In many ways, this presidential election is unlike any we have ever had in history. Either a African American man or a woman will be elected to one of two of the most powerful positions in the world. We face an economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression. And the history books will certainly [...]

Nicole originally asked if she should pay for online advertising before her products were ready. Nicole followed up with this question: Did you mean that I should pay for traffic after I do this even though my services aren’t ready? I expect a 6/1 launch date (I hope!), so do I wait or perhaps pay [...]

Nicole at Picknick’s Brain follows up with:
Did you mean that I should pay for traffic after I do this even though my services aren’t ready? I expect a 6/1 launch date (I hope!), so do I wait or perhaps pay for some text ads on Google, now? A 125×125 ad here or there? What [...]

Nicole Asks: I just launched a new design of my website. I am new to all of this. My primary goal is the business, not the blog, so I’m combining social networking with traditional advertising. But, I don’t have my services offered up yet as it’s requiring some programming that won’t be done until the [...]

Last week, I asked you about your challenges regarding making money online. The most common answer to my questions was, “Getting things to convert”, as in, getting your products or services to sell, getting an affiliate link to convert into a commission, getting a visitor to convert into a subscriber, or getting a visitor to [...]

Last year I started a series on how to make money from blogging, in which I covered the basics of different blog monetization strategies and discussed affiliate marketing in blogging on a more detailed level. The blogosphere was abuzz in 2007 with new CPA (Cost Per Action) and CPC (Cost Per Click) monetization options, which [...]

This article is Part II of a series on How to Make Money from a Blog. The first article was How Do You Make Money from a Blog? A Beginner’s Guide to Internet Advertising.
Last week I talked about the different internet advertising models for making money from a blog: Affiliate Advertising, CPC Advertising and CPM [...]