I read a lot of blogs and I understand the importance of building a readership…for the most part. It seems that most blogs online dealing in the “make money online” niche are mainly their to use their blog as a cash machine. Sure, I can understand that. I have some programs and post affiliate links as well from time to time, but lately these blogs are starting to become dull and boring. Nobody is innovative anymore. Could it be that they rely on their blogs a little too much?

Personally, if I didn’t have this blog, I guarantee you I would make more than I am making now. That’s not a douche bag, or offending comment either. It’s plain and simple. I make money in other areas online that exceed my living expenses and laid back lifestyle that make blogging is a blast for me. It’s my escape, my getaway if you will. It gets me away from talking on the phone to article writers, it gets me off IM chats with fellow marketers and bloggers, it gets me away from optimizing web sites and blogs, it gets me away from………….everything.

So without going off on a rant here, I traveled the blogosphere today after responding to all the posts in the new Cash Tactics Discussion Forum. What I saw was pretty pathetic to say the least. Most bloggers hold these contests where they give away shirts, (their brands woopie doo). Although I have nothing against this, the contests are really something that takes away your focus online. Focus is important, it’s critical. Your here to read up and gain the advantage of getting yourself on the quick track to better wealth and well-being and these damn “make money online” bloggers are trying to get you to take a few minutes out of your day and participate in their contest for a measly gift that is no way going to further the effort you already have and are putting forward.

The new forum is now open. You can visit and join up here if you like. It’s up and running but will continue to improve over time. It’s 5:00 am here and I think I slept some yesterday but I am not for sure. However, I am off to get 2 hrs and 30 minutes of sleep and then I have to head to town and get a machine worked on. Feel free to hop in there and fire away and will be getting back in there around 10:00 am. (I hope).

Want to thank everyone right now for the encouragement for this idea. I know it’s been a long time coming and have met a ton of great people but I look forward to communicating with you more exclusively on the blog and throughout the forum.

Another heads up. It was spur of the moment but I booked a flight to Orlando on the 26th – 29th of this month. What, one day after Christmas? Yep, absolutely. No rest for the wicked. In all seriousness, I guess we are celebrating our Christmas on Sunday and at the urgency of getting down there, I got to hurry my ass up.

Anyway, catching a nap and then going to town, and then we going to get right to it. See ya there!

I took the weekend off from blogging even though I am neck deep in delivering some (IMO) great posts of how to utilize Parasite SEO the RIGHT way and not the wrong. However, I think before I begin I got to address something I seen entirely too much of in the forums I frequent this past weekend. Here’s a pretty good recipe for failure trying to make a buck online. Remember though, failure does not have to be a long term thing, I fail at something almost every week but when your repeating failure without ANY success it’s like quicksand. The more you try to move, the deeper go. Look over these and if your having a rough time, try to figure out what you can cut out to make you more efficient in your daily routines and schedule.

1. You have absolutely no idea what your doing or where to start so you read 15 forums looking for a break. This in a way is a tough choice to keep yourself from doing. However, you don’t need to know everything to gain some success online. Check Andrew’s Podcast To Be Smart Or Rich? The Internet Marketing Truth. Andrew goes over almost exactly what I want to put into this paragraph, but it’s just as easy to hear it straight from him.

Ok, I have to admit it. Over the last week I have been cheating a lot on my diet. I have been going to bed around 5 am every morning and then of course my fiance tells commands me to wake up at my normal waking time. I got a ton of open projects so the idea of “I need to take it easy” is simply not something I want to hear. I can’t go for a walk nor can I drive to the gym. There has been over an inch of sleet on the roads over the last 3 days and I am a wuss when it comes to driving on ice.

On top of all the bad shit that is going on, I decided to hop on the scales last night. Of course when I hopped on the scales I was eating a sandwich. (Go figure). The end result was not so good. I am up to 228 pounds now. The only bright spot in this whole thing is that I am putting on more muscle mass than I thought. Here a couple of months ago I spent some money on weight equipment so I could take little 10-15 minute breaks here and there while working.

