More discounts: Ittybiz has an anniversary sale this week
Yes, even more discounts this week. Naomi of Ittybiz decided to give discounts on her products, because she’s having her 5 year anniversary today. Okay…I guess you need to find a reason to give discounts.
(Of course the only reason is to get even more sales, but who cares? Discounts are good!).
Ittybiz has several great value products, yet I don’t own all of them. In fact I only own one: the SEO School eBook. And I recommend it for anyone serious about starting an online business that could use a nice steady flow of search engine traffic.
I learned quite some things from the book and I applied it to my other blog and for my ebook (have work to do on this blog though). My ebook definitely would’ve sold better if I had read this SEO School before writing it. Anyway, you can get it now for just $19 which is great value for the money.
I decided not to enroll in the Online Business School or the Marketing 101 course, for two reasons. The main reason being the lack of time due to my wife’s difficult pregnancy. And in case you would like to use some one-on-one time with Naomi, that’s on discount too.
To sum it all up:
- SEO School –
$39now $19. Use discount code “wood” (without the quotes). - Online Business School –
$397now $197. Use discount code “wood” (without the quotes). - Marketing 101 –
$188now $94. - Consultancy / Brainstorming –
$250now $150 an hour.
The offer is valid until February 5, so if you want to get the discount, you’ve got about a week to make up your mind.
P.S. Yeah, I’ll write posts with real content soon. But you know…discounts are good. Especially on products I own and recommend 
P.S.S. Yes there are affiliate links in there, they don’t hurt your discount (the discount does hurt my affiliate cut though…). Read about how and why I hide the affiliate links.
Clickbank for Newbies
Lately I have been investigating the option of making niche marketing websites to earn some income online. Niche marketing sites are small sites focused on a small niche, that do not require a lot of attention (virtually no attention) after you’ve set them up. These sites are designed to promote products, and Clickbank is one of the places you can find these kind of products. Time to investigate some more, because I really am a Clickbank newbie.
A couple of days ago I got an email from Harvey Segal (he calls himself Mr. Clickbank) with a free report, Clickbank for Newbies. To be honest, that report made me look into Clickbank again. I already had an account there, but it’s dormant. And there’s a downside to dormant Clickbank accounts, I learned that from the report. And I learned another important aspect regarding the terms and conditions of Clickbank that prevents a lot of money from being payed to affiliates. Not to the very successful affiliates of course, but for the affiliates that try to earn some money on the side. And face it, that’s the case for most of us.
Important stuff to know before you put in a lot of effort, just to earn money for other people right? I recommend you download the report to find out what these pitfalls are, and how to solve them. It’s a free report and you don’t even need to supply your email address or anything.
P.S. I’ll write about my adventure in niche marketing land soon. It’s too early to be a compelling story yet
OIO Publisher platform now at a discount
The news: For a limited time only, OIO Publisher is available at a discount!
OIO Publisher is a platform that let’s you take control over your ad space on your website. I use OIO Publisher, the WordPress plugin, on Scraping Pennies and How to be an Original. Quite a while ago I’ve even written an extensive tutorial on how to set it up (the WordPress plugin part of the platform anyway). Although that article definitely needs an update, most of it is still valid in the current version of OIO Publisher.
When I wrote the tutorial the plugin was available for a one-off payment of $37. In the meantime the price has gone up to $47, which is still a very good deal! But it gets even better! For a limited time (only this month!) the plugin is available for as little as $25! Still a one-off payment, and you can use it across all blogs and websites that you own.
To get your discount, simply click on this image and use the coupon code Jan90-25. You’ll get the package at a nice discount for just $25, no strings attached. We can all use a discount in these financially challenging times, can’t we? So click that image and get the stuff (remember it’s a limited offer for January only).
P.S. Full disclosure: You can also use Jan90-30 to get it for $30 or Jan90-35 to get it for $35 bucks if you’re so inclined to Since these are obviously affiliate links, I would be very grateful for the extra bucks. But I’d go for the full discount if I were you!
P.S.S. I’ve been away from blogging on Scraping Pennies for quite a while again. I have not abandoned this blog, nor have I abandoned my other blog How to be an Original. Over the past couple of months I have been mostly offline due to the difficult pregnancy my wife is having. She’s been very sick (and slowly recovering now), but the baby is doing very well. Our little girl is due in May. Anyway, I’m back at blogging.
Blog reboot
There are times when life gets in the way of fun projects. That has been the fate of Scraping Pennies as well, as the past two months made me put this fun project on hold. I had too many things going on simultaneously that needed my attention. And if you divide your attention between too many things, none of them get the attention they deserve. So I decided to choose. Some projects get all attention, others get none.
Scraping Pennies was one of the projects that got no attention at all. Well…I did check the stats every now and then. And it amazes me that there are 40 something subscribers that stuck around. A would like to give you a big THANK YOU, I appreciate your loyalty! The wait was not for nothing, because I’m rebooting the blog.
Some changes
First of all, I moved hosts. I consolidated all my hosting to one company, Dreamhost. All my hosting is still in the range of the regular shared hosting plans, and Dreamhost offers a great value solution. Their shared hosting plan allows you to host unlimited sites. So I could host How to be an Original and Scraping Pennies on the same hosting plan (and a bunch of other sites as well), instead of having a hosting plan specifically for either one of them. So this move saves me money.
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Weekly Income Report – 8
Every week on Sunday I will report on the performance of this blog. Target is to give full transparency on money and hours spent and money earned. DO ask questions if things are not clear.
It’s been six weeks since I updated Scraping Pennies. I wrote about what I did in these Six Weeks on my personal blog How to be an Original. In part it had to do with making money online, because I wrote an e-book and published it. It’s for sale now through the E-Junkie interface. I’ll post about my experiences and the results of the e-book on Scraping Pennies in a couple of weeks.
If you’re interested in reselling my e-book, there’s an affiliate program available that pays 50% of revenue. The book sells for $14, so you’ll earn $7 for each sale. Check out the e-book announcement here, and the sign up for the affiliate program here.
I paused my Google Adwords campaign at the beginning of the six weeks period. I’m going to restart it this week, there’s plenty of credit left for a lot of impressions!
For now, here are the numbers for Scraping Pennies. The numbers are cumulated over six weeks:
Key Performance Indicators
| No hours spent, so this cannot be calculated. | |
| $1.72 / hour | |
| Cumulative hours spent: | 52.75 hours |
| Cumulative result: | - $90.47 |
Money spent
Monthly payment for hosting ($8.32) is deducted from the budget, for July and August.
Total cash-out: $16.64
Money earned
None.
Hours spent
No hours spent
Budget status (this week)
| Balance (start): | $ 126.17 |
| Cash In: | $ 0 |
| Cash Out: | $ 16.64 |
| Balance (end): | $ 109.53 |
