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The best free way to easy make money online

September 30, 2008 underdogblogger Leave a comment

(or where I tell you why every internet marketer should fall in love with blogger.com)

As an internet stallwart, you don’t get much better than blogger.  Floating around the net for many years, it spawned a revolution in the way we approach site building.  It’s also one of the best practical resources you will ever find.  We have a practically unlimited resource at our fingertips to test out campaigns for free.  The bain of every internet marketer’s life is doing keyword research, purchasing a domain and then finding that after a while, the funds just don’t roll in.  Blogger lets you test your stuff out before splashing out on a domain.  It’s freeeeeeeee.  freeeeeeee free!  And I like free resources.  So should you.  What can be better than getting paid without operating costs?  Nothing!  free blogger blogs can be set up in a matter of minutes and you can whip up pages on any topic you like….

(ahh fuck it.  If you’ve read this far, I’m not going to carry on with this boring old post – why write for the sake of it?  why read for the sake of it?  it isn’t worth your time.  It isn’t worth my time.  I was going to write a very different post today, but I thought “noo, I can’t write that….what will people think of me”, so I thought “what should I write about”…..so I thought “I know, I’ll write about how to test ideas out with blogger….much more mundane, much safer, much less likely to offend”.  Fuck it.  I’m going to drop you a lesson in human psychology.  And some of you will be offended.  Some of you will never read my blog again after this.  Some of you will though.  Twisted bunch…the lot of you. :)

Copy.  Content.  Articles.  That’s what we all need for our sites right?  Writing articles is a pain in the bum-bum.  Writing quality articles is even more of a pain.  But articles are mandatory for any niche endevour.  I mean it’s almost a formula now – find niche, start blog, write blog content, write articles, submit articles to article websites, get rank, get arganic search results, get traffic, get money.  The only thing stopping me or you from having the largest blog empire on the plannet is our ability to churn out words.  Sollutions are around – you can purchase yourself an article writing product……you could Tim Ferris it and outsource your article writing to someone else…..or a team of someone elses…….you could get yourself a research license and sit a bunch of monkeys in front of a bunch of computers and wait until they bang out some Shakespeare for you.  All of these cost money.  Well the monkeys cost bananas I suppose, but still, bananas cost money, and given that you have to wait infinite amount of time for said shakespearean missive, you’re gonna need some big venture capital for this puppy.  Anyone know a venture capitalist that would actually entertain such an experiment?  No?  Damn!  I know, I know – it’s the cost of those damn monkey experiment licenses isn’t it?  I knew it.  You mean to say they are more usefull in experimental cancer and AIDS drug research?  Oh.   Ok.  Fair enough.  I suppose world health is more important than my bank ballance.

Nonononononono.  Is there an easier way?  Could you get a bunch of people to write for you, for free?  I think so.  I rekon Avon Blake is gonna get that.  Heck, I’m even thinking about writing for his project.  I don’t know if he is planning to monetise his invasionofthezlistbloggers blog, but I think there will be enough people writing content on it for it to get good organic traffic…..could be a gold mine for him.  See you can get people to write for you for free.  I’m tangenting again.  Back we come to the circle.  Ok.  If you are squeamish, or have high morals, look away now.  If you don’t like anything that borders on the risque, or if you are one of those prudes who doesn’t think the “adult” internet exists, browse away.  I mean it, what I’m about to write is pretty shady, pretty much underbelly of marketing and it ventures a little bit into an adult oriented market.  Ok, it ventures a lot into it.  It takes advantage of people no doubt.  But in a way, it offers something back to them.  Before we go on, I must say, I don’t do this.  I thought up the idea when I was drunk one night, after reading too many blogs about making easy money online.  Then, I ran an experiment to see if it actually works.  And it did.  I had several people writing me reasonable quality articles on any subject I chose, for free.  And then my damn morals got in the way.  Seems I’m not a total bastard.  Still maybe someone out there can use the technique, and what the hell, every blog needs to have one decent (or in this case indecent) free tip on it right?  Right!  This is mine.   I don’t know if anybody else has attempted this – I would be extremely surprised if I were the only one to think of it…….

Still here?  Not going to be offended?  Don’t say I didn’t warn you – I don’t want to hear about how evil this is or how immoral it is because you may as well direct that shit to every marketer out there – if you think you don’t have psychology used on you on a daily basis on TV, radio, internet, billboard advertising, you dellude  yourself.  Last chance to go………..Ok……..There is a scene in which people indulge in what might be called submissive behaviour.  To these individuals, there is nothing they like more than serving someone else.  It’s often sexual.  But it isn’t always about sex.  Now say, for argument’s sake, someone were to create a persona, as we all do if we market a product.  Split their personality to create a dominant alter ego.  Say this alter ego used some message boards and free ad facilities or even dating websites to post an ad.  Say the ad clearly states that what is being sought is an online BDSM relationship with themselves as the top.  Say they get a response.  Say that after a few emails, it is agreed upon that the form of submission is to research and write about whatever dominant alter ego asks for.  Say non-dominant side agrees.  Saaaaaay……you’ve got yourself one monkey.  No need for infinity or bananas.  Rinse, repeat.  Get two monkeys.  Rinse, repeat.  Get three monkeys.  The monkeys are endless.  The monkeys are in fact infinity.

