I first saw this one about 6 years ago, and still remembered it till today when I decided to look it up on YouTube. That fact alone would tell you that this is a great piece of marketing.

Check it out:

- Alex

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Funny Mars Mission Commercial

Anyone?

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I like to cook, but this is too much…

Anyway, this is not a review (quite enough of those out there), but rather a tip for those who are about to or already got one of those. (more…)

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MSI Wind Trackpad Scrolling

Yes it was.

Thanks, till next time. I’m off to make some money.

Yea, just kidding. Read my opinion below. (more…)

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Mike Filsaime’s 7 Figure Secrets Unveiled

This Monday I plan to reemerge from my leave, more motivated, with high spirits and convert everything learned during my previous 7 months to several well oiled money-making machines.

Behold short interview with myself

Ego: Am I going to tell you all about it?

Alter Ego: Sure am!

Ego: Blog going to be updated daily?

Alter Ego: NO.

Ego: Why not?

Alter Ego: Making money online is hard and only few blogs make money directly from its activity, this blog not included. So I’m going to concentrate my efforts on actually making money, instead of writing about how I want to make money, and I’m going to post when I can, probably weekly. Sometimes more - if I get a lucky brake and will want to tell you all about it.

Ego: Why is this post so colorful?

Alter Ego: Because I bloody feel like it! No guide or guru is going to tell me how to write my posts anymore. Sticking to common sense, appealing to my audience and writing coherently, I’m going to do what ever I want with fonts, colors, hyphens, et cetera.

I’ve been restrained by the “guidelines” long enough. Why not make a blog a little avant-garde and more fun?!

- Alex

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No More Crap, I am Here to Make Money

Today I received Mike Filsaime’s 7 Figure Secrets report by mail. Regular mail. Smail.

This is a first time the internet marketing world and the actual reality connected for me. I mean, I never met any bloggers in person, never gone to an IM convention, never had anything delivered to me. But, today it just happened.

The feeling is strange, but I got used to it and quite enjoy browsing through the actual pages I can feel with my fingers. I think a probability of actually reading it is much higher when you have it printed. (Did you notice that many of your reports, whether those you paid for or got for free, are left unread in your eBooks folder?)

Let’s get down to business

Anyway, the story is that Mike Filsaime is offering his 7 Figure Secrets report for free (!!), and a bunch of other bonuses, delivered to you by regular mail. You only have to pay for shipping and handling, $8 to $12, depends on where you are in the world.

I’ve just started reading this report and it looks as promising as they say it should be. I will post an update on that as soon as possible, but for that price it seems like a bargain.

Check it out here…

- Alex

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Hard Copy eBook?

I admit reading John Chow once in a while. Among loads of stuff you and I’d better stay away from there is sometimes a piece of something useful on his blog. Well, this is NOT such a case. This is all about another contest.

We’ve all seen them all, been there, done that. The blogger running the contest gets all the backlinks, while hardly ever giving anything back by himself, except to one or several lucky people, who are generally not you. And that’s not him doing the giving anyway, there are always the sponsors who also get the quite a bit of juice btw.

This time I decided that I would enter that contest by telling you guys all about it.

John Chow is giving away a bag filled with $500 worth of stuff sponsored by Market Leverage. Among the things in the bag are promo-clothing, and the following items:

• Flip video camera
• $200 ML Amex reward card
• USB pen flash drive
• iPod Nano.
• The bag ships internationally. (I wonder about customs though…)

To enter the contest read all about the requirements on the contest post.

And don’t worry about spreading the PR juice. When you give, you will eventually receive.

- Alex.

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There’s Always a First Time for Everything

Thousands of people are participating this time, including me, and I highly recommend it to both the beginner and the novice in Internet Marketing. The story is that I signed up last time, and it was great. But, I didn’t have the time or persistence to see it to the end. The part I was able to do, though, was eye opening.

If you’re not familiar with the challenge, I’m just going to tell you that it is a 30 day free course on Internet Marketing, and the challenge is to make 10 dollars during this period without spending anything. The rest you can find on their site.

The guys over there are teaching state of the art IM techniques. It is being created as the season progresses and they are constantly adjusting the content to the reality.

As I said, the pre-season has started on June 1st. During the span of those 60 days, the new participants are going to receive the tools to be used during this season.

Believe me, you have to sign up for this challenge. Even if you stick around for 5, 10 or 15 days instead of the 30 (as in my case last year) your benefits are still going to be tremendous.

See you around.

- Alex

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The One Thing You Can’t Afford Not to Sign-Up For

I’m not blogging as much as I used to, but I am still staying on top of what’s going on. I’m reading my Bloglines, my email subscriptions, visiting my favourite blogs to comment. One thing that is starting to get to me is what I’m going to ask you about:

Is anyone else tired of those how to be a better blogger / how to get readership posts?

I don’t mean every single one of them, but mainly those who focus on providing a list of “essentials” (!!), such as:

• Provide quality content
• Provide original content
• Provide value to the reader
• Post frequently, but not too frequently to wear yourself off
• Make lists
• Yada yada yada…

Even I, I admit, posted about couple of those issues, not in a list, but separately when beginning my blogging. But, since then I started seeing these posts popping up all around the blogosphere, and it makes stomach turn.

I mean, dear god, find something original to take up your blog’s space. Isn’t posting such a post contradicts the originality condition that the post itself mentions? And what about value? Very questionable…

- Alex

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What Happened to Quality Posts on This Niche?

It appears that web-design has the tendency to suck every available bit of time you have. Fueled by enthusiasm and good spirits I find myself designing and coding most of the time, being left with no time to blog.

I know, I should post regularly and be consistent with the quality, but the project I’m working on is quite serious, and has a potential to earn good money in the long run. I cannot rely on a free WordPress theme and had to start to completely overhaul a simple theme to fit our requirements. We’re doing everything in-house: the content, the graphics, the coding, and you can imagine what amount of energy and time this requires.

This is a blog about blogging and internet marketing (roll your eyes here), and obviously as a serious entrepreneur I’m going to undertake several projects once in a while. And a logical conclusion is that I’m going to have these sort of blogging breaks unless I outsource the time-consuming tasks. I am going to do this, but later on, when I will assemble a team of trustworthy freelancers and have a bit more money in my pocket.

Last three days we rented a bunch of movies and didn’t turn on anything with an Internet connection. This move allowed our heads to clear up and this post to see air.

Enjoy what you do, and see you around.

- Alex

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