Well , week one is down ,and it had it’s good points.

Good points :

I made it in to the office before 8AM every day (7am was the goal, however I missed it by about 15 minutes on a couple of days)
I’ve got a bunch of work done, and set up a bunch off sites

Bad Points :
My good money maker site has really gone down.

The biggest problem I’ve had was the fact my 2 niche sites got banned, and since then , the traffic has been somewhat erratic.

The big goal has been to build several stable sites, and do as much as I can to get them ranked, and decent traffic to them, so I can then monetize em and get back in the game.

I’m also working on my own offer, so that’ll be cool to run , a few people I know have done well with releasing their own offers, so I really want to work on this.

The end goal of the offer/product will have a seemingly very legitimate offer that I can run in place of the semi-shady bizops I ran that got me banned, and also have something I can use with real-world advertising like Infomercials and such. I’ve almost got all the software stuff figured out, and the back end seems quite do-able, so all I need to do is continue to work on it (the content is almost done , the domains needed are bought, what’s left is the actual backend design and lander).

Well, I figured I’d do something productive and review a product, Ubot.

Ubot is touted as the answer to every web developer’s dream who has ever needed a bot , scraper or any sort of automation tool for websites.

I looked at ubot a month ago, and was pretty impressed with the potential of having the ability to build easy scrapers, as  I have no clue on PHP or any other programing languages (outside of HTML).

So, I ponied up the $149 (as was the price when I bought it) and bought ubot. I was definately impressed the first day I had the program, I was able to create a real simple bot that worked and pulled the indexing rate of a few of my project sites.

After day #1 , that’s when it started to go down hill…..quickly. I started getting BSOD errors, as well as different .net errors. After about a week, I could no longer log into the program as it required a update, which I was unable to complete due to the errors. I finally realized that I had to uninstall the program in order to download & reinstall the most recent version. Unfortunately, this has happened the past 4-5 times I’ve run the program, it has been so aggrivating I have stopped using it.

The potential for Ubot is huge , it’s relatively easy to use, and for someone who doesn’t know squat about programing, I was able to come up with a tool I needed in a hour or two. However, at the current time, the program is absolutely worthless. HOPEFULLY in the future, there will be some upgrades, or the developer will get his act together and make something usable , as right now it’s a POS.

Yep, I’m not even going to throw in an affiliate link for the product, unless they turn it around.

Well, It’s Day 2 Of The Challenge

So far so good, I made it into the office again today at around 7:15, I even packed my own lunch so I wouldn’t have to go out for food like yesterday.

My SEO income was OK I guess, a whopping $105 from BING , I also restarted a few of my facebook campaigns that had been run a while ago. Unfortunately the best they did was break even, so I know that I’ve got to release new adds, however dreadful it is, I want to do about $500/day on FB. I’d prefer to do something like dating on FB , however 99% of my ads get rejected, and the only ones that make it through are really crummy, super compliant ones that have a miserable CTR. I wish the interns would get it together and approve more ads, but as everyone knows , they don’t.

On another few good notes, I’ve  just about got my Emall type site up, which will provide the framework for the other ones I want to do. The goal right now is to build 15 e-mall type websites, then SEO the heck out of them. Each site would have something like 50k pages, and with 100% indexing ,I would have a good deal of SERP power with all those pages.

I had posted on wickedfire yesterday about my big marketing project, so I’ll fill everyone in on the project, background and my personal goals.

As  I’ve mentioned on the blog before,  ever since a young age, I’ve always wanted to have money. Growing up poor, it was always really sad to see my parents have to scrape, and live paycheck to paycheck in trying to keep up with bills and rent.  I had always promised myself that when I was married and had  a family that I wouldn’t live paycheck to paycheck like my parents did.

So, starting in October of last year, when my wife and I found out we were going to have a baby, it became even more evident that I needed to hustle, and find some way to earn a better living and at the same time, do something effectively that wouldn’t require me to be away from my family for 12hrs a day. I started initially just trying to find a way to monetize a blog I had,  and over time I started to learn about SEO, PPC and a host of other methods of making money, mostly revolving around affiliate marketing.

It took up until about the last week of November to find what I really wanted – CPA marketing,  interestingly enough, I had discovered everything on tylercruz.com due to a post on bluehat seo saying he was a lazy SOB and made affiliate marketing look bad. I knew when someone complained about someone making too much money or was ‘too lazy to be making money’ I knew I should do some further investigating. I was pretty inspired by reading how one guy had only been involved in PPC marketing for about 6 months, yet was generating over $100,000 in revenue per month. I figured it’d be best to try and copy what they were doing, or at least try to understand how they did it.

