Too Many Bright Ideas is a Bad Idea! How to Make a Mess of Internet Marketing

by Joseph on July 6, 2010

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UK pound sterling 300x199 Too Many Bright Ideas is a Bad Idea! How to Make a Mess of Internet MarketingNotice the post title is very nicely optimized – not! How many characters? About 80 I think, hence it will succumb to be-heading by Google . I’m such a pro at this! But then, could I care less? I’m sure for all those who know about on-page SEO and stuff, they would ridicule my efforts on this site. Even more because its supposed to be an SEO tips site.

I should have opted for a domain along the lines of http://howNOTtoseo.com icon wink Too Many Bright Ideas is a Bad Idea! How to Make a Mess of Internet Marketing

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I had to go and get my passport “chopped” today. Its not possible for almost anyone to become a permanent resident in Sarawak, Malaysia. Sarawak is on the south east island of Malaysia – next to (joined to) Indonesia. Very close to where that terrible Tsunami of 2007 occurred, but secluded entirely from the effects of it.

Even folks who were born in the state “next door” cannot gain residence status here in Sarawak. And they have to go in and out of Sarawak to get their passport stamped every few months. However, its not necessary to go in and out of the country every 3 months as it is in Thailand or Indonesia. You simply must go to the local government office to pay for a “chop” and normally you would receive a further 2 months stay for the price of £20 ($30).

I was fortunate today however as they provided me with leave to remain here for 93 days for the same price. Its amazing what you get in return here when you are polite.

If you ever want to live a great life, and at a much lower cost of living than that of Europe or the US (generally speaking, anyhow), then you should consider South East Asia.

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Just checking the rankings for the UK domain I mentioned in yesterday’s post. Looking very good indeed, which suprises me – I thought this sort of movement upwards would have taken a little longer for some of the keyword phrases as it is for sure a hotly-contested top 10 in Google. When you consider the money that is on offer for the high rankers, you would have thought it to be highly contested, anyhow.

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Actually, I’ve just checked with the gent who resides in the UK whom I am working with regards to this domain. He tells me he’s not seeing the same movement upwards. Now this again leads to a bit of a problem.

There is no bias for me as I have not actually visited the website in question. I have to get my results via a Google UK search, but it seems that the Google UK (via Malaysia server) is providing different stats. There is only one other way I can see how to obtain unbiased Google UK search results and that is by going here…

http://www.sheerseo.com/

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As you may know, Scroogle Scraper is not functioning again so we cannot use that. It provides .com results anyhow, which is the same as HideMyAss proxy server (albeit a different server is used and thus different results are provided). And I take it that things like Market Samurai provide .com results too (?). The only true way to assess ranking is by assessing visitor count, but then we could argue that this is also flawed – stats provided by Google, I mean.

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(I just used the http://www.sheerseo.com site to find out where they “think” the Twilight posterz site is ranking in Google and get this… (for those not aware, the Twilight posterz site is the one I focused upon for the Warrior Forum 40 Day Challenge)

“Twilight poster” 2nd

“Twilight posters” 3rd

“New Moon poster” 9th

“New Moon posters” 9th

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Interesting, huh? Very similar to the results I was seeing in Scroogle except that Scroogle provides information for a double ranking, whereas http://www.sheerseo.com does not).

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Today, once I had my passport stamped and had my daily feed of the delicious local laksa, I made the decision to work on a site that is about 14 months old. I have done nothing with it except that yesterday I decided to introduce it to the Thesis theme.

Thus, it is looking super hot now! Its a financial site, so its easy to find a lot of images that are non-copyright and look really “exciting” to all those who are really turned on by making money. Know what I mean? I like looking at those pics that have a pile of hundred dollar bills or hundred pound notes etc. Do you?

Dollar Abe Lincoln 300x199 Too Many Bright Ideas is a Bad Idea! How to Make a Mess of Internet MarketingEver since I was a small kid, the thought of holding a big pile of “bills” really excited me. I guess its the fact that with money comes more choices, so its not the intrinsic value of the money itself. Is that making sense? (Sorry if its sounding naive and off-topic. Maybe even angers some folks. Apologies as this is not my intention).

So, I added in the theme. This site is targeted at a very low search volume indeed. When I say low I mean that the search volume for most of my chosen keyword phrases (post titles) are seeing no more than 1k search volume a month.

Why go so low?

Firstly, have you tried ranking for a highly searched keyword phrase that is within the financial niche? Its tough!! And I am not so patient to be SEO’ing the same keyword for months. Not on my own sites, anyhow.

