I’ve finally decided to hold a Entrecard contest. And for a good cause too. I recently signed up with GradeFund, an alternative approach to student college financing. I’m in need of sponsors for my spring semester (For those that aren’t familiar with my personal educational trek, I recently wrote an essay for Beans for Books.) Here is the contest. Write a blog post about this contest including The Blog Novice seeking sponsorships for my college education. Email me at theblognovice at yahoo dot com with the link to your post Fill out the sponsorship form to GradeFund when you receive via email  Post a comment in this post to let me know you’ve posted. For just entering the contest, I will offer 25 Entre credits immediately. The contest will run until my school semester begins (January 19th, 2009) I will announce the winners that day. 1st Prize – … Read entire article »

While three days have actually gone by since day 1, I’m actually calling this day 2. Why? Because Sunday I didn’t really work on earning any income, and Monday was an amalgam of personal blogging, and a continuation of research. Money Making Blogs After clicking and reviewing over 100 blogs on Entrecard and Digital Product Reporter’s “Make Money Online Top 100 Blogs” in search for some type of guidance on how to make money online, it was clear that a large majority of the money making blogs didn’t really have anything to offer in terms of direction or step-by-step instructions. Most of them offered only news or personal opinions about a new product, untested ideas about how to promote your blog, or a brazen attempt to redirect me to another website. There was little information about how to actually … Read entire article »