Why is it so hard to smile? Or even worse, to make other people smile? I don’t know if it’s a hard thing for you to do, but it sure is for me. It seems like that for every 30 random people in a social gathering, there is maybe one person (and that’s on a good day) that is genuinely happy. This person smiles for fun, is complementary of other people and is apparently tons happier and more fulfilled than everyone else around him.
I would love to be this person, but the fact is that I’m not. I have social pansy-itis disorder and tend to hang back in the shadows and errmm (not) smile. However, I’ve realized that smiling and making other people smile in life can have a huge impact on other people’s self esteem. Not to mention the impact on the self esteem of the person that made person b smile.
So lets all smile more, damnit. I think the more we try to focus on getting other people to smile (and I’m talking about being genuine here!) the happier we will be ourselves. It totally makes sense in my head, but so do a lot of things that I can’t execute well on… sigh.
Take a look at the video my friend posted on his blog about the impact that validating other people (or making them smile) can have on them. Pretty insightful. I like videos that make me step back for a few minutes and evaluate the role that I play in the game of life.
Every time I come back here (in the admin section of my blog) to write something new, I get frustrated. Probably sort of the same feeling that you feel when you come here. You don’t know what to expect. Who knows? Maybe you’ll read about my favorite song, or perhaps you’ll read a post about how to make money online. You never know.
Since the bread and butter of what I do on the internet is make money online, I think I need to start another blog that is just focused on that topic. In doing this I’ll be able to 1. brand myself as a ballin affiliate in the industry and 2. be able to write helpful, focused content for people interested in making money online. Not to mention, if I have any luck in choosing my next “brand” name, I won’t have such a hard time telling people my website name. Elite Eternity sucks to tell people…
A Help Me P.S. if you have any suggestions on what I should brand myself as, let me know. something classy like jerbearthemillionaire.com lol. go ahead and squat on it.
Another P.S. I think it was on shoemoney’s blog, but the more time I spend in the “make money online” industry, the more I tend to agree that we are in a gold rush period where people will look back in 10 years and say how they wished they had hopped on the bandwagon when the barrier to entry was so low. keep hustlin fellow gangsters
I’ve been looking for a good peaceful music channel on Pandora for a while now. There’s this new dude I just discovered called Jim Brickman that is a complete stud on the piano. If you like piano-ish / classical / peaceful / pansy music at all, I’d suggest adding the Jim Brickman station to your Pandora playlist. I’ve liked just about every single song so far…and I’m going on like 2 days straight.
I’m going to buy some of Jim Brickman’s albums from Amazon the next time I’ve got some cash to spare. I’m not sure how well the music will mesh with me driving like a bat out of hell in my car, but maybe it’ll chill me out a bit. Just kiddin, I’m not a bad driver. I leave that up to my brothers.
Update: Forgot to mention that if you have an amazing idea, you can ping oDesk on Twitter about it and they may give you $250 in oDesk credit to help get it off the ground. Pretty interesting campaign as it seems that most people with “the next big idea” are too paranoid to share it for fear that somebody might steal it, so we’ll have to see how many people come out of the wood work to share their ideas with oDesk (and the rest of the world).
I’m all about outsourcing. Elance is my favorite place to hire people, but oDesk is a close second. The only reason I like Elance better I’ve decided is because of the UI. ANYwho, oDesk just put together a pretty slick new video campaign to supplement their new idea of complete and utter world domination changing how the world works.
If you’ve never given oDesk a try, you may as well. It’s just another good place to find cheap labor to make sweet cash from. Check out the video. Even if you have no interest in outsourcing, I think you’ll enjoy watching the video anyway.
Where do you hire people? Elance? oDesk? Some other random place?
Really don’t have anything valuable to say about this. Just find it interesting that even Facebook, who probably has millions of sign ups a day, still split tests. They added the “(and always will be)” and switched up how the input field form looks to make it bigger. Kinda interesting.
I’ve hinted a few times on this blog about how I was taken to the cleaners legally by a massive company (can’t give any details) a few years ago, so I’m always looking for legal advice and trying to educate myself on how to make myself less vulnerable to being bent over by another high powered law firm again. So I was excited when I saw that Shoemoney was going to make a video called “Kicking Legal’s Ass”.
This is the latest video in Shoemoney’s newest training series and he talks about how he and his legal team burn people to the ground for using his copyrighted and registered images and materials. It’s funny how a friendly “leave our shit alone” cease and desist letter that could be taken care of by simply removing the offending content, ad or whatever, turns into potentially a $500k – $1Mil settlement just because the douche bags stealing his content think that he’s bluffing.
Watch the video. If you’re in the make money online scene, or do any business online, you’ll appreciate it. PLUS the Shoe gives like 13 COMPLETELY FREE example legal letters & documents including: legal affidavit, disclaimer & terms of service, privacy policy, and tons more. I’m ALWAYS looking for stuff like this so I really appreciate Shoe being this candid about all of this legal crap. Obviously, if you’re going to use his example letters, have a lawyer look over them to make sure they work for your particular business.
Lessons Learned
Don’t #*#@ with the Shoe.
Hiding behind anonymous WHOIS info only makes the settlement amount larger when they finally track your ass down if they have to subpoena for your information
Trying to get a dismissal based on jurisdiction is a long shot.
Shoe & his legal team is batting 100%.
Refer to #1.
Lessons I Learned From My Legal Battle
If you’re on the defense, you’ll end up paying for your opponents legal fees.
Every time you want to “respond” to a legal notice, add another couple grand to both your legal fees, and your opponents.
You will feel like settling ASAP for their ridiculous, baseless, overpriced, unfair, bullshit demands all to avoid racking up legal fees from going back and forth.
Pro Bono lawyers are bad ass.
For whatever damages you actually did to a company, they are going to come knocking for roughly 300% more than whatever amount is fair. Not to mention, “fair” in their minds is probably 50% more than what they could break even at.
I’ve thought that Shoe was a bad ass ever since I started doing affiliate marketing in early 2008. If you know him at all, you know that he’s always got some new product, or project brewing and if you’re subscribed to his email list you will hear all about what he’s up to. Turns out [...]
The default WordPress search function sucks. Yoast knows it, and so do a lot of other people. Problem is, most of the solutions out there require editing core code and other crap that I’m too lazy to mess around with. If you’re looking for a way to make your default WordPress search function suck less, [...]
Double Rainbow Baby This totally sounds like one of my friends in High School. He was high 90% of the time (unbeknownst to me at the time) and I would laugh so freaking hard every time I was around him because he would sound EXACTLY like this. The “OMG’s” and all. He would make me [...]
I’ve been trying to clean up my blog lately, so I’ve deleted quite a few of the spammy looking sidebar links that I’ve collected over the last 3 or so years blogging here. If I deleted your link and it was part of a reciprocal link deal, feel free to delete my link on your [...]
I'm a 19 20 year old Web Entrepreneur from Utah. I work at home and my office full time doing affiliate marketing and SEO. I'm intimidated by girls, believe in UFO's and love making money online. I started this blog when I was 17 and write on a variety of topics from business, and entrepreneurship to music and politics.[read more...]
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