If John chow can do it… so can you! I thought that would be a great way to open the topic. lol to anyone who gets it. Well on with the show. John Chow sells his tweets and makes money from doing so. John states clearly he sold a sponsored tweet for 1000 dollars. A commenter later stated, “Nice to see that your 140 characters are giving you that much money.That means of value of one character is $71.43″.

Let’s face it if there’s one thing we have learned is everything online for the right price is for sale. John’s not the only one selling tweets. An entire online social marketing industry is being created from this simple idea. Billions of dollars are being spent and thousands are creating revenues.

Personally I’m not into selling my tweets. I think it’s wrong and I really don’t have the right amount of followers to be doing such a thing. If I had 50,000 followers and someone asked me to tweet something for 1000 dollars I would do it without thinning twice.

The questions remains… Would you sell your tweets if asked? Have you considered it another possible way to generate more online revenues? Let’s hear some feedback let me know your thoughts.

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Last week I announced I wanted to start doing a weekly word challenge. You can read up on the article here, weekly word challenge. Perhaps I made a mistake by adding so many similar words so next weeks challenge will consists of different subjects and categories. None the less the voting is over and our weekly word will be, Marketing and Promotion. The poll was actually a tie with 4 votes. 2 for Marketing and 2 for Promotion.

The challenge

I challenge all the members here in our community to write an article about or regaridng the weekly word which is Marketing and Promotion. The article doesn’t have to be of any special length simply write about the topics and submit your article to the blogengage site. I also ask that you post a comment including the website url to where your article has been published.

Why participate

Because all article submitted to the challenge will be promoted on by me here on our social linking directly to your word challenge post. This also includes retweets from myself with over 1700 followers.

You have until December 4th 2009 to submit your article. After that date we will be working on the new weekly word challenge.

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Many people start blogging for one reason and one reason only and it’s to make money. What we have to realize is there’s nothing wrong with that but don’t expect it to be easy. When you start blogging you have many things to keep in mind when trying to generate profits.

Design – Your blog has to have a clean, unique and active look to it. Make sure you have a nice subscribe feature available for you members and the navigation throughout the entire website is as easy as it can be.

Content – Try to help your readers every time you write an article. Create quality content for them to read and make sure you always provide examples on how to reach your desired goals. Consistently create quality content and overtime you will see the increase in your readership levels.

Relationships – building your online name isn’t easy. People aren’t simply going to trust what you write about. You have to prove your content is real truthful and insightful. Create relationships with your readers and build up the trust factor.

Traffic – Generating online incomes from your blog will not happen if you don’t have the traffic. The mian reason John Chow and Darren Rowse have made money from their blogs because they have a lot of web traffic. Work on creating social profiles and releasing quality content daily.

E-mail Subscriptions – Make sure to offer your blog readers a way to subscribe to your articles. If no one knows your writing you cannot expect to increase that traffic. If you haven’t subscribed to my blog please do so. I’m always blogging about new and interesting things on how to improve your blog.

Don’t give up – Sometimes it may seem easier to simply give up. But if your dedicated at making money with your blog this is not an option. We have to work hard and stay positive. Trust me no one makes tons of money from the start you have to work towards earning your money.

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I have some great news guy we got an revamped version of the status update module. This allows you to see all the status updates your friends make while on blogengage by visiting your profile page. So if your friends have a new story, comment, vote your status will update letting all your friends know. Again this is another way for our community to continue growing stronger.

Real Time Status Updates

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This is a brief explanation on how to submit your story to blog engage social community. I explain the importance of unique content and walk you through the entire process. As stated if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to post a comment below and ask away. Thanks guys hope you like the series!

The Blog Engage Article Submission Process

After seeing the great work from our blog engage member Ilean I wanted to put something together that was official regarding blog engage. So I went out and bought a Microsoft Life Cam and managed to put together a nice introductory to our social community. So if you have the time let me know what you think and make sure to post a comment below.

The Official Blog Engage Introduction Video

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With all the promotion and link love our members have been giving blogengage I thought it would only be appropriate to send the love back to them. Please don’t be offended if you’re not listed here I may have missed you but you are not forgotten. If you wrote about blogengage but weren’t’ listed in this article simply e-mail me admin (@) blogengage.com and I will add your website and article to the list.

I ask all our members to vote for these articles so they can be published and see the front page.

The first article I want to mention is written by a newer member of our community. Karl joined our community a few days ago and has already demonstrated that with a positive attitude and hard work ethic blogengage can in fact drive traffic to your website. Make sure to check out his blogengage article you just might learn a trick or two.

