October 30, 2011

This site is for sale!

Filed under: General — Alan @ 11:03 am

Hi everybody

I am sorry to say that I will not be updating this website anymore.

I have other business which takes me all my time.

I could just either let this site empty forever or delete it but that’s a shame because I have other ideas that i didn’t share, just because I didn’t have the time to write blog posts.

I also have the PAD submitter which is pretty popular but needs to be updated (and requires a bit of programmng knowledge, but not that much)

I also have the private ‘club’ I created to make money with adult blogs. I still make money with the adult blogs I made in 2007 even if I haven’t touched them anymore. I could expand that and make even more money, but I just don’t have the time.

So basically, instead of deleting this blog, I would like to sell it to some SEO specialist/internet marketer that would be interested to keep on growing it.

I’ll give the website, domain name, all the content, the source code and the ideas I didn’t put there yet but could make more money.

There are plenty of possibilities. Either you can work on some of my ideas and make money for yourself, or you grow the membership-based private section of this blog and help people to make money.

Please contact me at : ideasbeta  jsoft.biz

SERIOUS PEOPLE ONLY PLEASE!

I won’t sell to the first one coming with a bag of cash, I’d like to sell it to someone who’ll want to really achieve something and make something valuable of this site! So you might even see this post in a year, I’m not in a hurry, I want to find the right person, do not hesitate to contact me if you think you are.

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May 5, 2011

Hey, I need(ed) help on this [updated]

Filed under: General — Alan @ 3:35 pm

Hi I’m experimenting some new stuff and I may have found a golden nugget, but I need your help

Please subscribe to :

[update]

Thanks for the people who registered, I sent you an email to tell you about the project details -

I am really sorry for others, this is the kind of stuff which  too good to spread it openly so next time just be quick, please don’t ask me to give you the details by email now I can’t tell the stuff to too many people

Until next time

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March 2, 2011

Easy Twitter money

Filed under: General — Alan @ 12:05 am

Hi everybody,

sorry I can’t really keep this blog updated a lot, I have too many projects to work on,

still here’s an  easy project to make a solid extra $500 a month

You must know about twitter, and how it works to be able to do this.

Here’s the plan, create a fake profile, choose something that you’ll like, it could be a hot girl profile or a grandma, try what you feel, then follow people, lots of, and you hope that they will follow you back.

you can use this tool to find people : http://www.twellow.com/

Add them, and take notes to see what kind of profile are following  you often in return.

You have to experiment, see what profiles are the ones who are following back in return… Is it profiles with small numbers of followers? big numbers? are they related to specific keywords ? (like ‘social’, ‘friends’, etc.)

It’s not essential that you find early what are the best profiles, the first thing is to gain as many followers as you can, but think about it along the way. You’ll get better results if you manage to spot good profiles.

Get followers, get followers, climb up to 2,000-3,000 followers. It sounds a lot, yes it takes a bit of time to build it but hey I could make a 10,000+ followers profile, by spending 10 minutes per day adding people for a while, and I’ve seen people having 30,000+ followers.

When someone starts to discuss with you, don’t hesitate to reply, something short, say ‘hello, your profile looked cool so I’m following you’.

Every 2-3 days, take some interesting or some funny news from any funny news site, tweet one thing of interest

From times to times, clean up your profile by removing people you are following and who are not following you back, you can use

http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/

When you reach the point of 2,000 people following you, it’s time to make money, place an ad saying that for $10, you’ll be tweeting about something to your 2,000+ followers. It’s even better to say that for those $10, you’ll tweet everyday for a week or two about your customer’s info.

Anyone wanting to sell their product will be interested to promote their stuff through you.

Where to put your ad? That’s the part I can’t tell you exactly or a hundred of my readers will do the same thing at the same place, so  you have to be a bit creative, use google, search for forums, with keywords such as  ‘online ads’, ‘online promotion’…you could even use adsense… Just remember, it’s pretty obvious but you’ll have better results if you sell this service to average people than seasoned marketers (in other words, don’t come up any seo forum to try to sell this service, they’ll just steal the idea and won’t pay you).

