up. With a simple WordPress plugin and one line of code in your theme’s sidebar, you’re ready to accept advertising, and Performancing handles all the details of getting that advertising for you. And because Performancing has [...]

Posted on July 25th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
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I’m really excited to hear about Wendy’s latest project. Sorry, I’m getting ahead of myself. For those of you who don’t know who Wendy is, I’m referring to Wendy Piersall (aka eMom) who transformed her eMomsAtHome blog into a blockbuster work at home blogging network now called SparkPlugging. I’ve watched Wendy make [...]

Posted on July 10th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
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That’s right, to honor the six month anniversary of In Your Pajamas, I’ve reduced the price to just $5. You don’t have to rush over to buy it now either. The price won’t be going back up. It will stay at $5 so you can take all the time you need to make a decision. This isn’t a gimmick to make you think you have to hurry, hurry, hurry, or the price will go back up, or there will only be a limited number of copies sold, or any other of the typical “fire sale” tactics you see every day.

It’s $5 now. It’ll be $5 tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, and the…you get the picture. You can procrastinate…

Posted on April 12th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
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When I first started out in affiliate marketing, I was broke. Every tiny bit of cash I earned was greeted with cheers of joy, and deep breaths of gratitude. Occasionally, a check would arrive in the mail for $10, and I’d be skipping down the driveway into my house, waving that check as [...]

Posted on January 7th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
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Ad blindness has long been a problem for anyone trying to monetize a site via ads. Site visitors are so accustomed to seeing ads that they no longer really “see” them. If you are hoping that your visitors will actually click those ads, it’s a lot less likely if they didn’t “see” the [...]

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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