Second, its a high-end AdSense clicker. Sometimes I can see a single click which brings in 4 or 5 dollars. The sinlge click I have so far today is £1.71, which is about $2.50 – a bit lower than average. You only need a few of those in a week to be making a worthy income from that one site. That’s my thinking anyhow.

Plus, the amount of SEO I’m going to have to do to rank well for the keyword phrases is going to be so much less than for many of my other sites and web pages. I like the sound of that! Imagine carrying out SEO which takes all of a couple of hours each month and for that you gain an income of $80 a month (financial disclaimer here). This is a definite green light for me, thank you! Its almost 100% passive, with exception to the initial building of the site and choosing keyword phrases. That’s the beauty of this business!

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However, on this particular website the pages have been languishing some place way down the rankings. With exception to the keyword which is an exact match for the domain. I think that sits about 5th to 8th or something in Google – it brings in a few visitors each week, which in turn provides for the occasional click on AdSense. Its time for change there.

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I can’t say I’m too good at assessing potential targets to focus on, with regards to keywords and ranking for them. Yes, I go on about this regularly – ranking for this, ranking for that, but when it comes down to it my “diary” is a bit of a mess. It would make good sense to really and truly analyze things more closely, but I’m not that sort of person to be enjoying the pursuit. And when I don’t enjoy something I tend not to do it. Oh, you are nodding your head in agreement here, I think?

But, being that sort of disorganized person has led to me having to rip up so many of my websites and start afresh. Not good for your income! Not in the short term, anyhow.

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Its much easier when someone comes to me and says something like “I have this site, I have these keywords, I know I can make money but I need to rank the pages”. This way things are mapped out for me and thus its much more clear cut. SEO is fairly logical, after all, but its all the other stuff in internet marketing which is far less so.

Not that I have any difficulty at all in finding good niches to go for. Its just that in the past I’ve found too many good niches and now have far too many domains to consider, and far too many kwd phrases to try to rank for. Its a “guddle” or a muddle, if you prefer. So the problem is sometimes I find myself asking “where do I begin today?”

Take the travel site I was discussing a couple of weeks ago on the blog here. Now normally I would be ranking nicely by now for at least a couple of keyword phrases that I was targeting. But because, firstly – I was targeting quite a few kwd phrases for that one site at the same time, and secondly – I’ve been trying to SEO for too many other sites with limited resources to play with, and limited time too – I’m very much a one-man-show. The rankings are not happening quite as quickly as I would have expected.

Spread too thinly you might say…

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How about you? Do you have this problem, or are you merely focusing on a couple of sites and a few keyword phrases for each? Do you find yourself sitting wondering about what to do and where to focus your efforts because there is so much that you could be doing but you just don’t know for sure what would be best?

Let me know your thoughts on this please. Its an interesting topic that is nicely open for discussion.

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Honey Jo July 6, 2010 at 5:06 pm

‘I like looking at those pics that have a pile of hundred dollar bills or hundred pound notes etc. Do you?’

Oh Yes Joseph!

I have definitely loved looking at piles of bills (scratch that (not bill)money)! In a former life I handled a lot of money, upwards of 8 mil daily for 24 Labor Unions.
But, you know what! It did not even seem like money, cause it was not mine. It was just more paper I had to deal with.

Back to this ‘Bright Idea and Marketing Post’, once again you have nailed it!
It actually amazes me what you can write, in simple terms and make ‘ME’, an SEO Idiot understand.

Thank you so much Joseph for going to the trouble of helping others (IE: again ME). I really appreciate your post and all your efforts.

Bye the way, Love Your Twitter Comments!

Honey Jo

Joseph July 6, 2010 at 6:11 pm

Hi HJ, nice to see you – its been a while.

I should imagine you were earning a fair amount of those “bills” back in the day. But yes – all the hard work seems to go to make someone else far richer than ourselves.

When I was writing the post – about seeing piles of money and getting excited when I was a kid, I felt inclined to make an apology because at the same time I was reading posts on Twitter that were about folks being wrongly imprisoned around the world. I said that money brings choices (and thus a sense of freedom), but that’s not the case for those people.

Apart from that, I’m enjoying making a few daily contributions on Twitter and would hope to see you on there soon too HJ.

