Need any help to make money online or using the internet to promote your business? I’m sure most of you do as 8 out of 10 people who read this blog have the same dream, but less than half of them succeed. I’m sure all of you agree that this blog has got great content to help you start you start your first internet business, but having someone experienced to hold your hands always feels great and boosts your confidence.

We can help with coaching, site design/development, launch planning, content development, online marketing, social media and SEO.

I guess most of you have already realized that the failure or success of any internet business depends on the traffic you can gather, this is usually the tough part. Most people believe that good quality content in a proper quantity definitely brings in traffic, this was the formula of the old days, today even the best content cannot lead to popularity, of course content is the back end for attracting traffic, but marketing has gained an upper hand. More than your investment, it depends on your skill of investing time and money and for newbie this isn’t child’s play.

From the beginning we were aware of this lack of information and skills in our readers, so we decided to start such a service to help people and at the same time build up our financial muscles using this, and most of all fill up our appetite for challenges. We have a whole team which is dedicated to provide you with the best service possible and almost all of them believe in our values.

We seriously give more importance to the quality of our work rather than our quantity, and thats why we have established trust in our network, we have provided services to many local startups here in India and all of them have been highly impressed with our work, this was one thing that forced us to make it big and start our services formally.

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Vishal Sanjay a 14 year old blogger and internet marketer, I really don’t see a problem with my age, I have succeeded online and I’m sure I can help you and your company succeed as well. Someone said that money can buy you the best, but in our case its wrong, we believe in giving the best quality service and at the lowest possible price.

I’ve been part of this industry only for the past 2 years, but I’ve met, consulted and advised a lot of people since then, and I’m currently very confident about my skills in this industry. I’ve started 3 sites, all of which make a steady income each month and I’ve help start more than 20 sites which were all meant for commercial purposes.

We can help you in achieving any possible heights in your online business, by creating a solid site with a catchy design, helping you promote it, building a brand and consulting for all your questions. You can see more about our services and our prices below,

Search Engine Optimization

For any blog content is the king, but a king is always lonely without his queen and in this case its SEO. I have seen many blogs get 1000s of visitors with just pure organic SEO and its possible for all of us. All you need is a well optimized blog, quality link building and hours of keyword research, and I’m sure most of you can’t do that, maybe due to the lack of time or skills, but your blog is sure to touch the sky if you can get a quality search engine optimizer.

Firstly a blogger can only be successful if he spends time on his posts, not on things like link building and keyword research. I did same, that was the reason why my blog failed to get search engine love, but my story is different I had just $20 and my hosting took away almost everything in the initial stage, so not much of my income was left for expanding my blog.

Keeping this in mind I started such a service which provides quality SEO at prices which are affordable by all. This is of course not at throw away prices, but you’ll surely find it reasonable. We are aware that not all of you require all of our services, so we have grouped them into three, each having its own features.

We work in a formal way and each site is handled by five individuals who are responsible for their own job. We do the work on time and are usually with the right results, with a success rate of 95%. Click here to see more and order your package.

Social media optimization

All of us know that the latest trend in internet marketing is social media and I bet all of us also know about the treasures hidden within them. Most entrepreneurs try to attempt this on their own and thus they fail to achieve it, what we do here is create an effective plan and execute a large scale social mediacampaign to drive tons of traffic to your site.

All you have to do is provide a bit of good quality content and we’ll get those in front of people who are in need of it and we’ll also expose them to your brand that you can do it on your own in the future. The main aim of this is to build a supportive reader base and make people buy what your selling.

Get your post into Digg’s front page

Its every bloggers dream to get his post featured on Digg’s front page, but its sad to see that most of them get less than one digg on their submissions. The top 100 Diggers were lucky as they started early, but today its not a wise strategy to go about building a powerful Digg profile organically with the help of influence. Firstly its very time consuming and if Digg ever gets to know that your self promoting, you’ll risk loosing all your hard work.

My solution for this was to swap diggs with other diggers looking to promote their submissions, I started to build my network by investing hours everyday and within just two weeks I had a network big enough to take my blog viral in almost every platform, at that moment I felt that this was possible by everyone and anyone, but I realized my mistake in a few days, when I had to spend hours doing social votes for others.

Within a few days I was sure that this was meant only for social media experts not for people like, so I immediately started blocking everyone. This was when we realized the need for such services at low costs, the only thing we do is swap diggs with others and get your submissions with the most Diggs.

The success with this doesn’t only depend on the number of Digg’s but the type of content you deliver, no matter how much you pay us, the content is what we consider first. We will provide a detailed guideline on how your content should be and we expect all submissions to be according to that.

Premium web and graphic design

One of the most basic elements of a successful internet base is design and today most users judge a site’s stickiness with reference to its design. There are many premium WordPress themes, but they never help if your looking to create a blog in your own style and make readers identify you by your style.

We don’t build themes from scratch and use different frameworks for this, but the end result is a nicely customized and professional theme. We do not have a detailed cost for this, but we will determine the costs before starting the project. We can do anything with graphics, build your ads, images or logos. Everything unique and self styled.

