Well, so far the past 4 days have been relatively good ,I’ve made a little more money with online advertising.

Right now, all my affiliate marketing has been done between Market Leverage & Motive Interactive.

I’ve been running PPC Ads via Google ,Yahoo , Facebook and Myspace. As of this time, Google & Yahoo are the only ones I’ve made a dime off of. In the beginning I figured Facebook would be a good source, as it’s quite easy to get a few hundred dollars in free advertising. Unfortunately along with low CTR rates, there has been no revenue from what I’ve done with them.

Yahoo would be #1 so far for the $ amount made from PPC, I’ve spent a total of around $25 in money there (Do some research and you can get $100 in free ads from them). Of that $25, about $10 has come back to me, which still is a negative cashflow. I hope to reverse this trend, but do realize I’m only a few days into this.

I’m a big full disclosure fan , so in the near future I’ll be posting up how everything has worked in detail (As much as I’m allowed).

I also updated my income statement, obviously real estate is still my primary income, but I have brought in a little bit of online income too.

Well , I’m so far into about 2 weeks of the new website project. Surprisingly this website is doing better and better, my traffic has just about doubled each week that I’ve been working on it.

My google stats have been GREAT as I’m starting to see traffic from keywords that I wouldn’t of expected, and my search traffic should increase a total of 400% from last week which is pretty good in itself.

While all is good with this website , my entrance into CPC advertising via online content websites has been SPECTACULAR failure. I’ve already had over 100 clickthroughs with NO sales from that source. I guess I only have myself to blame for writing crappy ads (I just changed them again tonight). I’ve been playing the game with various coupons I’ve found online, so thankfully I’m not spending money out of my own pocket.

Real estate (My normal job) Hasn’t been bad, I’ve converted a few of my leads to contracts which is great, but then after almost 3 years, I should be able to convert a sale.

My website traffic

As you can tell , the traffic has increased greatly over the past few days, and the best part is it’s mostly from search traffic (The early spike was from a few forum posts.)

Unfortunately my ad revenue isn’t increasing as well as I’d like as compared to my traffic. My CPM rate has been very erratic.

My current goal is to finish up the rest of the ads on this website, and then go onto my new project that I’m testing right now. Unfortunately I am having to learn to do everything myself rather than paying someone to develop it for me (I’m poor gosh darn it!).

I signed up with Motive Interactive Today and am REALLY liking the setup. Earlier last week I was able to make some money in a short time span from incentive offers, so I think that will be my best bet in the near future.

This will be a tutorial for real estate agents concerning the possibility of making a side income from BPOs. This will be the first in a series of how to make money in real estate , or as I like to call it “Keep Your Job , Post Credit Crash”.

Before I start, I would like to say, YOU ARE NOT ALONE ! I don’t care how long you’ve been involved in real estate, what area you are located in , or how much money you made last year.

Let’s face it , there are many real estate agents who are feeling a major pinch from the 2008 credit crisis , and if that wasn’t bad enough, for many 2007 wasn’t a great year either. Many feel lost in the field of real estate, that once was a great career and is now slowly becoming a liability.

These statements ring true for the hundreds of real estate agents that have emailed me over the past year, some going into great detail of their losses.

For me on the other hand, 2008 was my best year yet , in fact I made no less than double my 2007 income, which was more my 2006 income (I’ve grown 292% since my first year in real estate).

The majority of that income has been from SELLING HOUSES , and not BPO Income, in fact only around 20% of my income comes from doing BPOs.

I can not emphasize how much selling houses is better than doing BPOs, but regardless ,you’re here to learn about BPOs, Right?

BPOs Stand for Broker Price Opinions

These BPO services are requested by a huge variety of banks , asset management companies, investors and other sources to determine the value of a property. In years gone by, banks would hire appraisers to do these services, but like all businesses, they wanted to make things cheaper.

Banks looked to real estate agents to do these valuations for them, I have done a good deal of research into this, and in the beginning they weren’t a whole lot cheaper than appraisals (About $150 for a Exterior and up to $250 for a interior).

Many times , the banks used the agents that did the BPOs to market and sell the property for them to the open market (Also known as REOs, Bank Owned, or Foreclosures) to the open market.

