It’s weird to me that it’s been almost a year since I was semi actively posting here, but I guess that is how things go. I suppose it is somewhat gratifying that I’ve managed to keep posting to this ‘blog’ since 2006 even if there has been some down time here and there.  One of my first posts was about starting some company, which I can tell you never went through.  That is a problem I’ve had thus far in my life, actually following through all the way on a business idea to the point that the income is residual.

This is where affiliate marketing comes in. For those of you that do not know what it is, let me explain very briefly.

Affiliate Marketing is at its least, sales.  Being an ‘affiliate’ means selling someone elses product.  This can be physical or digital products, for this example lets use digital products only.

Say someone writes an ebook called How To Fly Kites. This person sets up a website to act as a sale page to try and sell their ebook. There are several websites that would allow them to post up their product, so that other people, the affiliates, can access the information, and in turn, set up their own websites that will ‘upsell’ the ebook, and drive traffic to the authors website.

When someone clicks on a link that appears on the affiliates website, which goes to the authors website, the authors website knows where that traffic came from…which is the affiliate site.  If the person decides to buy the ebook, the author then knows that the affiliate who’s page the purchaser came, deserves commission.

Sounds a bit confusing, but really it is not. The part I am attempting to play in that whole equation is the affiliate. I am working with all digital content for now as the commissions are extremely high(75%), and I can get paid from one source www.ClickBank.com.

I already have two websites online that I build myself from scratch, with some banner design help from my good friend Dave over at www.ArtIsMyMiddleName.net.  These sites, as far as affiliate sites goes, are rather small, but they are still making sales which is VERY exciting.  I plan to beef them up a good bit more here in the near future, but first I am working on a brand new site.

I’ve just started following the AffiloBlueprint at www.affilorama.com, which is basically a crash course series of videos, audio, and pdfs, giving lessons on everything you need to know in order to build affilate websites and make affiliate sales. It is by far the most comprehensive course on the internet right now and has been scaled so that even someone that knows nothing about design, coding, selling, researching, or anything, can get started fast.  I’ve already learned a lot of basics and have a strong background working with all aspects of the internet, so I am blasting through the lessons, but I am learning many things at the same time.

Anyways, which me luck so that I can actually keep this ball rolling.  I’ll keep you posted on my outcomes.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/273911,woman-fined-19-million-dollars-for-illegal-download.html

Washington – A court in the United States laid down a 1.9-million-dollar fine against a Minnesota woman who illegally downloaded 24 songs from the internet, CNN reported. The trial against Jammie Thomas-Rasset was the first case in the United States for such copyright infringement, CNN quoted her lawyer as saying.

Amazing, there was a jury that is either so far out of the loop, or just too old to care, that this unessasary example is being made of this poor woman.

I highly doubt that anyone stops downloading music because this lady was punished for it. Especially those people that download WAY more than 24 songs….try downloading 50 albums in 1 day…what then? Sentenced to death??

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This was the first year I had a surprise birthday event….and boy was it ever a surprise…after surprise…after surprise.

Eve set it all up and had some help from a few other nice ladies and gents to make things flow smoothly, and I had to do nothing

It started off by meeting up at Eves, she told me to get the dogs and get in the car, so I did. We dropped off one of her pups way out in the country at her brothers current residence, and then we started driving deeper and deeper into the country. I started to get scared. I asked if we were going to the beach! I didn’t bring any of my clothing or bathing suit or anything, but was willing to work it out.

We eventually ended up at a lake house on lake Sinclair where we would spend the next 2 days. Turns out that Eve had packed my clothes while I was in the car with the dogs…. …. At this point we were both starving as it was about 1pm and neither of us had eaten anything. We stopped at a gas station on the lake and asked if there were any restaurants close by. They told us that there was nothing anywhere close, and our best bet was the BP up the street because they had hot dogs. Grossed out I used my blackberry and googlemaps to find ‘food’ close to the address of the lake house. Within about a five mile radius it found over 10 BBQ places and a few other restaurants.

