I’m posting for a few main reasons, and just to provide updates really:
1. I have a low ticket (around $10) product going out for sale in around 24 – 48 hours. It will not be launched on this blog (don’t worry, I’ve always said I would not constantly ram products down your throats like certain other blogs) but I do need testimonials. If interested, contact me via instant messenger – first ten people will be sent the product. You can be as mean as you like, just be honest. You have to be reasonably coherent at English though. 
MSN: JPereira.Owns@gmail.com
Yahoo: jasonpereira34
2. I’m looking for a talented designer. I’ve asked around for a few, and have a few available in the $50 – $100 per page range; if you’re someone that thinks s/he’s reasonably good and is willing to work, contact me via email with samples. This is for an exciting project that could do pretty well. admin@theuniversitykid.com
3. I’m looking for high quality, personal story guest posts. Not “make money with your blog” or “how to leave an appropriate blog comment” type posts, but proper entrepreneur posts with your experiences, good or bad. “I did X and saw Y results”, stuff like that. As a lot of you know, I have exams coming up and anyways, my time on this blog has been limited with my other business activities.
4. Look out for a “make money with PLR” post or series on MMD soon. I love PLR, and I’ve been experimenting with it more and more over the last few months, with reasonable amounts of success. We’re still looking for post ideas for that blog, and we’re always looking for your input.
Thanks to all for the advice on MMD in my last post – I probably won’t be implementing donations because you guys said it would suck. Advertising… maybe.
5. I’m playing around with a few custom made scripts and programs being made… the real money is in promoting high quality, custom based projects (for whatever you’re doing). One of the ideas I had was for a chat type box.
The main idea is this – say I charge $100/hour for consultation normally. Which is reasonable, perhaps, but most newbies don’t have the ability to fork out $100 for one hour, or may find that one hour may not be enough to learn what they need to.
But… what if you could split the cost of consultation with others? You’d be splitting the time spent, of course, but you’d still be saving a lot.
So if I charged 10 people $10 for an hour of chat consultation, I’d still be making the same money. I’d also have a more people under consultation, so the conversation wouldn’t have any danger of stagnating. People (that want to learn) always learn better in a group, I’ve found. And if you’re in a group consultation, you don’t waste your time on idle chit chat that is although pleasant a waste of your money.
Of course, the chat would be available later for download, and you could even offer those that paid for consultation the rights to sell it. Another benefit.
It may work, it may fail, it’s one of the things I’m looking at though. Those that were around at the beginning of TUK may remember that I wanted to start a chat based website (similar to ILoveIM).. the idea still sort of stands, just for a different purpose.
When you have scripts, unique ideas for websites, you can develop them and offer them for sale. I’m going to look at flipping a few more “product” based websites, only with the product being a script or software instead of an eBook.
6. That’s it for now; my designer is still creating designs for tshirts and other merchandise for the offline clothing thing. More and more uni work that’s gotta be done too, sadly.
7. As with the previous of these update posts, I like to see comments; if you have a short question / query that you’d like an answer too, leave a comment below and I’ll get to you. Specific questions. Don’t ask something like “what is a blog”, but something like “what is the best way to drive traffic to my sport site XYZ.com” is a good one. 
I should probably update this blog soon too, hmm…
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March 28th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
If you are really good at what you do, it may be worth checking out LivePerson. They will charge people for your advice and pay you.
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Jason (703 comments) Reply:
March 28th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I’ll check out Live Person. There’s a new Yahoo Answers type site setup specifically for IM that I was asked about recently (Easily Answered), I’m supposed to check that out too. Lack of time.
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March 28th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Hey Jason, I got a question for ya.
I have a niche site about a certain breed of cat. It had a very good keywords that totaled around 12,000 searches a month all together. Each of these keyword strings had under ~10,000 competing pages in Google.
I’ve created 10 articles, SEO optimized the site, and did off-site SEO for 1-2 hours a day for 2 weeks straight. (Directories, forum posting with signature links, some article marketting).
I’m now glad to say I’m on Page 1/2 for 90% of my keywords, with the main keyword being on Page 1.
However, I’m noticing I’m only getting about 50-80 uniques a day, with my Stats plugin saying about 5 are from a Wikipedia link I got, and about 8-10 are from Google searches. I have no idea where the other 65+ are coming from.
Anyway, question time. Whats the best way to monetize this site? I currently have Adbrite ads going above/below articles (had a falling out with Adsense a long while ago) and a few cat-related Clickbank products in the sidebar.
In 1 month, I’ve made $0.50 from the site (about 4 Adbrite clicks).
I guess I’m hoping to have an epiphany from someone great like you.
/kissup
Thanks.
Also, sorry for the long ass and most unnecessary-information-filled comment.
