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Also, I blame Setine for the fact that I've sort of developed a mini-girlcrush on Cuddy. :|
It really is such a cute show, though. I prefer House as far as medical dramas go, buuuuuut. OH AND SPEAKING OF HOUSE-- the fifth season isn't coming out on DVD until late August. I don't want to wait that long; I like instant gratification!
... But now I have to go steal the second season of Scrubs from the TV room. And figure out the name of the actress who plays that patient that Elliot BFFs around with, so that I can find out WHY HER VOICE SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR.
One down, two to go.May. 7th, 2009 04:39 pm
Not that Google Ads should be trusted, but still.
One down, two to go.May. 7th, 2009 04:39 pm
Not that Google Ads should be trusted, but still.
CAPSLOCK HOUSE TIEM.Sep. 16th, 2008 09:09 pm
... Someday I'm actually going to update this thing more. And start checking other people's LJs. And start foruming again. And log onto MSN. And, y'know, all those other things that actually involve *communicating* with people. Aaaaaargh.
Of music, insanity, and ZOMGHOUSE.May. 19th, 2008 10:26 pm
As for the insanity part of this little charade, I was all hopped up on Tums and cranberry juice, so naturally I was running around downstairs doing kung-fu-like moves all over the place. And I almost killed myself a couple of times because floor + riding socks = slippery.
Now. MUSIC. I'm normally not one to obsess over singers/bands, but I am thoroughly convinced that Bird York is the best female singer since, like... ever. And I'm totally not just saying that because she played Andy on The West Wing, oh no. I first heard one of her songs ("In the Deep") on House (S2, "Autopsy", the very end)- House always has brilliant music- and since then I've been obsessing over downloading more. "Wicked Little High" is the BEST EVER, and "Have No Fear" is amazing, as well, even though I can't understand half of what she's saying unless I've looked at the lyrics before hand. But seriously, ALL OF IT is BEYOND AWESOME and writing this entry is making me want to DOWNLOAD MORE TO LISTEN TO ON THE BUS TOMORROW.
Second best female singer since, like, ever: Grey (Gray, maybe?... I'm too lazy to look it up) DeLisle. Her voice just radiates amazingness all around, and her cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" will never stop being awesome (I DON'T CARE what you say, Annika :P). (Speaking of "Bohemian Rhapsody", I really have got to download the full Queen original ASAP. A song about a murderer? Why, yes plz.)
Also, I might add that quite a few of her (DeLisle's) songs have to do with death/imprisonment/etc. I don't understand; is she trying to mess with my mind?
So I finally get around to checking the babb_chronicles entry from last week, and the very first quote is spot starts out, "Hi, my name is Katara Malfoy..."
Oh, babb, why do you do this to me?
In other news... WE HAVE A DATE FOR HOUSE. WHOO. But it's not for more than a month, which is extremely awful. And Sonja and her broken wrist still have my DVDs, so if I ever get it into my head that I need a House-fix (not that I've been watching much TV at all lately, but you know), I won't be able to remedy it. MEH.
I don't know, I'm still a bit undecided about this season. I mean, I don't hate it or anything (if I did, I wouldn't care nearly as much about it coming back on...), but it's still probably my least favorite season. Ah, well... I liked S3 better the third time around, so maybe this one will be the same.
House-musing.Jul. 9th, 2007 12:30 pm
Ah, for season one. It's probably my favorite season. Before it went all Grey's on us (please note that I have never seen Grey's Anatomy, but since I am loyal to House, I feel it is my duty to make fun of it as much as possible) and had Cameron kissing House and Chase, Cameron sleeping with House, Wilson possibly sleeping with Cuddy, and House sleeping with Wilson (c'mon, you know they did it, if only for experimentation's sake). And before Tritter, and the whole, "He's on drugs! Noooo, he's clean! No wait, he's on drugs! Okay, he was on drugs, but now he's clean. Haha! Tricked you! He was on drugs the whole time, and you totally never saw this plotpoint coming from a mile away!" thing with House and his Vicodin. Season one. Where Chase hated fat people, Foreman hated homeless people, and Cameron loved everybody indiscriminantly. Those were the good old days...
Fairly soon, I am going to go watch "Indians in the Lobby" to see if I can find a quote to use as my title/opening statement for my Ameri Lit essay (about the portrayal of Native Americans in Romantic Era literature). I'll credit, of course. Using a quote to open an essay is an awesome idea, which I totally stole from this random kid who graduated a few years ago. Yeah. But not only does it take up space (*cough*), it's creative and innovative, too! (Well, not really, considering people do it all the time. But, you know, still.)
But by using a quote from "Indians in the Lobby", I'll be spreading the West Wing love! w00t!
Oh yeah, and House last night (episode: "Something Judas". "Finding Judas", I think)? Poor Cuddy. I was like, "Awww..." the entire time. The opening scene with the laser pointer was funny, though. (Told you I had the maturity/sense of humor of a prepubescent boy.)
In other news... I'm going to see if I can't catch Bones (a show which I have never before seen) at 8 tonight. The little blurb about it during House-commercials last night sparked my interest. Something about an alleged ghost-which in the woods, I think- it sounded very X-Files-ish. Hee hee.