These orders were relatively easy for a agent to perform, and paid quite well (Around $100 a hour in a many situations). Banks couldn’t get enough agents to perform the BPO work for them as the number of foreclosures grew, so like any economy student can tell you that when demand for a product goes UP and the supply of the product is STABLE , the price tended to increase a bit.

Now that we’ve got the history of BPOs and brought you up to date with them , the next few sections will cover the topics of actually getting them.

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Here is the link to Vista print’s new 250 FREE Card promotion.

Normally, you would have to pay the $5.95 shipping fee , but for a limited time (I have not chosen how long I can run this promotion) I will reimburse you the shipping fee, so they will be COMPLETELY Free.

Click the below Vista Print link , and then click the Upper-Right Corner card titled “Free” and then go through the checkout process as you would when purchasing cards. You will receive reimbursement from me within 24 hours via paypal if you EMAIL me the “Order Confirmation” page at my email address : Brandon@20yearbillionaire.com and where you want the payment sent to. Alternatively, I will send you a physical check from my company for re-reimbursement within a week should you not have paypal.

This is a continuation of our first section, where we will review products and provide information for more “Money Making Systems” that are available on the Internet.

I am currently working on multiple campaigns right now for producing online income with a reasonably low amount of investment (Below $100.00). So far the research portion is going well , and my total payback has been $40.39 over the past 5 days, which may sound like a small number, but I believe will grow well.

I will post the results as each campaign becomes more successful, so please subscribe to the blog to find out what happens.

The current campaigns deal with :

Arbitage
Affiliate Marketing
PPC Advertising
Social Network Advertising
Superaffiliate marketing (Although you knew that I was working on that!

It’s like that song “It’s Raining Men” except you can scratch out the Men part and replace it with MONEY.

Nick is running another promotion through Motive and giving away some pretty sweet prizes.

You should check it out at : http://nickthrolson.com/motive-interactive-gives-back-contest/

I’m really starting to like Motive’s layout for affiliate marketing, I am only into affiliate marketing a few days now ,and already having some success. (Maybe around $35 on my first day?)

Take a look at their company if you have a website, you could be making some serious cash too!

This section will cover all our reviewed sources of producing income on the internet.

The purpose of this page like the other pages ,will be to run a NEAR Full disclosure income campaign that produces REAL results with an actual $0 investment into the project.

I am working on 1 campaign with Pay Per Post that I believe will produce a good overall result.

Be sure to subscribe to the website to find out what ever happens with this project!

I wanted to post a little blurb up about this guy and the contest he is offering at : http://www.tylercruz.com/affiliate-marketing-challenge-6/

This guy is pretty darn cool and is doing something along the lines of what I will be doing with my pet project here atthe website.

He’s got some really good ideas and thoughts on making cash online, many of which I’ve been expirancing over the past 2 weeks since the expansion into our current website.

Recently, many agents have been speculating that OCWEN Asset management will be going over to a blast-only type of service.

With a blast-only service , vendor companies will release large groups of order to their website, where agent are logged on to grab orders as they appear.

While not fully developed yet, OCWEN seems to be testing this method out in a few key states.

Pros of A Blast System

Potentially Quicker acceptance and turnaround

More competetion

Cons of a Blast System

Higher chance of inexpiranced agents getting orders

More competetion (Lower fees for agents, more profit for banks/AMs)

My personal thought is that Blasting orders will promote new agents getting orders, and help those that have time to be on the website or hire assistants to grab the orders. Unfortunately this is a double edged sword, because not every agent can sit on the website and grab orders all day (I know I can’t).

I was made aware of this entry by a zillow worker concerning a recent survey of homeowners in the US.

Of this survey, an amazing 49% believed that their home value has either not decreased, or even increased (The actual number of Americans that have experienced a value decrease is 74%).

It’s quite interesting to see what areas of the US have homeowner who believe that their value has either increased or not increased compared to the others.

As many homeowners try to sell in this market, it’s not surprising that still so many homes will not sell due to the asking price being too high. Everyone should take this into consideration when selling their home in the next 6 months.

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