The blog title is correct. I took a $2.50 rewrote newsletter and then turned it into $313.65. So how did I do it? Email marketing!

On all of my websites I collect the emails. There are lots of ways to collect emails such as having a basic newsletter form, or maybe collect them from orders, or maybe create a bad ass tool. But the important thing is that you collect email address for marketing later. Even if you don’t use them right away, you will later down the road.

After you collect all the email address then you must find a way to email them all. I personally use a email script that I made, but I would suggest using Aweber or something like that. Then hiring someone off sitepoint to do rewrites for you. You can generally find these people to do rewrites for about .02 per word, sometimes even less (like in my case).

So now you are collecting emails, using aweber to manage the emails, and you even found a good rewriter for $0.02 per word. Good job, now lets move on.

For the actual email you will want to write a mini-sales letter that grabs the attention of the reader. To give yourself some examples just look though your spam folder and see which ones you want to click on the most…

After you write the article send it to your rewriter to have it professionally done. Then find some way to track how much you made from the newsletter such as sending them to certain pages with tracking set up or even using a redirect link, it’s up to you.

Email marketing is a great way to make cash money on the interwebs, so start doing it!

Here is a pic of what article writers’ invoice and a pic of that product:

I need to get as many applications in before we start the hiring process so excuse me for posting this. If you are interested in a blog comment/Yahoo Answers writing job then keep reading

Developer Hut, Inc. are currently looking for English, German/English, Spanish/English, and French/English speaking writers to work for Developer Hut, Inc.

We are fastly growing and looking to add on 3 part time writers to our crew. We are looking for blog comment writers and Yahoo Answers writers. Each one of our writers typically makes between $300-$1500 usd every month.

What is the job?
The job consists of writing blog comments on niche related blogs for customers. You would also write answers in reply to questions on Yahoo Answers for customers. We pay on a per blog comment and per yahoo answer bases. We start out in the low .xx per comment, but you can work your way up to where you are making more money per comment. If you are German/English, Spanish/English, and French/English speaking you will start out at a higher price per comment.

We are looking for people who:
-Write well with correct punctuation and grammar
- Follow instructions
- Decently tech savvy (know what blogs and yahoo answers are)
- Have at least 2-3 hours to devote to our work a day

Our Process?
After the training process you will be given an account where you will have access to a certain amount of blog comment orders, increase blog comment orders, and yahoo answers orders. Your job will be to complete the orders as they come/ We have a tracking system in place so we can successfully track the orders and the work you do. You will be paid twice a month via paypal, xoom, or wire transfer.

If you are interested in this job then please contact jobs@developerhut.com . You will be sent more details after you email us.

If you haven’t noticed from the lack of blog updates, but the past few months have been really busy for me. In October of 2008 I decided that I will focus 100% of my energy in www.developerhut.com. Well about five months later I have coded a working backend that tracks EVERYTHING, added 4 new products, redesigned the website, improved the quality of all the products, and even hired a part time support lady.

I am just now finally getting caught up on my work. I just barley fixed all of my ipns and api for Paypal and Google checkout. I hired michael boutros to look over my code and fix the problems (since I’m still learning php). He did a great job and I recommend him for your php jobs. I was having some problems with customers not getting there confirmation emails and he fixed that, along with the problem of paypal cutting off long descriptions on customers orders.

Last week I finished editing and testing my 10 crons that run daily. The cron tasks I have set range from emailing my daily stats, update customers on their orders, let customers know if we need more information from them, get feedback from customers, check for missing variables in customers orders, etc. All of those crons probably save me about two hours of work every day. Those crons are a very valuable part of the automated process, I highly suggest that if you want to become an internet marketer then you should learn php, trust me it helps me so much. With those crons done my order process/bookkeeping for that site is pretty much 100% automated for me.

Now this week is a whole different story. I hired a professional sales writers to re-write my 5 sales letters on developerhut.com. Each sales letter costs $150 for only 750 words, pretty crazy huh? I am also having 2 other sale letters written for other projects of mine this week so that means I will be spending $1050 on sales letters this week They better convert better thats all I have to say about that hehe.

