tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-181849602009-03-01T09:06:46.726-08:00Inspiration For Internet EntrepreneursThe main reason for this blog is to give a starting-ground and inspiration to become a successful Internet entrepreneur.Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-34889325155336516442006-12-25T17:45:00.000-08:002006-12-25T18:12:18.869-08:00Can it be true? BobSchmuck.comOh yeah. Its true! I would never lie to my loyal/wonderful readers. As a Christmas gift my mom, <a href="http://www.jansideas.com/">Jan</a> bought me my own real cool domain, who would of guessed? Bobschmuck.com. Damn, that sound awsome my own name as a domain. Haha, I own myself. Now, I can tell myself what to do and demand respect... I guess everyone know the next things I'll be typing.<br /><br />You need to update your links and bookmarks to my new Title and URL.<br /><br />Title: <a href="http://www.bobschmuck.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bob Schmuck</span></a><br />URL: <a href="http://www.bobschmuck.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.bobschmuck.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />As of right now, I've selected the a templet from <a href="http://www.jonwaraas.com/">Jon Waraas</a> blog, Drunk Loser. I still need to talk to Jon because I've added and changed a few lines of code in the templete. For example, in photoshop, I changed the fonts on the left site navigation bar.<br /><br />Anyways... I'll talk to him later so go checkout my new blog, <a href="http://www.bobschmuck.com/">bobschmuck.com</a>.<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-3488932515533651644?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-49309023046171636592006-12-22T12:22:00.000-08:002006-12-22T12:25:25.386-08:00Growing into a network!I would like to introduce you to my new network, “Growing Ground”. I’ve choose this name because the meaning is based on my websites being planted and grown from the ground up with each seed growing to become it’s own network, in the future. <br /><br />The Network’s To-do List:<br />- Setup a website for the network.<br />- Tweak the design and logo.<br />- Finish adding it to all the pages of the sites in the network<br />- Setup a LLC, which I'm reading and learning about, now.<br /><br /><br />I would like talk about the sites in the network…<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.schmuckgame.com">Schmuckgame.com</a></strong><br />This Game site has grown from just 5 flash games as a seed in the beginning into a pleasant small plant with over 100 flash games. It’s my favorite site. <br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.theairsoftgun.net">Theairsoftgun.net</a></strong><br />This site has over 50 pages and growing. It has information on anything related to airsoft guns with content on equipment, types of guns, games, safety precautions and more…<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.girlygame.net">GirlyGame.net</a></strong><br />This game site was developed to target girly girls, who enjoy playing flash games with out blood or fighting. It’s actually my wife’s idea and site. <br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.talkingboard2u.com">Talkingboard2u.com</a></strong><br />This site is still in development with information on talking boards more well know as Ouija boards. It has a page on related names for talking boards, which is rather interesting.<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.paintballsupport.com">Paintballsupport.com</a></strong><br />This site will have loads of information of the extreme sport of Paintballing. It’s still in development; however, it already has a great amount of information that can help any person interested in this sport. <br /><br /><br />For the longest time, I’ve been trying to some what keep most of my sites a secret but recently realizing that anyone who really wants to find out the sites that I own can easy find out with a little bit of researching. This is why I’ve decided to uncover my sites and talk about them more often.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-4930902304617163659?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-54014754387019802372006-12-19T21:32:00.000-08:002006-12-22T11:28:04.224-08:00Visiting the parkWe drove to the park because the city has been displaying around 50 different large Santa cutouts in a small area of the park. If you were wondering who took the picture, we both did… First Meghan took a picture of me and then I exchanged spots with her and took a picture of her. When we got home she used Photoshop to merge the pictures together.<br /><br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uboB1vdHLuk/RYjLZYmDw1I/AAAAAAAAAAM/YLxL7L_Me-E/s1600-h/santaclause.jpg"><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uboB1vdHLuk/RYjLZYmDw1I/AAAAAAAAAAM/YLxL7L_Me-E/s320/santaclause.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010478222408926034" /></a><br /><br />Did you know? It does get cold in Arizona. In the picture it was about 32 degrees. We were freezing! We’ve always lived in Arizona so we aren’t used to cold weather.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-5401475438701980237?