Hey everyone,
I’m just getting a quick post in from the house I’m staying in. The internet connection is horrible so I will try to post soon, but it keeps cutting out. Sorry about my lack of posting lately. When I get a better connection, I will get posting.
Reid
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Hello MooneyQuest readers! I have volunteered to relieve Reid of his posting responsibilities for a day. He will be able to focus on enjoying his much deserved vacation!
Normally I am the primary content writer over at Big Ben Patton’s Place. I like to think that I can live up to the very large shoes which Reid has left empty for me today, so if you like what you read please stop by and say hello. I will also take this time to plug Big Ben Patton’s Contest Extravaganza. My sponsor’s have offered up over $2000.00 worth of wonderful prizes. Stop by today and check it out. You have nothing to lose and some pretty nice prizes to win!
Four Crucial Things You Need To Do To Build Your List:
Online marketing may have developed a sudden surge these past few years, but many in the know have felt its rise even from way before then. As more internet based businesses are put up, the need to develop new marketing skills and knowledge based on this new medium have arisen. More and more marketing strategies are being discovered and developed to cope with the changing face of business the business world.
The demand for online marketing tips and strategies have drastically grown and a new form of business has been born, internet marketing strategies. While there are companies that are all too eager to help your site and business build a clientèle for a fee, there also many ways that can spread the word about your sites subsistence in a more cost free way. One of these is Opt-in email marketing, also known as permission marketing.
Opt-in marketing requires the permission of a willing customer to subscribe to your marketing materials, materials that take form in newsletters, catalogs and promotional mailings via e-mail. The more opt-in marketing mail is sent, the more chances there is to bag sales and more sales. To do this, you must build a list of all those who wants to subscribe to your opt-in marketing list.
From your list, you will get your targeted customer, this is a good list since they already have shown interest in what you have to show and sell since they have willingly signed in for your list. These are the people who have liked what they have seen in your site and have decided they want to see more and maybe even purchase what ever product or service your company and site has to offer.
Many people would think that building their lists would take hard work and a lot of time to build and collect names and addresses. This is not so, it takes a bit of patience and some strategies but in doing this list, you open your site and your business to a whole new world of target market. Take the effort to take your business to a new level, if traffic increase and good profits are what you want, an opt-in list will do wonders for your business venture.
There are many sources and articles in the internet available for everyone to read and follow in building a list. Sometimes they may be confusing because there are so many and there different ways. Different groups of people would have different approaches in building an opt-in list, but no matter how diverse many methods are, there are always some crucial things to do to build your list. Here are four of them.
1) Put up a good web form in your site that immediately follows the end of your content. While some may say this is too soon to subscribe for a website visitors application, try to remember that your homepage should provide a quick good impression. If somehow a website visitor finds something that he or she doesn’t like and turns them off, they may just forget about signing up.
A good web form for subscribing to an opt-in list is not hard to do. Just write a simple short statement about how they would like to see more and get updated about the site. Then there should be an area where they could put in their names and e-mail address. This web form will automatically save and send you the data’s inputted. As more people sign in, your list will be growing.
2) As mentioned in the first tip, make your homepage very, very impressive. You need to have well written articles and descriptions of your site. Depending on what your site is all about, you need to capture your website visitor’s fancy. Make your site useful and very easy to use. Do not expect everyone to be tech savvy. Invest in having good programming in your site, make your graphics beautiful but don’t over do it.
Don’t waste your time making the homepage too overly large megabyte wise. Not all people have dedicated T1 connections, the faster your site gets loaded, the better. Go for a look that borders between simplicity and sophisticated knowledge.
3) Provide good service and products. A return customer is more likely to bring in more business. Even then and now, a satisfied customer will recommend a business always. Word of mouth and recommendations alone can rake in more business than an expensive ad. As your clientèle roster grows so shall your list. With more members on the list, the more people will get to know about what you have new to offer.
4) Keep a clean and private list. Never lose the trust your customers have entrusted you. If you provide e-mails to others and they get spammed, many will probably unsubscribe to you. Remember, a good reputation will drive in more traffic and subscribers as well as strengthen the loyalty of your customers.
If you can follow these tips you should be able to make your stake in the email opt in list marketing niche today. Enjoy.
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I’m proud to announce the winners of the first MooneyQuest contest. We had an awesome turnout with 667 entries in total. I will be posting more about the effects of the contest in a future post. Now, onto the prizes. I calculated the number of entries each person had and entered the email associated with the entries into random.org and did the draw. There are 21 prizes, so I took the first 21 winners and matched them with the list of 21 prizes in the prize list from the original post. Here are the winners.
Now here are the winners matched with their prizes.
