If you’ve noticed on me blog, I’ve added Kontera advertising to its pages.

Ever since Google allowed people to have Kontera ads alongside Adsense, many webmasters have decided to add another revenue stream onto their websites.

Obviously, it doesn’t mean that just adding Kontera would see you making more money, it’s a little more complicated than that.

You’d have to test and measure if adding a new nifty thing actually increases or decreases your overall revenue. For example, some marketers who were making good income with Adsense on their websites made EVEN more when they removed it.

Because without the Adsense ads they discovered that more of their visitors ended clicking on their affiliate links instead, which gave them a higher ROI. So you really have to test and measure.

Anyway, if you’re looking to add Kontera to your wordpress blog, it’s really easy to do. You can visit Kontera wordpress plugin page and follow the steps listed there.

Ok I have a really short but great tip you can use immediately after reading this.

If you use an autoresponder to collect opt-in leads, you’d normally have a webform like this to capture the person’s information:

So you capture the guy’s info, he’s on your list, and now you start to followup with the fella using email. And this is what you normally do when you create an email (let’s use aweber as an example):

Hi {!firstname},

Blah blah blah blah!

Regards,
Joe Black

If you’re familiar with autoresponders, the {!firstname} will be filled with whatever the person entered when he first opted-in. The trouble is a lot of people are lazy and they enter their names in lowercase. Which means the person types in ‘robert’ instead of ‘Robert’. And then when you craft your emails, it looks really unprofessional. Like this:

Hi robert,

Blah blah blah blah!

Regards,
Joe Black

Doesn’t look or feel nice eh? It’s like you don’t respect the person’s name enough to ’spell’ it right, only that it wasn’t really your fault in the first place. So what do you do?
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Ok if you use an autoresponder and collect opt-ins via a webform, this should interest you.

Normally, the code your autoresponder provides you gives you a webform that looks like this:

That’s the standard look and it works fine. I’ve been using this ‘look’ for the last 10 months now and I’ve built a list of decent size. But then I discovered how to jazz up my submit button!

Have a look:
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As you know, it is now 2007 and that means I’ve been busy changing all my copyright notices from 2006 to 2007. And that’s plain tedious work, especially when you have multiple html pages.

And to make it worse, I just found out that I could actually do that whole thing automatically if I just did some simple geek techniques.

Boy, that would have saved some time! But I didn’t and I actually had that info lying on my desktop for weeks!

Anyway, if you own websites and you too need to change your dates, then this should help:

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