For anyone not familiar with my Twitter “thingy”, its josepharch

You are most welcome and thanks for saying that you enjoyed the post! I’m trying to keep them non-techie, but at the same time just enough of that side of SEO to keep the posts on track and not just a fluffed out chatting session. I’m sure some folks see it as purely a chat about life in general. But then, that is precisely what these posts are going to be (not all the time, but much of the time). I want to allow the blog readers to see how this SEO stuff and making money online fits in with daily life. How you can make it a very comfortable part of life, rather than merely seeing it as work.

It is in fact very much about living the dream, and I am hoping that this comes across fairly well each time I add a post to the SEO tips blog. If it were not for my work online I would not be living my dream now. It would be the 9 to 5 slog and Joseph no doubt would be a very unhappy chappy! Instead however, I can go and sit by the pool every day, if so inclined on doing so, while sipping my Tiger beer. Not that I do that often, but at least the choice is now there.

On the other hand, I don’t want to be blowing off that this is so easy that grandmother could do it. Maybe grandma could do it, but the point I want to push home the most is that if you work hard at this then in time it does actually get that much easier. Second nature, if you like. And this is why I am very confident that even though I have trashed a lot of my domains recently, and will trash a lot more in the months to come, I can actually work with a mere handful of my current sites and see them making a very healthy income.

I’ve been talking about how pathetic my AdSense income is, but given a couple of months or so, I’m sure I will not feel too embarrassed to begin sharing the income stats that I’m seeing regards to them. Albeit, I should still be very much focused upon SEO’ing for the UK domain which has been the center of focus over the past couple of days. Things are looking pretty good there, even though its not possible to obtain a very accurate account of where the site is ranking for the kwds I’m trying to rank for. Best I can do is to continue using Google UK – it may be that the data center here is updated rather sooner to the UK one, hence the difference in results showing up.

This was not the original plan for the blog here, but its a very sensible tact to take I believe. Its a showcase of what can and will be done when almost starting out from the very first steps of making money from internet marketing. But, for those who wish to see relatively quick results, there is going to be that aspect too, simply because I know reasonably well how to make money from what I am doing. And I am willing to share that with anyone who wishes to follow the blog on a regular basis. The information that is, and not the money ;-)

I’ve gone on at length again HJ. In fact, I was sitting with my head almost touching the keypad – falling asleep. Just updated another of those eBay sites that was in real need of an overhaul, so that’s another one ticked off the list. There are a lot of domains that I have the choice to renew in July and August – about 30 in all. But I suspect most of them I will not renew, so that its easier to keep focused upon a much smaller collection of sites and make much more of them than has been possible up till now.

Hope to see you on here following the journey HJ!

Thanks again for coming by!

Joseph

Tia July 6, 2010 at 6:23 pm

Hi Joseph – Interesting about the passport stuff but I am intrigued by the financial site and adsense earnings. Do you recall at which point you started getting adsense clicks, or has it been recent. You said the site is 14 months old?

Just curious. Does your 40 day challenge ebook go into anything on monetization or is it just on ranking/placement?

What I am looking for is something GOOD that bridges the gap between getting traffic + making money. No one seems able to clearly articulate both – only one or the other.

Don’t think you can get away with getting top commentator spot on my blog and then not come back now, LOL. :)
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Tia July 6, 2010 at 8:38 pm

Your Alexa Rating has improved too! It’s 176 and mine is 177. Way to go! :)
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Joseph July 6, 2010 at 11:54 pm

Hey Tia, I would have started to receive the occasional adsense click on that site within 7 days of domain purchase. It was an exact match so it ranked top 10 once it was indexed. Then slumped away for a while, then came back where it seems to be sticking without me having to do anything. Comp is obviously very “week”. But that is the beauty of the real low hangers that are so easy to pull off. They may not make serious income, but any income they make is so easy…

The 40 Day Challenge was purely about ranking of the site Tia. However, I did talk quite a bit about how I choose “buyer keyword phrases” and about some of the experiences I’ve had with Amazon, eBay, ClickieBank etc. I discuss much of that throughout the blog (here) however.

I really agree with you on that – very rarely do you find something (someone?) who discusses how to rank web pages and then how to make real money. I had to learn it the hard way – finally managed to get the rankings on a regular basis, but only to find that even then the sites were not gaining much income. I think although many internet marketers do sell products about this aspect of IM, its still a real gray area and its really tough to get it just right. A lot of it is purely hit and miss. But you get that bit better when you have “missed” enough times.

For me its easier. I have a whole gamut of sites that I built over the past… 2 years. ALL of them have underperformed, but I can now pick out the best of the bad and work with them – all the experimentation has been done, so I know what works and what not. I could sell on a lot of sites but then its not my game and the amount of time required to tidy them and then advertise etc… don’t like the thought of it.

