Review: one penny project
Before I made my new review rules I nagged asked people around to review me in order to review them. One of the first people to go for the bait was Michael from one penny project: a "how to make money" blog
What I love
What I love about Michael is when you ask him something, he will do it 
- I got a very short review of Linky Love at Make Money Project Update and Linky Love review
- I got an answer on my comment in a short yet complete new post
Content
The keyword here is "short" as Michael lately went on a strict diet of blogging 4 hours a week. Michael shows in his side-bar the amount he earned so far and aims to get $1000 by Thanksgiving.
For now I need to dig deep in the posts to find answers about "how to make money", like a smart program to open your browser with all the blogs you love to read. Smart time management!
Michael is a bit secretive about his project at times I have the impression. Or like he says himself: the thing I tested now isn’t worth to mention. Here I disagree with Michael: he could help people avoiding going the same path as Michael did, avoiding loosing precious time and energy! So Michael is wasting a big opportunity by not sharing his knowledge.
Design
The blog design is a sober "Minima" Blogger Blogspot template with lots of white space. I like as I am not into much fancy colours when reading blogs. Although a money making blog, the blog is not cluttered by ads.
A straight forward look, no time wasted to personalise it.
Conclusion
By adding the non successful projects, the content of this make money blog would be a big help for other DIY newbie bloggers for money.
Michael stands out by answering people and giving a helping hand when he can.
Have a look yourself at the one penny project.
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June 28th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Thank You for the review. I upped my blogging time so my posts are back to being longer.
Right now I am working on some cool software to find contacts to add with MyBlogLog. Right now I can add 15 contacts in less then 2 minutes and they are all interested in the same stuff I am.
You are correct that I don’t always give the full details on my success or failures. For example I found over 20 Ebay sellers making $200-$1200 a month selling info products. If I listed those seller IDs on my site, I would get creamed because they would have copycat sellers takin gtheir customers the next day.
I should give more tips on failures. Thanks for the reivew and comments.
Take Care,
Michael
June 28th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Me also interested in your cool software
Of course you cannot reveal too many secrets, unless you want to get rich writing about secrets!
Writing about failures would still be fast for you, + save others time in making the same mistake: win-win!