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Money Making Report No.4

Money Report
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Welcome to the fourth money making report, it doesn’t seem long since I did the last one.

Since signing up for Adtoll and Project Wonderful. I have also signed up for Amazon. This is great except I am only showing UK Amazon at the moment. Although I am currently setting up an Amazon.com affiliate account. Then with some nifty code I should be able to target visitors depending on what country they come from.

Thankfully I have had no server problems this month although I lost two days due to it being February!

As before I am not including any online survey earnings, although you may be interested to know that I have received £10 ($20) of shopping vouchers from Toluna.

You also may have noticed the moving of Adsense units, this is purely experimental following suggestions from visitors.

But now lets get to business… [Read more]

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The 4 P’s of Marketing and your Blog, Promotion!

Marketing Mix
photo by TooFarNorth

Following on from my first, second and third installment in this series on the marketing mix, I would like to introduce the third ‘P’ of the 4 P’s.

Promotion

Essentially if no one knows about a product it will never sell. Same with a blog (or website), if no one knows it exists, then no one will read it.

Firstly promotion is all about getting noticed, there are basically two ways to go about this-

  • Stand on a box, shout and scream.
  • Politely go round introducing yourself to everyone.

Ultimately what you do is up to you, there are many different ways such as - [Read more]

The 4 P’s of Marketing and your Blog, Price!

Marketing Mix
photo by TooFarNorth

Following on from my first and second posts in this series on the marketing mix, I would like to introduce the Second ‘P’ of the 4 P’s.

Price

It is very unlikely you are charging for the privilege of reading your posts. Price is easily defined when we talk about real products, for that scenario, price influences peoples perception of the product. A high price can suggest quality, a low price may suggest it is an inferior product. Ultimately it is up to the consumer to decide whether the product is good value for money. This will influence repeat sales.

In terms of a blog or website this can be seen as analogous to new visitors gaining the information they want. [Read more]