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Just got a request for an update. Insanely busy but some new excitements/frustrations/flavors.

Several of my campaigns died, and 1 I was forced to take down, that’s like $600 of my income per day taken away total.

I had a media buy that was going well but then they removed the ad placement size, so those are no longer as well. Right now I’m working on pay per lead on several publishers (looks very promising) as well as cloaking on the big 3.

I’ll give a legit update when I see some results

T-Weezy

Media buys are off the chain!

I will post more info and edit this post soon but.. I am NEVER going back.. ever again.

I’ve spent the last two weeks workin’ like a mad man setting up my first media buy. Fuck this is more exciting than going slightly out of your way to step on crunchy looking leaves. My biz partners and I have been working on designing 4 LP’s to split test, designing many banners; I’ve been configuring the adserver (which is basically hal9000 on crack) and getting into contact with publishers. Everything should be green in T-minus 3 days (I’m shooting for Monday/Tuesday launch). ~3-5k dollar initial remnant test buy over the course of 3 days or so, followed up with the official buy if our test proves successful (shooting for 100-150% ROI). I’m gonna pop champagne like Birdman on the first successful day.
I also have a few other campaigns making some great cheddar that just recently picked up not too long ago (somewhat unexpectedly..). Whoever said you can’t make money on Google search, they lied

The main exciting news, besides me getting a awesome non-anthrax package in the mail, is the media buy(s). After weeks of preparation and getting past the barriers to entry (thanks to my good buddy… drinks are on me big guy), everything is in place. Also, I cleaned my room.

Starting on the 15th I’m in an official race with my friend – First one to a million profit after taxes wins. Time to kick some ass. I project 6-10 months Then again he’s releasing some viral Facebook game. Farmville 2 anyone? I know Mike’s girlfriend will be hooked.

Cheers, and I will keep you all updated with what happens!

In the meantime, watch this.

1 month vacation, several hospital visits, a stolen phone, sleepless nights, and many take-out dinners later, there’s a lesson that everyone’s gotta learn once. That is, you need to learn how to spend wisely, and also the importance of the people in your business who support you while you learn said lessons (you know who you are guys!).

I, as well as you, have probably heard it a thousand times, and it just goes in one ear and out the other. Well, I have learned this lesson, and it has taught me well. Like my about section says, I’m all about experiences, and it sure was an experience (to die for).. haha sorry couldn’t help it. It taught me 1000x over, and I’m very thankful for it. My good buddy who has been in the same situation but after selling businesses and experiencing it on a much higher level pulled me aside and reassured me, and made an extremely good point. He said that it’s great I went, and had that experience, because say I didn’t go… say my income was 10 or 20x higher, and I went out then… without having that experience to look back on it could have happened then, with a much greater fall. Scotch and milk, homie.

All in all, I got to see all my loving family, got some gnarly puncture wounds, visited vegas and all and all had a riotous time.  It was an absolutely epic vacation full of so much vibrant color and texture that coming back to the desert is like sanding my junk with sandpaper. Quite comforting in a way though because it’s time to get serious about making it all back, and not making the mistake again. Onward Captain Bones! The great news is the hard part of readjusting is over, and I’m already on my way to profiting again back up to what I was making before (and higher), as well as giving my fucking awesome biz partner a much needed break. I have several things up my sleeve w/ media buys as well as FB (never thought I’d be doing FB but I got a tip from a lil birdie).

Cheers

PS. You know, at first this blog was about adventures, but those are so close to me I can’t quite capture them here in the same way where you can experience them, without an insane amount of description and pictures (travel blogs). Also, this blog isn’t about money making tips, there are plenty of those. Maybe this should be about the learning process I have encountered as I evolve to experience incredible wealth (which I’m gonna guess ends with getting tired of it, and living in a cave eating bugs, or sailing around the globe with nothing but a boat and a tattered grubby burlap purse with a few oranges in it). I dunno, maybe it should just be a porn blog

Just got back from an amazing vacation with my family and a detour to Hilton Head Island to visit my dad. Had a wicked time and it totally inspired me to look into getting a yacht or at least a nice catamaran to cruise around on the ocean. Can’t afford em yet but it’s around the corner The scenery in Michigan is meh, cause I grew up there, but Hilton Head was so inspiring… the houses, the beaches, the wildlife, the marina’s. I unearthed a new love for marinas… totally didn’t see that one going.

