Earners Club

ScriptDojo is a blog, though they called it a review site, about internet marketing scripts,  affiliate tools and product launches. Each product post, in a blog format, is not really a review about it but merely a description on the product. Below each post, it has a link where it will go to the sales page of the certain product. That link is designed for ScriptDojo’s unique Affiliate Program in which you can earn 100% commissions generated from your referral URL.

Highlights and Benefits
ScriptDojo’s affiliate program concept was not new to me and as I have remembered, I knew and joined one affiliate program which works very similar with them. But in your case, their concept might be different and you may only know it by now. Below are some of the unique benefits when you join ScriptDojo affiliate program.

1. Dozens Of Products To Promote
As I mentioned aboved, the products are posted in a blog format, thus, more and more products are added on a regular basis. If ScriptDojo post another product on their site, it will automatically become one of yours. In addition, with ScriptDojo you will be one of those who will know first about new products about internet marketing.

2. Earn 100% Commissions
When someone go to ScriptDojo’s site from your referral URL and purchase one of those internet marketing products, you will earn all the commissions.

3. Earn From Your Lists
Their site is just a blog format as I repeatedly mentioned and it has also an option to join in their mailing list. When you refer visitors to them and didn’t purchase any item but join in their mailing list, you still have a chance to earn from that visitors in the future. They will send email to their list with your affiliate ID encoded in it when there’s a product launches. Therefore, if your referred visitors that joined in their mailing list buy the new product launches (which they send through email), you will earn the commissions.

4. Earn From Your Affiliates
Same with the above process, you can make money from your afiliates if they buy on the new product launches.

As you might have noticed, their biggest asset would be the products itself as they will continually add new one at a time. However, it costs just $0.01 for the first 30 days (at the time of writing) and then $9.95 per month thereafter to stay with their affiliate program. This makes them again different from others since most affiliate programs are free. Visit ScriptDojo now and start make money online today with internet marketing scripts,  affiliate tools and product launches.

written by Ramil Alcibar

Shopify is a hosted ecommerce solution that allows you to build a complete online store with integrated payment system. Unlike Zlio, it is your own own products that you must sell in your online shop, no products from merchants or any third party vendors but there is a Shopify T-Shirt as a sample product after registering your account. The Village Sheep Shop is just one of those online shop powered by Shopify.

Building your online shop takes just a few moments of registration process (already include selection of theme to be used) and after that you will then be able to access the administration panel of your store where you can manage products, view orders, create content, run a blog, and modify your store appearance. You must also setup the method of payments you will accept. Currently, it supports a number of credit card payments and of course the popular PayPal, Google Checkout and Authorize.net. It even let you accept manual payments such as money orders, bank deposits and Cash on Delivery (COD). You should also setup the shipping system of your store since it is your own products that you are selling. With those few clicks of your store settings, you are ready to sell your products online.

Technically-wise, Shopify has a gallery of themes that you can choose to use with your store. If you are tech-savvy, Shopify has also an application that lets you create your own theme, called Vision. Shopify also supports using your own domain name - this is very important for branding - also supprted by Zlio. Shopify does have a marketplace too  in which you can add your products for free to gain more exposure.

Shopify has four pricing plans to setup your own store. There’s a free trial plan which has no cost at all but you are limited up to five orders only. When you reached five orders, you will have to choose a paid plan to continue selling. One thing I think missing with Shopify is an affiliate program. They should have included it from the start so that they can recruit an army of marketers, for them to minimize the promotion and maximizing profits.

If you have any experiences with Shopify, please do let us know by posting it in the comments area. Visit Shopify for more info and to get your free Shopify store to start making money!

written by Ramil Alcibar

DigitalPoint Forums (I preferrably called DP) is a popular and high-traffic search engine optimization and internet marketing forum - but it seems that this description is too little and may not actually fit compared to what actually DP is, because it goes far far beyond with it. At the time of writing, it is the 160th most popular site in the world according to Alexa, which has also a traffic rank of 156. In addition, if you go now to DP, you can see for yourself how popular it is by just looking the current active users. DP is 100% free to join and there’s no payment at all no matter where you would like to read or post, unlike other forums that offer subscriptions to access private forums. And the best part of DP which was not directly stated in any page of their site is that you can actually earn hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Listed below are some of the ways on how you can make money online with DigitalPoint Forums.

