One of coolest thing about having a lot of friends online is usually they all differ in their skills. We will take my friend Pat for example. While being an excellent marketer he is also skilled in making templates. I have used his templates for over a year now. He must have got a whiff that I have fallen head over heels for Wordpress and he’s gone and done something really cool. He not only has a boatload of HTML and CSS ready templates but he recently has gone and made some Wordpress templates as well. This is going to be a huge time saver on my part.

Now remember the part where I told you he was an excellent marketer and did templates for fun? For a limited time he is giving it all away for less than $20. Something even better. I dont get a single thing for this post except giving you the chance of saving a lot of money and picking up 7 templates with different headers and styles.

If that’s not enough there are also 250+ images and buy buttons. On top of that you have fullrights to do whatever you want with 4 of the templates. Go sell them on Ebay and make back your investment back in a day. Like I said it’s extremely expensive to get templates made for you and also images are outrageous. Here’s the best part of all. Most of who know me from the RJ forum know that I have used these templates in both Squeeze and landing pages. You can check them out at Clean-Templates.com. Oh and he’s a forum member as well so if you have any questions he’ll probably pop over in the design section and give you a hand.

I am curious to know what is standing in the way of achieving any goals you may have set for yourself. Goals mean nothing if your not working on ways to achieve them. So in turn I bet we will uncover a lot of things that may be hindering your work schedule. Let’s identify them and find a solution on how to either avoid things keeping you from working on achieving your goals or doing away from them altogether.

 Is it lack of information?

Not knowing where to begin?

Not enough hours in the day? (guilty)

To concerned with what else is going on in the Internet world?

I get this all the time. Sometimes I really like to mess with them and just starting talking about Adwords or SEO or even just tell them I sell other people's products. There is always a bunch of questions when people in the "real world" ask what it is I do online. I'll save you some time here and give you some responses to use. I have used everyone of these myself and it is usually enough to freak someone out and make them be on their way.

How do you make your money online?

Answers:

1. I am a digital drug dealer
2. I am a porn star
3. I am a porn webmaster
4. I run pyramid schemes
5. I am a spammer (Ha this ones great for me, not entirely untrue in some pansies eyes)
6. I run a digital pharmaceuticals operation
7. I use spyware and adware to infect the world to do my work for me
8. I work on Ebay (Wont always get you off the hook as its very familiar to a lot, it's 50/50, sometimes they might ask what you sell)
9. I am a hacker
10. I loan my body out thru Craigslist and Ebay

With the exception of #8 these will almost get you off the hook and continue on with your day. Keep them in mind next time your neighbors are having that next door get together, invite you over and you got to play 5,000 questions while eating your hot dog. It's annoying as hell.

What do you say when someone asks you this?

Just a short video over the comments during this past January last day contest. Keep in my mind that all of them were great and pick even more than I was going to initially. I appreciate all responses and hopefully the readers do to. In case you forgot the February Contest is underway starting today. I will be dishing out another $875 if the blog meets the goals. Looking at it right now we only need 125 more subscribers. That's about 4-5 subscribers per day average. My guess is the wallet will be thinner come the 28th. Top Commentators contest is underway as well!

Ok if you have missed this then you must have been under a rock this morning. You can read the full story here but:

Technology giant Microsoft Corp said on Friday that it had offered to acquire Internet media company Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion in cash and stock.

Microsoft said it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, which it said represented a 62 percent premium above the company's closing stock price on Nasdaq on Thursday.

If this goes thru I see this as a GIGANTIC move on Microsoft's part. This would be nice if they could get their shit together and start putting up more of a fight with Big Daddy in the Search Wars. I like advertising on MSN when my stuff is running but I also like Yahoo as well. Combining them I dont know what would happen but I do know that Yahoo turned down the last offer so I am not getting my hopes up just yet. BTW – Their stock is shooting up.

I've read some of the greatest comments/articles that I have ever read in my life over the last 24 hours. In case you missed it, I wanted to hold a little contest yesterday and see if anyone has learned anything from this blog and what have the applied it to. Since the blog had a high traffic day yesterday and increased 20 more subscribers throughout the night I can only assume that some people were not at that level where they will comment the blog. Totally understandeable but we encourage you to participate in the conversations

With that said, I got to say that I am still blown away by the content posted after the contest. Everyone that took the post serious and responded seriously had a wonderful and deeply inspiring answer in itself. Now I am seeing that this contest is killing me. I would gladly hand out cash to everyone that posted because everyone of those answers was overly deserving. To try and compensate for that and the fact I like to overachieve (or try to), I am NOT going to dish out $300.

I am going to dish out $600

I will be recording a video today after I make my rounds to go into detail about the answers I chosen. For now I would like to announce 3 winners of $100 and 6 winners of $50. So many great answers I had to do something!

Winners of the contest:

• Derek–chillyd – $50
• GoKarter  – $50
• The Dog – $50
• Keith – $50
• Dukey  – $100
• Kris – $50
• Della – $100
• Cyrus – $50
• solvetheproblem -$100

I got to say over the last couple of days I have really been feeling like crap. Must be the weather with snow on the ground here. With that said I thought I would do something that ALWAYS cheers me up—> Hand out some dolla bills yo!

So here's the contest which runs until 12 am Central Standard time today January 31st, 2008. I want to hear from you what you have learned that was valuable from this blog and what you have done with it. There are two parts to the contest so you must answer both to qualify. The first month of the new year is over and there's no better time to get cranking than now. In addition I will be picking out the 3 answers I find are the best. For these 3 contestants I will award each $100 via Paypal tomorrow morning.

All you have to do is reply to this post. Comment on what you have learned that was valuable to you and what you did with it to further your business online. Contest runs until 12 am folks so just leave your comment, article, whatever you like beneath this post and tomorrow morning I will announce 3 people who will walk away with $100 each. (That's better than any article directory pays by far)

Thanks to That Marketing Chick I caught a comment on what we already discussed about Ringtones of a someone selling the Ringtone methods in a report on The Warrior Forum. I actually used to go there a lot and bust people on their WSO’s. I thought I was supposed to be a good Samaritan and let the Mod’s know of bullshit but after the last few WSO’s I tried to burn went unnoticed, I finally said screw it. You can’t save everyone I guess and the crusade is becoming more and more pointless everyday. Even though it’s only $10, it is things like this that will quickly begin to add up over time and eventually cost you out your ass. I should know, I spent as much on a new car as I have information online.

 Just sad to see that they could have came here for a measly few minutes and saved a month’s worth of hosting or even the domain fee for the method. Sheep never learn though and there is quite an abundance of them over there. I’m seriously contemplating on whether I should travel over there and take them people for about a quarter million dollars this year. I figure if I package every idea or method I use online I can easily make that much this year just screwing around with them. Sad and pathetic that place has become. Ah well, who gives a shit right?