I picked one at random and we started trekking towards it. 5 minutes later we pulled up to the place. There was 1 truck in the gravel parking lot, and when we got out of the car, the smell was overwhelmingly delicious. Turns out that it really was delicious and fortunately we ordered extra to take with us to eat later…which we ate on all weekend.

We made it back to the lake house, and I managed to talk Eve into telling me who was coming down and slowly but surely they started arriving. We had copious amounts of many types of beer and lots of food so we started consuming.

Things then got a little crazy with more surprises. We tried to play some nerts which was WAY too fast, we went to the dock, we escaped the sleeping dragon, and we went all the way to the end of the universe.

The following day, my actual birthday, included more of the same. Kayaking, swimming, drinking, eating, and getting tons of sun. It seemed every time we came back from kayaking more and more people had showed up. Eventually even my family showed up and we all grilled out and had cake to seal the deal. Everyone was exhausted, even those who had not spent the night there. So slowly people started to leave and or pass out to sleep until there were just two of us up watching UFC. I think everyone was asleep by 10:30 but it was well deserved.

Definitely the best birthday weekend/celebration I have had in my now 26 years of life and I am very happy everyone that did come out did come out

exactly one week later, I am filling up my tank in the early morning at a different gas station.

While paying for my drink from inside someone walked in and goes “you have gas spewing from your car man”…

sure enough, SPEWING from my car is gas. I guess from now on I will no longer try to take advantage of technology and let the pump stop itself when my car is full. Instead I will just stand there and pump it until I think it is full or it spews out on my shoes

mondays are the worst days

So every blog in the world has some complaining about high gas prices.

I don’t, it suck but wtf can you do you know?

This past monday morning I pulled into the gas station down the street from my work, like I do every week, several times a week. And started filling up my tank and went inside to get a drink, like I do every week, several times a week.

On my return I hear what sounded like running water, I then saw a river of what looked like gasoline running down the hill from my car…the pump never stopped when the tank was full, so I ended up having to pay for about 100% more gas than I needed.

This sucks, this suck real bad. I have NEVER had this happen before, and seriously, its 2008, you would think they would have this technology figured out.

On my way inside I noticed that my spilled gas was following what looked like a path from someone elses spilled gas…yes thats right, someone else already had this same thing happen to them this morning. So I tell the clerk about it and she apologizes and says that someone else had that happen earlier and that she cannot refund my money for the spilled gas because there is a sticker on the pump that says something in the vein of “do not fill tank unattended”…

Pretty ill at the situation, but not wanting to let it really bother me and ruin my Monday, I tell them that is fine but they should really close off that pump until they get it fixed.

That pump is still in action yesterday and today, though I have not seen a gasoline river flowing down the hill since then.

So there it is, my first $60 tank of gas in the Golf.

Took my final exams this week and I are finished

They learned me how to work hard and take tests on the interwebs

THANK YOU SCHOOL!

and here I am, making text on the internet…which could eventually just disappear, and all my hard work typing would be in vein.

I have to say though, if I had to write out all my thoughts on paper, I would do it a lot less often than I make typey on the internet. I would talk to far fewer people, I would hear far less new music, and probably be far less relevant than I am now(lol).

There is a Ben Folds Five track where Ben’s father calls him up in the early morning and asks him what he thinks about the idea that your body mass goes away in space…and if given enough time, would you just be a brain floating around in a human suite of skin and bones, or maybe your muscles would still be just strong enough to move around in space.

And thats whats up.

the more time I’ve had to stew on things that piss me off

I try to keep a positive attitude but many times the world works against me, I am not sure if its karma or just bad luck

either way I’m very ready for the next step and very sad that I have to share this world with all these other people that I do not even like

its looking like a turn for the best and a turn for the worst all at once…or maybe they both negate themselves and its a turn for nothing