There is one other issue that I have spoken about regularly with regards money Tia, and that is this seasonal aspect. Its so huge that it must not be ignored. Take November and December of last year for example. I had a whole range of sites (about 40) that were geared up for selling products from Amazon. Throughout the year they under-performed like crazy, even though quite a few of my webpages were ranking top 5 in Google and also seeing reasonable traffic volumes. That’s when I began to shake my head and wonder about this IM thing – its so difficult to make money, is what I was thinking.

I mean, I was getting about a 5% click thru to Amazon each day, and that was from a monthly visitor count of about 12 – 15 thousand (maybe more but I don’t remember), but the actual buying ratio month on month was about 0.9% on average. Terrible! (But the thing I am thinking now is, why have 40 sites to get that amount of visitors when you should be seeing that with perhaps 3 or 4 (maybe just 1) sites that are optimized better).

But come November and December the visitor count trebled, the click thru rate more than quadrupled and sales were up to about 9% over – all.

Its not easy in my mind to buy up a number of domains and have to sit around waiting for months before you see any income, but if you do the math then financially it can be a very good investment.

Re not coming on over to your blog (I did come over the other day re the Subscribe Me plugin, and now I only receive one email from your site and not 2), I saw that I had commented about 4 times on the one post, so it would appear that I’m “nuts” (insane…) :-) and its time to “lay-off” just a bit.

Joseph July 7, 2010 at 12:08 am

Oh, and didn’t I post up on your blog regards to getting a button? I wanted to know if there are places where you can create a really good free button (or badge as some folks call it), or is it best to get one designed by someone. What do you recommend, Tia? Do you create buttons? I’ll grab yours and stick it in the sidebar below the Pink button. The only thing is, when do you stop doing it…? Soon the sidebar will be a mass of lovely colourful buttons and not much more.

A lot of folks poo poo Alexa. I can see why. I have a few eBay sites which receive about 5k visitors a month and this one (the SEO tips blog) gets a lot less than that. But its not simply visitor count, is it. Its about how long you guys and galz spend on the site and how many page views etc. So for me, the Alexa I see on this site in comparison to my other sites is certainly understandable.

I have no idea how Goog work its PR though – it seems a nonsense to me. Blogs that are really high on the Alexa scale often have Goog PR of 0 throughout all their pages. Something seems very wrong there. All this rubbish about getting high PR webpages to link back to you before you get a decent PR yourself – utter rubbish, cos its easy to manipulate, particularly if you have money to do so.

How to deal with rude comments. Have you been seeing any? I had one person who was intent on attacking me on the Warrior Forum Challenge. He would argue that he was not being rude but his sheer aggressive attitude was very rude in itself.

Turns out there was actually something behind that – it was obvious he was intent on my jugular and would not let up.

I’ll be sure to make a rude comment on your blog Tia to see how you handle it ;-)

Febap Liew July 9, 2010 at 1:27 am

heya Joseph,
ah~ you mentioned about Malaysia and its state, Sarawak, I am somehow pleased by that because I practically am from Malaysia.=P
I am glad that you have enjoyed here in Malaysia and of course the laksa too =)
speaking of sites and keywords, currently, i am really much just focusing on my blog. I tend not to sway and wander off working on too much site at once even thou I have many niches and ideas that i would really love to write about. I am not really a ‘focused’ individual. simply mean i need to really concentrate at one particular matter at a time.=P
speaking of keywords, i am trying to target just a few. okay,make it 2. as stated, if i have too much keywords to work with again within the same site, it will be hard for me to ‘concentrate’ but i believe if i could ever just rank that particular keyword for my website high on Google, i believe it won’t be difficult for me in anyways next time for me to work on the rest.

i used to have such ‘syndrome’ where i find myself unsure of where i should even start beginning. I remembered the time where i have to learnt internet marketing by myself. Yes i am self thought and i believe many are anyway during the initial start. it was devastating as i don’t even know the exact keywords to type in search engines so i could find more valuable information. “internet marketing” perhaps but instead i was led forward with so much ‘products’ online. products such as “$583,582.09″ in just one week!
o well but that’s history now. i got through the hurdle and it’s worth the effort i put. =)
cheers

Joseph July 9, 2010 at 2:06 am

Hey Febap, nice to have you over here on SEO tips!

Malaysia – a dream for me Febap! I’m off to the Rain Festival later on today, so no post for the blog I’m afraid. Should be fantastic with all different types of music and instruments from around the world – including from my own country of Scotland, I believe.

