No More Excuses - Part 2 - Coming Soon

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- I can help with anything wordpress. Will be available on IM for 2 hours everyday (except weekends), (Will let Mike know the timings, so that he can post in the new thread) for any query on anything on Wordpress or WPMU, this will include basic installation, security requirements, theme installation/editing, css compliance, plugin management and other such stuff.

- Also can donate server space. Got a VPS lying around. Let me know the requirements Mike.

- Will try and regularly post guides and wordpress tips for you people.

- Sorry about the domains, was away from the internet for a few months owing to an accident and have most of them expired :(


There goes my contribution :)
 
I'm down for part 2. This time I'm thinking about a phpbay pro site coupled with a blog. Still thinking about a few other strategies though.
 
wouldn't using phpbay defeat the purpose of this?

this contest was started by Mike for the people who say they cannot afford domains or domain hosting. since phpbay costs $50 to purchase, I'm sure that for that amount you could afford a domain and domain hosting :)
 
I'm ready to rock.Got wordpress installed and most the plugins work. Only doubts i have is the niches. I think I'm just really dumb when it comes to picking niches lol. I pick the ones i personaly like but the target crowd(aka me) does not click ads or spontaniously buy anything.
 
ChrisBa said:
wouldn't using phpbay defeat the purpose of this?

this contest was started by Mike for the people who say they cannot afford domains or domain hosting. since phpbay costs $50 to purchase, I'm sure that for that amount you could afford a domain and domain hosting :)
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While I agree with you on the use of phpBay defeating the purpose of this, I never saw anything about it being only for people who couldn't afford shit, just people who couldn't figure shit out or needed a boost in the right direction (me on both accounts).

Regarding phpbay there's an excellent tutorial already out there and this site ain't bad either. I can't imagine there would be all that much more that a thread could offer here, especially since all phpbay users get access to the phpbay forums. But whatever floats your boat. With the wealth of knowledge in these forums and people willing to help, it would seem a waste to be looking at one phpbay site after another.

Regarding a post earlier about raising the floor instead of the ceiling, it would seem that n00bs doing phpBay sites might go from 80% awesome to 90% awesome w/ a phpBay project in the n00b challenge. Personally, I'd rather raise the floor on my understanding of PPC, targeted traffic, or any of the other myriad number of facets of Affiliate Marketing that escape me. Going from 10% understanding to 50-60% in those areas is going to pay a shit ton more than fully pimping out a phpBay store.

Just a little food for thought, but to each their own! :D
 
For my site, phpBay will just be another stream of revenue. I'm going to try and get most of my monies from affiliate offers, then EPN, then maybe adsense. Sorry I didn't clarify. These phpBay stores are getting saturated pretty quickly, which is why I won't focus solely on it.
 
JamesH said:
hese phpBay stores are getting saturated pretty quickly, which is why I won't focus solely on it.
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I agree... and with the above linked tutorial - many are looking the same too. With a slew of EPN stores it will end up becoming a crap shoot whether you get credit for the sale or not as online shoppers jump from one epn store to the next and cookies getting overwritten continuously. At least that's one scenario.
 
Just to clear the air, I have nothing again phpbay, I find it a great piece of software (hell, I use it myself). I just thought from the original scope the challenge was for mostly people who didn't have the money to start out.. but it seems it has expanded from that..

can't wait to see this start :)
 
I have been doing some things with ebay in the case study thread, using a free alternative to phpbay and BANS. I am not making any claims to have invented it (it uses feedwordpress), but I've been making my own tweaks to it for over 6 months, and know how to use it. Since I am phasing out that method for my own stuff (I don't like EPN), I'd be willing to give out some pointers for those wanting to try it.

I'm not going to just pass stuff out, though. As it was previously mentioned, if everyone slaps up the same thing, it's not going to work. Like phpbay stores, ebay autoblogs are a dime a dozen; so, if you are thinking about trying it, you're going to have to make some mods of your own to make it unique.
 
May I get in on this?
I already have my site started, but I would like to participate to get some feedback, and see other points of view!
Thanks!
 
JamesH said:
I'm down for part 2. This time I'm thinking about a phpbay pro site coupled with a blog. Still thinking about a few other strategies though.
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I have a quick comment about this post from the first round of this program. The below is a post you made there. I would look for a new writer and am a little surprised no one else mentioned this.

I, myself wouldn't buy articles from this site based solely on the sample articles there. Don't take this personally, I think you did a great job on the project. If I were going to shell out cash for articles I'd expect top quality work with somewhat of a mastery of the english language.

Article #2
There are plenty of advantages to this, and up until now, some o the major players in the peer to peer networking industry have been Kazaa, as well as Shareaza and LimeWire... (seriously, spell check???)

Article #3
In the popular growing season of strawberries when they are most popular in the summer (just sounds dumb, the whole sentence sounds stupid and a mile long)

There are many people who love to grow strawberries for many reasons (sounds a little dumb, try various reasons)

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Alright, I think I'm pretty much ready to launch Editorialize - Daily updates for your blog. I hired an awesome writer, pretty much done with the content (couple more proof reads/edits) and the software is ready to go. Any comments before I start advertising?
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Haha, those articles were provided by the guy I hired. I'm such a fucking idiot for not paying more attention when reviewing them. Thanks for pointing that out.
 
JamesH said:
Haha, those articles were provided by the guy I hired. I'm such a fucking idiot for not paying more attention when reviewing them. Thanks for pointing that out.
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haha. I wouldn't have mentioned it except for the topic of the site.

Which gives me an idea. I should get my wife to write articles. She's a fantastic writer and types around 110 words a minute.
 
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