Very simple question: Would you steal someone’s idea? Of course, the answer may not be as simple especially if you have morals and all that good stuff but if you think about it, an idea is just an idea unless someone actually puts that idea to good use.

The other day, I was sitting at a cafe having some lunch with a friend just minding my own business and playing with my new cell phone when the people at the table next to use starting talking about their ideas on a niche website.

Now I wasn’t eavesdropping, the table was literally right next to me. And it’s a pretty small cafe to begin with. But their conversation went something like this:

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Almost two months ago I asked for your advice on what cell phone should I get and a lot of you guys were very helpful. Also, as a small thank you for taking the time to give me your opinions and advice, I offered a 125×125 ad for free for a month.

Unfortunately, when I announced the winner in my last DatMoney weekly updates I never got a response from the winner so I’m going to narrow down the winner now based on who voted for the cell phone I picked.

But before I do, let me bore you guys with the new phone that I got so you can either tell me how stupid I am or how I made a good decision. Either way, the phone should help me in more ways than one in the long run.

What cell phone did I end up getting?

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I have been thinking about this for quite sometime now but I’m still unsure if I should actually start a Youtube channel for DatMoney. As you guys know vlogging is really popular and if you know how to pull the right strings, it can work wonders. And when I say wonders I mean to say you’ll get a lot of subscribers (for your Youtube channel and blog), lots of traffic to your individual site as well as many a good amount of money.

Why Start A Channel On Youtube? Benefits?

Technically, I already have a personal one but I don’t use it. I think I created one years ago but forgot about it. But why should I start one for DatMoney? Well, there are a number of reasons and a big part of it is to take my blog to the next level.

If you’re an internet entrepreneur, you find ways to expand your business, take advantage of the opportunities that are in front of you as well as experiment on what works and what doesn’t. For instance, everyone takes advantage of social media sites like Digg and Reddit, social networking sites like Facebook of Twitter and social video sites like Youtube.

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I know some of my family and close friends are reading this and I’m probably not talking about you guys especially if I never worked with you before or we have an ongoing working relationship. But I have worked with some of you guys and honestly, it just doesn’t seem to work out.

Now a lot of these family and friends that I work with aren’t too keen of how making money online even works. Matter of fact, these are the same people who are just completely shocked that you can make money blogging and try to jump on the opportunity with it comes. Though, for some reason all they hear is “make money” but it seems as though no work gets done.

All Money No Work

I was once told that money doesn’t grow on trees because, well, it doesn’t. And even if it did, you still have to put some work into climbing up to pick money off, or raking in all the money that falls. Especially, if you want to make money, it doesn’t magically just happen.

It’s not like winning the lottery. And again, even if you win the lottery, it takes someone to walk over to the store, possibly fill out that little numbers sheet and purchase it. Then make sure you check back to see if your numbers was actually picked.

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How I Plan To Get Accepted Into Google News - Before I go through the details on how I plan on getting into Google News, I’m actually referring to one of my other sites and not DatMoney. I wouldn’t attempt to try to get DatMoney into Google News simply because this blog isn’t news related.

I have a relatively new site which is focused on entertainment type stuff. Of course, the site covers more than just that but the main theme surrounding it is entertainment. The reason why I started this site is to get included into Google News as well as blog about things I’m interested in, work with a team and hopefully make some good money along with it.

But in addition to that, it’s always good learning the process and gaining knowledge and experience in case I try to do this with another site.

Why Google News?

There’s a couple of simple reasons why. Obviously, Google is the majority of the internet and just getting into Google News would help just about any site spike in traffic on a daily basis… If you do it right. Basically, our team will focus on blogging on main topics people are searching for on a regular basis.

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