Michaela Cernescu’s Blog

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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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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