Capitalize on your Expertise, Monetize Websites and Blog Posts

Todays business models continue to embrace new revenue streams. One such revenue stream that get's easier to integrate into just about any business model is affiliate ads.

Simply pick vendors and programs that enhance your own expertise and away you go!

Well, it's not that easy, but, it IS getting easier!

With Google AdSense and Google AdSense for RSS feeds, you have well known monetization techniques that can be easily integrated with your websites and blogs.

This weekend I will work with the new Blogger integration launched recently for Amazon Associates.

With this integration, you can search the Amazon product catalog without leaving the Blogger interface and insert links to the products you find into your posts.

Not only is the process of linking to products more efficient, but Amazon makes it easy for you to earn money whenever your readers actually buy the products you write about. This is known as an “affiliate program”, and it’s designed to let you recommend products you like to your audience — if they buy the product, you’ll earn a commission on that purchase.

Click Here for a review on ProBlogger.net that reviews affiliate programs in general.

And click Here for a good overview at ProBlogger and Darren’s “11 Lessons Learned” post about Amazon Associates describing how to get the most out of the program.

Lessons from the Trenches: Deploying Hyper-V R2 and NetApp

Avanade presents good advice in this whitepaper.

This article covers:

* Information about our current virtual server environment
* Our experiences moving to Hyper-V R2
* Building for performance
* Planning for live migration
* Storage tips for cluster shared volumes (CSVs)
* Server and storage management and virtual machine (VM) self-service portals