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Are you an “A” blogger or just an average kinda blogger?  It is a possibility that it makes a very BIG difference as to whether or not you can make money on Twitter with tweets that are sponsored by advertisers.

You have heard several A bloggers proclaim the virtues of this fabulous method of making serious money online.  You sign up with an advertising company as an affiliate Twitter advertiser and you input your Twitter name and real quick they will tell you how much advertisers will be willing to pay for you just tweeting their ads.

Of course the program explains that your number of Twitter followers makes a difference in the payment per tweet amount.  So I signed up, after all I have about 10,000 followers and that’s nothing to sneeze at.  Holy smokes they say that advertisers will be willing to pay about twenty bucks per tweet, do I want to activate my account?  Hell yes!

So I gave them my name, address, contacts and social security number, after all I will have to report my hundreds of thousands of dollars of income from this new program right?  All I would have to do is sit back, relax and wait for the advertising offers to come rolling in.

Chirp, chirp, chirp, not even a peep to tweet.  So I’m thinking maybe $20 is too much, lets lower it to $18, silence, lower to $15, nothing, lower to $9 per tweet.
The pins dropping around here are deafening.

Okay, so lower it right down to five bucks and lets get this sucker moving, right?
Nothing, no offers.  I could become a lot more famous by putting my hat on sideways and pants on the floor.

So I took the banner ads down.  I never promote anything that I do not believe in, and then I notice that this big time advertising company is running a massive campaign to sign up more affiliate publishers and they seem to be giving away just about every major computer toy that anyone would ever want, for just signing up with them as a Twitter advertiser.

Now this got me to thinking.  Who told me about this in the first place?  Well as I recall it was John Chow, certainly an A blogger, and I signed up under his affiliate link.   I believe John when he tells how much money he is making with this program.  After all he and the other A bloggers are the very best word of mouth promoters aren’t they?

Looking back, I have some thoughts that came to mind, lets see what you think.
Suppose an advertising company could sign up millions of affiliate tweeters, and suppose that company could build a gigantic database of names, contacts, and “Social Security Numbers”!  Would that database have value?

I seem to recall once on one of the credit card company affiliate programs I looked in to, but did not sign up for, that they considered the full name, address, contact and SS numbers as being worth $35.00 each.  Now I am not saying that this is an ulterior motive for this particular advertising company, but it does come to mind.

Lets hear it from all of you satisfied tweeters out there.  All of you average Joes, and mommy bloggers, and hobbyists, that tweet for sponsored ads.  Please share with our readers as to whether or not you have made a ton of money with this program, or if in fact you have made “any” money with this program.

I have a feeling that it will be primarily the big names in the blogging world that are seeing any cash flow.  I know that advertising on Twitter does work and that people do make money with Twitter ads.  For instance, Leo LaPorte, the tech guy, told on a recent podcast that just before he left for the CES show in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago that Ford offered him $10,000 for just one retweet of a Ford ad.  Leo being the most ethical guy that I know of on the internet turned the offer down.

Please let us know your thoughts.

Hey domainers! Here’s the question, how do you keep track of your domain names?

Around here it gets a little crazy at times. We intermittently go from writing, to checking stats, to email, to twitter, to news groups, to writing, to posting, to checking stats, to reading, to skypeing, to downloading, to pugins, to themes, to writing, and on and on… You do too, tell the truth.

Domaining Tools:
In between all of the above, every now and then a brainy idea pops up and we go looking at domain name availability on various subjects. Some of the tools that we keep in a bookmarked folder are NAME.com, pcnames.com, NameBoy.com, justdropped.com, wegotdomain.com, archive.org, and our favorite hosting company, BlueHost.

With all of those tools opened in tabs across the top of the screen one is able to jump from one possible resource to the other to try to snap up a real cool name.

Now none of this is a problem if you have a handful of domains to worry about, but what if you have many hundreds of them as we do, or even many thousands as some serious domaniers do? It gets confusing.

DataBase Management:
For instance I have a database with domain name ideas for future search that I just put fleeting thoughts in to, until such time as I get geared up to go domaining. Then there is another database with all of the domains owned, activated, where hosted, and where some are parked earning paltry sums of revenue sharing, and some are just plain dormant which sometimes leaves me wondering, what the hell was I thinking?

