Even from the beginning I was wondering if it was good to have one great and big website or hundreds of mini-sites, so I came to realize that there is nothing wrong on having a lot of websites, but, don’t start them all at once. What I have done is, I took advantage of my success to build around 20 website on the same niche but in different ‘sections’, 3 of them are succeeding, 17 are dying. First, I do all the work myself, I build backlinks, write content, update pages, answer messages, get traffic from media bookmarks, and the list goes on.

So what happened? Well, I haven’t done a thing since the beginning of this year. Why? I’m freaking overwhelmed by so much thing I have to do. So don’t be stupid like me and begin to give birth to websites you can’t manage, focus. Now I’m stuck with all these websites and I have no idea what to do next. I have begun to build backlinks to one but it dropped 2 positions and is not hanging on 10th result, the other one is still hanging on #1 but is bringing me, wait for it, $3 bucks per day.

I’ve thought of selling them all and start PPC, PPV or Media Buying, but I won’t do that because I have no idea how to do PPV and Media Buying and Google made me a favor to ban my account because I was too dumb to create new accounts and use vouchers and never carry on, so they probably thought I wasn’t serious and banned my accounts. So if you ever begin a PPC campaign on google adwords do not create a new account just to use a voucher, use the first account you had a voucher. Facebook ads also disabled my account because of the Visa Network voucher, so now I’m left with AdBrite, Plenty of Fish, MSN, Yahoo and PPV networks.

What a beginning of year, lot of things went wrong and both my plans A (Adwords) and B (Facebook) went down the drain, fine, people are still calling me lazy for not getting traffic to my websites, when it is so easy to say when you have your shiny Adwords account and don’t depend on “SEO”.

Back to the subject, if you begin to have baby MFA websites or whatever, you will see that this crap is really hard to manage! Unless you are filthy rich and have money to outsource everything from content creation to backlinks, you’re going to get stuck and overwhelmed! Begin with just 1 or 2 websites, then grow them all the way up, once they have established you begin a new one. Don’t begin one website per day like I did, now I have a lot of websites and I don’t even feel like getting backlinks to all of them, and even getting someone to do the backlinks for me is a hard task, since I have no idea where to begin.

Ok this blog is not meant to teach anybody to do anything, so I’m going to stop writing because I’m dizzy.
Good luck bros.

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It’s a long post! Be warned…

1. Get Money + Get Paid: It’s been a while I’m struggling with servers and hosting and all that crap, I’m tired of this and I would rather focus my energy on things that is not shady that needs to be hosted in offshore hosting, no is not porn, I couldn’t work on this niche even if I wanted to.
2. Go and finish college at last: I’ve only managed to stay in college for 1 semester, the classes were dull and the chance of getting a regular job after graduating is anywhere from 0% to 1% in my town and 3% to 7% in my country overall. And besides, if I accomplish my goal of earning $200 per day (I’m a moron for not be earning this amount already), I wouldn’t even need to get a real job, mainly because the salary of an Administrator here is $1200 per month and I get that with e-mail submits, no shit.
3. Get out more: My friends nicknamed me caveman, no wonder, I spend way too much time on computer, before it was being a fake Gangster on Facebook (Mafia Wars), or even a countryman on Farmville. Now with Lead Marketing, my computer have become my restaurant as well, there only time I get out is to take a shower or to go to the bathroom. Sad, but true.
4. Go to the gym: No açai berries for me bros. I only believe in real exercise to lose weight and get body mass. But I think I’ll end up no doing this, since I’ve been willing to “go to the gym” since last year, if I didn’t do that back then, I hardly will this year, but since it is only the beginning of the year, I have plenty of time to go.
5. Get the hang of this mtfkng business: Since Facebook and Adwords ditched me last year, this year I’m going to work more on SEO (to gain enough money to spend on media buys and ppv), since last year I’ve been trying to get a profitable campaign on POF, my adcopies suck more than Dracula, with CTR around %0.04 (WHO LIVE LIKE THIS!?). Managed to get a campaign with CTR 0.23%, but no conversions eh.
6. Buy a new cellphone: Heck, I’m using a broken N75 I’ve bought on ebay (I’ve fixed it to make it work), tried to buy an iphone but it was too cheap to be true and I almost lost my monies ($350) in a fake iphone 3G 8GB (not the GS), if at least I could buy it, but the seller was just screwing buyers and I found out before I got on his fool list.
7. Travel to US to meet with some homies: Pretty self-explanatory.
8. Save money to attend ASW in 2011: I have no idea what happens in these affiliate meetings, but I want to find out.
9. Get my Driver’s License: Yes, I’m 21 years old and I haven’t driven anything, no wonder why, we never had a car, so why would we spend our lunch money with Driver’s School? And no, we don’t own a car still, which takes to my next goal.
10. Buy a car! It’s been frustrating to walk under the rain or under Brazil’s tropical sun, even though it is good for the environment and it’s the only exercise I do, having a car has a lot of pros, like being able to go to the supermarket and bringing the groceries home instead of waiting until they deliver it, which is generally while you are taking a shower.
11. Buy an LCD TV to watch the World Cup: Do you know those TVs that aren’t HD and heavy as hell? That’s the one we own.
12. Upgrade my computer: Last time I updated my computer was when the Dual Core was released, not that much time, but after my power supply frizzle on my birthday and I having to spend more money to fix it, I decided that since I’m going to spend long hours on this, being pissed off with a lot of things, why not get a new computer and have something less to be pissed about?
13. Have a healthy routine: Crazy hours are killing me, sleeping at 3am, waking up at 6am, not having so much fun, that’s not what life is about. I’ve begun to go to bed at 1am, last night I passed out and woke up today at 10:50am, but I want to be up early so I can get more done and take the most of my day, maybe doing it I’ll have time for the gym!
14. Don’t waste time thinking/browsing and getting shit done: Instant Messaging, Youtube, Facebook, Blogs, Forums, Twitter, E-Mail, my own thoughts, these pretty much make me drool all day instead of actually doing something. All these things I can do once I have established my business, right now I shouldn’t be wasting time. Even though these things are the closest I have of fun on my daily basis.

