Project: Bum Marketing on Drugs

Haha, thats right - bum marketing on drugs!

What do I mean? Well basically I'm going to be implementing the standard bum marketing methods into my first project. I will be using many Black Hat, Long Tail, and SEO techniques to hype up this campiegn and hopefully make my goal of $50 a day. After this is met I will proceed to $100 a day, $200 a day, ect.

To kick things off I'm going to be testing the niche of health seeing as it's a big seller around the holiday season. If it fails and still isn't converting on into January, I'm going to launch the second niche "Dog Training". The philosophy behind this is that all the people that get new pets for Christmas will be wanting to train their animals.

My plans as far as the article submission goes? Well I'm going to try for 15-20 articles a day until I get a steady 20-30usd in sales per day. After that I will monetize and optimize the websites using statistics from Google Analytics and then continue my article submission until I reach a steady $50 a day.

The whole process will be documented on this blog; so keep reading!

Regards,
Andrew

I've decided on my first affiliate project!

Well after doing a lot of research I've decided I'm going to go with what most beginner internet marketers go with. Affiliate marketing!

I'll be setting up a PPC campaign with Google's AdWords with a max bid of $0.50 per click. I'll be using several techniques I've learned - such as Long Tail, and creating several landing pages for the same product to see what sells and what flops.

I'll be able to monetize each landing page with AdSense, PPA/PPL offers, and newsletter sign ups to be able to continue marketing products to my audience.

Oh and, let's not forget SEO. I'll be using many websites and doing at least a whole weekend worth of research in SEO keywords. A few sites that will make this easier are seodigger.com, and wealthyaffiliates.com. (Speaking of which, wealthy affiliates is a great program. You can sign up for it HERE. It's excellent for all levels of internet marketing.)

The site I'm going to be basing my affiliate marketing with is ClickBank. They offer a HUGE and very powerful marketplace of products to promote -- and I'm definitely looking forward to dealing with them and their publishers & affiliates.

Wish me luck guys,
Andrew - Relient

New site: "FaithWorthFollowing.com" launched!

Wade & I have recently launched the site "Faith Worth Following". Most; if not all content is written by Wade, and I do a lot of the server side management and site logistics. PLEASE feel free to take a look at it, and even leave feedback. Thanks!

http://FaithWorthFollowing.com/

Wade - Wade@faithworthfollowing.com
Webmaster - Webmaster@faithworthfollowing.com
Andrew - Andrew@faithworthfollowing.com

Niche complications.

Well -- I'm having a hard time deciding between 2 niches.

I have enough money in paypal at the moment for 1 new project; and niche marketing is my favorite. Based on my own personal research and own knowledge, I've narrowed it down to learning acoustic guitar by ear and internet marketing.

I understand that theres probably not one thats better than the other because it honestly depends on how I develop it; but ASSUMING that I have great traffic, SEO, and content... which one do you guys think is better at the moment? I want personal opinions.

My personal thoughts are that since internet marketing is so big right now, that I would have great results with all the newbies that are exploring google and other websites looking for resources. On the other hand, learning acoustic guitar by ear, while not as popular, would probably be an easier niche for me to develop if I'm going for simple; seeing as I'm a guitar teacher myself.

As stated above, personal opinions please!

Could you donate $0.50?

Honestly, I need a little extra cash to pay for some hosting bills that are upcoming, and with Christmas coming up - I have to budget acordingly, not to mention my internet marketing and publishing careers are still in their "baby" stage. The reason for this post is to simply put a few dollars into my paypal balance to help me out a bit - consider is an early Christmas gift, if you will. Haha. No, you don't have to donate, it would just be greatly appreciated.

My paypal email is Step.Slightly@gmail.com.

$0.50 is all I'm asking. Any more and I'll be very thankful, and any less I'll still appreciate your donation. My ultimate goal is maybe around $10 to pay the invoice for a domain. If you make a donation please make sure you leave a comment, traceback url, or email address so I can send you my thanks!

