I spent about 3 hours yesterday afternoon trying to answer the above question.  What is Clickbank?  My secondary question was…How do I use Clickbank to further monetize my Internet real estate.  AdSense has been a great start, don’t get me wrong, but I’ve spent the last year as a one trick pony.  That strategy is not going to work in 2009 if this is the year I figure out how to make $5000 a month via web investments.  And by the way, I’ve decided that I’m going to figure out this online income thing without buying anyones Carbon Copy System.  Maybe that is stupid, but I consider myself of average intelligence, so I darn well should be able to figure things out this year. 

ALL THAT BEING SAID, Clickbank seems to offer some interesting opportunities.  The deal is that you sign us as an affiliate and get paid a commission on any products that are sold from leads generated from your web properties.  This is great, but I see a bit of a problem.  I DON’T EVER want to suggest a product that I don’t believe in 100%.  I know that there are great opportunities there, but I need to sift through the thousands of Garbage Opportunities to find the jewels that I can promote and suggest. 

So that is where I am, and I would truly appreciate any comments regarding your experience with Clickbank and what products, if any, your have found that truly add value to peoples lives…because that is what it is all about for me.  I want to help, every day, even if it is only in a little way.

Adsense for Content…about $75.00 in revenue

Adsense for Search…about $50.00 in revenue

Private Ads…exactly $50.00 in revenue

Total December blogging income…$175.00

I’m pretty pleased with these results as I truly blog for fun.  That being said, I’m an entrepreneur at heart, so I love the business aspect of conquering the Internet.  I will continue down the path of slow and steady to win the race, and will grow my knowledge of all things “interweb”  as you must remember that I started with NO KNOWLEDGE of these things several months ago.  Hopefully I can report $300 in income for Jan.  I’m looking for 2009 to be a big year. 

Blessings!  And big thanks to all my friends and commentors.  You truly make blogging alot more fun.

Many of you are hesitant about Network Marketing in general…as I have always been too.  But we have all been pretty quick to point out that saving families and businesses money on their natural gas bill and potentially other services they are already using, seems like the most solid networking marketing business model we have ever seen. 

This is especially evident when compared to juice’s, travel memberships, soaps, etc. 

So that being said, my wife and I are extremely excited about this business opportunity.  Sarah is doing a great job working on marketing our services to everyone that she meets.  It is really not hard to try to save people money on things they are already spending cash on every month.

http://www.teamccm.com/bansel Visit for more information!

Team CCM is based out of Toledo, OH and was formed recently to market the Natural Gas Choice services of Volunteer Energy in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. 

I’m extremely excited about this opportunity as it is the first time in my life that I’ve found a network marketing company with something truly exciting to offer.  It is so easy to simply ask everyone I meet if they would allow me to see is I can save them some money on their natural gas bill each month.  This is very different than asking people to buy juices, vitamins, etc.  Nothing like that ever interested me in the past. 

I’ve been very impressed with the consistent savings that can be offered by Volunteer Energy when compared to the local gas monopolies in MI, OH, and PA.  You can visit the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio’s WEBSITE and review their Apples to Apples chart of the various natural gas Choice providers in Ohio.  I was excited to find that Volunteer offered the best variable rate in Ohio the most recent time that chart was published. 

I will keep you all posted on my progress in saving everyone in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania money on their monthly natural gas bill!

Basically the deal is that it is very hard to send a video over e-mail that the recipient can actually play on his computer without having to download formatting software. It appears that Talk Fusion has some kind of patented system that allows you to send video e-mail to anyone, and they GUARANTEE that the receiver will be able to play it on their computer without any special software.

The gentleman who introduced me to this opportunity is an extremely nice guy named Bill Lomas. Bill is sold on this product and doing extremely well. The product costs about $350 up front and about $20 per month depending on how may folks you have in your contacts list who will receive video e-mails from them.

The only issue that I have with the program is the MLM component. I am kind of unclear about the compensation plan. I’ve been too busy to sit down with Bill and try to figure it out, but when I do, I will let you know what the deal is and if I think there is an opportunity there for us.

Please let me know if you have had any connection points with video e-mail, and what your experience was.

I’ve spoke with Bill several times since my first Blogger post about Talk Fusion.  He appears to still be doing great.  That being said, I don’t believe that I’m going to take the leap.

ChaCha.com is a service where you can text any question that you can think of to 242242 (chacha) and you will very quickly get a text message back with an accurate answer.  It is an extremely cool service.  It is free, you have to check it out!

Anyways, they rely on a network of tens of thousands of “guides” to answer the millions of questions that they get every month.  THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY!

I’ve just signed my wife up for the program.  She will be paid between $.10 and $.20 per question that she answers, and she can log on to their program at her convience, whenever she is available to do a little work.  We figure that she can answer about 50 questions in about an hour.  So the money is not amazing, but the work is fun and flexible.  If she averages $7.00 per hour, it will add an additional $140 a month if she works just 5 hours a week.  This is cash that will go a long way in this tough economy. 

I’ll keep you posted on how things progress!