Speaking of TV shows... I bought House, season 2! Huzzah! I'm in the middle of "House vs. God" (well, not right NOW... right now I'm typing here. But whatever), which I've heard is a really good episode. And after that comes the two-part ep where Foreman almost dies (I know this because I read spoilers like mad. It's like a disease). So far the season's pretty good (I'd only seen two episodes, "Sex Kills" and "Distractions" in reruns because I only started watching the show a month or so ago, after the second season ended)... but in "Hunting"? Geez, Cameron really does get around, doesn't she? But I'm happy because this season has a ton of House/Cuddy banter, which is one of my favorite things about the show. Hee. Cuddy's one of my favorite characters. I'm not quite sure if that's mainly because she's LAURIE, though.
Anyway, speaking of TV shows (again)... I taped F.B.Eye last night. Because I really am that sad. Yes, it is on on Sundays (for now), so I really didn't need to write that sob-story entry from last week or so... but anywhoo. The unthinkable happened. In last night's ep... Sue did not mention God. Not once. I was shocked. Mystified. Convinced that the world was coming to an end. I mean, she was friggin' kidnapped, you don't think that'd merit some cheesy "I survived because God saved me" line, but noooo. Ah, well. There was this weird slow-motion shot at the very end of Jack and Sue getting into a car with huge, fake-looking smiles on their faces. That kind of left me with a "WTF?" feeling. But I wanted God Mentioning.
The snarkastic doctor marches on.Aug. 20th, 2006 10:22 am
I was watching "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" last night (which, compared to many of the later episodes (like "Rain King". Blech) is actually fairly decent. Plus, it guest-stars
I do wonder what Mulder and Scully gave each other at the end, when they were exchanging gifts. Mulder's present from Scully was just a regular old square shape, so it could have been any number of things (I bet it was a book. Scully would TOTALLY give him a book), but Scully's was long and cylindrical. My best guess is that it was a salami, though I suppose it could have been a dildo or something.


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Date: Thursday, 14 October 1999, at 11:24 p.m.
I have three yoyo loaches now, and I can't believe the difference from just having one! They are all out all the time and eat food from the top. The first one I got is the dominant one, and chases the other two all over the tank, but is too fat to catch them. One thing I have noticed is that the first one I got is not MUCH MUCH darker colored than before. This is really weird. The day after I got the third one he turned like this and I have no idea why. He turned from a silver with black stripes and stuff to a golden brown with undefined stripes. He is not stressed, or at least he isn't acting like he is stressed. He acts normal. Does anyone have any idea what this could be from? Does a


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In this report, I want to tell you how I turned my Passion for filmmaking (and ZERO marketing experience) into thousands of dollars a month in Passive Income. It allowed me to take control of my finances and even upgrade from my trusty 2001 Honda Accord to my awesome 306 Horsepower 2015 Lexus IS 350F. (I'm not really into "stuff" but I always wanted a nicer car. You know, why not?)
I want to show you how to do the same thing. Because you don't need any special talents or years of training to do it!
A quick history: Back in 2010, I was unemployed and living in the desert outside of Los Angeles. I was 32 years old with a college degree and no clue what I was doing with my life. Then I heard about Internet Marketing. And I learned I could determine my own level of income using my own knowledge, experience, and passion.
Newbie Pitfall: Chasing Niches & Chasing Riches
Now this is where my training and approach differs from a lot of other people. Humanity has a seemingly unlimited number of problems. It's kind of our thing. And that means there are a literally millions of problems you can solve and make a business out of it.
The CW (Conventional Wisdom) in Marketing is this: find a market or "niche" where people desperately need a solution and sell it to them. That's why weight loss has always been so profitable. People are DESPERATE to lose weight and they will try all sorts of weird stuff to do it (or to do it without exercise).
One of the "rules" put forth by a lot of gurus is to only work in a 'money niche'. And this leads to a lot of people chasing money, which doesn't work. I know.
My first year I took a ton of courses on Internet Marketing. I set up a bunch of websites on everything from California Car Insurance rates to Forex Trading to Interracial Dating to T Shirt Design. All the time hoping to make money from AdSense clicks, Affiliate Sales, or CPA offers.
And you know what? I didn't make very much money.
I was also exhausted from the process of setting up all these sites and pursuing any opportunity I saw that seemed like it could make me some money. I was like a dog chasing my tail.
And Ironically…
All the while I was chasing "money" niches, I started blogging about a topic I am truly passionate about: filmmaking. And wouldn't you know it, but my filmmaking site (called Film School Secrets) started getting real traffic from real people, interested in getting my advice. My helpful articles and practical insights on shooting video and networking started creating a buzz.
The Art & Business of Passive Income
Fortunately, I found my way to some courses on Information Marketing, and it completely rocked my world. I learned how to take my Passion, Experience, and Insights and package them into an e-course, which I also called "Film School Secrets". It took me about 6 months of trial and error to find my "sweet" spot, but my final website looked like this:
And once I found the right balance of helpful information and salesmanship, I started making sales and reaching people with my message from all over the world. It was amazing to get emails from students in places like Norway and Korea, places I had never been, who were telling me what a difference my course was making in their lives. And it felt great to be making money doing it!
