MelvinBlog

A blog that chronicles my journey on online marketing, blogging, social media, technology and life.

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You Should Have a Personal Blog!

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When I have first created this blog, MelvinBlog.com, I had a thought that this blog would really be a personal blog where I would put all the rambling stuffs, people I hate the most, new crushes, retarded politicians and many many more. For some reasons, the blog started gaining popularity and was pushed into the direction of mmo. Yes, the dirty and filthy make money online niche. I was reading my archives and haven’t really found good info related to making money online for the first 2 months I must say.

Quick turn of time, hey look! I had banners at the sidebar (many!), an impersonal about page, has set-up a landing page, and is even planning to run a mailing list soon! What the heck! Well I wouldn’t  want to be a hypocrite by saying that I dislike what I am getting now from this blog. Sure I had dreams of owning a website and monetizing it ala Engadget or Techcrunch, but to actually become one of “them”, hey its not what I planned at first.

Anyways enough ranting. You see there really is an almost non-existing space when talking about blogging personally and succeeding (or making money from it). It took me some time to realize that “hey I can’t just put useless stuffs here anymore” and have to really switch to someone who has to put up useful (or funny) content 80% of the time. You can say that shoemoney and johnchow and couple others are just posting useless content yet they get so much attention but just look how early they did blogging. They did it in time almost no one knew it existed.

So the whole point of this post is to just persuade you to start your own personal blog. Personally for me, having one makes me really feel the real essence of blogging. Just post stuffs, no worries on whether its good, no pressure at all, and its all fun! Shoemoney (jeremyschoemaker.com) and Problogger (darrenrowse.com) even had their own! It’s like really a useful tool when you’re doing nothing, you want to express out how your neighbor sucks, or want to speak about your crush and more.

Come on, a domain name just costs less than $10 a year and I know you guys are filthy wealthier than me that you had your own dedicated server so why not? And besides, you can even just use free platforms. Btw, maybe you’re wonderin’ out what’s my personal blog address (you may say I keep talkin’ yet I dont have one 😀 ). Its located at Mehlvs.com and its totally a free-writing blog. I would be very grateful to hear your own opinion. 😀

How to Make Money Outside Internet Marketing

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Although the title looks like that one you have been seeing in email spams and “get-rich quick sales pages, it’s actually not. A lot of people jumping into internet marketing always have this question “How do I start? I dont know anything about internet marketing?” The answer is always read, try to learn, test, then learn again.

But as always there are a ton of ways on how you can make money online if you’re dumb and poor about internet marketing. We all know it takes time before you can completely grasp the whole concept of it, but whats the need on learning it if you can make some cash without it? 🙂 Today I have compiled ways on how you can actually make money online without any knowledge about IM. The only thing you need is the basic read and write knowledge as well as some persistence on your part. I believe all of them costs nothing (although if you have the money, the better)  Here they are:

  • Forum Posting – Forum Posting is basically posting in a forum and getting paid. It’s not really that big but if you can work quick, then you can definitely have your earnings up. ForumsFirst.com is one that pays for it. They are probably the most reliable and better forum posting company. You can also look at some forums like dp and v7n, as normally there are people that look for forum fillers.

SECRET TIP: With this type people often whine “I don’t type fast” While typing fast is a huge factor in this one, it’s not totally the only thing that can give you success with it. Why not use a dicatation software? In my previous stints with doing it, I use Dragon Naturally Speaking. If you’re a Mac user you can use Mac Dictate. What is a dictation software? Basically its a software that converts your voice to text. COol? Definitely! You can make $50 a day easily with forum posting with this type of software. $50 a day? Yeah, something most affiliate marketers cant even reach!

  • Get Paid To Sites – GPT sites are sites that pay people to complete an offer. Maybe a short survey, or signup to a free site, or maybe something that requires a credit card. Believe me there’s no shortage of this sites. Why? Because some affiliate marketers are incentivizing some offers, thats why they come to these sites, pay them and earn. Win-Win situation for all! Jim of TNF has a list which he personally recommends
  • Freelancing – Contrary to what most people are saying, freelancing is really a lucrative thing. A lot of people are looking to outsource (including me). They look for designers, article writers, coders, data entry personnels, and many more. I mean Im sure at least you know how to do one of it right? Freelancers are the one whom I often called as “partners in business”.  Elance.com is one company which probably is the biggest.
  • Starting A Contest Blog – I hate doing stuffs like this but basically lets face it, you can actually make some cash/gadgets with contests nowadays. 85% of contests require blogging and doing it costs you nothing. What are you waiting for? Create a free blogger blog, fill it with some content, then start hunting for contests. I know a lot of people making good use of contest blogs and taking advantage of contests.

SECRET TIP: How do you know a contest is live? Easy, just look at other contest blogs and you will know it. Contest bloggers try to find contest as much as they can so they are actually doing the work for you. Search Google for terms “contest blogs” “blog contests” or so and you’ll find a ton.

  • Selling Photos – Selling photos is something that I have never done and will never do in my entire life. But after countless hours of doing research about it I found out it can really be a good business. If you have a camera, then go into a peaceful place (cemetery?) and take shots. Then sell it to  sites like iStockPhoto and StockExpert.

Now with this list, I dont really see any reason why people cannot make any money online. Although it doesn’t make you that big, I believe seeing your first dollars would make you more inspired. And inspirations do a lot. Anyway if you can add anything valuable to this list then don’t be shy to put it in the comments. Or if you have some questions, then ask them.  My goal is to get more to add in this list and hopefully share it in some of the local forums here in my country. 🙂 What say you?