Well Howdy

Been a while hey little blog 'o mine?!

I needed a long time out from everything. Just re-evaluate my life and figure out what I wanted from it. I've still kept thinking of being financially free of course...that's my lifelong goal, to be "free".

I thought long and hard about things relating to my money making endeavors, as well as words that were said to me that made me realize what the big hurdle for me was. So this is partly the reason why I haven't done anything really in the realm of business. I have been busy studying trading since October though. Pretty intensely. I'm getting somewhere with it, but I've still got a long ways to go before I feel comfortable playing with real money. But in the mean time I'll just put money away to build myself an account for when I am ready. There's a lot more to it than what all the ads everywhere will make you think. It is definitely NOT a get rich quick undertaking. I'm most likely looking at 1 year before I MIGHT be comfortable trading real money. My goal is to have 3 profitable months trading demo before going live. To prove myself that I can do it.

Anyway, that's on the trading side. Or paper assets side. Now onto the business end of things.

I've done NOTHING related to business since my last update. Like really...NOTHING!

My last idea had the same thing happen to it that all my other ideas have. I convinced myself that it wouldn't work. I jumped in without thinking more about the concept.

Anyway, that led me to tell myself that I'm not going to pursue another business idea UNLESS I can answer all of my questions, feel that the business satisfies all of my needs, and I really feel that it has potential.

Now I feel I do have it. The business relates to the thing that's made me feel the BEST emotions that I've felt: Charity. I came up with the concept while looking at other concepts and answering the questions for those business ideas. Then this one stuck with me. The idea is simple, has unlimited potential, and I will love it.

I really can't find too many objections to NOT go through with this idea. The objections that I do have are things that all businesses will have though. Not that big of a deal.

On another note, I've noticed a big change in the whole marketing community. One of the big things is that, what I knew would happen, happenned. The google slap on all those affiliate marketers using ppc for their crappy sites. This opens up room for all the smarter marketers out there.

I haven't checked the prices for ppc, but with all the advertisers gone, prices for lower placement ( still in first page ) should be available for really good prices. I quickly checked out the scene in yahoo and bing and found all the ppc ads were pretty much unrelated to searches most of the time. BUT from big players with cash. Not to worry though, I've got so many traffic sources that just those 2 won't be enough to stop me. I just need to make the traffic convert.

I have the website up and I'm just waiting for programmers to finish customizing the template to my liking. Which should be any day now. Today I've been building templates for the pages I'll be making. Oh yeah, I'm using wordpress for the site for ease of publication. Should work well enough for my purposes.

I've got an account with aweber as well and now I just need to work on some of the necessary pages like privacy policies and contact, etc. After that's done, I'm pretty sure it'll simply be a matter of starting to post content! I'll only need to get a good system to getting my content done, and then everything should just fall into place!

I'm sure I'm being overly optimistic, but better to be optimistic than be down and depressed all the time. Positive energy, brings positive results.

Time to get back into this journey of mine!
JR

Whoa....ok, it's been too long

Hey there!!

Wow, I can't believe it's been since friggin SEPTEMBRE since I last updated this blog!! A LOT has changed in my life since then...Some good, some bad, but I'm coming out of it stronger than I've ever been.

Business wise, I've been sort of lost for the last couple of months, which is why I haven't posted mostly. Everything I came up with, just didn't trigger anything in me...I've gone through wanting to do sites on everything, to making an internet marketing hosting company, to a "charity" sort of site, to real estate, and most likely some other stuff that I can't remember.

But through all of the events that have happenned to me lately, an idea for a business came out of it. It came up quite unexpectedly as well. Since I came up with the original idea with no intentions of making money from it, it was just for fun. But as I thought more about it, I thought...wow...there's A LOT of possibilities with this idea...like ALMOST INFINITE! I can seriously make a big business out of this idea. affiliate, info products, physical products, advertising, name it, I can most likely do it with this one. AND, it's something that's close to my heart. So everything about it will scream passion from my end.

The site is already up, it's just the question of polishing it up a bit before I start the marketing for it, which I've already planned out as well.

Joined a couple of affiliate networks as well, so it's really just a question of building the site proper, and sending traffic. Oh yeah, I won't have to do much coding for this site because I wanted this site to be easy this time around, so I'm using Wordpress. So yeah, it'll be a blog type of site. It'll be split into 2 types of posts: The helpfull articles, and personal posts!

Using the personal posts, like I do on this here blog, I'd like to build trust with the people who come to my site. Kinda like how marketers present their stories in salesletters, but on a bigger scale.