Business or marketing consulting

Most first time entrepreneurs feel that its always great to have someone to guide them through the process, someone to discuss with and get solutions from, but its usually the same old theoretical ideas we get from all, but our team provides the best consultancy with professional solutions and all with a personal touch.

Our team members have decades of experience and can provide answers to all your problems, with the one hour session on chat we also provide you with a detailed internet business plan, which will also contain a detailed guide for marketing online. We prepare this with the help of the information you give us, so before doing our work we ask you for your detailed outlook about your business and your plans, so that we understand you better. During the sessions you can ask us anything you wish.

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Affiliates

Our dream here is to create a huge internet marketing and web design firm, this is not possible with a proper sales and distribution system, today its known as affiliate program. As a startup we have very less resources to market and promote ourselves, so we have planned to recruit professionals and newbies to spread the word of our services for huge incentives.

You have many options to earn money as an affiliate, like others we do not provide a sophisticated affiliate platform, right now we are working with affiliates with just the exchange of emails and chats. This type of affiliate program was in my mind for many months often was for different products and services.

This program is for every one, but its necessary that you own a blog of any niche or prove that your part of the web design and blogging tips niche. If you’ve ever thought of monetizing your blog with the help ofservices this can be your right opportunity, all you have to do is list our services under your own brand and order it with us whenever you make a sale, its more like you take a share of commission for nothing and we do all of the work. Click here to know more about our affiliate program

A huge Twitter followership is something which can boost any sort of internet business, and I bet most of you have realized its power by now, I started building my Twitter followership from the time I started blogging and how much ever I tried I failed, it was just recently that I realized that the successful Tweeters today were just part of the luck early starters had, when I started off Twitter had plenty of restrictions against spamming and mass following, so for many months now I had given up hopes for Twitter and was just using it for getting retweets via swaps.

Recently I went to a bloggers meetup #BuzzomTweetup which was organized by InRev Systems which makes social media management softwares such as Buzzom. At the meetup I was introduced to many big faces and also Khanal Bhupendra the CEO of InRev. I was really inspired by the way he treated us and the way he spoke to us made me his instant admirer, at that point I had known him as a small business owner who has a dream to make it big, but I got to know the next day on what an influential man he is in social media. He has over 60,000 followers on Twitter and huge followership on Facebook for his company.

As soon as I got to know about this I tried my best to connect with him and forced him to do an interview for my blog, he was really a nice person and immediately agreed, I spent an entire night framing questions and in the end of the interview he seemed to have liked my research. With a few questions on growing your followership we also went deep and asked him about a few of his new ventures and a few tips for wannabe entrepreneurs. I really hope all of you find this useful and I’ll really hope for your opinions in the end,

Can u give a brief introduction of yourself to our readers?

Sure. I am a data person. Thats how I see myself. I like playing with data and have working experience in Analytics space. I’m also the CEO of InRev Systems, which makes softwares for social media management.

When did you create your Twitter account and how did you gain the first few initial followers?

I started tweeting in late 2008. But started using actively only from Feb 2009. I just tweeted what interested me. Actively participate in discussion with folks out there. Retweeted and had chat with people. This got some early followers. But after that I started finding interesting news and articles in Tech and business, and started tweeting them, then I started getting a lot of retweets from my followers which resulted in an average Twitter account.

I think you’ve also used the technique of mass following, is it true and is it still possible today

It helped me a lot. Whenever I look for potential clients, I go to Twitter and find the folks. This has again prompted us to give People Search in Buzzom. There was a time when if I had to search for CTO of Infosys, I had to spend huge time and money. Now its available in a click. Twitter has open profiles and people are using it.

Most of our marketing for Buzzom and other products is thro Social Media Networks, primarily Twitter, mostly people know buzzom through Twitter talks. There is a good fan base for Buzzom and they talk to each other, along with it, we do active marketing campaigns in Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin.

People find our value proposition and come to us. There has been very little sales work from our side so far. This might however change in future. Our products are highly viral so we did not need any sort of advertising till today, though we have plenty more planned up for the future.

What tips would you give for non web businesses on using Twitter?

Everyone has to be in Twitter. It is the place where there are clients, potential clients and competitors. This is irrespective of domain of business.

The other important thing is the change of web structure. The search based web is changing to Social web. Its all going to be word of mouth driven business in future, and engagement will rule. businesses need to get ready for it.

What tips can you give me for improving my Twitter traffic, that is for a niche blog

I would suggest to follow good blogs and bloggers, tech enthusiasts and engage with them in fruitful discussions. It will not only give you direct traffic and blog engagement with comments, it will help you find original topics too.

Its the talk with people that bringout original problems of the industry, and give a head start in predicting the tech shifting thats upcoming. This makes you a value blogger and not a me too blogger. I think this may sound tough for anyone as soon as they hear it, but its really easy once you start off and you may even get addicted to it. This is the only advice I can give for bloggers.

Tell us, what makes Buzzom different from others such as Hootsuite and SocialOomph

Buzzom, as many fans complain, is not great in UI. This is the only area we are losing with our competition. But it will change very soon. We are working on it. Buzzom is a complete Social Media Manager. No apps in the world is as complete as we are.

