I have been spending most of my learning time on a small handful of blogs and putting things I learned into practice, thus neglecting this blog. One of the best blogs with real and legit methods that I mentioned before briefly would be Blogger Unleashed, where Vic teaches you how to make money online in his own special non politically correct manner. If you want to learn how to create true passive and residual income down the road, instead of jostling for social traffic and finding that they all do not pay in the end or trying to scam your readers for money, then Blogger Unleashed is for you. With Vic, you get all the methods of achieving organic search traffic for your sites and niches, which is where the money is online, and you do not have to suck up to him or pay him $97 per month to get the info, unlike what you may have to do with all the scammers out there like Ewen Chia and Yaro Starak. He tells it like it is, and if you ask him for help, he will do his best to offer it.

Another great thing about blogs like Blogger Unleashed, Court’s Internet Marketing School, and Grizz’s Making Money Online for Beginners is the real community that exist, who all try their best to help each other out and learn together. I have had many questions answered by the bloggers there, and many useful ideas have sprung from their discussions and ideas.

I have put the stuff he taught on his blog into practice and they certainly work. Now, Vic has a contest at Blogger Unleashed where he will guide 100 bloggers on a step by step basis to making money online with a local niche blog. I will be joining and if you truly want to learn how to do so in a legit manner, I would advise you to join in too and learn. There is the added bonus of prizes in the form of an all expenses paid trip (well, for the airfare and additional $500 bill) to September’s BlogWorld Expo in Vegas, but for me, it is what I could possibly learn and then apply it to other niches that would be the most valuable. Do not waste your time on crap like Problogger and John Chow. Learn from honest and sincere guys like Vic, Court and Grizz.

Learn more about the contest and sign up here.

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A long while back, I wrote about making money online with Voxant Newsroom. Since then, I make a small amount as a publisher every month, and it’s actually quite a nice addition. Back when I first mentioned it, Voxant provided video feeds which would play automatically on a visit to the site. That was a decent income generator on sites which had high traffic (as Voxant pays on CPM), and I had the video feeds on relevant news sites of my own.

Since then, they have stopped releasing automatic video feeds due to abuse by a number of publishers and subsequent complaints by advertisers. I thought that was a great move as abuse by a few black sheep would never be good news for the rest of the field who played by the rules. However, those who had previously been using these feeds were still allowed to do so as long as they stayed off the blacklist. If you missed the boat, it is unfortunate, but Voxant Newsroom has loads of quality videos, text and pictures for you to publish on your site, and with decent CPM, you should check out what they have to offer in terms of making some extra cash online while providing relevant content for your readers.

For example, if you have been blogging about the Presidential race in the U.S., they have numerous videos every day. If you are providing highlights of the daily NBA games, they have all the necessary reports and pictures which you can use. There are also timely updates on many celebrity news bits such as news on American Idol finalists such as the popular Asia’H Epperson and David Archuleta, and all sports from ice hockey to soccer. Various other niches are also available including health topics to even women interests such as fashion and beauty. Take your pick from their varied offering and surely you can monetize your site in one way or another with the Voxant Newsroom.

The only negative point so far has been their lowering of CPM rates about a month back. While I never probed further, I could only contribute it to lower advertising demand due to the U.S. recession.

But when it comes to making money online through CPM programs, this program definitely provides one of the best payouts that I have come across. Many other advertising networks have low CPM rates, and while the market for CPM advertising has dramatically decreased in recent years, using this program has been one of the better paying options.

On top of this, I have had very pleasant service correspondence with their staff. They have even started some impromptu rewards for publishers this week. 3 Ipod Shuffles are up for grabs for the top three publishers next week who manage the highest number of advertising impressions and % increase in impressions over the last week. It is the first time, in my experience with them, that such a contest has been held, and hopefully with more to follow in the near future. So, if your blog has a need for fresh content in various media, why not find out if the Voxant Newsroom would be a good fit?

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Time and again I have seen advice from make money online A Listers that you should write about stuff you are passionate about and then the readers and money will eventually come. While that is true in a general sense, the truth is that unless the ’stuff’ you are passionate about happens to be big ticket items or niches where there is huge demand and profit potential, you will probably be getting little interest, traffic and revenue, if at all. Writing about areas that you have passion in is common sense advice, but at the end of the day, it is crap advice if you intend to make any money online and it will limit your ability to grow and build an online empire.

Another common worry that a lot of people looking to expand into niche marketing often have is that they are not sure if writing on a niche alien to them would be possible. I was not born a Casanova nor grew up a natural with women, but writing romance short stories and about dating was never too much of a difficulty after I turned 12. All that happened was reading a few epic Chinese romance novels and using a little imagination, even my female teachers developed crushes on me. Although I cannot reveal what transpired since it would have been incredibly scandalous, the main gist is that nobody was born knowing or having interest in anything. Your passions would have been developed from the time you left your mother’s womb and if life was not a continuous journey of learning, then yes, you would be someone who would not be able to succeed making money online.

A better suggestion would be to learn how to write about topics or niches that have the demand or where the money is. You do not need to be enthralled by something to be able to produce articles or content. There is not even a need to produce a piece of art for people to pay you what a real art piece would command. There is so much on the Internet nowadays on just about every topic available, all that is required is some research and practice rewriting. There are even automated content creation software that you could use, although I tend not to use them as my personal writing output tends to be more productive. The age old method of rewriting PLR articles still hold true if you want something quick as well, and they free you from having to think up of new content every now and then.

