Well , after reviewing a few recent videos on Liveleak & Youtube about the various protests/marches that people are having here in the US for things like more welfare, universal healthcare , and the like I’ve started to get very angry.

Why am I angry?

Because my generation has been fleeced by our parents and grandparents. Politicians made a choice before I was born that I would have to bare the burden of heavy taxation for the previous generation’s stupidity.

Social security was formed in the mid 30s in a political attempt to quell the American’s worries about money and the future. Mind you , the 30s saw many communist ideas being brought to the US by Marxist Russians to spread communisim to a new country. Many Poor Americans felt like they could relate to the message of communism , that is “Making All Men Equal” by punishing the wealthy for having money and giving their earned money to everyone else.

Like many ideas thought up by politicans , Social Security was a scam from the start, people would pay part of their paychecks into a government system, which then would “Invest” the money for them, and hold it till they “Retired” (Something that had never existed before SS came into play). Many Americans were sold on the idea with the picture of the first check being handed out to someone who incidentally had never paid a dime into the system.

Believe it or not , Social Security was a scam from the start, the age in which benefits would be paid out to a individual started at 65, while the average lifespan of an American during the 30s was about 59.

Because of the fact that Social Security was at that point, a rare occurance for individuals exceeding the average life expectancy by 10% the government got what it wanted - More Taxes. See , social security money is put in an account, and then used to buy Government Bonds, giving the government the ability to create more debt for itself.

Now , fast forward 70+ years later, and we’ve got an absolute mess on our hands. People are living longer, and fewer people are entering the workforce, the great ponzi scheme is now running out of money at a rapid rate, expecting to run out of money by 2016.

So , what is the government considering to prevent social security from running out, and not putting elderly people who never planned for the future? They want to raid my bank accounts (401k and IRAs) and take my hard earned money to pay the debts of a previous generation.

See now? Politicans have been selling the same dang thing for 70+ years , that is the “Promise” of a easier life, regardless of who has to pay for it.

Unfortunately the time of reckoning is approaching, and one of two things will happen - I’ll be robbed of money I’ve worked hard to earn , OR benefits will be cut/eliminated to current recipients potentially putting millions of elderly people on the streets.

What’s the answer? I’ll get into that later, but for some reason no one likes it.

1. Bill Gates is worth $40 billion

2. Warren Buffet Is Worth $37 billion

3. Carlos Slim Is Worth $35 billion

4. Lawrence Ellison $22.5

5. Ingvar Kamprad is worth $22 billion

6. Karl Albrecht is worth  $21.5 billion

7. Mukesh Ambani is worth $19.5 billion

8. Lakshmi Mittal is worth $19.3 billion

9. Theo Albrecht is worth $18.8 billion

10. Amancio Ortega  $18.3 billion

As you can quite possibly tell , Bill gates has stayed strong at #1 and warren buffet at #2. Everyone has had a large loss in their total net worth , however Americans are still doing well overall in the wealth game.

What peaks my interest is the possibility of these billionaires investing in currently undervalued assets, enough so that when the market comes back, they will be far beyond their current or even former glory.

Well , I’m looking at building a new PC , so I figured i’d post specs for it since everyone shares mundane things on their blogs , right?

Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V 120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler
Scythe S-FLEX SFF21E 120mm Case Fan
GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
4x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5
PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI NVIDIA SLI Certified (Dual 8800 GTX and below) CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply compatible with core i7
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TR3X6G1600C8D
Antec P182 Gun Metal Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
GIGABYTE GV-R489-1GH-B Radeon HD 4890 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

Everything comes out to right around $1500 or so , not including shipping and the like.

What say the internets?

I got a email from a guy today that asked me my thoughts on the Recession , so I responded, and figured this might be good for the blog.

“Mr. Schlichter,

My name is Andrew Ellis and I was hoping I could ask you a question
about the current real estate market. I am taking REAL 101 at Ohio University
and as an assignment for that class I have to ask someone in the real estate
world a question on their opinion of the current market. The question is who
do you think is the main group to blame for the current housing market
conditions? The choices are as follows: the borrowers, the lenders, the
brokers, the investors, or the Government. I am sorry for any trouble that
this may give you.

