Dorm Room Biz Broke 100 RSS Subscribers!

Written by Chris on November 8, 2008 – 7:04 pm -

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Just a quick note for now, we have broken the 100 RSS subscribers mark!! I’m pretty excited about the milestone. After a couple years of slowly building and working on Dorm Room Biz, it is a great step.

Now, its on to 200 subscribers!! Sunday or Monday I will be launching the next contest for Dorm Room Biz, so keep an eye out for that and a chance to win a couple cool prizes and celebrate the accomplishment.

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The Month in Review: September Earnings and More

Written by Chris on October 1, 2008 – 1:00 pm -

September has come and gone and now we get back into the holiday season. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are right around the corner! I am pretty sure Wal-Mart is already stocking the Christmas items, too!

Anyway, with the month finished, its about that time that I sometimes put together a earnings post for the month and all around update on the status of the site. So, lets get started.

SEPTEMBER EARNINGS

Private Ads: $10.00
Sponsored Reviews: $9.75
Text Link Ads: $25.52
ReviewMe: $40.00
Adsense: $14.73
TOTAL: $100.00

Some notes on the earnings and other items…
On top of the $14.73 that I “earned” from AdSense for the month, I actually got my latest Adsense payment of over $100. Since I don’t make enough through AdSense to get a monthly deposit (more than $100), it is nice every couple months when it does come through.

I have sold a few private ads on the site over the past few months and there has also been a lot of interest in purchasing advertising on the site. If you are interested, check out the rates on the Advertise page and then get in contact with me to discuss. All the ad formats are available (text link, image ad, and sponsored posts).

I am happy that I hit the $100 mark again for the month, that is good news. I hope that this month we will be able to get over that and get closer to $150. With two new bloggers on board to help write for the site, I think we will be able to pump out some great content that will hopefully attract some more monthly advertisers and sponsors. Page views and visitors have taken about a 40% increase in September from August and just about doubled from July. I know they are not impressive numbers (1200 visits and 1600 page views) but they are continuing to go up daily and look forward to what October brings.

With college classes back in full force for everyone, I will hopefully be able to put out some useful content for student entrepreneurs - if you have ideas for posts, please let me know and we will write about them! Also, if you have questions you’d like for us to try to answer, email me and we will either email you back or post about it on the site!

Obviously the most popular post from the month was the contest post. As I already reviewed after the contest finished, there were over 300 combined entries and over 80 comments. Some of the other popular posts for the month included:

• 12 Websites You Need to Be Using As An Entrepreneur
• Are You A Toilet Entrepreneur?

We also got out 14 posts for the month, which equates to almost one every other day. October is going to be better - I swear! Keep a look out!

I think that is about all the updates that I have for now. October is a busy month for me (as far as the weekends go) but I should be able to get a lot of posts written while at work…like I am now.

Anyway, keep your heads up, keep hustlin’, and keep making the green!

-Chris

P.S. New Dorm Room Biz design is still in the works - look for it to be launching this month…..I hope! It should be great!

P.S.S. Thanks for continuing to come back and visit the site! Be sure to subscribe via RSS or Email and then follow me on Twitter!

Tags: contest, Earnings, reviewme, September, SponsoredReviews.com, TLA, updates
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Quick Update on the Dorm Room Biz Contest

Written by Chris on September 5, 2008 – 9:00 am -

It has been almost two full weeks since the contest went live and I must say, WOW what a response! This started off a bit slow but by the end of the first week there were about 10 entries. Now, we are at more than 40 comments and entries for the contest! That is awesome. There is a trick to how I got such a large jump in the last couple days, and I’ll share that either this weekend or next week with a video blog.

With the new entries came a few new offers for sponsorships. These two addition books are now up for grabs:

• Great Failures of the Extremely Successful - Mistakes, Adversity, Failure and Other Steppingstones to Success by Steve Young
• Ten Minutes to the Job Interview - Your last-minute guide and checklist for securing a position, a promotion, a paycheck by Rachel Ingegneri

Digg It! If you haven’t already, please give the contest a Digg. Although we won’t make the front page or anything, every bit of exposure helps to grow the site and get more people involved!

Also from the new entries, I have been getting some great emails from new readers that love the site and want to help it grow, so thank you to everyone for your support! With this, I will be conducting some new interviews and other having some new posts to work on.

If you have already entered by leaving a comment on the original post, then your next step should be to blog about it and send a track back to the page about it. Without sending a trackback or leaving a comment with the blog post URL, I won’t know about it…so be sure you get me the address of the post!

If you are a new reader and visitor to the site - welcome! If you like what you see and the target audience for the site, I am always looking for guest bloggers. So if you have a post in mind you’d like to write, get in touch with me.

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Recent Updates at Dorm Room Biz

Written by Chris on July 22, 2008 – 10:00 am -

I’ve been making a couple different updates to the site over the last week or so and just wanted to share them. They are simple updates but will hopefully help out the website in one way or another.

I have done the following:

• Fixed up the Advertising page and added Buy Now buttons to allow for instant purchases, so go buy some advertising spots!
• As you have probably noticed, I have started adding some new videos to the site to accompany different posts. I mentioned that I got my Flip video camera the other day and it has been working great.
• I added a few new affiliate/sponsor buttons in the header area as well as the sidebar. All fo these spots are currently up for grabs, so if you want to do some advertising buy yours today!
• UPDATE: I guess I should have also added that I updated to Wordpress 2.6 and have been slowly upgrading all my other websites to it as well.

I have some other things in the works for Dorm Room Biz to keep growing, so look out for them coming in the next month or so.

In other news, I also updated my personal webiste the other night, www.chrispund.com. It was just a redirect to a blog that never really got updated, so I wanted to use it as a landing page for my network of websites. Now it has links to my active sites, so check it out.

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