December I had made a whole $100.50 in income online from marketleverage, however knew that I needed to work a ton more to have any sort of success. In Janurary I tried starting PPC , and I think I also enrolled at PPC-Coach to try and learn more about it. I brought in approximately $1500 that month , which about half of was expenses & buying domains, it was a little taste of success but nothing much to write home about.

February was around $2500, with another half going to expenses, I had made some progress, but still hadn’t come close to hitting any of my goals. March rolled around, and I finished the month with $4285.50 in total income, much better, and not only had a $100 daily profit I had brought in $396 in one single day,  I finally felt like I was headed somewhere. At the end of the month, I really started to analyze what I was doing right and wrong, and realized that PPC was taking up a good chunk of the money I had made, while my SEO ventures were doing much better.

In April I almost completely dumped PPC in an attempt to concentrate only on SEO ,which was significantly cheaper for me to do, and from the month prior, also more rewarding. The month of April, I brought in a total of $24,295.97 , my best day bringing in $2001, of which was 100% profit. I had finally achieved a level of success that I felt was appropriate with the level of work I had spent on everything. The months of June and July brought in similar incomes, however my net revenue did go down, as I started to back up those SEO campaigns with PPC bidding to boost revenues.

Unfortunately, from that point on , I started to get lazy, going from 8,10,12 and even 16 hours of work on some days to something more like 2 or 3 hour days. Most of the work I had done was site maintenance, and other daily upkeep tasks, rather than expanding and diversifying.  I also invested a significant portion of my income (Well over $50,000) into a associate’s venture, as well as some real estate.

In August I got a pretty severe wakeup call, when Adwords banned me, and also had the majority of my sites de-indexed from Google due to them going after bizopp publishers as well as advertisers. My income suffered a drastic drop, as about 80%-90% of my income was from Google SEO , leaving me with a average daily profit of around $150/day.

Of course, $150/day is nothing to balk at , however only a few months ago, I was hoping to hit $4,000 per day in net revenue.

So, this brings me up to today , where I’m going to get back on the horse, go for the gold and surpass my best month of about $25,000 in income with a $100,000 consistent monthly revenue.

I am also planning on diversifying my income sources, up until September, I had never attempted anything outside of CPA leads with PPC and SEO.

These are my monthly goals at the end of the 16 weeks.

• $15,000 Per month in Facebook Income
• $15,000 Per month in CPS % E-Mall Income
• $10,000 Per Month in Adsense Income
• $5,000 Per Month in Profile Sales
• $40,000 Per Month in CPA SEO Income
• $15,000 In PPC Via Yahoo And Bing (And hopefully somehow get Adsense back up)

This will leave me with a $100,000/month income, at which time I can expand to greater things (such as large media buys which start at about $50k per campaign). I’d also like to get into high volume mailing (5m/day), however can’t devote enough time to that venture, I’m already making a few bucks a day off of it , however time constraints leave me unable to dedicate enough time to it.

Furthermore, every 2-3 days I will update this blog with my results and share my success and failures.

Ok , for some reason the CSS is totally screwed over by this post , so I’m in the process of fixing , please forgive me.

I figured I’d post up a little tidbit on my blog again (Finally , I know) about something that’s been bothering me – Macintosh Computers.

You know, there’s been tons of commercials on TV about how PCs are old and antiquated and Macs are the future! It even seems that every single trendy person uses a mac (Heck, even the president uses a mac).

So , being a ‘open minded’ individual as I am, I’ve asked every person who owns a mac the same question – Why did you buy one over a PC?

The answer I get about 80% of the time is “Because I’ve heard they’re the best” , The rest of the people I talk who answer because they run OSX on it.

So , I wanted to do something fun this morning , so I priced out 2 very comparable systems, a Macbook Pro 17″ and a dell XPS 16 (yes there’s 1″ of difference) to see how similar I could make the systems.

Ok , now what’s the difference? A different graphics card (Nvidia vs ATI) and about 1″ monitor difference. The price difference was pretty substantial at $820 difference between the two systems. Even more amazing was that Apple wanted $1,000 just to upgrade their macbook to 8gb of ram (Compared to dell’s $500 for the exact same thing!).

