Recently, I was chastised by a few friends. Mostly because they don’t understand what I’ve been doing the last year. In their view I’m a scattered brained chump who jumps around a lot. And truthfully that’s the honest god awful truth.

I’ve travelled to 10 major cities, I’ve held down multiple occupations, and I’ve lived from luxury to poverty twice backwards sometimes fully sober, sometimes fully drunk.

The Year 2006 Was About Learning.

Perseverance is probably my biggest lesson. I work online for a living developing niche sites. I’ve sold a lot of “underperformers” that later went on to become big earners. One of my sites I’ve sold recently was resold for a higher value. Showing me again I’m on the right path. Another one of my sites makes upwards of 700 dollars a month after I sold it for around 700 dollars. So that new owner is banking 100% Profit off of their initial investment every single month.
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Originally posted on November 18, 2006 @ 4:09 am

Stumbled on a great blog today that really hits home some principles I hold dear to my heart whenever I start any blog post.

How To Use The Best Headlines Every Time

To break it down, your best headline will have these 3 features:

1. It will summarize your actual content; not what you wish you could say or hope you have said.
2. The summary will be accurate.
3. The summary will be concise.

Originally posted on November 29, 2006 @ 8:41 pm

Search engines have become the starting point for most online activities. As a result, if you have a website, getting traffic from search engines via search engine optimization is becoming increasingly important and increasingly competitive.

There are lots of excellent guides to get started but to truly stay on top of your SEO game, you have to keep an eye on the rapidly changing search engine market.

Following the top bloggers on SEO is one sure way to do that and we have compiled a list of the top SEO blogs. If we left any of your favorite top SEO blogs off this list, please let us know and will be sure to take a look

I will add in a few sites that I personally like following that have taught me a ton.

Pearsonified
Not really SEO oriented but if you follow closely you will learn principles that will payoff in SEO.

Link Building Blog
Build premium backlinks for your blog

Read Mind Valley’s List

Originally posted on November 30, 2006 @ 8:18 am

Disclosure: I have done consulting work for ReviewMe.com, proceed with caution.

ReviewMe is live according to the ReviewMe Blog.

ReviewMe provides a great way for bloggers to make money all the while doing HONEST reviews and getting paid. Meaning you could do a negative review, a neutral review, any old kind of review. Disclosure is neccesary, and well its run by some of brightest folks in the world and backed by recently acquired Text Link Ads.

Oh yeah forgot to mention. They are giving away 25k to bloggers. Here’s how that works.

When we launch, we’re going to give away $25K USD. Here’s how: every new blogger accepted into the ReviewMe network will immediately have the opportunity to earn cash by reviewing ReviewMe itself. This gives new reviewers a chance to see exactly how our system works, and helps spread the word about ReviewMe, too :-) (good or bad). This offer will be in effect until we have paid out $25,000 total for reviews.

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Originally posted on November 10, 2006 @ 3:21 am

Berks.tv a local Pennsylvania internet video channel interviews Frank Warren on the heels of his new book “My Secret”’s release. An interview following the jump

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About his latest compilation of people’s secrets, Frank Warren says, “I think it’s the book I created for me, the book I wish I had had when I was in high school.”

“My Secret” is a compendium of young people’s “passions, desires, joys, remorse and hopes … sometimes exaggerated because they might be feeling isolated,” he says.

Founder of the Web site PostSecret (http://postsecret.com), Warren says isolation and loneliness are recurring themes in the thousands of secrets he attracts from strangers.

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This should be a good read, as well as a coffeetable discussion book. If you haven’t checked out Post Secret, its a great little site to watch. And it provides a little bit of humanity that we all need to read everyday.

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Originally posted on October 24, 2006 @ 1:44 am