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-19041942013192602006-12-13T11:17:00.000-08:002006-12-13T11:21:51.913-08:00SEO: 301 Redirect<p>Yesterday, I was reading <a href="http://www.jonwaraas.com/" target="_blank">Jon Waraas’s Blog</a> on using a 301 Redirect on all of his websites. He explains that using this little tip will send you to http://www.sitename.com when you type http://sitename.com. This avoids search engines from giving http://sitename.com credit. Instead your main address will receive the credit. Basically, this little tip on improving your ranking will merge the two addresses into one. <br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">How to do this?<br /></span>You might be wondering how you can do this little SEO tip too. All you have to do is access your .htaccess page and add the following code.<br /><br />RewriteEngine On<br />RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.<span style="color:#cc0000;">sitename</span>\.<span style="color:#cc0000;">com</span>$ [NC]<br />RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.<span style="color:#cc0000;">sitename</span>.<span style="color:#cc0000;">com</span>/$1 [R=301,L]<br /><br />Replace “<strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">sitename</span></strong>” and "<span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>TLD</strong></span>" with your site’s name and TLD.<br /><br /> I’ve decided to begin adding this code to all of my sites too. I’ve already added the code to my two flash game sites. 2 sites down 16 sites to go!</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-1904194201319260?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-32890317833292869462006-12-03T10:33:00.000-08:002006-12-03T10:36:15.463-08:00November IncomeThis month has been superb with a record daily average. <br /><br />November Income - $38*<br />*Even though I sold a total of $290.83 of private advertisement, most of the links sold were for multiple months. <br /><br />AdSense - $204.47<br /><br />Yahoo Publisher - $194.07<br /><br />========================<br />Total - $436.54<br />Daily - $14.55<br /><br />Keep in mind. My goal is to be earning $1,000 by January 2007. I only have 30 days to double my income. Wish me luck!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-3289031783329286946?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-53641075122062721912006-12-01T11:31:00.000-08:002006-12-01T11:40:03.743-08:00My Mother… The Super Writer!<p>You might know that <a href="http://www.jansideas.com/">Jan Pavis</a>, an excellent writer and an Internet entrepreneur, is my mother. I would like to take this moment to tell everyone that she is one of the best online article writers around with the ability to write on any topic. I’m not just saying this because she is my mother. She’s been writing all her life and recently she’s been learning the differences from offline and online writing and catching on quickly too.<br /><br />Lately, she has been receiving requests from other Internet Entrepreneurs that want articles so she decided to setup a page on her Blog for anyone wanting her writing service. If you need an article wrote, check her <a href="http://jansideas.com/writing-services/">Writing Service Page</a>. You won’t regret it!<br /><br />Not only is she a great writer, she also helps other Internet Entrepreneurs improve their writing skills by explaining how she goes about researching a topic, writing an article, and much more. I would highly recommend reading these two posts: </p><p>- <a title="Permanent Link: HOW I WRITE ARTICLES" href="http://jansideas.com/2006/11/02/98/" rel="bookmark">HOW I WRITE ARTICLES</a><br />- <a title="Permanent Link: HOW I RESEARCH ARTICLES" href="http://jansideas.com/2006/11/30/how-i-research-articles/" rel="bookmark">HOW I RESEARCH ARTICLES</a></p><p>I’ve followed, “HOW I WRITE ARTICLES“ for one of my paintballing articles and notice a great improvement compared to the previous ones. So if you want to boost your writing skills, check out her blog at, <a href="http://www.jansideas.com/">jansideas.com</a>.<br /><br />Even if you don’t have the money or don’t need her service, read her Blog so you can learn form a great self-taught writer for FREE. With her advice, you might become one too.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-5364107512206272191?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1162662145461290492006-11-04T09:34:00.000-08:002006-11-04T09:43:16.573-08:00Answering Questions...<p>Al has asked very good questions and I will answer them as best as I can. If anyone else have question just drop me a comment. :)</p><ol><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Al’s first question, He asked, “Where did you get started?” </strong><br />The very first site I developed was in 2001 for my Boy Scout Eagle Project on the topic of Testicular Cancer. At that time, I wasn’t aware of the chance of making income from developing a site. It wasn’t until 2005 that I found out there was a chance of me making money online. I was studying and trying to develop sites for 4 years until I made my first $0.16 (July 1, 2005). Keep in mind I wasn’t trying to make any money during this time because I wasn’t aware that I could. The first month I started to try to make money was December 2005, which I made $33.76. Since then I’ve been studying and testing different layouts, ad placements, and more.</span><br /><br /></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Al’s Second question. He asked, “Where did you earn your first dollar on the web?"