Look at what the Internet has done to me!
October 16, 2009 by Big Internet Marketing
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I decided to do something that I am not normally a huge fan of when it is done. But, in this case I felt it would be appropriate to proof my point of this post. It is showing off… Just not too fond of it but anyways… I am not going to show you screen shots of my income… They can be produced. and faked.
Actual real life results can`t. Therefor I am going to show you how I went from living in a dirty little hut with no shower in the middle of nowhere to living in a luxurious villa with private pool within just 10 months time. And, I did it 100% with making money online.
Please remember this entire post: If I was able to do what you are about to find out what I did then you can most certainly do the same. It starts with my poor existence after losing practically everything I owned just as I had moved to a strange country 2800 kilometer from my home country. To put it blunt: I was as stuck as hardened concrete in every aspect of ‘life’.
Some of you may remember the following picture. It is the picture of what I call the hut and used to call my home for the last two years or so… This picture also featured on Alex Goad`s Google conquest and did that for a reason:
To give it all a bit of contrast: The hut had no internet. (Which is pretty sick for an internet marketer who is supposed to be ‘working from home’, is it not?) The closest internet connection was SIX kilometers away. And, 99,9% of the time that I resided in the hut I had NO other transport than my own two feet… The damn place barely had electricity, no cooking facility and no hot shower. But, it was a roof…
As a matter of fact, I had to endure a period of about three months of eating just two or three slices of dry white bread and a few almond nuts per day due to lack of money or actual income whatsoever… I have a dog and a few cats and well, they need to eat too.
While just eating three slices of bread and a few nuts daily, walking for 12 kilometer per day to reach internet was not the easiest or most comfortable thing to do. Not something you fancy with 35 degrees heat outside… Or, with a tropical rainstorm hitting you so hard you think you are surrounded…
It was a pretty tough time I can tell you. But, as it has been shown to me personally, it is pretty amazing what somebody can achieve once he or she starts believing in what is important. I learned to believe in myself. It is the strongest power one can gain ever. Period.
It truly is. I am the living proof with some of the most amazing results to show.
My situation was pretty much completely hopeless last year. It was terrible. For four months I had to avoid the landlord since I could not afford the rent. He only speaks Portuguese and I did not at all. Can you imagine the stress of that hide and seek game? The worry of being thrown on the street… oh, the horror that was…
To make a long story a bit shorter: After implying the system I came up with accompanied by full force automation provided by Alex Goad his Google conquest I ended up making $20,000.00 in just TWO months from… an internet café.
Internet I could only use for a few hours per day due to the very (read extremely) tight budget I had. The net café charged 3,50 euro per hour. Something I did not always have in my wallet.
Fast forward to today, just ten months later, you will find me in slightly different surroundings…
Due to the successes I had I was able to ‘step for step’ improve my living conditions up until now and…
Have a look what the internet combined with my techniques and BlogSlayer instant money sites did to me…
Let me show you my new hut: (Welcome to my crib) (wezh cooozzt)
The entrance to my new home has gotten a whole new approach and is a joy every time I approach it. Coming home has become a party on its own:
This is my gate. As in, arrive at the house in my new set of wheels, click the remote, bzzzzzzzz….., gate open, drive in, bzzzzzz gate closed… It is then when my right garage opens ready for me to park my wheels in. That on its own is worth it to do it at least twice a day.
I dunno, it just makes me feel kinda cool.
Anyways, behind the palm tree is my new home… The house / villa itself is great! It has lots of private ground surrounding it, a huge living; it has three bedrooms, three bathrooms, barbeque area, massive kitchen, fully fitted, and green gardens with palm trees, tropical flowers, all sorts of other plants, rock formations, terraces, private pool and a double garage. The house also has Solar electricity so I am now also more Energy efficient too.
Check it out baby:
And, …
That is me… In front of my own private pool… In the South of sunny Portugal. The Algarve to be precise. All sponsored with 100% pure internet profits baby… It is indeed part of and in front of my new hut. More a hut 2.0 so to speak. 
