Weekly Winner Number 7
The weekly winner contest is an ongoing contest that I run here on my blog.
Startup Weekend City Vote
Startup Weekend is an awesome idea invented in 2007 by Andrew Hyde. In a nutshell, the idea is to bring a bunch of small business entrepreneurs into one room, and have everyone work together to create a company in 54 hours. With a bunch of like-minded individuals, I can only imagine how many creative ideas are bounced off each other. So far there has already been eight cities that met with success, and Andrew is planning at least 10 more. Right now they are offering a “city vote” on which city gets to be the host for the next Startup Weekend, and my local city Minneapolis is one of the cities up for vote.
Sleeping Rich – SleepingRich.com
I saw a viral ‘million dollar idea’ site off a forum thread, and I thought I would do my part and keep the viral traffic rolling. One individual from the Netherlands decided that he wanted to make his money by doing nothing but sleeping. He has dedicated a site to make money off this idea and has called his site Sleeping Rich. He has chosen to isolate himself for an unknown number of days (“until I am rich”), and has a streaming webcam of his actions. While I do not know the significance of him “sleeping” to gain his riches, it still seems like a crazy idea that a lot of people will talk about. When I first heard about the site, it had 150,000 visitors, and less than four hours later it is at 167,000, showing that it is starting to snowball.
Off-Topic Update
I have a few things to say that are all important to me but rather than making a few full posts about each of them, I thought I would bundle them all into one simple off-topic post.
Viral Marketing Job
I am doing link building and viral marketing for a new startup company called Datepad. Datepad is a 100% free to join online dating service. If you are sick of watching those TV commercials where they force you to pay $xx per minute, or pay $xxx to join, Datepad offers a solid alternative. Not only is Datepad completely free to join, but it offers excellent dating articles and has a community aspect to it along with some dating forums and helpful support. The biggest reason Datepad is going to be the ultimate free online dating service is because of The Datepad
Weekly Winner Number 6
The weekly winner contest is an ongoing contest that I run here on my blog. Every week, I give away $25 as well as free donated prizes to a different person inside the blog raffle. If you would like to enter for a chance to win $25 as well as a variety of free donated prizes every week, please read the official contest post about the weekly winner contest. The earlier you enter the raffle, the better your chances are at winning your free $25!
Online Income Report – February 2008
Every month I make a public blog post about my online earnings for that month. Let me start off by saying that these income posts are not meant to be bragging in anyway. The purpose of them is so that I can be completely transparent and help you make money blogging. My goal is to show you that there is a lot of money to be made indirectly from your blog, whether it is from career offers, consulting jobs, marketing your other websites through your blog, or using your blog as a launch platform for your startup websites. Something I did not learn until I started blogging for awhile (but I wish I had learned far earlier), is that being an authority about a topic that you enjoy will earn you money from sources outside of your blog. Blogging has helped me network with hundreds of webmasters, and has landed me my highest paying jobs. Before I started blogging, I did lots of search engine optimization, link building, and viral marketing for my own sites, but had no idea that I could do that for other people and make a living from it. If I had not started this blog and shared my secret link building strategies with my readers, my current clients would have never known I was an authority at viral marketing/link building. All in all, lets move onto what everyone is waiting for — my online income report!
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