• Make Money With Your Services (Freelancing)
  DP has a dedicated forum category where everyone can offer or look for services - this acts like a freelance site. If you know how to read and write English then you may also be able to make money at the Services section. DP does not charge you any fees to offer your service, whether it is successful or not. Here are some of the services which you can offer to DP members:
  • Web Design
  • Programming
  • Scripts Installation
  • Article Writing
  • Article Submission
  • Posting (Forum Posting, Blog Posting, Blog Commenting, etc)
  • Submission (Directory Submission, Social Bookmarking Submission, Press Release Submission, etc)
  • Data Entry
  • Any job that you can think of

  

• Google Adsense Revenue Sharing
  As stated on Making Money In Google Adsense Without a Website, DP is listed as #1 for Adsense Revenue Sharing program. If you are a regular poster and create threads that can catch attention and replies, you will be able earn with this program. Your Adsense ads will be used 50% of the time when your thread is viewed. A detailed infomation can be found here.
• Maximize Adsense Earnings
  If you are new to Adsense or just simply want to improve your Adsense earnings, just read or ask a question in their Adsense forum and for sure you will get replies of useful information you need.
• SEO, Marketing, Link Building
  Real traffic is your source of income for your website(s), but how can you get traffic? Simply read a lot of stuff in their Marketing forum - believe me that you will find information not found on eBooks you bought.
• Drive Traffic To Your Sites
  Again, traffic, traffic and traffic is one factor to make money online. At DP, you can drive traffic into your website(s) by advertising it in your signature and participate regularly in the forum. DP has also a Link Exchange section if you are seeking link exchange. If you want instant traffic, you can exchange other members with Stumbles, Diggs, Netscape votes and other similar things - please take note though that this seems an unethical method of getting traffic and may not also allowed by the terms of each site such as Digg.
• Sell Your Websites
  If you have website(s) that you cannot manage anymore or you just simply want to sell it, then offer it here.
• Resell Domain Names
  If your into a domain names business, you can find some cheap domains at DP for sale, which of course you can resell. Or maybe you have some domains for sale, then offer it at their Buy/Sell Domain section. Please don’t get so addicted on buying domains like me
• Sell eBooks, Softwares & Other Digital Products
  Do you have eBooks with resell (or master resell) rights? Or do you have a software recently developed and want to make some money with it? Or do you have some images, photos, wallpapers, etc.? Make money from that stuffs by selling it in the main Buy/Sell/Trade section. Or if you’re so nice,
  you can give it away for free but with a hidden price. What I mean is to offer it as FREE but let potential users of those products register first (& let them opt-in to subscribe) before they can download. This way, you will be slowly building a list - and remember the phrase “THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST“.
• Sell Your Content
  If you have PLR articles, databases (preferred is in MySQL format) you can also sell it on DP. Hundreds of potential buyers are waiting for your contents.
• Sell WordPress Themes & Other Web Templates
  If you are good in web design and you can make WordPress Themes, phpLD templates, proxy templates, portfolio designs then you can earn hundreds of dollars or even thousands from it. From my own experience, it is very rare that designs cannot be successfully sold at DP.
• Get Sponsors With Your Free Themes
  If you put yourself in a worst situation where no one will buy your pre-made designs, then just give it away for free. You can still make money with your free themes by selling text links in your theme. Usually, the text link(s) will be embed in the footer of your themes. Even with the issue of WordPress sponsored themes (this and this), many are still eager to buy sponsored links on your free WordPress themes. However, we are not talking only WP themes here, you can create others such as free VB skin, free phpLD templates, etc. and sell text link(s) on it.
• Sell Advertisements & Links In Your Site Directly
  If you have website(s) and would not like to use text link borkers such as TLA, you can find customers at DP by posting your offer in the Link Sales forum. Most users preferred sites with high PageRank.
• Sell Signatures, Location and Avatar
  Yes, DP allow you to let others rent your signatures, location, avatar and even recent blog section. If you are a regular poster and make thousands of posts, you can really profit on that arena.
• eCurrency Exchange
  “I need $100 in YourProcessor and I’ll pay you $110 via MyProcessor” - this is an exchange in eCurrency. If you have a lot of funds in your payment processor which others don’t have (let’s say e-gold for example), you can also offer this at DP. Just be careful with scammers (though there’s an iTrader system) and most importantly, this may not allowed on the payment processor you used. For example, PayPal does not allow this type of exchange. Do this type of business at your own risk. THIS IS VERY RISKY, REMEMBER IT!
• Offer Your Affiliate Programs & Other Business
  Do you started your own affiliate program? Or do you have web hosting business? Or even a new web directory? Announce this at DP in an appropriate forum category and you can have partner/customers for sure.
• Join Contests
  Unfortunately, contests at DP are usually for designers. Logo, banner, header and template design contests are among those that are available and are always in demand. In a rare occassion, members post easy contest such as Slogan Contest. Usually you will get money if you are choosen as the winner, others just offer eBooks, text link, etc.
• Discounts on Vouchers & Coupons
• Sell MySpace Bulletins / hi5 Comments

All of the lists above, the most profitable for me until now is on Web Design. What’s yours?

