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I hadn’t intended to post anything until I got home, but there has been an idea floating around in my head for some time that I wanted all the noobies I’m talking to to know. I’ve gotten a lot more comments and hits from various places, ready to get into this marketing game. I’m getting a lot more questions on aim and so on, but I wanted to say this…

I held off on posting this because I couldn’t figure out the best way to say it, but I was having a conversation with my buddy and he said it perfectly, and this is what he said. It sums up what I was thinking just perfectly:

I feel the same way.
Once you are profitable in this industry.
Marketing as a whole.
There’s so many projects that you can run.

THIS is very important. So important. When you start everything is overwhelming for sure, you don’t know where to begin. There’s that feeling like what if I start this and it’s a waste of time and I don’t learn anything because I made the dumb mistake of choosing the wrong route, simply because I didn’t know better.

That… is completely incorrect. When I first started all this, I read for 16 hours straight for like a week straight just absorbing and learning. I distinctly remember reading something, then actually building the landing page/tracking method/campaign… then reading something else which was BETTER… spending another day redoing the exact same thing in a different way, different trackers, different lander styles. This must have repeated 5 or 6 times, and THEN I read a post about wordpress and did the entire thing over AGAIN. From the outside it looks like an entire “wasted” week because I just went in circles, and at the end of the week I still didn’t have any finished item. Let me tell you though, I have used every single one of those things I have learned at LEAST 100 times since then, in the past year, even if it wasn’t that time.

That is the meat of this post, and why I feel it’s so important. Everything you’re learning here interlinks in ways you can’t  even begin to comprehend when you’re first starting out. The first thing you learn, whether it’s ppc, ppv, media buys, seo, etc, is going to seem like the hardest thing ever. The second thing you learn will be hard too.. but after that you start to get a bigger picture and have a lot of ‘ah-ha’ moments.

EVENTUALLY, you will get to a point where your understanding is so all-encompassing that you will have tons of different projects on your plate. More than you will be able to handle! You will ‘actually’ be thinking outside the box. Right now, since making this post yesterday, I had 2 more opportunities come up that are insanely amazing. Big time Travis is in a Maserati amazing. It would be something I couldn’t even SEE in the matrix of life though, had I not known all this other interlinking stuff.

Just keep that in mind when you’re learning… and look forward to the point you WILL reach when you will start to get a massive -flood- of ideas, opportunities, people wanting to network with you, and literally so many chances to succeed. Many of them will fail, but when one fails, 3 more will popup. It’s the most exhilarating thing ever :]

I’m off to buy my shoes now

The other day my buddy roundhouse kicked my old ass busted phone right out of my hand, and it smashed into a million pieces in the taco bell parking lot. Epic.

Karma got him back though a few days later when he tried to be a hero and throw me in the pool, came in with me, and forgot his phone was in his pocket. Owned.
He actually got his phone working again, saved all his numbers, and I bought an iPhone so you could say it worked out for both of us.

I have been seeing increased success, I’ve made about $12,000 from my campaigns in a few months, and this is just the beginning. I quit my lame-ass job and basically started to do this full time. My next goal is to hit my first $1000/day, although keeping it steady is going to be the trick.
As a side note… get ready for all the mischief you’re going to get into when you start working for yourself and have the luxury of time, and freeballin at your desk (if that’s your style that is). Side effects may include chasing your friends around the yard with a hose and a bag of flour, fighting them while they’re sleeping, or taping them to the wall with duct tape

My joint SEO site I’m doing with my friend is also doing quite well, we’re ranked #1 for an awful lot of search terms, and we get about 60 hits of natural traffic a day. We’ve made a few sales, and this is only one blog for one niche.. next is to make a whole swarm of 20 or so blogs.

Yeah… now all I have to do is wait till iPhone releases their update so I can record video and send picture messages. What kinda shite is that Apple!

I feel like a lot of people that have a lot of money become bored easily, simply because they aren’t creative. I thrive on being creative, and it makes me feel alive – I can’t imagine sitting around, unmoving and stagnant watching 45 DVD’s of House on your 62″ plasma 24/7.

I was out for drinks with my friend the other day and I had the idea that I’m going to use my funds that are now automated to allow me to travel to meet each person on my Facebook, and then I’m going to make a section on here and write about all my ridiculous adventures I get into – Meeting 1000+ people sounds like a fantastic source for content to write about… especially considering wherever I go crazy things are always bound to happen ;]

Wassup!

While my PPC campaigns are going, I’m going to throw up several SEO blogs. I’ve spent the last several days designing a template for a story aggregator that I like at http://discountmedinsurance.com/

When I finalize it I’m going to get a new domain, throw some special offers on there, then use various tools for backlinking to get it optimized.

I’ll keep you posted how it goes