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It’s hard to categorize people because there are so many variables involved, but in regard to being productive, it really boils down to doing vs not doing. In the end, what you intended to do, what you tried to do, what you desperately wanted to do, or dreamed of doing doesn’t matter. Most people, including your professors, advertisers, and customers, will only look that the product or service has been completed.

You can come up with countless excuses, REALLY REALLY good excuses, on why you couldn’t perform, but ultimately, there are countless others who could complete the task. Either they’re physically or mentally capable, better equipped, have more experience or just more confidence, or what-have-you, as far as the customer is concerned, and no matter how much sympathy they might have for you, you’re only wasting their time and money if you can’t deliver.

It’s important to realize that nobody says Internet Marketing is easy. It’s an assumption most people have probably just because they see 16 year olds with Black Amex’s and have the idea that anything that you can do from your home, butt naked, with the TV on, must be ‘easy.’ In reality, to be successful will require way more work than any 9 to 5 job you’ve ever had, and you will probably spend 10x as much money as you planned (assuming you don’t quit).

There are people who don’t believe that they can make money online, either because they don’t feel technically literate enough, or they don’t believe the outrageous numbers people are pulling (most do lie, but that’s besides the case). Maybe they do believe the numbers but see the entire thing as being a Quixtar/MLM type of scheme. These people will never start, and probably never intend on starting. This is good for them, because it usually means they have a plan of some sort (staying in college, finding a better job, etc) and it’s definitely better for us. Who needs more competition?

There are people who do believe the hype (rightfully so) and will get into the game with confidence. Knowing forthright that success never came easy, they expect to fail, but also to learn from their mistakes and remain persistent.

The worst are those that refuse to get a job because they’re convinced they can make money online, but aren’t confident enough to actually try anything. So they’re stuck in the middle, thinking they’re being productive by reading blogs and forums all they (they justify it as an investment), and waiting for the right time or for any precise, exact moment, to actually begin. Most who do begin will end up not knowing anything anyway. It’s hard to take in what you read and apply it in practice without any experience.

I read once that most people who win the lotto end up losing all the money eventually. This makes sense, because people who play the lotto often are those that believe they have better odds of winning than starting a successful business or creating a product, or maybe they just view it as less work. It’s likely that they will make bad decisions with their money, especially if they receive it without hard work.

Remember that homeless dude that got $100K and just blew it all? He said “It was a lot of money, I felt like it would never run out.” Millions of dollars to a middle class person is psychologically as appealing as $100k to somebody who has been homeless for decades. It’s not that a million bucks isn’t a lot, but more money usually means more spending.

/rizzant

How to cash in? Get a new domain name that’ll rank for some pricey keywords (credit cards, grants, real estate etc), and park it with adsense. Then just send traffic to the page from tier-2 ppc networks like Miva or 7search. Be sure to slow down the traffic so as not to raise any suspicion. Parked domains usually get a steady stream of passive hits, as opposed to huge continuous spikes as soon as they’re registered.

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2008/12/update-to-adwords-alcohol-policy.html

Here’s my routine:

• Fire up Babelfish, paste entire English article. It says “up to 150 words” but the limit is much higher. I usually do 500 words at a time.
• Translate English to French. Then paste the output and translate French to English
• Paste article in vim (any editor will do) and clean it up.
• First, split the big chunk of text into paragraphs (with no real logic or structure) and apply 3 regular expressions to the text. first gets rid of the single quotes you get from French to English, second and third add <p> and </p> to each paragraph.*

* If you don’t know regular expressions (yet), you can do this manually. I’m lazy, and regex is always fun. Here’s what I’m using exactly, it can be MUCH better. This is just something I whipped up off the top of my head:

:%s:' ::g
:%s:\([\. !0-9]\)$:\1

\1


#1 removes single quotes. If you translate in French, you’ll know what I mean.. so “Employ l’ epellation” becomes “Employ lepellation”

#2 and #3 surround each block of text w/ paragraph tags. If you use a specialized HTML editor, or any WYSIWYG editor, this is probably done automatically already.

