The site I’m showcasing today is for the noobs. I mean, it was made to help noobs! A pretty good idea for a site if you ask me.

What is EPN?

EPN stands for Ebay Publisher Network. It’s a way of making money out of Ebay by referring people to the site. You can make money when people sign up to Ebay, and you can also get paid when people win auctions.

Why epnStore.com?

Simple, a lot of noobs struggle to get themselves accepted to EPN in the first place. And the ones that do get accepted can’t work out the technical side of things like implementing it into their own websites.

epnStore.com takes away any need for a noob to understand all these complexities. Instead, I’m led to believe that the only code you need to use is this:

[epnstore]keywords, more paramaters here[/epnstore]

You could teach a monkey to write that!

The point of all this is so that noobs to the industry can concentrate on other points of interest such as promoting and marketing their sites.

At the moment epnStore only works with US marketers, and at this time there aren’t any plans to accept other countries.

Check it out: epnStore.com

First of all, blog commenting is great! I love it, and you should too. If done right you then it’s a win-win situation for both you and the bloggers who’s blogs you comment on.

But it’s not done right, not by a long shot. I had a blog comment today for “latin American commerce”, what does that have to do with my site?

The problem is the ease of access to automated software that lets you find blogs to comment on such as Comment Kahuna. Don’t get me wrong, I love that program, but I wish the retards would stop getting ahold of it.

The Wrong Way: What Will Happen?

This is what will happen if you do blog commenting like an idiot.

1. I’ll receive your blog comment and then click on the “spam” button.
2. Lots of other bloggers will also receive your comment and click the “spam” button.
3. You’ll now show up as a spammer and Aksimet will automatically delete your comments for me.
4. You will die, alone and afraid with no one to care for your sick dog.

How Do You Do Blog Commenting Then?

Like so…

1. Find blogs that are in your niche instead of spamming every blog you can think of.
2. Do not include a link to your site. If you want some link love then you’ll get it from the URL section of the comment box. Posting links (especially irrelevent links) will get you put in the spam queue faster than you can say, “spam and eggs for breakfast”.
3. Make sense. Don’t write some random, generic crap. Instead, look at the post and genuinely share your opinion. Disagree, agree, whatever. Just don’t put, “Nice article, check out my link.”

That’s it for now. Some more common sense goodness may follow at some indeterminate time.

Don’t get your hopes up.

Sometimes I can post every day for a few days because my mind is full of ideas, and other times it’s weeks and I don’t write. I don’t see the point in writing filler content just to make it look like I know what I’m talking about.

On the flip side, this isn’t how I run the rest of my blogs. This is an internet marketing blog, and there are many people out there who have a lot more juicy information to hand out than I do.

But on the blogs that I do outside of this niche, I try and follow the blogger rule of doing X amount of posts per week. I make sure that I have something interesting to say.

I guess when I think about it, the reason for this is that my other blogs are all about making money. If I stop posting then potentially my income goes down, whereas this blog doesn’t affect my income in the slightest.

That’s why all these make money online bloggers come out with so much crap on a regular basis, they just need to say something so that they can have an excuse to sell you yet another crappy ebook.

But I’ll have to make an exception for this one: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-different-types-of-clients

This little gem popped up in my feed reader tonight. It won’t teach you much about internet marketing, but it might give you a bit of a chuckle. Take a look.

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I received a direct message today asking me to joining some sort of stay-at-home-wealth-formula programme. I politely declined, and informed the user that it really isn’t the best use of his time to be spamming his link on Twitter.

Twitter doesn’t have that big a userbase, and the people that are in it are like me and you. They are internet marketers, SEOs, web designers and graphic designers. I would say that most Twitter users are web-savvy.

It seems a waste of time to be marketing online riches to these types of people, when there’s a whole load of people in other areas online that are ripe for the picking.

And speaking of Twitter, I’ve been struggling to get my head around it. I see all these high profile bloggers saying how amazing it is, and how they posted one message for help and got a gazillion replies. But I never get anything like that.

I really need to build up my followers, but that takes so much effort that could be put to better use elsewhere.

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Not in this case, however. This time, I was talking to someone who didn’t think that there was any money in SEO. I say SEO, because this guy was an SEO.

He honestly didn’t believe that there was any point in SEO’ing his own sites.

He would quite happily do it for businesses and clients, but seemed to think that there was no point getting search engine traffic unless you had a “killer idea”. I find it hard to believe that someone who’s involved in the web development industry so much wouldn’t see the stupidity in that.

The thing is, I’m noticing this more and more. People don’t seem to recognise the potential in internet marketing. I’m an admin for a web design forum, and I often here people complaining about some web design problem they can’t solve and I just have to laugh.