My first check from Clickbank was for $116. It was the best $116 I'd ever earned, because I'd created it out of nothing from something I cared about.
Over the next year, I started making more and more sales, and my Clickbank account looked like this:
And growing…
Now, I wasn't making $100,000 a month. It was about $1,000 a month for the first year, with the site only up for about 9 months a year. I was receiving regular emails like this:
I'd always seen business as something soulless or boring. But here I was earning income and helping people — it was a far cry from what I'd initially thought of when I heard about "making money online". And I was doing it in a niche, or market, that is by no means a "money niche".
Can You REALLY Monetize a Passion?
One of the biggest problems with conventional IM training is the excessive focus on "profit" niches. In fact, that's a huge selling point for some courses: "Don't WASTE your time and money on unprofitable niches!"
Choosing the wrong niche IS a problem if you have absolutely nothing original to say. So many people are looking for lazy, "done for you" solutions that yes, if you start promoting PLR or re-spun content you might make no money at all. This is part of the reason why I never made any money with my blogs on car insurance or Forex Trading. I had nothing exciting or original to say, and no personal experience or passion!
My niche, filmmaking, looks like an IM nightmare at first glance.
- First off, there are literally THOUSANDS of FREE videos on Youtube about filmmaking.
- One of my fellow bloggers gets 250,000 visitors a month giving away free advice on film production (nofilmschool.com)
- My colleagues who run blogs that get 300-600 visitors a day warned me that most filmmakers are just moochers who want free advice. One had a list of 10,000 people that he was never able to really monetize.
- The most profitable keywords in my niche were "film school"; people looking to pay $30,000 a year for a Bachelor's degree
- To top it off, I am not a famous filmmaker!
So I basically was set up with the expectations that I was in a sucky niche where the only people making money are accredited educational institutions or people selling ads on sites with a quarter million visitors a month, and who the hell am I to create a course when I haven't won an Oscar or even distributed my own film yet?
But the fact is I have 17 years of experience in filmmaking, and I didn't realize the wealth of valuable information that experience was for a newcomer until I sat down and really thought about it.
Even today, though I have retired the course and moved on to a higher priced offering, I still get emails from people looking for the course.
I direct them to my new offering, and have actually begun using my old course and blog as lead generation for the higher priced product.
Something funny, literally the day that I took down all my payment links to start promoting my new course, someone somehow found a link I had missed and got in. I still don't know where the heck they found the payment link!
Monetize, Don't Follow, Your Passion
Mike Row, of the TV Show "Dirty Jobs", went on a diatribe against the whole "follow your passion thing". And he said, "Do we really need Lady GaGa telling our kids that happiness and success can be theirs if only they follow their passion?" (I respect Mike – he has a nuanced take on things, but I need to address this).
What he's speaking to is ungrounded, aimless rah rah "follow your bliss thinking". You love to draw, so you draw and hope it will somehow lead to a paycheck. Not likely.
I do understand what he means — the same problem is prevalent in the world of "make money blogging". Many courses and teachers tell their students to just "blog about your passion and the money will come".
Nope. That's not what I'm talking about.
The main reason my product was successful is because I learned how to market it. That's all. And marketing is quite straightforward – you can plug nearly any product, passion, or service into the principles of marketing and achieve at least some level of success.
$1,000 Real Dollars vs. $1,000,000 Fantasy Dollars
Passive Income is possible, and it is possible to make a LOT of money by packaging your knowledge, expertise, and passion into a product.
The problem with a lot of Internet Marketing courses is that they flash huge checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars in your face and get you really excited about the fantasy of making passive income online. I've even taken some of these courses, with outrageous claims and ridiculous names like:
I made this one up, but I'm sure you've seen similar courses and similar products. And they are, across the board, full of crap. I know, because I've fallen for their slick advertisements and outrageous promises too.
The reality is, an online business is still a business: you need to provide value to your customers. And it takes time, and effort. I know that isn't as sexy as telling you that you can make money in your sleep or just hook up a push button software and automatically generate money magnet websites.
But this is the truth. So the question is: would you chase the fantasy of making $1,000,000 without any work… or learn how to make a real $1,000+ a month and build up from there? If so, read on.
The Passion Profit Process
Learning to set up your own Passion Product and make sales is a learnable and repeatable process. The amazing thing is, you don't need to have professional accreditation or training to help other people out in their lives. And you don't need any technical skills to set up your own website and create your own electronic information product.
Step 1: Brainstorming
The first step is Brainstorming… or Heartstorming as I like to call it. This is a lot of fun, it's when you look inside yourself and see what it is that you are passionate about. You can also explore other Passion Products that other people are profiting from, and this will accelerate and stimulate your creative process.
You also need to fully grasp the entire process, like charting out a route on your GPS before taking a trip. Many newcomers get lost or fail to complete their products because they don't have a clear vision of the whole picture before starting out.
Passion Passive Profit Simple Worksheet
Step 2: Research
The next step in the process is Research. Basically, you need to understand what people are looking for in terms of answers to their questions and problems, as it relates to your Passion topic. With the right approach, you can find the right way to position your message and your product to your potential customers.