I see your also planning to enter into online advertising, we would love to hear a bit about it from you

We have bigger plans in that space and have run a test case with Buzzom Blog Ads. The idea is to produce a complete ad platform that serve the social web better.

The response we have got through Blog Ads is optimistic and we will come with a complete social ad engine very soon. It should be possible by year end.

Twitter is of course one of the main strategies used for Buzzom’s success, Bhupendra couldn’t wait to share his success story with others, so in the beginning of 2010 he published is long awaited book on Twitter marketing.

Demystifying Twitter Marketing makes a clean breast of social media and explains how a business can take a full benefit from its presence. The book is more focused on using Twitter as a marketing medium. The book contains views from an experienced marketers and business professionals. It also contains amazing successful business studies with focus on their key strategies.

So if any of you are interested in social media marketing or trying to build their company’s social media presence, I’d say that this book is a must for you.

One thousand American dollars would approximately convert to 40,000 Indian Rupees, it is a hell lot of money, but it certainly isn’t something I can’t manage to raise, but of course I need to give up my passive income attitude and work my ass of for a few days, its very difficult, especially for me but I know that it truly isn’t impossible. From the past three months I’ve got a lot of offers for social media, SEO and writing services which required spend hours together each day, which I couldn’t firstly because I didn’t like working for others and secondly my school and education didn’t permit the amount of time, but if I could have managed it I would surely have earn a 1000 bucks, and I bet all of you too can achieve this, but with a bit of sacrifice.

One of the most efficient and easiest ways for me would be to sell this blog, though its new and not very popular I’m sure it’ll earn me thousand bucks. As I mentioned above its possible by each and everyone of us, you may take a small credit from a friend, use your credit card, sell a few of your valuables on Ebay or simply sell your notebook, this is hard I know, they have to be thats why I call this the first sacrifice, and sacrifice usually equals success.

Most people are afraid to make these initial sacrifices due to the cases where people loose everything either due to lack of planning or due to bad luck. But if you invest this money with a proper plan and execute it accordingly your sure to achieve success with it, whereas luck is concerned, successful are those who believe in themselves rather than their luck. This post is basically on internet marketing as thats my niche and thats where my 1000 dollars will go, so its basically about educating people about various internet business opportunities and how innovation and creativity can turn your life around.

Creating and selling a digital information product

A digital information product is anything which ranges from ebooks, e-courses, reports and newsletters anything which you can download from the net. This is the niche which is already in boom and is set to take a blast in coming years. Basically it depends on the type of product, its niche, pricing and most importantly the quality, but however even the best quality products in the world don’t stand a chance if you don’t invest a few bucks in advertising and marketing.

If your planning to rely on just quality and word of mouth of marketing then you’ll have to be ready to wait for atleast 3 years for your product to get popular. If you have heard about George Brown you’ll also hear about the enormous success he had with his small information products, he too for a furniture mover, but he managed to raise a few bucks risking debt, but soon he was rich enough to fund a hundred people like him. I’m not the one who believes in pure philosophies, so I’ll provide you with my practical plan for launching this business.

Firstly I’ll buy hosting and domain for my product and buy expensive landing page themes and e-commerce plugins, and make sure that its got the capacity to turn the traffic into money. After this I’ll sign up for a merchant account with Clickbank which will cost about $47 and arrange banners and all requirements for affiliates. Later on I’ll spend a few bucks to launch my own advertising campaign and thats when my listing will come up on ClickBank. So the main purpose of the advertising campaign is to recruit affiliates and once I do so the promotion goes on by itself and starts generating passive income.

Super affiliate marketing

I’ve been doing affiliate marketing from the beginning of my online career, but I always used the free methods which resulted in very few sales, but when I get a few bucks to invest I’ll surely launch a full fledge campaign on all known networks for promoting affiliate offers. This sure to bring in a huge profit over investment and the best part is I make all of these without investing any time creating a product, which itself is expensive at times.

The most basic part of my plan is to search for the best products, the quality, the landing page, popularity and pricing, after choosing a product while taking everything into concern, I’ll start a campaign on Adwords, Facebook and all other major networks, either with my own money or with the help of coupons. I’ll target them well and price them according to the profitability of the product, so I’m sure to make more than I invest.

Design premium products – Themes, softwares and apps

More than the information products I listed above more money lies in products like themes, softwares and apps (Iphone, Anderoid). The principle for both are the same, it takes money initially to promote the product and later on the affiliates take over the promotion part. The problem here is that creating such products take a hell lot of technical skills, and an information product requires just writing skills which most of us will have or can learn. If your planning to outsource it be very careful because half of your thousand dollars will go there, moreover you’ll need a hell lot for the promotion work.

If you can develop on your own this venture will work like a charm for you, orelse you’ll risk loosing your money as for this you can’t compromise on anything, not the development and definitely not the marketing part. I have a sort of different plan for this, the promotional idea will be the same as the Information product, but for the development I’ll offer a share to a freelance developer for his work telling him that I’ll be doing the entire investment and marketing.

