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Hello and welcome.  Today is the first of September and I want to run a superb contest.  This contest not only can grab you some new gear, but it can also help you make money online.

How to enter:

Check Your Credit Score - 10 Credits

Join PepperJamNetwork - 5 Credits

Join Market Leverage - 5 Credits

Create a Free Web Page - 3 Credits

Write A Blog Post about this contest with a link back to the contest - 3 Credits

Subscribe Via Email - 3 Credits

Comment on this Contest - 1 Credit

These credits will then place you name into a random number generator and the winner will be drawn.  There will be 3 major prizes and weekly drawings as well.

Prizes :

1 - Grand Prize - 8 gb Apple Ipod touch

1 - Second Prize - $150 Visa Gift Card

1 - Third Prize - $75 Visa Gift Card

8 - Weekly Prizes - Choice of : 5000 Entre Card Credits or $10.00 deposited into your paypal account.

Rules and Conditions : When signing up for any programs or products you must use the sponsored links associated with those programs.  There are thirty chances to enter this contest and the Grand Prize winner will be drawn on Oct. 3.  The Entries must be in by Sept. 31.  If any programs are entered a comment with the explanation of completion of entry must be written.  All Prizes will be awarded/mailed by 15 Oct. 08.  Tracking numbers will be provided for anything mailed.  Any other payments will be made via the payment method instructed.  A post announcing the winners will be posted on 3 Oct.  If you do not respond to the post by 15 Oct 08 you shall forfeit any winnings including money or prizes.  Any participation in this contest indicates the reading of these rules and conditions.  Enjoy.

Happy Earning,

Steve Bents

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Ahhhh a long weekend.  This is where many people decide to take it off and relax.  I personally am going to use this time to continue to make money online.  This extra time off from my day job is going to allow me to work extra hard at creating that extra incomeI am striving for.  I have read a lot of blogs about people going to go out and take it easy, well that tells me to just push through the extra days and make as much money as possible.  I am going to continue to work on an ebook I have been writing, along with working on some PPC campaigns.  It is going to be a full fledged work weekend for me and hopefully I will gain that extra income.

If you want to make money onlineI feel that you have to put in those extra hours while people take the day off.  Keep trying to make that money while other people are resting.  Especially if your a noob, like me, I say work and work until you’re making that complete income then take a day off, but also try to fill in some time for yourself so that you don’t get burned out.

Happy Earning

Steve Bents

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I Love Plugins!!

Hello everybody.  As promised I am going to tell you about my top ten plugins that help me start any new blog in a specific niche.  these plugins help with the blog’s organization, and also in making money online.  I don’t think any of my blogs would be successful with out any of these plugins.  Now I don’t use all of them on this particular blog, due to the fact that here I try to help and try to teach, where as on my other blogs it is all about making that extra income.  These Plugins have been test and used by myself on numerous different blogs, and are the top ten of thousands of different plugins available.

1. CForms 2 :  CForms 2 is one of the first plugins I activate in any wordpress theme.  It is not just a contact form, but can be configured to be any type of form you may need at all.  It is just a great tool to use on any theme.
2. OIOPublisher : This is the first plugin that helps make money online.  OIOPublisher does cost and is not free, but it simplifies selling advertising on your webpage.  It is a great tool that only costs once, yet can be used on an indefinate amount of pages.  My plugin has made its purchase price, only $37, over and over again.
3. Google XML Sitemaps : A great plugin that helps your site getting indexed with google.  This is a must.
4. All in One SEO Pack : This is another must plugin.  This plugin is the complete pack for SEO on any wordpress blog.
5. FeedBurner FeedSmith : This turns your rss feed buttons or any rss link to being able to be tracked with feedburner.  This is also a must.  I really enjoy feedburner.
6. WP-Cache : WP-Cache is an efficient page caching system that allows your site to be much faster and responsive.  It works by caching the pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole code and then building the page from the databases.
7. Automatic Update : This plugin automatically updates wordpress to the newest version.  A great tool.
8. MaxBlogPress : This plugin is the nice little banner message that is a great way for advertising, and also to let your readers know of something that is crucial.
9. WordPress Database Backup : Another must have that backs up your wordpress databases.
10. What Would Seth Godin Do : Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors.

These are just my top ten.  There are a ton of different plugins available.  These will all help make us an extra income online.

Happy Earning,

Steve Bents

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Try to juggle through to make money online.

Hello and good evening everyone.  Today I was in a bind to get a lot of things done.  Especially on these new sites, that will hopefully make money online.  Now I have always been told that you need this, you need that, well you may need some of these things but to make that extra income what we all really need is some great time management.

When it come to this I am not great at all.  I think I put the American Society to speck with procrastination.  I will wait till the last minute for everything.  I’ll know that it needs to get done and it needs to get done now, but what is ten minutes or so.  That ten minutes could be the rent check, could be the new t.v., who knows with trying to make money online.

So today I decided to give a few tips on time management.  I personally have a nice big white board in my office that has times of the day that I know I am usually in there.  Humans are considered creatures of habit so if we continue to do something then we just continue on.  I always go to the office after my shift ends at my 9-5 so right above the computer I have on the white board to remember to read certain blogs, remember to post, ideas about the next days post, and so forth.

Now I am not saying go out and buy a white board, but do try to push yourself to continue on a certain time table to get things done.  Make money online now and don’t put off till tomorrow.

Spend ample time between content writing, working on SEO, marketing, and earning.  I always get swept up with one or the other and then cut the time down in another section.  I say try hard to incorporate equal amounts of time so we all can have great well rounded success.  Hope we are all make time to earn that extra income.

Happy Earning,

Steve Bents

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