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A lot of bloggers are having/ or had some sorts of contest on their blogs. In case you don’t know, contest is a marvelous way to gain traffic as well as gain loyal readers.

Contests are great, but there are two types of contest that you should know; large scale and small scale.Large scale contest can be defined as contest that have prizes over $1,000 worth of money and does not only include the blogger himself/ herself. Look at the contest I recently launched (July 2008 contest). I am giving away over $2,000 worth of prizes to 5 winners with sponsorships from major bloggers.

That is large scale contest. Large scale contest may not be ideal to new bloggers, but for those who have blog for like 6 months, it is worth every efforts you spent on it. Large scale contest teaches you to make friends with fellow competitors (in my case, MMO bloggers) and managing your time properly.

The turnover from large scale contest should be big if you are confident of the amount of traffic that you got monthly are sufficient to create a better turnover. GradeMoney has about 400 or more visitors a day. It is very difficult to get a good turnover because many came to this blog because of an article I wrote that struck the Internet world, not because of making money online.

Nevertheless, I was lucky to acquire quite a number of good sponsorships.

Small scale contest can be easily defined as a contest that involves the bloggers and readers and nothing else. Usually, the prizes can be domain names, iPods, some cash and Entrecard credits.

Although small scale contest sounds “not so rewarding” compared to large scale contest, it does has its own pros. Small contest normally ensure a better success because you wouldn’t lose much money because you will not be putting in much money.

Small scale contests are very common and it’s a good way to increase your RSS subscribers as well as traffic. However, many bloggers today took such contest for granted.

Remember, when you prizes are small, do not expect your readers to blog about your contest or your blog. Unless your prizes are worth over $1,000, don’t be an idiot and asked for a review just to participate in your contest.

Remember that your main goal is to rake in as much participants as you can. Good luck.

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A lot of people thought they can easily make money online without any problems, restrictions or whatever. These people are fools. Yes, you heard me. These people are fools.

I don’t care what they think or what excuse they gave, make money online is never been not complicated. It’s never an easy system. There are no such thing as automated system that you can buy for $97 and make $100,000,000 in 2 years or so. Craps.That’s why I started this blog. I started this blog not to make money (OK, maybe to make a little money). I started this blog to learn. I started so many projects, websites and tried some strategies that I knew it might not worked. It’s all about learning from mistakes.

I know there are probably hundreds of systems out there that can make you money online, but you know what? That’s just going to make you a bigger fool. Like I said, there are no free lunch in this world. You have to work your ass off to make money online.

Look at GradeMoney. It’s at a very awful status even though I love this blog. I’m sure you heard of many bloggers saying that starting a blog is as easy as making a pancake. Another piece of bullshit. Recently, I ran out of ideas and I do not know what to write about.

I have a few drafts but it all seems to wrong to be posted. This is a huge obstacle for me in the process of blogging for money. If you think blogging is as easy as it seems, you are wrong.

Think again about the web hosting, choosing a good domain name, ideas for your posts and your designs. It’s never easy. There’s no such thing as a “package” where you can buy and immediately make money from it. That’s just all bullshits.

Look at me, I have been cheated plenty of times. You couldn’t even count them by your fingers (not even your toes). My learning process in this internet marketing niche is painful. I am currently 17 years old and money isn’t a infinite resource for me. Money is always a huge issue for me. Time is another problem for me. I have to work, study and have some time for the college clubs.

If you think working and blogging part time are difficult for you, what about me?

Reconsider.

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Previously, I have been relying heavily on PPC earnings to make some nice money from this blog. Well, I did make some nice dough with PPC but it was not a satisfying amount. I spent most of the money towards charity like I said before because I hate it when I made small amount of money.

For me, a few cents a click from PPC will not make me some nice money. I was in a dilemma when I finally decided to choose paid reviews or affiliate programs to monetize this site. I knew that PPC is already not for me because I hate it, and so do my readers.

It wasn’t long until I signed up with PayPerPost and well, I did learn a lot of things from them. PayPerPost is so far, the largest, coolest paid review company so far. I have yet to make much money with them yet, but I’m sure I will in the future.

I have recently set myself a target to write about $1,000 amount of paid reviews and I will use that money to buy a Playstation 3 and play Metal Gear Solid 4 build my dream social network portal (which is another project of mine).