Of course hardly anyone read this but me, I’m posting it so I can have a clue of what I want to accomplish this year and WORK HARDER to get it. I’ll keep updating the blog with news on my goals when I accomplish them. I could use this blog to push stuff on my readers, but I don’t want to follow this path, this is my personal blog, if I ever put an ad here it is because the product/network/whatever is hot! I don’t want to make a  quick buck on my few readers. Even though that is the easiest path to earn money online.

PS: The EWA banner is there because they RULE! I’ve learned a lot in the last couple of weeks since I’ve joined EWA, the weekly campaign recommendations is just priceless. Special kudos to Ryan Eagle and Victor (My AM). I’m still not breaking even, but I’m almost there!

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I begun 2009 totally excited on my online journey, I was clueless about how things really work, I’ve set really high goals for a beginner, and of course, I didn’t accomplish it this year, but I can tell I’m on my way to accomplish it.

I’ve spent most of 2009 reading e-books and willing to get started a campaign and have success right off the bat, the truth is, the majority of e-books claims are bullshit. You won’t get rich in a month, the numbers they use are unrealistic if you are starting out and the same numbers and claims are fairy tales if you don’t want to work your arse off.

So my goal for 2010, I won’t buy nor read a single ebook or whatever the “gurus” try to sell, of course I’ll still read some blogs ppc.bz, Finch Sells and the other blogs on my blogroll, but that’s just because they aren’t “Buy this stuff I’m reviewing and you’ll get rich”, they are more amusing than watching Scrubs.

I’ve achieved my goal for 2009, which was earning $1000 per month, not much of a high goal you must think, but that’s a start and I’m making more online than 99% of some marketing forum members. At least I got started and after hardwork I managed to get a few streams of income running mostly with SEO.

This month was the worse month since I thought that I could play with google adwords and run some campaigns to get “the hang of it”, but I got banned and my major plan to get a serious income online went down the drain. Then I had a Plan B as I always have, which was Facebook Ads, but they also banned me because I was stupid enough to use a voucher and I had joined the visa business network before, since I didn’t know it wasn’t allowed and they didn’t tell, I got banned on Facebook as well, so both plans failed.

Now in 2010 I’m going to keep on working and I’m going to try different traffic sources and hopefully take my business to the next level. I’ve lost quite a good amount of money with computer burning up, unsuccessful campaigns (still working on them, because they are profitable I just didn’t find the perfect formula yet), and also buying things I didn’t have (like a place for my clothes).

2009 was a great year for me, there are a few goals like $200 per day which I’m more than willing to make real before july, but the general earning goal for 2010 is $500 per day, and I am darn sure it is possible.

And I also want to attend ASW in 2011, so I’ll have to make this year count, and I’m going back to college, so I’ll make Affiliate Marketing Part-time job once again, college won’t be to make me money, since I’m already earning the amount an Administrator earns in my town… But I’m going to do this because I want to have a real profession to tell when people ask what I do for living, and I believe that I have a lot to learn on this class that would help my online business.

I’m not really sure why I’m writing this post since not even my mom reads my blog, so if you stumbled upon my blog and actually read it, have a happy new year and don’t wait 2010 to come to make your goals real, start now, if you have to wait a new year to do your stuff, you probably won’t carry it on for much longer… Dare to dream!

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It took me 3 months to continue writing my previous post, but this is not a make money online blog and besides nobody actually cares about it, so I’m just posting my online journey.

So let’s get down to business and I’m going to write the good things, the things that I like about Internet Marketing.

