This morning sitting in my inbox was a link to a money making program that I just had to post about… Get Paid to Draw.

Now being a stick figure person myself, at first I was thinking, “Well this won’t do me any good!” But, curious, I headed on over to the page to see what it’s all about.

A one-time fee of less than $35 might be your ticket to starting out the New Year pulling in some cash.

o  Submit your images for cash
o  Learn the ins and outs of animation & illustration
o  Sell your drawings online
o  Make money from your digital photos
o  Discover freelance opportunities and much more!

Above, I admitted I’m no artist, but I will tell you the digital photos portion caught my eye!

Here’s just a tiny bit more (an overview really) of what you’ll find by clicking here:

o A Jump Start Setup – they swear requires no experience – to begin a new career working entirely online.

o Step by Step Videos – to help you get started making “thousands on the Internet by drawing pictures.”

o Company Directory Database – where to go to get reviewed by the “best directories in the world.” Also includes submission companies you sign up with for “great free money making opportunities.”

o The Get Paid to Draw eBook – sort of self explanatory.

o Strategies – learn “all the secrets” top artists and designers use to make (what they claim) hundreds of dollars an hour and up.

o Tools and Resources – material to get your make money drawing business up and running apparently.

There’s a ton more, including lots of bonuses.

So if you ever thought of trying to pull in cash online via art, photography, and more, this system might be just what you need!

We often talk about writing for a living online, but here’s an almost no brainer and potentially your newest source of revenue for 2009!

Happy New Year!

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This past week, Janet Giacoma, a Whole Hog Blogger and extensive article writer, wrote to ask how does one add their Twitter feed to EzineArticles.com. Apparently, she’s heard through the grapevine, and has demonstrated proof from those sources, that adding (updating) your EzineArticle profile to include your other social identities can have real benefits.

Well, it could be me, but it did take some doing to locate the steps. Actually I had to finally just hold my breath and head to the EzineArticle blog, do a search for “twitter” and voila! here’s the results (quoting a bit of that forum post):

“Here’s the 6 simple steps on how to quickly add your social media links: (more…)

Today was one of those days where I found myself on the phone quite a few times talking with advertisers using our My Wizard Ads service.

Besides form submission issues, there was a striking thing each phone caller had in common.

Each person:

o Was new to the world of internet marketing
o Had yet to spend tons of money marketing
o Is in a prime position to take the bull by the horns and do something for themselves.

The chance I speak of is that of (more…)

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It’s amazing what you find when you believe you are searching for something else, and today was no exception.

Actually I was busy checking up on our bloggers using Whole Hog Blogs, doing some backlinking research, etc., when I stumbled upon Blog Carnival (thanks to Linda at ForcedGreen. She may not be aware, but it was tracking down her search engine placement that led me to this unusual website).

So with all the preamble, what is BlogCarnival? The best way to describe it may be to tell you what it ultimately “looks like” with the finished product.

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We’ve talked about social bookmarking in earlier posts, but this evening in quite a roundabout fashion, I arrived at the Socialmatic website.

To be 100% honest, anything that could make some of the aspects to being online and growing a new (or existing) website or blog easier… hey I’m all for it.

Unfortunately, our own experience to date has been Onlywire, and we’re sorry to say it ain’t been good (or worth the effort)

However, that aside, we are aware of the pros and cons of using “automated methods” to post to social bookmarking sites. In a contest of mastery, doing things the good old fashion manual way most likely would win hands down. Primarily for the fact that you know it gets done, and also nothing ever really takes the place of real human interaction.

That said, we’ll be gearing up to run an experiment of sorts with this “newly re-discovered” social bookmarking tool.

There is also another factor to consider prior to bookmarking anything, and that is should it really BE bookmarked? Social bookmarking for the sake of doing it is (in our opinion) a complete waste of time – you could be out there doing so many other things really. Also, just because it’s marked doesn’t mean it will be found, there’s no guarantee.

The exception to this rule would be a site that indexes their submission quickly. Getting a good, solid backlink is worth the time and trouble

But all in all, be honest with yourself and think … should I or shouldn’t I, is this worth it or not…

I digress… Back to the experiment at hand. We’ll be taking selective posts we stumble across out online, and testing this service (maybe throwing in a link or two of our own to check the backlink thing in say Google or Yahoo!, too).

On the plus side, if you’re going to use a service like this, Socialmatic isn’t a mass submitter per se. When you find something worth bookmarking, and log into the SocialIt area, their engine is suppose to randomly select five spots (not all 30) and do its thing. This also sounds more like a winner.

It will be interesting to test, and if you’ve already tried it and like it or hate it, please do let us know (might save us some shoe leather LOL!).

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