Leah’s Cafe

Met up with a few ex colleagues last week. They were surprised to learn that we have sold the tutoring business. When they learned that I am working mostly online this days, they immediately thought I am running an online store. They kept asking questions on the distribution network of the products and which warehousing service provider is used. Even though I tried to explain, but they got so caught up with the idea of me running an online store, no amount of explanation shed any light. For some people, it’s impossible to make money online unless you own an online store and sell merchandises that require a sophisticated warehousing solutions.

If you are selling physical goods, you would probably use a warehousing service that can fulfill your warehouse and distribution needs. For instance, if you are distributing clothings, you may need climate controlled and protected facilities. Many companies actually outsource this part of their business to the fulfillment solutions experts that have automated warehousing and inventory system that takes care of your products and make sure you will never run out of stocks.

Since the big G doesn’t like us selling links that pass link juice and would continue to smack our blogs or sites down for doing that, we need to find a way to continue to make money online that works within the perimeter set by the God of search engines.

Have been looking at the possibility of getting involved with affiliate sales through PPC marketing. But, cringed at the thought of us creating landing pages without coding knowledge and technical skills. Not until we started designing our own landing pages, we realize that there are so many things and terms to learn i.e. quality score, loading time.

There is certain risk factor attached to PPC affiliate sales, you can lose money if the conversion rates for your PPC campaigns are lousy. Since one of the reasons for poor conversion could be due to the less than ideal landing pages, getting professional Web Development is definitely a wise decision if one can afford it. Not many of us ordinary people could afford to run campaigns that losing thousands a day!

Have decided to divorce the Montessori Blog from TigaP and asked for pardon from our granny G. Submitted a reconsideration request yesterday. Elaine, ParisB and many others got back their PR after doing that, so crossing my fingers and waiting to see what will happen!

Anyway, after segmented out by region, domain, page rank and traffic, there are not many opportunities for a Blogspot with PR0 on the TigaP. Whatever available to PR0 will be grabbed before you can blink your eyes. Actually have not gotten any opps since January! So, decided to part with TigaP even though it’s one of the blogs that gets the most traffics from search engine and has better Real Rank.

Wednesday and Thursday are two days that I don’t teach a class. What do I do on this two “free” days? Last week, I recycled the blogs that have gone down to PR0 or blog that has not been  actively updated. They are blogs that get a sizeable search engine traffics, with a little twist, the Adsense income doubled this week. Too bad the niche of this blogs don’t pay well, but USD0.03 is 10 sen and it adds up.:-)

Also tested out the idea of creating niche sites for Adsense. Looking for keywords and doing research on the keywords took much time.  But, I have found some keywords and niches to work on for the next few weeks. Since granny G is going to continue to smack us for linking out. Need to find other googly ways of earning the US$$ online.

You might have heard of pay-per-click or pay per action advertising, but have you heard of pay per play advertising? It’s a relatively new way of online advertising, and for webmasters and blog owners alike, another way to make money online!

In a nutshell, you get paid for playing the Net Audio Ads on your site for every impression. How this work? A short five second audio clip will automatically turn on when a visitor arrives at your website or blog. This super short commercial may not be annoying, but I do think you need to have above average traffics to get paid reasonably well.

NetAudioAds™ claims that it has over 66,000 advertisers and over 550,000 websites responsible for up to 43 million impressions the 5 second audio ads on a monthly basis and their list of advertisers included household names like Taco Bell and Harley Davidson.

They currently have a lucrative affiliate program which allows any sites to sign up to share in the affiliate revenues. This program will cease come February 1, 2008, so you have two more weeks to decide whether you are game to try it!

Well, why not take a look and try it? Who knows it will be the next big thing. After all, what have we got to lose?