V/r
Andrew E”

My thoughts are this :

The borrowers are to blame in the fact that many individuals borrowed using sub-prime or ALT-A style loans that they KNEW they couldn’t repay. Many planned for no emergencies, loss of jobs ,ect. If you go back to the early 80s , interest rates were significantly higher than they have been even with the highest subprime brackets, yet the foreclosure rate never reached a number close to what we’re seeing now. So they borrowed way beyond their means , knowing they were doing it.

Many Lenders are to blame as well because they couldn’t just say “No” when someone walked in thedoor. Add to this, many brokers had no interest in the stability of the borrowers beyond closing due to the fact mortgages were sold to other companies who would service.

Agents were to blame because they never told people that they shouldn’t be buying beyond their means, and just sold the houses regardless of the mortgage the buyers were getting.

Appraisers are to blame because they valued properties using very poor comps. I’ve worked with several banks concerning loan fraud , and appraisers either allowed themselves to be manipulated or down right had a interest in a bad value. Of course the banks were willing to blacklist the appraisers if the values came in too low.

Investors/developers share blame because many were building at a pace that was completely unsustainable, expecting the market to continue (Knowing that we were at a pace that couldn’t be sustained for very long). When they went belly up , they send dozens/hundreds of units in individual subdivisions/areas into foreclosure, to sell at a very small fraction of what they were selling them to the individuals buying.

Finally the government, who in my thoughts shares the biggest bit of the blame. They developed policies that reward banks giving bad loans to bad buyers all in the name of “Diversity” and then punish banks that do not participate in Community Re-Investment (which usually means giving bad loans out). They then turned a blind eye when values skyrocketed and the market boomed, local governments had a major interest because the higher the values went , the higher tax revenue they had. So local governments had a very major interest in seeing values and a false market continue.

Because of this , we’ve seen THE WORST recession in the US , and are on the verge of a total collapse of our system due to the fact too many people turned a blind eye. However , the government shares a larger part of the share (Although everyone else shares blame too). This whole thing has been because of greed more than anything else, because everyone was making money off of someone else.

Since So Many people read this website, I thought I’d throw you all a bone and update.

AM has been pretty good this month, had a $350 profit day a week or so ago ,which was absolutely aweome but haven’t been able to replicate that success. Knowing something that works is good, so I’m continuing to keep working and refining this specific niche/campaign set and trying to get it to do well.
My current goal is $2,500 per day in AM net income, I know it’s 100% doable, so I’m hoping to hit that within the next 3 months or so.

Real estate has SUCKED recently, and I hate spending too much time on it, unfortunately sales have been way down, although I do have a few in contract which is nice.

Brandon’s Big Affiliate Contest

All these lazy affiliate marketers do contests on their blogs, so why shouldn’t I?

So , here’s the deal - I want to hit consistant $2,500 days, I NEED to hit $1,000 days for my special projects that I’m obviously not going to share.

So , what I’m offering is a prize to whoever helps me out the most in affiliate marketing, reaching that $2,500/day goal.
Whoever helps me the most regardless of whether it was to reach $2,500/day or whatever, upon one week of consistant $2,500 days, the person who has helped me out the most gets a prize.

The Prize?

Yes , it’s a house , no it’s not that house , but the house I’m giving away will look similar and be worth a minimum of $50,000.

The house is free of all liens and encumberances and will have 3 years of taxes paid on it in advance at closing. All you have to do is help me to my goal , maybe it’s SEO advice, maybe it’s something else, but whoever helps me the MOST hit this goal gets the house , you can sell it , keep it for the heck of it , rent it out but never the less it’s $50,000 in your pocket.

So who’s helped me out the most? Just ask

Well, I have now been a PPC-Coach member for about 2 months now, so I figured that I would post a little review of the system.

