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Use OIOpublisher to monetize your wordpress blog and cut out the middlemen

WordPress users who want to monetize their blogs, but are tired of giving a percentage of their earnings to middlemen can rejoice. The OIOpublisher plugin is here and it makes it easy to monetize your site!

Even if you don’t have a WordPress blog you can still use their hosted platform. I’ll be discussing the plugin features below, but I believe you can do all of the same things that the plugin does on the OIOplublisher website in hosted mode.

I’ve been trying out a new WordPress Plugin on my Home and Garden blog for the last week or so and it’s called OIOpublisher direct. Perhaps you’ve heard of this innovative plugin?

All you need to get started is a WordPress blog on it’s own domain, the OIOpublisher direct plugin and hopefully a site with decent traffic that might be of interest to advertisers. Of course, as I said earlier you can also use the hosted mode if you have a non-wordpress blog.

Once the plugin is installed and activated all you need to do is add the widgets to your widgetized blogs sidebar or add some code to your sidebars manually and you’ll soon be able to sell banner ad space, text link ads, inline ads or contextual links within blog posts.

As you can see from the image on the right I’ve set my home and garden site up so that I am able to sell links, banner space, inline ads and post type advertising. The first banner takes you to the purchase page where an advertiser could select any of the types of advertising features that I’ve enabled. The second banner will take an advertiser just to the banner purchase section. Directly below both OIOpublisher banners I have the first link I sold with the OIOpublisher plugin.

Several of my sites frequently attract the attention of advertisers and instead of either directing them to purchase a link or post through one of the companies I work with, or dealing with them directly and hoping I get paid, I can now use the plugin to do much of the work for me. It can even be set up so that you must get paid before the purchased ad will show up on the site.

There’s even a marketplace at the OIOpublisher website where you can have your blog listed. By listing your blog in the marketplace interested advertisers will have one more way to find your site and possibly purchase an ad for their business.

The plugin is free to use and fairly easy to set up although it does take a bit of time.

When you first activate the plugin you’ll need to go and customize the plugins settings. You can easily do this through the plugins interface. Within your WordPress blog’s admin section you’ll have a tab marked Business. This is the OIOpublisher plugin’s interface.

Within the settings section you’ll be able to set prices for the links, posts, banners and inline ads that you wish to sell. If you don’t want to use one of the features simply keep the price at 0 and that feature will be turned off. If you’d like to sell a different type of ad space that is not listed you can customized your own sales feature. For example, OIOpublisher is set up to either sell links only on the homepage or site wide (not including the home page), but if you’d like to truly sell site wide links that include the home page you can set up a custom option.

In the settings section you’ll also be able to list your paypal address so that when someone wants to buy a post, a banner ad or a text link they can pay you immediately or you can set it up so that payment is not automatically requested by the widget until you’ve approved the request.

Other features within the setting section are the ability to set all purchased links so that they will be no-follow, request that links be family friendly, choose the currency in which the payment must be made (currently the options are USD, GBP, and EUR), pay before or after approval, and whether to allow subscription payments. I believe if an advertiser were to chose the subscription payments a reminder would be sent out to the advertiser near the end of each month reminding them that to continue their ad they will need to submit a payment.

The OIOpublisher site has demos and helpful instructions that should assist you in getting the plugin set up.

Give it a try if you want to monetize your site and keep all of your earnings. It only takes about half an hour at most to fully set up the plugin and you could begin to earn money almost immediately if you’ve already had advertisers expressing interest in your site.

As I said I’m only using it on one of my blogs at this time, but I hope to find the time to activate the plugin on all of my blogs sometime this week.

Earlier today, Simon from OIOpublisher, sent out an email to everyone that had registered at the OIOpublisher site stating that they were also creating a new feature called Social Blogging.

If you read a lot of the larger blogs, you will find that nearly all of them mention from time to time how important making connections is in blogging. As you might have guessed, that’s what the OIOpublisher Social Blogging module will be all about.

Instead of trying to make false connections through link exchanges, or even through advertising, maybe we should be concentrating more on our blog content doing the talking for us. What if you could participate in conversations through your own blog, without having to deviate from your existing blogging routine?

Yes, that’s right, I’ve been busy creating the world’s first purpose-built blogging conversation system, where you can join blogger groups, start new conversation topics, and reply to existing conversation posts right from your blog’s dashboard.

You can read more about Social Blogging at the OIOpublisher website. It appears that social groups haven’t been enabled yet, but if you want to learn all about it read the site and be ready to sign up when this new feature is enabled.

Bill Collector in a Box makes it easy for small business to manage debtors

by Tricia

If you own a small business and you’ve been frustrated with the process of trying to collect money from clients who owe you money you might be interested in Bill Collector In A Box by Marauder Corporation. This debt collection software has been created especially for small businesses.

