The Terrafugia Transition Flying Car
I remember as a kid, daydreaming about being able to fly around in a car and visiting exotic locales around the world. I remember keeping magazine article that boldly declared that we would all be sky-bound by the year 2000 in a futuristic personal transport utopia. . .
Well, it’s 2010 and to say that we are landlocked is quite an understatement!
Maybe not for long though. . .
I recently saw an article on MotorTrend taking about the Terrafugia Transition car (pictured below).
The Terrafugia Transition Flying Car
In essence, this is a fold up plane that you can drive to the airport. Now there is nothing new about the concept, as you have probably seen vehicle like this back in the 60s, but what is new is that it is the only such vehicle to be approved by the FAA!
At $200,000, this is still out of reach for the majority of people but it is an important milestone nonetheless. I am truly looking forward to being able to take to the skies and finally there is something that is versatile enough to get my day dreams going again!
Now I ask you, if you had the chance would you buy a flying car? Where would be the first place you’d fly too?
Leave your comment below!
Later!
Massive List Of 350 Internet Marketing Resources
Yesterday, Gauher Chaudry posted a huge list of resources that I wanted to make sure I showed to you. Click here to take look at them.
Included are a list of:
- Contextual Networks
- PPC sources and blogs
- PPV/CPV networks
- Banner Networks
- Banner Exchanges
- CPA Networks,
- and a whole lot more!
Enjoy!
Happy Father’s Day!
I believe that my son realized what Father’s day was for the first time.
I haven’t seen his face beam that much since he got a DS for Christmas last year and it warmed my heart! The funniest thing was trying to see him keep my gift secret the last couple of days; a number of wide eyed looks from the wife almost didn’t work!
On another note, I just saw a video about a father’s love for his son, that the American Monk posted, and just about broke down (yeah, I admit it!). Here is a link to the original post but you can also watch the video below.
How A Fishing Trip Changed My Business
I know this may sound strange but I went fishing yesterday and as a result, my business changed!
I didn’t realize it at first but there was a profound shift in my thinking after that but I didn’t realize it until this morning.
Okay, yesterday I had the urge to go down to the lake and throw a line in the water just to relax. I went to Academy and picked up some bait, threw my rods in the truck, said bye to the fam and took off.
There’s a cove on the east side of the lake that you can fish from shore or on the water if you had a small boat or a kayak or something. I had fished here before and never caught anything of size so I wasn’t expecting much, but that wasn’t the point; I just wanted to relax a bit.
After being out for a couple of hours, I caught a few sunfish, including this “MONSTER” crappie:
This was the biggest fish of the day, (by the way, for scale, I wear a size 14 shoe so no quite a monster fish) . . .
Afterward, I went home and did a few hours of work and called it quits for the day.
Later on that evening, I had a revelation. . . I had been treating my affiliate business just like I did that fishing trip!
Let me explain.
I knew that I was heading to an area where there wasn’t any big fish. I caught a few so I had some fun but I could barely feed my family if I was dependent on that catch. There are bigger fish out there, but I would need a boat and some more time to get to them so I didn’t bring the right equipment.
I was playing small and got small results.
Now here’s is what I tend to do with my affiliate marketing.
I look for markets where I know there isn’t a lot of traffic but there is tangible demand, typically for a specific product or product type (heading to an area where there is a bunch of small fish that are hungry).
Putting up sites for those small product is fun but I would trade them all for a couple of big money maker sites. (catching those small fish is cool but really would have liked a 10lb bass or something).
I don’t go after big fish in my affiliate marketing so I have dozens of small fish product sites. Again, that’s cool; I have fun and all but they leave me wanting the big fish even more.
I haven’t been utilizing my talents to go after bigger game markets. I know how to build site and drive traffic but have been spreading my efforts over all of these small fish sites. The picture of the fish I put up was WAY bigger than all the other fish I caught combined and that’s how I now feel about my affiliate business. One big market site will likely make me more money than all the small product focused sites combined!
So that’s my new direction, focusing on bigger fish, even if I have to use the smaller fish for bait testing the market small then going all in to land the whale!
So what do you think?
Have you ever thought that you have been spinning your wheels, stepping over dollars to pick up pennies?
What do you do in your business? Leave a comment below!
Has It Really Been A Year?
I noticed that the last time that I did anything on my blog was over a year ago. I still can believe that time went by so quickly. So many things have happened in that time.
