Nick Murry

This is the coolest cat I’ve ever met. A scottish fold that I get to see when I visit my sister. She got him from Pegkens in CA.

I was lured into several MLM companies a couple of years ago with the thoughts of making good money. All I would need was to recruit one person a month, and in a few years I’d be making thousands of dollars residual each month. … or so they said.

Multi Level Marketing (MLM) involves selling. There are no products that sell themselves. People need to know about your product in order to buy it right? So how do they find out about it? You need to present the product to other people. It takes skill to do this.

“You need to recruit at least 30 people before getting a recurring sale” …. This passage from a how-to-succeed-in-MLM guide really opened my eyes. It means that the vast majority who join an MLM will do absolutely nothing. Therefore, maintaining success requires recruiting lots of people consistently month after month.

Eventually, if you do well enough, people may take notice and start approaching you. This seems like the perfect ideal situation since you wouldn’t have to market as much and you could maintain quotas easier. However, most of these easy recruits believe that their connection to you is enough to make themselves successful.

I never made it that far, but I know people that had. Even though you could caution them saying “this takes time and hard work”, most people would smilingly nod and feel overconfident, knowing your success would somehow magically rub off on you.

Could you live with knowing that with each new sign up brings a very probable disappointment? I’d want to work with each person until they’re successful, but it just doesn’t work that way. If you aren’t making enough money, then enthusiasm only goes so far.

All in all, people don’t care how awesome an MLM product is, they’re joining for the opportunity to change their life. How could you recommend something that has such a low success rate?

If you’re in an MLM and have a similar or contradicting opinion let me know.

I bought this about 2 months ago from a clickbank hoplink hoping that it would help me get closer to  a respectable income online.

What is it? Its a paid course designed to help people online make money with websites. Its similar to “The Challenge” in that it shows how to set up profitable affiliate sites. They stress spending time to find keywords with high traffic and low competition, then creating wordpress sites to offer affiliate links to clickbank products and other offers.

The big difference between Google Sniper and the Challenge is that Sniper has the goal creating many small, no-maintenance websites, whereas the Challenge stresses the benefit of concentrating on one website that will eventually dominate a niche.

I prefer the small website approach since I see myself less of a possible leader in a market, and I don’t like hanging out in forums and social networking to build up a reputation. I’d rather capitalize on free traffic and give people what they’re looking for.

So far, Google Sniper delivers what it says … (as long as you don’t believe the super hype on the sales page). I have one profitable site so far, and am planning to revamp it and work on others very soon. I might add an affiliate link when I’m doing well with my next site.

I tried for the 2nd time to make money with this method. … I tried again because I forgot why I couldn’t make money with it the first time.

Is it a scam? Nope. .. you can make money with it. But I don’t think I ever will.

If you’ve never heard of Project Payday, its a system that capitalizes on “free products” in exchange for enough referrals of people taking free trials. People are paid by being those referrals for others … but it just doesn’t seem right.

To be paid, you have to complete a few offers (usually several) just to get a “green” to be eligible for a payment. But for every offer, you give another company your personal info and credit card information. And most of the time, the offers cost money! The goal is to spend less than you make, but it doesn’t make sense to me to get paid a sum while giving up so much. Plus its your responsibility to cancel all the trials before getting a monthly bill. And it doesn’t seem sustainable since you can only do each trial once, and there’s a finite number of companies that have anything even slightly interesting to try out.

If you’d like to learn more click here.

I always thought that you could make a great website with a basic knowledge of html…. and html itself isnt easy! Well, I’ve found the limits of html, and thats trying to create dynamic webpages … basically pages that change depending on whatever you choose as criteria. This is where PHP comes in, which is a server side scripting language thats allows you to do all kinds of stuff with your website. (Of course its been around for 15 years, but I’m just now learning it. ) In fact, it turns out that WordPress (a CMS or command management system) is built on PHP. What prompted me to learn it was that I made a change to my sidebar … and discovered I’d have to change it for every one of my other pages in my site. I could just use WordPress like this site, but I wasn’t happy about the inability for full customization. … Well it turns out that if you know PHP, you can create your own themes and there’s literally nothing you can’t do with WordPress. They’ve got a several good tutorials at Lynda.com, but it requires a monthly fee.

I don’t know how you found me, but I’m glad you’re here. I hope I can teach you something or learn something from you. Feel free to look around and post a comment.