January 30, 2009

Obama made me money.

Filed under: Grayhat,Money — Alan @ 12:25 pm

Hi guys,
Usually I’m not discussing politics, because not everyone can agree about opinions, and that’s the surest way to raise trouble, but today I just want to make a quick mention about Obama, and how I just made money thanks to him.

By the way, I was talking in one of my previous posts about how you must be persistent and put effort to make money.
With so much attention on Obama, I had to do something to take advantage on this situation. And that’s the point I was making in my previous post, today it is Obama, yesterday was Paris Hilton, who knows who it will be tomorrow? But that’s a work of everyday, you can’t just find one thing and it’s gonna work forever. You have to search everyday for new opportunities to increase your online business.

Anyway the trick here was to leverage his popularity in order to generate cash.

I went to my sponsor, and set up some pay-per-lead campaigns.
I created a couple of html pages, each one with the affiliate banner for the campaign, and some text talking about Obama, which was easy to find there is so many content written about him.
with subdomains, I had a structure like:

http://insurance.whyobama.com

With a page having an quick article about Obama talking about the insurance system. Then in big characters a sentence saying “And you? are you sure you’ve got the right insurance? Take a couple of minutes to do a quick check, it’s FREE and private. A couple of minutes could change your life.”
[insert link to a pay-per-lead promo for insurance check]

http://alarms.whyobama.com

[insert Obama article here]
Unfortunately the number of crime rises. In these current time of crises, you should be protected, it costs less to invest a little to get a good protection for yout home than taking the chance to get robbed. There are many suprisingly affordable solutions, just spend a few minutes there.
[insert a link to a pay-per-lead promo for alarms]

http://paydayloan.whyobama.com

[insert Obama article here]
Get the things you need, regardless of your credit! We can help you find the cash you need for getting caught up on bills, car repairs, groceries, anything at all.
[insert a link to a pay-per-lead promo for a loan]

etc.

I was set then, I just needed to get traffic.

So I just used a good traffic source: Youtube!

I created youtube accounts, 5 for each websites. This can be long if you do it manually so I used a script I wrote, Youtube accounts creator. You can get it for free here. Yes you don’t need to pay $40 for those accounts creators, just use mine, it works well :)

I waited for the day of his inauguration speech. Just ripped the video from a website, and started to edit it.
I cut five interesting 30 seconds clips, then I added at the end of them some text:”want to know what Obama thinks about insurance? go to http://insurance.whyobama.com” etc.
I just had to upload videos on my youtube accounts. Why 5 accounts for each video? Because then I could change the title and description, and tags!!! I just made a quick run into google keywords suggestion to find good ideas.

Then I just had to wait…. Within the first day I already had traffic, some of my videos had good views numbers, some not, but the important is that I got instant traffic.

And that’s it, it was the perfect opportunity, people were going to want to watch videos of Obama. Redirecting the traffic to my sponsored websites was easy. I had leads, and made money while I was sleeping.

The best is that you have important events every week, if you wanted you could do this all the time and getting piles of money.

And don’t forget seasonal subjects… Like tax season coming upon us…

TIP: The superbowl is this weekend, it’s gonna be perfect for this project! Just get ready, it takes a couple of hours to set everything up, you should be rolling quickly!

But that’s not a magical trick, it needs work and dedication if you want to make a lot of money on the long run. If you do it just a couple of times you wll make only a little extra money. When you get the hang of it, go on, do it to the max, that’s the way you’ll get a lot.

Back to work! See you soon
Alan

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My Free Youtube accounts creator

Filed under: Tools and scripts — Alan @ 12:15 pm

This is a little tool for you to create Youtube accounts.

Originally, I didn’t want to waste my time writing such a tool, as there already exist several Youtube accounts creator.

Unfortunately, I’ve tested 2 of them, which were quite bad.

I wouldn’t have cared to pay $40 but yeah since they were not good, it was better to write it myself.

Instead of writing a whole software, I just did this quick php script.

There’s a simple reason to that, it was to avoid the proxies need problem.

Indeed, when you’re creating youtube accounts, you need proxies, or you risk all of your accounts to be erased when one of them is flagged.

The beauty of using this php script is that you can install it on any php server, and it will use the IP of the server. So you just have to open a free hosting account (do a google search, there are dozains of them).

Then upload the script on the server and execute it, create a couple of accounts.

And go to open another free hosting account, on a different server, where you’ll get another IP.

Repeat and you can open many youtube accounts.

And you can create 2 or 3 youtube accounts per day per server, imagine if you have 10 servers, it’s 20-30 youtube accounts PER DAY with different IPs at NO COST!!!

So here you go, Click here to download it

Alan

PS: It is not perfect, I wrote it quickly, so if you use it on non US-based servers, it might fail. If anyone has the time to fix it, just send it back to me, I’ll put it there and credit you, cheers!

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January 21, 2009

The magic Filter

Filed under: General — Alan @ 9:09 pm

Hi, this post won’t be about giving some specific tip on making money, but I felt I needed to repeat some ideas to help you make it.

When I wanted to make money, thanks to the internet, I was chasing the one great idea. There were so many stories about people who got a great idea and became rich. Think of the One million dollars page, with this student selling blocks of pixels where people could put a link to their website. He managed to earn 1 million in a couple of months… Great! Why we didn’t think of that?

The problem is that we hear all those wonderful stories every day, and we live in this world where we’re led to believe that there is a magic filter.

A filter that separates the average persons from the successful ones.

It seems that we just need to find that great thing, that one gateway to become rich/famous/powerful etc.

But that’s a big lie, there’s no such magic filter. There are some good ideas, but they’re negligible in numbers, compared to the normal way to become successful.
It’s like bands, they all believe that they just need to get signed by a record company, and with this contract, they will move from unknown artists to superstars.

It doesn’t work like that, look at the majority of billionaires… They’re old. Why? Because they spent time and effort before they became successful.

There’s always this equation I believe is accurate:

Consider money, effort and time.
You can choose two of the three you need to spend if you want to achieve something. Only two. Take your pick.

I could spend 6 months of holidays, visiting Australia and caressing kangaroos, going to France and drinking wine, etc.
But that’s not because I had found one magical solution, it’s because I had slowly spent time and effort to create money-making sources.

You want to make more money, you want more freedom, even with the current crisis, that’s definitely achievable. Hell, I didn’t notice more than a 10% drop in my revenue even if we’re meant to be in trouble. And that’s more likely because I wasn’t touching a thing on my websites.

So yeah, that’s a path, to be able to make money, and the hardest is that you’ve got to stick with it, it’s not always fun, like your everyday job, you’ll have to do many boring tasks.
But if you keep it up and work steady you’ll be able to be more successful at the end of this year than today.

In a few days I’ll post the details of a little project I am currently doing and that illustrates my point.

And even better, it makes me a bit of easy money. So there’s no way you couldn’t make something out of it.

See you quickly!

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January 1, 2009

Happy new year etc.

Filed under: General — Alan @ 10:54 am

Hi people, it’s been a long time I didn’t post, the truth is, I had been working non-stop for two years on my websites and needed some rest, so I took 6 months of holidays. That’s the cool part of having websites that bring automatic streams of income. But now I’m back in business.

To the people who wrote me about the adult blog project, I’m keeping your email, and I will contact you later this year. I’m currently setting up the adult blog project v3. So please be a little patient.

Meanwhile I’m gonna put a serie of posts about another money-making opportunity that you can try. It’s a longer-term project, but a reliable one.

I’ll try to put a couple of hints also, as you can guess, it takes time to write and I’m working on some new projects for myself, but I won’t forget you :)

So happy new year and I wish you make money this year!

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