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Just a short note to tell you want was remarkable on Internet Marketing on last week.

1) The eBay finally decided to get read of other types of payments and accept only PayPal. Make a lot of sense, they a talking about it from some time but now they implement this idea. Forcing customers to pay only with PayPal which is part of eBay will:

• Create more secure payments
• More stability
• Build trust between sellers and buyers
• Make transaction easy to follow

This is a “change”,  I am totally agree with.

 2) Opt-in Forms are back on Squidoo, I already update my lenses, you can see an example at  http://www.squidoo.com/BeginnersAffiliateProfit or http://www.squidoo.com/SquidIncomeGoal

3) I create my own group on Squidoo, and call it: AffiliateMarketing09

 4) It is a flood with new Twitter Applications:

http://www.tweepler.com  http://twitter-splitter.com and so on.

At this point the power of tweeter is incredible, there are people with thousands of followers and there is no restriction on what you advertise. When affiliate marketing URLs are more and more restricted on: some blogs, forums, ezines, on Squidoo and Twitter we can use affiliate link as much as we want. But don’t abuse it, use Twitter ethically and spamlessly and you will increase your web traffic.

Until next time all the best

Michaela

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I wrote some blank verses for Inauguration day.
They represent my wishes from  the bottom of my heart:

Let’s put our Stars and Stripes Hat,
Let’s be Americans at heart and wish all the best for our 44th President.

The Inauguration is a turning point; let’s do the best of it
Let’s pledge to work hard
Let’s be productive in all we do
Let’s pray for wise decisions, and hope for a quick recovery
Let’s be open, tolerant as we always do
Let’s get the best ideas flowing around
Let’s stop political fights; this will be a real change
Let’s be an example for troubled soles
Let’s help others to do the same

Let’s be proud that we are Americans,
Let’s count on all and each of us, and I know
We the People can do it!

I also published the blank verses on my lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/republicansmemorabilia

I don’t care about the duplicate content in this moment, the event is bigger.

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In Nov. 2008 I stumble upon an interesting lens on Squidoo, Mark’s Challenge
http://www.squidoo.com/50adaywithSquidoo

He was making $1 a day and he decided that he wanted to make $50 a day with Squidoo.
He also decided to document all his actions to accomplish this challenge; this was a wise decision as he attracted more visitors, more traffic, a better rank on Squidoo and more money!

I was looking from time to time, I was very busy with December activities, but at the end of Dec. I decided to create a challenge on my own.

Mine is a modest challenge but I am determined to make it and following his example I start documenting everything, this is my challenge: http://www.squidoo.com/SquidIncomeGoal

I think I had a good start, in 2 weeks I am ranked 19 in the category “How-to” and 645 rank overall. It is a funny and intense daily job:

• I expend my Squidoo activity
• I learn a lot about getting traffic to lenses
• I meet a great community of  Squids what support me, keep an eye on what I am doing
• I keep a day-by-day log as well, and
• I hope I’ll make it!  (my dead line is 30 March)

You probably think that $30 a day with Squidoo it is not a big deal.  It is, as:

• This means $900 extra money per month
• If I’ll succeed with $30 a day, the learning curve is done and I can raise the bar and make how much I want per day
• I’ll prove that it is possible to make money with Squidoo lenses
• I can inspire others to try similar challenges 

I’ll keep you posted and I invite you to look it over to my Squid Income Goal.  Do you Squidoo? Do you make money with Squidoo?
Let me know your experience with Squidoo!

Until next time all the best

Michaela

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If you want to have a Social Network, NING is a perfect platform for it, a service for creating your own social network for any niche with your choice of features, your design, your customization, and your members.

What is a Platform – it is  just a software program that is able to make some services available to other programs via API (Application Programming Interface).

Why we need a Platform - we do as a platform empower us to create, customize and maintain our applications to meet our specific needs. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel all the time, a platform has the power to make us bypass the redesign of some services and make us users of the platform imbedded functionality.

Of course there are poor and powerful (rich in functionality) platforms. Ning is a powerfull one as we can build almost anything you want on it. 

When you creat your own network on Ning you have access to a lot of features to chose from, moderation and management tools which are priceless. More, you are in the driver sit, you will decide which features are appropriate for your purpose and how they will appear on your main page.

Example of features:

• Activities stream on real-time – they are latest activities across your network
• Applications – they allow members to communicate and interact with you
• Badges and widgets – to promote your network, blogs, websites, lenses, hubs
• Chat – priceless – you can participate to a live chatroom: network wide or one-to-one with a member (private)
• Events - you can organize events related with your activity
• Express yourself loading music, photos, videos
• Forum - your network can have a forum to discuses your niche, I’ll say, this is a must 
• Groups – if your topic is larger in scope, members can organize themselves into groups
• Integrate your blog or Website with your network, make your members participate…
• RSS – add external RSS feeds to your network’s main page
• Text Boxes – in your network’s main page you can use text boxes to add relevant text, photo, video
• Wiki-like Notes 

After you choose your features, you can came back and do maintenance.

I suggest to read and respond on forum, the discussion will tell you how are you doing, what topics your member want to talk, what needs they have. When you run out of ideas for a Digital Product, you can put a question on your forum, you will be surprised how many ideas you can pick up, or if you don’t have comments your topic is dead – no interest what so ever.

The old method of creation was to sit down with a white piece of paper in front of you and brain storm you own head.

The new Method, Social Networking Method will give you the unique chance to interact with a large community, pick up a lot of ideas, needs, controversy, and working around them you will create a product that is needed and you already have a pool of targeted prospects among your members.

Craft with care your bio, and network’s appearance. On Ning platform you have a lot of tools to change a theme, add your own graphics, add your own CSS, customize widgets, add photos, and customize your tabs.

Layout wise Ning is the most flexible platform I know.

Ning platform is FREE, by default you have a quota of 10GB of storage, 100GB of bandwidth, this is a lot of space, you can fit 5,000 photos or 500 videos.  

If you want to have more then just default or other fancy features Ning has Premium Services for a decent amount per month.

This is one of my social network on Ning:

http://michaelaebay.ning.com

and I am working on other one which will be restricted to my new challenge on Squidoo:

http://www.squidoo.com/SquidIncomeGoal

Until next time Happy New Year

Michaela

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