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My Realization… Batter Up!

The Bum — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:37:45 +0000

I been really bored the last few weeks. I mean the kind of bored where you find yourself talking to people you don’t even like to talk to just because they are the only people online at the time. I hope you know what I am talking about and it is not a feeling the The Bum is privy to.

I been up and thinking about why I am still trying so hard to make it big on my own. I have about $100 bucks to my name at the moment and big things look like they are on the horizon. Yea I said big things, but how big? I don’t know to be honest. I personally don’t even know if It will turn into anything big at all. That’s the thing though. I have heard myself say that sort of thing before and then nothing came of it. Things that I thought i planned out perfectly and had all intentions of going through with, but just never had pan out the way I thought they would. So, why is it that I am continuing to do this to myself when I know that in 2 months I will have to find a real job and become a working adult? Well I am a little crazy for one thing. Besides a little bit of lunacy, I think I am conditioned better than others for this type of disappointment. I played baseball for 17 years of my life and if there is anything baseball players are exceptional at is failing. Who do you know is happy with succeeding 30% of the time. We feel one day and we get back up the next and try again. I think that’s why I know I am right for this field of work. Affiliate marketing is exactly like baseball. First of all, it takes a lot of practice and attention to detail to be successful. Secondly, You will never bat 1.000. You will fail a lot trying new stances and new techniques, but when it all comes together you will be able to see the ball coming at you like a huge watermelon. I have failed so fair in my journey to becoming a self made marketing superstar. My coach has sat me on the pine, but I know that my time is better spent thinking about the next adjustment I need to make rather than picking splinters out of my ass and feeling sorry for myself. All it takes is one idea and one solid method to get back into the lineup. Find that grove… get into that zone… and see a watermelon sized wad of cash flying towards your wallet.

I guess the lesson here is to figure out if you can handle the stress and the failure. It can last for a week or years, but you will get to a point where everything comes together and you just click. It’s all green from there baby!!

Hard to Get…Hard to Satisfy

The Bum — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:59:35 +0000

     Well it has been a few weeks since I last wrote a post and I was thinking… IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!!! HAHA … I’m Kiddinggggg, I promise. I have been a little bit wusy starting up my last year of college. Trying to get into all my classes and get settled. I haven’t been doing too much marketing, but I haven’t totally ignored it. I have kept up with the Twitter stuff. I now have 10 accounts and a total of 25,000 to 30,000 followers. Making about 3 bucks a day with that only promoting RevTwit and gettiong like 30 clicks a day or something like that. Not a lot of money by any means, but it’s posting the ads for me so there isnt much work involved.

     I began writing this post as an update to what io have been up to. I wanted to make sure that all 9 of my faithful readers didn’t feel like i forgot about this and forgot about them. I realized a lesson I learned as i was about to write down the next thing that I had been doing the last few weeks. I bought an E-Book a few days ago ( I KNOW! I said don’t waste your money on E-Books, but it was 10 bucks and promised it wasn’t a blown out method) and well it was a good Idea. I went with it for a few days and I actually made a few bucks without putting any money into the method at all. I was only testing it, but i made $27 in 2 1/2 days. I thought I found something to hold me over for the next few weeks which was nieve of me to think. After 2 1/2 days it seems that the website that had the loophole that I exploited FIXED THE LOOPHOLE and rendered the method useless. I am not giving too much detail to the method for a few reasons. I bought the book and don’t have permission to give information about it, it is very blackhat, and it doesn’t work anymore so why bother LOL. The point I am trying to make is that affiliate marketing is not stable or steady. You may find a method that will always work and not get saturated, BUT you will always have to adjust the niche or the lead in order to keep your conversions up and the money the same. Always moving on to the next best thing and keeping up on what is popular now. Don’t get comfortable and don’t be satisfied with anything that makes you a couple of bucks at the start because it will most likely become saturated and non-profitable in the long run.

     I hope that isn’t being interpreted as me saying there is no method that will ever work for long periods of time. That is not what I am saying. For example, PPC/keyword advertising is something that will always be popular and be a money source. What i am saying is that those people who do PPC for ResV ( Diet Pill ) will fail in time when the ad has been out there for a while. Those people need to take advantage of the method with that niche for a while and then use that same method and find a new hot lead in order to make good money. See the method is good, but the product gets old. There are methods that are long term, most are not, but either way you must not become satisfied. Try to remember how long it took for you to find the current method you are using and then imagine if it became totally non-profitable and you had to look for another method. Get the start on it when you are making money. This will allow you to do more research and more experimenting rather than waiting till you don’t have a method or money and not having the funds to find a new method to go with.

