Ever since I started blogging in July ‘06, I’ve been fascinated by the opportunities available on the Internet, and making money online. I originally was rather narrow-minded and solely focused on AdSense. I bought a few ‘guides’ to making money with AdSense and was utterly unimpressed with them all, other than the easy-to-follow AdSense-Videos (aff link). Even that however, failed to make me a millionaire. Since, I’ve tried different markets, different tactics and am now happily making a steady, recurring income using affiliate programs. I’m making a few hundred dollars a month with private ad deals on the blog too. All that said, I’d prefer not to do the standard ‘May Earnings Report’ that so many bloggers do, as I find it highly unprofessional and in many cases slightly imposing on a visitor.

Making money online is a heck of a lot easier than people would like you to think… Sure, it really does help to have a great guide, whatever market you’re going into, but how do you think them guys worked out the tactics themselves? They learned through trial and error. Like me, they probably wasted hundreds and hundreds of dollars in the process. But I’ve made that back now and am making quite alot on top of it… Whether it be Affiliate Marketing, private ad deals or PPC, there’s surely some way you can earn online.

That brings me onto the August 1st project. I’ve had hundreds of people contact me about it now. So what exactly is it? Affiliate Defined? It’s a revolutionary guide.

In no particular order, here area few free blogs I recommend you check out, to help you get started with making money on the Internet.

- Nate Whitehill dot Com - Fantastic blogging/earning guides.
- Tyler Cruz dot Com - Truly terrible Affiliate Marketing.
- Josh Mullineaux dot Com - Financial gold-dust.
- John Chow dot Com - Nothing special. Heh…
- Josh Buckley dot Net - Crazy web development.
- Ja Kel Daily dot Com - Just you and your keyboard.
- Mr Gary Lee dot Com - Biz Dev & IMing.
- Martin Reed’s Community Spark - Community building made easy.
- Matt Codington’s NetBusinessBlog - Better Affiliate Marketing.
- Mitchell Harper’s HarpzOn - Slightly inactive, but quality content.
- Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger.net - The one and only.
- Randall Cornett’s RandLIFE - Anything but ‘Random’.
- Jane May Blogs - Learn to earn blogging.
- Jeremy’s Shoemoney - Something’s cooking.
- Aaron Wall’s SEO Book Blog - SEO at its best.
- BloggingTips dot Com - Recently reviewed.
- adii - Web 2.0 Business Strategies.
- David Wilkinson - That’s me. TechZi.net all the way!
And a whole lot more…

But do you see the general patern? In most cases, it’s self-branding. Branding is an incredibly important feature in any business, as a recognized name can get you to the top, even if your service is crap. Of course, the disadvantage to using a personal name, as opposed to a business name such as the ‘Zi’ in ‘Zi Media’, means that when selling a business branded as a person’s musings (like the afformentioned blogs), rather than a simple guide, loses value and would be effectively worthless if a buyer was to buy the business.

Maybe I’ll elaborate more some other time. Maybe I won’t… The fact remains, if you’re not making money onine, why not? Contact me and let me know. Maybe you’re frightened. Maybe you just can’t be bothered. Maybe you’ve tried and failed? Whatever the circumstances, please. Go ahead and contact me.

P.S. I’m starting a mini-quiz feature… Did you know that invalid kids own? First person to work it out should contact me through the contact page linked to above. I’ve given you all the tools for the job, or at least shown you the path. Have fun!

UPDATE: So that sucked… Nobody got the quiz answer. T’was an anagram of David Wilkinson himself. Tut-tut…

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