Without going into graphic detail about PPC-Coach, the system revolves around the process of learning PPC-Marketing on a monthly basis.

Month 1 starts you out on the absolute cheapest way to try your hand at PPC Bar-None (I spent maybe $50 total on everything). I did make some money using month 1’s tactics, overall it was pretty good, but very basic.

Month 2+ was really where the stuff started kicking in , part of it was promoting a $300 per lead offer (Now how’s that for a project?). I haven’t really spent a whole lot of time doing that one, but the 2nd month’s strategy guide is absolutely worth the price of admission times 10. Month 2 includes a “Special ” script when dealing with adwords that was absolutely phenominal. The first day of testing it I was able to get a QS10 on some words which was something I’ve never done (before that, my best was a 7QS)

Overall it’s been really worth it, PPC coach has been a good expirance, I definately would do it again, and do sugguest that anyone who hasn’t tried it go for a month.

I am offering a $20cdn discount off your first month of subscription if you email me prior to registration and then we can work out some details.

Click here to sign up for PPC-Coach , and feel free to post comments/questions about ppc-coach.

I wanted to post real quick about the progress of this specific blog.

Surprisingly enough, we just broke the top 1 million websites, and are ranked at  901,646 according to alexa’s website.

This will be the first time I’ve had a self hosted website break the 1 million mark (I have another one that’s around 250,000 I figure , but it’s a .com blog which I can’t track to well or monetize.)
I’ve got HUGE plans for the blog, and by huge, I mean so big no one else has done them before. I really want to empower people to change their lives, whether it be something small or something large, people need to realize that THEY are the ones in charge of where their life is headed, not someone else.

Far too many times I hear people ranting “I can’t do it” , “The goverment keeps me down” , “They don’t let people like me make money” or 100 other reasons that they CAN’T.

CAN’T is a word that I don’t like to use much , it states that some task is impossible.

Many people know that I’m a practicing Christian, which I don’t ever want to hide, and the Bible does say that “I can do all things through Christ”. I wish everyone would get the fact that there are very, very few things in life that are truely impossible.

I’ve also joined PPC Coach , Check out My PPC Coach Review and see how I’m doing with it.

I set out just 2 months ago to get a new source of income, and I am pleased to report that I am now making a equivilent of a 2nd, part time job just through PPC/SEO campaigns online. I’ve been making progress and should be making $100/day profit any day now.

I really think there’s some good things in store for the website, so PLEASE either join the RSS feed , or follow me on twitter. This will keep you in the loop of what’s going on, the hope is to run a few contests in the near future with a few AM networks.

Thanks for reading!

Market Leverage

This is the company I’ve run A LOT of stuff through, they’ve got tons of offers and the payout is generally higher than other networks.They don’t have alot of offers I see at other companies too, so signing up with them is a very good idea. They send payments out via fed-ex, which is great because waiting on a check SUCKS when you need to pay off credit cards.

• 400+ Offers
• Good Payouts
• Good interface
• 5% Recurring Commissions
• I’ve made $921.80 with this company so far.

Flux Ads

This is a company I really do like , they’re one of the smaller companies, but they definitely have competitive payouts. I really like them for zip-submit/email-submit offers. In fact, this network has more zip submit offers than anyone else does.

• 400+ Offers
• Direct Trac Software
• Great Email Submits
• 2% Recurring Commission Program
• I’ve made $39.50 with this company so far.

Amped Media

Obviously I haven’t used this company a whole lot. I originally signed up to them because I had heard they had good low-scrub zip-submits. This was very true, they did have a great group of zip-submits that were profitable. In addition to that , they do have plenty of other good offers I haven’t had enough time to really put them through their paces, but they’ve really got potential.

• 150+ Offers
• Direct Trac Software
• Good Email Submits
• 5% Recurring Commission Program
• I’ve made $2.40 with this company so far.