Repeat and grow, the bigger number of followers you have, the higher you can sell your tweet service.

It’ll take a bit of time, but that’s 10-15 minutes of dumb work everyday, you won’t have 2,000 followers in one week, and you won’t sell your service to 50 customers the first month, but believe me, once you get the momemtum, between you raising the price because of your growing number of followes, and people starting to pay you regularly for your services, you’ll reach the $500, and then go much over that.

But start now, it’s nothing, it just requires patience, no investment, begin today and within 6-12 months you’ll be making good money with almost no work at all

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April 1, 2010

Update / dropbox project coming

Filed under: General — Alan @ 9:20 pm

Hi, this is a very quick post, I am sorry to have let this blog with no update, I have to say that I’ve been working on two big projects, taking quite a lot of time (and making nice $$$).
I am preparing 2 projects to share with you, the first one is using a new tool you probably have heard of: dropbox
Please first go to https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTM1MTIyNDQ5
and register (it’s free).
Play with it a little and soon I’ll explain how I (ab)used it to make money :)

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January 21, 2009

The magic Filter

Filed under: General — Alan @ 9:09 pm

Hi, this post won’t be about giving some specific tip on making money, but I felt I needed to repeat some ideas to help you make it.

When I wanted to make money, thanks to the internet, I was chasing the one great idea. There were so many stories about people who got a great idea and became rich. Think of the One million dollars page, with this student selling blocks of pixels where people could put a link to their website. He managed to earn 1 million in a couple of months… Great! Why we didn’t think of that?

The problem is that we hear all those wonderful stories every day, and we live in this world where we’re led to believe that there is a magic filter.

A filter that separates the average persons from the successful ones.

It seems that we just need to find that great thing, that one gateway to become rich/famous/powerful etc.

But that’s a big lie, there’s no such magic filter. There are some good ideas, but they’re negligible in numbers, compared to the normal way to become successful.
It’s like bands, they all believe that they just need to get signed by a record company, and with this contract, they will move from unknown artists to superstars.

It doesn’t work like that, look at the majority of billionaires… They’re old. Why? Because they spent time and effort before they became successful.

There’s always this equation I believe is accurate:

Consider money, effort and time.
You can choose two of the three you need to spend if you want to achieve something. Only two. Take your pick.

I could spend 6 months of holidays, visiting Australia and caressing kangaroos, going to France and drinking wine, etc.
But that’s not because I had found one magical solution, it’s because I had slowly spent time and effort to create money-making sources.

You want to make more money, you want more freedom, even with the current crisis, that’s definitely achievable. Hell, I didn’t notice more than a 10% drop in my revenue even if we’re meant to be in trouble. And that’s more likely because I wasn’t touching a thing on my websites.

So yeah, that’s a path, to be able to make money, and the hardest is that you’ve got to stick with it, it’s not always fun, like your everyday job, you’ll have to do many boring tasks.
But if you keep it up and work steady you’ll be able to be more successful at the end of this year than today.

In a few days I’ll post the details of a little project I am currently doing and that illustrates my point.

And even better, it makes me a bit of easy money. So there’s no way you couldn’t make something out of it.

See you quickly!

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January 1, 2009

Happy new year etc.

Filed under: General — Alan @ 10:54 am

Hi people, it’s been a long time I didn’t post, the truth is, I had been working non-stop for two years on my websites and needed some rest, so I took 6 months of holidays. That’s the cool part of having websites that bring automatic streams of income. But now I’m back in business.

To the people who wrote me about the adult blog project, I’m keeping your email, and I will contact you later this year. I’m currently setting up the adult blog project v3. So please be a little patient.

Meanwhile I’m gonna put a serie of posts about another money-making opportunity that you can try. It’s a longer-term project, but a reliable one.