Reseller hosting services

Almost every small business today has started to start, run and manage its own website and for this to be possible they require cheap source of hosting. The web hosting industry grew rapidly since the beginning of the 21st Century, though the profitability of the smaller ones are threatened due to the fall in prices. Anyone can easily start an hosting service as most big firms these days do provide reseller hosting at low prices. You won’t really need a thousand dollars, but it takes time for your business to make a profit atleast 3 months, so until then you need to keep it going by paying up all your expenses.

Firstly I’ll get everything ready from my side that is a catchy site, billing system etc. Then I’ll buy the reseller plan from Hostgator and put up everything from Cpanel to PHPMyadmin. Now for the marketing it would surely be useless to go for advertising, so I would inform all of my community friends to be affiliates and earn commissions and the second thing is that I know a hell lot of freelance developers who do everything from development to hosting, so I’ll start paying them a commission to host their client’s projects on my services. This is sure to bring in 25 to 30 clients which would result in a few hundred bucks each month, but when I start investing money and growing I’ll surely get a lot more.

Buy a few keyword rich domains

I have already into a small time domainer in the past few weeks and that was due to the birth of the .co domains. There are many who have made millions in this industry, and I’m sure most people do have a huge success rate if they plan well and choose the right domains. The industry works like this, a person researches for hot keywords and checks their availability and after he gets it, he either aggregates content for it and drives traffic using his keyword rich domain or maybe he sells the domain for 3 to 4 times the actual cost.

My plan will be sit for hours searching for keyword rich domains which are available and when I get them, I’ll launch my blog on it and I’ll aggregate all the content as I don’t want to waste time on it, I will mostly rank well for that particular keyword so I’ll get good traffic and surely a few bucks from advertising. After a few months I will list it on some directories like Flippa and try my best to sell it for a huge profit, if the domain is really keyword rich I’m sure to get a hell lot of bids and I can charge a lot more because I’m also giving a ready made website.

On to our readers

This post is basically a way I thought of to educate all of you about the biggest business opportunities which come for very small costs. This can be done within $1000 and I think these are the few options I’d have if I get so much money. I will surely invest a bit outside the internet, maybe pursue my dreams of day trading or some other options.

I would like to know your reactions on this post, at the same time if you’ve got opinions, questions or solutions please feel free to use the comment form below, to keep up with future posts please do subscribe to our feed and follow me on Twitter.

They say that in todays internet you cannot make money without spamming, of course there are many who have done so, but this is my personal opinion, you cannot gain traffic without submitting your own links, you’ll have to place your links in comments and this is just for the sake of blogging, but in fields like affiliate marketing, spamming reaches its heights. But today internet surfers have got used to it and its no longer considered unethical, unless you steal money or trouble someone, which comes under the section scamming.

I have always been getting spam mails in large numbers, and links to spammy sites from the time I started to use the internet, but it was just a few months ago that I started to deeply research on such activities and I have found out a lot, silly stuff like send us your email and get a chance to win a million dollars doesn’t work these days, your approach must be sensible and trust able, and the most important thing is where your planning to do so.

Facebook is becoming prey to plenty of spammy marketing stunts these days and few which would also result in the lack of privacy of its users, I’m still shocked to see that no tech major or Facebook itself was concerned about such things. I saw two three of these in the past few weeks and my curiosity starts jumping uncontrollably during such times and I usually dare to venture into those sites, exploring their monetization and marketing plan and for these ones I was also lucky enough to get their traffic stats. So here begins my fantastic adventures which lasted a little more than 15 minutes,

Firstly while surfing on Facebook, I saw a link posted by one of my friends which read Discover the hidden message which lies behind the Google Logo, ofcourse this attracted everyones attention and it was sure to get a hell lot of clicks, I too clicked on it immediately, but as soon as the page started to load I was sure that this was my next case study,

The above image shows the landing page of the site, as soon a visitor lands there is a Facebook style theme which reads the same message and tells the step one would be to like that particular page, and soon as you do so it would redirect to the next page containing step 2. While I made my visit the page had 15,000 likes, so you would have the idea on how popular this was. Soon after seeing this it was confirmed that this is some sort of spam page.

After completing the first step, the page automatically redirects to the second page which is exactly similar to the first one, with the same text, but the only difference is that this had a Facebook share button rather than the like button. The Facebook share is quiet powerful than that of the like button, and thats why they made use of both, so there traffic is driven by others curiosity, you cannot access it without bribing them with a share.

There marketing may have been clear to all of you by now, but now the question arises that what are they doing to monetize on this traffic, with such traffic adsense or any other advertising network wouldn’t result in more than a few pennies, so I did expect some sort of CPA program and I guess I was right, after making the Facebook share you’ll redirected to a page blocked with CPAlead which asks you to fill out a survey in order to view the page.

CPAleads is one of the most profitable affiliate programs ever, but still very few people use it mainly because its highly annoying to readers and most visitors will quit as soon as they see it, but this program pays you between $4 to $200 for a lead, so for such sites the owner wouldn’t really care if his visitors return or not, he doesn’t even care how annoyed they’d get. Let me remind you that this widget blocks entry to an entire page which makes it impossible to navigate, so if the visitor wants to see the page he has to generate a lead.