So , for about 50% more you’re paying for a name & Recognition along with a operating system that’s not compatible with quite a few programs, as windows still leads OSX in program development. Having said that , there’s always 3 choices for OS – Windows, Linux and OSX which whether the companies want to tell you or not , can be run on any of the systems, it just requires a little bit of tweaking.

So , here’s the question – Is someone really all that smart and trendy if they over pay on a computer by around 50% just to be like the next guy?

Well , after reviewing a few recent videos on Liveleak & Youtube about the various protests/marches that people are having here in the US for things like more welfare, universal healthcare , and the like I’ve started to get very angry.

Why am I angry?

Because my generation has been fleeced by our parents and grandparents. Politicians made a choice before I was born that I would have to bare the burden of heavy taxation for the previous generation’s stupidity.

Social security was formed in the mid 30s in a political attempt to quell the American’s worries about money and the future. Mind you , the 30s saw many communist ideas being brought to the US by Marxist Russians to spread communisim to a new country. Many Poor Americans felt like they could relate to the message of communism , that is “Making All Men Equal” by punishing the wealthy for having money and giving their earned money to everyone else.

Like many ideas thought up by politicans , Social Security was a scam from the start, people would pay part of their paychecks into a government system, which then would “Invest” the money for them, and hold it till they “Retired” (Something that had never existed before SS came into play). Many Americans were sold on the idea with the picture of the first check being handed out to someone who incidentally had never paid a dime into the system.

Believe it or not , Social Security was a scam from the start, the age in which benefits would be paid out to a individual started at 65, while the average lifespan of an American during the 30s was about 59.

Because of the fact that Social Security was at that point, a rare occurance for individuals exceeding the average life expectancy by 10% the government got what it wanted – More Taxes. See , social security money is put in an account, and then used to buy Government Bonds, giving the government the ability to create more debt for itself.

Now , fast forward 70+ years later, and we’ve got an absolute mess on our hands. People are living longer, and fewer people are entering the workforce, the great ponzi scheme is now running out of money at a rapid rate, expecting to run out of money by 2016.

So , what is the government considering to prevent social security from running out, and not putting elderly people who never planned for the future? They want to raid my bank accounts (401k and IRAs) and take my hard earned money to pay the debts of a previous generation.

See now? Politicans have been selling the same dang thing for 70+ years , that is the “Promise” of a easier life, regardless of who has to pay for it.

Unfortunately the time of reckoning is approaching, and one of two things will happen – I’ll be robbed of money I’ve worked hard to earn , OR benefits will be cut/eliminated to current recipients potentially putting millions of elderly people on the streets.

What’s the answer? I’ll get into that later, but for some reason no one likes it.

1. Bill Gates is worth $40 billion

2. Warren Buffet Is Worth $37 billion

3. Carlos Slim Is Worth $35 billion

4. Lawrence Ellison $22.5

5. Ingvar Kamprad is worth $22 billion

6. Karl Albrecht is worth  $21.5 billion

7. Mukesh Ambani is worth $19.5 billion

8. Lakshmi Mittal is worth $19.3 billion

9. Theo Albrecht is worth $18.8 billion

10. Amancio Ortega  $18.3 billion

As you can quite possibly tell , Bill gates has stayed strong at #1 and warren buffet at #2. Everyone has had a large loss in their total net worth , however Americans are still doing well overall in the wealth game.

What peaks my interest is the possibility of these billionaires investing in currently undervalued assets, enough so that when the market comes back, they will be far beyond their current or even former glory.

Well , I’m looking at building a new PC , so I figured i’d post specs for it since everyone shares mundane things on their blogs , right?

Mobo : ASUS P6T SE LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard – Retail

Video Card : EVGA 896-P3-1170-AR GeForce GTX 275 896MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card – Retail

Processor : Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor

Memory : CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TR3X6G1600C8D –

SSD Drive : PNY P-SSD2S064GM-RB 2.5″ 64GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk

Hard Drive (Secondary) : Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drives – I plan on upgrading this to 4 of the same models in the future with a RAID setup.

DVD Drive : Pioneer 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model DVR-1910 – Retail

Sound Card : ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 Channels PCI Express Interface Sound Card – Retail

Case Fan : Scythe S-FLEX SFF21E 120mm Case Fan – Retail

CPU Fan : XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V 120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler – Retail

Logitech Z-4 40 watts 2.1 Speaker – Retail

Case : Antec P193 Gunmetal Gray Aluminum / Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case – Retail

Antec CP-850 850W Continuous Power CPX SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply – Retail

Everything comes out to right around $1500 or so , not including shipping and the like.

