This is a Real Legitimate Business

I see a lot of sites that are trying to sell something, I ran across one today and as I am reading this is what I get:

(Now keep in mind that I don’t read every word, I don’t think many people do.)

• Travel the world


• Life family deserves


• How much time with your family


• Find a millionaire do what they do (now this I believe in)


• Skip – testimonials (they are all the same hype)


• Change your life


• Break free


• Serious only


• My serviced and my teams services


• Earn thousands


• Real legitimate business


• You will succeed

Now I ask, what does this tell you?  

It tells me that they don’t want to tell you what business they are in.  Amway is big on this tactic, try to trick them into something because if you tell them in advance they will run away.

This makes a much sense to me as the sites that try to get you to give them your credit card number and not tell you what your buying.

I keep wondering if I am doing this wrong, I think you shouldn’t try to trick people and you shouldn’t lie to them.  

Try and be honest and tell them, I am in the real estate business, this is what I can do for you.

I know there are people who sit on the fence and don’t make a decision, but trying to trick these people can’t be good for your business in the long run.

Anyway, I have enough time with my family so I guess what ever this guy was offering was not for me.

One more thing, I have run dozens of businesses and I have never told anyone –

• Hey, this is a real legitimate business

I think your saying – I know by the looks of things so far this looks like a phony business but I swear it’s a real legitimate business.

I think the last time I heard that was when I guy was trying to sell me some stereo equipment from the trunk of his car.

Anyway here is the link: http://sp.quicklister.com/homebiz.php?mid=1&ad=100

Mark Cuban - watching a billionaire

Mark Cuban is a billionaire and I figure any time you have a chance to see what a billionaire is thinking you should go for it.

Right now it seems that he is doing a lot of different things, one of which is getting into the DVD business. There is talk about movies being released on DVD at the same time they hit the box office. Mark Cuban's entertainment company 2929 Entertainment has already made some deals with film directors to have the first release when their movies are completed.

Of course the same people that said that video tape would be the end of the movie business are saying that no body will go to the movies again when DVD come out with movies at the same time.

I don’t really care about the movie industry, but it’s just interesting to see what this billionaire does with his time and money.

Mark Cuban also has a blog at www.blogmaverick.com I just added it to my bloglines    

Pigeon Rank is Replacing Page Rank

I read this whole page before I got to the line at the bottom and figured out what the heck was going on.

www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

At first I thought it was me, my brain kept telling me something is not right but I couldn’t put my finger on it.

It was an interesting process, at first I thought it wasn’t actually google’s site, and I checked the URL a few times.

Son of Spam Email

Here is a son of spam email that I received, it has all the other emails that I got for the day all put into one.

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DEAR SIR/MADAM,

THIS IS A PERSONAL EMAIL T0 YOU ONLY. I AM THE SON OF SPAM SPADE, THE FORMER LOAN OFFICER OF NIGERIA, WHO WAS KILLED BY A RUSSIAN LADY WHO WANTS TO MEET YOU. HIS MORTGAGE RATES WERE SUPERB, BUT HIS PENIS WAS TOO SHORT, SO HE ORDERED 60,000,000 VIAGRA PILLS AND BEFORE HE COULD TAKE THEM HE WAS ASSASINATED BY 5 MILLION EMAIL ADDRESSES AT NO COST TO YOU. NOW I HAVE THESE 60 MILLION VIAGRA PILLS AND SEEK YOUR HELP IN TRANSFERING THEM TO YOUR ACCOUNT.

I AM USING THIS MEDIUM T0 REACH YOU. HOWEVER I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE AND THIS IS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL, YOUR CO-OPERATION IS NECESSARY. YOUR RESUME WAS SELECTED AS BEING HIGHLY QUALIFIED, BUT THIS IS NOT SPAM! THIS IS FREEDOM FROM DEBT - CUT YOUR MORTGAGE IN HALF WITH OUR AMAZING REMOTE-CONTROL PASTA POT. THIS OFFER IS FREE. YOU HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO DELETE IT AT ANY TIME.

