My Life, and Pursuit of Becoming A Millionaire

Daily Alerts For Your Niche

We marketers need all the help we can get to stay on top of our niche’s so that we can stay on top of our make money online game.

A really cool tool that I just rediscovered called Google Alerts feeds me daily updates of all of the top action going on in my niche.

So lets say for instance that you wanted to stay on top of everything (or at least the important things) that are going on around the internet for “Ferrari 458 Italia Wheels.” [Continue reading...]

Guest Post Here or You Will Die Tomorrow

I’m getting tired of not having fresh content on this blog. I have quite the love hate relationship going on with blogging. I love it when I actually do it, and when people interact with me through my blog, but I hate it because sometimes it’s just hard to get motivated to write. That’s where you come in.

I’m going to assume a few things since you’re here right now reading this.

A. You’re a bad ass.

B. You’re an internet/affiliate marketer or entrepreneur.

C. You know a thing or two about making money on the internet.

D. You have something that you’d like to share with my readers.

E. You want a link to your website from my sweet PR4.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I’m looking for people like you to guest post on this blog. I’m thinking to start off, I’ll just do one guest post per week and we’ll see how things go.

A few rules:

1. Your guest post must be 100% unique. You can’t post it anywhere else on the internet.

2. You can only have one link back to your website in a bio-like format after your post.

3. The post can be as long as you want it to be.

4. Should be internet marketing / SEO / make money online related.

Go ahead and email me your guest post and I’ll let you know within 24 hours whether I approve it or not.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Facebook Sign Up Split Test

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.

Watch How Jeremy Schoemaker Kicks People To The Curb Legally

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

  1. Don’t #*#@ with the Shoe.
  2. 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
  3. Trying to get a dismissal based on jurisdiction is a long shot.
  4. Shoe & his legal team is batting 100%.
  5. Refer to #1.

Lessons I Learned From My Legal Battle

  1. If you’re on the defense, you’ll end up paying for your opponents legal fees.
  2. Every time you want to “respond” to a legal notice, add another couple grand to both your legal fees, and your opponents.
  3. 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.
  4. Pro Bono lawyers are bad ass.
  5. 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.

Learn Some Sweet Sales Tactics From Shoemoney

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 he’s been working on a sales video training series because he’s noticed that most affiliates suck at actual real world sales tactics.

Anywho, I got the “early bird” email about the new shoemoney 2.0 system weapons of marketing blueprint video series and blew it off for a couple of days because I’m above being marketed to. :) Just reopened the email after having seen a few people talk about it online, and I’m glad I did.

I hate feeling like I’m marketing to you readers on here, so don’t feel like you have to go sign up just because I say so, but all you have to do is put in your email address and then you can watch the weapons of marketing blueprint video that shoemoney put together. The tactics are real simple and elementary, but tons of people don’t really know and understand how to apply them to affiliate marketing online. Anyways, I’m watching the video for a second time right now because I had some killer ideas that I forgot to write down the first time I was watching it.

Some of the tactics include:

  • Having a call to action.
  • Social Proof
  • Authority by Association
  • and a few more

If you already know, or think you know all of these sales tactics, then go watch this video just to hear shoe (a self-made multimillionaire) talk about them if for no other reason. The guy is the ultimate marketer. He’s so up front, honest, trustworthy and smoothe, but at the same time, you know he’s setting you up for a sale even while he’s teaching you about how to sell to people. lol. Awesome marketer.

Watch the video

5 Things To Hustle For

…and food is not one of them, regardless of whether I think it should or not. We as internet marketers hear it all the time. Hustle this, hustle that. “#hustle”  and on and on. What exactly do people mean when they say they are “hustling” anyways? I’m convinced that 50% of them are posing because [...]

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Coolest Thing Since God Made Rain

Buy services, sell services for $5 at Fiverr. Coolest idea I’ve seen in a long time. So far I’ve paid $5 for 10 minutes of business consulting from a guy who’s started 3 companies that made it into INC 500, and I’m getting ready to pay for some super cheap SEO stuff…assuming it doesn’t smell [...]

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