I’ll try to put a couple of hints also, as you can guess, it takes time to write and I’m working on some new projects for myself, but I won’t forget you :)

So happy new year and I wish you make money this year!

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July 16, 2008

Send quadcores to hell

Filed under: General,Tools and scripts — Alan @ 9:26 am

recycle old computers and don't buy a new quadcore

Hi guys, usually I don’t talk about others stuff than making money on my blog, but I really wanted to share this.

I’m working with 2 monitors on my computer. If you don’t work on two screens yet, you should. Even if it’s using an old monitor as a second screen, it boosts your productivity. More than 2 monitors is for ego, but really 2 screens is a plus.

If you didn’t realize it yet, everytime you switch from what you’re working on to some other application, you’re losing your focus for some minutes when you switch back to your work, and along the day, sum up all the minutes, it’s a huge loss of time.

With 2 monitors, you can have your main screen with your work, and the other screen can gather all the secondary applications (e.g. email, chat,web browser, skype, p2p apps…). So when you switch from your work to something else, you lose less focus. And sometimes it’s good to be able to watch two things at the same time. Like reading a tutorial on a website on one screen, and doing the actions on the other screen.

An extra note, I’m following the GTD method to boost my productivity, have a look at it, it’s really great. Also when I’m really busy, I even don’t let my email client run in the background, I start it only three times a day, answer urgent mails, then close it. That prevents me from losing time on not-so-critical emails conversations.

My computer runs on a dual core processor. And I was considering getting a quad core, as my dual core is not powerful enough for all my apps running. If I list the minimum number of apps I get running simultaneously during the day I have : local web server, local database server, Firefox with 10+ tabs open, internet explorer, database client, FTP client, Mail client, Notepad++, Eclipse, XML editor, Regex Editor, Winamp, emule, muTorrent, pidgin, skype, tor+vidalia, antivirus, and multiple explorer windows.

I had another problem, it was synchronization with my laptop. A farmer can’t spend a day without taking care of his animals. When you have multiple websites, it’s the same, except that your websites are your animals. So I always need to be able to go anywhere with my work even if I leave for a week.

Then I eventually stumbled upon a fantastic tool to share computer, called Synergy.

With it you can share your computer keyboard and mouse with another computer. It’s really straightforward. You’re on your master computer, where you type and navigate with the mouse, then you just go to the edge of your screen and the mouse go to the other computer screen. At this point you can do any action on the other computer without switching mouse or keyboard.

And this is when I realized I didn’t even need some newer computer. Now I work on my laptop, so I can go mobile anytime I want without the hassle of synchronizing. And on my desktop I have all secondary apps either in portable version or installed on my desktop.

The portable apps are mail client, for instance, everything I really need to be able to share, they’re running from an external drive than I can take with me and plug anywhere I want.

The apps on the desktop are more p2p, mp3, etc. These are the ones I can let at home for a couple of days and not miss them.

So if you have a slow computer and you want to boost your productivity, instead of buying a brand new machine, get one extra old computer with screen (ask to family or friends, I’m sure there is one in someone’s attic). Install synergy, and share the load between the two machines. Not only working on two screens will make you able to do some tasks much faster, but you also won’t need to spend some money on a new machine, while many “old” machines are powerful enough for most of your tasks.

And I recommend that you install Linux on one of the machines. Whether or not you intend to program and do technical stuffs, it’s a great experience to work on the unix system.

Ok, last note, I’m going away for three weeks of holidays… One week enjoying the fine food and wine in the south of France, then one week surfing on the atlantic coast. Last week will be with my family, then I’ll come back to work!

I still have a great post to share with you. It’s a full description of a money making project I can’t do because of lack of time, so instead of letting it rot away, I prefer to share it with you… In case I have the time to write it before my holidays you’ll get it otherwise I write to you in august!

