Make Money: trade old cell phones for cash

Easier to make money online: By going GREEN!

This is the time and the day - you want to make money online but you don’t know how? Not sure if you want the added expense. Or you don’t have a brilliant idea to sell… Well let me help you out - you can be making money online with a simple business and little to no effort. Well, there is work involved but nothing that would or should cause you loss of sleep or money.

Imagine if you will getting paid to help save the Earth! Or help someone make a little extra cash for some old junk they have in a junk draw. Did you know you could make money by helping eco conscious people plant more trees?

Make money online : Trade old cell phones for cash

It’s Simple
A link on your website will take your customers to a cell phone trade-in site, custom designed with your company’s graphics and logo, where they can trade-in their phone for cash or credit on your website. Plus, a percentage of the value of every phone traded in on this website goes directly to your company’s bottom line. And, with an estimated 500 million old cell phones lying around in homes and offices across the country, odds are your customers have at least one.

New York Times: Get Paid for Recycling Your Phone
If you are considering a new phone for the holidays, that means you have to get rid of an old one. But instead of contributing to the toxic waste in landfill, you can recycle your phone, and get paid for it.
[via Gadgetwise]

Whether you’re a cell phone retailer with thousands of phones to trade-in or you just have one rattling around your junk drawer that you’d like to get rid of- it’s absolutely free. They don’t charge for shipping, handling or any service fees, but it would be wise to take the extra step of paying the post office to track or insure your package. Company cannot be responsible for items lost in the mail. If you have a cell phone, you can trade it in absolutely free. We’re not crazy- we’re just really nice.

It’s Green
In addition to boosting your sales, you are also helping to keep our landfills free of the toxins that are contained in these old phones. ‘Going Green’ is big right now, and your customers will be excited to know they are dealing with a responsible company that cares about our environment.

ShoeMoney Reveals How He Made $132,994.97 From AdSense In a Month

I couldn’t help but felt totally in awe while reading a post over at ShoeMoney.com where he answers several frequently asked questions about the AdSense Check in his Gallery that showed him holding one worth over $100K. Keep in mind that the check was for August 2005.
Sure, it’s a link bait post but a good one at that, so it’s worth linking to. If you are looking for a real life example of publishers making insane amount of money from AdSense, check this one out. Posting the picture again will continue to “resurrect” readers’ interest and certainly create an opportunity for him to promote his sites.

I quote the FAQ in full below:

What site was it for? What does the site do?
The site is nextpimp. The name was kind of a joke at first… next-pimp like pimp out your nextel phone. It started as a wallpaper site for nextel phones which grew into ringtones and other stuff. All content is 100% user generated.
How much of the check was profit?
At the time my expenses were 1 server @ 299$ per month for hosting. I would say atleast 130k was profit.
How much of the traffic was pay per click?
None of it was pay per click. Back then I did not know anything at all about pay per click.
Where did all your traffic come from?
About 70% of the traffic was direct 15% from search engines and 15% from referrals.
How much traffic did the site get to get that much money?
About 75k uniq per day.
Why did you get a paper check and not wire?
Back then Google did not do wire transfers for amounts of $10,000.00
Do you think its possible to still earn that kind of revenue?
(most often asked question) Yes.
How long did it take to make revenue?
I never tried to make any money the first 1.5 years it was running. I just concentrated on providing a good service. About 2 years after I started the site It started to do good revenue from AdSense
Can you show the full month report from AdSense for that month? Sure.

He even includes a screenshot of his AdSense report for that particular month. With permission from Google, he discloses his CTR and CPM. Can you imagine making such insane amount of money while only spending $299 monthly on web hosting? Check out his daily income below. Now convert those to Malaysian ringgit, are you thinking what I’m thinking?

And that’s not even his main income, according to him, AdSense has accounted for less than 5% of the incoming revenue for his companies. In addition to that, his blog at ShoeMoney.com is pulling just under $30,000 in October from direct ad sales, 30% from affiliate programs and other sources. Obviously more than the amount John Chow made from his blog. It made my head spin just thinking about those seriously mad figures.

But it doesn’t stop there, in March 2007 he made USD709,626.81 in commission from Commission Junction. I hope that’s a typo because I started to feel a little depress right now LOL. Just joking, it’s great inspiration for everyone. I don’t know if he earned that amount as a vendor or affiliate, regardless, it’s just insane to make that much monthly.

So did you notice a running theme here? He doesn’t make money by serving AdSense or selling paid links on his blog. While creating a blog can make you rich if it’s done correctly, I believe you’ll have to explore other monetization options in order to go to the next level.
You’ll need to create sites that serve certain purposes like PlentyOfFish.com or NextPimp.com, then learn PPC and do affiliate marketing. Remember Ashley, the 17 year old teenage girl who pull in over $70K monthly from AdSense by offering free MySpace templates on her site?
That goes to show that offering a service or products that lots of people are interested in will help you make money online faster.

Now I‘m not suggesting you drop everything you are doing now and start brainstorming similar ideas and hopefully get rich next year. I am aware that there are tons of other ways to make money online and not everyone can be as successful as those above even when they create the next free dating site, or free ringtone download site or give away free Myspace templates.
Often people become successful because they are able to offer the right products/services at the right time. Some may call that luck, but I call it knowing when to act when opportunity presents itself. If we can do that, we’ll be the next ShoeMoney.

How to Make More Money from AdSense with Fewer Ad Units

How to Make More Money from AdSense with Fewer Ad Units

You may have noticed that I’ve removed two AdSense ad units. These are the medium rectangle 300×250 which appeared on the main page, and the banner 468×60 shown below each post.

I did this to see if I could make more money from AdSense by showing fewer ad units.

The premise is that with less ad inventory available on your site, the competition among advertisers is fiercer. So if you only show 4 ads in an ad unit, the AdSense system will target the highest paying ads to the ad unit and shows them first, working down through the auction results to fill in the rest of you ad units in order.

On the other hand, showing more ad units allows lower-bidding advertisers to appear on your site. This will effectively reduce your CPC, (or CPM for a site targeted ad units).

I’ve been tracking my result for the past few days and noticed an obvious increased in my AdSense income after I made the changes.

However, this trick might not work especially if you have a low traffic site. In such case, placing more ad units may make more sense.

Sure, you will earn less per click and your effective CPM will drop, but your overall revenue could potentially be higher. This is because the more ad units you have the better chance for someone to click on any of those ads.

That said, the best thing for you to do is to experiment with the number of ad unit that make you the most money because more ad units don’t always translate to more money.

Keep in mind that no matter how many ad units are shown, the system will work out and only show the highest paying ads. So you pocket more money at the end of the day even with lower overall CPC or eCPM.

Showing fewer ad units in order to make more also work best if someone is targeting your site. Advertisers competing for less ad inventory should drive up the prices.