Writing and Making Money on Bangari

If you are still unsure about how Bangari works, then these email excerts could help you:

Writing
I wanted to write a post requesting that people write and spin articles here on Bangari, and then post them here first, and then post the SPVs on the content farms. I don't understand why they wouldn't do that unless it's that they don't understand the concept of "Project Exodus"

Lacking the advantages of capital and cash flow advantage we have the advantage of 'collective effort.' We have all pitched in a good amount of content 'for stock.' I think we have a good reservoir as of now. So I would say the most important part of 'what's next' is "posting!" We have to keep adding to the RSA files including all the ones we did for Billy for those fifty different companies, and from them squeeze out SPVs, clean those articles up, and post them on Bangari and all over the Internet. Some can go on the content farms, some on our own sites, and some on different sites linked back to Bangari.

There are other advantages to contributing to the start up efforts, and the body of content that we need 'in stock' and as samples to draw paying clients. We will be 'managers' of those clients' projects, and those managers will receive 10% commission on all the content we sell from that inventory.

Thanks a lot to everyone who has been contributing, and to those who want to but can't right now, we can't wait to see you back in the loop!

Conclusion: Bangari Writers Start Writing!
That means follow the set up article instructions for Project Exodus - Copy your articles from Content farms, spin them, post them on BCG (if you need help doing this contact Petal).

Making Money!

P:Stop paying people! Seriously how can anyone expect money when they know it's a co-op and we haven't sold anything!

K: I feel uncomfortable asking people to do things in hopes of it making money down the road. I wish I could at least offer a little money "upfront", like what Factoidz pays... But I'll heed your advice. If investing work now for a good payment later scares away some potential contributors, so be it


If they want to hold out until there is paying work, then when we get a paying contract, the people who invested their time "speculatively" will get first dibs on it. those folks will also manage that production like Sally did on Billy's project, and will make extra money, 10% I think, on what they write, and also 10% on the word count produced by the other contributors. That amounted to $500 for Sally just on the Work we did for Increase Visibility.

The "advance system" is just an add-on to the Bangari Bucks system. Some of the founders haven't been involved as much as others. I'm sure that month to month it will be like this. Some have told me that they are still interested, and wish they could contribute more, but have had certain problems that are preventing them...Namely, poverty. We are all in the same boat pretty much. So the advances are similar to an "activity bonus" at Factoidz. It gives the folks who are able to devote their time to the "start up" efforts required to get this site built up to the point that it generates decent revenue regularly a little money for their current efforts.

We need to "talk up" article spinning. Maybe mine some content from discussions on Bangari Blog and make articles out of them to post on BCG. I'm starting to carefully recruit...and hopefully, some will be able to afford a robot. Even if we slowly grow our team by five people a month, and four buy a robot, that's $200 in revenue to pass out in advances to those who have been contributing to the site. And of course there is nothing wrong with selling robots to people who just want to produce for their own sites.

Simultaneously, we have to monetize...So far that is a huge aggravation! I'm at the point where I have to call a "happiness engineer" at WordPress to find out why I can't get any HTML code to appear like it is supposed to on the site, when it comes to banners and such. I never had this trouble with Blogger. But like I said before, you don't want to post advertising like Adsense until you have a good flow of natural traffic. But it's past time to get other affiliates on there besides Jon Ledger. We also have to work on list his other products besides "The Best Spinner."

So that leaves us to try to do something that I know from experience is pretty tough (but not impossible) to do, especially in a down economy. That is, start a business on 100% elbow grease and 0% capital! I'm doing some things in the 'real world' that hopefully can get me some real money. I'd like to have at least $500 to pay out in 'advances' by January, and another $500 to spend on a professional Web designer to overhaul our properties -and I'd like to spend a little on the Alexa site optimization package, and other analytics. I could work wonders with a $500 / month budget for subscriptions and other bells and whistles for Bangari.

So far everything is on track. Of course I wish it was steaming down that track a little faster, but without capital, slow progress is to be expected.

Conclusion: Kevin does, has and will continue to pay for your hard work - Start Writing!

How're We Going to Make Money?

Here are some more musings and Q&A taken from a recent email conversation with Kevin, please get involved in the exchange of ideas by adding your thoughts in the comments.

#Kevin we don't want to make money off of you - don't pay anything from your own pocket.

*It’s okay. The money that is coming out of my pocket is being matched by a client that I’m partners with. I may do this in the future with other clients. It’s a good way to let a client know you are “in it to win it, along with them!” Plus, I want to keep everyone encouraged until we can land the next big project.

I wanted to start monetizing the site, beginning with Amazon, but I’m having major difficulty doing this on WordPress. It was never a problem in Blogger. I have to keep at it. I plan to do Adsense as well, but we need to have a good amount of traffic before Adsense, otherwise click fraud can be a problem. I have a great reputation with Google, and I want to keep it. I've been making my days all about monetizing the site, and getting sales. It has taken a lot just to prepare to do this. I’ve only made a few contacts, but I've got a good list going, and will be reaching out a lot more in the weeks ahead.

#Can you get us the code for TBS banners so we can start promoting and posting those to make more money. I can make a Squidoo about TBS and even Bangari.