In other news two new AWESOME sites have been released by the owner of PPC-Coach as well as various partners for each site.

I signed up for MediaBuysCoach.com right away, a fantastic resource for learning media buys. This is very advanced and each campaign requires $1000 in testing alone, but this is the top of the top. If you have money this site is a MUST… it’s absolutely incredible, and the creator Carl is a great dude who is very helpful. These are the types of campaigns where you bank $200k/month. My new goal is $10k/day within 3 months, and $1 million+ profit within 1 year. As soon as I get back from Vegas I’m gonna throw up 3 or 4 media buys and see where they go. I’m shooting for $500/day with my first ones and then I’m going to scale them up and shoot for a few bigger buys.

In other news if you can’t quite get the hang of PPC-Coach, or you have a very low budget, check out AFTCoach.com (Affiliate Free Traffic). This is another site that was just released and this is for beginners because it doesn’t involve PAID TRAFFIC like PPC does. You get your traffic for free doing article marketing. So, if you’re looking to just get your feet wet, have a low budget, or just want to see if you can actually make money online, this is a great place to start. Then again there’s always PPC-coach which is intermediate.
I talked to Coop, the guy in charge of setting up AFTCoach. I asked him a few questions regarding it as I’m interested in showing this to my family and brothers to get them warmed up to making money from your desk, and gaining full freedom to do what you would love to do…
He basically told me that when you do article marketing for the most part, it’s hard to make it take off unless you have the technical setup correct, with a few secrets that make banking money a lot easier. Even if you suck at writing you still can get some nice pocket change doing this. He said his goal is to have everyone making $1k/day within 6 months. I’m not sure how feasible that is, as I’ve never tried article marketing before, but I also asked him what the average noob can expect to make within the first month. His reply was $50-$200/day if you do it right. He also has tons of tutorials that are very basic step by step to help the new guys along, considering the site is meant for beginners. It’s a great start and while I haven’t tried it, it sounds great! Enough for me to get my family involved… I have another close friend who’s signing up and when he gets through I’ll ask him how it is and give you an honest review if I think it’s worth it.

I’m takin off for Vegas, PEACE!
PS. Black 13!

When I say this, I mean it!… Scuse’ my 1st year french but when things start going in your favor, watch the fuck out!

About 2 weeks ago I hit my first $1,000 profit day, and since then things have been snowballing very quickly that it’s actually a new challenge focusing on my current projects with so many opportunities and possibilities floating right in my. Things that were never there before or that I never even realized…

I feel like it’s just like when Roger Bannister ran the 4-minute mile in 1954, and then only 6 weeks later multiple other people broke the same record. Once a level of achievement is reached, opportunities fall in place which are more akin with this new level of development. I always heard people say this, but I never really experienced it in my life until the last month or so. After breaking my 1,000 day, my entire reality has shifted into this being common-place, so now when I look out I start to perceive opportunities and chances that I just never even considered before. My current focus is that I’m going to start doing media buys.

I made a post on PPC-Coach about networking, and then there were a few comments on my blog asking me to write a post about it. Well about about I give you one better, chum. This post is here to inspire you, not just to tell you about networking, but to truly try to convey what’s in store for you when you start to meet your own expectations of what it’s like to actually ‘really succeed.’

Everyone starts at the same place, and I was no exception. So I might have read this same blog post and it would go in one ear and right out the other… but let me re-emphasize that this WILL happen to you.. look forward to it! These are the little tidbits of experience that I have gained in the last month which have actually changed my mindset.

1. When people see you are successfull, THEY WILL BE WILLING TO GIVE YOU SO MUCH FOR FREE. Yeah this one’s a doozie.. When I was flat broke or didn’t have really any success to speak about, I was in the grind trying my best. But as I’ve learned and experienced more and more (and I still have so far to go ), the more I REALLY see how people that see you’re successful are willing to just give you things. It’s the weirdest thing… It really lets you just RIDE the coaster rather than always trying to climb a mountain. From what I’ve seen in my own life things pick up exponentially, and you’ll be able to survive on just your opportunities alone. I wish I could convey the intensity of this as well… I was on both sides of the fence and I remember having the exact thoughts..
“blah blah everyone says that but it will take forever for me to be successful.. and what really COULD they give me?? honestly .. how much could they really give to me, probably not much. Either that or I wouldn’t have enough success experience to even use that to my advantage.”

