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Welcome back! I’ve been away for long time. I was ill and finally i recovered. Today i will talk about some tips to create your profitable online product.

1. Build for someone specific

It’s very tempting to create a product for the widest audience. “Everyone can use our product, therefore if even a tiny proportion use it, we’ll be rich!” Beware the generalised product. If your product is not built for anyone in particular, it will not be good for anyone in particular. The worst possible market for a product is “small businesses on the web”.

2. Don’t be afraid of targeting a narrow niche

Niches have numerous advantages. There’s less competition in niches, which means that your marketing dollars will go further to get you new customers. It’ll be easier to target likely buyers since there are probably already channels (blogs, magazines, trade shows) targeting that niche, that you can make use of.

Niches also tend to be very badly served in today’s world. If you look into almost any niche you will find a plethora of awful products that are just begging to be replaced by something better suited. Being able to build great products cheaply is a fairly recent development, and most pre-existing businesses have had to make do with duct-taped, poorly conceived solutions that are begging to be replaced. The smaller the niche, the lower the bar to success.

3. Solve a real problem that costs money

The way to realistic profitability is not through gathering an outrageous number of eyeballs, but through creating a product that people are willing to pay for. The easiest way to get someone to loosen their purse strings is to convince them that using your product will pay for itself.

This can be either by enabling them to do something new to earn money or by saving them time and effort (and hence money).
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These are some tips which been sent to me by email from my friend in MaxBlogPress. These tips about optimizing your google adsense revenue. I found them very useful so that I would like to share them with you:

1- Use the “Large Rectangle” format

This format is the most effective among all other Adsense ad
formats.

In fact, i’ve personally tested it and I found that I can get
up to 4 times more clicks on the large rectabgle ads than I can
with any other format.

2- Make it Blend In with Your Site

Google allows you to customize you ads to make it match any
website design.

Take advantage of this, and make your ads look like they are
part of your content, links or navigation bar.

3- Make it Stand Out
In contrast to number 2, this strategy makes your ads stand
out from the rest of your blog content, with hopes that people
will notice them and click on your ads.

Instead on “blending it in”, you make it “scream out for more
attention”

However, this works only on certain blogs, but you can most
certainly test them out to see if it works on yours!

4- Overcome “Ad Blindness”
The amazing thing with the human brain is that it can train
itself to ignore information, especially advertising information!

This is called “ad blindness” and it happens when the same
person has visited your site so often that he doesn’t even
actually notice the ads anymore.

When this happens, you may mant to use tactic 3 or shift the
position of ads on your blog to “disrupt” their mental filter
and regain the lost potential clicks.
5- Target Your Keywords Properly

Make sure your posts are on topic, and put the keywords in the
title of your blog post as well as in the content.

When you do this, you’ll find more relevant ads displayed on
your site, resulting in more people clicking on them.

Poolry written, off-topic posts make poor Adsense ads.
I hope you enjoyed those little tips, but remember it’s the little
changes that make all the difference.

Here’s a collection of videos that will show you step-by-step
how to maximize your Adsense income:

http://www.maxblogpress.com/r/AdsenseVideos.html

Its been sometime since my last post. I have started university so the challenge now is to write as many articles as I can in my free time. Today I will talk about some new ways i found online to get revenue. They are simple way which won’t cost you anything.

The first one is a website called Photrade . It is photo sharing website which is useful for bloggers and photographers. According to the website you will find all these features:

1. Get paid for Every View of Your Photos
2. Get paid for Every Click on Your Photos
3. Get paid when Anyone Links to Your Photos
4. Name Your Price for Your Prints (don’t worry we do the printing/shipping)
5. Name Your Price for Companies who want to Use your Photos

So If you are a blogger or a webmaster, you can upload the photo you need to placed in your articles in Photrade and get an extra revenue source for your blog or website. Here the link for some photos i uploaded there.
Mido’s home page

Photrade is currently invite only. They can send you invite If you give them your email. If you have any problem, don’t worry! I will give free invite for the first three people who comments here.

Now I will move to the next method. It is another image sharing community. Tubeimage.com. In tubeimage you can use your google adsense ID to get some revenue from your photo. It is very simple, First register to the site, Add your adsense ID then upload the photo you want. When people go to the photo URL they will see your advertisements and you will be paid If they click!

I hope you will find these sites as a useful tools to promote your photo and enjoying a new revenue stream at the same time.

StumbleUpon is a powerful network to drive traffic to your website. It is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate web pages, photos, videos, and news articles. In coming paragraph, I will teach you how to use StumbleUpon to drive traffic to you website for free!

First, If you are new with StumbleUpon, you need to follow these easy steps in next pictures to sign up:

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My friend in mybloglog community Joe has announced a new contest in his site. Joe is the owner of the famous blog Joe Tech, which talks about the latest technology issues around the world. You don’t have to do much to enter this contest. There are many methods to enter it such as commenting on the contest thread, stumbling any article in his blog or favorite him in Technorati.

If you are interested in this contest where you can win prizes like 125 X 125 pixels ads spot and 100 credits in Entrecard; Just visit this link to get the full details: Joe Tech contest details

I also decided to give all my readers more time for the current contest running in pimp my cash. The last day to enter the contest will be at the end of this month. I will be waiting your entries. Don’t forget you can win a $20 plus a 125 X 125 pixels ads spot for 3 months!