Bill Collector in a Box assists small business owners with the tools to collect debts without the assistance of an attorney or an outside collection agency. Small businesses that use this software will no longer find themselves selling overdue accounts to debt collection agencies as they’ll be able to manage the debt with the help of Bill Collector in a Box.

This software is suitable for any type of merchant from landlords to auto service, doctors, dentists – any kind of business. It’s meant to take the hassle out of bill collection.

You can send an unlimited amount of debt specific collection letters directly from Bill Collector in a Box. There are pre-formulated letters for any kind of debt and all of the letters have been viewed by an attorney to ensure that the information within each letter is legal.

Nationwide Capital Recovery will handle your debtors for you when you use the 1 Click Credit Reporting feature. Any creditor can report an outstanding debt to the credit bureaus for 7 years. Just with one click. Included in this feature is a demand letter from the supporting collection agency, Nationwide Capital Recovery, along with a payment stub and payment envelope addressed to the small business that the debtor owes.

Nationwide Capital Recovery has a full range of debt collection services and in conjunction with their services a small business will have success in securing payment on their overdue accounts quite quickly.

If a client passes a bad check the check writer can easily be reported to the Shared Check Authorization Network. It costs $5 to report a bad check writer to the database and once a business does this the information regarding their debt will be in the database for five years. This means that unless they remit payment to the business for the debt they owe they will get a message every time they try to write a check or open a new bank account at one of the 70,000 Shared Check Authorization Network locations. The message will let them know that they won’t be removed from the database until they pay their debt. There are many large retailers and banks within this network so that $1.50 will be well spent as it should cause the debtor quite a bit of trouble.

The software also makes it easy to manage contacts. There are two levels of skip tracing that will assist as small business in locating customers that have relocated.

The Basic Skip feature will assist small business owners with the collection of the debtors most recent address and place of employment by gathering information from the debtors credit file. It also lists up to three phone numbers.

The Advanced Skip feature provides a small business with a report on their debtor that includes the clients names, date of birth, social security number, home address and any other residential listings, home work and cell phone numbers, criminal, property and bankruptcy information and the names addresses and phone numbers of up to 10 relatives of the debtor. All of this information is manually verified by a private investigator and returned to the small business owner by email.

This invaluable software can be purchased for $99. Accounts that are forwarded to the collection agency, Nationwide Capital Recovery, will have a 38% commission applied to all amounts collected. Having said that, Nationwide Capital Recovery states that if their product doesn’t pay for itself at least twice in the first year they will refund the entire purchase cost of the software. That makes the software certainly worth a try. Small businesses can stop writing off outstanding debts and start collecting some of the money that they are owed.

Blogburst – syndicate your content

by Tricia

Shortly after I started blogging in 2006 a new company opened for business. This company’s name is Blogburst. It’s a syndication service that places your blog content on top-tier online destinations. Namely online news sites like Reuters, USA Today, Gannett, McGraw-Hill, Fox News and Internet Broadcasting.

What could I get out of listing my sites with Blogburst? Well increased visibility for one – especially if any of my sites or posts got picked up by online news services, plus a greater audience reach and increased traffic. Online publishers in turn would get more material to use on their sites in order to broaden their reach and increase their own page views.

So I signed up my sites and kept on blogging as usual. Nothing much happened for a long time. I’d go and check my account to see if any of the news services had picked up any of my posts every now and then and I was disappointed to find out that they had not.

I wasn’t ready to give up though and I kept my sites listed on Blogburst.

Late last year Blogburst started a service where they would provide quarterly revenue to their top one hundred bloggers who’s posts got picked up by online services consistently. Obviously I was not one of those bloggers. I believe that Blogburst has plans to expand compensation to bloggers as their reach grows and more online services start to use Blogburst’s bloggers for content.

Yesterday while I was checking site statistics for my blogs and my husbands two blogs I made a surprising discovery. One of the sites bringing new visitors to my husbands site was USA Today! It seems that they just started picking up his weird news posts from Odd Planet at the beginning of March. We hope that they continue to do so.

Now that I’ve actually seen how it works I can tell you that the online service- In this case USA Today, will pick up a post and place a short summary of the post on their site. Visitors to their site who want to read the whole post are brought directly to your site. This increases visitors and hopefully your sites popularity in the long run.

Naturally we were thrilled that Odd Planet was picked up by USA Today.

Pleased, I went on checking site stats for our other sites and made another amazing discovery. USA Today, and IBS (I believe this must be Internet Broadcasting) had been picking up some of my posts from As the Garden grows since early February. I think that over 33,000 post views have occurred since early February via those services. How had I not noticed this earlier?

I promptly got busy and placed a number of our other sites on Blogburst. I’m now keeping my fingers crossed that posts continue to get picked up from As the Garden Grows and Odd Planet and perhaps some of the other sites that we added to Blogburst.

Maybe we’ll end up on their top 100 list of bloggers and end up making some money through Blogburst. As of now I’m just happy that we should see an increase in visitors.

This certainly is incentive to create excellent content on all of our blogs.

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