After seeing and exploring the site I saw a link to Sitemeter which was below the page, so I went to it to view the site’s traffic and not surprisingly, it had over 7000 visitors a day, so we can be sure that this site earns more than a thousand dollars everyday. The only promotion they have done is on Facebook, and SEO and stuff are simply a waste as no search engine would want to index a site with just 3 pages.

On to our readers

I bet most of you will agree that this is a fantastic case study, not only is it a blending of innovation but also pure technical intelligence. All of spend most of our time pleasing readers and praying that someone would share that post you made, but this is something which demands readers to share it, this does require a few codes of programming and I don’t think you could do it with WordPress, but there is a private labeled software for StumbleUpon bribing.

The CPAleads too is a wonderful idea, most of us may close a page as soon as we see it, but there are a few who really make a lead either due to lack of knowledge or due to high curiosity. This webpage which s not more than three pages is sure to earn thousands of dollars each month. Some may regard this as unethical, but in my eyes there is nothing wrong with it, and if possible I’ll search for more on this and start on my own.

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The traffic and the profits from Digg’s front page posts isn’t a secret to any of us, but its a fact that less than 5% of the blogs these days have achieved it atleast once in all these years, this is even after the top notch content they provide their readers with. Moreover blogs like Mashable and Techcrunch which are actually not even close to other small blogs in their niche when it comes to content,make it to the front page almost everyday. Yes an existing traffic base does matter when it comes to making it to the front page, but its not everything, as content has a key place too.

Recently I have started to see many small blogs grow to high levels with just the help of a few front page articles, most of them did have digg friendly posts, but still they had nothing which could take them to the front page that easily, when I started connecting with them personally I realized there secret, they kept swapping diggs with each other using multiple accounts, actually this was something which I was doing from a long time but at a smaller scale and for small sites such as Sphinn and Mixx and those like StumbleUpon and Twitter which didn’t take much effort and you don’t need a big network.

I used to do the same with a network of friends, but didn’t want to do it with Digg because my network was too small and could never get enough diggs to make it to the front page, but there success stories greatly motivated me to try and achieve this and to my surprise it wasn’t tough at all. If you’ve noticed the previous two posts have received a high number of Diggs compared to the others, but they didn’t make it to the front page because the type of content wasn’t really digg friendly, but now the only thing I need is the right content. In this post I’ve mentioned the best ways to find other diggers looking to self promote and organizing and mutually helping each other gain exposure.

Your blog comes first

The first place to find people ready for such business is your own blog, owning a blogging tips blog gave me a certain advantage as I could publicly tell people to connect with me if they are looking to exchange social media votes, but readers from other niche are not really favorable if you promote such stuff in front of them, but still you can promote your social profiles, as mostly other bloggers from your niche will try to connect with you.

This method isn’t really that accurate, but if you find a new friend immediately introduce yourself and see if he is planning to exchange votes with you. This is good because a few initial users are necessary to keep up with the next few steps, once you get the initial few, you can find others easily, moreover you yourself will start getting requests from others.

Other social sites

By other social sites, I mean Facebook, Linkedin or Twitter, I have also mentioned many times in my previous posts that always connect with other bloggers than your blogs readers, as its them who help you promote your site in the long run. After you’ve got a quiet a good list of friends, start off by sending them mails or writing on their walls that your willing to exchange social media votes with them, all will surely respond a few will be negative, but most will be positive.

As soon as you get them, try connecting with them on Gtalk if possible as its much more easier and then start following them on all of their social profiles. After the above two steps you’ll surely get a good number in your network, so you’ll start getting requests for diggs, and as soon as you make your next post make sure you ping them all.

Trade and expand

When you get a handful of people in your network start exchanging votes with them immediately and after you’ve built a trustable relationship try to convince them to introduce the people of his network to you and you do the same in return. Almost all will agree with this strategy as most of them are dying to build there networks.

If you successfully strike this with everyone, your sure to get enough people to have you on the front page, thats why I mentioned that this isn’t as tough as people really think. At times this may become very annoying because sometimes requests for votes keep popping up, remember that before getting you need to give.

If your ready to bear that single disadvantage, then I’m sure there is no other sort of problem that you may encounter, you’ll start getting huge amounts of diggs on all your posts.

Promote it on your profile

I have seen many Digg users who write this directly on their profiles stating that they are ready to exchange diggs and below they’ll list various ways one can get in touch with them. This is a wonderful way to promote yourself and if you do so you’ll instantly start witnessing requests, but you also stand a great chance of getting banned from Digg.

You will not get caught if your account is new, but once it comes under the limelight, that is if your submission makes it to the front page, then you’ll surely get banned. So my plan is to grow my network as much as possible by writing it initially, but when I feel I have built a network and ready to utilize it, I’ll remove that from there.

On to our readers

Till now this is the best way to promote your blog on Digg, if you really don’t want to spam you can start creating a powerful profile on Digg by making popular submissions of other articles which are of great quality and when you have the authority you can start submitting your own posts.