Now that I ACTUALLY am here, and I’m not trying to perceive this place of being through a lens which is NOT in the same place of growth (trying to perceive what it’s like to be ‘here’ from being in a place of ‘there’), it’s VERY DIFFERENT. The limitations of your old awareness prevent you from even comprehending what it’s like in your new place of growth. It’s like literally trying to look through a glass monocle when half of it is covered with black tar (okay that was out of left field shut up I would wear a monocle if I had to). The momentum of my life right now is being carried on opportunities alone, and I’m taking all the juicy ones!

2. NETWORK! A lot of it. Build relationships on AIM, in person, at conferences, on forums, WHEREVER. Try to make friends with everyone (and watch out for people who try to pull the wool over your eyes or manipulate). I don’t mean just start talking to everyone or be a needy creep that always bugs people on aim… you want to offer value to people so they remember you. Want a hint? Sure. For fucks sake.. BE UNIQUE. Probably 50-100 new people hit me up on AIM a month, and they all say the same thing. DO you think I remember those people? Hell no. Same with all the PM’s I get on PPC-Coach (ironically about networking that all say the same thing.. boring.. “hey I’m here to network with you.. so.. uh… yeah..”). The people I DO remember are the guys and girls who stand out and offer me something, whether its humor, creativity, ideas, or just an interesting and refreshing presence. The guy that sends me $5 for absolutely no reason “to go get a beer,” or the guy that the very first thing he says to me is a quote related to my favorite book, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (he got the idea from my screen-name which is named after the character zaphod in the book). THESE are the people that I find interesting and I will be willing to help out and go the extra mile to make sure they succeed (as long as they continue to put in equal or greater effort. Putting in greater effort I greatly appreciate and that makes me want to help more… synergy baby). By the same token, the dynamic between me and the more successful people that help me UP is exactly the same way. It’s just a cycle that will suck you in when you get close enough to it When the ball starts rolling so to speak…

Just as a quick hint for number 2. When you’re talking to people try and feel out the give or take. You will feel it and your intuition will guide you whether or not to bring them in with your private information (that you don’t want everyone knowing), or slowly pushing them away by politely ignoring them. It’s sort of a mutual thing, and you will feel that same feeling when a homeless person asks for change when they’re ‘taking’ too much, or if you don’t trust them. Likewise the people that seem to give you way too much too quickly it will feel like something is fishy… there’s a perfect balance in there and when you find it that harmony is what creates awesome relationships. Then when they’re good and weak thats when you begin plan for world domination or .. uh.. wait nevermind.

3. Form a MASTERMIND group. Don’t burn bridges or try to selfishly keep everything to yourself. Now don’t get me wrong you don’t want to be giving away all your secrets, but if there’s someone you really trust and you feel like you could both hit a home-run out of the park with 2 minds rather than one, by all means do it. Right now I have a mastermind group with 3 awesome people, and it works out great. They all feed me olives and fan me while I relax on the beach err by that I mean we all work together to achieve a common goal. 4 minds can crush an opportunities where 1 mind would just be overloaded. That doesn’t mean we all feed off eachother like leaches, but it’s a “symbiotic relationship” that is pretty much the essence of synergy. We each hold our own independence, our own campaigns and so forth, but work together for tackling new marketing techniques, offers or challenging methods. Where do you find these people?? STEP 2… Don’t forget

The final point I would like to make is, it only takes ONE success for you to really feel it. All it took was waking up one time and seeing my account and thinking holy shit… from then on everything just falls into place. For the most part, it seems like if you hit a new PEAK, you won’t be tortured with nonsense all that much ‘lower’ than that. You will definitely fail and have challenges, but your whole level increases with each new breakthrough.

Rove you rong time!

It was interesting being without internet for 7 days, but I lived. I’ve finally moved into my new house and everything is set up for maximum profitage.

Here are a few pics of my room… specially zen-i-fied for the most enjoyable work environment that I feel. I’m thinking of getting 3 or 4 very large plants and placing them around the room, along with a few bonzai trees. Maybe even a pink flamingo.

Click on them to see full size.

Yes… my socks don’t match. Sue me.

My room at night. Thank god it’s not actually that orange. iPhone camera fails again.