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Thoughts from the contest:
I certainly thought this contest ran well. For my next contest I will be changing a few things. First of all I would like to run a longer contest, I believe a month would be a fair length. Secondly, for the drawing, you can see this time some people won more than once. I think for the next contest, a one prize per person limit should be setup to keep certain people from winning a lot of prizes. Lastly, I hope I won’t be so busy during the next contest so that I will be able to post daily during it.
Over all, I really thought the contest went smooth. I would like to congradulate all the winners and thank everyone for participating. I would like to send a special thanks out to the contest sponsors; this contest would have not been possible without your support.
On a side note, I am working on my first major project, I will be talking about that soon. Secondly, I will be on vacation from the 10th to the 19th. If anyone is interested in guest posting, please contact me.
Could all the winners please comment here to claim your prize within 7 days. Unclaimed prizes will be redrawn out to the people who entered. I will email you the details!
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I first started making some decent money online back in November of last year. I started to read some of the big name blogs such as John Chow, John Cow, Tyler Cruz, Shoemoney, etc. I’d like to warn anyone that reads these blogs that reading them is a waste of your time! They will not help you earn any money online! Why’s that?
They are already making good money online - The bigname bloggers meantioned above are already making good money off there blogs. Tyler Cruz is earning $1400+ a month from his blog alone while John Chow is earning over $30,000 a month from his blog. They already have sites making very good money and have no need to post about there progress.
Their posts are hardly relevent - Lets take a look at JohnChow.com first. If you read most of his posts, you will find paid reviews, posts about his dinners, and lots of stuff. None of them will really tell you how to make money online. As his header says, he makes money online by telling you how much money he makes. Now lets look at Tyler Cruz, a fairly sucessful web entrepreneur. He has over 1500 RSS subscribers but almost none of his posts will tell you how to make money online. If you look at his most recent posts, you will see ones telling you how much money his blog is making, ones about his vacation and his server crash and even more paid reviews, but do any of them give beginners tips to make money online. Again, the answer to that is no. I could go on forever with this post talking about MMO blogs which won’t help the readers, but that would end up getting boring.
Why you should read newer blogs - I tend to subscribe to newer blogs such as The University Kid, The Net Fool, etc because they are newer to the MMO niche, yet they blog about their progress making money online. These guys are the ones who will provide you with first hand information about making money online. You can follow their successses and failures, while a big name blogger will only bloat about how much they are already making and not help out the reader.
With MooneyQuest, I will try and guide you guys to make money online. I have written one major tutorial so far and will have many more to come with ways that you can make money online.
As for the contest, I will be tallying up the entries and picking the winners within the next day or so. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners.
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Its been over a week since I last posted on MooneyQuest and I feel very ashamed of it. Basically, I finished my final exam on April 24th and have been working ever since. I finally got a decent high speed connection setup yesterday, I’ve been on satellite internet for years and finally found a cellular wireless service. My ping is now down to 100 from 800+, my speeds are up to 1.3mbps from 700kbps and my upload speeds are now 500kbps, up from 70kbps. Overall, I’m very happy about this. I can finally use skype!
As I meantioned above, I’ve been working a lot since I finished exams. Making $13 an hour is nice but I would certainly like to get a long-term money making website going soon. I’m getting a little sick of people posting on DigitalPoint asking “How can I make $1500 a month online without any investment”. I see so many of these threads every week. I finally have an answer for you. Most of you won’t like it, but here it is!!
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So many kids on DigitalPoint assume that you can make thousands, even millions online without any work. If you are one of those, you are so wrong. I won’t deny there is money to be made online, but whether you work online, at a 9 to 5 job, or whatever, you will need to put effort into what you do. Nothing is easy, but if you work at something hard enough for a long time, you will have a good shot at making a lot of money.
Anyways, I hope to get back to posting daily now. I’m very sorry about being away for so long. The contest will go on as planned, don’t forget to enter today if you have not already!
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I would like to have one day a week where I answer questions that readers have asked me. If you have a question on any topic, email it to admin at mooneyquest dot com and I will do some research and give you a proper answer. Each Friday I will post the answers to at least one question which I have received. I hope to use this as a way to give back to the community. I know that starting to make money online is tough, and that there are a lot of blogs that say how much they make, but won’t help you make the money. Shoot me your questions and I will give you my best answer.
Stay tuned tomorrow for part 1 of a 3 part series on how to start your own forums.
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Over the past week or so there has been quite a bit of controversy between a few people in the MMO niche. Many of us know that One Mans Goal was bought by Marc Galeazzi for the sum of $10,500. Marc has not had any expereince with blogging prior to buying the site. Would I have bought the site if I had no experience with blogging, no, in my opinion wasn’t worth that much.
Once the sale was announced, Vic from BloggerUnleashed.com made an extremely insulting post called “Another dumbf**k is born lmao”, minus the *’s. In less than 100 words, Vic has completely shut Marc down as being a complete idiot and has managed to refer to him as a f**king idiot at least 13 times in his post and comments. I found that to be quite disturbing, so much for the welcome to the community Marc.
