YNAB You Need A Budget

[mattisson4]

yep found these as well
http://advertising.yahoo.com/affiliate_programs/
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/affiliate.php
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/

[mattisson4]

My guy who spoke to me said that only they could get these codes, because I asked him outright, why would I pay him to do something I can do myself.

[WairereRose]

I really appreciate all the time and effort some of you folks are putting in to helping me with my initial question - and others who might get caught out.

Hopeful - I look forward to seeing your progress.

[Stubby]

Thank you so much... hooray for this topic

I was looking into OHN and my suspicions were aroused when I was told they use Amazon.com... I am already taking part in their affiliate programme, so why would I want to pay for more. They sure were very curteous but when they started asking me about which accounts I have my shutters came down, as in my opinion, it is absolutely none of their business.

I am so glad I cam across this topic and this forum.. boy do I need a budget .

The guy at OHN I was speaking too, is Karl. He was pretty insistent and seemed not to like me saying ... 'I want to have a think about it and make 100% sure that this is something I want to do'. I don't think he understood that at all. I got rescued by a family member calling out for help and Karl said he will ring me back. It will be interesting to see if he will.

Having read this topic I will hold onto my money for now, but I am really interested to see how Hopeful will go with her websites.

Thanks again... looks like you may just have saved me a lot of money

[WairereRose]

If you consider using wordpress as your content management system (I'm a big fan), there are a ton of templates out there for free and they wouldn't require you to pay a designer at all. And I kid you not when I say that I could have a wordpress site set up for you on hosting with your own domain in about five minutes, not including the time it would take the server to create the database, and for the domain name to propagate. If anyone's charging a lot for a service like that, they're a predator.

Excluded use of Wordpress blogs:

Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category.

I'm not 100% clear that I would be able to use the site for what I want. I wouldn't be using it to direct traffic to other places, but to sell product, however the company I sell for is a MLM company.

I might see if I can email Wordpress and ask them.

ETA: Done that, I guess now I wait for a reply and hold off on doing any more work on my website just now. I might go look at making some dinner instead.

[jesse]

To be clear Rose, I was talking about hosting the wordpress blog on your own site -- not using wordpress.com

[WairereRose]

To be clear Rose, I was talking about hosting the wordpress blog on your own site -- not using wordpress.com

to be clear Jesse?

I'm afraid you just lost me completely...

[malisab]

wordpress.com is a site where you can have your own blog but you have many limitations (like the ones you mentioned). They are hosted on the wordpress server. It's free.

wordpress.org is home of free blogging software that you can run on your own server space.

Example: Once upon a time I started a blog on a whim. I started it on wordpress.com to just see what it was like. I didn't do much with it. It was mostly a gardening blog. I kept my photos in Flickr. There was this really cool photobadge you could use on a website via Flickr...but NOT on a wordpress.com (free) blog. That and some other limitations led me to start a wordpress blog, using full-blown wordpress, on some server space that I had because of a couple message boards I ran for various reasons. (Okay...so I mostly did it because I'd exhausted all the playing around with the limited number of different themes on wordpress.com and wanted a new challenge one summer.) With the self-hosted wordpress.org version I could run the Flickr photobadge, there's a TON of different themes you can get for free, and you can include all kinds of other plug-ins etc. that you can't include on a free, .com blog.

My server space/web hosting (whatever the proper term is) is through Lunarpages. (If it's not okay to say that...Steve or someone feel free to zap it.) They've been okay. Not perfect. A few complaints. But okay. (Any complaints I'd have would be wiped out by the fact that I don't back things up as regularly as I should. That's really my own fault. )I'm able to start new wordpress blogs, or update the wordpress software on them, via Fantastico on Lunarpages. I don't know if it's considered a service or software in itself or what. But it makes setting up and upgrading wordpress a snap.

All that being said, and I may have said this before, I've only run boards and blogs that would be visited by a few friends and others that stumbled on to things via a common interest. The possibility of opening up something public and trying to get people there just scares the begeezus out of me because of spammers and hackers and all sorts of others that don't have anything better than to mess with other peoples' stuff.

[WairereRose]

They did reply and said I should look at wordpress.org. I guess I will start looking at that again after my daughter goes home from the weekend.