Above you see my home from a different angle… (With my secret U-boat garage entrance on the bottom left)…
Below is part of my garden on the opposite of the swimming pool with a happy me in front:
A few minutes down the road you will find stunning places to walk doggy…:
Gee,… Internet is allowing me to live a dream life. It is truly remarkable. I recently bought a Ps3 with a projector so I can watch and play cinema style, a Bose sound surround system for the living / lounge and a Harman / Kardon sound system for my offices, Last month I bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 4.0 V6, and two weeks ago I moved in to the nice little villa with private pool you just saw.
I got an Iphone now as well by the way… This thing made the pictures on this post actually and they are quite impressive… (for a phone)
Weird to say but I have to admit to it: Money comes in from just about any corner I can look at. I am not saying I am a millionaire (yet) but, I am making more than I spend consistently. And, that is not because I spend so extremely wisely…
Sometimes I find out I earned another $2k, other times I earn $250 p hour for a few days in a row. Altogether adding up to a nice monthly income. Most people around me simply can`t believe what has happened in the last few months up to ten in total. I had my bank director come up to me asking what it was I did for my income… It had caught his eye and I was assured that if I ever needed anything I should ask for his personal attention.
Hey man… I make all of my money online, all 100% free… And practically close to no effort. My business pays for itself!
What a frigging relief! No more shit about money. Enough of it. In every aspect of the meaning of the last sentence… lol.
But… Trust me, in the beginning and for most of the time this meant working 18 hours or more per day. Figuring out what worked and what not. And, don`t forget it also involved the walking bit. I`d prepare files at home, upload them to an usb stick, walk 6 kilometer, upload, promote one or two hours and walk home again. Weather or no weather. Day in day out…
But even so and nonetheless: My system I thought of has truly turned in to a nice little goldmine.
This has given me the lifestyle most people can only dream of. Now I can decide when I work. How much I work and, I can do it next to my own pool in the hot sun. (Although I decide to work daily since I absolutely love what I am doing!) But, If I want to go for drives, walks on the beach or go for a swim in the garden at any given time of any day in the week, I can. That is the beauty of it all.
I now also have a gardener. And a cleaning lady. I have other people working for me. So, I am actually helping them out as well! I can really say: I have made `a success` from less than nothing from within a strange and sometimes hostile environment.
And, it is becoming more and more bigger and bigger every day. It is just incredible. Waking up in the morning finding out that while I slept I made an extra $2,00.00 in pure profits… It does not happen every day as much as that but every night and day, my sites are making me my money.
The rent of my little paradise here is paid from it, the hosting of all of my websites is paid out of it and my extremely nice life is paid out of it. It basically has turned in to a never stopping money making machine. I am now able to pay for my parents to come over for the winter period and enjoy the beauty of Portugal with me.
While drinking a fresh orange juice. Walking outside to the pool on those sunny mornings. Going for a little swim. And be just as free as free means. Smiling… Then continue with my day. Without stopping to smile for one moment. Enjoying music, my pets, my surroundings, my work, my life.
I really love what I am doing and since there is money enough it has enabled me to free a lot of time to develop new things to come. I am involved in a few large projects which promise to rock the net once they will hit. They also include teaching others what I know!
Folks, I can`t say it enough. As you can see from this post… With the internet you can go from having nothing to having more than enough. In as little as TEN months. As long as you focus and keep thriving on your determination. Believe you can do it and you will. And, feel good. Be happy. Begin with that.
As feeling good today will bring about many more better tomorrows. I wish you All the best of good luck with your efforts online. Once you find your inner happiness, the rest will come to you.
But you gotta believe in yourself.
I truly hope this has at least inspired one person out there who is reading this and goes out to learn how to earn. It can be done you know! I don`t know just how much more proof I need to provide…
Go out there and find out how it is done. It is not that hard at all.
Believe in yourself and know you are doing it. And you will.
Walt
PS: If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them. Just leave a comment.
PPS: Check out Make Money Online with http://BlogSlayer.com and the Freejerk if you want to be on the inside of things when they happen!
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So, does Google Adsense Really Suck This Much?