Laksa – to die for!

Where in Malaysia are you from Febap?

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Keeping focus is key – at least for many us of us work online. Its oh so easy to follow along with too many other “methods” only to find that at the end of it all, everything is a mess and nothing is being particularly productive. This is what I have been finding, so its time for a sincere consolidation!

Keyword phrases too Febap – a good point – you can get in a right old muddle by trying to rank for too many keyword phrases at the same time.

Your own story of internet woes rings very true to me and I am very sure to so many who read the blog here and followed along with the Challenge on the Warrior Forum. So my claims of almost immediate wealth, only to find that if you bought the product and implemented what it was teaching, you would be no better off months later. I think it easy to say all bad things about those product vendors, but its not just about that at all. Its also about our own compulsion to purchase such products when we are not nearly ready to be moving on from what we have already been trying. We are far too quick to jump at the new glossy, rather than persevering and focusing upon our current venture.

But there again, its easy to say that but totally understandable at the same time why would should continue to seek the elusive and ultimate goal of achieving the promise of internet marketing wealth and freedom.

Thanks again for coming by Febap and I’ll be sure to pop over to your blog in the coming days and to comment!

Kind regards and keep up with the good work!

Joseph

Febap Liew July 9, 2010 at 2:26 am

Hey Jo,
I am from the capital city itself, Kuala Lumpur. Have you been to Kuala Lumpur? We have delicious laksa here too =P
indeed, beginners are always the easy target for many vendors online. However, neither party is to blame for such misconception.
i believe many ‘internet money making online’ products are worth the price and not for the purpose of duping people off their money.
However, as you mentioned jo, it could be that new internet marketers are just not ready to consume such information laid upon purchase.
It will be like jumping into a pool even before you learn how to swim (the foundation).
therefore, i believe understanding the fundamental basis of internet marketing (overally ) is comprehensibly very important. No it doesn’t require you to know everything there is on ‘heaven and earth’.
what i did, i learn and execute as i go along. Well, yes i have had my share of bad times and flaws but thats where the ‘fun’ gets. we learn as we move along and climb back up when everything seems to fall apart.
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thanks jo.
hope to see you soon on my blog.
cheers
keep up the good work too.

Joseph July 9, 2010 at 3:01 am

Ah ok Febap – KL. Yes, been there a few times now as every time I fly in from the UK its via KL. And we sometimes stop over for a few days to enjoy the hawker centers and the sights. I have to say I have a preference for Kuching however as it is much more quaint and backwards than is the conglomerated high rise KL. I now live just on the outside of Kuching, near to the airport. You should pop down some time Fabian. Albeit you may love the busy social life that a large city such as KL provides. Kuching is not nearly in the same league as KL for that. But I’ve seen it and done it and now I prefer the quiet life.

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Oh indeed there are many very good products out there, so its unfair to label them broadly. I think most of them actually do their job well, its just that most of us are not quite ready to take on board their message. This is definitely the case for me!

But here the problem arises in that we are all – at one time – desperate to learn about this internet marketing stuff cos we heard the tales of wonder and gold. But where to get to the heart of the “how to do this and how to make money from it – no fluffy talk – just pure “how to”"?

That’s in part to blame for why so many of us who are desperately keen to progress go through so many different products in a fairly short time. There almost always seems to be something missing from the equation. Thus possibly 90% of us give up entirely, 7% make a few dollars here and there but will never be able to give up their day job, and only maybe 3% of us really get to the point of making something of it – enough to change our lives entirely and to live out our dreams.

Those figures are an educated guesses only, so please do not quote me.

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But the only reason I am still doing this, from my early and totally naive first venture into it back in 2003 (picked up a Cory Rudl product that cost me a few hundred of my hard earned, and promptly put it down again thinking I would never “get it”) is that I had NO CHOICE.

I left myself no choice. I can’t work a normal job cos my mentality for it is simply awful! My dreams and thus desires have been too strong to give up and sit back and mope that I failed at yet another business. And working online suits me so, so well that there is nothing that comes close to it!

Those 3 reasons are hugely strong, but if any of them wavered for any length of time at all within my mind and in my pursuit of success online, then I would be one of the 90% for sure!

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I said enough Febap. I can imagine that many folks who are reading these comments between us are nodding throughout as what we are both saying is bound to be hitting home time and time again with the blog readers. I do hope so!

Take care and have a lovely day in KL!