Sonoma Wine Country:
So my daughter is living in the Sonoma wine country and as I have a very popular New York State Wine website, she decided that she would like to set one up for Sonoma wine. Great !

So a couple of weeks ago I started to search for some cool names that might work good for a California wine website, found a half-dozen or so, and wrote them down in my notebook. I checked them on pcnames. All were available. Great !

Purchase Domains Today:
So today I went to NAME.com which is where I always purchase names in bulk. I have never found anyplace any cheaper. It is a little bother to point the DNS servers to your hosting companies, but it is not difficult and after a couple of days you can set up the website.

Well anyway, of the six names that I wanted to buy, every single one of them was now unavailable. some no-good-dirty-rotten-scoundrel had beaten me to them! Hmm does pcnames monitor searches?

So I said something like, shucks (ok not what I said,) and started looking for some possible alternatives. I found a couple that would work and went back to NAME.com and bought them. Then when I signed in and took a look at all of the names I own on NAME I was shocked to see that I was that no-good-dirty-rotten-scoundrel ! LOL !

I had indeed purchased all of those other names a couple of weeks ago and did not enter them into the database. I have absolutely no memory of doing so. Now I’m wondering how many more I own at a half dozen or so various registrars I have used.

How about you? Has anything like this ever happened to you? Do you have a “System” that you could share with us?

First off, this is about me, but I do NOT do any of the aforementioned things.

However I made a major snafu recently, late at night, that has changed my latest plan to become the next Kevin Rose. Hmm, wonder if he ever did?

Any way here’s what happened. I had this idea of setting up a social circle, you know friends helping friends, wink, wink. Sort of a you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Well this crashed into a not so happy ending, (pun intended.)

I was going to set up a site where registered mail list members could post their site or article url and then other members would hump it, oops, I mean help promote it with various social networking tools. I wanted a cool name, so during the night I got up thinking about it and said, something like “social.”… Easy to remember…. Hmmm…

Eureka! I got it. “sosso dot com”! It’s cute, rhymes sort of with social, easy to remember, and I could get it out as a Buzz word. You know what I mean?

Great! I had just read a Blog about how NAME dot com was the cheapest registrar and so I went there and bought it and a dozen other domains all in one day. Then I read another Blog about how great Hostgator was, and though I have sites on three other domain hosting companies already, I wanted to try out Hostgator.

So I said to myself, self, this is going to be HOT! He he he… Can’t afford a private server, not yet, so I purchased the high end shared account for 13 bucks a month, with the first month only costing a penny. Pretty good deal right?

So I set up sosso dot com as my primary account on Hostgator and then read the instructions on how to point the DNS on NAME dot com to my shiny new hard disks at Hostgator. Did that and saw the warning that this may take 24 to 48 hours to resolve. No problem. It isn’t like I don’t have anything to do in the meantime.

So I checked it the next day and the next day and it still had not resolved. What’s up with that? Forget it, I’m already into a dozen new projects, will fix it later. Well that was August 3, 4 & 5. Now this morning I said I’m going to find out what the Hell is wrong.

I checked sosso again and it was coming up on a GoDaddy parked domain website. Huh? This didn’t have anything to do with GD, or so I thought. I checked again with Hostgator tech support and they said it was NAME’s problem. Checked with NAME but had to wait two and a half hours because they don’t get out of bed until 9am mountain time, and they don’t offer 24/7 phone tech support.

Finally it turns out that I did not OWN sosso. I owned a domain named “sossol.” Naturally I got a little testy and said what do you mean, I registered sosso. So sorry, we only have sossol.

I finally figured out what happened. Remember when I said I did this during the night after I had woken up thinking about it? Take a look at where the “L” key is, right next to the “O” key. I did not purchase the right domain and it was ALL my fault! Turns out GD had registered that name years ago, and it was not even available.

So here’s my point boys and girls. Make absolutely SURE just what you are typing during domain registrations and hosting setups. If you screw up, it can’t be fixed. Now I just went through the procedure of taking sosso off my Hostgator account and setting up a different domain as my primary account. It is mostly done but has been a few hours and there is still a little more BS that I have to do to get the damned thing working.

So point number two is. I did this totally clean, honest! Other than being sleepy I should not have made such a stupid mistake. I wonder what people do that have a few beers before going through this procedure?

Oh well, I only lost about a half a month’s worth of my first penny right?

I’m Rich

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