Hear ye, hear ye! We’d like to announce a new bookmarklet to help you Assetize your ‘organic’ links!

We know what you’re thinking: Hey smarty-pants, what the heck are organic links? Links that are green? Made from natural ingredients? Low-emission?!  Err, no. We mean links that your share naturally with your friends and followers, and not just ones from RSS feeds – a limitation we used to have.

What the Bookmarklet Will Look Like

Using our brand spankin’ new bookmarklet, you can monetize any link with one click, and then share them everywhere: Twitter, Facebook, email, snail mail…ok, not snail mail, but you get the point.

To download the bookmarklet, visit your My Accounts page and ‘drag’ the bookmarklet button from the site to your bookmarks bar. Then, every time you want to share a link, simply click the bookmarklet and a box will appear with the Assetized link. Copy-paste it where you want, and you’re done!

Ready… set… Assetize!

Twitter has published some new rules regarding affiliate marketing, which can be found here:http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/76915

Here are some excerpts we would like to bring to your attention:

Feeds of your own blog: It’s generally fine to automate your account with updates of your own content; just be sure to review the Twitter Rules before setting up your automation…

Feeds for community benefit: We welcome feeds that are used for community benefit or provide non-commercial information to a niche group of users, such as local weather feeds or transit information….

Automated or mass-created affiliate advertising is not permitted on Twitter…

Updates that are posted automatically to your account through a tool or third-party application, for which you are compensated (whether on a “per-click,” “per-sale,” “per-tweet,” or other basis), are prohibited…

All sponsored or paid updates must be manually approved

From the above, you’ll notice that using Assetize to post news content on your account is completely acceptable. However, they do require that all ads sent through accounts must be approved each time.

Our goal is to work within Twitter’s Terms of Service so that you can continue to see the benefits of your valuable Twitter account. As such, we’ll be making the following changes:
1) Assetize will no longer publish ads automatically through accounts in-stream. All ads will first be sent to publishers for approval, and will then be posted. Due to this change, you will see fewer ads within your stream.
[We have asked for, and received, permission from Twitter to run the Haiti in-stream campaign (more below), so these will continue to run in an automated fashion]
2) If you use RSS feeds to send out content through Assetize, all content links will show an ad bar on the destination pages. You may have already noticed this, as we have been testing it out with a few valuable accounts. Users will now be paid based on a combination of an account’s influence, as well as the number of times their content gets clicked — a CPM-like model.

To see examples of this format, visit our homepage at http://assetize.com. Not only does this keep you earning money, but is a much less intrusive and less interruptive solution for your followers!

Hi Everyone,

Sorry that I’ve been slow to blog recently but, as you’ll notice, we’ve been busy making big changes to our site. We have built out our ad network functionality, and are focused on being the best targeted ad network for Twitter (check out some real examples on our site).

For those users who have been inquiring about our Buy/Sell service, we have decided to turn this functionality off for the time-being. Since these actions were against Facebook’s and Twitter’s TOS, we thought it was best to focus on ways of monetization that added value to not only our users but also the social networks. We are confident that by creating a proprietary technology that offers targeted and relevant ads, we have now done this.

If you haven’t signed up for our new account monetization service yet, give it a try. Most of our users have already made more money through this than they did through Buy/Sell. It’s a win-win for all!

Hope this clears up why the services have changed.

Happy Assetizing,

Saif

Most Twitter accounts are inactive. Is yours? You can make money without lifting a finger.

Assetize has introduced a new way for you to monetize your social accounts: Twitter Account Parking! [Our interns call it the Bird's Nest. Pretty clever of them]

How can you park your account? Follow these simple steps:

1. Provide your account information

2. Give us keywords related to your account. We’ll use these to make sure that the content we provide is relevant. (Your only step*)

3. We provide the content and insert periodic ads

4. You make money

*Seriously, that’s it. You might want to come back and check your earnings once in a while though. Seeing your account balance grow is always soothing for the soul.

We’re currently in beta and sending out invites daily. To learn more or request an invite, visit http://assetize.com/park

Happy parking,

Saif

Greetings Assetizers!

We’re excited to announce two updates to our site:

1) You can now request accounts that aren’t already listed on Assetize – either directly from our homepage or following a search. We act as your broker in contacting the owner, and you still benefit from our escrow services to guarantee safe transfers.

A special thanks to all the users who suggested this in our Feedback Forum!

2) In the most obvious of changes, we’ve got a new UI! If you don’t remember what we used to look like, here are Before and After screenshots:

Before

After

Talk soon,
Saif