Jude’s Eclectic Resources

I know lots of people use Clickbank and I have had an account for several years, but I haven’t really been promoting my website that I sell e-books on for quite sometime. Every once in awhile I get a random sale and I have it set to pay out at 25 dollars. I never had a problem until the end of last year and now.

They require 5 different credit cards during the year before they will payout and many people use their paypal account instead of a credit card so they don’t count that toward the requirement. I now have 49 dollars in my account which they will start deducting a dollar every 2 weeks simply because they can.

Until there are more purchases by credit cards whatever money I have in that account I can just consider a donation to clickbank. In my opinion that sucks, but if I pushed for more sales then I wouldn’t have that problem. At the end of last year the same thing happened also and the few measly bucks dwindled fast and the last 2 payments instead of a dollar they took 4 and then 5.

I wonder what happens after the money in the account is gone. Will they decide to bill me every 2 weeks for a dollar just to keep the account open or will they delete it? I prefer using my paypal account over credit cards so I certainly think they should change their policy about 5 different credit cards before they will pay you. It should go by how many purchases.

I need to decide if I want to get rid of the account I have used for so long because all they seem to be doing with me is sucking up the few dollars that I make through using their system. I would then have to delete everything I have connected with them and that’s going to be a pain. I hate when you go through all that trouble to set stuff up then a couple years later everything unravels.

Just like with my original websites when I set up different ads through CJ and some of the others, lots of the companies that advertised through them would cancel their affiliate accounts and you have to go through and remove all those stupid ads, what a pain. I am going to soon go through those sites and move all the information to my main site and just delete them all. What a waste of time.

It appears that the majority of EC droppers on this blog are connected with PPP, SocialSpark and many other paid to programs, which is fine with me because they are less judgmental when viewing your blog unless they are looking for some TOS to report their fellow bloggers for, which happens quite frequently or did when I viewed the forum awhile back.

That comment may irk some people that feel it’s their duty to report people that are not following the rules that they themselves are and they feel duty bound to help rid systems of cheaters so they can make more money themselves. I do not feel like it’s my duty to report anyone. Google has it’s community of snitches the same as all other programs. I do not feel like it’s my bound duty to oblige any company for whatever reason.

Last week I was very surprised to get a direct request from an advertiser to do a post for them especially since I don’t use the PPP direct widget. When you submit a blog to PPP you have to choose a price so I set it at 50 dollars. The company offered me 55 so I did it and it was an easy post. That’s fun when you can make easy money and I only had to wait a week to be paid instead of the usual 30 days.

As I mentioned before I make incidental money from my blogs, of course I would love to make more, but I do not want every other post to be an ad with only 3 or 4 sentences that don’t make sense added in between just so I can take the next ad, but if that doesn’t bother other people then it certainly doesn’t bother me how they run their blog and they probably really need that extra money.

I know people blog for their own reasons, but I really think the majority are hard pressed for cash and really want to make some money by blogging. Lately I have seen a trend from people that said they would never put advertising of any kind on their blogs doing just that. That must be very hard for the self righteous to do. I can only imagine the turmoil that these poor people must feel and how they can justify selling out is beyond me.

The 4th is almost upon us, my how time does fly. Kids are already popping firecrackers around here and it irritates my furry son no end. I wish everyone a safe weekend. I’m not sure how much I will be online in the next few weeks, but I’ll try and type a few post up so I can just pop them in. I don’t think many give a flying flip, so whatever. If I’m not here, I’m just not here.

Some people have a talent for marketing, but I’m not one of them. I am so inept when it comes to making money, I’m good at spending it though. When I decided I wanted to make money online I tried lots of different things. One of them was affiliate marketing because I didn’t have to put any money out for most programs however some do require you to pay, but most don’t and those were the ones I went for.

I made very little money even the programs I paid to join and knew firsthand how the products worked I still couldn’t convince people to part with their money. One of the best programs is Bluehost and when you get someone to sign up and get verified you earn 68 dollars, but everyone out there that has a hosting account is also pushing it.

At one point I thought about offering a portion of that back to the customer if they signed up under me, but I decided it wasn’t worth it. I decided I was a horrible marketer and more or less stopped. I unsubscribed from many different places and lost interest. I think I still belong to one program that I spend 119 dollars a year. Last year I didn’t even break even and this year I might so I’m going to cut my losses and drop it.

Nope marketing just isn’t my thing, I’m very lazy and don’t put in the time to push it because it’s not very interesting to me. When I worked in the salon I never pushed products if someone liked something I was using and asked me about it I would explain what it did and usually the product spoke for itself and they would buy it, but I simply wasn’t a good sales person.

When I worked in the food business if I didn’t think something was good I told them my opinion and most times I would go get them a taste of whatever it was so they could make up their own mind and if they decided they wanted to try it then that was on them if they didn’t like it halfway through. If they had been sweet to me I sometimes took pity and would let them have something else.

The only product that I never had to push was alcohol and of course most times I had to limit that. We humans sometimes just don’t know when to stop so we sometimes need intervention. I hate when I go to McDonald’s and they ask me if I want french fries or an apple turnover with that, I know what I want so leave me the hell alone.

I know that’s how they are trained and they have to say it, but it gets monotonous after awhile especially if you go there all the time and get the same thing every time. When I worked at Lowe’s we had to say the same things over and over, but I did try to vary it with each customer so it didn’t sound so mechanical. I hated working at Lowe’s, I lasted 6 months then I quit.

Okay that’s enough about my inept marketing ability I have to get moving and get some other stuff done. Have a good one.

I posted a while back about getting an external drive and backing up my computer and programs so I could roll my pc all the way back, which I did. However I just tried to use my external drive for a program that I had previously and found out that when I backed it up I didn’t have my computer checked so guess what? I lost all of those programs. Sometimes I worry about my mind.

I have passwords written down everywhere and haven’t gotten around to making a list and have them all in one handy place because I forget a lot. I had to redownload the FTP program that I use and of course I had to search out my ftp address, user names and passwords before I could even use it. I thought I had everything secure with the external, what a ditz.

I guess I need to get organized again because you can’t get anything done when  everything is chaotic so that will be my project for today, hopefully unless I get sidetracked again. I recently improved my workspace and got that all straightened out and thought I had everything else under control, but now I will have to try and remember the programs that I absolutely need and try and find them again.

 Have a great day I’m not sure how great mine is going to be. It’s not good to frustrate yourself so early in the morning, but I’m sure I’ll get over it.

New people starting on the Internet seek information from other webmasters all the time about how to make money online, how to set up a blog or website and should I use free webhosting or should I pay for it? I personally think you should pay for it especially if you are going to start a business because it looks more professional.

I know people that have used free webhosting and had so much traffic that they used up their allotted bandwidth and lost many sales because visitors couldn’t view their website for a certain period of time. As far as I’m concerned I wont buy anything from anyone that uses free webhosting. Of course it doesn’t bother some people, but I want to make sure it’s a professional site and my information is going to be safe.

Web Hosting Geeks can help you decide which web hosting is right for you because they find different webhosting companies and compare and rate them and not only that you can read other webhosting users reviews . Go read for your self what other people just like you and I have to say about a company before you use them.

It could save you a lot of time and expense if you know how a company performs before hand. I find that reviews are very useful if I’m undecided about something. If you’re a newbie you’ll like Webhosting Geeks because they have a lot of useful information all in one spot that will save you a lot of time searching. So go over and read the reviews before you make that important decision.