Using this method you don’t have to be worried about getting banned or anything because it has got little to do with your account and once your banned you can easily create another account. Your sure to have a tough time initially as you’ll have to spend a lot of time digging other’s posts, but you’ll sure have a powerful profile once you make it to the front page once or twice.

Among the others who are looking for such exchanges is myself, so if your looking for anything of such sort, please do connect with me on Facebook and I’ll surely exchange more than just diggs. If you have any opinions or suggestions on this post please feel free to comment below.

I bet all of you have heard about the new .co domains which have created a lot of buzz lately. I was a bit skeptical about this domain, from the marketers point of view that is, which was mainly because of the less than expected results from the domains such as .info and .org . All of you may disagree with me on this that .info and .org were failures, yes they were successful in the views of the common surfers, its just that I’ve got used to seeing money in everything that comes up online, so anything that doesn’t help make money is considered a failure according to me.

So as you all can see I was eagerly waiting for this domain to come out to the general public, as I wanted take this unsaturated domain to fill up my treasure chest with rich keywords. Unlike the last time, I have got some good amount of money to invest on my own ventures now, so I took the maximum advantage of this, but how well this goes I have no idea.

In todays internet, everything is controlled by Google, so the financial success or failure of this domain depends on the type of love it gets from Google, so this means if your planning this investment for capturing rich keywords on Google then its sure to be a risky investment. At the same time you could hit a jackpot if everything goes along well.

Currently the cost of the domain ranges from $25 to $50 depending on your registrar, and I surely think this is expensive, I lost half of my small savings for just a few domains, but the cost is sure to come down is a few months, but waiting till then will be foolish because all of the rich keywords are being booked on a heavy course and soon this will be as saturated as the current .com domain.

Making money with .co domains

All of you will surely know the best ways to make money using domains, my plan is to just own a few see the results from Google’s side and if it turns positive I’ll try to capitalize on it by building a niche site related to the particular keyword and if its negative I’ll sell it for a reasonable profit. This is surely the best way to profit from this, but you can make profits by parking it and placing ads on it as well, this method will give just a few pennies if your planning to park one or two domains, but will surely catch up to your pockets if you park huge number of domains.

I searched for hours to get good keyword rich domains and successfully found a few, I used the adwords keyword tool to its highest extent and I succeeded in securing a few domains in my name. The profits are sure to flow if you can get keywords which end with co, for example things like Pepsi.co and stuff.

I have entered into the domain niche for the very first time, so I don’t know the success that is going to follow this investment of mine, do give your views and opinions on my investment or personal stories of your own below in the comments.

Before we start off, a small mere question to all of you, if you find a Mcdonalds outlet and some other unknown restaurant which offers better food at lower prices, both of these close to each other, which one would you mostly prefer visiting, I’m sure all of your answers would be McDonalds, same way when you consider cars, Toyota’s would be much more preferable than any unknown brand with the same features and low cost.

What is a brand? According to me, a brand is a certain face the public sees of a company which isn’t physical but visual and its this face which determines the consumer’s decision on two products of the same kind. There are a certain things which contribute to a company’s brand, the first few are its name, logo, tagline, designs and and ambassadors. Even after you’ve got all of these, it also depends on how you market and promote all of the above elements. But the true brand comes with the quality of your product and service and your name spreads virally with the word of mouth.

A good quality product or service is essential, but you’ll fail at business if you let that promote your business, you’ll need to get the first initial audience and grow at a fast rate, take Toyota and McDonalds itself, you’ll see that both made the best products in their industry, but they didn’t wait until their customers tell others, they both had widespread campaigns, good logos and taglines and high profile celebrities to endorse their products.

Your blog’s are no less than a mainstream business, today both are based on similar principles. When your blog reaches a certain level, you need to start promoting your brand rather than your posts. Moreover it takes investment, innovation and outsourcing to achieve in the large scale. It takes quality to reach a certain level and all these years I was in the impression that it takes quality to stay there, but I guess I was wrong. There is a famous local clothing brand in India, the quality of their cloths are just worst, but still they profits keep increasing and they continue to get great success all because of their huge distribution network and powerful brand.

Where does John Chow come in?

The major part of this post is based on John Chow’s case study, because he is one of the best men I’ve known who have built a strong brand and manipulated his reputation. Firstly his site hasn’t got anything special for readers, especially nothing for being a top MMO blog, but still he manages to get readers again and again and exploit for his own need.

I’m not against him, I’m one of his biggest fans, I really love his style and ever since I started to blog I have been following his foot steps although in an ethical manner. His secrets are not yet revealed to anyone, I just use my research, assumption and imagination for such cases, all of you may not agree with this post, but all the features here are really great to build an efficient brand for your blog.

The features of a powerful brand must be as follows,

I’m sure I’ll get plenty of negative responses after posting this article, but let me make it clear that this site has been made to help you make money online and I’ll write about anything and everything which will help you do so, although I have avoided writing illegal content. For those of you who think that porn is illegal, let me make it clear that porn is not illegal in most of the countries these days, only a few have restrictions on it and all of them ban stuff like forceful adultery and child porn.

