My Financial Future

Dear All,

I would like to share about my financial future with you. Hopefully could inspired you to have more idea about your future.

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Making Money With Diamonds

Amazon USA have moved into the world of diamonds whereby customers can create their own style rings and at a price within their budget. Perhaps this could be a good money maker for bloggers.

A special Create Your Own Ring page has been set up on Amazon which has sets of sliding bars to help choose diamond shape, price, carat, cut, colour, clarity and so on. Customers can click the 'see results' button at any time.

It all sounds ideal for engagement rings and the like. Instead of plodding round the shops, hoping to see the right design, this can be all done from the comfort of home and customers will get exactly what they are looking for.

Plus, of course, there could be some decent commission to be made as diamond rings are generally good value items.

As far as the customer is concerned Amazon state: "We can sell the same ring as a conventional jeweler, for about a third less than their price." Now that must be a real incentive to buy from Amazon.

Other plus points quoted by Amazon, "... all of our diamonds are graded by highly trained gemologists and come with a certificate, you can be confident our diamonds measure up to their stated qualities. And because our diamonds are certified conflict-free in accordance with the Kimberly Process, your customers can buy with a clear conscience."

As with any product you need the right customers but, with a 'third off' normal prices, Amazon diamonds might be worth a test on various niche blogs.

Good luck,
Mike.

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Squidoo And Money Making Plus A Young Elvis

I wrote a post just before Christmas titled Money Making Test: Squidoo Lenses and since then, as time allows, I have managed to create six lenses and have started to attract traffic to most of them.

I'm not going to do a proper update now on Squidoo as it's too early but a couple of things I have noticed that may be of interest.

Firstly there are Squidoo people who create lenses and then sell them. This is something I didn't realise. I'd heard about selling blogs, of course, but didn't imagine that a lens could be sold. They even have a section on their Forum called Lens Marketplace for this purpose.

I'm not too sure why anyone would actually want to buy a lens as they are so easy to create but there we go. Setting up and selling lenses might be a small money maker for anyone who has the time and inclination.

While on the subject of money making one person I came across, who goes by the name of CaptainSquid, has a chart on his blog - see here - where it looks as if he is earning about $3,750 per month from Squidoo with traffic of 6000 per seven day periods.

So perhaps there is money to be made with Squidoo!

Good luck,
Mike.

My Squidoo Lenses: Making Money With Free Blogs / Everything Perry / Warning About Ponzi Schemes / Celebrities Photos and News / Elvis Presley The Early Years

Make Money With Your Old Blog Posts

This may sound pretty obvious but I must admit that it has only recently dawned on me.

From most blog statistics it's usually possible to see which posts are pulling in the most visitors. I usually find there are about ten that get the most referrals from search engines and often from other places as well.

So I used to look at these and say to myself something like, "Look at that! One of my old posts from last year is still attracting traffic. Who would have thought that." And then I would move onto something else, some other statistic or interest and that's it.

Well that's what I used to do anyway.

What dawned on me was that these particular popular posts were potential money makers - or at least they should be.

If a lot of people are visiting these posts doesn't it make sense to check them over and see if they could become more profitable? Perhaps by adding or amending an advert or program on the post, for example.

As I've often said I believe the most money is made from individual posts and not from the banners in blog side columns. If this is true, and it is as far as I'm concerned, then it makes sense to see that high traffic posts are monetised to the best possible advantage.

By this I don't mean flooding them with ads but there should be something on them that could possibly make you money. If there isn't, then an opportunity has been lost.

I would therefore suggest checking which posts are pulling in the traffic, say monthly, and then double checking that these are 'selling' whatever it is that you are currently promoting.

Good luck,
Mike.

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All Change To Make More Money

A while back Darren Rowse asked his readers what their 'tipping point' was. In other words what was it that made them realise they were getting somewhere with their blogging.

I was thinking about this myself yesterday as it was the end of the first year of publishing my Celebrity Insider blog.

Starting in the celeb world I think was my tipping point. I was at the time doing okay with Mikes Money Making Mission but felt it wasn't quite the money maker that I had hoped for.

I needed to get into another niche and chose celebrities. Since then my blogging business has taken off and I have expanded my range of blogs. Some have been successful and some not so but, by trying new things, it expanded my knowledge and experience.

Celebrity Insider I feel has done reasonably well. As at today, which is now one year and one half a day, the blog has had 1,059402 visits including reloads and 702832 unique visitors - and this was starting from blank or nil.

First Year Celebrity Insider Visits
It's the total number of readers on all of my blogs that has increased my earnings to something worthwhile. To my simple way of thinking this is what money making with free blogs is all about: visitor numbers.

On one of my other blogs, on one day, I had over 40,000 hits and I couldn't believe how much this made me from the likes of AdSense, Voxant and so on. Unfortunately this was a one off but it struck home the massive potential.

I think there comes a time with blogging when you have to ask yourself if things are going well enough - or is everything much of muchness. If you want better earnings sometimes it's necessary to move in a slightly different direction or to find novel and new ways to increase traffic.

It's a fun business and once you've had some good days it reinforces what can happen and what can be achieved.

Sometimes though it takes a little extra effort and imagination - and perhaps change.

Good luck,
Mike.

Amazon Widget Brings Music To Your Blog

Amazon have introduced yet another widget for affiliates. This allows you to play song samples from Amazon's catalogue of over five million entries.

You can choose the songs you want or alternatively display the latest bestsellers - as I have done in the sample below.

It's only a small money maker as a download is normally only about 99c - and the commission is at 10%. Of course, once on the Amazon site, the reader may be tempted to order something else of a higher value.

I must admit though that I've never really managed to get a good return from Amazon. I was just looking at some stats and my last 250 clicks only produced one order. So we are talking of only a 0.4% take up. Not exactly amounts to set you on fire - but a few small income streams help to make something bigger.

Okay now click the widget and see what you want to download! Let's see 10% off 99c is ... good job there are a few far superior affiliate programs about.


Good luck,
Mike.

P.S. John has emailed me to say that he had done his regular Proven Earners Carnival. You can see this here.