Revenue Loop

This is one of those obscure (I haven’t seen anyone mention them before) Affiliate companies. I signed up with them because I saw they had a variation of a offer I was promoting. They’ve got quite a few unique programs that I haven’t seen anywhere else. The best thing is they tell you exactly what % they take off the top for any given offer. As you progress in your sales, you automatically get a pay increase. Of a few offers I compared, they had a better rate on many at the initial fee (So it’d be even better if you did well with this company).

• Over 300+ Offers
• Direct Trac Software
• Lots of unique programs
• High payouts
• I’ve made $143.00 with this company so far.

Express Revenue

This is yet another company I found while researching affiliate companies for good zip-submit offers. Not only do they have really high paying zip-submit offers, but they’ve got alot of hard to find ones too (Like Netflix). The average payout is a little higher than most of the other companies. Their AMs are also super helpful, they have a background in Affiliate marketing, so when you ask them a question they know the answer and WHY you’re asking the question.

• 150+ Offers
• Good Payouts
• Unique Offers
• Hard-To-Find offers
• I’ve made $8.00 with this company so far.

Neverblue

Neverblue is one of the big boy companies in the industry. The interface is relatively unique compared to everyone else (Navigating offers is pretty easy). Payouts are generally good, and they have TONS of offers. Being a neverblue parnter is a definate must IF you can get accepted. They are definately one of the harder networks to get into, and there’s good reason for that.

• 800+ Offers
• Great payouts
• 2% Recurring program
• Awesome interface
• I’ve made $51.65 with this company so far.

I’m also a member of PPC Coach , Check out My PPC Coach Review

Well , now adays I’m working 14 hours a day between my “Normal” day job (Real Estate) and working on this internet thing.

The great news is the fact I’m profitable on my online endeavours , so much so that I’ve almost hit the 100/day barrier. I’ve had several days so far over the past few weeks that were in the $75 profit range, but then sometimes the next day will be down a few dollars. Monday was pretty darn good, I spent $5 to make $85 which i think is pretty gosh darn awesome.
As of today I’ve made a little over $700 since Dec 1st with the online stuff, and have spent around maybe $400 on PPC advertising.

My new project is pretty darn cool celeb gossip and news is my new website. We’re doing a revenue share so people can get paid to write about stuff. I’m quite happy about the progress of the website, we’ve only been live for 2 days and had almost 40 subscriptions, it will be nice to help others make money online. I’ll keep you updated on my article website project as time goes on.

I’m also a member of PPC Coach , Check out My PPC Coach Review

Well , it seems like over the past few weeks everything has been a update.

I’ve been SUPER busy with working on other websites and sort of left this blog on autopilot for a while.

I’ve started 2 content based websites, 1 PPC landing page website and a review/arbitage website.

If you don’t know what these things are, some day I’ll explain them so you won’t feel so left out in the dark.

Anyways , one of the big things I’ve done in the past day or two was join PPC-Coach’s program. Everyone at wickedfire seemed to believe that PPC-C was a good program and would help affiliates who were loosing money to loose less money and had a decent chance of making actual money.

So far I’m in about 3 days of PPC Coach and have learned a sheer ton of information about making money from PPC style campaigns online. The information has been really good so far, although I can’t say the website is exactly what I was looking for. I do NOT believe it’s a end-all for affiliate marketing woes, but does help alot. I will be posting a full review in the near future, after  I have more time under my belt with the program.

I did have my first decent ROI on a product promotion (which was with the help of PPCCoach). My ROI has been -50%. That may seem like a bad loss , but it’s been my first “Big” Success, and I say this becuase many people are loosing bucketfulls of money. In this case ,I spent $2.50 to make $1.25. The reason I’m so happy is becuase the setup involved a AWFUL website layout which I know I could greatly improve my total conversion rate was 5.8%.

My Affiliate income is a little higher than my last post, it’s increased a little, and so has my adwords income, both are growing slightly. My expenses are still relatively high, but are getting a little bit more under control as I’m not spending more money on $25 domains like I was a few days ago.

Real Estate is still my #1 income source , but my goal of increasing my passive/part time income through affiliate marketing is making progress.