There are some passions, like collecting Japanese Beetle Sperm, that really may have nobody else with a shared interest. You don't necessarily need to find out if people are spending $100 million a year, you just need to see if other people share the passion, and are searching for guidance on it.
Research is an art and a science, but the great thing is that it's totally doable for the average person to do insightful, intelligent research in 2015. Even back in the 1990s, there was no way in the world to have any clue what people were looking for and seeking in their hearts and minds. To conduct research you'd need a major firm doing live surveys and a huge budget of at least six or seven figures. Now, tools like the Google Keyword Planner offers anyone instant access to millions of pieces of search data for free.
There are also other tools available like Traffic Travis and Market Samurai, and Long Tail Pro. I explain them in more depth in the Resources Section.
Step 3: Site Setup
The next Step is actually setting up your website. 10 years ago this was an involved, complicated process involving coding and hypertext markup languages… but today you can set up a good looking website without any tech expertise. You can actually have your own website up in under an hour once you learn the process!
The two best options are either your own WordPress Self Hosted Blog (you can learn how to set up one up here) — or using a Site Builder. I prefer WordPress (and it's what this site is built on). It allows for a lot more customization. And the Templates, dear God. Templates basically mean that good designers and programmers make a functional website available to you with the click of a button (this website is a great example. I don't know anything about programming, I just plugged in my ideas into this great "Jarida" them). You can learn more about WordPress blogs here.
But Site Builders are good too — my favorite is Wix. (They did an ad during the Super Bowl with Brett Favre). I like them because they have a pretty easy to use interface and their templates are actually really great looking in HTML 5.
Step 4: Product Creation
Next is Product Creation. This is when you actually put together your own ebook or ecourse with your own personal and creative message. This includes the cover art and design of the site and the product. Once again, you don't need to be a professional designer or marketer to do this, you can hire people to help you out at a very reasonable rate.
But here's where your Passion gives you a leg up. If you've bought stuff online before, you know about PLR. That stands for Private Label Rights, or pre-made products you can buy and re-sell as your own. These products are all over the place, along with re-spun articles, outsourced blogs, and so forth.
People are lazy when it comes to creating content. Everyone wants a done for you solution. So, whatever your niche is, I bet you there are already a bunch of PLR products out there with glitzy sales letters and thin content.
The key to great product creation is pretty simple: make a great product! Put the effort into actually helping people solve their problems using your experience and insights and your personal touch.
Another key is to have a unique voice and position. Again, there is so much bland, regurgitated content out there that just saying something different will get people's attention.
In my case, I took a very strong position that film school is a waste of time and how young filmmakers should learn about film as a business first, instead of spending a lot of money on classes. I got very specific and was pretty relentless. My position was controversial within my niche and got a lot of attention.
(Note: It is possible to make a profitable website selling affiliate products. That means you simply recommend products other people have created and take a commission. It's not bad at all, especially if you find products you really believe in — but you lose a lot of the power of having your own product, one of which has to do with traffic and ownership, as mentioned below).
Step 5: Selling/Sharing
Then, you need to Sell your product. THIS IS THE KEY. The word "Sell" can have some bad connotations; I prefer to think of it as "Sharing". Really, selling is just powerfully sharing and communicating the value of your product to other people, so they can really see how it will help them and improve their lives. You don't have to learn many "sales tricks" if you have created a quality product you put your time and care into.
Selling goes hand in hand with product creation: you want to make sure that your product delivers on your sales message. But it's helpful if your sales message also has a unique voice and position.
In my case, I was shocked to discover that the no BS, in your face, film school is a waste of money and here's what to do instead approach really helped make sales. When I started out, my initial website was just very positive "you don't need film school, here's a greater, cheaper option!" I didn't make that many sales. But then one day I got really frustrated and wrote a blog post called "Are You Ready to Be the Next $100,000 Joke?"
I remember thinking to myself "oh boy, this isn't going to help at all" but it was how I truly felt.
I even said people who paid all that money to use such inexpensive equipment were "stupid"! The graphic above was pretty in your face as well. The next thing I knew, I started getting more sales. It really got people's attention and made them clear about the major problem with film schools and how I could provide them with a solution.
I'm not saying to insult your visitors, but don't be afraid to be real. People like it when they can tell you are being authentic and genuine.
Clearly the "no BS" is my thing — but I've seen people who are gentle, sweet, enthusiastic, and many other grades of their own real personality leverage that into winning over readers into fans and customers.
Step 6: Organic Traffic
Once your site and your product are ready to go, you need traffic in order to make money. This is where many newcomers hit a brick wall. The beauty of creating your own Product is that, as mentioned above, you can attract Affiliates to send you free traffic. You pay for that traffic by giving your affiliates a commission; but you only pay when they make a sale. It's a wonderful way to get a stream of visitors to your site.
There are ways to attract more affiliates and ensure that the traffic they send to you is sufficiently "pre-sold", to increase the chances of that Affiliate traffic of converting.
Beyond that, having a real website with real content gives you the opportunity to get additional organic traffic through Google and other search engines. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the practice of adjusting your website to make your pages appear higher in Google's search results. This is where a lot of newcomers get really screwed up.
