Some people are too scared to take chances and that’s understandable but when you see a great opportunity arrive at your doorstep, do you just ignore it? I know I wouldn’t especially if it’s going to help me profit or save me tons of money.

Now, I know taking chances can be a major risk but it can also have lots of rewards and benefits.

Take playing poker, Texas Holdem particularly, for example. Say you are dealt pocket aces (AA) with three other opponents at the table and someone decides to go all-in (bet all their money) preflop. What would you do? Fold? Call the all-in?

According to some stats, the odds of you winning are around 64% (I may be wrong on the percentage). Now, you do have a 36% chance of losing but the odds are definitely in your favor. So, would you fold and not take the chance of winning with the odds in your favor?

Personally, I would definitely call with no hesitation. Yeah, I have a chance of losing but the odds are in my favor and the rewards are there as well.

Okay, so not everyone knows about poker so that analogy isn’t the best. Let’s try out another chance and opportunity.

I remember when super affiliate marketer Jonathan Volk bought a brand new SUV, which is a gas guzzler, and he bought it when gas prices were at its highest. Well, most people called him crazy or stupid (including myself) for doing so but now that I think about it, he was smart as hell for doing so.

Why? Because when gas prices skyrocketed, all these gas guzzlers couldn’t sell. Jonathan took the chance on buying one because the cost of SUVs and trucks decreased by a drastic amount just so car companies could get sales.

“Taking Advantage of Holidays to Make Money and Build Traffic”? That is the same exact thing.

All these situations can be related to making money online, but I guess it’s up to you to take a chance and take advantage of whatever opportunity that shows up at your footstep. I mean, if someone hands you a step-by-step tutorial with examples and proofs on how to make $x,xxx amount (which is the opportunity) and they tell you the expenses would cost you somewhere around $50 (which is the chance), would you not do it?

Yes, there is a chance you may lose $50 but at the same time, there is a chance you’ll end up with $x,xxx or even more. Which side of the line will you be on?

If you think about it, nothing is guaranteed in life so at some point you will have to take some sort of chance, right? If you never take a chance, or more importantly, take advantage of opportunities that arise then more than likely you won’t get very far, especially with making money online.

So, like I said before, “which side of the line will you be on?”

I know what side I’m on.

First of all, I would like to thank MarketLeverage once again for their generosity in sponsoring this contest with a great prize. And a special shout out to Dina for helping me put this together and continue being a great contact as well as a great part of the ML team. Though, I’m going to have to apologize because I was the basic holdup on the second drawing. So, sorry everyone and sorry Dina!

Now, before we get to the winner who was chosen for submitting the best affiliate tip/secret, in my eyes, I’m going to ramble on for a couple of paragraphs.

This contest didn’t get as much publicity as most of my other contests simply because I didn’t have as much time to promote it like I have with some of my others. There were a few reasons behind this; but most of it surrounded the lack of time in December as well as the fact that I was having problems with my computer, internet as well as e-mails.

In addition, there seemed to be a lack of entries because some people mentioned they didn’t know too much about affiliate marketing so they felt as though they couldn’t enter because they lacked the knowledge.

Of course, since some didn’t enter because they were just starting out in affiliate marketing and they didn’t have much to contribute as a secret, others benefited from it because they had less competition.

Less competition = better chance to win.

You guys should all keep that in mind when it comes to making money online. Because you’ll soon find out that you always want to find things with less competition so you can benefit from it.

A few instances that would be good with less competition would be, but not restricted to, keyword research, affiliate marketing, building traffic, selecting a niche (get out of the make money online niche while you can!) and so on.

Okay, I’m getting sidetracked a little bit here…

So, there were a total of 14 entries that were submitted in various ways. Some people decided to comment with their affiliate tip on the contest post, some were dedicated enough to write an entire post and lastly, some took the time to e-mail me directly so their secret actually remained a secret. Well, for the most part.

Although, there were only 14 entries, it was still hard for me to choose one winner. Everyone had good tips, some had similar secrets and I had to do my best to pick only one.

There will be only one… (okay, if you’ve seen the movie Zack and Miri Makes A Porno, then you’ll get that line)

Again, it was hard as hell to pick one winner. Matter of fact, I was talking with Dina and asked for her opinion on how to choose one. Some of you guys went into step-by-step details, others wrote an overview on the what’s and how’s while the remaining wrote a simple paragraph or two.