My sex panther lamp, graciously donated by my dad. Not sure where it’s been, not sure I even care to know. As well as my illegally soft and comfortable bed.

The view out of my window at night. I wish I had a better quality pic of this, because it truly is spectacular. You can’t make them out but there are mountains on the horizon.

My bathroom counter-top. Not quite sure what to do with 2 sinks, but I’ll figure it out.

Pic of shower and tub. Exciting.
I hate to say.. but, I wasn’t sure what to do with a bath, so I took a bath in it. I haven’t taken a bath in like 20 years, so I mixed up some epsom salts and made a balancing bath. Pretty relaxing =)

Of course, then I had to put on my boosie robe and walk around with a pipe in my mouth, talking about ’shedules’

Cheers!

This is how I feel right now…

You should add me on twitter. I’m just now seeing the incredible potential of it. Here are two other great resources for mass following 100 people a day in your niche/unfollowing the punks that don’t follow you back, as well as for tracking your tinyurl’s.

I gotta admit I feel extremely gay posting on twitter from my phone… I mean really really gay. But, it has grown on me.. and it’s not so bad when you actually have followers. I think the first time I realized it was when I posted a funny pic from my roadtrip and got 40 people to click on it in about 8-10 seconds, and then a few commented on it and one retweeted it. My fellow partner in crime, miss leebo, has 15k followers, which I guess is really the pinnacle of creepiness, but that’s cool. Maybe some day I shall attain creeptweet status. To leverage the gayness I just say that I gotta ‘oh snap dude let me twat that.’

That brings me to the topic of my roadtrip… well it can’t really be described. I’d show you the videos but it’s best those not got out. It started off in vegas for my birthday, where I had some . We gambled a bit, fought some strippers, base jumped off a few casino high rises, had some more . The weather there is so freakin hot I don’t even know what to do with myself. The only thing I could think of was drink mojitos, sit at the dollar slots and shovel more fun fun down the hatch. I must have drank so many Gatorade’s that you should invest in their stock if I go back. On the way home in my friend’s Jetta, we saw 4 other Jetta’s on the side of the road because they broke down from heat. That was omen number one. The second omen was the temperature gauge on H. Omen three was the vultures flying after our car with laser precision for several hundred miles. Luckily our car died in a gas station where beef-jerky-trucker-voice-janice very kindly sold us antifreeze.
After that I returned home (but I hadn’t slept in my own bed yet) when my friend told me that they’re going on a 2 month roadtrip from the East to the West coast and all the way up and back again. They were stopping through Los Angeles for awhile, so on a whim I said I’d tag along with my buddy. We ended up going to San Diego for some time… good times a plenty there. I’m plenty tan now, I’ve almost reached Nigerian status. I can’t get enough though… Polish skin loves sun.

After that we hit up Hollywood (yawn), Venice Beach (wtf!), and more subways than you can shake a $5 meatstick at.

Yesterday and today I finally started my new business partnership with my good friend… he’s already spearheaded several projects that I’m helping him work on. I’m extremely excited for that, as well as a lucratively delicious business operation I’m currently working on. Today he informed me that he’s a “domain kingpin.” I thought about it, and I really like the ring of that… so when girl’s ask what I do, instead of telling them I do online advertising, I’m just going to tell them I’m a kingpin and leave it at that.

I should start writing more although I honestly I can see why writers go through writer’s block. There’s SO much that I can put in a post that you simply will never know, it’s kind of daunting to fit a 10 day experience into an inspiring post. I suppose that’s where humor comes in, as well as excuses to use delicious pixel art icons of cake. I’ll try posting more actual PPC tips too, I guess that’s why people come here. There’s a million other sites for that though… and generally they’re boring as hell – I try to keep mine leaning towards the adventure side.

That’s all I got.

A recent comment inspired me to make this post about efficiency when coding.

I’ve been wanting to redo my site for awhile now with trendier graphics and today I bit the bullet. Many hours, and x Redbulls later, I feel I have accomplished a fair amount tastier eye-candy.. it almost makes me want to lick the new header graphics. Tell me what you think, or if you have any suggestions/improvements you see shoot me a comment.