So this post is just for the sake of information and it depends on your country and situation of law there before you can take action, and moreover I’m providing with just the advice on creating, marketing and selling porn online.

For those you who think that I am an innocent and decent teenager with small ambitions to make money , think again, if you have personally known me you’d surely have heard of my adult site which I sold recently, I didn’t disclose the site’s name openly because I am still a minor and I stay in a pretty conservative society, anyhow if you come and chat with me personally, I may reveal the name.

So now let me tell you that the adult niche allows you to make 5 times the profit with the same traffic compared to any other niche and if you don’t know SEO is hell easy for adult webmasters. At the same time there are a lot of challenges as well, one thing is that you aren’t free to post links wherever you like, you cannot use social media because almost all sites have restrictions on posting adult content, another major problem is the availability of content, because videos and images are the most preferred type of porn and getting them is not that easy.

Content

As I mentioned above, your first biggest challenge will be content, you never realized this because most you have written your own stuff for your blogs, but this requires videos and images, and the sources for these are very limited. Your site will be a complete flop if you go about embedding Youtube videos and images from Flickr, so the content must be pro and with little or no-branding.

You can get such content by joining affiliate programs from some big companies in the industry, this way you can also earn a few bucks, but make sure you edit the videos and images or else it will totally branded under their company, limiting your sites growth. Another way which used was to get scenes from old movies and small time videos from Youtube and other video sites and edit them to your own name.

After your business grows you can buy video rights and post them under your own name, which is really very expensive, but the returns too provide the same results, if you have a bit more capital you can start producing your own videos, but I must say that this is not for newbies and you need to have some experience in this niche or hire someone who has got experience, moreover you’ll need to build a workforce before attempting this and register your company.

Promotion

After getting your content you have accomplished 50% of your aim, but the success mainly depends on the popularity and traffic your site gets and for this, with the content there are a lot of other stuff to do. Most social networks other than ones like Twitter, don’t allow you to promote porn content on their site, so you’ve lost your major source of initial traffic, but still you can use a few like Twitter for this purpose and that will surely be good traffic once you build your followers.

I have also mentioned above that SEO is pretty easy for adult webmasters, so most new sites will start receiving traffic almost immediately after getting indexed in google. So after a few initial promotional methods, start optimizing your site for SEO, that is onsite SEO and later on try building links using forums and comments on other site. I have seen sites touch PR 3 or 4 with just over a thousand backlinks, so it isn’t really tough. If you have a bit of money to invest, it will be really great if you outsource your SEO.

The above two methods are great to bring in the initial visitors which would result in a few bucks, but the ultimate traffic lies in distributing your content to other networks. Your videos and images have great potential to bring in traffic, for this you must edit them and add your watermark and post them to major social sites, thats how most people get thousands of visitors from Youtube. You must edit them for two reasons, one is that most of these sites do not allow uncensored porn and you’ll have to avoid showing somethings in order to get more visits.

Other than social sites, you can also be part and submit your content to other porn sites which show your content to its existing reader base. This does mean giving away a bit of your content, but its really worth more than that. By doing all of these your sure to get a flood of visitors with a good number of backlinks, so this also helps in building defensible traffic.

Monetization

After you’ve got a bit of consistent traffic and provided them with virally spreading content, then monetizing on that traffic isn’t really tough, there are plenty of options for generating good amount of income from your site. The successful are those who try all of the methods and tweak on each by using simple tricks.

The first and one of the most profitable of all is of course affiliate marketing and the way this runs is similar to other niches, but the only thing is that the offers are much more attractive, because I’ve seen big adult niche companies provide ten times more commissions and great pays for readers who sign up for free memberships as well, so as you can see every reader is a potential customer and the conversion rates are sure to be sky high.

The first thing to do is to understand your readers, try to find out which program is the best and which is affordable for your readers, of course the free ones are sure to convert real well. After this don’t try to care about ad blindness and stuff, because in the adult world almost 90% of the sites have more ads than the content, so just fill up your site with ad banners and even pop ups wont matter much, just do anything to get exposure to your affiliate programs.

If you do everything well, your sure to get great results from affiliate marketing, but sometimes you may feel that its undervaluing your sites potential, so at this point start selling ads directly in the place of the affiliate banners and make sure you charge high and at a CPM basis. Once your site gets popular, your sure to get a hell lot of advertisers and its sure put huge amounts of cash in your pockets.

These two methods can take you to a level of making a living with your site and also till a six figure income level, but the million dollar empire starts off by providing premium content to your users, as I mentioned above producing your own videos or buying full rights to videos can help make much more money. Many porn sites charge hundreds of dollars for memberships and most of them have millions of registered users, this is when you recruit other affiliates to promote your products.

On to our readers

I have very little experience in this niche, but without even knowing anything I managed to get limited success, I could have grown my site to a new level, but ethics and morals stopped me. Most of the things in this post are based on my research rather than practical experience, so I don’t have much idea how this niche is practically, but your sure to find it easier than the others.