There are a lot of companies and courses promising "Secrets" to ranking on Google. Many Internet Marketers are still advocating artificial ways of "tricking" Google, through link building schemes and other methods. But Google is constantly upgrading their search algorithm; every time this happens, sites that were built on these "get ranked quick" methods fall off the search results and lose a lot of their traffic.
Going back to Steps 2 and 3 — research and site setup. If you find the words people are searching for in Google and create unique and helpful content answering their questions, this is better than what an SEO Agency will charge you for.
But the truth is this: Google is run by smart people, and you won't outsmart them. The best thing is to work with Google by creating quality content based on your Passion.
Step 7: Paid Traffic
A "diversified portfolio" in the Stock Market is a smart investment. You put your money in a lot of different places to protect it. It's wise to have the same approach with traffic; you want "traffic diversity", or traffic from different sources. You want Affiliate Traffic, and Search Engine Traffic, and Social Media Traffic. You never want to rely on just one source of traffic.
You also want to pay for traffic. Paid traffic is great because it is INSTANT. If you put aside even as little as $5-$10 a day you can ensure that your website gets visitors and isn't sitting completely abandoned on the web.
The source I recommend for newcomers is Youtube. It's a place where you can still get very cheap clicks (as low as $.03 to %.05) for very targeted traffic.
Step 8: Tracking
The final step is something absent from most newbie training: tracking. Tracking is essential to any business. You need to understand what is happening on your website and with your traffic; if your visitors are buying your product, how frequently, and from which sources.
The big secret to success in Internet Marketing, even with a Passion Product, is testing, testing, and more testing. Even multi million dollar marketers aren't infallible; they are just really good at testing and seeing what works and what doesn't. Tools like Google Analytics and Conversion tracking help you get a 3d picture of how your visitors are engaging with your site, what's working and what isn't, so you can make adjustments that increase your sales and satisfy your visitors.
So what are you passionate about? What can you teach someone else based on your own personal experience that will help them? Connect with that, and you are on your way to making money from something you care about.
You don't have to be an experienced teacher or salesman. You just have to be willing to speak and guide people about the topic you happen to be passionate about. And from my experience, if you love doing something, the next best thing is helping someone else do it too.
Being an Affiliate Vs. Being a Vendor
Most courses on making money online for beginners focus on Affiliate Marketing. It seems like the easiest way to start out. Take Clickbank, for example. You sign up for a free account and suddenly you are able to promote hundreds of other people's products. If someone clicks on your Affiliate link and buys, you make money!
It seems to be the ultimate sales opportunity. High commissions and no financial investment required. The problem is, like anything that seems too good to be true, it often is. Many newcomers pimp out their affiliate links like crazy only to make zero sales.
Conventional Wisdom tells you to go out and find a hot product and begin promoting it; but if a product is that hot, it means that there are literally hundreds or maybe even thousands of other affiliates promoting the same product. And that means you have COMPETITION as a salesperson.
Now, don't get me wrong, it is possible to make money promoting other people's products. But it isn't as simple as just setting up a web page and telling people to "go buy" it! People need to trust you and listen to you if they are going to take your advice and actually buy something.
And at the end of the day, you are still doing a ton of work to send someone else free traffic and promote their product.
Starting Out as a Vendor
Now consider starting out as a Vendor, promoting your own product. You are suddenly on the flip side of the equation. It's like going into the Dance Club through the back entrance and entering the VIP lounge.
You are an authority because you have literally authored your own product, regardless of the topic. It instantly accelerates your potential to make money and to reach people with your message.
The biggest problem most newcomers have is getting TRAFFIC to their site. But when you create an Information Product as a Vendor, suddenly you have an army of affiliates trying to send YOU free traffic.
It's pretty great. Instead of you spending your time and energy promoting someone else's product, other people are now doing that to promote your product. Right off the bat, you have a FREE TRAFFIC source that few newcomers ever know about.
Passion As a Sustainable Energy Source & Sales Tool
As mentioned above, creating your own product immediately puts you in an Authority Position, versus trying to sell someone else's product. It creates a flow of traffic of Affiliates promoting your product.
But here's something else of vital importance: in order to sustain your online product as a real business, you need to be consistent. You need to keep working at it, to promote it and make it the best it can be.
And, I'll tell you from my own experience, it's hard to follow through on a project if you don't have passion for it. I also personally found it hard to promote other people's products unless I had personally used them and found they made a difference in my life.
Your experience and Passion for whatever expertise, advice, or solution you are providing to people will shine through; and Authenticity is the best sales tool in existence.
Profiting from Modest Traffic
How much traffic do you need to make a Profit?
The answer should be: not that much.
At its peak, Film School Secrets got between 100-200 visitors a day. (Since I've retired the course, I have less traffic because Affiliates no longer send me free visitors). Even at 3,000 to 4,000 visitors a month, this is still considered a "low traffic" site on the internet.
But I was still making over $1,000 a month without a deluge of traffic.
I've heard of people getting 1,000 to 10,000 visitors a day to their sites… and making almost no money. A Good business should not require 1,000s of visitors every day for you to make money. The beauty of having a quality Passion product is that every visitor has the potential to turn into a client, and every sale should make you a decent amount of money.
Part of this is simple math: if you run a website promoting someone else's product, only a percentage of the people will click your links to check out their site. But every visitor coming to your product based site has a chance to hear your offer and decide to buy or not.