1. Being my own boss: I make my salary, if I want a raise on my paycheck, it’s up to me, I just have to work harder and smarter, I don’t have to beg or to hear my boss saying “no” when I ask for a raise or for a few days off, and if I get sick, I can still work from the comfort of my house (not really that comfortable right now, but I’m working on it).
2. Freedom: I can do what I want when I want, even though getting away for a long time have effect on my earnings since it is a “always changing” field, I can always catch up and work harder after taking a break because of whatever reason.
3. Money: Pays better than a regular job when done right, but you also can lose a lot of money if you do it wrong or do it without tracking or learning from your mistakes.
4. Can be done alone: I’ve always been a lone-wolf and I try to keep it this way, even though sometimes it is better to socialize to learn more, it is still a strong point why I followed this path, besides a bunch of people on this field does stuff their own way without having anyone to tell them what to do. Mostly because it is a secretive sort of business, you can’t just let the cat out of the bag or you’ll have to share your campaign and gain more competitors. Here is the Wolf t-shirt all the super affiliates use, I don’t have it, therefore I’m not a super affiliate.

That’s actually pretty much I can think of right now, it’s a hot night here in Brazil and my mind is sort of melting and I’m tired to write more, I’ll try to update this blog more often, peace. And yeah, if you want your 3 minutes you spent reading this post back, you can’t have it.

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This post will be divided in two posts, starting with things that I hate about Internet Marketing and then I’ll post the things I love about Internet Marketing!

Things I Hate: Now.

I decided to begin with things I hate so at the end of the post I’ll talk about things I love about it and I won’t get upset with the things I hate. Smart right? Not really.

1. Being my own boss: That’s both a thing that I love and that I hate about Internet Entrepreneurship, the reason why I hate being my own boss is because I have really strong work ethics and I can’t stop working on something until I find a way to make that profitable, and that my friends, is not a virtue when becomes a disease, there were days I went to bed at 4am just because I couldn’t get to sleep until I “fix” or come up with a better way to convert the offers.
2. Too Much Testing: When you are working for someone, you’re given a task, so you shall focus on doing that thing and you’ll succeed, and if you don’t succeed is not entirely your fault since the task given to you was that one, if you followed it blow-by-blow and things didn’t work out, you look at your superior and ask a “what’s next” question. Not on this market, first, because you have to work under the radar and just can’t tell everybody what you are working on, because that will bring more competitors than you naturally already have (if it is profitable you’ll have competitors, period.), and there is ALWAYS room for tweaking, is amazing, when you think you’re done with optimizing a campaign or whatever, the very next day or a week from now the conversion rate will decrease and there you are mixing things up again, or a new law kick in and you have to change to not get your ass sued.
3. SEO: That is indeed the most annoying thing about making money on the internet, but is paramount to do if you don’t have money to invest yet on Pay-Per-Click or whatever, the results can take months to come into effect if you’re working on a competitive niche, so if by chance you search optimize one website, and that keyword doesn’t convert, you may have thrown a few months down the toilet, at least you learn something, to make Keyword and Competition analysis more critically.
4. It’s an always changing market: It’s amazing how things change really fast, if you don’t think creatively you’ll be left behind, it’s crazy, that’s why is so important to mind your own business instead of going with the crowd and doing what the “Gurus” asked you to do, they make money telling n00bs how to make money, that’s the easiest most convenient kind of “online job” possible, all they have to do is get trust from people, then the mass effect kick in and they are “Gurus” and everything they say is good, people buy.
5. It’s boring: I don’t know about other marketers, a lot of them must find IM exciting, mostly because they are playing with high numbers and taking a lot of risks, but for a wannabe marketer like me, it’s boring, you do the same kind of thing to make money and be paid, money was never a motivator to me, I think that’s why I don’t make as much as I should be making, I’m not money driven, I’m care-free driven, if I want to make money? Of course I do, but there have to be other things that money can give to me than just having money in my bank account, I’m not Scrooge McDuck.
6. No value: When people ask me what I do for living, I don’t know what to say, so I just say that I make websites, what upsets me the most is the fact that I’m not really contributing to anything, I may donate to charity, but that’s not really having a high-value job like Doctor or Therapist, Life Coach or Motivational Speaker.
7. It’s uncertain: That’s the most frustrating kind of work I’ve seen, you can be making hundreds of thousands per month this year and not do that great next year, or even have made $xxx,xxx last month and make $xx,xxx this month, so you never know how much you will really make, you can have an idea, but what if the offer is cut down from the network? Or other things happen? So the uncertainty is high, you must be really courageous to follow this path and drop your secure job that your degree bought you.

Maybe I’m taking the wrong road here, there are a lot of internet marketers out there that are really happy with what they do, they make tons of money, work little hours to none, go to seminars, surf, curse at forums, etcetera… But these are the main factors that makes me wonder if it is really the path that I want to follow. But meh, I just have to find a way to turn those points that I hate into good things, to inspire not to push me away or drag me down. As they say, success is a state of mind.

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