Get £5 For Free When You Join CashBack Program

We keep being told by the media that we are either heading for, or are in, a recesssion. It therefore makes sense to save money whenever possible. And if this also means that you can make money as well so much the better, and if they also give you £5 for free even better still!

Mirror Cashback is one such opportunity for UK residents.

With this particular cashback scheme there are all sorts of savings to be made on purchases, which most of us will probably make anyway. Here are just a few examples (current at today's date):

Avon cosmetics fashion etc 5% cashback, Burton menswear 2.5% cashback, Comet electrical equipment 1.5% cashback, Dell computers 1% cashback, Dixons electrical 2% cashback, Ernest Jones jewellery and watches 7% cashback, Figleaves lingerie 4.5% cashback, H Samuel jewellery 6.25% cashback, Greetings by PhotoBox greetings cards 20% cashback, Healthy Direct vitamins etc 10% cashback, House of Fraser 2.5% cashback, Knickerbox 5% cashback, Moss Bros 4% cashback, Nike iD 4.5% cashback, Pet Supermarket 3% cashback, Pizza Hut 3.75 cashback, The Body Shop 4% cashback, Thorntons 4% cashback - and many, many more including up to £45 cashback on insurance, £36 cashback on mobiles, £53 cashback on broadband.

To start getting cashback - it is completely free to join - click here.

Plus you can earn £5 for each friend or family member you refer. Full details are shown when you join.

The small percentages of cashback all add up, especially over the Christmas and New Year period.

Oh and did I mention that you get £5 when you join!

Must be worth a go. You will find the full information here.

Good luck,
Mike.

Google Blog Search Can Make Extra Money

I've noticed that for some of my blogs I have been getting more referrals recently from Google Blog Search. To me more referrals means the possibility of making more money.

Google Blog Search is something I haven't really thought about too much before as I have relied mainly on normal Google searches to produce traffic.

From what I can see it pays to have the 'right' blog title and blog address to get a good supply of referrals from Google Blog Search. If you get this right you can get listed at the top of the page as a 'related blog'.

As an example see the screen shot below. I have a small blog about the UK television presenter Konnie Huq and my blog is listed at the top of the page as a 'related blog'.


I checked a few more of my blogs and I also get listed as a related blog for Celebrity Insider, Helen Flanagan, Celeb Tease and a few others as well. Being listed at the top of the page must obviously an advantage.

To get in this position I see it as being necessary to think about keywords that will most likely be used in a search and include these:

(1) within the blog title/name and
(2) within the URL.

This is something that many of us don't consider properly prior to setting up a new blog.

Having keywords in a blog name, URL as well as in post titles and the body of posts appears to pay dividends - both with the normal Google Searches and also with Google Blog Search.

A little thought and forward planning at the beginning of a blog's life can make a big difference.

Good luck,
Mike.

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Other Blogs Clean Up

I've been tidying up my 'Other Blogs' list for Mike's Money Making Mission - the link for this is always in the header.

I went through all of the blogs listed, to make sure they are reasonably current. Some have therefore been deleted.

If I have removed any in error just let me know and I will be pleased to replace them.

I don't judge the blogs listed, some are good and others perhaps not so. All I ask is that they are decent, won't offend anyone and are updated recently.

Just leave me a comment either here or on the Other Blogs page if you wish your blog to be added. Blogs of any category, other than adult, accepted.

Good luck,
Mike.

Making Money With Network Marketing

I just wanted to clarify something about the likes of the ei42 money making program that I have mentioned in the previous two posts.

I wrote that this particular program was on seven levels and this turned some readers thoughts to pyramids. And pyramid scams at that.

However, network marketing is a legitimate marketing system and is regulated both in the UK and USA. There are rules and the such but it's really all about lots of people selling small amounts of products.

It's perfectly true that pyramid selling is illegal in most countries, but pyramids are about getting paid for purely introducing new people into the business, with actual sales being unnecessary.

With the likes of ei42 members only get paid if or when people part with their cash for products. Though with this particular program members do get cashback on their own purchases, should they choose to buy anything themselves.