I edit single lines of code an awful lot – alt+tab to the browser to view it – make desired changes – edit – re-upload – wash rinse repeat. When you’re doing this for hours on end it’s crucial that your setup facilitates the ease, speed and efficiency of a turtle with a jetpack. This is to keep time wasted as low as possible and prevent excessive going back and forth trying to find files, or uploading your old work over your new work (god only knows… if you’ve made that mistake. before.. you’ll never want to make it again).

Here I will try to explain the most efficient way I have found to navigate the workflow of viewing things that need to be fixed, downloading files to edit, editing, uploading, testing, and so on.

First, download Firebug. I can’t recommend this enough… I use this CONSTANTLY.

Next, I recommend you get EditPlus 3. Depending on how you feel about torrents, you can just download it. This step isn’t essential, you could use notepad (or jokepad) after all if you wanted to. EditPlus infinitely better however because it color-highlights different segments of code depending on what language the file is. This helps you easily spot if you forgot a pesky ; mark somewhere and need to find out where the error is.

Once you have that, go into FileZilla (client) and go to Edit > Settings > File Editing.

Make the appropriate changes according to the image below.
If you don’t have EditPlus, change this to c:\windows\notepad.exe

This is where the meat of this post comes in: how to go back and forth from Firebug, to EditPlus 3, to Filezilla so you can find changes, make changes, and upload changes (in that rotation) as quick as possible.

FIND CHANGES

Now you’re all set up and ready to go to start editing. In the process of making this post actually I found a good example to use. I noticed that the image border of images within a post (when I previewed it) come up as a very ugly 3px border for some reason. I want to change that to a nice 1px blue colored border.

There are several ways to do this.. first of all I obviously need to edit style.css (specifically for me, styleBlue.css). If you’re intermediate level, you won’t need firebug to know you simply adjust border:1px solid #46b0e5; in the img property, but for more advanced things it makes a big difference. I’m going to use it anyway in this example.

Go to Firefox and enable Firebug by hitting the little bug in the bottom right hand corner. When the window pops up, hit Inspect. Mouse around and you will see in real-time firebug highlighting all elements on your page. On the left you will see the XHTML associated with that element, and on the right is the CSS style associated with it.

Here you can see exactly what line of code I need to change. When you change any of the XHTML/CSS code in firebug, it updates it on the page in real time as soon as you type it in. This is a fucking fantastic feature, and it’s how I do the majority of my coding to make it look perfect. If you mess up, just hit F5 to refresh and your page will be restored for you to edit again. Once you have the page looking how you like it (in this case, I ‘inspected’ and then found where I need to change the border. See the bottom right where I changed the border code), It’s time to put it back in the actual CSS file so the change is permanent. As a sidenote, firebug works best for fixing margins and padding so you get to visually see how it will look, and there is no trial and error involved.

MAKE CHANGES & UPLOAD CHANGES

Now browse to the correct directory location within your FTP server, right click the file and hit View/Edit. This step is important; see image below.

After you do this, EditPlus (or jokepad) will open up and you will see your CSS code. If you remember from firebug, you will know exactly where to go to edit (click the previous image): you will see on line 780, for p img { }

Make your desired change, and hit CLOSE on EditPlus. When it asks you if you want to save, hit YES. Now, go back to FileZilla and immediately you will see this message:

Once you hit Yes, the file will reupload to the location you viewed it from. Filezilla takes care of the temp files as well as the location you originally opened it from, and knows where to re-upload it. Even if you change the folder you’re viewing in FTP, it will know the location the file is supposed to go into.

That’s it! Go back to firefox and hit F5 to refresh. You should see the changes you just made show up, all while spending only about 15 seconds. Once you get the hang of this, you can do these steps in order very quickly over and over and start to make massive amounts of edits. I generally work in groups. I’ll edit a few things related to images, remember what they are, change them on the FTP server, go back and edit a few more things related to something else.

There are many other ways to do this, including the FTP setting within Dreamweaver, however I like the light weight of EditPlus, as well as the ability to leave multiple files open (like header.php and style.css), edit both back and forth, and have filezilla keep track and upload them as soon as I hit Save.

That’s it, go get em’ tigre.

Just got back from an awesome 2-week trip to San Diego gas lamp area… totally awesome. I’m moving there for sure when this lease expires.

It’s time for work again, I’m a bit tired right now but tomorrow I’m starting on a whole slew of campaigns I’ve been thinking about the last month.

I also updated the About section with a more specific writeup of what I am going to achieve with this. Cheers