February 12, 2009 by Big Internet Marketing
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First of all, I am by far a big Adsense earner. I have several Adsense sites but the money I make with them is nothing to write home about. Yet, after a recent article I wrote on one of my sites apparently describing what happened to become the next sort of mini internet craze I came to the conclusion that landed me in to a situation where I had to ask myself whether or not Adsense had to suck. And, more importantly, if it was costing me FAR more than that it was bringing in…
Wait…
Adsense is something you make money with…
But, what if it is costing you? And, all the time you are so happy that you earn a few hundred dollar per month. But, could you not be earning thousands of dollars instead?
WITHOUT Adsense?
Don’t get me wrong. It is a great way for many people to simply earn some money online.
Some money…
But hey, it doesn’t take much effort! You sign up for Adsense, you pick your ad color matching your site(s) and you copy and paste their ad code into your sites with indeed the greatest ease.
Google then published content related ads right on your site. Once a person clicks on your ad you make cash. I am sure it is a great solution but recently I was forced to feel a bit different about it all… And, looking at it now, maybe for the better!
What it is that happened just didn’t feel good and made me doubt about Adsense and its possible successes normal people can have with it. And, whether or not there are better opportunities with which normal people can make a lot more money with…
I am sure there are those of you who still earn their full time income and a bit (thousands upon thousands so to speak) per month but I got quite disappointed in the whole Adsense program and am getting close to undertaking action in removing Adsense from all of my sites.
Let me explain what I mean with them and a bit more about how I came to this all:
As said, I wrote an article on one of my sites (news related) about something that became a little bit of an internet craze.
The article was one of the first articles to be mentioning about the possible UFO at the inauguration of President Obama. I had made print screens from the CNN video with the flying object clearly visible, adding to the post’s value. Considering the fact my site was a ‘newspaper themed site’ many people saw it as actual news I am sure.
At first, I did not do this out of commercial reasons but just to get my point of view out over something I had seen on the CNN camera. Something I felt could be news. You never know, you might hit something big…
I bookmarked the post on some sites and it sort of hit the main stream for a good few days resulting in more than 66,000 visitors in less than 3 weeks or so. Lots of sites decided to link to my article, certain news papers did and it was bingo. Traffic, traffic and traffic. It was craaazy.
Besides the fact that my site went offline for a while due to its bandwidth exceeding (which I never had before and luckily only lasted for 4 hours) I noticed something else what was rather disappointing.
Since the site initially did not have a commercial value to me as in such I was still curious to see what this traffic would bring in clicks and of course revenue.
The site in question is monetized with Adsense but has more of a different kind of purpose as to why I own it. It provides news and that is it for now. But, since none of my sites go un-monetized so to speak I placed Adsense. Some money is always better than none.
While I checked my Adsense stats daily a certain drop in income per click was clearly noticeably. This was about half way into the certain traffic spurt this site had received.
Where the site had one top day of $75 income out of Adsense clicks (With thousands of visitors per day, which is not much, I know… Actually pathetically low if you ask me…) the other days it would come to $50 or a bit less.
Until the day that brought the certain drop of income per click.
Not just some little drop, no… The traffic remained the same as in thousands per day , I received about the same amount of clicks yet, the daily income went to $12 or even less! That is not just sad, it is silly too. I mean, who possibly wants to earn that per click.
How close to insult can you get? 
So, as this is now an ongoing incident while we speak… In my opinion Adsense Really sucks.
The site still gets only a much smaller percentage of income per click as compared to what it used to do in the beginning and nothing on site has changed during the whole time. I also know that the UFO niche most probably is not the best paying one either yet a ‘certain drop’ of income from what it was making during those days is unexplainable to me.
It is not clear to me how that could have happened all of a sudden. Anyone here an idea that you would like to share about this?
Then of course, I know if you target the higher paid keywords you can make some serious money. And, in all fairness, I have sites totally targeted and niche related which bring in several dollars per click. But, it is in these segments that it is harder to compete. So, not always reachable for the starting marketer.
For instance, I own a site which is highly ranked on ‘private jet’ related keywords with surpluses of $4 per click. Since I have no jets this might as well be the only site I could imagine having Adsense on. Simply cause there is no affiliate program for private jets. (Well, there is eBay and some charter companies with affiliate programs but unfortunately in the private jet market they do not convert that good)
But, on these sites I do own with higher earning clicks it is also in these segments that I have noticed a drop of income per click. Anyone who has noticed the same?