Well, I went with a basic tip and one that would work with affiliate marketing and with any business strategy you go with.

Anyways, the winner is…

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T3Leads is an affiliate network that is slowly creeping up to people, in a good way. Plus, it’ll be pretty profitable for you as well.

T3Leads tends to have leads primarily in the financial area which includes credit cards, insurance, debt and more. This is probably the best time to promote these types of leads, especially since everyone is in a financial crunch. I mean Massachusetts and other states just asked for a $1 Trillion dollar bailout! Plus, the unemployment rate continues to climb.

T3Leads does not sell generated leads. That basically means the affiliate gets the most out of the money. And who doesn’t like that? Their affiliate program is directly tied with a large network of banks and other financial institutions.

So, in essence, they don’t have like five companies working in between them. Some affiliate networks are like that and by the time the money gets down to you, the affiliate marketer, the payout ends up being chump change. With T3Leads, you get the most out of your leads.

I’m not sure if this is true as I’m pretty new to this company but it is said that “guarantee” the highest conversion rate in the industry. I am told it ranges from 1:6 to 1:9 which is a very high conversion rate. And it’s good for you if you’re a PPC marketer because you spend less and make more.

Also, a little birdie informed me that affiliates can order free ePassporte cards. Tell me that isn’t convenient?

The thing I like about T3Leads is how they payout and the frequency in which they do it. Normal affiliate networks pay you once a month, no matter how much you make within that period. On the other hand, T3Leads pay you on a bi-weekly basis and if you’re a pro affiliate marketer making over $1,000/week, you can request weekly payouts also.

In addition to getting paid bi-weekly or potentially on a weekly basis, you have the option of a quick transfer through Paypal. I’m sure most of you guys that are associated with affiliate networks know they usually pay by check, which could take anywhere between 7-10 business days to arrive in the mail at the end of the month.

Well, all that goes out the window because Paypal is pretty instant. Plus, you help save the environment by not having a check issued to you!

Not only that but they have 24/7 support and a pretty helpful forum incase you ever have questions or need help with promotional methods. I mean, everyone is there to help each other out.

In conclusion, I would suggest checking them out and taking advantage of the opportunity with the financial dilemma going on. I mean, you don’t have much to lose, yet, you have so much to gain simply by signing up with T3Leads.

In this week’s updates, there are a few key ones including site flip teams, e-mails, $100/day on Adsense post, status on the winner of my contest as well as some changes in general here on DatMoney.

First, I hope everyone had a great New Year’s Day! I hope you guys gone wild at parties, got drunk but still managed to wake up the next morning without a stranger in your bed.

Anyways, let’s get to some quick, yet, somewhat important updates that may interest you.

Contest to Win a Flip Mino HD or Ipod Nano is CLOSED – The contest officially ended on December 31st and I think I got a chance to read almost every entry. I just have to do the hard part and pick one freakin’ winner out of all the great entries! Anyways, I’ll announce the winner on Monday, January 5th for those that are interested in checking back.

Site Flip Team E-mails Have Been Replied To – Sorry for the delay to everyone that contacted me regarding the site flip team. You guys know my laptop crashed and since I bought my new computer, I was having problems getting my e-mails off my server and onto my e-mail client. Anyways, I replied to everyone that sent me an e-mail so look out for that.

Some already responded to my reply but I think most haven’t. So, we’ll be waiting, but let’s hope not for too long like what I did.

All Other E-mails and Passwords to Protected Posts – I’m pretty much caught up with all my e-mails with the exception of just a few stragglers. If you’ve contacted me for the password to the $100/day from Adsense post after Thursday night then you’ll probably be receiving a response from me this weekend.

Anyone before that should have received the password if you subscribed with a confirmed e-mail address. There were some people that I checked and they weren’t even subscribed, yet, they said they did. Just an FYI, I can check on my end…

The Q&A Post Answer and Backlinks – Honestly, I completely forgot about answering the questions with everything that has been going on. I’ll try to get that posted this upcoming week.

Google Pagerank and the “Nofollow” Attribute – I didn’t even notice until quite a few of you guys mentioned that my PR dropped. Matter of fact, I ended up making it on TheNetFool’s Top 100 MMO Blogs Pagerank Update List. But quite frankly, I still don’t care about Pagerank.