Anyway, I'll show you the site onces it's like I want it to be and presentable...graphic wise, it is, but still not finished. Little things that annoy me like contact pages and "about' pages.

Hopefully next update will continue to be positive!

cya!
JR

Affiliate business it is...

Alright, so because of the new changes in my life, I'll change my business goals towards one that's aimed towards a mainly affiliate based business model.

I'll be using wordpress for fast site building and editing. Already got the idea for the first site I'll be doing. Mainly because it's a niche I know very well and I already have a content creation plan for it.

I'll wait for it to reach a certain level of income before moving on to the next. I'll also use it as a "tester" of sorts for all sorts of techniques I assume...

Oh yeah, learned about a whole bunch of cool new resources today. So I have even more stuff in my traffic arsenal. I just need to friggin DO SOMETHING and stop talking about it...

I also can't let go of this forex thing...I just see so much potential in it. I need to find a way to master it. I'm going to keep practicing and learning more about it. Until I can show a good income from the demo account.

It sucks that I'll have to put a hold on the business because of the new job...but oh well, putting food on the table is priority #1. Being an affiliate marketer won't be so bad either. It'll give me time to practice all those strategies I've learned over the years finally. Show myself that I know what I'm doing. While earning a part time income I'm hoping...

Good news, and bad news...

Well...good news is I got myself a job! So there's finally gonna be money coming in.

The bad news is that this job has me working in a secluded area for 2 weeks at a time, without my own internet connection. So I'm now trying to think of ways to still keep the business going with this new challenge...

I HAVE internet access at the site, just it's a sort of room that everyone has access to, so not the best spot to conduct business...Unless I can find something that I could build an affiliate business out of...

Either that, or change the page every 2 weeks to a place holder, squeeze page to have people who're interested sign up...But then I'm missing a big part of my business...

More challenges...*sigh*

future of project looks bright!

So I've been sort of trimming the fat off the plan, building it into something that makes more sense. Now I think it's at a point where I'm satisfied with it.

I also started thinking about what my goals were with this site. How much do I want to make with it? Wanted to know this so I could reverse engineer it. So I did that and pretty happy with the plan. I based my numbers on a 1% conversion ratio, and a .10$/visitor cost. Just to get estimates you know.

With a very low marketing budget of 50$ on the first month, the plan is do-able.

Now I want to plan the day to day activities. As well as the marketing strategies.

Having reverse engineered the plan gives me something positive to look forward to. It's like visual confirmation that this can work. And if I get higher conversion ratios than 1%, or if I can get customers for cheaper than .10$, then the plan becomes even better.

Anyway, off to work on my plans again!

Almost time to build it

Finished my list of ideas ( for now ). By the end of it, I see that I have several different milestones that I'd need to take care of, as well as a need to figure out how I'd market these. Because I had an idea of how I was going to market this site ( as in the angle I would take ) but with the first milestone, I most likely couldn't use such an angle. So I just made a list of the milestones as well as how I'll market them.

The marketing plan needed to follow my original plan as well. Which is to be massively scalable if need be. Which I'm glad to say it is. I can start very small, and keep on going bigger and bigger.

So...I don't really think there's anything else really...I'll do a keyword research to see what the market looks like and make a search on the industry to see where it's going and how it's been doing most likely. If all looks good, then I guess it'll be time to build it!

HUGE amount of ideas for business

Hiya,

I have a HUGE HUGE ( huge ) load of ideas for the new business. I started las t night by just doing a small word ducoment called business ideas. Where the only criteria is put down any idea that came to mind. I'd take o ut the useless after. But I'm finding A LOT of gems within these ideas.

I checked out my competition last night until 2 am, which was around 30 something sites. Checking what made them tick, and the sort of efforts they did to capture customers and keep them...I'm pretty surprised that most of the competitors just do the bare minimum...I have a serious amount of ideas that would propel my business design ahead of any of them...I just need for them to not copy what I'm doing immediately because they already have the deep pockets...

Seriously though, I'm really seeing the potential. I think most of these ideas are comping from my "make the absolute best offers you can give them!!" attitude. As well as the "do whatever it takes to make them buy ( legally of course...)" attitude. I'm just coming up with all sorts of special offers and discounts and other crazy things. Also expanding on the niche and offering something the niche isn't even offering at the moment which is leaving a lot of money on the table in my opinion.

Now to get a little more familiar with coding a site so that I can put all of these into action when the time comes.