This week we are also hiring 3-5 new writers for our blog comments, increase blog comments, and yahoo answers packages. Last week I worked on automating my hiring process as much as possible. I had my instructions re-written with better graphic images, my payment tracking pages updated, and I am teaching my support lady to manage my writers.

Another thing I got done just last week is our awesome quality management system we implemented. We are the only seo service company that offers this. Customers can watch the progress of there order using there online account. Once logged in customers can ask customer support and the writers questions by posting a “support note”. After an order is marked completed the customer has 5 days to look over his or her order, during that time you can check the quality and success rate, if customers have any problems they can easily post a support note. I have a system in place so that any order that has a open support note will not get marked as “done”. This process ensures that the customer is happy with there order. I will test this process more, but so far I think it will work great in making sure the customer is happy.

I also hired my first support person this month. It has turned out to be a huge success so far, she only works about 10 hours a week but she manages all of my customer support stuff and is slowly taking over the writers. After the business grows she will be working more and more for me.

So that is a typical week for me. Work work and more work. But I am started to get excited because after the sales letters get done and I finish hiring more writers I am pretty much done with the building of the company, all that is left would be improving my products and marketing. But it has come at a price… stress… I haven’t been really stressed out in a long time, and my god it sucks! My stomach has been hurting for the past week, its not like a flu sick its the old famous stressful sick. But this is what I live for, stress is part of the success (I think). Nothing makes me more happy then taking a handful of nothing and turning it into a profitable business But like I said, I have another week of hard work and then I should be almost done, maybe just some small tasks.

So how do you all handle stress?

I got my basement repainted this week. I didn’t like the job I did before so I hired a professional off craigslist for $850. Cheap huh?

Before:

After:

I had some free time so I coded a simple script that will let anyone view the percent of the my daily goal for each project of mine. Now I won’t tell you how much my daily goal is, I feel that is private, but this is a entrepreneur blog so I want some statistics of how my projects are doing on my blog. I have my daily goal set to a number that is reachable yet takes hard work each month to reach it.

Right now I only have developerhut.com goal, but I will soon be adding my other project that I am currently working on plus a new projects which I am excited to get started working on. So from here on out you may check at anytime to view how my day is going. Let me know if you have anymore suggestions on this

Wow, its been over a week since my last blog post. I didn’t realize how lazy I have been with my blog. I have a good excuse for why I haven’t been bloggin… I have been way busy.

So while everyone is hurting during these recession months I have been busy moving my company towards a well planned track to success. Its been working, but at a price. I work a ton and I am still getting backed up. I get about 40-50 support email and 10 phone calls a day, not to mention the 30 plus emails I get to my main email address. Replying to all those emails every day isn’t a problem, but the amount of time it takes to complete those emails are starting to eat up my business building time.

I think you know where I’m head here… This week I am hiring someone to manage my support, sales, and help me out with my busy work so I can focus on finding new ways to advertising my business, add new products and services, improve existing products and services, and maybe take a vacation hehe.

The person I am hiring will be starting this week. The person I will be hiring will be working part time for me, they will be doing support emails and calls, follow up phone calls, help me manage my current ways of advertising, and of course do some of my busy work. Right now they will be in-house but my plan is to make it so they can work from their own home, that way I won’t have a set schedule (I like to work at night).

I will let you all know how it goes and who the lady is after a little while.

In other news, www.developerhut.com is growing great, every 3 months I double my profit. The last month or so I have been updating the current backed to a new one that is 99% automated. That means that all orders will be filed and completed with out me touching them, which is one of the reasons I need to hiring someone for support. The backend is pretty wicked, it tells me all my stats, ROI for particular advertising methods, daily income, how much I owe my writers, etc.

The backend also runs about 10-15 crons every night that file orders, send notices, send orders, and at 11.30 pm every night my daily stats are emailed to me. Which kicks ass.

I am also launching article submission and directory submission this week. Both of those are a great way to build backlinks. This week my new 128 ssl will be live (working on it now actually) which means that I can now offer Google Checkout on www.developerhut.com which will also bring in new customers that dont like Paypal. We are also working with 2checkout but they require a lot of shit to set up an account.

