Monetize Pro

Over the past year I got into trading stocks, holding mutual funds and I even started forex this week. As you can see on the title I am quitting all this trading as of today! I am losing money on this! Better invest my money into the web business than taking it into the stock market or any other form of trading.

Yesterday I put in $300 on the Euro to rise against the Dollar. Euro made a huge fall in value and it was at its lowest point in the last 30 days, so I expected to go back up! Left it run for the night and when I woke up, everything was closed due to stop loss (that means I lost all). This made me decide I would leave this market alone for a long time!

At least it was a nice experience!

Today there is a new theme installed at Monetize Pro. I am very satisfied with this theme but there are some things that still have to be changed, which will be done this week (hopefully). Motivation was at a low point lately and I hope this new theme and my current pagerank 2 will help me working harder online! Why am I talking about the pagerank? I don’t know either, pagerank sucks! But I guess it still works as a motivator for me, hehe.

On this theme I will use OIO publisher for selling advertising space. Other blogs like Cow’s work with this and it is looking very smooth!

Hope you like the theme!

We I started this blog in the “we” vorm, like there were more people blogging on this blog. This is not the case, there are a few persons that can post blogs on monetize pro, but they have own accounts on here with own names, so if they post something, you will notice that fast enough!

Now I decided that my blog posts are 100% from me and not from someone else, so that is why I decide to type in the “I” vorm. Ofcourse posts are becoming ugly if you use to many “I, I, I”, hope this will not happen

Some other people will also blog here like I already mentioned above (about the accounts). Stay tuned!

To give you guys an update! Currently we are working on a new small blog network with 4 blogs in different niche’s. This will be some kind of gamble because running 4 blogs and get them active will be a hard task.

The xbox 360 forum is just sitting there collecting more posts from its users, which is not bad. The plan is to make an additional blog were we place reviews of all the new games etc. with affiliate links if that’s possible

Today we sold our technology forum which we had for around 1 month now. It was bought for $150 and flipped for $350. We also bought a unique design for $30 and installed it on the forum, so that makes our total costs at $180, which is almost a ROI of 100%!

We also started a new site today, it is a gadget blog and will be posted on once a day! We will review laptops, cameras, desktops, iphones and all other cool gadgets everyone wants to have! This website will also be monetized with affiliates which we will discuss here ofcourse! Currently it only runs some adsense ads which I am not a fan of, but what the hell

We bought a new website this week! It is a quite big xbox 360 forum! The forum has more than 110,000 posts and over 1,500 members. We don’t own a xbox 360 yet, but maybe we will buy one now we got this forum, that way we can participate on it easier

Maybe we are lucky and can even win a brand new xbox 360 elite from the contest john cow is running! He is giving this xbox 360 away through a lottery he will hold on the end of April! The contest is proudly sponsored by Top Hosting Center “webhosting solutions for you and your business”. GTA 4 will come with the xbox if you win it.

The forum is not monetized at the moment! This is something we are going to change, but not that it will be irritating the forum members! We will update you here how we are going to monetize this xbox 360 community! The first goal is to make $1500 a month from it at the end of 2008!

Today we got a new dedicated server! Currently we are running our sites on 3 different places all over the web, which is not very organized at all. This server is not from a major hosting company and will be managed by a friend. In the upcoming days we will transfer all sites to our new server and if everything goes right there will be no down time at all!

This server is very big and there is room left for others to take some space, so if you need some at very cheap rates, you can contact us!

We have nothing to share with you today, so no blog post! If you are bored, check out this video

We stumbled upon a very funny but smart ad in google. These guys are thinking out of the box to reach their audience, very smart if you ask us! Take a look for yourself and decide! How many of the WOW players would be a virgin?

In this letter to Yahoo, Microsoft said: “It has now been more than two months since we made our proposal to acquire Yahoo! If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors for the Yahoo! board.”

Yahoo responds:

“Our Board carefully considered your unsolicited proposal, unanimously concluded that it was not in the best interests of Yahoo! and our stockholders, and rejected it publicly on February 11, 2008.

We are open to all alternatives that maximize stockholder value. To be clear, this includes a transaction with Microsoft if it represents a price that fully recognizes the value of Yahoo! on a standalone basis and to Microsoft, is superior to our other alternatives, and provides certainty of value and certainty of closing.”

We have to give Microsoft our vote on this one, Yahoo is acting like it never got an offer, and the offer is really good if you ask us! Merge and compete with the big G