If you actually want to be a writer, then go ahead and stick to writing what you are passionate about. If you want to make money online, then ask yourself what your primary objective really is before whining about how hard it is to make an article about telescopes when you do even know what a pair of binoculars are.

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Well, not really. I have seen bigger upsets in sports than this one, and not just because you could see it coming. By now, there would have been enough written about the New York Giants’ achievement and how they managed to overcome the odds to comprehensively outsmart not only one of the most potent offense in NFL history, but also a highly touted, billed as one of the smartest men in the world, coach in Bill Belichek. What I would like to do is talk about how a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut had immortality snatched from their grasp and in the process, had only themselves to blame. While there is always much to learn from success, there is just as much to learn from failure.

The New England Patriots had looked vulnerable in the preceding weeks of the regular and post season leading up to the Superbowl. The moment they secured the division, the only thing that was constantly mentioned in the media was the possibility of them finishing the season unbeaten, thereby not only matching the Miami Dolphins’ feat in 1972, but to eclipse it. Despite Belichek and the team’s insistence that it would not detract from their focus of winning the Superbowl, it would no doubt have weighed heavily on the players’ minds each time they took to the gridiron in subsequent games. The way they scrambled to each victory showed that while this team had the ability to go all the way, they had an unbalanced makeup with uncharacteristically weak defensive lines. Fortunately or unfortunately, no team could take full advantage of this up till the final game of the season.

It was the New York Giants who had shown earlier how you could rattle Tom Brady, a quarterback often regarded as one of the coolest to grace the NFL. Strangely, Belichek could not come up with an answer to this in the Superbowl despite the warning signs. The Giants might have played above themselves again on Sunday in sacking Brady 5 times, but it was shocking to see the man increasingly unsettled with each play. Perhaps mentally, Tom Brady was not at his peak compared to previous seasons when he got to the Superbowl, as he was seen more often basking in the celebrity limelight with supermodel girlfriend Gisele Bundchen. It was Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson all over again, and look where the Dallas Cowboys ended up.

Sometimes you take risks to win, sometimes you do not. Bill Belichek has been known to constantly throw his hat in the ring in any situation, but despite having only 35 seconds after New York took a last gasp lead, there was enough time left to go for better field position and 3 points to bring the Superbowl into overtime. After all, the Patriots have been gunning for records all season, why not another one by making it the first Superbowl to go to overtime?

While the Giants bask in their moment of glory, do not discount the New England Patriots from bouncing back next season. Bill Belichek would make use of this extremely disappointing result to separate the men from boys. And that might eventually cement the standing of this team as a true dynasty in the history of the NFL. In the meantime though, they would be remembered as the biggest chokers.

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Previously, I had written on some of the make money online excuses people make to impede their progression and success in the field. Many people do not end up making money either because they are lazy, or they allow cynicism and doubt to prevent themselves from achieving their goals to make money. Another reason that I personally have come to realize, which can result in huge barriers being erected, is part of what learning zero resistance living has taught me. Sometimes when we strive towards our goals and get blindsided by various situations that life throws at us, we choose the easy way out and blame it on everything but ourselves. In truth, many situations which we accuse of sabotaging our attempts at success are nothing but the end results of what the very choices that we make consciously.

Let’s say we have made work plans for today and then along comes someone from your family that asks for a favor. Unfortunately, the favor requires your time and requires it now. Even worse, it will cause great disruption in your planned schedule to make money. But you go ahead and do it anyway. Later when you fail to meet your work objectives, the blame starts being pinned on having to help others and them getting in your way. The fact is you allow things to get in the way and then press the fault on them, not on the fact that you made a choice to sacrifice your time.

Now that might be an extreme example. A milder and more common one, but no less damaging, is that of checking your emails before the start of your day, and tending to the 101 tasks that come to you from that. Yes, there will be things that need to get done when you receive them via emails, but if you have had something planned ahead, then concentrate on what was planned first. By choosing to go the other way, you are allowing things to get in your path when it was just as simple to tell them “Wait, let me work on my scheduled tasks first.” Consider a circumstance that if it happened to someone else. If you were an advocate of living with zero resistance, you might not have tolerated the excuses given that obliterated their daily planned schedules which make money. Sure enough, there would always be urgent issues that require dropping everything on hand immediately (e.g. death in the family, emergencies). But if I were to find myself now going, “I could have done this already if not for this incident getting in my way”, I would slap myself silly.

By not allowing things to get in my way, I also eliminate the unnecessary frustration that comes with blaming others for my own failures. At the risk of sounding selfish, understand what your priorities are in life. If you really want success, some sacrifices have to be made. If it is to make money online from home, that can put you in a situation with many distractions. Everything you do is a conscious decision made by yourself. Of course, some choices you will live to regret, some you would be glad you made when reflecting 50 years down the road. But life also loves throwing curveballs in your way just as much as Roger Clemens wants to do with his legacy now, so oftentimes you just have to do what is most important at that point in time. If you need to veer away from your intended path temporarily, make the necessary arrangements to still meet the preset goals. For me, that is what it really means to let nothing get in my way of achieving what I aim for and zero resistance living.

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