Years ago - good gracious 20 years ago - I was quite into network marketing and made some serious money with several companies, Herbalife being one example.

There are two things you need to be successful with network or multi-level marketing.

(1) You need to build a network (or downline) of people under you. This is from where the big money is made. It's about introducing new members into the business who also do the same. All networking companies differ but with ei42 this goes down seven levels. People you introduce, people they introduce, people they introduce and so on seven times.

Note that simply introducing others does not make money.

However, it can that it is possible, in theory, to end up with lots of people in your network/downline. Now if they all sell goods, even small amounts, this will add up to a lot of commission.

The reality is though that most recruits won't live up to expectations. This applies to most sales teams. If you make say 20 referrals only one or two will do well. The others will have every excuse imaginable as to why they can't succeed.

This also applies if you are introducing others to new affiliate programs or whatever. Lots of people like the idea of making money but few have the energy, effort and persistence to actually make lots of money. That's the way it is, you can't change human nature.

(2) Products have to be purchased, either by separate customers or by your downline. Some scams laughably talk about just introducing two people, who do the same, and so on and you'll make money. This is nonsense and only applies if sufficient people part with their cash and that everyone plays their part as expected - which they won't.

I wouldn't for one minute say that network marketing or multi-level marketing is easy - and that applies to any program. But it does work and it is something that gives the average person a money making opportunity, without laying out lots of money for a franchise or something similar. It works and it is legal but, like most things including blogging, it has to be worked at.

Okay, that's it!

Good Luck,
Mike.

P.S. Kindly nore that ei42 is for UK residents only at the present time.

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Investigate Anyone Anytime

Very often, we get a feeling that we cannot shake that something isn’t right about a person we have just met. A new person starts at your place of employment and when you are introduced, you instantly feel apprehensive about that person. Or, it may be that you begin to suspect something is off about that person after knowing them for a short period of time, and you begin to wonder that perhaps there’s something you should know about this person.

Chances are, this has happened to you. Many people can shake of the feeling that something isn’t quite right, but very often that feeling lingers. In order to get the answers you need regarding that individual, it used to be that you would have to spend days running between public offices in order to find the evidence you need in order to know if you should be wary of this person. Investigate123.com can do all the searching for you and provide you with all the records that are publicly available.

You do no need to snoop around or feel like you are invading someone else’s privacy when you are using Investigate123.com. You will not need to provide the web site with any private information about the person in question. The only information you will need in order to conduct a search is the person’s first and last name and the state in which they reside. Once you hit the enter key, all of the public records on this individual will be at your disposal in a matter of seconds.

Investigate123.com is a database that has access to all the public records in the United States. This number is over the one billion mark. This means that if a citizen can have access to a document, then Investigate123.com can provide that document for your review. The information you can obtain from Investigate123.com is of the same quality as that which a private investigator would provide you. However, the service that Investigate123.com provides is much quicker and is a fraction of the cost.

Investigate123.com offers a variety of records which include: criminal records, complete background checks, phone investigations, criminal records, public records, and people search. The list of available searches and records is so comprehensive that if there is something untoward in the individual’s past, Investigate123.com will find it and bring it to your attention.

One of the most valuable services of Investigate123.com is that they will find any alias or other names used by the individual. Very often, people will change their name or use their middle name if their original name is linked with a crime. When you conduct a search on Investigate123.com, you will learn all of the names used by the person in question so that you can learn everything you can about the individual.

Intuition can be a powerful thing. If you have 'that feeling' about someone, do not wait to learn more about their background. Take advantage of Investigate123.com and put that nagging feeling to rest.

This article was not written by Mike Perry but was prepared by Investigate123.com

Five Free Online Businesses To Make Money

Following on from the last post, here are five websites where you can get your own free online money making business - either a store, shop or agency. Everything is completely free including the website and hosting.

Amazon USA and Amazon UK.
You can open up to 100 aStores with Amazon which you then stock with their products. You choose what you want to have in your aStore and can give it, within reason, whatever name you wish.

This in effect means that you if you had a blog, say about music, you could have stores perhaps with the name of singers, groups, types of music. You could stock each one with products that match.