Blog Engage can make you a better blogger

The second article I wanted to discuss was written by Robert Bravery. This article really hit home for me and put many things into perspective. It’s pretty cool to see someone else s opinion on something you see on a daily basis. It actually make you think outside the box and see the service from another perspective. Roberts article named Blogengage, Promote your blog, get involved, worth it all is a must read. make sure to stop by and say hello from Brian.

Blogengage: Promote your blog, get involved, worth it all

The third article I’m mentioning today was written by winwith1 a new member to our community. The articles named Blogengage, Publicity & Community and is a must read for all my blog visitors. Make sure to vote as well it still has little votes and deserves to see the front page.

Blogengage: Publicity & Community

The fourth article I’m sharing was written by a long time dedicated member by the name of Karen aka Blazingminds. The article Blog Engage is Perfect for my Blogging Posts has gotten must attention already and will soon be heading towards the top. Karen is a great example of how blogengage can be used to build relationships, market your blog and get targeted traffic.

BlogEngage is Perfect for my Blogging Posts

The fifth article I want to share today is from ditesco named Blog Engage: A Blogging Community That Pays Off. I must admit I got some nice compliments hereon this article. So be sure to check it out and please like all these others posts vote them up and comment.

Blog Engage: A Blogging Community That Pays Off

The sixth article I bring to you is an inspiring write up about our blogging community. This actually could possibly be one of the best Blog Engage Review I have seen to date. I love them all but something about this article makes us stand out and I simply love it. Named A New Phenomenon In Blogging Community Called Blog Engage Satrap demonstrate how amazing and unique our community really is.

A New Phenomenon In Blogging Community

The seventh article written about blogengage is from a long standing members named hishaman and his article was named, How to Make Money from Blog Engage AdSense Revenue Share Program? This was written just after we implemented our Google Sharing Program.

How to Make Money from Blog Engage AdSense Revenue Share Program?

The eighth blogger included on my list is named gautamhans. I must admit as I proceed into these blogengage articles I’m really surprised on how many bloggers have written about us. This article is named Blog Engage – A Social Media Site for your Blog Promotion and is a must read. please vote it up and comment as well.

Blog Engage – A Social Media Site for your Blog Promotion

The ninth article I’m adding to the list is actually written by a well know bloggers within the blogosphere names Extreme John. Without doubt this could be one of the best, professional reviews I’ve gotten to date. The article is names Blogengage Review @Extremejohn DOT COM and is a MUST read please vote it up and post a comment.

Blogengage Review @Extremejohn DOT COM

The tenth article I would like to show today is from a good friend AssWass He’s been a dedicated member since the beginning and has supported our community since day one. The name of his article was shocking I remember when I first seen it. I was so excited to read it I was actually a little nervous to because it’s a big statement to put out there. The article was named BlogEngage Review: Way cooler than Digg. It’s  must read and again please vote for the article.

BlogEngage Review: Way cooler than Digg

The eleventh article I would like to present was written by an older member deadrooster and some time ago as well. none the less it’s still important to show appreciation to the members that represented blogengage. The articles name is Blog Engage: The Ultimate Blog Promotion Site for Bloggers. It’s a must read and again please take the time and make a comment and vote.

Blog Engage: The Ultimate Blog Promotion Site for Bloggers

Last but not least a big warn thank you to Ileane for creating the introductory video fro our blogging community. Make sure to vote and comment on her article.

Register Your Blog with Blog Engage

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I posted a question inside the pro blogger forums this morning asking for help on how to make our community more active. How does a community that gets over 9000 unique visits per month and over 90,000 page views not have more activity. See when you get little or no reply from your blog readers you start asking yourself what you could be doing wrong. Perhaps if I write regarding different topics or come up with unique ideas it would generate more interest in the website.

This is the question I asked within the forums.

Hi everyone,

I own a community of bloggers and right now I’m looking for ideas and strategies to get the members more active and involved.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to get the members more active? I would be interested in community events, activities and other ideas to make our community more active.

I have a large community almost 500 – 1000 active bloggers and over 8000 members. But for some reason all I’m seeing is 600 hits a day…. I’m getting maybe 9000 unique hits a months and 90,000 page views. I think I should be able to triple this with the right suggestions.

How do I get the members excited, active and visiting the site more often?

Do you have any ideas for me?

Can I be doing things differently to attract more visitors and more community participation?

Perhaps I should be focusing more on the events in which I run here on the site and start putting more of them together. Either way I’m most interested in your idea’s and suggestions.

Be sure to check out our forum topic as well. (separate registration required)

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