<br /></strong>After moving my first site to its own domain name, I made my first $1.00 from AdSense. I don’t think I could explain the process of making your first dollar because it took me four years :). It was a great feeling knowing that I made a dollar without working for someone. The key in making your first dollar is to keep it simple, using trial &amp; Error, and work to learn not money. When your are developing a site focus on using your site to help the people on your topic not on how much money the site will make at lease in the beginning. Also use your first site to test out different methods. The number one thing to do is use your thing between your sideburns.</span></li></ol><p>Al, your goal on seeing a dollar amount in AdSense is a great idea. I remember when I first started, I set goals of making any amount of money and seeing a small amount in my AdSense account made me very happy. Think of it this way, every racer must start at the beginning of the track to reach the finish. </p><p>Keep your eye on the prize!</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-116266214546129049?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1162336607785503882006-10-31T15:13:00.000-08:002006-10-31T15:16:47.786-08:00Still Around...I know it has been awhile since my last post. I will have a nice update on my progress of becoming successful. If you have any questions on a specific topic, leave me a comment and I'll answer it with my next post.<br /><br />Good luck on earning!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-116233660778550388?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1161193783831839612006-10-18T10:41:00.000-07:002006-10-18T10:50:28.763-07:00Avoid owning to many domains!I hear about Internet Entrepreneurs owning to many undeveloped domains all the time. The domains just sit in their collection yelling, “Develop me”. These people never have the time to develop these sites because they have to many and feel over whelmed. Well, let me enlighten you with my secret on avoiding that dilemma…<br /><br />After registering a domain, I fully focus on that domain until it earns my initial investment back, which is normally only $8 for the registering fee. This means I never purchase another domain until my previous domain returns the invested funds. In the beginning, this would take around 4-6 months however now it only takes about 30 days. <br /><br />When you first start out, you might want to register 3-6 domains to create volume so you arn't just focusing on one site that doesn't work. But remember not to register another domain until these sites bring you back the invested funds. When developing one of these sites first develop the site then promote it after you have a finished product (site). You might even want to develop the 3-6 on related topics so you can cross-link them.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-116119378383183961?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1161133809176496572006-10-17T18:05:00.000-07:002006-10-17T18:11:58.893-07:00Jon on shoemoney's showEarlier today, Jon was a co-host on Shoemoney’s radio show at www.webmasterradio.fm. I personally don’t know either one of them but I’ve been reading and learning from Jon for a while now. Jon’s Blog has been very helpful in my journey with my favorite article being, “<a href="http://www.aojon.com/applying-the-kiss-method-to-your-projects/" target="_blank">Applying the K.I.S.S. Method To Your Projects</a>”. I’ve been using this method on my projects and been seeing great improvements compared to my past site projects. On the other hand, I haven’t really been reading or learning from Shoemoney because he “seems” like a big douche. <br /><br /><strong>About the Show</strong><br />All in all, the show was a great learning tool. It was funny to hear how normal Shoemoney and Jon sound but they are making a shit load of money. I noticed Shoemoney seems more anal than Jon. I really enjoyed. Their conversation about developing a simple website that makes a profit even if it is only $1 a day. After finding a working method, begin creating volume. I realized this about three months ago and my profits have been increasing since. This is also related to their comment about people need to stop looking for a magic key and just start developing sites.<br /><br />I wasn’t able to join the IRC Chatroom however I hear that the moderators were banning everyone and not really helpful. I’ve noticed most chatrooms for specific events are normally very unorganized. I am not disappointed in missing the chance to be in the conversation in the Chatroom. <br /><br />Jon really stuck it to the Warrior forum and Shoemoney’s sister asked him not to be haten on the Warrior forum. And all Jon said was, “Why not”. <br /><br />Anyways... This episode should be in the archives at <a href="http://www.webmasterradio.fm/episodes/index.php?showId=43" target="_blank">Net Income</a>, eventually.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-116113380917649657?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1160000035572097322006-10-04T15:13:00.000-07:002006-10-04T15:15:34.616-07:00September IncomeIt is that time of the month boys and girls… posting my earnings. It was a very profitable month with multiple sources of income. In the past, my daily average never made it over $10 however this month the daily average not only surpassed $10 it also surpassed $20. My daily average was $21.87 and a monthly total of $656.10.