To open an aStore you need to become an affiliate at Amazon, again no cost involved.

Zlio.
Similar in some ways to Amazon. They will set you up with a website, you give it a name and then stock it with whatever you want from their range of thousands of products.

Again this allows you to find a niche and fill it with exactly the right products.

DIY Dating.
Not a shop, but this time a dating website.

You name the site, choose the design and also decide on the sort of dating you want to promote from their massive database: marriage, romance, gay, adult etc. etc.

In effect you can have your own dating site with millions of profiles for potential clients.

SexToySex. (strictly over 18's only)
This is one for those who want to get into the profitable adult market. I won't go into details about the sort of products they have but they are definitely for broadminded people only.

The company set you up with a free website and stock it with thousands of products. You get excellent commission on any sales made.

ei42
I wrote about this one in my post Money Making Test ei42 With Free Website. It's for the UK only at the present time but offers a free website that leads to 1500+ well known online outlets, shops and stores.

Comment.
Setting up your store, with any or all of these five, is reasonably straight forward. I found Zlio perhaps to be the most tricky and ei42 the easiest.

Once the stores are set up now comes the more difficult bit. As with blogs you need traffic and lots of it. This is another case of it being a numbers game. The more people who visit your store, the more opportunity you have to make money. The opposite is also true: if no one visits - zilch!

The advantage of already having a blog is that this can be used to promote your store. This will be a lot easier if the shop and the blog are of a similar niche. This is the case, for example, with my aStore Blogging Good Blogs as I've stocked it with books about blogging.

Opening one of these online style stores could be profitable if the niche, and perhaps the time of the year, tie up. Toys at Christmas, Dating and Romance in the New Year and so on.

They cost nothing try out but be realistic with your expectations.

Good luck,
Mike.

Money Making Test: ei42 with Free Website

This is something I'm testing and it's a bit different from the usual money making affiliate program. The only snag is that at the present time it is for the UK only. Other countries will follow in due course and I'll let you know when this happens.

The company is called ei42 - though I'm not sure why as yet!

So what's it all about?
The easy answer is shopping!

But not at just one store. At the moment there are 1512 stores and shops on the Internet to choose from. And these are the big names in the UK such as Argos, HMV, Woolworth, Currys, Comet, Sky Digital, Waterstone's, eBay, Amazon, Littlewoods Direct, WH Smith, Boots, Superdrug, Carphone Warehouse, Virgin Holidays and so on and so on.

So stores where most of us shop.

When you join you get your own standard website - here's mine: Mike's Mission Shop.

As I understand it you make commission in two ways:

(1) Purchases made on your own website/shop - including cash back on your own purchases.
(2) You earn a percentage on sales generated by people that you introduce - and this is on seven levels. So yes it is network marketing (which is perfectly legal, when products are involved).

Seven levels means: People you introduce, people they introduce, people they introduce and so on for seven levels.

Needless to say it's all free to join and you don't have to buy something yourself to qualify for payments. Though most of us probably will because of the cash back payments.

I can't give commission rates as they vary from shop to shop.

The positives, as I see it, are that your own free website links to all of the 1,512 shops - which in the main are major, well known outlets.

I won't go on any longer as you can see the full info on their website. I think it's worth a punt, especially at the present time, because most of us, and the people we know, will shop at these major stores anyway.


I'll keep you updated with how things go, any success, snags and so on. Obviously, having only just joined, I can't guarantee that this will be a success. As per usual time will tell.

Good luck,
Mike.

P.S. And there are usually 'special offers' as well. I noticed, for example, House of Fraser have £10 off first purchase, £5 off at Needapresent.com, 70% off boxsets at HMV, 10% off at Bodyshop and so on.

Every Referral Helps Make Money

I wrote back in August about how I was using a widget from Wowzio on several of my blogs to try and promote my Celebrity Insider.

So, how has it done?
I've been using the Wowzio widget which you can see in the right had column of this blog. It's something that can only really be used if you regularly have images or photos within your posts. In saying this Wowzio also have a range of other easy to install widgets as well.

