Money Schemes - Learn How To Make Money Online

The title says it all really, isn’t this what we are all looking for in the online money making niche? Unfortunately I can’t tell you how to make $10,000 a month from doing next to no work, even if I did know the chances of me sharing that information and risking my own livelihood are slim unless I was very sure it was something that was sustainable. I’m quite open with how I make money; I think the chances of anybody else in this niche sharing that information are none.

This is the big problem with blogging about making money online, there is only so much news to go around before everything just becomes the same stuff recycled over and over. Very little of it actually helps you to make money online. If you’ve been wondering why things have been so quite lately then the truth is that I just don’t have that much to say. The internet is going through a quite spell, Google has seen a third of their share price go since the beginning of the year. Online advertisers are starting to circle the wagons and protect what they already have and this means fewer opportunities for those of is interested in pay-pay-click and affiliate marketing. Lets face it, this is how the bulk of us make money online. None of this information is going to help you make more money online. Neither is me poncing on about positive mental attitude, 10 key words that your joint venture partner wants to hear or why your bum size affects your visitor numbers. None of this will make you more money. What will help you are PRACTICAL tips about gaining traffic and how to turn that traffic into money.

Like I said, things are quite at the moment, I’m experimenting with a few new advertising partners but don’t have enough feedback yet to recommend them, in terms of traffic and links I’m going more and more into the social networking and forum commenting side of things. But you all know about link building using Stumble and forums anyway? Is it really worth me recycling that information?

Rather than just pile out the same old crap as everybody else I’ll wait till I have something worth telling you about before I expect you to take the time reading what I write. If you’re looking for daily updates of nothingness to distract you from your work then you might be better looking elsewhere. If you’re looking for practical hints and tips on making more online then now might be a good time to subscribe, that way you’re not going to be wasting valuable surfing time if I haven’t updated.

I’ve been using Zookoda for a couple of years now in order to deliver RSS feeds straight to people’s email inboxes. It started of great but ever since they were taken over the whole service side of things seems to be going a little bit down the pan.

You’d probably ask at this point why i didn’t go with FeedBurner? There are a couple of reasons, first of all I didn’t even know that FeedBurner existed (it seemed to be a blogging community thing and I never really bothered with blogs up until about a year ago). Secondly it was and is a free service, until Google got involved with FeedBurner many of the features I needed I would have had to pay for.

The problem is that now Zookoda have really messed up for me, a client was using their service (on my recommendation) to keep potential customers up to date with their development news. They’d built quite a subscriber list over the last 18 months. Then all of a sudden at the beginning of this year the mail shots stopped working. On further investigation it turns out that Zookoda are no longer happy with “something” in the feed. I’ve ran it through every RSS validation tool I can find and there is nothing wrong with it. I even tried manually removing some of the later entries, again still no joy. In the end I contacted support, I wasn’t very hopeful, I guess I was right to be this way! I eventually got an e-mail back saying that they were having some “technical problems” with some feeds and that was that. Almost 3 months later and there are still no e-mail updates going out, push has come to shove and now it’s time to look for another provider.

What I really need some help with is finding that provider, the web is a big place! So if anybody knows of a free RSS to E-mail newsletter service that will allow you to manually add existing e-mail contacts (I’d really like some form of opt-in as well, rather than just allowing addresses to be added willy nilly) then can you let me know about it? The e-mails don’t have to be anything too fancy, either plain text or a simple HTML template would be fine, it’s only text content taken directly from the RSS feed. If FeedBurner would let me add e-mail addresses manually (and then prompt the address holder to opt-in) it would be great, as it is I don’t it has that functionality so does anybody have any ideas?