Basically it can possibly become much worse…
Adsense does not only possibly suck, it potentially robs you from a lot of money as well. Imagine owning a site promoting online surveys. (You are welcome Elise 
) They pay something like $34 per sale and are popular by many people so I have heard. (I’ve used the example of Online surveys for no other reason than to be able to plant a link to Elise since she is such a nice person )
But anyways…
Eager as you are wanting to make money you start building your website or blog and since you have heard of the BIG Google and the Adsense (With which you can make milllllllllions of dollars) you of course go ahead and sign up for an Adsense account.
You then spend time to actually get targeted traffic from the search engines and are welcoming people to your online survey site who are indeed looking for an online survey program with their credit card in their hand, ready to buy.
Great! The hardest part done, you have landed a visitor interested to buy!
Then they see your clever positioned ad (Since Google even tells you where to put it) and…
Click …
Your visitor just clicked on your Google Adsense ad.
Congratulations my friend! You just earned yourself around $0.85.
But, he clicked AWAY from your site and you have earned Google around $1.50 on the go and even worse, most possible, you have earned the person who was using Adwords to advertise on your Adsense ad a nice commission of about $34 or so. Minus his cost per click of $2.35 is a net profit of $31.65
So, basically, you have been robbed $33.15 by making the click yes, but not making the sale.
So, my question is (and it is one I am seriously asking myself AND testing out):
Am I better off without Adsense?
If you look at the above image, hmm.. maybe we are! These are two screen shots taken from Adsense and a clickbank account over the same period of time. Where Adsense recorded 45 page views this resulted in 3 clicks. Within these same 45 page views Google saw 26 hops where made. (Hops are clicks to the vendor site recorded by Clickbank)
Clearly, the $0.60 is less exiting to welcome in to your bank account than its counterpart income, the $22.84 that was made while making the sale yourself, resulting in a lot more profit!
I think the question you need to ask if you have as well Adsense as your own promotions going on what it is that makes your visitor click on the Adsense ad INSTEAD of your promo.
And, why he or she does not click on your promotion making you $34 per sale? Instead it is a meagerly $0.85 you gain with Adsense.
Ok, cool once you get thousands of clicks.
But, what if you could make hundreds of sales out of those thousands of clicks instead?
Sure, easy to solve this, we remove Adsense. From now on it won’t happen again! No more deceiving click away from Google.
But, if you still don’t know why visitors do not click your promotions on your site to buy the products and simply close your site to go back on Google for another search; you have yet another problem.
Because now you earn nothing.
I decided to go and do some testing with sites that get the same kind of traffic in niche and amount and have one site with and one site without Adsense. I used to earn money with Adsense and product sales on those sites so I can compare it after a while. Does the income without Adsense drop or will it generate more sales simply because the visitor has no other choice than to open up one of the offers.
Does a site without Adsense earn more than a site with Adsense?
It may be simple for some, but if you are unable to make your site’s own advertisements and promotions (read affiliate programs) convert better (with or) without Adsense you get a lot of site closers.
They will not click and buy.
Once again, if you would have had Adsense on there they might have clicked that earning you some cents.
However, how do we make our sites so that we do not need Adsense but that it will look after the $34 or more per sale commissions that are coming in from the sales that the site directly is making?
So…
Does Adsense suck THAT much that it in fact costs you money? The more I look at it, the more I think it does.
Although I come to the conclusion that this does not entirely depend on Adsense. Once you are able to make your site convert better with direct offer promotions instead of Adsense, you WILL be better off. This also means that if you are not able to do so you will lose money.
There are people who will argue that it is all in the numbers of traffic (targeted) and the higher paid niche markets. However, in most cases, even if you had thousands of visitors to your sites, if you could divert them directly to an offer YOU promote, you do not only cut out the middle man (men) you also make hordes of more money, so that one does not go up.
So, what is it that I still have Adsense on my sites for?
I don’t know. It does look good. Kind of gives trusted look. Will that be it?
I just do not know… (yet)
I said you will lose money if you are not able to make your site convert better but, this count as well for not trying to improve and answering the question.
If you do not try it for your own sites and you would be able to improve conversion then you too lose out on more money as well. Or?
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