*I made those Banners myself, there is no HTML for it. Just link to the TBS “landing page” on Bangari. That will be great to get back links to our site. We can sell these robots even to those who don’t want to be part of Bangari. It could be good revenue, and the affiliate system worked without a hitch. so, let’s go for it!

#Have you thought through what happens when someone contacts us to buy, what the procedure will be?

*That’s about all I’ve been thinking about. Realistically, we will be contacting them at first. It might be a while before we get customers for content straight through SEO. Bangari needs to rank much higher first. We need more links, and more traffic, and lots more SEO work.

#The BCG has not got prominent "Contact us here to buy content" blurb on it and this is the most important thing. We need them to know exactly how to contact us, it should be in their faces when they look at the site.

*Exactly! This is part of posting. When sample content is posted, it needs to have the “this content is for sale” picture attached, preferably, top and bottom. That has to link back to the page where they can input their contact information.

We need to work on a “posting” system, including the time required along with step by step instructions. Then we have to value it like we did with word count.

#We've all been less in contact lately. How come I never hear from some of the other names on the BCG posting on this blog?

*I’m trying not to pester anyone to contribute, but it would be better if there was more chatter. I like that it’s a small group as we work out details, so I thought I would hold off on contacting the others with a pep talk until we get the posting system up and running. I’m going to be offering SEO services along with the content we produce, and posting is the biggest part of that work. So I thought a good occasion to get everyone psyched about getting involved would be when we get our first big project...soon I hope!

#I read the history of Google you once posted and it seems backlinks are really at the bottom of it all.

*Yes! Linkbuilding (and repairing, as you eloquently posted on Factoidz) is essential to building the popularity of Bangari. We have the advantage of being a multi-authored site. That’s huge! I know you worry about spreading a little work too thin. But until Bangari hits the radar, we won’t get a lot of work, and no passive revenue. The more people we bring in, the more robots we sell, the more “samples” we post, the more RSA files we have in stock in so many more categories...You see? But you are right to be concerned because it is a delicate balance. I’m still a little shy about actively recruiting and think I will be until we have our posting system down pat. Linkbuilding goes hand in hand with posting, SEO, and content production. We can’t sell our services promoting other sites until we have done a thorough job of promoting our own.

Many potential clients, if they are smart, will check our Alexa ranking before they deal with us. It should be in a respectable position, even if we are admittedly “new.” If we can get into the 100,000s in the US...great!

OK so I really want to see the others on the letterhead getting involved, showing interest, in the future these first few writers will hopefully profit the most so there should be some input from them at this point. Please everyone let your voices be heard!!

Passive income proposal

I’m still holding my breath, waiting for Billy’s feedback, hoping that we wowed them, sweating getting paid (don’t worry, I got everyone covered even if the client, for some strange reason, doesn’t come through in a timely way) I don’t think that we will be disappointed! I’m proud of us.

I have some more work that pays by the word. It will be a bunch of articles about home schooling. I want to hold off on it for just a bit longer...at least until the money comes through from this last project. I don’t want to get in over my head.

In the meantime, I want to propose an idea that I think will get us some good income...Passively.


Let me start by explaining the purpose for the different domains I’ve got going. There really is rhyme and reason to this, but it can get confusing. Don’t get frustrated.

Bangari Content Studios: This is our private site. It’s private in order to protect our client’s intellectual property. It keeps the crawlers away so we aren’t inadvertently competing with them with the content they buy from us. It also keeps the client and others from seeing our work in progress, and as Petal put it: our inner squabbles.

Everything else belongs in the open and in the spotlight. We want to draw as much traffic as possible, to promote our business and generate revenue. Content draws traffic. It has to be quality content of course, but quantity gets the search-bots excited. All out dialog concerning writing, especially when we fill in labels, pushes us higher to the top of the search engine results. That’s a huge advantage to keeping these discussions out of email...not to mention, it’s more organized.

Bangari Content Studio Blog: Post all correspondence here...The inspirational are a great idea as well. All for the reasons I stated above.

Bangari Content Gallery: Here is where I want to post our content created for passive income, and displayed for sale. Our blog will link to it, and as the blog rises in rank the back link will do us good. Then BCG will link to our individual blogs helping them as well.

Now let’s get into some detail about what this content produced for passive income, and potential sale should be. Think about American Idol. How many times do the judges admonish the hopeful and talented amateurs about the importance of  “song selection”...So it goes with content. Success is hinged on choosing the right topics, and covering them in an original and all inclusive way.

To make out well, you need to come out above the fold for a search on the topic you are writing about. This takes good SEO (search engine optimization) work. If you choose a topic that is very popular, like “diabetes” ...it takes unbelievably good SEO work. That’s why if you are a one man show, you would be wise to go for “long tail” topics, aka “niche” topics. For an article that expands on long tail and associated SEO click here.

I want to tackle the competitive topics. I think with a talented group, working together to churn out a mass of relevant content, along with some original angles on these popular topics, we could make out really good. Sally wrote a plan for a content production package for diabetes, that was stellar. I think that would be a great topic to make the focus of our first effort. I have two others that I know we could shine on as well. One is physical fitness and steroids. The other is mortgage modification and stopping foreclosure.

I can’t guarantee success here. This would be a group gamble...But worse case scenario, we post the content on AC if it doesn’t generate the kind of passive income that surpasses Associated Content, and other content farms...Let me know what you all think in the comments.