A Dog’s Life

For the past week, I’ve been taking advantage of the Immediate Edge trial program and now I literally feel like I’m chomping at the bit and ready to race!

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I’ve been struggling with Internet Marketing for a couple of years now and while I’ve had a certain amount of success, it hasn’t been anything like what I was originally hoping for.

But recently, I’ve started having a series of “a-ha moments” at practically everything I look at in the field of Internet marketing. I hate to say it, but I think I’m finally understanding what this stuff is all about. I actually think I’m about to bust this shit wide open!

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The 2009 Thirty Day Challenge is about to start it’s pre-season runup to the big launch!

The Challenge officially starts, as always, on August 1st, and I am totally stoked! The pre-season starts June 1st so there is going to be two months to get ready and to get cranked up for what is sure to be a major event in internet marketing. If you’ve ever thought about making money online, you’d be a fool to pass up this opportunity. 

I’ve been chipping away at learning internet marketing for a couple of years now and I have to admit that I haven’t been consistent in my efforts. I think that has been mostly due to frustration, which is not something I handle very well. I hate it when I feel clueless, and it sometimes takes me a long time to work myself up to the point where I can push through the frustration and get on with the job.

So, anyway, I’m really looking forward to this years challenge because I think I finally have enough experience and knowledge to hit the ground running, so to speak, and really take full advantage of this amazing opportunity.

Richard Internet Marketing

I don’t understand how I can be so many things at the same time.

I don’t understand how I can be so smart and so stupid.

I don’t understand how I can be so perceptive and so blind.

I don’t understand how I can be so energetic and so lazy.

I don’t understand how I can be so nice and so shitty.

I don’t understand how I can be so loving and so hateful.

I don’t understand how I can be so good and so bad.

I don’t understand a fucking thing.

Richard Random Thoughts

Last summer I was at a friend’s house and he had a shallow dish in a hanger on his balcony for the birds to drink from. I thought it was a cool idea, so I copied it and I bought one of those shallow dishes used for under a potted plant and I bought a cheap macremé hangar for it and I put it up on my front porch, next to the bird feeder.

But I never saw any birds using it.

Then just a few weeks ago, I was watching the birds at the feeder and one of them flew over to the dish and took a couple of drinks and then flew off. It made me smile and feel good.

So all this time I have been keeping the dish full of water and from time to time I would notice that I would fill the dish one day and the next day it would be pretty much empty. I just assumed that I had spaced out and forgotten to fill it for a few days and the water had evaporated. Obviously, the birds weren’t drinking it dry in two days.

Then yesterday, I was once again looking out the window and I saw a bird come and take a couple of drinks and then do the most remarkable thing. He hopped into the dish and took a bath! He splashed around like crazy for a minute, throwing water everywhere and then took off. Suddenly the penny dropped and I knew where the missing water had be going. So all this time the birds have been drinking and bathing in the dish as I had hoped they would, but I finally got to see it.

Richard suburban life

Got the new site going and I’m pretty happy with how this new theme works to make a very professional looking site.

The Princess Rings Shop

Now we’ll just have to see if I can get some traffic. The Archery Hunting Equilment site is doing relatively well, so I think I need to redo it with the new theme and then start promoting it better.

I’m also feeling like it is time to concentrate on studying Internet Margeting techniques again. I’ve passed up tons of info from Stomper and I am particularly eager to check out all the stuff I’ve gotten from WordpressDirect.

So I’m going to do the social bookmarking thing for The Princess Ring Shop and then go back to school for a while. 

Using the combination of What’s Hot at eBay and Market Samurai to research keywords and then all my site building tricks makes me fell like I have a good understanding of this particular internet marketing niche.

Richard Internet Marketing

The first time I had a go at the 30 Day Challenge I was incredibly lost. I ended up buying a domian name that was completely wrong for what I had in mind and so it has been sitting undeveloped for more than a year.

So I finally decided to get it going using my favorite eBay affiliate software (phpBay Pro) and a new theme I actually paid money for. The site ended up being more than sixty pages because of all the categories, but right now I think it looks pretty good. I’m sure in a week I willl hate it.

Here is my new (old) site just chock full of dog supplies and dog collar supplies: The Happy Dog

I have no idea if I will be able to draw any traffic, the whole site was really nothing more than a proof of concept, but I am encouraged by the results and I have learned a lot about how to better use this theme.

I just bought a new domain tonight and so I will have to build that site out, but I think I am also ready to do more training and so I need to review the WordpressDirect disk I have as well as catch up in the worlds of Stompernet and Ed Dale.

Onward and upward!

Richard Internet Marketing

Several weeks ago I planted lettuce and spinach in my garden. They both sprouted on schedule, but the lettuce soon fell victim to something that ate all of it in two nights. I smail and bug bait out so I had no idea what ate the lettuce. The spinach got chewed somewhat but it evidently wasn’t as appetizing to the pests, so it is doing well.

Then last week I planted lettuce again and as soon as it was barely sprouted, it got attacked, but I spotted the culprits and it was birds. They were pulling up the very young sprouts to get the seeds. However, some of the larger sprouts survived the birds and they were starting to grow nicely. Then tonight I spotted the real lettuce thief.

A rabbit!

Living in the middle of suburbia, it is easy to forget that there are still wild animals around and rabbits are not only shy but largely nocturnal, so it isn’t surprising that you don’t see them very often.

I think the rabbit is cool and I’m willing to do without the lettuce. Hell, I think I’ll stop at the store tomorrow on the way home from work and buy some rabbit food and leave it out for him. His hiding place is under the shed, so I’ll leave some near there and see if he eats it.

Richard suburban life

Sometimes my progress in this internet marketing game seems to come at a glacial pace, but at least it comes, eh? I’m making significantly more now than I was a year ago, so I am happy about that. But I’m still nowhere near my goal of supporting myself entirely from internet income and so I get impatient.

Anyway, the good news is that March finished with three good days and I ended up with my best month ever. I hope every month is my best month ever. Car Police Auctions continues to be my star property with the most traffic and by far the most in earnings. My ACRU’s from that site are paying $28 and that’s a nice little chunk that drops in from time to time.

Right now I’m concentrating on site building and getting all my current domains up and running. Once that is done, I will go back and work at promoting all my sites with quality back links and new content and then I’ll be ready for another round of keyword research and new domains. And so it goes for the foreseeable future…

Richard Internet Marketing

Ok I think I’m done with the hummingbird videos for a while. Here’s one where the sun is right to get the iridescence of the feathers. The males are smaller and have the neck tufts and there is a gravid female that comes in towards the end of the scene.

Richard suburban life