Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes I have only recently played around on a penny auction site, and let me tell you, it can become addicting. Basically, how it works is: you buy a rewards package and use the points to bid on really awesome prizes. The draw is that you can get expensive stuff [...]

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This guest post is by Blog Lady. There comes a time in your career as a blogger or website owner that you find yourself with a niche blog or site that isn't meeting your expectations money-wise. That's nothing to feel bad about. It happens to everybody, and if some say it's never happened to them, [...]

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‘Tis the season for Social Good and music. These are definitely two of my favorite things in the world and Horn Group has brought both of them together in an...

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Over the summer, YouTube revealed that hundreds of partners are now making six-figure incomes, but how much do individual video partnerships make?  Earlier this week Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times reported that it may be more than you think.  Cute videos of kids going viral could be enough to send the kids to college and more, and though YouTube expressly forbids their partners to reveal exactly how much money they make from YouTube, they’ve revealed some pretty nice estimations.
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This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post here at problogger.net about how Firepole Marketing makes money. I explained that even though we’re less than a year old, we’ve already made over $20,000, and that over half of that came from offline sources. We wanted [...]

Read More: Want to Make Money Online? Then Stop Reading and Get Moving!

Creating content online can be fun, whether write blog posts, make video blogs or create other types of content.  However, earning money for your work is rare for many content creators.  That’s why live mobile video streaming service Bambuser has teamed up with social micropayment service Flattr to give video bloggers the chance to be "flattrd" and earn real money for their work.


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Local transactions by Kenya's mobile money service, M-Pesa currently exceeds transactions made by Western Union globally, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reports. According to the IMF, “M-Pesa now processes more...

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This is an excerpt from TNW's Complete Guide to iOS 5. If you're interested in more information about Apple's latest mobile OS, you should check it out here. And be sure to take...

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This is a quasi-reblog from The New York Times with my view below. Yesterday in the New York Times there was an article discussing Groupon & Zynga's IPO woes (which is their own fault). So, before reading any further please read the original article because it is deeply fascinating, especially when it comes to their [...]

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This guest post is by Jock Purtle of brokercorp.com. So you want to sell your blog? Your site is probably making more than $3,000 per month and you know that it might be worth a decent amount of money. Recent sales like that of the Huffington Post give you confidence that your content-based site has [...]

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This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. Our blog is less than a year old. We started Firepole Marketing less than a year ago, and we’ve done pretty well with it over that time. A lot of people know who we are, and what we do. I’ve even been dubbed the Freddy [...]

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This guest post is by James Penn of AcceleratedNicheProfits.com. A few weeks ago, on the ProBlogger Community Boards, I started a new forum topic titled, "Help Me Monetize 1,000 Visitors Per Day." My natural health blog had experienced some rapid traffic growth, and had grown from 80 visitors per day to over 1,000 visitors per [...]

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This is a guest post by Joke and Biagio of JokeAndBiagio.com Setting: a busy production office in Hollywood, California. Joke stares at her husband Biagio in disbelief. Joke: You bought another book from Darren Rowse? Biagio: Well, uh, no…this one's actually by the Web Marketing Ninja… Her face goes blank. Joke: Did you just say…Ninja? [...]

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Do you need to raise funds to get your idea off the ground? You've got a brilliant business idea, but your bank lacks your vision. (Or perhaps you lack the collateral.) Maybe you reached out to friends and family, but you know they lost their shirts when your brother-in-law's salmon-flavored energy drink flopped. Is this [...]

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Recently, I posted my "How bloggers make money MindMap" on Google+. I've had a few people ask for clarification around the Advertising section, and what all the options there mean. Here's a summary: 1. Ad networks These are services like AdSense and Chitika but also smaller or more local ones like NuffNang (which operates out [...]

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The buzzword on everyone’s lips at the moment is social commerce. It’s the area within social media that shows the most promise as it represents a step towards change in the way people engage with social media.We’ve now progressed from using social media as a place to converse and share content, and as we build up trustworthiness in social channels we are becoming more comfortable with the idea of transferring money and allowing social technologies to transform the shopping experience. Yet it’s [...]

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Microsoft SkyDrive provides a lot of cloud storage space for a great price: Free. Free gets you 25GB of space for Microsoft Office files and photos and 5GB of synced storage space (via Windows Live Mesh). Microsoft has Windows Live Mesh software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. However, Microsoft does not provide access for Android and iOS (iPhone, iPad) devices. Nor does it provide full access for its own Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 7 is limited to uploading photos to Skydrive and synchin [...]

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Well folks, you’ve made it halfway through the workweek and the weekend is so close you can smell it…but it’s not quite here.  We’ve got just the boost to get you through the second half of the week—it’s our Weekly Dose Of WTF!  This week we’ve got seven amazingly wacky videos that will make you tilt your head, raise an eyebrow and ask, "WTF?!"  This week’s roundup includes a keyboard-playing horse, an amazing swimming pool feat, fried butter on a stick (seriously!), a spider, a cow and…SILENCE! [...]

Read More: Weekly Dose Of WTF – Keyboard Horse Gives Keyboard Cat A Run For His Money

The popular daily deals site, known as Groupon, is losing an incredible amount of money as indicated by its financial statement or other formal document submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.


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This post is the third in a series examining misconceptions and myths about blogging that many new (and some experienced) bloggers have about blogging. We've already discussed the misconceptions that blogging takes super-human effort (or is easy!) and that you must post every day on your blog. Today's misconception is all about money. It's one [...]

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