<br /><br /><strong>The sources of income</strong><br />Sold two sites for $285<br />Yahoo Publisher was $194.75<br />Adsense was $176.26<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-116000003557209732?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1159807080549641512006-10-02T09:15:00.000-07:002006-10-02T09:48:59.623-07:00The Bone Thugs Concert<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6893/1694/1600/boneswizz1.1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6893/1694/320/boneswizz1.1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />As I write this, we are on our way back from the trip to the Bone Thug Concert. At the concert, we waited in line for 4-hours, which put us in the second row. We should have been in the first row but some fuckers cut in line. The performance from Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone, and Layzie Bone was amazing. Their voices harmonized perfect together. When we get home, I’ll post some of the pictures. <br /><br />The coolest part is that my websites paid for this whole trip, selling two sites and an adsense check. <br /><br /><strong>Thanks</strong><br />I would like to give a thank you to <a href="http://www.khalidslife.com">Khalid</a>, who helped me sell my two websites, <a href="http://www.webbrander.com">gaines</a> for buying my websites, Google for paying on doing something I love, and Bone Thugs for having the concert. <br /><br /><strong>Earnings</strong><br />I'll have my earnings up soon for last month...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115980708054964151?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1158980587066461772006-09-22T20:00:00.000-07:002006-10-02T20:04:46.393-07:00The LP Project and more...<p>Another day… Another Blog post! I have some great things to talk about to day. It has been a very eventful month so far. My goal to have $1,000 a month is getting closer and closer.<br /><br /><strong>1. Personal Life<br />2. 3 Days Earning<br />3. Link Exchange<br />4. LP Project<br />5. The Next Project<br />6. Advice</strong><br /><br /><strong>1. Personal Life</strong><br />Raise your Hand, “my hand is raised” if you would like to kick the people, who develop annoying spy ware, in the nuts! Right in the nuts! A few days ago… I had to format my hard drive because all the spy ware was eating all my recourses, making my computer operate like it was retarded. Any one else has had a retarded computer?<br /><br /><strong>2. 3 Days Earnings</strong><br />Why has the last three days been great, you ask? Well… The progress of achieving my goal on having a passive income of $1,000 a month by January 2007 is doing exceptional. The last three days, AdSense and Yahoo Publish have made a total of $74, which is about $25 a day. I can only hope this will continue and improve in the future. </p><p><strong>3. Link Exchange Request</strong><br />I’ve been ignoring webmasters who been sending link exchange requests. I feel bad… Wait no I don’t because these webmasters want a link on my main page or link page for an link on their page with over 100 or their directory. If you want to exchange links with one of my sites, you would need a related site without<br /><br /><strong>4. LP Project<br /></strong>Since the beginning of this project, I was debating on revealing the site or keeping it a secret. I’ve decided to reveal the site to the wonderful readers on my blog. Here it goes… It’s a 50-page information site on Airsoft Guns. The site address is <a href="http://www.theairsoftgun.net/">http://www.theairsoftgun.net</a>. Seeing that it was my first large information site, the organization was a little sloppy. I believe my similar future projects will turn out cleaner and the organization will be improved. If you have a related site, I have two more opening to exchange links so just drop me a line.<br /><br /><strong>5. The Next Project<br /></strong>I decided to develop another large information site that requires a low amount of cash investment but high amount of writing. Seeing that writing is my weakness, this project is great because it allows me to practice my writing skills. It will be following the same guidelines as the LP Project. This project will be codenamed the PS Project. The PS stands for Paintball Support. The project will be on the extreme sport, Paintball. I started this project on September 9th and should be finished in late December. I will keep you updated on the progress…<br /><br /><strong>6. Advice<br /></strong>If you find a method that works, repeat the process over and over. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115898058706646177?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1158622238120824112006-09-18T16:28:00.000-07:002006-09-18T16:34:47.943-07:00My Addiction<span style="font-size:85%;">This story begins in an IEA (Internet Entrepreneuring Anonymous) meeting…<br /><br /><strong>Me:</strong> My name is Bob Schmuck and I am addicted to… Internet Entrepreneuring!<br /><br /><strong>Counselor:</strong> Thank you for coming to the meeting. You are very strong person, and admitting is the first steps to recovery from success.<br /><br /><strong>The Group:</strong> Clapping…<br /><br /><strong>Counselor:</strong> I know the IE is a very difficult addiction to battle, alone.<br /><br /><strong>Me:</strong> I’ve been addicted to IE since 2005 and it feels like a part of me.<br /><br /><strong>Counselor:</strong> You are stronger then this addiction!<br /><br /><strong>Me:</strong> Wait! Your retarded this isn’t an addiction this is MY LIFE!