Then, when you do increase the volume of traffic your profit can increase.
But aiming to profit from a modest amount of traffic first is a much more realistic place to start, and it's very doable, in a short amount of time.
The reason I mentioned having your own product and modest traffic, not needing to be a famous expert or a ton of degrees, is that I want you to see that this is doable. One thing I hate is when people equate entrepreneurship with Apple – like you can only express yourself in business if you are Steve Jobs, or have millions of dollars in startup capital, or if you're goal is to have a multi billion dollar IPO. Not so.
I'm saying that even if you don't have any previous technical knowledge, you've never built a website, you have no sales experience, and you've never been a contestant on "Survivor" you can still create your own passive profitable product.
In Depth Instruction – The Problems & Solution
Okay, but how? I struggled with this question back in 2010 and had to piece together the answer from over 25 difference courses and trainings. One thing I've found is that you've got two schools of training.
1. Make Money Online Offers that only focus on the money, sales, conversions but have no soul and often don't actually teach people a sustainable business model
2. Positive Blogging Courses – Well meaning courses on setting up and monetizing a blog that provide a ton of inspiration and soul, but very little guidance when it comes to monetization or traffic generation. These courses tend to just teach you to: write something great, and you'll get traffic to your blog. Which isn't how it works.
This inspired me to create my own course called "Passion Product Profit". It contains more than 15 Hours of In Depth Lessons — covering everything from brainstorming and research to building your blog/website, making your first information product, and how to sell it without selling. It's all explained in down to earth language that's fun to learn!
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The Doran Racing/McDonald's team, in conjunction with officials from the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, will host members of "The Bronx Flash Track Club" during this weekend's Verizon Wireless 250 at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Included in the race day activities for club members will be a Grand-Am organized garage tour and a special 'insiders tour' of the Doran Racing paddock conducted by Memo Gidley, co-driver (with Brad Jaeger) of the #77 Doran Racing/McDonald's/Doran-Dallara Ford.
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The Bronx Flash Track Club in The Bronx, New York is a 501(c)3, non-profit community organization that serves children ages 9-18 years old who are interested in running as a means to achieving a healthy and successful lifestyle. The primary goal of the Bronx Flash Track Club is to improve physical activity participation, health awareness, and academic achievement among youth in the community through the sport of running.
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Where'd you put your keys again?
Ever walk into a room and forget why you entered? Or completely space out during an important meeting at work? As frustrating as it is, experts say it's actually normal.
Your brain is naturally primed to wander whenever it can, according to a joint study by Harvard University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Using MRI, researchers found that brain regions responsible for "task-unrelated thought" (that is, daydreaming or mind wandering) are almost constantly active when the brain is at rest or performing a task that doesn't require concentration.
Fortunately, brain experts say it's possible to corral that brainpower, filter out distractions, and master any task by improving your concentration. Here are their top tips for refocusing during key moments when your mind starts meandering—but shouldn't.At work
Unless you love everything about your job, you're bound to zone out occasionally, according to one study: Among 124 people, mind wandering occurred about 30% of the time, even during crucial tasks—adding up to many hours of lost productivity. Boredom, fatigue, and stress all spur mind wandering, says study author Michael Kane, PhD, an associate professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Here's what to do about it...At work: Get organized
If you have several to-dos, decide what to tackle first, and clear all other projects off your desk and computer screen. "Out of sight, out of mind applies," Kane says. "Get rid of memos, e-mails, and anything else that reminds you you're behind."
And go easy on your cubicle's decor. "Even family photos are potential thought stealers," Kane adds, because they're people you're prone to worry about.At work: Participate
If you daydream during meetings, challenge yourself by thinking of questions and actively joining the discussion, suggests Jonathan W. Schooler, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. You may miss a moment if you're formulating a question, but you'll stay focused on the current topic.
More from Prevention: 6 Ways To Have Your Best Workday EverAt work: Change your scenery
When you start to lose concentration, leave your desk and take a walk outside or to the office common space for a mental breather. This way, your brain associates your desk only with work, not mind wandering.
Warns Schooler: "If you don't take regular breaks—especially when you're not enjoying your job—your brain will take them for you."
More from Prevention: 7 Ways To Work Out At WorkIn the car
Research shows we're most likely to space out during activities we can do automatically. This is dangerous when you're behind the wheel: If a car ahead stops suddenly, your reaction time may not be fast enough to prevent an accident.
Here, two tricks to avoid it...In the car: Tie a string on the steering wheel
When you think about the same things during your commute—anticipating the day's workload, or what to cook for dinner—your brain begins to associate the car with zoning out, says Kane. A novel, visual cue such as a colored string or dashboard sticker can snap you out of your "dream-driving" habit.
More from Prevention: 7 Ways To Fix A Crappy CommuteIn the car: Play a game
Those involving counting and geography are great ways for kids to pass the time en route—for good reason: The contests use items that you should be aware of while driving. Try tallying all the states represented by the license plates of the cars in front of you.When you read
Do you keep rereading the same passages in your novel? Don't blame a poor memory. "Mindless reading" is common and requires considerable effort to control, says Schooler, who found that readers are actually mind wandering about 20% of the time: "Their eyes move across the page, but they're not thinking about the text," he says.