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June 24, 2008

The nasty way to make money

Filed under: Blackhat,General — Alan @ 7:26 pm

1) Buy/steal any ebook that explains how to make money…

2) Paraphrase it, and write your own. Usually a 40 pages document full of shit is enough. Do not forget to fill it with affiliate links in case of some fool would actually follow the outdated/crappy advices you put in it

3) Make an annoying website that tells one is gonna make 1 million within next month if one downloads your ebook for a nice price (your price must end with a 7, why ? Because years ago someone did some study somewhere that says that if you end your price with the number 7, you’re gonna sell your shit much more. And, funny thing, everyone still believes it). So let’s say $47.77

Of course don’t forget to put intrusive javascript of a fake sale agent on your website so the poor guy is annoyed until he agrees to buy your crap.

4) And because you’re cheap, don’t buy google adwords. Instead, search for a list of marketing blogs that talks about making money (there is a gazillion of such blogs – mine included). Then spam blindly each owner and say you loved their blog (that you actually didn’t even look at), and you’re looking for a great business partner, and the guy seems to be the one. But he’s got to hurry otherwise you’ll have to find another partner. The deal is simple. He writes a post on his website telling how great your ebook is and that everyone who wants to make money should buy it, and by the way his readers can have a great deal… $37,77 instead of $47.77, but only for the first 500 (even if the poor guy has only 30 readers).
What does he get in exchange? 50% of any sale of your ebook made through his website.

Don’t laugh, all this sounds terribly lame, but it actually works, at the cost of clueless/naive people who are desperate to make money.

I’ll repeat it over and over, because I want people to avoid such trap : There is a ton of money on the internet, plenty of opportunities, you can literally make money out of thin air. but THERE IS NO SHORTCUT. Only CONSISTENCY will bring you the money. You don’t know where to start? Look at my beginners project to make money through newsletter and start TODAY. And don’t give up.

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April 2, 2008

You have to write an e-book.

Filed under: General — Alan @ 10:51 am

I’m taking a bit of time to give you a few tips about writing an e-book,

But before a few updates.
I’m still getting emails for the adult blog project, and the waiting list goes very long, but the good news is, I’m currently experimenting an evolution of the adult blog project, mixed with the be a whore post, added to some of the latest moneymaking tips I got. If it goes well, I’ll create an adult blog project v2, still free and still private. And Everybody on the waiting list will get access to this new project.

Besides I’m having 2 other projects to share with you but no time to prepare them yet!!! So probably you’ll discover them around may or june, so if you didn’t do it yet, subscribe to my RSS feed to be sure not to miss those.

Now, why do I say that you have to write an e-book? I’ll tell you my little story.
I began in the business of internet marketing in 2004 when I decided to write an ebook.
You know the trick: You choose a subject that you know. You write an ebook. You sell it, and you become rich.
Of course it doesn’t work so easily, but it was a good project, I learned many things, and it really got me started in this business.
It took me around 6 month working part-time, because I knew nothing at the time… SEO? Affiliate? What? I had to learn everything along the way.
I picked up a subject, wrote a 50 pages ebook about it.
I did some keyword research with wordtracker, and registered a domain with those keywords, then set-up and SEO’ed a website.
I did some backlinks building, nothing fancy, mostly by hand.

I waited then for the money to flow, but nothing, I was really disappointed (first lesson, don’t expect to become rich so easily!) so I didn’t take care anymore about the website. But after 6 months, I got my first sale! Still it wasn’t enough to make me spend more time marketing it. (first mistake, you always have to be patient, and put the effort to make money). Anyway after one year, when I checked the sales, I realized that I had made $600! Totally passive income. Imagine if I had worked a bit more to get more traffic.
I had to close it for some personal reasons, but I decided to re-open it in 2006.
Meanwhile, some domain squatters had already bought my domain to put some domain parking on it :)
So I used the same name and added “tips” : “xxxxx.com” became “xxxxxtips.com” so I could have the same keywords in the domain name
And I added a blog.
This one is really what everyone should do when they sell an ebook.
You look at any ebook landing page, you see it is always this big white page with a long speech and testimonials. They all look the same.
But by adding a blog, I think it gives some trust to the people, because

1) you give some info to people, if it is good enough, they see you’re not going to sell them a crappy ebook.