Though, I’m sure you guys are aware that I added a lot of “nofollow” attributes throughout my site. Don’t worry, it’s not going to effect any of you guys. I’m only doing this as an experiment to see if anything will change. I realized I have a TON of outgoing links that simply didn’t need to be “dofollow.”

If you have the SEO Firefox plugin installed, you will see a lot of things highlighted in red, meaning they are now with “nofollow” attributes. If you don’t see it, I changed the following to “nofollow”:

I counted and there were 25 additional outgoing links that simply were not necessary. Hey, I’m testing it out, why not?

Banner Design Changes – I haven’t had time yet but I will be cleaning up my Banner Design page. Believe it or not, I get a decent amount of organic visitors from it and that page looks horrible as a landing page.

Yeah, that’s probably a big turnoff to potential clients.

In addition, I will be raising the prices slightly as of January 12th. The 125×125 will increase from $6.00 to $10.00 and the headers/full banners/logos will increase from $21.00 to $25.00.

The reason why I’m increasing the price is the fact that I almost felt the time spent working on it compared to the cost simply wasn’t worth it. It’s still pretty cheap but I’m hoping it will either a.) increase my revenue, or b.) decrease the amount of clients.

If you remember from a previous weekly update, I mentioned that I was considering stopping the banner design service in general because I didn’t have the time. Well, this idea of increasing the prices may help everyone. Well, somewhat.

Changed My Advertising Page – Honestly, I haven’t even touched my advertising page since March 08 and if you saw it, the entire page was pretty messy. I decided to clean it up and get it organized so it looks a little more professional. The stats are from last month incase you were wondering. And no, I haven’t been promoting my site like I should be for those that are questioning the traffic.

Thanks to Everyone Willing to Help Me Out – Honestly, I can’t believe you guys are so helpful when I’m in need. First, it was my laptop crashing then it was my comments being messed up (even though I did offer an ad spot for the rest of the month ). If you help me, I will always be willing to help you. What goes around comes around, right?

Anyways, thank you to everyone once again and special shout out to Wesley for helping me resolve that issue.

So those are my updates that I can remember for the week. Of course, I’m posting this later than I wanted to because I was having problems with my internet. Go figure with all my problems, huh?

I hope to be hearing from some of you guys real soon!

This problem has been resolved thanks to Wesley.  He obviously knows what he’s doing and he has some great plugins coming out so make sure you check out his blog!  If you guys had a similar problem, feel free to read through the comments for some great advice from everyone.  Though, the conclusion to this dilemma was the Google Analyticator plugin. :D  I’ll have your 125×125 ad up later tonight Wesley! Thanks again!

This has been driving me crazy so I figured I’d write a post asking for help with this. If you comment on this (or any) post, you’ll notice if you enter in your name, site’s URL then post your comment it won’t show up correctly to link back to your site. I’m not sure what to do or how to fix it but I need help because you guys that comment will be losing out on this.

I recently upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 and slowly but surely I’m regretting it. In addition to upgrading, the only other change I did to DatMoney was simply adding the “nofollow” tag on various links on my sidebar as well as my header. But besides that I haven’t touched the site to make this mess up.

I was having a conversation with a fellow blogger and they mentioned it could be the fact that I just upgraded to WP 2.7 and some of the plugins are messing up the comment/links. It’s weird because I have another site that was already upgraded to WP 2.7 and the comment and backlink works just fine.

If you guys are still reading and still have no idea what I’m talking about, go to my “What Are Your 2009 Goals?” post and look at the comments. If you notice you can’t click on some of the commentators names to take you to their sites.

While the other ones will take you to their site but to their default error page. You’ll also notice their site URL’s will appear something like:

http://franklinbishop.net/blogging-school/’ rel=’external nofollow

It seems that I just have to close the html tag on the rel=’external nofollow’ tag but I looked around and have no idea where it is or how to change it. So, does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do because I have no idea how to fix it and I don’t want you guys to miss out on the backlinks to your sites and potential traffic.

Help? Matter of fact, whoever helps me and fixes the issue, I’ll hook you up with a 125×125 ad spot for the rest of January.

Help? Anyone? Please?