I have heard a lot of people making money with PayPerPost and the money that they earned are not a few dimes or dollars, it’s about hundreds and thousands. Hopefully, I would increase my monthly income through PayPerPost.

So far, PayPerPost has been great and the features are quite awesome. They might be a little overrated but it’s still does fine for me.

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Like I said before, I am going to hold GradeMoney’s first ever contest and here is it. It’s a very simple contest because all you have to do to join this contest is to subscribe to my RSS feeds through e-mail. It is that simple and you don’t even have to leave a comment or do anything else to win over $2,000 worth of prizes.

Yeah, you read that right. GradeMoney had accumulated over $2,000 worth of prizes and sponsorships from top bloggers and of course, from my own wallet. It is extremely easy to win because I have 18 feed subscribers currently and I am choosing 5 winners.Here are the over $2,000 worth of prizes:

• Two 125 x 125 ad spaces on GradeMoney.com for a month worth $10 and a special post review by me that worth about $20. (Total worth $30)
• 5,000 Entrecard credits, a review and a 125 x 125 ad space for a month on BloggerNoob.com as well as 5 domain names.(Total worth about $1,000)
• A 125 x 125 ad space for a month on SuperBloggingTips .(Total worth $30)
• 1,000 copies of $1 eBooks by BlogPremiere.com/forum and two 1 hour consultation time by TheUniversityKid.com. (Total worth about $1,060)
• 30-minutes blog consultation worth $30 and two copies of “Work Smart Get Rich” ebooks worth $15 each by TheNetFool. (Total worth $60)
• 1 hour consultation worth $50 by earnonline and how to earn online. (Total worth $50)

If you add all the value of prizes up, you should get $2,230.

How to Join? Simply put in your e-mail to subscribe to my feeds below and verify your e-mail. It is that easy.

And the winners will be chosen through randomizer in Random.org.

And since we are choosing 5 winners, the chances of you winning are very high.

You could also win a personal banner design (.gif and .jpg formats only) as well as a chance to win $15 cash for you to spend if you blog about this competition and link back to ww.grademoney.com and this post. All I asked for is one post about this competition and you will get your banner designs free. You will then be place into a list of people who blogged about his contest which I will use randomizer to choose a random winner for the $15 cash. Just drop me a comment when you do so.

It’s that simple and you could be on your way to win big prizes in GradeMoney.com.

This competition ends on 28th July 2008.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop a comment.

P.S. Please note that the winners will be randomly and evenly be distributed with the prizes. Cheers.

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I am a make money online blogger. I make money online when I blog about making money online. However, making money online is not the only thing I love to blog about. GradeMoney is super successful today because of some of my posts that don’t relate on making money online.

Not to say that I am asking you to blog about foods and cookings when you got a rugby blog, but at some times, you should put in some ramblings and some “kind of” related news or articles.

A lot of my readers asked me why anyone should be rambling and writing craps on what he or she did when his or her blog looks so good already. My 6 months of blogging taught me that site ramblings can pretty much retain loyal readers…and even turn the unfaithful ones to loyal readers.

Site ramblings actually display your personality, lifestyle and your opinions. I know it might not seem “professional” to do so, but a little spark of personality in your blog could change the way the readers look at your blog. You could be saying about the current events, the mall you went this afternoon or your vacations.

It is really a nice way to tell you readers about you, apart from the useless and bullshitting “About Me” page. I highly recommend anyone to include site ramblings in their blogs because for me, it worked. So does other bloggers. Look at people like BloggerNoob and John Chow. They rambled and make money.

At some times, you should “leave” your niche and blog something realted to your niche. My niche is definitely make money online niche and it is very competitive. Everyone knows amazing people like Shawn Collins and Maki are also blogging in this niche. It is extremely tough to get your articles high on a social medias like StumbleUpon or Digg.However, one of my article got listed on StumbleUpon’s top stumbles despite my bad grammars and spellings. I wrote about “15 People Who Changed the Internet”. It’s pretty much off-topic compared to make money online niche but this blog is becoming better thanks to that particular article.

It is amazing that an article that I wrote which do not have much relations to make money online niche become so successful and receive thousands of stumbles from a 17 years old dude from Malaysia. And best of all, it does not even relate to make money online.

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