Joseph

Febap Liew July 9, 2010 at 3:13 am

hey jo,
i can totally relate with the ‘guess’ statistics that you have provided.
significantly, everyone wants to be part of the 3%. even I myself.
somehow, i have always felt and realize wholeheartedly that I am just not cut out to be part of the employee-employer cycle of life.

Working and practically ‘relying’ on someone that somewhat kinda decides my ‘faith/’pay’ is really not my cup of tea. I believe i decide my own faith , my destiny and my future. oh yes maybe some would say..
“i’ll work and save up till the age of 45.. then I’ll be ready to start my own business and live the life I have always wanted.”
45!! that’s not really a very favorable age for me to start enjoying.
so,buzz away nasty thoughts and beliefs, i believe my price of success is not achieve at such age. I would rather be 25 and living practically ‘on top of the world’.

so there i go. i believe anyone is entirely possible to think and pursue my beliefs. but how many of us actually really meant so? when i mean by ‘meant so’, i really mean pushing yourself and putting every effort it takes to succeed…
life is fun !! yay.
cheers lol

Joseph July 9, 2010 at 11:25 pm

My main “quarrel” with working for someone else Febap is, as Robert Kiyosaki said in his book/s – you make someone else rich while you (generally) make little to no progress with your own status in life. A bit like a mouse on one of those wheels in a cage. I cannot do this for 50 years of my life. But I have no qualms with anyone who cares to do so – horses for courses…

Mind you, you could ask this – we set up websites with Adsense on them (or eBay, Amazon, Clickbank, Commission Junction, Share-a-sale etc.) and we make generally what is a tiny fraction of the sale value of the product. Who pockets the lions share here? I would imagine its not us as the affiliate now, is it?

We all have our “way of seeing things” and I personally find your way very attractive. But at the same time, I have to give credit where its due to those who stick with the rat race – very often not entirely through choice. If we were all to try to be internet marketers, then this game would be far more competitve than it is even now.

Jo

Febap Liew July 10, 2010 at 1:17 am

the rat race sort of game to play, ain’t it jo. lol
indeed, i kinda hate the idea of having to work for someone and instead of progressing as you should ‘financially and mentally’, you end up doing somewhat the other way around for yourself. making others rich while you stare in dismay wondering when you would eventually be ‘like’ them. =\
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yes jo you definitely nail your points right. indeed, every individual has their way of seeing things. but comes in the end, i suppose its really entirely up to an individual to figure out on what works best for them. if they are comfortable living within a ‘rat race’ play, so be it. i do not ‘condemn’ such ‘acts’ but i really believe every person is capable of doing just that. =)
lol
have a great weekend jo.

Febap Liew July 10, 2010 at 1:18 am

opps.. i mean
* every person is capable of doing more than just that*
missed out a word for the previous post.
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Joseph July 10, 2010 at 2:03 am

Yes Febap, the rat race is for most of us, at least for a while within our lives. For many of us fortunately we do have an ultimate choice – and often although that means financial sacrifice, many more are taking the plunge and dumping the RR in favour of doing our own thing. Mind you, it can be a risk to take – self employment in general, and it does often work out that if we do opt for self employment we end up working far longer hours than previously.

But of course you could at the same time argue – is it really “work” or is it purely an indulgence? I prefer to see it as the latter. I’m very fortunate to have the chance!

Febap Liew July 10, 2010 at 2:12 am

its all in the mind as it plays. if one is determine to see it as an indulgence, it would certainly be and likewise.
the art of attraction. we think what we believe. we be what we think. somewhat like that =P.
i am happy to know that you are well enjoying every bit of your life right now. i am still striving to achieve so. but i believe success is coming soon as long as i don’t give up.
=)
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Joseph July 10, 2010 at 3:27 am

Quote “we think what we believe, we believe what we think”. A truer ‘word’ has rarely been spoken!

I’m not enthralled with every aspect of my life just as yet Febap. Social media drives me insane hahahaha.
But I’ve not been this close to really feeling my life is truly meaningful for a very long time. And I sense the more I actually get involved with social media which has scared me since I began seriously working online, the more added value there will be. So perhaps the title to that particular post (SM is driving me insane!) was an audience puller, rather than a blast at SM in general. Courting with my fellow bloggers – and why not indeed – its fun!

Keep in mind all the time however, your own quote. Years ago where I now find contentment and happiness, I would have struggled in doing so. Fulfilment and happiness is very much from within ourselves. And its a fatal flaw to forget this at any time throughout our life while on this planet.

Take care Febap, and be happy with what you have around you and with yourself!

And so endeth my sermon for today :-)

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