<br /><br /><strong>The Group:</strong> Gasp…<br /><br /><strong>Counselor:</strong> You need to control your addiction and your opinion.<br /><br /><strong>Me:</strong> Internet Entrepreneuring is in my blood and always will be!<br /><br /><strong>Counselor:</strong> I can help you with medication. It will kill your drive for success. </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><strong>Me:</strong> Internet Entrepreneuring and Success is the most wonderful addiction in my life.<br /><br /><strong>Me:</strong> I don’t need medication… go suck a lemon!<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><strong>THE END.</strong></span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115862223812082411?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1157684481251609942006-09-07T19:58:00.000-07:002006-09-07T20:08:00.236-07:00Sold 2 Sites!What will you learn today?<br /><br /><strong>1. Personal Life<br />2. Sold 2 Sites<br />3. The LP Project<br />4. SchmuckGame.com<br />5. Advice</strong><br /><br /><strong>1. Personal Life</strong><br />Yesterday, there was 12 days before my 6th month wedding anniversary and 26 days until the Bone Thugs, which is Meghan’s favorite music group, concert. I estimated it would cost around $220 to be able to make this anniversary gift come true so I had 26 days to earn $220 excluding any money earned from my daytime job (Carpet Cleaning). I had the idea to sell one of my sites to come up with that cash. One day later, this morning I was able to sell two sites for a total of $285. It was a very memorial moment in my Internet Entrepreneur life.<br /><br /><strong>2. Sold 2 Sites<br /></strong>This morning with the help of <a href="http://www.khalidslife.com" target="_blank">Khalid</a>, I was able to sell infantseczema.com for $90 and tricepworkout.net for $195 with total of $285. This should greatly improve my daily average for this month. As I said earlier, I will be using $220 for the trip to the Bone Thugs Concert, $35 to reinvest back into my websites (probable buying more domains), $30 for bills. The total time spent on selling these sites was roughly 2 hours. I honestly believe no employer would ever pay me $142.50 an hour…<br /><br /><strong>3. The LP Project<br /></strong>I’ve been really enjoying the writing experience gained by this project. It is 80% done and has earned $45.29. Keep in mind that I’ve only invested $10 in to the domain and nothing in the advertising. I am debating on telling everyone this site URL when completely finish or keep it secret.<br /><br /><strong>4. SchmuckGame.com</strong><br />For the last month, it has been averaging around 140 visitors a day. I am happy with its consistency. Anyways… A while back, about 3 months ago, I decided to have my brother update the site weekly with new flash games. Earlier today, I called him and he said, “I need to talk to you about updating the site”. I had a gut feeling that he was getting tired of updating the site… My gut was correct. He wasn’t enjoying it. I was fine with it because I understand that developing or updating sites aren’t for everyone. I’m pleased he at lease gave it a chance.<br /><br /><strong>5. Advice</strong><br />Set a goal and achieve it!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115768448125160994?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1157588180374617802006-09-06T17:14:00.000-07:002006-09-06T17:19:03.500-07:00Selling - Tricepworkout.netI have decided to dab into the world of selling websites with the help of <a href="http://www.khalidslife.com/" target="_blank">Khalid</a>. I’m especially thankful in having his guidance (thanks Khalid). The posting of the selling will be on Digital Point, Wicked Fire, Talkfreelance, and Netpreneur Forums. If you would like to receive information on the selling or place an offer, contact me at <a href="mailto:webmaster@dontbeaschmuck.org">webmaster@dontbeaschmuck.org</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Main Reason For Selling</strong><br />In 12 days, it will be my 6th month wedding anniversary. My gift to Meghan will be tickets to her favorite music group, Bone Thug n Harmony; the concert is in New Mexico. Now, for the next 26 days, I must earn that money to be able to afford the trip.<br /><br /><strong>Another Reason For Selling</strong><br />I wanted to learn how to sell sites so in the future I’ll be able to earn extra money by selling sites.<br /><br />Well… I’ll talk to you later.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115758818037461780?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1155865096720956412006-08-17T18:34:00.000-07:002006-08-18T07:11:57.060-07:0010 simple steps in developing an information site<p>Today we will be talking about the follow:</p><ol><li><strong>Personal Life</strong></li><li><strong>10 simple steps in developing an information site</strong></li><li><strong>Information Site</strong></li><li><strong>The LP project</strong></li><li><strong>Advice</strong></li></ol><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>1. Personal life</strong><br />The last few days have been interesting… Most of you know that I had cancer in 2001 however most of you don’t know that the chemotherapy treatment did a number on my teeth… Two days ago, my wife and I had to go the ER because my bottom left jaw was swollen caused by one of my infected tooth. The doctor gave me prescriptions of Percocet and Penicillin and he told me, “You need to call the dentist tomorrow”. Well… I wasn’t able to get an appointment until today. Earlier today, the dentist pulled my tooth, which was dreadfully painful!!! Now, my mouth is swollen and hurts however I am happy to finally get rid of that tooth. Last week, I was not expecting on having a week like this.