I guess hard work does pay off. I’ve been to San Francisco a few times when I was a young graffiti artist, that was many years back. I always liked San Fran, relaxed vibe and just a cool city to hang out in. Well I guess my sales to one of my affiliate companies was pretty good because they chose me and other top affiliates for an all expenses paid trip to San Francisco next month. Apparently I can bring another person I already asked my wife but since we have such small kids it makes it impossible for her to come with me, which sucks. Luckily for a friend of mine I have an opening now and I will be inviting him to go to San Francisco with me!

Part of the all expenses paid trip includes a day trip to Napa Valley (wine tasting), trip to infamous Alcatraz as well as all food and accomodations paid for!! I was pretty happy when I got that email, let me tell you. And the cool thing is that it’s the week of my birthday. It’s always nice to get free stuff and be appreciated for your hard work.

If you would have told me 10 years ago I would be getting free trips for Internet marketing sales I would have thought that you were nuts, but here I am. And Friday October 10th is the day I left my job at my God Fathers mill work shop to quit my fulltime cabinet making career go back to school to learn web design. That was way back in 1999, 8 years later and the journey of life gets better and better.

*All I know is that the law of attraction does work, beleive it or not.

Sometimes you come out  with a great idea, and you think it will take off. What happens if it doesn’t happen? Well this just happened to me, so now I need to find another way to make it happen. I am always trying new niches and ways to make money online, and sometimes it just doesn’t work. When this happens I have to admit I get bummed out, who wouldn’t?

I usually take a break then plan another way to attack it, it usually works to some degree. Affiliate marketing is all about trying new things out, because you don’t really know what will take off and work until you get in and try it.  The people who make the most money are the guys that have the balls to try new things. Sitting on the sidelines and being happy with what you have is great, but I like to expand.

Making money is like a game to me, it’s a challenge to see how far I can “push the envelope”. Sure I could be happy with what I am bringing in and I am, but I know I can bring even more. I will bring in more one way or another, I’m not too worried but I do get discouraged from time to time.

The reason for this post, hmm I’m not 100% sure. I think I just needed a 1 minute break from the “situation”, then I can think clearly and go balls out again.

PS: Don’t be one of those people who sits on the sidelines because your scared to fail. You should know that by sitting on the sidelines you have already failed YOURSELF. It’s easy to sit on the couch and watch reality shows, but do you have the courage to make something happen for yourself?

* Never give up, failure is only a state of mine. You are what you think you are, change your attitude and be a winner.

Putting all your eggs in one basket, something that many people seem to do when working online. It’s easy to when you find something that is working great why bother diversifying? There are numerous reasons to diversify your online income. If the big money maker you have been raking in $1000s from suddenly dies then you’re screwed.

If the niche you are promoting becomes over saturated by other affiliates then what? You need to think ahead and so do I. Years ago when I first started making money online, I created about 20 sites on different niches ranging from coffee machines, rc cars, cell phones, hdtv and others.  Back then I didn’t pay for traffic like I do now. Instead I used to write content that ranked high in the search engines and I received organic search traffic for me, pretty cool right? Actually it was nice while it lasted but then Google did one of there famous updates and all my organic traffic started to crumble, I still had Yahoo and MSN but eventually it all fizzled away.

I had to adapt or die and I did, this is part of the reason I got into PPC marketing. I needed to make money or what, find a  job? HELL NO!

I’m starting to feel the need to spread my eggs around in different baskets, and this is part of this weeks goal. I am going to start researching new niches, completely different from what I do now.

Today we are going to check out Vancouver Pride Day Parade, even though it’s not something I consider a family event it has all the factors a parade would have from, crazy costumes, balloons and clowns (hopefully they’re clothed!). But not a family parade as some people tend to describe it as. In any case it’s a fun day, me along with 350,000 other Vancouverites thought so as well. Happy Pride!

Next weeks to do list:

• trim the fat off of my PPC (pay per click) ad campaigns too save money on clicks
• build more campaigns to expand on the current niche I am promoting
• find more P campaigns to use
• work on my landing pages to bring the bounce rate down
• write some more articles for my sites
• find new niches, for more $$

Some pics from the Gay Pride Parade in Vancouver 2008:

Wild costume with high heels and ballerina skirt, how cute!

Pride float

Wild costumes all over

Someone forget their bras?!

Gay Pride Float Vancouver 2008

Gay Pride Float Vancouver 2008

Flamboyant Pride Fellow With Red Wings!

Shadow lady with balloon boobs

About one week ago, I posted about my AdWords account being suspended obviously I wasn’t very happy about the situation but I learned to live with it. I couldn’t do anything about it. One thing I have learned with working online for the past 5 years is to take everything that happens good and bad and learn from it.

You can make huge money online, and I have done my fair share. With this latest situation, it was unexpected however I learned from it. With every drawback I have ever had online I came back stronger and I made more money  after the “crisis”, this last AdWords fiasco is going to be no different.

After I basically had a heart attack from being “suspended from AdWords”, I started thinking about how I can get back on the railroad to success. Since I already have the tracks laid out for me, it is just a matter of jumping into the engineers seat and taking control of the train . I am basically set and ready to go full speed ahead.

My goals haven’t changed I still want my to buy investment properties to make me my $20 k per month, I am already 25% of the way there. That part is easy and I know where to buy , it’s just a matter of when I want to make the down payments and but my Vancouver condo apartments.

Nothing is going to stop me, nothing. I have worked way to hard to stop and kickback now. A drawback is just that a drawback, it’s not the end of the world, unless you think it is.  I have gone through so many online drawbacks online, it’s insane. You definitely need tough skin and perseverance to work online. The problem with giving up is this, you will never what could have become because you just let it go. You went back to playing your Guitar Hero, or you went back to watch SeinFeld.

You need to realize many times the answers to your questions are right in front of you, you just need to find the answers. Finding the answers is sometimes easy and sometimes really tough, but either way it’s there waitng for you to find it. The question is this, do you have the faith in yourself to find the answers to move forward?

I don’t consider myself a scholar by any means. Hell I only graduated grade 12 and went to a local computer college for web design. Oh and I also have a certificate as a journeyman cabinet maker. Something more important that schooling is smarts, is YOUR ability to trust yourself and your instincts.  You need to have balls, taking risks to succeed is critical. The more chances you take, the better chance you have of making tons of cash online. And “paralysis analysis” is another huge problem for tons of people. They know how to do pay per click, they know all the terms and everything. But they never get started, why? Paralysis analysis…..

If I never quit my job as a cabinet maker making $17.27 per hour back in 1989, where would I be right now? It scares me to think about it actually.  You need to consider, the risk and then decide what are the consequences, and if it’s worth taking the chance.

Ans don’t listen to the naysayers, they are usually the ones who have never taken a chance in their whole lives. Boring people who offer nothing but negative criticism. Yeah I’m babbling on now.

Here is the bottom line

I don’t know what you think you can do or what you can think I can do, but remember this. The only thing holding you back from anything is you. Yeah, yeah I know things get in the way, but if you want something bad enough you can have it. I’m going to come back even stronger than before, don’t let anyone hold you back EVER, not even yourself.

Where are you going to be in 5 years from now? Start writing down your goals, so you know………