Today, I just found a website called For Sale By Publisher, a directory of websites that sell advertisements on their websites directly to advertisers. If you have a website and want to sell ad space on it, try to join now - it’s FREE. Once you setup your profile, you can add your site details in the directory that includes description, pageviews, unique visitors, tags, contact method, and the type of ads that are available (text ads, image banners, interstials, email, or RSS). Alexa, Google PR and Compete stats are automatically added. Before your site will be finally addded in the directory, it must be verified by uploading a blank xxxxxfile.html in your server. Advertisers can then browse the directory and contact you directly for an advertising deal.

For Sale By Publisher concept is very beneficial for both advertisers and publishers (site owners). Advertisers can now easily locate which site(s) to advertise. Publishers can reduce the price of their ads since there’s no cut on the sales which in turn the advertisers will only spend less money. Reduce price on ads can help attract more advertisers and make more money. As a publisher also, one backlink to your site is also assured - take a look this one.

Visit For Sale By Publisher now, add your site (while still free) to the directory and start making money. Please don’t forget to spread the word about this great service.

Coupon Code Test Drive - Passed
What I buy online are only those intangible things such as domain names, web hosting, scripts and sometimes eBooks. I did a test to find out if the coupon codes are really available. I search NameCheap (for domain names) coupon codes and yes, the coupon codes are really there. I also search for my three hosts and it’s also been there. Overall, I’m satisfied with the results.

Even though you can only save just a few bucks on coupons, for example in buying domains, it’s a lot if you are a domain reseller purchasing/renewing hundreds of domain every year.

The Bad Thing
Most coupon codes have an expiration either a date, number of uses or whatever the online store implements. But on their copun code submission form, there doesn’t seem to be a field dedicated to this when entering a code. This means that the site will be populated with coupon codes that no longer work or were already expired and is useless. Since there’s no field for expiration, the search function also doesn’t have the ability to search codes that can be used currently.

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.

Since there are thousands of potential advertisers seeking for exposure and high rankings on their products, this creates an opportunities for bloggers to get paid to blog. As mentioned above, bloggers can simply get paid for blogging by just writing honest opinions or even reviews to the advertisers’ products. As a blogger, you can select which product you would like to post in your blog. You can view offers by the advertisers when you login to your Smorty account or sometimes you will be notified by an email.

The best thing about Smorty’s paid blogging service is that you will be paid weekly by PayPal and the amount per post in your blog is more higher than their competitors. Visit Smorty for more detailed information and to start making money online today with paid blogging.

Consider submitting your entry now if you think it deserves the $10,000 prize as you might be the lucky winner. Deadline for submission of your entries will be on October 6 Midnight PST. 10 finalists, determined by them, will be announced on October 8, 9:00 A.M. EST, public voting then begins. Winner will be declared on October 28 Midninght PST.

2006 Grand Prize winner was Stephen Yellin of Drew University, taking $5,000. He is not eligible anymore for entering this year and future Blogging Scholarship contests as stated in their page. 2006 runner up Paul Stamatiou of Georgia Tech and Shelley Batts of University of Michigan with $1,000 each are still eligible for the contest.

I wrote this entry because according to the site stats, most visitors are from US and thought that there might be also US college student visiting this blog. If you have friends in US, a student and a blogger, please spread this word to them. Visit The Blogging Scholarship now for more details and to submit your entry.

Today, I just received another email from LinkWorth and it answers why I have $0 now and didn’t get paid. LinkWorth has just revised their affiliate program payouts scheme.

A performance based program that pays the affiliate if the referring account actually does business with us, rather than just signing up. The payout goes like this:

Advertiser Account Referrals
>> $25 payout once the advertiser spends a minimum of $100.00
>>5% payout on all recurring charges for the life of the advertiser account

Partner Account Referrals
>> $25 payout once the partner earns a minimum of $100.00

Combo Account Referrals
>> $25 payout once the advertiser side spends a minimum of $100.00
>> 5% payout on all recurring advertising charges for life of account
>> $25 payout once the partner side earns a minimum of $100.00

As you can see, their payout scheme is very much different from Text Link Ads (TLA) affiliate program. TLA immediately credit your account with $25 when a publisher signs up with your referral URL. TLA’s scheme is prone to “attacks” for those people whose goal is just to make money online. It’s because it can be easily played - pay people to join under your referral URL. An example of this “attack” was a thread in a certain forum (I forgot the link) where the thread has a title “I will give you $10 for FREE“. The thread starter did not give details in public but only through PM. In the PM (yes, I was also tricked) he will give you his TLA referral URL and once you joined him, he will give you $10 in PayPal. In return, his net earnings for TLA affiliate program will be $15($25 -$10) each referral. You can imagine how TLA was loosing money with this kind of trick since you can assume that those who joined under him (who wants the free $10) were not really potential publishers/advertisers.

With LinkWorth, it is really a nice move for them. They are ensuring that everybody who joins under you are truly an advertiser(s) or publisher(s). I think this changes are very much similar to Google Adsense Referral Program.

If you want to know more about LinkWorth tips and specifics, Ades have blogged about them:

• LinkWorth - Alternative Money Making Program for bloggers (it works!)
• Some LinkWorth Tips…
• LinkWorth’s 50/50 and 70/30 scheme clarification, you should know this
• LinkWorth Tutorial, how to submit your blog/site

To run an online shop (not hosted) to sell products with total control in all aspects, an e-commerce application is needed. The most popular free e-commerce applications that are available today are osCommerce and Zen Cart.

Varien, a Los Angeles web development firm, has also its own open source e-commerce platform called Magento. Magento is currently on early beta stages, BETA 0.6 at the time of writing, thus it is not recommended to be used on production environments. Though it’s still in beta, it already comes with the usual e-commerce features plus more that looks promising and somewhat follow the new trends. Listed below are some of the nice features of Magento that I like, some are currently not implemented:

• Multiple Websites
• Content Management System (CMS)
• Marketing features - Multi-Tier Pricing and Coupons
• Search Engine Friendly URLs and Meta Tags
• Product Tagging
• Product Comparison
• Permissions
• Multiple Payment Systems & Shipping

One thing I would like to have in this rising ecommerce platform is to integrate a complete affiliate program into the system. Affiliate program does not only boost sales for shop owners but it can also help others, that cannot build online shop, to make money from online shops powered by Magento.

Check out Magento for a detailed info. It will be a great application in the near future and it might help you if you are planning to build your online shop. I suggest to subscribe to their newsletter to stay updated with future releases.

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!

Advertiser A buys a text link ad at your blog through Company T for $100. Company T takes a 30% commission. You are paid $70 after 30 days or later.

With WP Text Ads, you lower the price to $80 and Advertiser A buys it directly from you.

As a result, you earn $80 immediately ($10 more than before) and Advertiser A saves $20. It’s a win-win situation!

The purpose of this plugin is greatly beneficial for both publishers (bloggers) and advertisers alike. However, this is still only a dream for the small (like Earners Club) to medium players and may not work as it is supposed to be. For a blog to have direct advertiser(s), it must have large number of loyal readers and subscribers. Even though there is WP Text Ads Marketplace, I think it’s not enough to drive-in sales currently as I assumed that people who knew this marketplace are mostly bloggers.

• 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.