Y0UR PILLS ARE BEING HELD IN AN INEXPENSIVE DIGITAL CABLE DESCRAMBLER BOX GUARDED BY TEENY TITS CARRYING EXPLOSIVE LOADS. THE LOWEST RATES ARE LOCKED IN, ALONG WITH YOUR FREE GIFT. THESE PILLS MUST BE TRANSFERED TO YOUR ACCOUNT USING A HAND-HELD ORGANIZER WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM A FREE GOVERNMENT-AUCTION WEB SITE. BY VIEWING PHOTOS OF SINGLES IN YOUR AREA, INCLUDING HORNY WIVES, YOU CAN LOOK YOUNGER, LOSE WEIGHT, AND INCREASE YOUR STAMINA WHILE DRIVING PRE-QUALIFIED CUSTOMERS TO YOUR MULTILEVEL PROGRAM AND MAKE OVER $4000 PER MONTH GUARANTEED. THESE PILLS WILL NOT ONLY MAKE YOU LOOK 3" LONGER, THEY WILL GET RID OF YOUR FLEAS AND TICKS FOR GOOD! SIMPLY COPY ANY DVD TO YOUR FREE INTERNET DOMAIN AND BEGIN YOUR ANTI-AGING PROGRAM TODAY.

THE PLAN IS SIMPLE. Y0U WILL USE NORTON SYSTEMWORKS (A $300 VALUE FOR ONLY $38.95) TO PURCHASE 37 MILLION SHARES OF TONER CORP STOCK. THEN YOU WILL MEET ME AT THE WORLD'S SMALLEST DIGITAL CAMERA WITH $30,000 IN CORAL CALCIUM. WARNING: DO NOT TAKE ANY HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE OR YOU WILL NOT QUALIFY FOR YOUR FREE GIFT. ONCE YOU RECONNECT WITH YOUR HIGH-SCHOOL FRIENDS, YOUR FREE CREDIT REPORT WILL BE SENT. WITH THIS REPORT, YOU CAN BUILD YOUR OWN ONLINE CASINO. ONCE INSIDE THE CASINO, YOU WILL SUBSCRIBE TO KARA'S FREE FAN CLUB, WHERE YOU WILL BE ENTERED IN A DRAWING TO PROTECT YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM. DO NOT FAIL TO DO THIS, OR I WILL REDUCE THE SIZE OF YOUR PENIS BY THREE INCHES! KARA'S WEB SITE WILL POP UP 6,000 PAGES, ALL OF WHICH YOU WILL HAVE TO CLOSE BY CLICKING THEM. FOR EACH ONE YOU CLICK, TWO MORE WILL APPEAR. AFTER YOU COMPLETE YOUR ONLINE DEGREE (IN 8 MONTHS OR LESS), I WILL SEND YOU A HOT AMATEUR MP3 THAT WILL CONSOLIDATE YOUR DEBT USING ONLINE AUCTIONS. NOT EVEN CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, OR OPRAH WILL KNOW OUR SECRET!

N0W Y0U WILL BE READY TO RECEIVE THE PILLS. YOU WILL USE THE AUCTION SITE TO FIRE YOUR BOSS AND CLAIM YOUR PORTABLE DVD PLAYER FROM THE SECRET ANTI-WRINKLE AGENT. NEXT, BOOST YOUR CELLULAR RECEPTION AND DRIVE OUR TEENY LOLITAS WILD WITH HUMAN PHEROMONES MADE FROM PRE-OWNED INKJET CARTRIDGES. YOU WILL TRADE THE PHEROMONES FOR A SINGLE GEORGE FOREMAN GRILL FILLED WITH A FREE THIRTY-DAY SUPPLY, WHICH WILL ENLARGE YOUR PACKAGE EVEN FURTHER. THE HERBAL INGREDIENTS IN THIS PACKAGE WILL INCREASE YOUR REVENUE PROJECTIONS BY 3" AND CLEAN THE INNER WALLS OF YOUR INTESTINES. REMEMBER, THIS IS NOT A SLEEP REMEDY, THIS AMAZING PRODUCT TARGETS THE BACTERIA THAT ACTUALLY CAUSE SNORING!

0UR PSYCHICS ARE STANDING BY TO TAKE YOUR ORDER. GIVE THEM YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER AND WAIT FOR THE BEEP. YOU WILL BE GIVEN THE ULTIMATE SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH AND A FREE CREDIT CHECK. DEPOSIT THIS CHECK IN A PRE-APPROVED ACCOUNT, AND YOU WILL TAKE HOME 40% OF THE PILLS.

THIS IS A VERY SIMPLE TRANSACTION. THE RESULTS ARE GUARANTEED. THIS IS A COMPLETELY SECURE INVESTMENT. I HOPE YOU WILL HELP ME AND MY FAMILY AS WE ARE IN DESPERATE NEED. PLEASE REPLY ASAP.

SINCERELY,

S0N OF SPAM

P.S., IF YOU WANT TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS MAILING LIST, SIMPLY GO TO WWW.UNSUBSCRIBE.COM.

Tivo Upgrade Step One

I have decided to upgrade my tivo by adding a 2nd hard drive.  There are some instructions here: www.tyger.org/MFS/2.0/howto.html  but I have been reading them for the last couple hours and they are 6442 words kind of jumbled together.

