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SponsoredTweets.com is an online marketplace that allows you to connect directly with advertisers to engage in sponsored conversations through Twitter. Advertisers compensate you with cash in exchange for a sponsored tweet. Think of it like eBay for tweets.

How it Works

1. Set Your Price

All you need to get started is to set your price, add a category and some keywords then wait for offers to roll in from Advertisers.

2. Choose your offers

As offers come in you can accept or reject them.

3. Receive Payment

If you accept an offer, your account will be credited within 24 hours of your tweet. You can cash out once your account reaches $50.

Ethical Sponsored Tweeting

Everything within our platform is designed with ethics and safety in mind. Tweeters remain in complete control of their accounts at all times. We don’t auto-inject ads; every tweet must be manually reviewed and approved by each tweeter. In addition, we have a strict Code of Ethics, which includes:

• Mandatory Disclosure
• Freedom of Authenticity
• Freedom of Choice
• Transparency of Identity

SponsoredTweets.com is designed to force compliance of the FTC regulations, which state, “When there exists a connection between the endorser and the seller of the advertised product which might materially affect the weight or credibility of the endorsement (i.e., the connection is not reasonably expected by the audience) such connection must be fully disclosed.”

Safety and Trust

We realize that Twitter is a very personal medium and the safety of your account is important to you. IZEA, the parent company of Sponsored Tweets, is a venture backed company with ten million dollars invested by leading venture capitalists. We are a  Better Business Bureau Accredited Business and have been operating since 2006.

We’ve implemented the following to provide for your safety:

• We authenticate through Twitter’s OAuth process. We don’t collect or store your password.
• We are a whitelisted Twitter application and have gone through their API approval process.

Ad.ly, is a brand new advertising network only very recently launched that inserts ads once a day on your twitter account. The ad network seeks your approval first so you would basically be “indirectly” tweeting the ad. Its almost as if you’d be “endorsing by approving” their ad. Interesting…

This sort of control is great to have on advertising right? As the publisher so you’re technically deciding very directly what your followers see. This is great in comparison to something like Adsense where the ads are more based on bids than on the content and much less approved by you (what control you do have is choosing who you DON’T want to advertise!).

This could be counted as a win-win for both the advertisers and the users on twitter. On the one hand, ad.ly “enables advertisers to reach the highly sought after Twitter audience by connecting brands with the most influential people in the community”. And on the other hand, the publisher gets to choose which ads they think their followers might actually benefit from! It’s like an affiliate marketing and advertising hybrid!

When you sign up as a publisher you can actually set your required weekly price from the advertiser, which is another great level of control. That being said I would probably go with the recommended amount or a little less, to get maximum benefit from it. It’d be a shame to lose out on advertisers because you set your price too high right!?

On a side note, you can actually donate a part or all of your earnings to a charity of your choice. Excellent! I hope that someone like Bono will use their sea of followers to feed the hungry instead of simply adding to their millions…

Over all ad.ly seems like an excellent addition to the world of Twitter. Who wants to start a bet that Google will buy it!?

By the way, ad.ly is currently holding a competition for who can get the most users to sign up using a custom referral link. The winner gets a Macbook Pro!

Hey,
I wanted to let you know that I’ve been using Kontera’s ContentLinkTM ads on my site, and the results are great.
You should definitely try it out!
Here’s how:
1. Follow the link on this message to Kontera’s publisher sign up page.
2. Fill out the application form.  When you type your e-mail address in the application form, make sure you use the e-mail address to which I sent you this message.

That’s it!
All the best,

Follow this link to join Kontera.
http://www.kontera.com/ads-for-site/become-a-kontera-publisher

*Active publishers are publishers who reach 50,000 impressions within 60 days
of signing up to Kontera’s network.

CREATING A BLOG ISN’T DIFFICULT BUT ENSURING IT HAS A LOT OF VISITORS CAN BE CHALLENGING.

HERE ARE SMPLE TIPS THAT CAN WORK FOR YOUR SPACE ON THE WEB

Blogs, blogs and more blogs! Web space has been invaded by blogs. Be if a professional or a student or a housewife, today everyone feels the need to jot down their thoughts, woes, joys in a blog. For some it’s a medium that helps them stay connected with friends, whereas for others it is a platform for their writing.

Every blogger has a purpose behind creating a blog. So starting a blog isn’t hard, but maintaining one and gaining readership can be quite a task, but all that is required is an understanding of the reader and the effort to keep the blog alive.

Here’s what you need.

1. TOPIC AND URL

Choose the subject and the URL

Very carefully. An interesting topic

Will attract readers whereas a simple

URL will be easy on readers’ memory.

With someone as popular as Amithbabh Bachchan, it’s easy to

Trace his blog. But a blog on technology should have something related to the subject it in the URL itself. e.g. www.techgadgets.in, www.techgazing.com

2.DESIGN

Try and have a design that is soft on eyes. This includes the background theme, colour, fonts and font size but all this should match the subject of the blog.

Designers suggest text in black or gray on a white background is the safest bet. Subtle colours should be used on the sides.

3. CONTENT

Whatever subject you may choose to write about, try and offer something fresh to the reader. It can be an opinion about something or even an instance. Readers look for something new.

4. UPDATES

Update your blog on weekly basis. If possible past twice a week. Those blogs that are not uploaded for a couple of months are considered dead.

5. RSS FEEDS AND NEWSLETTERS

These are some ways to notify your reader about the updates.

RSS feeds will help those readers who wish to keep track of your writing. Also send across newsletters or e-mail to the readers once a week about the updates.

6. INTERACT
comments work as a medium for communication between the blogger and his readers. How whatever the comments may be, try and revert. This will help the reader feeling important and he will recognize with the blog.

7. SEARCH ENGINE

Search engines often pick up blogs that are popular. This might depend upon the various things such as number of hits, quality of content or the popularity of the blogger.

8. COUNTERS

Visit counters show the number of visits. But try and keep it invisible initially. Once you have good

number of visits, make it visible. More visits or numbers are likely to influence the readers into thinking it’s a popular blog as a lot a people keep coming. But it might as well work the other way round if the visits are less.

9. MONEY MAKING

If you are interested in earning money from your blog, try writing on subject such as technology, real estate, online marketing, etc. people are curious to learn about various topics without spending money. Therefore if you have the hits, advertisers are likely to come. Even the visit records generated by counters works as a proof.

SITES THAT HOST YOUR BLOGS www.blogger.com, www.wordpress.org, www.blogspot.com,www.soulcast.com

YouTube, the world’s most popular video sharing site, said on Tuesday it will start sharing advertising cash with users who upload the most popular clips of everything from skateboarding dogs to dancing babies.

The video site, which is owned by web search giant Google, will extend its YouTube partnership program to allow individuals to make money when their videos are deemed eligible based on the number of views and how widely they are shared with other users.

YouTube has been criticized by some Google investors, who complain that the site has failed to capitalize financially on its immense popularity. Until now, users who regularly produced videos could earn revenue from YouTube if they applied to be members of the partnership program, which YouTube  said has earned some people “thousands of dollars.”

Under the new system, if a video becomes popular YouTube will email the maker “enable revenue sharing” message.