Though it requires a little more initial work, it is best to have a self hosted blog if you want to make money blogging. But how do you even go about this? Pick the domain name you want, and see if it is available for purchase at sites like Whois.net. Once you’ve picked a suitable name, purchase it at GoDaddy or another similar site. Next you need to find a host for your blog. Finding one is easy, but be aware that you get what you pay for. To ensure that your site will have the best performance, choose one of the top 10 web hosting companies for blogs. Paying a few dollars extra each month will pay off in the end. You will be able to have your blog look and feel exactly as you want and it will be easier for people to remember your blog’s name. Now it’s time to monetize that blog!

The most common way that bloggers get revenue for their site is pay per click advertising, with Google Adsense being the most popular. These accounts are very easy to set up. You just submit basic information about your blog. After you have written an entry in your blog, a program searches your blog for keywords and automatically places relevant ads on your page. You get paid for the clicks made on those ads by your readers. These ads usually complement your writing and can benefit your reader by providing them with additional resources.

Affiliate sales are another popular way to make money from a blog. These sales are essentially referral commissions. Websites you already belong to or do business with may have an affiliate program. If you join, you are given a link to place on your site that will have a graphic for your reader to click on. If they make a purchase, or in some cases just join whatever the site’s program is, you receive a portion of the sale or a referral payment. One very popular affiliate program for blogs is Amazon.com. Like pay per click advertising, Amazon will put ads for relevant products on your site. You get a commission from any sale made from clicking on your ad.

If you have a popular blog, you may want to merchandise it. There are many sites out there that will put your blog’s logo on all sorts of items. If your readers love you and you have cool items to sell, this can be a great way to make money also.

Selling products on your blog is a direct and effective way to make money. If you offer free information that is useful to your audience or demographic and then follow that up with products or services for pay; you are likely to get buyers. This is big money for those in the health care industry and financial sectors. Both are areas that individuals value greatly and if you can show yourself to be an expert by blogging with some really good content, selling products in line with your industry will become a breeze. Using Pay Pal is a great and easy way to do this. You simply copy and paste the correct HTML coding to post to your blog and you will have a “Buy” button that customers and/or clients can use. With one touch of the button and their credit card or a Pay Pal account, you’re making money! Don’t think that this direct and in your face approach doesn’t work. Again knowledge is key and giving a bit of it away, makes you credible.

Remember that even a personal journal blog can make you money. Think of your hobby or your organization’s blog as a way to make some extra cash. If you think of your blog in terms of business hosting using these and many other monetizing opportunities available; over time you will start to see revenue from your blog. You’ll be glad you took the time to not only set up a blog but keep it interesting and current.

Download the script here

Instruction On How To Use The Action Script

1. Make sure to Unzip the file first.
Open up the Actions palette in Photoshop. You should find something that looks like this:

2. Select the button in the top right corner of the action palette. A drop down menu should appear. Select ‘Load Actions..’.

3. Now just find the place on your computer where eCoverAction.atn is currently residing, and select the file. Press “OK”

4. It should now appear in your actions palette. Extend the eCoverAction folder, and select ‘Template’. Hit the play button in the lower edge of the window.

This should create the following template.

5. Go ahead and design your eCover!

6. After completed designing the ecover, go back to your Actions Palette, and this time select Action 1. Press Play again to transform your ecover into a 3D ecover:

7. That’s it and enjoy! and if you have not downloaded the script yet, just click here.

Each mini-site templates includes:

• HTML/css file
• Header, footer and body image
• Arrows and bullet point
• Animated and Static Buttons
• Johnsons and Testimonial boxes

You can use these templates for everything; thank you page, one time offer, newsletter, download page and many more.

I’ve also included 2 bonuses:

• 2 additional “fly Money” theme templates with stunning custom designed headers and footers
• E-box cover templates with the Action Script

So go and grab your copy now! Link: http://www.graphicsresell.com/feb/

I’ll be releasing more mini sites every month and if you would like to be the first to know about it and grab  free samples, subscribe to my list at http://www.graphicsresell.com/minisite/

And don’t forget, follow me at twitter http://twitter.com/luvleey

Website Flipping Course By Kate Anderson is a complete course that show you how you can make money within the flipping marketplace. Kate has generated over 100,000 in simple website sales in less than five months.  So in this course, Kate shows exacly how she does which covers everything from basic to advance on web flipping, blog flipping, PLR filpping and domain flipping.

Now, this is not just thrown away information on website flipping, believe me, I’ve read nearly every ebook out there on website flipping and none of them are as complete as this one. Kate guides you step-by-step and you can easily follow along. She even covers on how to communicate with customers and what to do to build up a long term relationship with them. There is a special, private area in her forum dedicated to Flip Mastery members as well.

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They are giving away free-memberships right now and when you join Instant Banner Creator for free you get:

-The point and click three step wizard, where you can easily create high performing banners, buttons, headers, footers and peel ads.

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-Hosting… Yes they will even host the images you create for you. In other words you don’t even need to have your own website to take full advantage of Instant Banner Creator.

But whatever you do, I strongly recommend that you go grab your free-membership today. Something this cool does not come along very often – and certainly not for free! Get it now, Click here

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If you are considering signing up to be a contributor I “Highly Recommend” this giveaway. Odinn Sorensen & Eric Tan are experienced promoters and generally do a good job with giveaways. Signup numbers should be above average compared to recent giveaways. And I do recommend the upgrade at only $27 because it is stacked with perks!

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* Designer Tools #5 – Online Power Effects Advanced
* Designer Tools #6 – Sales Page Scribbles
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* Bonus #1 – DIY Minisite Kit Volume 1
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You can use it to spice up your own website ready for Halloween, have an affiliate program that you want to promote or just looking for something new to sell.

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Here’s a very cool speed painting video of a haunted house

If you have ever wondered what PLR or MRR is, this free ebook will tell you everything you need to know about Master Resale Rights vs Private Label Rights. Besides telling you the lowdown on the differences, this report gets explicit on the  do’s, don’ts and how to capitalize on this billion dollar industry.

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As a blogger, you always look for more traffic isn’t it. One of the ways to skyrocket your blog traffic is to have your blog visitors to submit articles from your blog that they think are good to bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Delicious and others. The more people that bookmark your blog pages and the more bookmark sites your web pages are bookmark at, the better the chances are that other people will be able to find you.

To get the votes, you can add badges and mini icons of different bookmarking on your blog.

Here are the sites that offer social bookmarking buttons and badges:

1. Digg badges
2. Stumble Upon buttons
3. Reddit buttons
4. Dzone buttons
5. Delicious tools

Or you can use wordpress plugin such as sociable to make life easier. Now if you want something catchy enough to grab your visitors’ attentions, you can try creating a a unique, simple and clean bookmark box for your blog. To create this bookmark box, you can check out the photoshop tutorial by folks at BlogPerfume. I have created mine and you can see it at the end of this post.

For creating each link to bookmarking sites, you can get them here.