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Webmaster Inspiration Month and Contest!

5 People Speaking Their Mind - Put In Your Two Cents!

Posted on October 4, 2007 in Online Merchant, Working Online  

Over at Earners Forum they are hosting a Webmaster Inspiration Month Contest! with over $5500 dollars in prizes. Check Out the details below.

The Good Stuff First – Contest Prizes!

With this contest we will have a total of 7 winners! At the end of Webmaster Inspiration Month (Contest ends October 31st at 11:59pm CST) the 7 winners will be chosen. Each winner will receive each of the following:

  1. $250 Gift Certificate to Text Link Ads!
  2. 24 T-Shirts Custom Printed For Your Web Site (multiple shirt colors, sizes from Adult Small – XL, and 6 colors front-side printing) from NDesigns!
  3. $250 CASH MONEY From Neverblue Ads!

    4. In addition to the items above, the submission that receives the most votes (or backs
    as we call them on Earners Forum) will also win a brand new iPod Touch (valued at $300)!                                   

    See Live Contest Rankings!

    Over $5,500 In Prizes!

Contest Details

This contest is rather simple and quite motivational! All you have to do to participate in the contest after registering as a member of Earners Forum is submit your success story in one of the following 6 categories:

  1. Blog Success Story – Submit Here
    How did your blog become the success that it is? Is it highly trafficked? Is it your sole income?
  2. Forum Success Story – Submit Here
    Did you grow it from scratch? Has your membership growth been exponential? Huge traffic and/or income?
  3. Affiliate Marketing Success Story – Submit Here
    Is it your sole income? Did you have a campaign with extraordinary ROI? Did a campaign buy you a new car?
  4. SEO / SEM Success Story – Submit Here
    Are you #1 for a hot keyword? I pwn Google? Did you drive huge traffic to a new site (viral, social media, organic)?
  5. Rags to Riches Success Story – Submit Here
    Did you go from the poor house to Trump’s mansion? Did your net worth finally move in to positive numbers?
  6. “I Quit My Job” Success Story – Submit Here
    Did you quit your day job due to your internet success?

Your focus in making your submission should be to tell your success story and inspire other webmasters to succeed. You can share as much or as little detail as you’d like, but remember as we judge the submissions at the end of the month we will be looking for the most inspiring and the best details. You can make multiple submissions if you want to share multiple success stories, or you may experience success in several of the categories. This contest is not just for those who have made millions, we want to hear from you all. If you started out with nothing and are now profiting $20 a day, then share that success story with us!

I have entered my story and would appreciate your Backs/Votes. My post can be found under I Quit MY Day Job in 2006! And of course feel free to make your entry as there are some great prizes who can’t use some free Text Links, T shirts or most importantly $250 in Cash!

It is a great time to be a Online Merchant

5 People Speaking Their Mind - Put In Your Two Cents!

Posted on August 14, 2007 in Online Merchant, Working Online  

Right now is an awesome time to be a merchant, if you have a great product. Just think of it this way. Say you are a merchant and you have a good item. Let’s call this item billybobs. So you have a website where you sell billybobs and you are doing well selling them but want to sell more as you have a great profit margin. So you hear about affiliate marketing where you can have people promote your billybobs and give them a percentage for each sale or pay them per lead etc..  Since you are selling a product you would either go with flat rate or a percentage. For this instance lets say the Billybob’s sell for 30.00 and you have a great margin of 20.00.  So it would be worth it to you to pay an affiliate 10.00 of that margin to make the sale. So you join CJ or push your offer thru various Affiliate networks.

Here is the best part for merchants, you get free branding and promotion. Because you only pay out when you make a sale. Trust me there are many affiliates that will promote your product spend anywhere from 10 to a few hundred and maybe not even make a sale but got more of the word out on your billybobs. Plus you increase your sales from those affiliates that promote your product to areas and people you would have never thought to reach. The only downside is you need to clarify if there is any areas you don’t want your product promoted. Other than that have fun enjoying the rewards of being a Merchant on the internet.