2) By seeing some activity, they know that your site is still maintained, it doesn’t looks like old stuff (even if you wrote your ebook 4 years ago like me).

What’s my routine? I write a short article on the blog, every two month. If my article is too big, I cut it in several pieces.
I wait a bit to get my new post indexed by Google.
Finally, I go to those articles directories, and submit my article to get some traffic/backlinks.

I have maybe a dozain of articles since 2006, and spend an evening once every two months for writing the new article, but I could write more articles if I wanted to market more my ebook.

Results? I get a steady 150 visits per day and make a couple of hundreds per month.
Having a blog really increase my organic traffic and my sales.

So I advise you to write an ebook, it’s not a big instant moneymaker, but with consistance and patience, you can get a nice passive income.
And you’ll learn many things along the way.
There is the majority of people who try to make money on the internet and fail/don’t make a lot. I believe that one thing that the successfull minority has, is patience and consistence. Yes, you can try to make big and quick money, but ALWAYS work on some long-term side project, even if you earn nothing now.

It’s like the stocks market. You can make a lot of money quickly but it is not easy. Or you can make good money on the long-term if you take some safe stocks that you know for sure they work with time. But of course, it is more boring, and you need more patience.

Some long-term project is basically everything that involves creating your website around a subject you know: Sell an ebook, but could also be to set-up a community through a forum, or create a resources website (like those myspace goodies websites)…
You have plenty of opportunities, just take action now!!!

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February 8, 2008

Never pay for Adwords.

Filed under: General — Alan @ 4:25 pm

Hi guys, this blog has been quiet for a while, I must say that I spend quite some time for support on the adult blogs project, and the newsletter project.
I can also say that the second starts to give some good results for a few people who are delivering the effort, so I’m happy with it.
I’ve got a big dilemma because it’s really difficult to add more people to these projects, as it would spoil some of the tricks, and besides I have at least 3 other new projects that I could share with you, but if I would open sections for them, I would not have the time for my own work anymore. I have to think of a solution about this.

Anyway, meanwhile, I am experimenting with a funny little project that I will describe soon on this blog, I call it “Be a whore”, because it is not far from it. As you must imagine, this is another adult related thing.

But today I want to give a warning about “Google adwords for free”.

You can find several ebooks on the subject, that promise to give some trick to use adwords and still not pay for your ads.
As this seemed too good to be true, I have read several of those ebooks, and I must say that those promises are among the most misleading I have seen in my experience of crappy ebooks.

Let’s take again the sentence:
“Don’t pay for your adwords click”

And let me explain you the trick which is explained in the ebooks (I’m gonna save you the money):

1 – Set adwords ads to attract people to your website.
2 – Sell something on your website, so you earn more money than you spend on adwords.

Voila, because you earn more than you spend, one can say you are not paying for your adwords click.

Who said “Are you fucking kidding me?” ??? ;)

This is really the kind of marketing ebook that I hate, not only because you waste your money on it, but also because it is another evidence to make you feel that you can’t make money on the internet, which is of course false.

So be warned, if you find anyone who wants to sell you a secret not to pay adwords, don’t trust it at all.

But I will not leave you without a good tip to get similar to Adwords, but for free. I could make an ebook out of it, and I won’t be surprised when someone will do it.
Anyway, my advice is: Get registered on Google Local Business.
In case you don’t know, Google Local Business allows any company to register and gives its info, including its URL. The info will be displayed during a Google search when relevant, at the top of the page, making it even more visible than adwords. And IT IS FREE.
Register at Google Local Business

Be careful to choose a real address as there will be a verification letter sent to you.
And as today there are still a lot of good opportunities, e.g.:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=dating+dallas
vs
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=dating+miami

So see you soon and be ready to “be a whore” :)

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