Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Blog Post 2

So its around 1999, maybe a year or so before, I have a Network Marketing Business which is transitioning to the Web, and John Chow has become a large affiliate for some Tech web organization, and he shows me his web site and how it all works,and I understand...nothing.

It seems so easy and yet so...

He started with video games (as in playing them) some how through a basic site and email gathered a following of like minded gamers and traded back an forth patches on EA Sports Basketball games. The wrote a basic blog on how he had upgraded his computer to I think a CPU speed of close to 750 Mhz!

From there he developed the Techzone and next thing i knew he had no daytime job, everything was Internet. He seemed to be making money on the Internet!

I was getting somewhat bored with The 'Real World " Networking marketing Biz, and would every so often check in with John, who seemed to be making more and more money - and talked about SEO and PPC and buying domain names, and software that caught expired domain names and software that tracked search engines, and I was bewildered.

In 199 the Network marketing company went to the web and it was exciting, but took almost 7 years to make the distributor force transition with it. And I lost a lot of money as everything stalled, and went onto other things.Real business in the real world. Nothing digital.

In 2008 I started to look at options again.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Blog Post 1

A tentative Beginning.

This will at random times tell the tale of my battle with creating income from the Internet.

Although I created Blogs probably a year or so ago -I didnt know what to do with them, and left them lying listlessly around the Internet at Blogger and Wordpress etc. (free blogs of course - you think I'm crazy)

I had watched the 'local guru' John Chow go from Tech blog - "The TechZone" to weird blog "The Love..."something - to the big money - now called JohnChow Dot Com, and as with most people who did this - he seemed to do it by mistake and without deliberate effort. He loved computers and loved to figure things out, was bright as hell, but its not like he sweated ladies and gentlemen - he just did what he enjoyed, fooled around and - voila - made money.

I have never, never had - "voila" money thrown at me. Never. Am I bitter - you betcha -

I digress.

So in the year of Our Lord 2009, having become more and more broke, mostly because I didnt want to work hard, ever again, I decided well its the Internet for me.
I'll work it, to get the dream - Residual Income. Money in - lots. Time out - little.

And so we begin.

And let me tell you after a few weeks of trying to figure this out.I'm bewildered (S.E.O's PPC Traffic, Google Adwords, Google Adwords Tool, Meta, Tags, MetaTags,css and on and on) and not less broke - but enjoying the journey, I really am.