Choosing a Web Host

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Get A Payday Loan With NationalPayDay.com

Have you ever needed a Payday Loan?

Well here’s an internet based option for getting a payday loan. Melissa from NationalPayday.com has been a loyal advertiser on Blogtrepreneur for 6 months, so when she asked for a sponsored review, I jumped at the chance!

National Payday.com allows you to apply online and receive your money in 1 business day directly deposited into your account. Although using a payday loan service isn’t the best case scenario for financial stability, it can be a life saver when you are in a pinch. You may even be able to use it to advance your business. If you need money to start an affiliate ppc campaign, buy advertising or another business expense you could use this to leverage your money. Again it shouldn’t be your first choice but is an option when you are in need of some quick money to get you by.

If you need a quick cash advance or payday loan, let us help. We are the best quick solution for any cash flow problem. Our online payday loans and cash advances give you the emergency cash you need until your next payday. No matter what you need money for, our quick and easy check cashing service provides the assistance you’ve been looking for.

How does a Payday Loan work?

With National Payday it’s all done online. You simply go to their website and fill out their application form. Once you’ve been approved, they will deposit the funds into your account which is usually completed in 1 business day. I’ve never used a payday loan or a cash advance loan but it could be an embarrassing situation if you don’t want others to know that you’re in financial difficulty, so I think that doing it online sounds much more appealing.
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New Advertising Rates

Having been around in the blogosphere for nearly 2 years, I’ve come to realise that there is one easy and obvious way to sell a lot of your advertising; keep your prices low.

I havn’t always practised what I’ve preached though - in fact, I have always thought that keeping prices high would add to the sense of authority, and of course a higher level of profit. However, I’ve now decided to change my mind. I’d much rather prefer to sell all of my advertising spots instead of leaving them empty - as that is just a waste of screen real estate. The OIOPublisher plugin will also help me a lot by reducing the amount of time I have to spend maintaining ads.

I will inevitably change prices in the long run according to the forces of supply and demand, to always make sure that I am pricing these slots optimally. However, for the time being, I will see what happens - and hope you’ll take advantage of these great prices:

• Banner Ad (125×125px) - $70/month Now $50/month
• Text Ad - $50/month Now $30/month
• Sponsored Review - $120/month Now $100/each
• Post Level Text Ad - $30/each Now $20/month
• RSS Feed Text Link - $60/month Now $50/month

In order to purchase the post level or RSS Feed Text Ad, or if you have any other queries or questions about advertising in general, please get in touch using my contact form, and I will be more than happy to assist you.

As a final sweetener, one of my image advertisers managed to get a 7% Click Through Rate (CTR) on their advert yesterday, so if that doesn’t tickle your fancy, I don’t know what will!

WRevenue.com - Web Business With Scott Wainner

It’s not often that you get to review a fellow blog, let alone a blog about online entrepreneurship and business. That’s why I snatched up the review of NorthxEast and was eager to complete this review that Scott Wainner ordered up.

The blog in question is called WRevenue - a name which highlights Scott’s last initial, and is also a clever play on words which sounds like “Double Your Revenue” if you say it right - something which has also been emphasised in the tagline.

So, this dude if offering to double my website’s revenue? This seems like an outrageous claim, until you checkout the official About page of the blog and read the short bio on Scott’s entrepreneurial journey so far. Here’s a short quote:

“In 1994 I started a computer hardware reviews site called SysOpt.com in high school and by 1997 (Freshman in college) I was earning $100,000/year from banner ads. In 1998 I launched a second site, ResellerRatings.com. I continued operating the sites until 1999, when a company called Andover made an offer to buy them. A second company, EarthWeb, got into a bidding war with Andover and eventually bought the sites for several million dollars…”

Wow, so you can already see that you’ll be learning from an experienced guru in the online business niche. I just wish that I had started online way back in ‘94 (although I would have only been 4 years old then). Think of the amazing domain names you could have purchased. In the end, due to the Dot Com Bubble Burst, Scott managed to buy back ResellerRatings from the original purchaser at a fraction of the cost, and convert it into a money maker again - a sign of a true entrepreneur.

Above is a screenshot of WRevenue.com’s homepage. It seems to be a custom-coded template installed on Wordpress and looks very clean and stylish. The colours blue and black are soothing to the eye and the picture of Scott in the header is a very good marketing tactic - this will ensure that people instantly recognise Mr Wainner, and he gets to connect with his audience immediately and provides a sense of authority and a personality behind the blog.

Credibility

Another thing that adds instant credibility, is the fact that Scott has a Feedburner widget which shows how many subscribers he has. At the time of writing, this figure stands at nearly 400, which is an absolutely phenomenal increase since the 28th September when the blog was started.

This of course, would be mainly due to the high-profile interviews Scott has ordered up on the likes of TylerCruz and JohnChow, again helping to increase branding opportunities - a must for any new blog, even if you don’t pay for it.

The Design

There are a few issues which I would like to bring up in terms of the design aspect of WRevenue. Firstly, in the header, there are 4 other images besides the photo of Scott which show various aspects of his life (cycling, piloting and internet business). These appear to be hyperlinked but don’t lead anywhere - so either linking them up to bigger versions of the pictures or removing the links altogether would be best.

Also, a fact which Tyler mentioned, would be to reduce the size of the sidebar, especially as we can see that the Categories and Blogroll section only take up a narrow amount of space. The Meta area also needs removing - as it is unnecessary and is maybe a security issue, although I’m not sure of the technical details on that one.
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TNX.net – The Long Awaited TLA Slayer?

If you’re like me, you love to browse a forum or two late at night and see what latest gossip is going down. I myself frequent YGG, DP and a few other smaller guys to catch up on blogging chums and internet marketing gurus. If you have been watching on DigitalPoint though, you will have noticed that a text links company has started to flutter the hearts of website owners around the ‘sphere. Its name: TNX.net.

As I had already seen them out and about, I was pretty excited when Vladimir got in touch to see whether I could conjure up a review of his site. Unfortunately, I’ve been a little slow out of the blocks due to TNX’s extensive media and publicity campaign which is going excellently, but I thought I should tell you guys about it, in case you’ve been hiding under a shell for the past few weeks.

Firstly as a little disclaimer, Vladimir has allowed me to use referral links in this post so that I can earn 13.3% of any points that you guys earn or buy, for life! So, even more benefits all round – remember you can promote TNX too by signing up with the team.

Let’s start with a customary quote from the TNX website to see what they’re all about:

“TNX.net combines the benefits of Contextual Advertising, Text Link Brokers and Relevant Exchange of permanent non-reciprocal text links.”

As you can see from the above screenshot, simplicity is obviously very important to the TNX crew. From an aesthetical perspective, the design is inviting and fairly luring, which is important in increasing signups. I would say that the large clumps of text under the “Website Publishers” and “For Advertisers” headings are quite hard to digest and could do with some shortening/sweetening, like has been refined over at TLA. In fact, spelling and grammatical errors was one of the main things that I picked up on at TNX, and whilst no-one writes perfect copy, for a company, being prim and precise is important again for that all important conversion.

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