     Ok I am done rambling on. I really try to make these posts entertaining for my readers. I have a feeling this one may be one of the less entertaining, but I think it is one of the more important lessons I have learned in all the years I have been in the internet business.

Marketing Update : V-Blog #3

The Bum — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:35:13 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFKnyPx8h40

Well I was just letting you guys know what I have been up to lately with all the stuff i have been trying out. Twitter is working ok and I can see the advantages of creating these accounts. I don’t have many followers yet and the sites have seen a rise in traffic. This is good since I am able to target the people I am following.

False Start : Hearing the Gun Go Off

The Bum — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:29:00 +0000

     Well it is Saturday and you know what I realized. I need a life. I’m kidding though. I am just frustrated with Affiliate Marketing right now because I am having trouble finding my niche and my method. I realize that I am going to need many different methods to be successful in the future, but when you are starting with no seed money, you need to take it one step at a time….and I’m tripping!

     This brings me to a little motivation or advice for people who are in my current position. Frustration is a big part of the process. We are going to fail a lot before we get to something that works. The important thing for us to remember is that you pay attention to what fails and what works. Don’t look at it as you failed, but look at it like “why did this fail”. When you can do this sort of thing, you will be able to take positive things that did convert well, continue with them, and put a twist on the things that failed to see if you can make them work. I am currently failing a lot and not finding things that I am willing to do. I have a few morals and at the time being I can’t afford to be sued – HA! So I am sticking to things that are legit and not “scams”. Of course I do feel there is a difference between scams and tricking people. I’m not trying to E-Whore or tell people on Craigslist that they have a job waiting for them.

     I guess the real point of this post is to encourage people to keep going and not give up. The start is the hardest point, but once you are able to generate money with one method then you can start scaling it and make tons more. It gets easier once you have an idea of what direction you are going. It also allows you to take more risks when you have something steady going. Your method will be bringing you cash while you are out trying other methods that may or may not work. Unlike when you started, if something fails then you won’t be so pressed to make something happen with it. You will already be generating money with your first method and all the are purely extra money revenues. Sounds nice doesn’t? NO? Well think of it this way then… Ever have a girl you know really likes you, but you are able to keep her around without committing to her. Friends with benefits I would say. It’s just like that. Go play the field with other girls to find a girl you really like and if you hit a dry spell with the ladies then you got that one girl you can always call up and chill with. Always nice isn’t it. Get a method and make it steady. Go out and gamble on other bigger methods that may end up bringing you twice as much money. You will lose some cash in the process, but you won’t worry about it because you know you have a steady method running every day.

I’m Poor : V-Blog #2

The Bum — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:09:27 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iBI9lZni18

A WHOLE 75 Bucks. I need A Job… NOTTTTT So Much!

The Beginning: What I’m All About and Why I’m Telling My Story

The Bum — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:42:32 +0000

     Well I should start off telling you that my name is Steve. Basically I am a bum, so for the purpose of this blog you may call me The Bum. I am 23 years old living in sunny California. I am currently going into My 6th year at Cal Poly Pomona as an E-Business student. Being a student athlete in college slowed me down a bit acedemiclly, but now I am back on track to graduate this Spring.

     My Journey started in 2004. I was a Myspace Marketer. Basically I was one of those people who had thousands of friends and would sell accounts and bulletins to REAL advertisers. It wasn’t fun because I had to deal with a ton of scene kids who actually thought they had 100,000 friends. I hated those people. Anyways, I got tired of all that childs play (even though I was making around 1-2.5k a month from it) and figured I should try to be the people who were buying from me. In 2005 I opened BumLine.net as my first dive into being a real webmaster. I ran Zango ads on it for the longest time and then finally someone talked sense into me and I started Google Adsense. I won’t go further into all of my websites that I own, but if you care to see them then look at the links in the sidebar.

     Now comes my purpose. I have been successful with websites, but seen it all crumble right in front of my eyes. I am living at my parent’s home and now have no money. I am on a mission to make a living for myself and on my own. I have never had a real job in my life. 23 years old and self employed since the beginning. My plan is to keep it this way for as long as possible and I want to document it in this blog. I will be starting from nothing, I have started from nothing. I will make nothing into a fortune and I will show you the transition from Bummin’ to Ballin’ … Along the way I will share with you what I have learned, read and experienced. Obviously some methods I attempt will have to remain secret, but If I see something to share then you can bet that I will be bloggin’ it up for my subscribers. I want my story to be the next persons inspiration. I want to show those who don’t see the potential in all this that you don’t need anything but the will to learn and the patients to fail. I will fail… and fail some more, but I will learn from my failure ant grow from it. This is my journey in Affiliate Marketing… Dirt Poor to Filthy Rich!!