Archive for December, 2009
New Year’s Resolutions
December 29th, 2009 by Clayton
Although I don’t believe that there is anything magical about New Year’s resolutions and that people should constantly strive to improve their lives without limiting it to a once-a-year thing that falls on December 31st, I find great joy in making New Year’s resolutions. It’s a good idea to stop and take stock of [...]
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Website Building Update – Week 17
December 25th, 2009 by Clayton
So tomorrow is the official 4-month anniversary for me working on these websites.
After a little thinking, I’ve decided to shelf the JFK “high tide raising all ships” approach and focus solely on doing a full SEO job on Website #4. Website #4 is probably the most efficient website I’ve made yet at pulling in money. [...]
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Website Building Update – Week 16
December 18th, 2009 by Clayton
I came to a sad realization this week that I really need to spin every single article on my websites. Suddenly, I have about 60 articles to spin. I find this depressing because I really hate spinning articles. But I can get so much out of a spun article. I can submit these articles to [...]
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Website Building Update – Week 15
December 11th, 2009 by Clayton
This week my girlfriend went back to Arizona to visit her family for a few days. I spent the time aggressively building links to the first four websites. I pulled out all the stops and I started implementing some web 2.0 sites like Squidoo and Hubpages in addition to hunting down a small [...]
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How to Overcome Shyness
December 8th, 2009 by Clayton
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been shy. I grew up a loner with few friends. But back in 2006, I decided to get over my shyness.
I decided that the only way to get past it was to go through it. I just had to confront my fears.
So I set an [...]
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Website Building Update – Week 14
December 4th, 2009 by Clayton
December is an important month. It’s the fourth month of affiliate marketing for me. Most of the people I’ve been keeping an eye on started to see things take off around four months in. I’ve got my fingers crossed.
I remember hearing somewhere that Yahoo and Bing don’t index websites that are under [...]
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Why You Will Fail – The Employee Mindset
December 1st, 2009 by Clayton
Why do most people fail at starting their own businesses or creating “muses” as Tim Ferriss would call them? It’s not work ethic or lack of ideas or intelligence. As many others have written before, the problem comes from within.
The reason you fail is because you are going into your new venture with the mindset [...]
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