There have been many sleepless nights trying to figure out what the hell I’ve been doing wrong and many times of elation as things worked out better than I had hoped in some cases.
All in all I am trying to do the best with what I have just like you.
One of the things I am trying to do is trust myself again, to listen to that inner voice that I suppressed long ago. Many a times I ignored that voice to my chagrin. I intend minimize my ignorance and open myself up a bit and see where this goes.
(I’ve been ignoring a nudge to start posting again, no longer)
I know right now I am pretty much talking to myself but hopefully some of the what I discuss about my struggles and triumphs will help somebody, somewhere, someday. If not, I have a sense that this will be somewhat therapeutic for me.
On top of that, I will still give good information on being an online marketer, bringing you useful tips that I’ve implemented with success.
That’s it for now. Thank you for readying.
Oh! Feel free to leave a comment as well. Thanks!
Clickbank’s New Look
I just had a surprise when I went to log in to take a look at my stats. Take a look at this:
Am I the only on that thinks that this is pretty fugly (an oxymoron!)? Yes I meant fugly, LOL!
Napoleon Hill: An Audio And Video Compilation
Napoleon Hill is one of my favorite author of all time. I was fortunate to be introduced to “Think & Grow Rich” as a teenager almost 20 years ago. Only now am I beginning to grasp the power of what he taught and the effect that it has had on me over the years.
I found a few videos of Napoleon that encapsulates the genius of the man and highlights the importance of mindset. His perspective is hauntingly relevant to this day particularly when considering that his most famous work was penned at the height of the Great Depression. It is just as powerful now as it was then. Enjoy!
NAPOLEON HILL-Manifesting-Law Of Creation
Napoleon Hill talks about The Secret Ancient Wisdom -The Law Of Attraction and Creation of How To Attract and Create Wealth_Money_Success…Andrew Carnegie was an Inspiration for this film
Napoleon Hill on Franklin Roosevelt
Napoleon Hill discusses his employment and prosperity during the FDR Presidency.
Napoleon Hill best quote on TRUE RICHES.
A definition of the REAL Riches that most people don’t know. Summarized in 12 principles in order stated in Napleon Hill’s voice from a seminar in Circa 1937.
Joel Bauer Really Loves His Business Cards
I can completely understand where Joel is coming from as far as personal presentation, I get it. I just thing that it’s hillarious how much he is diggin on his business card! Check out the videos below.
You’ll get a laugh, and if you can get past the chest thumping, there is a nugget of wisdom there.
The Amazon Affiliate Slap – Death To Amazon Direct Linking
I just got an email from Amazon.com a little while ago saying the following:
We’re writing to let you know about a change to the Amazon Associates Program. After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other paid search on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines, and their extended search networks. If you’re not sure if this change affects you, please visit this page for FAQs.
As of May 1, 2009, Associates will not be paid referral fees for paid search traffic. Also, in connection with this change, as of May 1, 2009, Amazon will no longer make data feeds available to Associates for the purpose of sending users to the Amazon websites in the US or Canada via paid search.
If you are an affiliate this should be a warning sign if you are doing any long term direct linking campaigns. If you aren’t creating your own landing pages you are in danger from seeing your campaigns go dry. Not from just the vendors themselves analyzing where their affiliates are competing directly with them but also from other affiliates with tools like Google Cash Detective that can easily spot your campaigns and come in to compete with you.
It will be interesting to see the response of the affiliate community as I know of a few people who teach direct linking to Amazon specifically. If this is a major chunk of your business, you have 3 weeks to change your business model.
Here are some reactions, so far, across the web. Check Aaron Wall’s perspective in particular:
- Attention Amazon Associates – No More Direct Linking Via Paid …
- Amazon Associates Program Bans Paid Search Traffic
- Amazon Cans PPC Affiliates : SEO Book.com
- just got an email at 5:01 this morning from the powers that be at Amazon.com letting their associates know that as of May 1, 2009 they will no longer allow direct linking from paid search ads.
- If you’ve been direct linking without having your own authority sites or landing pages, it will just be a matter of time before big merchants like Amazon bans direct linking. Now Amazon has got this started, I wonder which merchant will …
- Amazon.com announced they are scaling back their associates program in North America by disallowing direct linking from paid search results.
Michael Jordan = Failure?
This speaks for itself!