This month we will also be launching our affiliate program, which is going to kick ass too. I am not sure on the details yet but I am sure I can make it profitable for the affiliates. Not only do I plan to code the affiliate program myself but I will be creating tools and tutorials on how to advertise our services. The way I see it is if you make money, I will make money. So I will be putting a lot of time into helping the affiliates generate good income.

Along with the affiliate plan I am in talks with a few company’s to push my products as white label, white label is were you offer someone else’s product as your own. Its much like drop shipping.

So yeah, lots of work for me to do It’s kool though I love my job.

Here are two questions that were asked, if you have a question then email it to me. If I use it you will get 10 free article submissions.

Harvey wrote:
How come a site which has 5000 backlinks in Yahoo Site Explorer beats a site with 10,000+ Backlinks for the same search term in google ?

Answer:
A lot of people assume that Google counts backlinks as a vote towards a certain website. So a website with 10k backlinks will outrank a website with 5k backlinks. Google actually bases there search results on a bunch of different factors including relevance of the website to the search term. The content is a big factor of a websites web ranking, generally a website that is ranked higher for a certain term has better quality (or quantity) content. If its you website that has 10k backlinks that is getting out ranked by a website with only 5k backlinks I would focus on improving the content of your website.

I would also take a look at the quality of the other websites backlinks, the quality of the links is a big factor. The site may have 10k backlinks coming from forum spam, that website will not rank higher then a website that has 5k backlinks from relevant blogs.

>Eric wrote:
Of the linking/commenting/answers services you offer, which do you feel is the most important for SEO and which do you feel has the ability to drive the most organic traffic? I assume it depends on the type of site being promoted, but I wanted to hear your thoughts. Assuming you use these services for your sites, which have had the biggest impact on your business, ecommerce, fansite, etc…?

Answer:
I use the dofollow social bookmarking a lot. All of my SEO sites are on a monthly plan that has a varsity of social bookmarks, comments, article submissions, and directory’s. But I feel that the social bookmarking backlinks help the most with my websites.

Blog comments are my second favorite because they gain backlinks on blog posts that are related to the niche of my website.

Man I have been busy, all my focus has been on www.developerhut.com lately. I would love to sit here and post a long ass blog post but I’m too lazy right now, for good reason

So here is the deal, you can ask me any question you like. You can send it to me here. If I use your question I will give you 10 free article submission from developerhut.com. Next week we will start offering article submissions and web directory submission as part of our seo services, which should be a hit.

You may ask me anything about SEO, blogging, working, making money, etc. In a few days I will be posting and answers the questions you send me. So send away

If your like me then you don’t make websites as a hobby anymore. I treat every website I make and every dollar I spend on a website as an investment, after all that’s what it is. And if you like me, you also plan every aspect of your websites SEO campaign. From picking your keywords to deciding on how much mula to spend on a website should all be planned out.

Now don’t get me wrong. The process of getting your website to rank for a certain term should not followed exactly as planned, think of you playing chess with Google. Every move you make you will need to see the next move by that Google makes. Google could either rank you higher for the term your aiming for, or not move you at all, or maybe even penalize you (although very rare, Google mostly penalizes due to the content on the actual website). After Google makes there move on the chess board you will have to tweak your SEO Campaign to accommodate it.

I write up my SEO campaigns plans out in notepad and then save it to my computer and print out a copy or two so I can add quick notes to it when I need to. Before I start the actual SEO campaign planning I already have the website built and the on-site SEO already done. You should never start your SEO campaign before your website is done, its a bad idea to try to rank a website that has “Coming Soon” pages on it. You should already have your keywords planned out, this should be done before you even look at getting a domain (to avoid buying a domain and then deciding that the term is too hard, I do that all the time heh).

3 rules of planning your SEO Link Building:
1) Make sure that your content is spectacular and is better then your competitions (very important to have good quality content).
2) Combine a few different link building methods.
3) Don’t build links too fast.