I have also really slimmed down on the pop. Here, two months ago it was nothing for me to put those big bottles of Mountain Dew down. I am not talking about drinking 1-2 of them a day. I was easily killing of those plastic 6-packs you can buy. That is a ton of pop. Since I have kicked the pop down to one a day (most of the time) I have noticed that I don’t get really bloated anymore (thank god) and the “acidthroat” as I have coined it is not even there anymore. I am however on a steady dose of Prilosec OTC. Prilosec is a 14 day course that has turned into a 90 day course for me so far. I am not sure that is real healthy on the body but it makes me feel better. I don’t have to deal with all the heartburn anymore.

 I currently have someone working on this.

I have contacted some services on getting an idea for a new blog design. I don’t think my right sidebar can take much more of anything I put on it, and I am going to be opening my own forum for other entrepreneurs to come and share ideas as well. I have a lot of features I want to include on the blog but just no room. I however, would like to get a blog logo designed.

If your designer you can make some extra money, today or thru this weekend. You can email me at –> ruck @ cashtactics.net and let me know how experienced you are. After reviewing your emails I would like some automated means to communicate with you so that you don’t waste any time and can make some money in the fastest way possible. We can communicate either by Skype or Yahoo IM. If you have MSN, I could probably install it. I really do not know what I want yet. You will have to be creative with the theme Cash Tactics, the new theme will be green like the header (sort of), or at least that is the idea. I just really would like something that stands out.

Email me and introduce yourself and give me an idea on what you can do, and the price you would like to be paid. Thanks.

The Zero to Hero Series – 60 Days To List Building Domination has all but come to a close. I still have the conference I am hosting this evening to help those that would like a walk thru on how to setup their autoresponder correctly, but other than that it has come to a close. I know some may have felt that I pounded the content down their throats but I assure you that it will get worse with information overload before it  gets better :)

It’s only been a few hours since I concluded part 3 and some of you have been following me step by step. I know because I have been talking on Skype and answering email, comments and even forum pm’s over the methods discussed. This is great, I am ecstatic to see so many people putting this low cost plan to build a residual email marketing business to work. But it’s not over.

I have made a downloadable PDF Version of the Zero To Hero Series – 60 Days To List Building Domination and you can download it in the Ruck Reports Section. I really don’t care what you do with the report but you should know that editing the report in any way could possibly cost someone stunted results. So please, I trust you will use your discretion wisely.

What’s To Come?

Over the course of this month I am going to release a series of installments of some general guides I have written up. For you more experienced and advanced marketers and money earners this may or may not be of interest to you and for that I apologize. I do have 3 very cool tactics that I am going to release and one VERY cool tactic that I am contemplating. When I started submitting videos awhile back I started receiving a lot of emails from general web users that saw a video and was curious as to how to start making money online. I have vowed to never write a report ever again and sell it so what I thought about doing was giving the reports away for free and you could purchase rebranding rights if you would like to sell the reports.

Don’t worry the rebranding rights are going to be ridiculously cheap. If your not familiar with them basically I will allow you to giveaway or sell my report rebranded with your own affiliate links inside. I use a vast amount of various tools online and a alot of the guides have affiliate links in them. These reports would be great primers for marketers on your list, or for getting prospects on your money making lists. If you don’t have a list, don’t worry, I have ALOT of cures for that :)

So over the course of December you will mainly be seeing *true cash tactics*. A few of them are advanced but most of them are going to be very basic with general curious people wanting to make money online in mind. Oh and if you haven’t subscribed to my RSS feed, then you need to. It makes me happy to see subscriber!

I took the plunge over the last few days and decided to go with a dual monitor setup. I had a new machine built with more RAM and overall it’s just a beastly SOB. I am loving it. Here are a couple of pictures. I have yet to get my other 2 desktops and laptop back up on my desks. Come to think about it. I have an “L” shaped work area and I don’t think all 6 will fit. Time to build on maybe?