Now imagine if your alter ego were a dominatrix.  Do you know how many responses you get from men if you are female and post an advert that is even vaguely kinky…..even if you explicitly point out there will be no sex, no meetings, no phone calls, no webcams, only email?  Lemme tell you, it ain’t pretty.  Not that I’ve tried pretending to be female online or anything just for the purposes of an experiment into the human psyche.  Naaaa, I got my sister to do it :-0

Now lets not kid.  This is exploitative.   And it borders on disturbed.  But the BDSM sector of society is there;  not that it’s any of your business but I’m not a part of it……though any lovely looking internet-savvy young ladies feel free to contact me with offers of obedience – it does my ego good you know ;) .  And I did warn you.  And this does work.  And you could have a blog empire in no time with some carefully chosen and targetted adverts.   And you heard it here first.  And I’m too nice a guy to do it myself.

And that’s the best tip you will read on how to make easy money online on the internet today!)

…..and that’s why I love blogger :)

Woke up this morning

September 29, 2008 underdogblogger 4 comments

(or where I tell you why I like Monday)

Monday morning is idea generation time for me. I like to ease into my week with a few cups of coffee and a bit of internet browsing. Heck, I like to ease into every day like this, but on Mondays, I really don’t like to push myself too hard. Probably because I’m a lazy internet marketer……Let’s talk about the coffee first. I make mine on a very very old Saeco Family Superautomatica – it’s a bean to cup machine – meaning you throw fresh coffee beans in the top, it grinds them for you and then extracts an espresso. Though really I like cafe latte so I add some milk :) hmmmm I’m drinking Algerian Coffee Shop’s Formula Rossa at the moment, which isn’t bad. What else? well my coffee machine is starting to play up….which sucks.  Must make more money on the internet to buy new coffee machine.

Writing blogs/content for websites is a bit of a creative exercise so it’s kind of handy to have some tools to help you out – this morning, swimming in the flotsam and jetsam of the easiest way to make money on the internet, I found this – a blogging ideas generator. It’s pretty cool – I played around with it and found it useful not really because it generates ideas, but because what it asks you to fill in makes you think about what your blog or website is really about – you have to fill in 5 things your blog is about and 5 things your readers want to read about. As a sort of mini-mission statement for your blog, this is awesome because it forces you to really rationalise what you are trying to achieve with your blog…..and it’s so simple! Go play with it, you won’t be sorry.

It’s always good when you laugh on a Monday so head on over to The at home couple and read Elijah’s post about 9 Things You Need To Be Successful At Bum Marketing. I like Elijah’s writing – it’s humerous, but he weaves some great tips into the humour, which makes for a far better tutorial than a bland old style “First write another article…..”

Then for inspiration, Ashley at Upstart Blogger is designing ten blogs in five days. That’s over and above his work as a musician and his regular posting schedule. Damn – that’s hard work right there! Good luck Ashley!

On a side note, I had occasion to exchange a few emails with both Elijah and Ashley last week and I have to say, they are both super-nice guys. Why the heck would I mention that? I don’t know – just a sort of reminder that often, bloggers are just great friendly people which always puts a smile on my face….

How to make money online

September 26, 2008 underdogblogger 4 comments

(or where I tell you how to make money)

The internet is awash with people telling us how to make money online, how to make money for free, how to make money blogging.  You can buy ebooks by the bucketload.  You can join masterclasses and online academies by the shedload, you can purchase video courses by the shitload.  Everyone and his donkey will try and tell you the secret method this and the advanced method that.  BUY my NEW PRODUCT! “Bought, you bought it, bought, you bought it”! (aside – first comment to identify the song being referenced will get some link love…..not that my link love is worth much, but what the fuck, yours probably isn’t either if you’re reading this).  But among the flotsam and jetsam…..well really just jetsam because information does not float around the internet as a consequence of the sea of information…..or maybe it does, maybe google creates flotsam.  But we get sidetracked into pedantry.  The internet is awash with jetsam – for this is what it is – items jettisoned by every savvy marketer out there; for you don’t really believe they would give away their best secrets do you?  You do?  oh.  ok.

Now where were we, floating among the jetsam are some interesting things.  One such thing is this video which will teach you, among other things how you can turn $1,000 into $100,000 and how to make money out of nothing:

Oh man, you didn’t really believe me did you?  Especially after reading that bit about the flotsam and jetsam.  Still, I hope you watched the video, because with all the crap going on with the financial institutions in America, it is interesting to see why and how those institutions are failing.  The base they have built is false.  The money they lent you never did exist.  In fact, I would say the first ten minutes of this video are so important that everyone on the internet should watch them.  The entire concept that banks lend you the very money that you will be paying them back and in doing so create money from nothing is at once disturbing and enlightening.  Not to mention one of the greatest robberies of all time (leaving out the priceless treasures in the British Museum which must count as the second greatest heist of all time).  Understanding the institution we are buying into while trying to make a crust online is, in my opinion, essential for our overall sanity, perspective and balance.

Money does not exist, except when we create it as debt.  Which begs the question, why are we all still here, chasing after it?

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Calling Avon?

September 26, 2008 underdogblogger Leave a comment

(or where I ask the eminent Z lister what’s up?)

So, what the fuck happened man?  One minute avonblake is there, next minute it redirects to a totaly NSFW site.  You been hacked?

Heads up if you browse from work, viewing the site right now can get you fired.

Calling Avon.  Hope you get it fixed quick like. Lets us know man.