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Jason (703 comments) Reply:
March 28th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Balls – I typed out a long reply and my computer crashed.
Don’t worry about the comment length, anyways here’s the gist of it.
If you’re not getting the traffic suggested, the keyword tool must be wrong. Try using another one. Even G Adwords keyword tool can be 30 – 70% off.
For the stats, try Google Analytics if you aren’t, along with Awstats. Two of the best free stat monitoring tools out there. You can see which keywords your visitors are coming from, how long they stay using each keyword etc.
Lastly, monetization… firstly, your niche needs to be a buying niche. Pets is reasonably ok.
The best way to monetize niche sites is product recommendations… but do not direct link to the product, first link to a review.
So for example, you’d have an article… “How To Get My Cat To Stop Scratching The Furniture”
Article runs reasonable length, reveal enough info so that you show that you know what you’re talking about but not enough to solve the problem. At the end of the article, recommend Product A to stop the problem, and link to your review. If your article is reasonable, and it’s read, most will click through to the review and some will buy.
If you’ve been accepted on Wiki for one thing, try submitting your site for other articles. They should approve as long as the articles are relevant.
Good luck, let me know if you run into any other problems.
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Tim (19 comments) Reply:
March 28th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Hey nice one, I like the linking to reviews thing.
Thanks for the in-depth comment, even after you lost the first one.
Appreciate it.
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Remote Data Backup (10 comments) Reply:
April 7th, 2009 at 12:12 am
you’re right Jason, I’ve found the AdWords keyword tool one of the WORSE ways to try to gauge traffic
It’s quite often nowhere near what you end up actually getting, usually massively overestimating the potential traffic.
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March 28th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
I don’t know much about how i can increase my page rank .But my site do have pageRank 1 without any SEO.Now i am trying all that SEO things.
Check out the site
Studyfreak
Let me know at my email address if you have any suggestions….
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Jason (703 comments) Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 11:25 am
If you want to increase your PR mate, all you have to do is build links. Get inbound links from high PR pages and you’re good.
Don’t waste too much time on PR though, it’s ultimately worthless.
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March 28th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Hi Jason – dropped you an IM, but you weren’t online. What, you don’t monitor your IM constantly just in case I want to get in touch?
Glad to send you a testimonial if you still need one.
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March 29th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Still busy online it seems Jason, I sent you a mail for the testimonial, not sure if I’m in the first ten though.
I think the group chat will go well, it will be a good deal for people at at good price, and you earn the same amount of money, so it will probably all work out.
I might be able to offer a personal story post, not sure how interesting it has to be or what mood, but I might have something or I could at least recommend a few other people.
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March 29th, 2009 at 12:18 am
I would love a testimonial and a guest post here but again my grammar is crappy.
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March 30th, 2009 at 5:22 am
I might be interested in guest posting. I make a living online, mostly through writing content and residual income from various sites. I also have a digital product that I sell as well as writing and selling PLR. I am available to talk about any of these topics if you wish. Thanks!
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March 31st, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Hey Jason,
I love the idea of the consultation via chat. I think it will definitely work for you. If you get it going and want to sell the script, look me up. I would like to offer my subscribers the same thing.
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April 1st, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I’m a little curious, do a lot of people still do guest posts in general? I haven’t seen too many nowadays…
Jay
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Best Online Deals (2 comments) Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:31 am
I get a ton of requests for people to guest post on one of my fitness sites at least 2 a day. Honestly most articles are crap. I won’t offer to guest post unless you have a kick ass article.
Steve
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April 1st, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Consultation via chat is a great concept.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I like your idea for group consultations. It’s a great way to try and target a broader audience and to make sales to more people. I know I wouldn’t want to pay 100$ for an hour, but the opportunity to pay 10$ and hear other people who are working on similar things too would be a great deal.
I would definitely recommend going forward with that idea.
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April 4th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Oic so you need a designer?for what projects? flyers? brochures? website?
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April 5th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
It’s pretty hard finding really good designers willing to work for 50-100$. Those guys are not charging you enough money!
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Jason (703 comments) Reply:
April 5th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Found a pretty kick ass designer for $119/website, + $70 coding. He’s working right now on a new project for me that will (hopefully) go viral.
As for consulting, well… in the past I used to make a few thousand a month through MSN consultations, now I only make around $1,000/month (10 consultation hours per month, roughly). This is without advertising anywhere. I’m thinking if I took it more commercial, but at the same time made it affordable for the masses… reasonable bank.
Getting the chat script ready has been a pain though, I’ve had quotes of around $9,000 from some. No way in hell I’m paying that much.
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April 5th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Oh, I forgot to ask, is there really a demand for those consulting services? Probably there is, but what exactly are you offering those guys when you send them in a chat together? Just curious.
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April 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
What a pity that I am too late here.
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