This is NOT white hat, btw. Till next time…

I’m using wine-1.0.1 (after 10 years they’re finally at the 1.x release!) on ubuntu 10.4 (Intrepid). Assuming you’re in the same directory as the KE executable. Launch the installer:

wine KE_setup13168.exe


That went without a hitch, though I’ve only tried it on my own box. Then run like you do any other Wine app:

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Keyword\ Elite/Keyword\ Elite.exe


You might need to provide the absolute path to the KeywordElite executable file. Here are some shots for a (very) broad search term:

First, you should get familiar with tracking your campaigns manually. It really isn’t that hard. It can be a lot to take in but after 1-2 campaigns, it’ll be intuitive. Knowing what’s happening under the hood will help you make more effective use of Prosper202, or Coach Tracking, or whatever tracking system you end up using.

Second, and more important, is that you can lose a lot of money and conversion if you don’t setup the software right, or you might get conversions but just have bad information. If you’ve never tried running campaigns w/ manual tracking, you wouldn’t know if anything isn’t right.

Just something to think about.

More impressive is the fact that he has allegedly banked $26,000 in its first month of release[1]. He claims to be “selling a dozen copies a day”[1]. Don’t get me wrong. The numbers are realistic and expected. It’s an untapped niche, and the plugin looks nice from the /features page and demos.

It doesn’t look like some rushed and overpriced 5 minute PHP app (like PollFactory), and looks well worth the $100 (though that’s only a 1 site license. The multi-site license price needs to be adjusted IMO). Kudos to the dude. It’s actually pretty inspirational.

Many people are looking to download the plugin free (warez, torrents etc) and these are the keywords I find them searching for (either from my own logs or other sites I came across):

(This is a Honeypot, in case you haven’t noticed)

wpreviewsite.zip wpreviewsite.rar wpreviewsite.7z wpreviewsite.torrent wpreviewsite.php wpreview.zip wpreview.rar wpreview.7z wpreview.torrent wpreview.php wpreview.zip.html wpreview.rar.html wpreview.7z.html wpreview.torrent.html wpreview.php wp-review wordpress_preview

and..

“index of /” “index of /wpreviewsite” share, “sharing is caring” rapidshare, mediafire, megaupload, filedeposit, warez, warez-bb, 2shared, uploading, uploadfile, sharefile, attachment, downloadable, tizag, uploaded, sendspace, rapidshare.com, rapidshare.de …

It looks like the author is actively pursuing these EVIL-DOERS (it’s not too late to repent, Hallelujah!) and taking down files. Here are some now-invalid links:
http://rapidshare.com/files/158845131/wpreviewsite.zip.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/142651896/wpreviewsite.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/168565131/wpreviewsite.zip.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/142654546/wpreviewsite.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/?2ytjog983c

What Dan The Man needs to do is speak to the dudes at PHPBay Pro. I’m somewhat surprised it’s being distributed this early, while PHPBay Pro is still hard to find.

Official site: http://www.wpreviewsite.com

Download wpreviewsite.zip here

*[1] a WickedFire thread

What is AdCommerce?

eBay AdCommerce is a new service that allows you to promote your eBay stores and eBay listings via an enhanced text integration on eBay search results pages.

You can reach millions of eBay users when they are ready to buy, with a customized message targeted by category or keyword. You will drive more targeted visitors on your pages, giving you more opportunities to sell, and you only pay when a potential customer clicks on your link.

Visit http://www.adcommerce.com to learn more and click Join Now to register!

AdCommerce is currently being made available to most eBay sellers who wish to advertise their eBay stores or items. You are eligible if you have a “standard” or “raised” standing in Best Match searches. eBay sellers with “lowered” standing are currently ineligible for the program. You can see your current standing by visiting your Seller Dashboard or click here to learn more.

Of course, that’s pointless unless we can send our clicks outside Ebay, which we cannot, at least until we figure out a clever way around this.

Where Can I send my Clicks?

Currently AdCommerce only allows clicks within eBay sites. When you are creating your ad, you will have the option to choose from a pre-configured destination URL which will direct customers to your store or listings. You also have the option of choosing to create a custom destination URL. Remember, your custom URL must direct customers to an eBay landing page.

https://adcommerce.ebaypartnernetwork.com/adnetfiles/home/en-US/index.html

Who’s gonna release an ad platform next? Craigslist? WickedFire? BTJunkie?

This makes finding a niche almost too easy. It’s also going to really bring on competition in some really hush/obscure niches.

Search-based Keyword Tool: http://www.google.com/sktool/
Help center: http://www.google.com/support/sktool/bin/topic.py?topic=16779
Announcement: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2008/11/announcing-search-based-keyword-tool.html