The Voxant Newsroom: Get high quality content for your website and get paid

The Voxant Newsroom: Get high quality content for your website and get paidVoxant Newsroom is a resource for those people who want to have news, videos or images into their websites / blogs from the very highest of quality sources. Besides that, with Voxant you can make money when the articles are viewed or the videos are played.

Voxant distributes and promotes news from more than 200 credible, licensed content sources, including CBS, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press (AP), Reuters, MTV, NHL, AFP, and HowStuffWorks, as well as a variety of website publishers and bloggers.

All the payments are calculated using a CPM (cost per thousand) which means for each video play or text or image impression, you are earning a fraction of the flat rate. This is an interesting way to make additional money on your blog and, at the same time, you provide great free content for your visitors. You can create feeds by using keywords or categories related to your site. In this way, the content will be relevant to your audience.

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Rich Dad Lessons: The power of Faith

Based on Kiyosaki’s work

Rich Dad's Lessons: The power of FaithOk, let’s say you know financial freedom is important. You have studied by reading books, attending seminars, learning about business / investments and now you need to take the first step.

In this point, something stops you. You know what it is, and now you have excuses for everything. You have doubts about starting your own business or doubts about investing small amounts of money in something that you know could be profitable.

This feeling can be very strong, although it only exists in your mind. This feeling is called fear.

Fear is the bigger mental enemy of people. It paralyzes us. It forces us to find excuses. It makes us imagine tragedies and bad things that maybe will never happen.

In this point, we should demonstrate what we are made of. Probably, most people forget their dreams and their plans. Most people simply resign themselves and set the alarm clock in order to go to work the next day again, although it is not what they want to do for the rest of their lives.

We need to overcome the fear. If the fear dominate us, we will be in trouble. If the fear dominate us, it is because we let the tiny person found inside each of us beats the person that is bigger and that bigger person is also found inside each of us.

And to overcome the fear, we need two things: common sense and faith.

We need common sense: the fear only exists in our mind the same as the excuses we invent. The common sense should make us think about our future. If our future depends on an employment, actually that is more frightening.

We also need faith. If we are believer, probably we need faith in a superior force. But, mainly, we need faith in ourselves. If we don’t believe in ourselves, it is very difficult to achieve our goals.

Forget what people think about you. Think good about yourself and focus on your goals. HAVE FAITH IN YOURSELF!

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Speedlinking (Internet Money): TechnoMoney, ScratchBack and more…

Some interesting links on my preferred sites and other stumbled webs:

* TechnoMoney | Earn Money Online with a 10th Grader: Interesting blog written by Ruchir Chawdhry (an Indian guy). This blog talks about technology and how to make money online. I recommend it.

* ScratchBack - The Fun, Alternative Way To Making Money Online: A creative tool made by Jim Kukral, a veteran online marketer. Basically, your visitors can put a link on your website/blog and they send you a micropayment (tip) by Paypal. By the way, if you want to send me a tip or put an interesting link on this blog, just use the ScratchBack widget on the sidebar :-).

* Time Management, Simplified: How to Be Productive With No Worries: Leo Babauta on LifeDev. He writes about simplifying your systems, so you can be more productive.

* IM Guerilla | Year 2008 Is Going To Be YOUR Year…: I know, this could be just another namesqueeze page about making money, but I have to say Edmund Loh and Vince Tan were very creative. They use a hilarious story or comic. Official Launch: January 7.

* Resell Rights For Newbies: Are you a newbie in Internet business? Here you can find a complete package that has everything you need to start making money online by selling resell rights products. I have signed up and I got a free package.

* Search Wikia - search - a Wikia wiki: Great news! Search Wikia, the open global search engine, was launched in Alpha version. And it will be officially launched on January 7th. Imagine: a search engine really controlled by people and not by a huge company.

* Open Web Awards: Final Winners Announced!: This award recognizes the best online communities representing web 2.0. Here you can see the winners.

* Video speedlinking: Maybe you think this is funny, maybe not… but it is an innovative concept in order to post news about internet marketing. This is the first episode and it is planned to become a weekly show. Website: http://internetmarketingnews.tv/

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PubMatic: make automatic decisions to earn more money on online advertising

Pubmatic is an interesting tool to optimize the advertising on our blogs or websites (if we are publishers). Basically, it works in three ways:

* Optimizing your ad inventory across leading ad networks such as Google Adsense, ValueClick and Advertising.com. You configure ads from several networks for a specific ad space on your website and PubMatic runs them, verifying over time which ad network is the most profitable for this space. When the trial period is over (50,000 - 70,000 impressions), then PubMatic sets the most profitable network as the selected option for the specific space.

* Optimizing your ad layout automatically to maximize click-troughts. Pubmatic tries several appearance configurations (or colors) and, again, when the trial period is over, it will choose the most profitable layout for each ad space on your website.

* Manage ad networks through one interface. Use one set of tags and get consolidated revenue reports instantly. Although Pubmatic works automatically, you can make best decisions for your personal or corporate benefit by using these consolidated reports that take data from all your ad networks.

You can see a PubMatic Tour on the video.

Note: By the way, Pubmatic has a contest or “PubMatic Publisher Challenge” where you can win free advertising for your site. The advertising is placed on several Web 2.0 websites and Pubmatic selects a winner every month.

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Rich Dad Lessons: Make disappointment your strength

Based on Kiyosaki’s work

Rich Dad's Lessons: Make disappointment your strengthYou can see the disappointments as mental assets or mental liabilities for your life. Most people transform them into a mental long-term liability.

Usually, people transform their disappointment into a permanent failure by saying things like “I will never attempt to do that again”, although in many cases, they are doing something for the first time. Due to the mentality that they learned in childhood, most people think the failures are bad situations that should be avoided, instead of life lessons to learn by making mistakes. In this way, people transform the disappointment into a mental long-term liability.

On the other hand, if you learn something when you fail and are ready to try again, but this time avoiding the same mistakes that you detected already, your chance of achieving the financial success is now bigger, although that doesn’t mean you won’t fail again. In this way, we transform our failures into mental assets.

Expect to be disappointed: It is not about having loser’s mentality, but if you get ready emotionally for disappointment, then you will be able to face it in a positive way, instead of only complaining about life. You need optimistic thinking and, as established by the Law Of Attraction, to be surrounded by attitudes and thoughts that attract success. But you should get ready emotionally in case you fail temporarily.

Have a mentor standing by: tell your plan to people who you can consider as your mentors, or people who is where you want to be: successful business owners and rich investors. When you have difficulties, you will be able to call them and listen to their wise advice.

Be kind to yourself: If you fail temporarily, don’t become bitter by thinking bad things about yourself. If you punish yourself very hard, then the chances for learning valuable lessons for life will be wasted.

Tell the truth: Nowadays, we can hear a lot of things about the emotional intelligence. And this intelligence has to do a lot with how people face the difficult situations, without trying to hide the truth by lying or using false appearances. Face the reality and always tell the truth even if that is really difficult. That way, you will place your feet on the earth, will learn much more and some bigger problems will be avoided.

Make mistakes: Don’t be afraid of making them. If you don’t make mistakes, then you won’t learn. Think about all things you have learned: walking, riding a bike or your profession. At the beginning, you made many mistakes. But today, you would not make those mistakes because you learned the lessons.

Put a little money down: if you don’t begin to invest small amounts you can lose without a lot of drama, then you could not learn anything about the investment world. And, if you lose those small amounts of money, compare what you learned versus the lost money. Usually, what you learned is much more valuable.

TAKE ACTION!: it is important to read, observe and listen. But if you don’t take action, you will never arrive anywhere. Just do it!

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