A few months ago, I removed all the Google Adsense ads from this blog and some of my other sites.
Today, I decided to take a new look at how Adsense might perform on this blog.
There were a couple of reasons I removed them.
1. I could earn more from affiliate sales.
2. I didn’t like all the [...]
Breaking news!
For years, SBI has been available only as an annual subscription.
For awhile, it has been possible to switch to monthly payments when it was time to renew after your initial first-year subscription of $299.
Now, you can subscribe to SBI starting with monthly payments of $29.99 instead of a lump-sum annual starting cost of [...]
Thanksgiving Day is coming up quickly and Sitesell wants to help you this year by offering their $100 Thanksgiving holiday special offer.
That’s right. From now until November 30, 2009, you can get a one year subscription to SBI version 2.0 for $299, or you can take advantage of the special and get two subscriptions [...]
I hope the subject of this post didn’t mislead you. If it did, I apologize right now.
I just didn’t have room to ask the real question I’m pondering this morning…
How much do you have to earn from something in order for it to be worth the effort?
That’s closer to what I’m thinking about.
My goal for [...]
(This is a follow-up to my post about comments: Why do I accept or delete comments?)
Today, I adopted a new Comments Policy for this blog.
It’s pretty straightforward and in line with things I’ve said before. I don’t think any regular reader of this site will be surprised.
It all boils down to a few simple principles: [...]
I have been an affiliate with Art.com for several years and it has been a company I have enjoyed working with and earning from.
See their site: ART PRINTS - Art.com!
At one time, when I had a number of special interest “art stores” on JohnDilbeck.com, I was earning some nice commission checks and some were upwards [...]
I just noticed that Twitter Tools, a plug-in that I’ve come to rely upon, is not tweeting about my new blog posts.
In fact, it appears that it hasn’t been working for the last couple of weeks.
I’ve been using Twitter Tools for some time on several of my blogs and have come to rely upon it. [...]
I was reading several blogs and forums where people were talking about how much money they earned (or didn’t earn) from affiliate marketing in October.
The more I read, the more I realized that I’m not doing as badly as I have been feeling.
After all, I earned a living from this for quite a few years, [...]
Normally, I would have jumped on the introduction of Site Build It! Version 2.0 last week, but I was busy with an offline project that had a real deadline I had to meet.
Today is the first time I have the time to talk about this new version of SBI.
Although they finally decided to call it [...]
Yesterday, October 5, 2009, the FTC published their final guidelines governing endorsements and testimonials. This ruling will affect celebrities, bloggers, testimonial advertisements, and probably more.
The press release is here:
FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials
The actual guidelines are in a pdf file that I have tried to download several times, but, so far, have [...]
This is the Spring 2008 edition of John Dilbeck's Act On Your Dream! newsletter, featuring an article about Jennifer Ledbetter who is also known as PotPieGirl.