Thanks guys,
Andrew/Relient

Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy Seals?

Well Eric is enlisting in the USAF (United States Air Force) in a little over a year - right when he turns 17 and he's trying to convince me to come with him through basic training and such. Well after doing a bit of research I've concluded that the 3 best branches of the military for me to join (if I joined) would either be the Air Force, the Marines, or the Navy Seals. So far I've talked to 2 Air Force advisers, 1 Marine Corps adviser, and 1 NS adviser.

There are, without a doubt, benefits that can be reaped from all of the above -- I would just want to join up with the branch that will best benefit me, the people around me, and my future. Heres my reasoning for choosing the branches I mentioned above. The Marine Corps: I like their morals, they are extremely disciplined, and offer great life applicable leadership skills, as well as a great education and physical fitness. The Air Force: I've always wanted to fly an F-22 Raptor, or maybe just work on one. It would be a great opportunity for me to get a great education and a few degrees in science and engineering while being paid a very reasonable amount of money every month. Enlistment would last 4 years, and almost every aspect of my life would be paid for. The Navy Seals: Well, I love to swim. I would consider water a second home to me. I also admire the Seals' physical fitness habits, they have a very disciplined program -- which is what I like.

While I was chatting with the Air Force adviser, he recommended going to college first, for at least 4 years so that I could just skip the enlistment stage and head straight to the big bucks as an F-22 pilot or engineer. What I would probably do is go to GA Tech for 4 years and earn 2 bachelor degrees. One in computer science, and one in an engineering of some sort. Probably mechanical engineering or aerospace engineering. After that I could go out to the Air Force and take an 8 week program to get my airmen certification and be flying F-22's by the time I'm 22 years old starting out with at least 2.5g a month. Or if I change my mind and don't want to be a pilot by then, I can easily become a flight engineer of some sort. Crew chief maybe? Who knows, I'm just brainstorming.

First things first though, I need to graduate highschool... so I'm off to hit the algebra books.

I wouldn't mind hearing you guys' opinions, let me know what you think about all of it.

Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow

This past weekend, I attended the Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow in Pensacola, Florida. Man was it awesome. I was able to see the Friday night show as well as the main Saturday afternoon show. They were definitely worth the 6 hour car ride down there.

I probably took roughly 180 videos and maybe half a gig of pictures - some better than others. Hopefully, if I can scrounge up a new computer soon, I'll throw a nice little short film together of the whole show in Adobe Premier.


I'm not going to lie, seeing the Blue Angels makes me want to go out and join the Marines the day of my 18th birthday - these guys are the definition of "sharp" and "clean cut". We had the privilage of eating our meals at Corry Station, the U.S. "Center for Intellectual Dominance", which was also an encryption school and/or college. So in other words, these guys meant business. One things for sure, that Boy Scouts of America uniform looks pathetic compared to a United States Marine Core or Naval personnels uniform.

On the way out Sunday we visited the U.S. Naval Air Museum, it was a blast. The history in every single display was amazing, I could spend days in that museum. I hope I get to go back a few more times in my lifetime, and I'm sure I will.

Anyway, I'll throw up some more pictures in a Youtube Video sometime soon. Theres just way to many to post on this one blog.

Apple iPhone unlocked!

Thats right, if you know anything about the iPhone you know that it was only to be enabled via AT&T. Well "George Hotz" has appeared to have unlocked it and has activated it via T-Mobile.

Heres a direct quote from his blog after unlocking the phone.

"Terry Daidone, the founder of Certicell contacted me this morning, and offered to make a trade for the iPhone. I traded it for a sweet Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones. I will be sending the iPhones, unlocked if they wish, to jpetrie(the first donater), gray(the reversing genius), and iProof(who is truly amazing at finding stuff online) Thanks a lot everyone. I leave for college tomorrow, and this has been a great end to a great summer. If I ever do anything more with the iPhone, it'll definitely be posted here. Also I contacted iphonesimfree and offered to verify on this blog their claims of a software unlock. No response yet..."