Blog contests are one of the most efficient ways to build a strong brand for your blog and generate defensible traffic, and these days many people are doing the same, except that most fail at reaching their goals, and at the same time I’ve seen many blogs who reach sky heights with their contests. Most of them were big ones and provided huge prizes, but its until I realized that the main part of the success was on how they promoted the contest.

I have seen many people giving away single products or advertising spaces as prizes in their contests, which isn’t such a bad idea as its totally risk free and moreover its possible to do create such contests more often, but on the other side I see many blogs which host contests for one or two days on one single post, this is what I call as a waste of money or resources, as this is literally of no use. No matter what type of gifts you provide the main aim must be to keep the participants engaged for a longer period.

Firstly I would like to clarify a few misunderstandings in blog contests, if your asking for user content and judging the best one as the winner you can call it a contest, if you are randomly choosing a winner it can be called as sweeptakes and if your giving prizes to the first few to do something it’ll be known as a giveaway.

Now when you’ve got an idea for a long lasting contest ready, the only thing that would matter now is its promotion as more than content, promotion gets the value. I have organized a few successful giveaways in the past and almost all have achieved their goals. Promoting a contest isn’t really tough, its because internet users just love freebies and its this love which brings them from different corners of this world, so just a bit of promotion can lead to a viral chain.

Onsite exposure

Before starting a contest its necessary that you have an existing audience base as a contest cannot be a means of gaining initial traffic, but a way to grow your blog to bigger levels. So after you have an initial audience, the first thing you must do is to leverage your loyal readers to your contest, so the way to do this is to write a blog post announcing your contest and make sure you do all of your usual promotional methods for it. After awhile your sure to get a few participants depending on the traffic of your blog.

Later on start placing banners all over your blog and links at the bottom of all posts, which must all lead to your contest post, this way you’ll be announcing about your contest to all your random visitors from Google and other sources and this is surely a full fudge promotion of your contest.

Its recommended that you do all of these before or immediately after launching the contest as you want everything to begin with a big bang, so this way your blog will surely fill up the conversations in the social space.

User incentives

Most of the successful blog contests which have gone viral have either had a huge existing audience or have used their small loyal reader base to bring in more readers from outside. This can be efficiently done with the help of incentives for those who help your promote your contest. It might be of any sort, maybe blogging about your contest, or tweeting or sharing on Facebook, anything which you prefer most favorable.

Most people do this simply by announcing a separate reward for a section known as the best promoters and the prize to one of the many who would have written about your contest. This surely builds a huge following for not only your contest but a long term one for your blog. It works really well if you offer a cash prize for this, as your key target would be bloggers and webmasters, who would be really forced to participate if they find a new way to earn money.

Networking

The top two methods are actually more than enough to bring in enough participants and engage them till the end, but they are not likely to work really well in case you have a small contest offering small and un-motivational prizes, because it usually creates a big buzz in the beginning, but looses effect soon after launch.

So the ones who can keep your contest active till the end are your loyal readers and friends, as they’d do anything to get a personal thank you from you. Your blog’s regular readers can enter in this list, but you cannot effectively make use of them unless they are part of your community, thats why I recommend that you make your readers a part of your community.

Thats why I’ve recommended above that its best to start a contest after you’ve built your initial audience, or an existing network of bloggers or webmasters in your social sites. I’d mostly prefer mailing all my subscribers and then informing friends and fans on Facebook, and this would surely generate huge amounts of initial buzz for your site.

Contest blogs and forums

In case you haven’t heard of any, there are a hell lot of blogs and forums which write about the latest contests taking place around the web and these are usually user updated. A few of them include Online Sweepstakes, SweepsGoat, Sweepstakes Advantage and these are few of the most popular ones. I had posted but my free giveaway on all the three including a few others and I did get a few visitors from all. This didn’t really work for me at first, but I know many who have had great success with these.

This failed to work for me because the main audience here included tech and web design related surfers and blogging and make money online related contests didn’t stand a chance. So this is truly worth a try and its recommended that you submit it two days before the start of your contest as most of these sites take upto 2 days for approval.

Advertising

Nothing comes for free and even internet marketing the same principle is used, for promoting your contest nothing will be more targeted and efficient than an ad campaign on different platforms. This is advisable only if your planning a big contest which includes tons of money as cash prizes, because the conversion rates are usually low for small giveaways.

Firstly I’d start off with Facebook and Adwords and the traffic should lead directly to your contest page, if you’ve got a few more bucks to spare you can try blog advertising as well. This is sure to drive huge traffic and the conversion depends oon the type of keywords you target for your campaign.

Joint ventures

Your blog will be pushed to an all new audience if you’ve tied up with another blog or network, one fine example is my friend Sushant of Smartbloggerz who recently held a highly successful guest blogging contest, his contest would have been success even if he had just used the above methods, but he also chose to tie up with Myblogguest from which he got a huge response.

So joint ventures are really helpful, just contact a few fellow bloggers who have the same traffic as yours and ask them for a tie up, list a few terms and conditions on promotion, marketing and benefits and also on the expenses of the contest, if you have  few products or services you can promote them by giving it away as a prize on your friend’s blog.