Fix it with these steps...When you read: Take a break
Take time-outs to process the material; mentally recap plot points or a character's motive, for example. "Periodically think over what you've read—it can improve comprehension, probably because it reduces mind wandering," Schooler says. (And read something spicy! Check out these sexy reads for your bedroom.)When you read: Go backward
If you glossed over a few paragraphs, read them in reverse—reordering small packets of information can sometimes change how much of it you absorb. It may feel odd at first, but the extra effort required will force your brain back into focusing.When you read: Join a club
A little peer pressure to finish a book by a certain date can go a long way, especially if you're expected to talk about the content. Budget the number of pages you'll need to read daily, and if you own the book, write notes in the margin and mark meaningful passages to boost both concentration and comprehension.If you have a personal problem
People who report being unhappy, usually because of a difficult problem, have more intense mind wandering during tasks than their carefree counterparts, according to studies by Jonathan Smallwood, PhD, a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen's school of psychology. These feelings limit your ability to focus on anything else, he says: "You may spend a lot of time thinking about a problem when you're upset, but this type of ruminating is actually quite unproductive."
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More from Prevention: 8 Friends Every Woman NeedsIf you have a personal problem: Meditate
Meditation, a proven stress reliever, may also let you tune out distractions, found recent research. Amishi Jha, PhD, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, studied attention control in people before and after they learned mindfulness meditation (sitting quietly for 30 minutes a day, focusing on breathing; when the subjects noticed their minds drifting, they gently guided their thoughts back to their breath).
After eight weeks, they showed significant improvements at "orienting," or staying on task and quickly refocusing their thinking after being distracted. "Meditation trains you to put your attention where you want it and make sure it stays there," Jha says. (New to meditating? Find meditation to match your personality.)AdvertisementAdvertisementLet's Stay In Touch
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The age old dilemma … how to put state registration numbers on a dinghy! We're tried it a couple different ways and both worked… sort of…
But the best solution we've found is to simply go cruising and leave US waters! Then you don't need registration numbers on your dinghy! Of course, when you return, you'll have to go to the trouble of getting it re-registered, unless you're like us and ordered a new dinghy shipped to Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras.
Unfortunately, upon returning, we had to re-address the registration numbers on the inflatable dilemma. The first challenge was how to sufficiently clean the tubes. Keep in mind, our AB aluminum RIB had been deliberately neglected for the past 4 years – it's never a good thing in the Northwest Caribbean to have a dinghy that looks new.
The first dinghy we owned was a Caribe 8'3″ roll up model that we purchased used after it had been stolen in Miami. The tubes were patched and not in A-1 condition. I scrubbed it with several cleaners that I most likely should not have used, but the hypalon still refused to give up the accumulated grime – it was cleaner, but definitely not clean. Then we painstakingly taped stencils to both sides of the bow and hand painted the required Florida registration numbers. The paint adhered OK to the tubes and after it dried it looked great … well at least until the first time we deflated it and rolled it to store below. Unluckily for this dinghy and it's registration numbers, it was deflated and re-inflated regularly because that was our only choice at the time to stow it for passages. The painted numbers kept getting fainter and fainter, but when we sold it in 2006 – 5 years after we painted the numbers on the bow, they were still legible, not probably legal, but we were in the Bay Islands, Honduras where no one cared if our dinghy had state registration numbers or not. I think they probably could have been easily renewed by another coat of paint every 2-3 years had we stayed in the US.
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I want to get rid of my facebook account. I hate it! But, I lnked my spotify premium account with it when I signed up. is there a way I can get facebook out of the picture and log directly into spotify now that facebook is registered with my profile?
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Hey Licensed,
I logged out and logged back in , it was still the same, then i clicked log into facebook - didnt type anything and closed it then hey presto! its back to normal :D
licensed, I had the same issue as everyone else here (somehow my wife's FB was linked to my account out of nowhere), and your instructions worked perfectly. Everyone having problems, just click on...
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I feel I should also add my piece...this trend of requiring a Facebook account to sign up for things is extremely unsettling. It isn't just Spotify...it's something that is becoming more and more commonplace. I believe Facebook is slowly destroying communication on a global scale, making it less personal and sucking the substance right out of it. Climbing in bed with them to gain their sponsorship is a terrible thing, but sadly there isn't much we can do about it I suppose. Hopefully FB will one day crash and burn, but I'm sure that day is a long way off...and when it does happen, it will probably be replaced with something even worse.
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I registered before facebook was a requirement (thank god!). I just got an oportunity to get Spotify Premium free for a year and registered that today to my account. I then discover that when my friends search for me on Spotify they find my account but it shows up with my mothers name AND her picture!! This must be because she tried it a few days a while ago. I gues she connected it with her facebook. Now it seems that I´m stuck with that because I can´t find any way to change it. I don´t use FB and don´t want to, it sucks!! I have disabled every facebook sharing-option that I can and it does look ok in my own Spotify client. It´s my friends that see the wrong name and picture.
Why can´t the connection between FB and Spotify be optional??? Who made that deal?? I´m very happy with Spotify in every other way. This idiotic FB-connection is the only reason that I´m even looking for other music alternatives.