I like the part where it says:

You will need a few things before you start the upgrade process.
1. A TiVo

If I didn’t have a tivo why would I be trying to upgrade it?  This cracks me up.

Then there is the part that says - don’t stick your finger in the power supply while it is plugged in.  I am surprised they didn’t warn you to be very careful not to poke yourself in the eye while you’re working because it can hurt, and they didn’t say anything about licking your finger and then sticking it in the power supply so I wonder if that is ok?

The big problem with the tivo upgrade instructions is that they tried to take every possible option and cram it into one document.  So it comes out being marginally helpful to anyone.

This is how it reads to me, if you have a new B drive in your tivo but a old A drive but your replacing the new A drive with a old B drive, or you want to move your old B drive to your A slot then go to step 11 unless your old B dive has been formatted before and your A drive is new but not formatted, if you have only one drive or your B drive is larger than your A drive then disregard these instructions unless your B drive is empty and your A drive is original then don’t disregard these instructions.

I just want to add a new B drive and I don’t care about all the other junk.

But for now I am stuck because I have lost my Torx #10 screwdriver, and that’s no joke. I had 3 of them and now they are all gone, so I have to go get another one.

So I will start again after I get my special screwdriver and maybe this tivo mumbo jumbo will make more sense to me tomorrow.

I still love my Tivo.

5 Digits Per Year Offers Some Hope

It seems that almost everyday now someone is starting up a new blog network with at least 100 blogs and hiring writes by the 10’s of dozens.

This makes me think I am wasting my time and I should just scrap this whole blog project since I am never going to have 100 writers working for me.

One more thing that your not going to catch me doing is working 80 hours a week posting 15,000 times per year.  

So that kind of counts me out of the big money.  Then I run across something like this.  www.nickedup.com/archives/2005/10/08/the-last-year/ and I start thinking well if this guy can make 5 digits per year running 3 little blogs maybe I have a chance too.

If you can get your account up to $100 then google will send you a check, that’s my goal to get them to send a check every month.  I am sure I could do it if I was to spend about $500 per month hiring writers.  But then that would kind of defeat the purpose of trying to make some money and I should just stick to playing poker.

Domain Name Transfer

I decided to transfer some domains today, I signed up with aplus.net because they had a cheap price to register domain names.

As soon as I started the process I knew I was in for trouble.  Their registration system is the worst I have seen in my life.  I would pay double at any other domain registrar before I would ever use them again.

Then once I have the process complete and I enter all my credit card information I get a goofy screen that says ok, we have your information – or something equally dumb.

I write them and ask if I my transaction went through and how much I was billed, I still can’t believe that they refuse to tell you how much they are charging you.

After I send them several emails they finally decided to answer and send back some cryptic message that says something like – yes I can check my bill.

I have no idea what this means, anyway I have to wait for my credit card statement to see what they charged me.

www.cheap-domainregistrations.com has a much better process; the 2nd screen at the bottom asks you if you would like a fast checkout. Click this radio button and it will take to you straight to the check out screen. I like that.

They advertise a price of $7.75 then they charge you $7.85 and add on .25 for something. But I guess it hard to get too upset over a dime. For $8.10 it’s not a bad deal but I just don’t like the idea of them advertising one price and then charging you something else.

After I finish paying I decide to log into my account and I hunt around and find out that process does not begin until I accept the transfer and enter the code from an email I am suppose to get.  It would be nice to know about this before.

Addicted to Adsense Stats

I think I am addicted to my Adsense Stats page, I find myself thinking about it all the time.  I check it so many times a day it is getting ridiculous.

I keep telling myself I am going to start only checking it once or twice a day.  But then I find myself checking it once an hour.  I like it when it’s not on 0.00 for the day.  Even if it is just .02 cents I feel like I have accomplished something. Although I am not sure what.

I probably could have taken the time I spend logging into Adsense and written a couple new 500 page websites.  I know it’s a huge waste of time but I find myself thinking “I just have to know,” then I go to log on and check again.

Reading my email turned into a similar problem a few months ago when I started trading links on my site.  I would check my email every 10 minutes to see if someone new had linked to my site.

It was driving me nuts.

I am starting to wonder what will be next?  Am I coming down with some type of compulsive obsessive disorder?

I guess I just have to wait and see if I start washing my hands before each time I check my email and my Adsense.

Top 5 List For Google Adsense

I keep getting stuck in a circle.  That’s why I created this blog.

I start to write about something, and then I think well if I am going to write about something it would be nice to put some Adsense ads on it and make some money.