Those ways does not sum up to 101 ways to make money online with DigitalPoint Forums as the title says. I intended it to be just a short list because I will let some DPers share some thoughts on how can they make money online with DP until it reaches a total of 101. To start with DPers interactions, I would like to add one to the list I created above: Make Money To Digg, Stumble, etc. There are still ways that I knew of that can add up the list but it will definitely fall under the Services (freelance) forum.

written by Ramil Alcibar

Zlio is a service that let you build your own online store and start selling thousands of products from their approved merchants. Currently, Zlio does not offer selling your own products, you must browse their existing products catalog, choose and add it into your own-built shop. Before I give a little more chit-chat, just take a look at this Online Health Shop I setup to give you an overview of what Zlio can do.

How Does It Work
Building your own online shop with Zlio involves a few mouse clicks and you can have your own online store in just a couple of minutes. The shop I setup above took me about 25 minutes to complete, it may not took too long if I decided immediately what products to be added.

1. Register free at Zlio.
2. Create a new shop in your control panel. This is basically providing some details of your store such as the URL (in http://yourname.zlio.com format or you can also setup with your own top level domain), shop title, template to used and more.
3. Add products to the shop shop created.

How Can You Make Money
Zlio provides four (technically only three) ways on how you can make money with your online shop.

• Pay Per Sale
  Earn commissions on every sell you make from your online shop. Commissions varies from 0.6% to 20% (the highest and lowest I’ve seen) depending on the merchants you choose.
• Pay Per Click
  You can also earn commissions when someone click on the products on your shop. Unfortunately, you cannot earn at all of the products on pay per click basis. Some just pay only on pay per sale basis.
• Referrals
  You can earn a lifetime 10% commissions on the earnings of your direct referrals + 5% of your direct referrals’ referral earnings.
• Google Adsense
  You can also display Adsense on your online shop. However, 40% of your Adsense earnings on the shop will be deducted.

More Zlio Features
Zlio has many features that let you maximize your online shop. Some of the important features are listed below:

• Thousansd of products to choose from, just select your interested niche that you think you can market.
• You can also display the products in your blog or website.
• Make your online shop more professional by putting it in your top level domain.
• You can have multiple shops with only one account. This means that you can have http://shop1.zlio.com, http://shop2.zlio.com an so on depending on the availability of the subdomain you choose.
• Nice templates are ready to use. You can even drag and drop elements around your page the way you like it. If you have some CSS skills, you can also customize the look and feel of your online shop.
• Shoppers may leave their reviews of the products on your shop.

I still have to make customizations and play around with the shop I created above. Sign-up now with Zlio and please post your experiences in the comments area below.

written by Ramil Alcibar

The most common method that bloggers used to make money online with their blog is by using Google Adsense. However, you must not rely only on one income source for your blog or website. You should add more revenue resources, which I break them into parts, in order to make more money that should be enough to pay your hosting, advertisements, your bills, your personal needs or for whatever purpose you like to achieve.

Contextual Advertising
For Part I, I will talk about making money with your blog through contextual advertising in which Adsense falls into this category. Contextual ads are advertisements dynamically displayed on your websites that are relevant to the contents in which the ads are served. For example, if the user is viewing a site about entertainment, your visitor might see ads for entertainment-related ads, such as Hollywood actors or movie previews and downloads. Almost all contextual advertising companies pays the website owner on a pay-per-click basis while others also offers CPM. Since the ads are more targeted and content-relevant, they are more likely to get clicked by your visitors, thus generating more revenue for you.

Contextual Ad Networks
Listed below contextual ad networks that offers you, bloggers and publishers, a chance to make money by delivering contextual ads to your blogs or websites.

• Google Adsense
• Kontera - Currently this is the only program that I used to monetize this blog.
• Kanoodle BrightAds
• Chitika
• Yahoo! Publisher Network
• Microsoft adCenter Content Ads
• Clicksor
• BidVertiser
• Adbrite
• IntelliTXT
• Amazon Context Links
• ContextWeb
• Adsonar
• Miva MC
• Clickbooth
• Targetpoint
• PremierAD

Ask.com has also called ASL Contextual Advertising but it seems that is not yet open to the general public. You may follow the discussion about this new program at this DigitalPoint Forums thread.

Please keep in mind that is is not possible to display all the ads from the different networks listed above. For example, you cannot served together Adsense and YPN on same page. Although, there are some that can be displayed at once such as Adsense and Chitika. Please read their policies and guidelines carefully or even ask their support representatives to make sure you will conform to thier terms of service. Additionally, please consider also your visitors’ experience with your blog/website - visiting a site with full of advertisements is a total pain in the eyes.

If you have found any other similar programs that are not listed here, please post it in your comments. Part II of monetizing your blog is all about Making Money by Selling Text Links and can be read here.

written by Ramil Alcibar