[Gigs64]

Hi there everyone, I am also a Newbie, all the way from the land down under....I have once been scammed in just the last couple of months with a "Supposed" online host called Google profit house, they have taken just over $100 from my credit card, and I have received nothing, hopefuly my bank can do something about them... no one answers the phone, etc etc although after a lot of bits and pieces that I have found out about them while trying to find some answers tonight I have decided to cancel my card and organise a new one. Anyway, on Saturday I received a call from the OHN basically telling me the same that they have told Hopeful, I have told them that I would like more time to check it out and I would call her back on Wednesday. The girl that I spoke to was very polite, helpful, and she even offered to take me through their website while I was on the phone, unfortunately I was out at the time and didn't have access to a computer. I explained to her what had happened with the GPH and she was very understanding and assuring that this would not be the case with their company, this was, I think when she offered to take me through the site. She gave me her 1800 number and extension and suggested I call her after I had a chance to look around, she also sent me an email confirming all of this. She really wasn't pushy at all, but after the first scam I can't help but be very wary. I have not ruled out the idea, which is obviously why I am here writing this...I am feeling very hopeful after reading some of these responses and am also eagerly awaiting to hear how "Hopeful" does with hers, my fingers are crossed and I will be eagerly awaiting her comments as I am sure you all are also.

[WairereRose]

Hi there,

If you have the chance, I'd like to recommend you take a look at the YNAB+ section of the board - have to check if that is accessible without membership, but the latest seminar would be well worth your while listening to as it speaks specifically to having an online site and earning from that.

Advertising is one of the least effective ways of earning, apparently, so this may not be your best way forward. Good on you for taking the time to think about it, but I'm now with the folks strongly recommending against it.

[Excessive1]

Can anyone share how the found ohn live? What is the URL that you linked from to get to their website?

[WairereRose]

An email from Ola, which was referred through The NZ Survey site.

[xx0xx]

I was approached by an Ed levin from Online Hosting Network, who after introducing me to their online system for making money via an associate program with Amazon, Yahoo, Real Player and Unbeatable sale.com - with all the simiar stories as published earlier by other members, but the packages started from $149 (basic -, work with one company, includes building of your website, domain name, hosting, they make your banner + mentor, and unlimited access to support and help, both online and phone, up to $100 per sale/new customer - I mean, how much better can you get this hey?), $288 (Standard= 2 companies + the above up to $200 per sale) or Elite for $477 (all of the aforementioned plus up to $300 per new customer/sale). After explaining this all to me he then asked me to log on to my paypal account, He asked me to go to the "send money" tab type in their details and the amount I said I would be interested in entering the program. and press the continue button. At which point I refused as this would have meant that I would have paid for something they did not give me a chance to have a look into as a new business. He said that they would send me an e-mail explaining all the details of the program after our telephone conversation, but then he said that I would only get that e-mail as a registered member. I replied that it is common practice that you are allowed to have a closer look at any venture you are going to undertake, right? He started argueing with me that he had already spend a lot of time explaining it all to me, but I replied that I didn't know him form Adam and that I wanted to have a look at all the things they are supposedly offering. I felt that what they are offering sounds too good to be true - which certainly when it concerns an online bizz, is often the case As this person was very forceful and didn't want to let go, I felt very uncomfortable, like a salesman with a foot in the door and definitely not wanting to release his "customer"! I feel that what he has been doing. guiding me through my Paypal stuff and leading me to press the continue button without giving me a chance to check the business out, was in my view illegal. If I have pressed the continue button this would have gone through as a sale isn't it? I have not encountered a similar incidence like this before and as the payments are going through Paypal, I felt that it was in the interest of other people that they are prewarned for similar practices. There were a few vague things as when I asked where he was ringing from, he wasn't telling me where from and gave me as a number 0800 451097 and didn't answer when I asked what the timezone was he was ringing from. The 0800 he said, was covering Australia, though he rang from the US. I would like to hear from anybody who has made money with this at all, just out of interest

[WairereRose]

I would like to hear from anybody who has made money with this at all, just out of interest

We're all waiting for a post from that person - if they exist...