Ok, to make money with Adsense you have to have 5 things:

1. Traffic – There is no easy way to get this one, it’s a lot of work and it seems most sites keep building up a little from a lot of different sources until it starts to add up to something.


2. Keywords – You need these for the search engine so it will place you well and you need them to get Adsense to target your ads


3. High Paying Ads – You have to spend some time to find the ads that pay something and then work to get them to show on your site, if your getting .02 cents per click it’s really never going to add up to much.


4. Ad Placement On Page – Your ads have to be where people can see them. I have a couple sites where I put ads at the top and bottom of a page and they never get clicked on.  Also ads on the side bar will not do half as well as ads placed in the center of the text of your page.


5. Theme – Your site needs to have some kind of theme for the:

• search engines


• Adsense ads


• click through rate, if your ads are not targeted you don’t get clicks

All 5 of these things work together and if you some of them but not all then your probably going to fail.

Now to get all of these things to line up on one page of a site is kind of a pain in the butt.

I usually start out and think:

1. I want to write about this


2. I might as well try to get the ads to make some money


3. Research some key words


4. Try to write with high paying ads in mind


5. Rewrite to boost keywords


6. Working too much and not having any fun


7. Get bored/tired and drop the whole idea and go back to step one with a new idea I would enjoy writing about.

Playing Poker vs Trading Futures

To give you some idea I just made in an hour playing poker on the .50/$1 table about the same amount of money that my websites make in a month.

That is if you don’t count any expenses for the websites.

I would have to say if I needed to make some money that playing poker would be a much better bet than spending time working on these websites.

I have been reading a lot of stuff about people who have high paying websites, but if you figure out how many hours they are working it’s really not that great of a deal.

Besides that I don’t want to work 15 hours a day, I don’t even want to work 4 hours a day.

Trading futures is the winner for September I averaged between $3000 and $4000 an hour and I worked between 2 and 3 hours for the month.  This is good money I hope I can keep it up.

My Background

Real Estate

Ok, my background is in buying and selling real estate.  I guess I had some natural ability at it and have made more than a million dollars.

But it is a lot of work and I have hit a point where I am not that interested in doing a lot of hard work for my money.  I am looking for an easier way to make some money.


Online Poker

I like playing online poker, I started in 2004 and have made a few thousand dollars at it.


Affiliate Marketing

I have tried setting up a few websites and seeing how it went trying to sell other peoples products.  It’s kind of slow going.


Google Adsense

I switched from affiliate marketing to Adsense because it looked easier and you can start making money right away.  Not like poker but a lot better than affiliate marketing.


Other than these things, I also am interested in:

1. trading futures and stocks


2. building a new house buy myself


3. my new baby girl born may 2005


4. making some money online (to pay for all of the above)


5. blogging


6. I still own some rental properties

I have some other websites that I have set up if I have enough to put on them all related to one theme.  This is the first site that has to do with all the things I am interested in.

My Deleted Domain Name

I signed up for a couple of deleted domain name services.  I had hopes of capturing some great domains when they expired and cashing in on all the traffic they had.

After several months I discovered that a lot of other people had the same idea, and I ended up with nothing.

Continuing to sign up for name after name only to find out later that I didn’t get it was looking more and more like a big waste of time.

So I started going after names that were not so popular even names that I was sure no one would want I couldn’t get.  But I figured I had already spent my money since there are no refunds on capturing domain name services.

There are a couple services that would capture the name then auction it off, a lot of the names will go for $1000 to $5000.

That seems like about the only way you’re going to get one.

Anyway I kept lowering my sites until I was able to get this name “Grifted”.

Now I realize that even though it is a word it’s not really worth the $20 bucks I paid for it.

My idea is to make money with Adsense ads and you need to have a site that has some kind of a theme, and it needs to be something that is related to some high paying ads.

Well Grifted is not it. It’s probably one of the worst choices for a domain name there is.

So I have decided to put all my unrelated junk here and see if anything happens.

All of these are left over posts, things that do not relate to anything else and don’t mean much.

Blogger and Microsoft Word

I am amazed how much I like the word add-on that lets you post to Blogger.

Blogger.com is kind of ho-hum and so is Microsoft Word there is really nothing special about either one of these programs.

But when you put them together they become something fantastic.

I have tried dozens of CMS systems, all of them have some major problems that usually end up costing you more time than they save.

Anyway this is my first post to my new blog and at the moment I am in love with Blogger only because you can now post using Microsoft Word.

I set this blog up in less than a minute.  That is one of the best features about Blogger; it will beat any other blogging software hands down.

If you have a domain name registered with hosting, in 50 seconds you can set up Blogger to start posting.