Regarding the one I'm using, looking through my Celebrity Insider referrals I see that this brings in about 10 referrals a day. Not exactly a big success, say compared with Google who sometimes refer well over a 1000 or more per day, but every little helps.

I'll stick with the Wowzio widget as it seems to load pretty quickly and every extra referral is always a money making bonus.

Good luck,
Mike.

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How Much Should You Earn For 1 Million Page Impressions

I use several email addresses and the other day I received a promotional email from WidgetBucks. I am actually already a member. This is part of what the email said:

"Are you tired of low-paying ineffective ads cluttering your website? WidgetBucks has the remedy! WidgetBucks offers Interactive ads that bring in some of the highest paying eCPM rates around. Our hybrid CPM/CPC ads are guaranteed to make your blog look much more appealing to your audience and bring in the big bucks."

And one of the reasons they gave to join WidgetBucks was that it would give 'Higher ad revenue for your site or blog.'

All sounds very good but I've been trying out WidgetBucks again recently as a trial on one of my blogs. Here are the latest figures of what I have earned.


So their 'highest paying rates' made me $0.75 for 8540 page impressions. So perhaps not quite as it appears as per the sales patter in the email.

I then took the statistics a stage further for the whole of this year. This time the figures showed.


From this you can see I had WidgetBucks on over one million page impressions and this made me just over $115. That's $0.106 per 1000. Still not too impressive is it?

Now what was it they were saying in that email? Oh, yes, "Are you tired of low-paying ineffective ads .."

I'll leave the post there as I think the figures speak for themselves. All that glitters is not gold.

Good luck,
Mike.

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The Recipe For A Money Making Blog

I like reading money making blogging success stories and I came across one on the Herald Tribune about a Dr. Arnold Kim who has given up medicine to concentrate on his website MacRumours.com.

As the Herald writes about him:

"Kim epitomizes the home-grown publishers whose wealth has been enabled by the Internet. Although few of the millions of blogs ever make their creators rich, the ones that do provide all the incentive necessary to fuel the medium."

The thing that really struck home though is something that I keep saying about how to make money with blogs myself. I don't claim to be anywhere near his success but when he was asked the simple question about his website, "How does that make money?" He answered that it can all be ...

"... boiled down to one simple accomplishment: building traffic. That's it. If you have a site that attracts a lot of visitors, you will be able to make money. On the Internet, traffic equals power, which subsequently equals money."

Exactly!

Kim's website attracts a lot of traffic. In July of this year it was quoted that his site attracts, '4.4 million people and 40 million page views a month.'

This all didn't happen overnight, as a lot of bloggers seem to expect.

He started way back in 2000 plus he picked a good niche in writing about gossip, rumour and facts about Apple. It has now become one of the top technology websites.

What can we learn from this?

The recipe for a successful money making blog is:
time + the right quality niche + traffic.

Get those three ingredients, in the right amounts, and you'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

Good luck,
Mike.

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ClickBank Money Making Report

Well that was tough going. Making money with ClickBank that is.

As you will recall I started a money making test with ClickBank on September 9th and I then told you of a snag I found about receiving payment on September 25th.

I can now, however, report that at last I have qualified to receive a payment of $115.02 from them.

This means, I suppose, that I ought to come up with some sort of conclusion now.

Okay, I started out with great enthusiasm with ClickBank and even set up another blog, Good Health Source, to try and help with making sales.

At first it seemed to be going okay. I was averaging about 70 clicks a day for over a month but actual sales, and therefore commission, was hard to come by.

Recently I must admit that my enthusiasm has wained, so much so that my number of clicks for the last three weeks has been down to 20 per day.

What I find difficult to get my head round is firstly the price of some of the thousands of products on offer. They are mainly ebooks and I feel that they are often vastly over priced.

Does that matter?
If the information is excellent then it doesn't matter because the buyer will have gained something of value. Otherwise it's a rip off. The problem is that you don't actually know the quality of what you are promoting unless you buy the product yourself. The saving grace is that there is always a money back guarantee, and this is what eased my conscience.

As for the way ClickBank makes you initially qualify for payment (see here), I don't like this at all. To my mind this is done to make life difficult for smaller affiliates, in a way that AdSense similarly does by having a $100 minimum payout.