<br /><br /><br /><strong>2. 10 simple steps in developing an information site.</strong><br /><br />1. Find a niche<br />a. Use this program, <a href="http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/">inventory.overture.com</a> to find the amount of searches are done last month on a specific keyword then use Google to see the competition.<br /><br />2. Select keywords<br />a. You could use <a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal">Google Adwords</a> to find high paying keywords. This is also a great way to find topics for your articles.<br /><br />3. Register a domain with the main keyword<br />a. Keep the domain easy to remember. I recommend not using a dash in the domain for example keyword-keyword2.com because it makes it difficult to remember.<br /><br />4. Develop a very basic design<br />a. If you would like, I could send a simple design for $10.<br /><br />5. Write three 200-300 word articles<br />a. If you’re a bad writer, have a family member review it before publishing on the site. Also remember practice makes perfect!<br /><br />6. Implement PPC advertising on the pages.<br />a. I recommend advertisement under your navigation and at the bottom of your article however testing different advertisement placement is your best choice. The advertisements should blend into your site.<br /><br />7. Exchange link with related sites.<br />a. In Google search bar, type - keyword AND “submit site”. This should find related site to exchange links with.<br /><br />8. Submit to free directories<br />a. Easy directories section has some easy and free search engines to submit to.<br /><br />9. Post on related forum<br />a. Similar to finding link exchanges, type – keyword AND “Forum” in the Google search bar.<br /><br />10. Leave the it alone<br />a. However you could slowly add more articles to improve the site but it is not required.<br /><br /><br /><strong>3. Information sites</strong><br />As an Internet Entrepreneur, my favorite projects are developing Information sites because the quick return in my initial investment, which is only $10, and the passive income. For example, my newest LP project (which I will talk about latter) has already made me over $20 in its first month. I know it isn’t that much however think about it… If you develop 20 information sites for $200, you could make +200% back on that investment in the first month plus the additional income on the following months. No bank in the world could achieve +200% on your return.<br /><br /><strong>4. The LP project</strong><br />Yeah. I have decided to use code names because it makes it easier to refer too. The LP stands for Largest Project. This project is my largest information site so far. I’ve already mentioned the LP project before in a previous post. It is following the guidelines of Jon’s article, “<a href="http://www.aojon.com/applying-the-kiss-method-to-your-projects/">Applying the K.I.S.S method to your projects</a>”. The project is about 50% done and staying on schedule, which should be finished late September. In the future, I am planning on outsourcing tasks to be able to finish similar projects quicker.<br /><br /><strong>5. Advice<br /></strong>In the beginning, as an Internet Entrepreneur, money is very limited. That is why you should start small projects to learning the basics. Next time you have an extra $10 register a domain and begin developing a simple site, instead of buying a music CD that will only site on the shelf.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115586509672095641?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1155862784959909732006-08-17T17:58:00.000-07:002006-08-17T18:59:06.893-07:00Easy to submit directoriesI made this list to give you some easy to submit directories to help your sites so enjoy.<br /><br />1. <a href="http://www.entireweb.com/free_submission">http://www.searchit.com/addurl.htm</a><br />3. <a href="http://www.bigclique.com/addurl/index.php">http://www.bigclique.com/addurl/index.php</a><br />4. <a href="http://www.thetopsites.net/static/submit.php?langid=2">http://www.thetopsites.net/static/submit.php?langid=2</a><br />5. <a href="http://www.splatsearch.com/submit.html">http://www.splatsearch.com/submit.html</a><br />6. <a href="http://www.burf.com/submit.php">http://www.burf.com/submit.php</a><br />7. <a href="http://www.anoox.com/add_for_indexing_free.jsp">http://www.anoox.com/add_for_indexing_free.jsp</a><br />8. <a href="http://www.moshix2.net/add_step1.htm">http://www.moshix2.net/add_step1.htm</a><br />9. <a href="http://www.netsearch.org/addurl.html">http://www.netsearch.org/addurl.html</a><br />10. <a href="http://www.walhello.com/addlinkgl.html">http://www.walhello.com/addlinkgl.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115586278495990973?