Richard Osterude and Harris Fellman are a couple of geniuses (genii?) who come up with simple solutions that many corporations are charging thousands for.

Harris Fellman, Micheal Savoie and Heather Vale

Richard Osterude, Stuart Halpryn, Dr. Sami Fab, Micheal Savoie

One of these was the Peel Away Ads that took the web by storm.  I was lucky to be one of the first to get this product and it literally did exactly what it was supposed to do – place a little corner that looks like it is peeling back from the website, and when you move your mouse over it, the peelaway opens up even more and shows you the top corner of a hidden website, and when you click on it, it opens up to whatever page you are advertising.

http://nexurl.com/peelads

It is a great concept, although way overused in the IM niche!

Prepare To Be Dazzled!

Now Harris and Richard have come up with Corner Stay Ads (name is funky but the ads are awesome)! These are a small picture that can be on any of the corners and they stay there when you scroll down.  They can be a picture of a girl with money in her hands and the word click here above her heads, or you can make it a picture of your ebook cover… but when you mouse over the picture a quarter page size ad opens up with more information, and a link to click to go to the site that the ad talks about.

http://nexurl.com/cornered

This is impressive, because your little picture is unobtrusive, and when you move your mouse away from the ad, it disappears, so it does not clutter up your website.  It is a simple, but effective way to get more traffic to your product website or squeeze page from multiple sites!  You can even set it up on other people’s websites (all they have to do is place three files in the same directory as the page that the ad will be displayed on and add some code to the bottom of the page) so that you can cross advertise with other JV partners in your niche.

I am going to be working with Harris and Richard to figure out how to get it to work on my blog (since the files are not in the same directory as regular websites) and I will be creating a How To Manual for people who buy using my link.  I highly recommend Corner Stay Ads!

http://nexurl.com/cornered

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie

PS – To get instructions on how to install both Peel Away Ads and Corner Stay Ads on your blogs, just purchase them using my links above and then submit a help desk ticket at
 
http://traf-x.com/helpdesk

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When traffic begins to increase to your site you have to start to plan your monetization so that you are not doing a lot of work for nothing.

Traffic is work…

You aren’t writing great content for nothing.  You do the research to make your link bait posts, you get hundreds of incoming links and lots of visitors…

So what do you do to monetize a great blog? 

First of all get people on your list, and get them to subscribe to your RSS feed, so that you can easily bring people back.

By using the popover code from your aweber account, you can get folks on your list… and it is easy to set up.  You just open your blog admin panel, click on design, and select the footer.php file to edit and paste the javascript code from your aweber account.

You want the popover, and you want it to only show up intermittently, so as not to bother regular visitors.  You should also place the HTML code for your opt-in box in the sidebar above the fold to get someone who decides to sign up after they dismissed the popover.

The other thing you should be doing to help increase your return traffic is to get as many of your readers to follow you on Twitter!  The more people you get on twitter, the more you will get return traffic to your blog when you tell people about your posts.

Getting A Piece Of The Twitter Pie!

If you are prolific on Twitter, you can bank with a new service called Magpie!  It is a service that pays you in Euros for an opportunity for them to send an ad to your followers after every few tweets.  I am testing it out with 1 ad every 5 tweets to see how that affects my follower count and the quality of the conversations I have!

If nothing else, give Magpie a try! You stand a chance to bring more income from something you are using time on.  After all, you should be getting paid from as many sources as possible to prevent your income from being hit when a company folds or something changes in the market.

Plug This In To Your Blog

I just added a plugin to my blog that gives me access to CJ products and allows them to be displayed so that I can make commissions on purchases from some of the products displayed.  That makes it really exciting, because you can get your commissions up in another place.  Getting checks from Commission Junction is always a nice addition to your bankroll!

You can download the WP-Affiliate here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-affiliate/

Another plugin you will want is called the Affiliate Cookie Plugin. This one drives massive traffic to your blog while building a huge affiliate army at the same time!  Who doesn’t want to have everyone who promotes your blog to be an affiliate!

Stay tuned as I test out some more monetization models for your blogs and websites.

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie

PS – You can also download a manual on how to Fix The Fantastico Security Flaw on your Wordpress Installation if you used Fantastico to install it.

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