How to Have a Great Week
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Here's how to have a great week. This is basically a rundown of what I've been up to the last couple of days (and also why I've been neglecting my blog)...you know, if you were following me on Twitter, you'd know this stuff by now...
1. Get an exceptionally large income tax return.
2. Realize that you have a few things you need to pay for, but really not more than a couple of hundred dollars.
3. Take a friend out for sushi.
4. Take friend out for lunch the next day, then go to the shooting range and unload a couple boxes of ammo.
5. Buy a new guitar and amp.
6. Take three friends out for dinner.
7. Take four friends (not counting the one you meet up with later) out and drive an hour and a half to Houston for a Cowboy Mouth concert. Proceed to rock your ever loving butt off with those friends, when an old high school friend and another awesome friend show up at the show, then proceed to rock out more losing about 20 lbs. via sweat and jumping around and screaming like a 5 year old who found the sugar stash.
8. Take friends to IHOP.
9. Drive back 1.5 hours and crash. Sleep till about 10 AM.
10. Call that place that you applied for a job at. Realize that you did, in fact, get the job, which means a pay raise AND the ability to work in jeans and tee shirts.
Yeah. I'm having a pretty good week so far. :D
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New Lens: How I Make Money on Twitter
I'd like to announce my latest Squidoo lens:
Why should you check it out? Well, basically it's about 90% of my Twitter strategy. What's the other 10%? That's what you might call a trade secret...heh.
It does give details on how I run my Twitter campaign, so I hope this will help you either duplicate my success or formulate your own strategy for monetizing your Twitter account.
Read. Enjoy.
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Shoemoney’s Secret: How to Make Huge Profits From Your Blog
I was making the rounds on the net and I saw this post on Shoemoney's blog called "Progress and Completion" where he talks about making progress on things and how completion of a goal sometimes puts a stop to progress. Aside from being a very good post, he mentioned something that made me think a bit (aside from the whole thing about making progress, etc.).
He mentioned the typical email that he receives on a daily basis, essentially someone giving a sob story about why they need to know his secret to making money out of nothing (or almost nothing) overnight. But the big thing that got me thinking was the typical reaction to Shoe's well thought out response. You know, going ballistic because Shoemoney didn't divulge all of his secret tricks; forget the fact that he said that wasn't his focus...
But let's get down to brass tacks. If you are reading this, then you really just want to know what makes Jeremy Schoemaker so much freaking money. I know the answer. Are you ready?
Mr. Schoemaker's secret is learning. Shall I explain this a bit more?
Whether you are talking about Shoemoney, John Chow, or any other super affiliate, there is a common thread in the way they make their money. It's all about learning how to make different programs work best in combination.
And for those idiots who email these guys demanding that they give out their 'secret recipe', think about this: THEY ARE ALREADY GIVING IT OUT. Maybe they aren't just handing over a piece of paper or an ebook with their entire business strategy on it, but the bits of information and wisdom that they include in their blogs are, in fact, parts of their strategy. Ideas that work, ideas that suck, it's all there. All you have to do is pay attention.
And I'm pretty sure that these guys didn't just instantly find something that made their bank accounts spazz out. There's not a single success story that didn't include failure somewhere in the mix.
OK, maybe that's not a big secret. But from the response that Jeremy spoke of, you would think that it was.
Anyway, every affiliate blogger worth reading will drop some useful bits of information on their blog. All you have to do is read it. Grab their RSS feeds...and get my RSS feed while you are at it. Join their mailing lists. Jeremy sends some awesome information through it that you won't just find lying around the blog...it's definitely worth doing.
Anyway, this is just a thought. Keep reading and learning, and one day you may be making the big bucks as well.
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Can You Make Money with Video Games?
Hey, if it makes money on the net, I'm usually looking into it. Here's another angle you may (or may not) want to check out.
To be honest, I've never played World of Warcraft. I know, Shoemoney would probably have a cow. So what if I'm behind the times? So here's where the money comes in. I've heard that you can sell your World of Warcraft accounts...so you play the game, build your characters or whatever, then bail. Sounds like a good plan to me...heh.
First, you are going to need to buy the game. Then, you will probably want to go over to BuyMMOAccounts.com and buy wrath of the lich king WoW access cards (in order to play). Then, just build it up and sell the whole thing to your friends. Nice, eh?
OK, I have no idea whether this will work or not. Like I said, it's just a far fetched idea from my point of view. But hey, who knows. Anybody have any experience selling your video game accounts?
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PayPerPost on the Downhill Slide?
Alright, I get it. The economy sucks right now. But MY economy shouldn't suck quite so bad.
There are tons of companies that are going through the end of their fiscal life, and I really hope that PayPerPost is not one of those companies.
PayPerPost is a good company that does exactly what their name implies - they pay you to post things on your blog. Last year, I made a fair amount of change from doing posts from their network. But something has changed this year. Instead of lots of posts ranging from $5 to $10 each (based on my PR), there are tons more posts that are in the $0.50 to $2.00 range. What's with that?
I hope PayPerPost sticks around. I tend to worry when I see good networks do odd things. Maybe I can still make a bit with them. Although, my freelance business is doing quite a bit better than I did doing sponsored posts last year...
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