by Wilson
August 26, 2007 in ramblings, random
There is not much progress to report from our business side. We are killing time right now. Dave and Buster’s is a new hang out for us. Check out the sweet prizes we won:
There are more prizes in the back seat of our car. The passes for Robert Kiyosaki’s seminar came in the mail. You can reserve your seat or check out seminars around your area. Its great to meet new people who share similar goals and mindsets.
by Henry
August 22, 2007 in Business, Money Making Ideas, Motivation, Traffic
by Henry
August 20, 2007 in Affiliate Marketing, Random Thought
I have several unfinished projects and yet I find myself constantly writing down new projects, buying domains, and thinking about ideas to develop. If you have this same habit, focus on building a steady stream of income from previous projects and invest only a partial amount of time, energy, and money into your new ideas while growing what is already working for you.
I’ve learned that one of the things you really need in this business is patience and trust. Because you cannot do everything yourself, you need to find the right people and trust them. After all this time, I still find it difficult sometimes to just wait on programmers and designers to complete a job. While you’re waiting on projects, I recommend testing out other sources of income. Recently we have been revisiting affiliate marketing and are pretty amazed at how little effort and time it takes to generate some extra passive income. We found that it takes trail and error and you have to take it really seriously to set it up correctly. Sending people to the merchant’s landing page is the basics and will generate a small ROI if any. Also the profits are not long term. You own nothing.
We have also been testing out Neverblueads and some other CPA networks. Although Neverblueads does not have a huge selection of merchants compared to some other networks, I would say that it has the best metrics and reporting.
Sometimes its healthy to just get away from all of it and just relax. The other week, when I went to see the Bourne Identity, looking to waste some time before the movie, I came across this game: Stackers. After just one try, I found it quite addicting. My twin and I actually got to the top of the Major Prize row 3 times! With a chance to win an XBOX360, Wiii and other sweet prizes. But when we went home and did a little research we found that the game is actually rigged. The last row at least. Here is a video of the game and the rigged last row.
by Wilson
August 13, 2007 in Affiliate Marketing, Business, Money Making Ideas
I have been really trying to hit up affiliate marketing these last few weeks as well as working on some guides. Affiliate marketing was actually the first system I used to make money online but it never took off in terms of scaling it up to where we wanted it to be. We never took it seriously because making money with adsense was a lot easier. We put up ads on our sites and our visitors decided to click on it or not. We did not have to worry about “getting the sale” and did not have this feeling of “forcing” these offers and products onto our users. We tried many affiliate networks but most of them cater to US and Canada. So we can only push them on a few of our sites. We have also been experimenting on making better landing pages with interactivity to get users to click on the offers themselves. Most of these affiliate networks now have conversion tracking which helps this trail and error process. But this is really tedious and a lot of motivation helps. I know for a fact that top affiliates can make up to $5000 a day easily. After these few weeks we have seen just how much more profitable affiliate marketing is compared to placing adsense on a site. It does require more trail and errors though.
by Henry
August 11, 2007 in Business, Random Thought
Anyone else use valueclick? Their ads stopped showing on Friday and their sites are all down. There are also rumors of an FTC probe on Valueclick from posters on message boards. I looked at their stock symbol (VCLK) and it looks like it took a recent hit a few days ago and another hit in afterhours. It looks like it is set to take a nosedrive on Monday. It makes it seem like our problems look like nothing compared to theirs. Adbrite is also having problems serving their ads this week.
Update August 11, 2007: Value Click is back up along with their ads displaying on sites.
by Henry
August 5, 2007 in Motivation, Self Development, Solving Problems
A good indication of what is going on in a person’s mind can be found by looking at their everyday surroundings and environment. I recently found photos of our older brother’s refrigerator that we took when we visited him. Take a look at it:
That just shows me what was on his mind for the last few years. He has his Phd now and recently found a 6-six figure income job! He probably mastered those equations to get his Phd and placing them on his fridge helped.
Here is a photo taken of our refrigerator a few months ago and some books
Writing down goals and placing them where you see them everyday helps you focus your energy and thoughts on achieving them.
by Henry
August 1, 2007 in Business, Education, Lessons, Motivation
I received a suggestion from a reader to offer mentorship to people to maximize their adsense profits today. This is a good suggestion and one which we already have experience with. This idea was actually one of the first things I thought about and did when we started making a decent amount of money through adsense about 2 years ago and we had even written a book on making money online.
I remember the first time I showed a friend our adsense accounts. His first words were: “Teach me” after the initial disbelief. But after we told him the “secrets”, it seemed like he did not think he could do it and just wanted us to do all the work for him and just collect the Adsense earnings. I believe all the information that is needed to generate revenue from adsense has probably been written about in blogs, books, or in forums. But it ultimately comes back to the individual and how much he wants it. Knowing what to do and then actually executing the actions necessary is not easy. I think the other main reason we stopped doing it and selling our book was due to greed and fear. We were greedy and feared what would happen if we taught too many people. Maybe in the future we’ll rebrand the book and start selling it again.
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