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