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1154792109374724202006-08-05T08:31:00.000-07:002006-08-09T09:15:39.496-07:00Just keepin it real...Thats all I am doing... keepin it reall! :)<br /><br /><strong>1. Personal life<br />2. July’s Growth<br />3. July’s Profit<br />4. The Four Bought Informations Sites<br />5. Gameoftheday.net<br />6. Goals</strong><br /><br /><br /><strong>1. Personal life</strong><br />I’ve been having trouble staying in touch with my Internet and personal friends. I have a feeling that they think I am avoiding them. The truth is my daytime job (Carpet Cleaning); Becoming wealthy online, and spending time with my wife has been using up all my time. The small amount of free time I do have is spent resting.<br /><br /><strong>2. July’s Growth</strong><br />For the month of July, my entire site collection had 24,170 unique visitors.<br /><br /><strong>3. July’s Profit</strong><br />The month of July was very profitable with the net income of $385.99.<br /><br /><strong>4. The Four Bought Informations Sites</strong><br />Last month, I told everyone about buying four information sites form my good friend Khalid. It was a smart choice to buy these sites because my daily avarege has increased $2.39 a day. I’ve owned them for only 26 days and made a total of $73.94.<br /><br /><strong>5. Gameoftheday.net</strong><br />I trully believe in doing less and to achieve more. That is why I am getting tired of updating this site daily. It is using up to much of my time so what I really need to do is get a script that would automationcally update this site with a new flash game every day with out using my time. If you have any advise, please leave a comment.<br /><br /><strong>6. Goals</strong><br />I enjoy setting goals but my favorite part is achieving them. I have decided to really challenge myself with my next goal, which will be very gratifying to achieve. It will require a lot of focusing on projects that are profitable. I might as well tell you want the goal is. In January 2007, my goal is to be wealth, which is having a passive income that is equal to my expenses which is $1000. This will allow Meghan (lovely wife) to start working with my father and I, go back to school, or just work fewer hours.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115479210937472420?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1153862890370381872006-07-25T14:27:00.000-07:002006-08-18T07:12:26.306-07:00Whats been going on?Today’s menu is…<br /><br /><strong>1. Personal life<br />2. The information sites<br />3. SchmuckGame.com<br />4. Internet entrepreneur friends<br />5. Goals<br />6. Advice</strong><br /><br /><br /><strong>1. Personal life</strong><br />This coming up week end my old brother and I are replacing the head gaskets, timing belt, and water pump in my wife 1996 Kia Sportage. Two weeks ago, the water pump went out and the engine over heated and broke the head gaskets. We are hoping the engine block isn’t cracked, which there is about 10% chance. Wish us good luck!<br /><br /><strong>2. The information sites</strong><br />Since the beginning, I’ve always enjoyed developing information sites (not adsense ready content sites) with quality content; however, I’ve always been a weak writer so I’ve decided to focus on this weakness and make it into my strength. The first step in focusing on this weakness is by practicing, practicing and practicing. I’ve determined to develop my largest information site project ever. It will be following Jon’s guidelines in his “Applying the K.I.S.S. Method To Your Projects” article:<br /><br />- Find a Niche<br />- Research 10 different topics that cover the niche<br />- Write down 5 main ideas for each of the 10 topics<br />- Each 5 main ideas only need to be 1 or 2 sentences<br />- Write an article from each of those 5 main ideas<br />- Should equal around 50 articles (pages).<br /><br />So far, I’ve developed the site, researched the 10 topics, and wrote the 5 main ideas. This site is already online and already with only 12 pages has been getting great results. My plan is to develop this niche project then move on to another niche project. All of these projects will have unique content written by me until I’m happy with my skill of writing.<br /><br /><strong>3. SchmuckGame.com</strong><br />Awhile back, I wrote about hiring my first employee, which is my little brother Matt, to update the site with a new flash game, weekly. Keeping everyone updated, I am very happy in this choice to hiring him. He has been doing a wonderful job and the site has been receiving over 200 unique visitors a day. The most wonderful factor is that the site requires very little of my time so I can focus on other projects (my largest information site).<br /><br /><strong>4. Internet entrepreneur friends</strong><br />As of right now, I only have one Internet Entrepreneur friend, Khalid. I truly do want to get to know more Internet Entrepreneurs but I’m lazy so if you are one send me a line and we can get to know and help each other.<br /><br /><strong>5. Goals</strong><br />As an Internet Entrepreneur, I need to set goals for myself. About three months ago, I made these following goals I want to achieve in three months. Well… It will be three months on August 10th, which is only 16 days away.<br /><br />- Average $10 a day for a month<br />- Develop a total of 10 websites<br />- Sell one site for a profit<br /><br />I should be able to achieve the first two however I’m having problems with the last goal of selling a site for a profit because I don’t like selling my sites. I’ll keep everyone updated on the final outcome.<br /><br /><strong>6. Advice</strong><br />Discover one of your weaknesses and develop it into one of your strengths. After you’re done with one weakness then begin improving on another. The best way to improve a weakness is by focusing on it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115386289037038187?