What say the internets?

I got a email from a guy today that asked me my thoughts on the Recession , so I responded, and figured this might be good for the blog.

“Mr. Schlichter,

My name is Andrew Ellis and I was hoping I could ask you a question
about the current real estate market. I am taking REAL 101 at Ohio University
and as an assignment for that class I have to ask someone in the real estate
world a question on their opinion of the current market. The question is who
do you think is the main group to blame for the current housing market
conditions? The choices are as follows: the borrowers, the lenders, the
brokers, the investors, or the Government. I am sorry for any trouble that
this may give you.

V/r
Andrew E”

My thoughts are this :

The borrowers are to blame in the fact that many individuals borrowed using sub-prime or ALT-A style loans that they KNEW they couldn’t repay. Many planned for no emergencies, loss of jobs ,ect. If you go back to the early 80s , interest rates were significantly higher than they have been even with the highest subprime brackets, yet the foreclosure rate never reached a number close to what we’re seeing now. So they borrowed way beyond their means , knowing they were doing it.

Many Lenders are to blame as well because they couldn’t just say “No” when someone walked in thedoor. Add to this, many brokers had no interest in the stability of the borrowers beyond closing due to the fact mortgages were sold to other companies who would service.

Agents were to blame because they never told people that they shouldn’t be buying beyond their means, and just sold the houses regardless of the mortgage the buyers were getting.

Appraisers are to blame because they valued properties using very poor comps. I’ve worked with several banks concerning loan fraud , and appraisers either allowed themselves to be manipulated or down right had a interest in a bad value. Of course the banks were willing to blacklist the appraisers if the values came in too low.

Investors/developers share blame because many were building at a pace that was completely unsustainable, expecting the market to continue (Knowing that we were at a pace that couldn’t be sustained for very long). When they went belly up , they send dozens/hundreds of units in individual subdivisions/areas into foreclosure, to sell at a very small fraction of what they were selling them to the individuals buying.

Finally the government, who in my thoughts shares the biggest bit of the blame. They developed policies that reward banks giving bad loans to bad buyers all in the name of “Diversity” and then punish banks that do not participate in Community Re-Investment (which usually means giving bad loans out). They then turned a blind eye when values skyrocketed and the market boomed, local governments had a major interest because the higher the values went , the higher tax revenue they had. So local governments had a very major interest in seeing values and a false market continue.

Because of this , we’ve seen THE WORST recession in the US , and are on the verge of a total collapse of our system due to the fact too many people turned a blind eye. However , the government shares a larger part of the share (Although everyone else shares blame too). This whole thing has been because of greed more than anything else, because everyone was making money off of someone else.

Since So Many people read this website, I thought I’d throw you all a bone and update.

AM has been pretty good this month, had a $350 profit day a week or so ago ,which was absolutely aweome but haven’t been able to replicate that success. Knowing something that works is good, so I’m continuing to keep working and refining this specific niche/campaign set and trying to get it to do well.
My current goal is $2,500 per day in AM net income, I know it’s 100% doable, so I’m hoping to hit that within the next 3 months or so.

Real estate has SUCKED recently, and I hate spending too much time on it, unfortunately sales have been way down, although I do have a few in contract which is nice.

Brandon’s Big Affiliate Contest

All these lazy affiliate marketers do contests on their blogs, so why shouldn’t I?

So , here’s the deal – I want to hit consistant $2,500 days, I NEED to hit $1,000 days for my special projects that I’m obviously not going to share.

So , what I’m offering is a prize to whoever helps me out the most in affiliate marketing, reaching that $2,500/day goal.
Whoever helps me the most regardless of whether it was to reach $2,500/day or whatever, upon one week of consistant $2,500 days, the person who has helped me out the most gets a prize.

The Prize?

Yes , it’s a house , no it’s not that house , but the house I’m giving away will look similar and be worth a minimum of $50,000.

The house is free of all liens and encumberances and will have 3 years of taxes paid on it in advance at closing. All you have to do is help me to my goal , maybe it’s SEO advice, maybe it’s something else, but whoever helps me the MOST hit this goal gets the house , you can sell it , keep it for the heck of it , rent it out but never the less it’s $50,000 in your pocket.

So who’s helped me out the most? Just ask