My good friend Roberta over at Earsucker is giving away a very cool Fretlight guitar, some iPod/Zune/iPhone portable speakers from iMainGo, and much more. All you have to do is comment about one of your music memories on the contest page and you get an entry. You can also post about the contest or submit it to Stumble Upon for extra entries (leave a comment if you do either of these to get credit).

In my make money online and selling digital products posts, I gave you some ideas for making some extra cash online and pointed out a few resources to get you started. Today, I want to share something that will help you hit the ground running with Internet Marketing.

Internet Marketing Head Start is a series of step-by-step audio lessons designed to help you start making money online right away. This series contains 20 hard-hitting online marketing topics that you can use today to kick-start your online money making career.

Several months ago, I told you about my small success in making money online with affiliate marketing. Since then, I have been working harder than ever to continue learning and explore other methods of internet marketing.

I did fairly well in the months after I showed you the checks I received from NeverblueAds and COPEAC, but I didn’t do as well as I would have liked. This was mostly due to a couple of my profitable campaigns being deactivated, and the fact that I stopped doing PPC on some high-payout campaigns.

Have you ever wanted to have your own free online games site? I know I sure did. I really enjoy playing all the different online flash games and can waste hours of my down time playing them. To this day, I’m still impressed by the quality of some of those free games.

I just recently purchased a new advertising script for some of my niche websites that I thought I would share with those of you who are interested in making money online.

The website script is Peel Away Ads.

Peel Away Ads are the next generation in website advertising. They are much less intrusive than popup ads and those seizure-inducing animated banner ads you see all over the interweb. Peel away ads show-up on your site as a little dog-ear on the corner of your page and will only show the advertisement when your visitor moves their mouse over it.

I’ve never been one to doubt the fact that it’s possible to make money online, because I’ve done it in the past. I’ve dabbled a little with selling stuff on eBay and have made thousands selling my own software over the years. Although, as much as I tried, I was never able to make a significant amount of money with affiliate marketing.

I’ve started to notice lately that there are quite a few people in the blogosphere who need help making small changes to the layout or appearance of their blogs, but are having a hard time doing so. They either don’t know how to make the changes or don’t have the time to learn it on their own.

It’s been several months since I’ve posted an update about my endeavor to quit smoking, so I thought I would do so now. I’m sure many of you are wondering what happened after day 8.

I managed to stick with the non-smoking business until about day 16 or so, until my willpower started to fade. I began putting myself in situations that I knew would challenge my commitment to quit, when I should have known better. Slowly but surely, one cigarette after another, I was back to smoking full-time in a matter of three days.

For a little over a month now, I’ve been trying to learn as much as I can about affiliate marketing. I’ve been playing around with some different affiliate marketing concepts, and to my surprise, have started making some money online.

Making money online is not easy; don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. But, with a little effort, knowledge, and skill, it’s very possible. The most beautiful thing about making money online is the fact that everything you need to succeed is available to you, absolutely free on the Internet.

I am a very decisive person and once I’ve thought through a decision I rarely reverse myself unless there’s a good reason. One of my favorite quotes is: “Decide quickly and change your mind slowly.” I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said that, but don’t hold me to it.