A few days later, Garry Conn made a post talking about the MMO niche being full of scammers and assholes. He first refers to a blog which was sold for $2500 with false traffic stats, and then moves onto defend Marc from Vic’s attack. It was nice to see someone defending Marc. Garry goes on to cut up Vic in only 64 words.
Later Garry Conn goes on to cut up John Cow’s blog. He says that John Cow’s “blog is no different that the rest of the bullshit MMO sites that do nothing but spin off the same stupid information found on the other 100 or so other MMO blogs”. I find it interesting that he’d go and cut John up when on the first page was a post promoting Joel Comm’s AdSense Secrets 4 eBook, a similar post to one I’ve seen on many other blogs. I will admit that a lot of blogs post similar content, but I’ve been a long time reader of the Cow and don’t think this insult was necessary. Going down to read the comments, I found that Vic wasn’t the only person being an ass. Garry had changed all Vic’s links to 
direct people to this picture:
Need I say more? How can you cut a person up for being an ass, and then show yourself as being an ass as well. The word hypocrite suits Garry very well.
Conclusion:
I have not read Blogger Unleashed prior to finding a link to Vic’s post regarding Marc. I did not like what I saw and can honestly say that I won’t be going back to visit again. The same thing goes for Garry, I’m unlikely to go back to read his blog either.
Jason (The University Kid) once told me that the best way to get traffic is to be controversial. While I agree that controversy can drive traffic, being an outright ass will end up hurting your traffic in the long run. Quite a few of these bloggers received a little boost in traffic from these posts, but I bet you that I’m not the only one who was offended by them.
In conclusion, I’d have to advise everyone to watch what they say. I have no problems reading controversy, but if you are a jerk, what you say might just go back to bite you in the butt. So as my rhyming title says, don’t be an ass, show some class =D.
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If you haven’t signed up for the MooneyQuest contest yet today, check it out here, you could win some of the $900+ in prizes.
One of the half dozen blogs I frequently visit is putting on a very nice contest. JohnCow.com, is putting on a contest where you can win an Xbox 360 and a copy of Grand Theft Auto 4. The contest has been sponsored by TopHostingCenter.com. The Xbob 360 looks awesome, it comes with a 120gb hard drive, wifi and High-Definition via HDMI. I would really like to get my hands on one of these, my last console I bought was a Playstation 2 (the old version) probably 5 years ago. The Xbox360 is certainly todays hottest system, my friend has one and I love it.
The contest is very easy to enter. There are a few different ways to gain entries:
I hope you all will sign up, and if you win give the prize to me since I referred you 
.
On another positive note, I think I’m going to go ahead with the $15,000 challenge. Shoot me an email at admin -at- mooneyquest dot com if you want to participate.
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I arrived home tonight after my second exam (Yay!, 2 out of 5 exams done) to notice that John Cow’s Alexa rank jumped from 22,100 to over 100k. I went and checked out Alexa and it says that they have updated their ranking system.
After a few minutes checking Alexa ranks on various sites, I can tell you the following. Quite a few forums benefited from this update, while bloggers seem to have been hurt by the update. JohnChow went from 5k to 16k, but surprisingly mine increased a little bit.
I think this update goes to show you how unreliable of traffic stats Alexa produces. I like to look at it for comparison to other sites Alexa ranks, but I certainly wouldn’t rely on its stats. I know a forum earning 500k a year that had an Alexa rank of 80k, while with the update it went up to 50k. This forum usually has 500+ users online at a time, it should definitely have a higher rank.
You can read the full details of the Alexa update here.
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As most of you know, my goals for my online earnings are set quite high. $600,000 is a lot of money to earn, and it will take a long time to do so. I thought I would share some of my plans to earn money towards the airplane. I hope to launch some of these plans when my exams are finished April 24th.
Forums - Most people will tell you right off the bat that forums are a crap way of making money online. In part, I’ll agree, you will not make money any time soon when you launch your forum. The click-through-rate on them are usually horrible and without major traffic, you won’t earn a lot. Before I start making forums sound like a bad idea, you should also know that there are a lot of forums around banking some major cash. I have a friend who works for some popular forums, earning over $500,000 a year. Forums tend to make better money off private advertisers / sponsors than they will off of AdSense.
My plan is to launch 3 forums by September, with hopefully more in the horizon. I’m going to allow for a few months in between each launch to allow time to dedicate to that forum to make it succeed. Here are some of my forums which will launch this year:
Other ways to make money:
If anyone is interested in any of these ideas, more specifically the forums, let me know. Any help would be appreciated, I think we would be able to make some great communities.
Sorry for the semi-self centered post. I started exams today and this is really all I could think of, I won’t be online much for the next week but I’ll try to post as often as possible.
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