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1153147118073709932006-07-17T07:23:00.000-07:002006-07-17T07:46:53.963-07:00NetpreneurForums Grand Opening!!!The wait is over!!! My friend, <a href="http://www.khalidslife.com/">Khalid</a>, has finish developing his project 6NP. This project is a forum for Internet Entrepreneurs, NetpreneurForums.com. It has topics on developing content and turnkey sites. Also a place to Kick Back and discuss aspects of running your online business, industry news, thoughts and feelings.<br /><br />The following is a post from one of the members, Jan.<br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">"I don't know about anyone else, but I am SO excited. I see the potential here. I have gotten so much out of this forum, with just the 'seed packet' members, I can't wait to see what this will develope into with more members and continued contributions from the curret members. I'm very excited because I know it will only get better."</span></div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.netpreneurforums.com/index.php?act=Reg&CODE=00" target="_blank"><strong>netpreneurforums.com</strong></a> - Become a Member!<br /><br /><div align="left">Do you want to learn more as an Internet Entrepreneurs? Become a member and educate yourself and others. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115314711807370993?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1152285546288816722006-07-07T08:17:00.000-07:002006-07-08T10:09:18.213-07:00Bought Four Information SitesEarlier this week, I bought four information sites from my good buddy, <a href="http://www.khalidslife.com">Khalid</a>. He wanted some money to boost his future project. Code name 6NP, which looks excellent so far. The project must be keep unrevealed until the grand opening but trust me it is first-class.<br /><br />The Four Sites:<br />- <a href="http://www.graciejujitsu.info">Gracie Ju Jitsu</a><br />- <a href="http://www.infantseczema.com/">Infants Eczema</a><br />- <a href="http://www.abcrunch.net">AB Crunch</a><br />- <a href="http://www.tricepworkout.net">Tricep Workout</a><br /><br />With some work, these sites have some great potential.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115228554628881672?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1152037585318628842006-07-04T11:13:00.000-07:002006-07-04T11:26:25.340-07:00Growth and Profit - June<strong>Growth</strong><br />This is the total unique visitors from all of my sites for the month of June.<br />===========<br /><span style="color:#000000;">Unique Visitors<br />46,850</span><br />===========<br /><br /><strong>Profit</strong><br />The income had a bad decrease from last month. In June, the income decreased to $6.66 a day. What a scary number. <br />===========<br />Income<br />$200.05<br /><br />Daily income<br />$6.66<br /><br />Expense<br />$24.85<br />------------<br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Profit<br />$175.20<br /></span>===========<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115203758531862884?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1150987621024775422006-06-22T07:37:00.000-07:002006-06-22T07:48:27.193-07:00Btopic.com Wants You!Khalid and my new project, Btopic.com, is doing wonderful. Everything is moving along quicker than expected. <br /><br />We are now insearch for Internet Entreprenoer Bloggers to post on Btopic.com. In return you will get a share of the profits. <br /><br />Come check out all the details: <a href="http://btopic.com/?p=40">http://btopic.com/?p=40</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115098762102477542?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18184960.post-1150905848216432762006-06-21T09:00:00.000-07:002006-06-28T07:29:55.766-07:00Free Advertising - The 60 Day Trial!<a href="http://botw.org/helpcenter/sponsor.aspx" target="_blank"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 20px 10px 20px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6893/1694/320/free-advertising.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><p>As an Internet Entrepreneur, bringing visitors to your site is the main goal! Using advertising is a method to achieve this purpose. In my opinion, free advertising does wonders if you know where to look.<br /><br />Today, I found another free advertising opportunity that has shown itself however this opportunity is only lasting this month, June. You can find this free advertising at Best of the web. They are providing you with free advertising for 60 days but when the 60 days is over you will be charged a monthly amount. You will need to cancel the subscription before the 60-day free trial.<br /><br />I’ve signed up and waiting to get approved by the editors. In a couple of days, I will let everyone know the progress. If the outcome of this free advertising is positive, I might pay the monthly fee. That is the great part about free trails.<br /><br />You should test the free trial too. Then come back and let everyone know the progress.<br /><a href="http://botw.org/helpcenter/sponsor.aspx" target="_blank">Test the free 60 day trial!</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18184960-115090584821643276?l=bobschmuck.blogspot.com'/></div>Bob Schmuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683230207655743551noreply@blogger.com1