The first rule is pretty obvious. The days of creating a shitty turnkey site and getting the site thousands or low quality backlinks are dead. Very dead. Google is a multi billion dollar company, they have the smartest people working for them, and they have lots of people working for them. So they have the time, the money, and intelligent people that can do the due diligence on your website to see if it should rank for the term your going for. They know whats going on now. Trying too fool them by ranking a website with shitty content will not get you far. Building a website with the best possible content is the best investment you could make for your website. Content is king.

Now with the number two rule. Like I said earlier, Google is a smart chess player. You need to make your links look as natural as you can. To archive this you need to spread out your link building campaign along a certain time frame (rule #3) and you also need to separate your link building methods. Getting 1000 directory links in one month for a website with a few thousand backlinks is pretty obvious and might get your penalized or banned. However, getting 100 article submissions, 250 blog comments, 250 social bookmarks, 100 directory submissions, some link exchanges, and some links from Text-Link-Ads.com during a time frame of 2 months or so is a good idea and wont get your website penalized.

I don’t want to get into the link building methods right now, that’s for a later time. But separating your link methods like the above example is your best bet to look natural in Google’s eyes. To know how many links you need for your website is a whole other blog post. But basically you look at your competitors links, there link count according to yahoo, and your websites link count according to Google. So if your competitors website has 10,000 backlinks and your website only has 2,000 or so, I would suggest building up around 700 links a month or so. It will take you some time to rank for the term, maybe 2-3 months, but your link building will look natural and not set off any flags at Google. But like I said, this is a whole different post. You have to consider your websites age, your websites content, your websites on-site seo, your competitors on-site seo, the quality of the links, and the list goes on. I will blog more about this at another time.

Now with rule number 3. I think I have been pretty clear about not building links to fast. If you build links too fast you can set off some flags. Up until now I have been estimating the amount of links I need to be getting per month for my websites, but there should be some sort of mathematical formula out there that should help with that planning part. I will research that and do another post if I find anything out. But basically, you need to look at your websites backlinks and estimate how many links you need a month to rank for the term. If your website only has 1,000 backlinks then I would suggest to not go over 200 backlinks a month, after a month or two you can increase that to say 400 backlinks a month, until you rank for your term. Make sure you go nice and slow with your link building.

I’m sorry I didn’t go into great detail, I’m also sorry I haven’t been posting a lot lately, I have been very very busy this month. Anyways, if you follow the 3 rules above then your SEO link campaign will be a success. Just remeber that doing SEO is like playing chess with Google. Make your move and then let google make theres, just see what happens. Build up some backlinks in a timeframe of a month, if your website is going up in the SERP’s then your winning the chess game. If your SERP’s rankings are going down, flucuating a lot, or not going anywhere, then Google is winning the chess game. And if your website gets banned or pentlized then its check mate for you… start a new chess game

First of all this isn’t a paid blog post. I am posting this because it’s one hell of a deal. Provident-direct.com is an FDIC-insured bank that offers an online banking savings account with 3.25% APY. Most normal banks have a very low interest rate, Wells Fargo (my bank) offers is at 0.05%. So you can see the benefit of using an online bank.

To get the 3.25% interest rate you must have at least $100 in your account. You can also make 5 transaction a month for free, after that they add on a $5 monthly fee, which isn’t bad at all. They are also FDIC-insured which means that your money is backed by the government if the bank goes out of business, which is something you should really consider with our current economy.

Signing up with them isn’t hard at all. You just have to fill out a few pages of personal info and then give them your current banking info so they can deposit a few small deposits into your account. Once you see them in your account you then confirm the deposits and then your ready to go. It total it took me 3 days to sign up.

High Yield Online Savings Accounts (Again, I am not making any money if you sign up with one of these banks)
Providentdirect = 3.25%
ING Direct = 2.50%
E-Trade = 3.01% (I know a few happy people using e-trade)

Provident-direct.com is a smaller bank, they only have $6.2 billion in assets (Wells Fargo has $622 billion in assets) but being a smaller bank isn’t a bad thing, and I am more then willing to try them out for the 3.25% interest rate.

If you don’t think Provident-direct.com is right for you then I would suggest checking out ING Direct. I have been with them for many years now and they have been pretty good, only problem with them is there interest rate is only at 2.50%.

If you know anymore good deals then please let us know. I am always looking for good deals