We don’t have to deal with that sort of crap in internet marketing! Unless we want to of course.

Internet marketing isn’t about pretty pages, it’s about making money. And yet so many people miss out and try to start their own “web design” business or “graphics design” business. You’d think that these people would know better.

Ah well, we can’t complain. The less people in the game, the more money for us.

As for my internet marketing blitz, I’d say that was most definitely a success. Figures wise, it wasn’t so good. This was due to me having a couple of weekends away towards the end.

But the main thing is that this blitz taught me something about my life. I am destined to be an internet marketer. This isn’t just some pipe dream, this is who I’m supposed to be.

I never want to work for another company again. I just want to work for me, and I feel that so strongly now.

The blitz also helped me to focus all my efforts on my business, so much so that about halfway through it stopped being a “30 day blitz” because I realised that this was a new way for me to live.

I now put the majority of my time into the business, never mind about blitz’s! I just want to put in the maximum effort all the time.

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What I want to say in this post is that it only takes one idea to get the ball rolling. At the moment I’m investing time in building up a network of blogs, as opposed to a lot of people who would just make one blog and then hope for the best.

I’m also looking into four other ideas other than blogging to see if I can work out how to get them working. Whatever works for me will be scaled up, just rinse and repeat. If all 5 of my ideas don’t work, I’ll simply get 5 more.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. By working on multiple projects in different niches and using different marketing techniques, I increase my chances of success. The negative side of this would be to have so many different projects on the go that none of them move forward.

I haven’t got to that stage yet and I’m more than happy working on my 5 projects so we’ll see what happens. Watch this space.

This blog is here to share my experience of making money online. I hope that it’ll be an inspiration to other noobs, and that one day people will look back through the archives here and think, “this is how it all started”. One day I will be able to give advice, and great tips. But right now I’m concentrating on using those tips for my own benefit until I can get something to work.

What I will share with you is advice that I pick along the way. So this post is about building up a network. In a previous post I mentioned the importance of content, and how you need to just keep on creating content. I think that this is one surefire way of making money online.

No, it isn’t perhaps the best way, or the most intelligent way.

But it is one of the easiest ways, if you follow the right advice. Right now, I’m building up a network of blogs. I call it a network, but really the only thing these blogs have in common with each other is that they’re blogs.

I’m writing 2,500 words of content a day as I take part in the WebWriMo challenge, but I plan on continuing at this pace even when I’ve finished the challenge. At this rate, I can get a new blog up and running with all the content it needs (time stamped of course so that it has fresh new content each day) as well as keep writing for the other blogs I’ve already started.

This is only one of the things I’m involved in, but I hope that in 6 months time I can say that I have a few blogs to my name. Each blog can be developed in it’s own way, and be promoted into a profitable site. If not, well I can always sell them.

I think that there is something to be said for having “online real estate”. That is, online properties that you have created that continue to grow even if you’re not actively promoting them. If I want to take a break from blogging, all I have to do is stop making new blogs and have a good long writing session to give me enough content to last a few weeks for all my blogs.

And in that time the blogs will continue to grow and become more popular by themselves, providing I’ve done enough work in beforehand to get them to that stage.

Even if I don’t make a whole load of cash from this idea, I will have some kind of audience around each of sites as well as linking power. There is definitely power in numbers in this game, even if I only have 10 medium sized blogs, that’s still a way for me to break into whatever niche those blogs are in if I decide to at some point in the future when I get the skills.

So my message to you today is to get building. Build sites, build content. Content never gets old. The great thing is that even if you’re not a great marketer right now, one day you will be. And you’ll look back on the sites you’ve made that will be sitting with page rank, links, and some amount of a readership and think, “Damn, I can market the hell out of these!”

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I am targetting my frustration right now at one or two extremely commercial “super affiliates” who seem to just leech off the noobs in the industry.

I should probably start off by saying I’m a hypocrite, as I can imagine doing what they’re doing, just in a different niche. I could sell things to people that they don’t need quite easily. It’s just being only a young Padawan myself when it comes to internet marketing, I feel it is worth at least pointing out that these bloggers are assholes.

I don’t need to name names, you know who they are.

The latest thing to annoy me is this. One MMO blogger says how this other MMO blogger has an awesome product, and you must buy it. If the product was worth it then yes, but the product was a crappy Wordpress template that wasn’t that impressive.

It may well have been worth the $97 price, but I can’t think of many people who should be purchasing it. It’s a luxury that most people can’t afford. Why waste money on a Wordpress template when you can download one for free.

Then again, looking at it from the other point of view. The more noobs that are misguided into buying crap they don’t need, the less competition for me.

Maybe it’s not so bad after all.