Can you please PLEASE help me get rid of my mothers name on my account?!
My daughter logged in to my spotify and now I have her facebook picture up and music trends from her friends! She doesnt use the facebook account anymore and it also has the red bar across the top say failed to enable spotify social! I dont have facebook and I have had a premium account before you decided to link up with facebook, I want this removed please
Hey thanks for your reply licenced
I log on to spotify with my user name and password, always have but it still has her pic in the corner,
The facebook account she must have used at some point is no longer in use
I still dont now what to do ?
I stil have the red bar?
Sorry I did not mean to accept it as a solution, where is the disconnect from facebook button?
Hey Licensed,
I logged out and logged back in , it was still the same, then i clicked log into facebook - didnt type anything and closed it then hey presto! its back to normal :D
I have tried that button, My account is still linked to my mothers in some way. My Friends still see her picture and name when they searh for my name in Spotify. :(
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Published: January 10, 1989
Despite strides toward improvement in the last two years, the agency charged with protecting New York City's children from abuse and neglect continues to be overwhelmed by its task, according to present and former officials, caseworkers and other experts.
Faced with a torrent of abuse reports - cases have nearly doubled in the last three years - and by families that are being eroded as never before by drug abuse, the agency, Special Services for Children, too often errs in determining if a child should be removed from a household, the critics say.
And when children are taken from their homes for protection, they add, the foster-care system often has little better to offer.
''The city has created a pressure cooker for families and caseworkers that was bound to explode,'' said David Tobis, who was special assistant on human services to the former City Council President, Carol Bellamy. ''It exploded in the Cortez case and in hundreds of less-publicized cases.''
The recent beating death of 5-year-old Jessica Cortez has been called one of the worst cases of child abuse in memory in New York. Chronic Abuse Persists
As evidence of the agency's continuing problems, Mr. Tobis and others pointed out that nearly 50 percent of the new cases reported to Special Services for Children involve children who have previously been reported as abused or neglected.
''It was 10 percent when I started keeping track in 1980,'' Mr. Tobis said. ''To me, it's a sign that they identify the problem but do not adequately provide support to the family.''
Special Services for Children, a division of the city's Human Resources Administration, took steps to improve after repeated criticism of its performance. The changes have led to ''much better support for the whole casework structure, much more accountability,'' said Brooke Trent, who has been deputy commissioner of Special Services for Children since March 1987.
Since June, she said, the agency has hired 614 caseworkers who are doing protective investigations to determine the validity of abuse reports. There are now about 1,000 caseworkers, she said, and the average caseload is 18.9, compared with 35 last year. State recommendations call for no more than 20 cases for each worker.
The new caseworkers, Ms. Trent said, receive 20 days of training at the agency's new Child Protective Service Academy. They remain trainees for nine months, during which they return to the academy for 15 additional days of training.
''Previously,'' Ms. Trent said, ''workers received 10 days of classroom training, joined a training unit for three months and then went into regular units.'' Caseloads Are Cut
Mr. Tobis noted that what is known as ''the pending rate'' - the number of new cases assigned to a worker each month - had been cut from 13 to six in the last two years, although the state standard is four.
Still, some caseworkers are discouraged. Barbara Shaw is considering quitting after a year on the job. ''It's impossible to fulfill your responsibility,'' she said.
In efforts to cope, Ms. Trent has introduced a new management structure. Formerly, she said, there was one manager to nearly 100 staff members. Now the ratio is about 1 to 25. In addition each team of five caseworkers now has two bosses - a Level 1 supervisor, who in turn reports to a Level 2 supervisor.
Patricia Cox is a Level 1 supervisor ''But everybody calls us super-caseworkers,'' she said, adding that she had not yet seen improved results because of the reorganization. 'Workers Don't Stay Long'
''The cases come in as fast as ever,'' she said. ''The paperwork has grown.''
Because of the burdens of the job, Ms. Cox said, ' 'workers don't stay long - maybe eight months, a year.' ' And that means more work for Level 1 supervisors.
Under the new system, when a caseworker resigns, the worker's cases are assigned to the Level 1 supervisor.
''You're supposed to see which cases can be closed, which can be transferred to other parts of the agency,'' Ms. Cox said. ' 'Cases are being closed before they should be. And they eventually come back as another abuse report to the state registry.''
One object of the changes at the agency was to strengthen the investigations of new reports of abuse. Most of the agency's preventive workers -who offer counseling and other services to families in which abuse has been been verified - were transferred to protective work, and outside agencies were brought in to take up the preventive slack. Preventive Work Grows
Critics argue that this change has diminished the quality of protective services. But Ms. Trent stresses that ''the growth of the work force in the protective area is not a diminution of work in the preventive area,'' explaining that as of last June, there were 125 preventive programs operated by private agencies, compared with seven in 1984.
The problem, she said, is that about 21,000 families received such support last year, compared with 16,000 in 1985.
And that, she said, is an indication of the cascade of abuse reports being received by the agency. In 1985, she noted, 36,000 cases were reported.
''We're expecting 66,000 reports this fiscal year,'' she said.
Marcia Robinson Lowry, director of the Children's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, is troubled by the agency's reliance on private agencies for preventive services.


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