What in reality this must mean is that ClickBank/AdSense make a lot of additional money because many affiliates give up and never actually qualify for payment.

So would I recommend ClickBank to other bloggers?
It's taken me just under two months to make my $115.02, which I don't consider to be very good in relation to the number of clicks I have had. I can only give figures for the last month because, for some inexplicable reason, ClickBank records only go back for 30 days.

In the last 30 days I had 919 clicks and these converted to commission of $50.33. This means for this period each click was worth $0.054 to me.

I concentrated on mostly health orientated products, perhaps other sectors gain better results.

I can't, as I've already intimated, give an opinion on the actual products themselves. There are literally thousands of them but some do sound a bit tacky.

I'd say, if you want to add it to your portfolio of money making programs, no harm done. I should, however, take those fantastic earnings figures often bandied about with a large pinch of salt.

If I had to give a score out of ten it would only be 4/10.

I'll let you know from time to time how I get on with ClickBank.

Good luck,
Mike.

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How Much Money Is A Click Really Worth?

So what is a click really worth?

I was wondering this so I did a few calculations to see the reality. I wasn't really surprised at the results but it does make me wonder why some bloggers knock AdSense.

I've only picked out a few of the affiliate programs that I do myself. Most pay per order as opposed purely for clicks. I therefore divided what I earned last month, with these programs, by the number of clicks I had. Hope that makes sense.

This is what I found

AdSense $0.28 per click
WEGCash* $0.10 per click
ClickBank $0.02 per click
Penthouse* $0.02 per click
FriendFinder Group $0.02 per click
Amazon USA $0.003 per click
Amazon UK $0.002 per click
IcePoster $0.003 per click
*These are adult sites do not click if this may offend
Please remember these are my figures so other people may get vastly differing returns.

What it does strike home is what I keep saying about how traffic=money. The more readers that arrive at your blogs the more clicks you should have - and therefore the more money you should make.

I think the click rate for FriendFinder and Penthouse should increase considerably this month. The reason being is that they have massively increased their commission rates temporarily.

FriendFinder Group are offering a gigantic $130 per paying member introduced on four of their websites. And Penthouse have more doubled their commission to $70 for each new member.

Of course there are other ways of making money besides relying on clicks. One of the best is to sign up other affiliates into the programs you are promoting. Normally you get about 10% commission on what these people earn - but each program has it's own terms.

The beauty of this is that it's virtually money for nothing and could tick on for ages, especially if you are lucky enough to introduce a few big hitters. I make money this way myself, especially from the FriendFinder Group.

Other ways to make money include review writing, paid advertising and so on. In the end thought it's all down to traffic, and the more targeted this is the better the returns.

Good clicking!
Mike.

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Your Blog Goldmine

At the beginning of a month, when I look back at the previous one, I'm usually surprised as to what have been the most visited blogs.

These were the top five most visited on Mikes Money Making Mission for October 2008.

1
May 2008
How To Get 90% Discounts On Amazon Products
2
March 2007
How To Make Money With Chain Letters
3
March 2007
Money Making With Zlio
4
March 2007
Money Making With Free Blogs - Part 1
5
August 2007
Money Making With Your Own Social Network
I think what surprises me is how the most visited are usually quite old posts. Four of the five are from 2007, over 18 months old, plus they aren't ones that I would consider to be the blog's 'best' posts.

This illustrates that often the right keywords and general SEO are more important than what is actually written. At least as far as getting the search engine referrals is concerned.

Of course this is only part of the story. If the posts aren't well written or aren't quite what the reader expects then they will quickly move on.

To attract visitors, that will make us money, I look at it as being a twofold project.

(1) Good keywords, title and SEO to get the referral in the first place and
(2) Good content, that is of value, to retain the reader.

Everything post we write is important as we might only get one chance to impress that particular reader. This means that we can't really afford to let our standards drop.

A blog's back catalogue of posts can be a goldmine - if we have done the basics properly. Golden gems might be hiding somewhere deep in the archives.

Good luck,
Mike.

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