Whining Solves Nothing

June 13th, 2006 · 6 Comments

I guess you folks think all I do is sit around and find something new to bitch about. Wallow about in my debt-ridden misery. I suppose you think I wait eagerly for the next email to pop into my inbox so I can devour whatever pitch the guberu flings my way.

I do read with much delight at the latest promises of online wealth. I’m like everybody else with a six figure Google dream hoping that this might be the one. But I am cynical, and broke, enough at this point not to take any of the offers seriously anymore.

You may wonder if I actually get around to doing anything more than whining about gurus making mad cash from over-priced, over-hyped (OPOH) ebooks, memberships being pimped like they were the doorway to the Playboy Mansion and software geeks selling products like they were some kind of gold artifacts. I’m beginning to wonder too…

I don’t do any of the stuff that the gurus say you must in order to make real money. I don’t have a list. I don’t have a membership site. I don’t build and sell my own products.

I suppose if I was smart I would collect an email from the cool people who read this blog and sell them a membership to an exclusive site that sold Lost Ball balls. How cool.

I’m like many of you who struggle daily. Man, I know you. I am you. We take those membership PLR articles and dutifully rewrite them things. You get 40-50 and it takes about 4 hours to do them justice, right? Exhausted and cross-eyed, you build a blog to post the articles on. Fantastico is no small gift. Half your plug-ins probably aren’t set right. Permalinks, Adsense deluxe, php-exec. Good grief, what now?

If you’re lucky, one of the first purchases you made in this gig was for RSS2B.
If you’re lucky you actually will take the time, or have the time, to set up a RSS2B project to post the articles to your weblog.

Seems easier to just post to the blog once a week, right? 40 articles. 40 weeks.

Cool. Supposedly the SE’s really dig things being added to your site.
Not cool when you have 20, 30, 40 blogs.

Let’s trade links.
Oh god. Let’s not.

Let’s write an article to submit to the article directories. SE’s like that supposedly.
I’d prefer you just shoot my left foot.

No matter how easy marketers try to make this gig, it just isn’t. This takes alot of time or it takes alot of money. When I’m preparing for my dirt nap I’d prefer to look back and think that I sure wish I had more money. Because if I look back and think of all the time I wasted clicking along on these tiny little keys for my Adsense fix, it will truly be a bummer.

So, when next we meet I will explain what I am working on to hopefully free time and make a little money.

Tags: Reality and Whining

Submit Article: Digg | Del.icio.us | Stumble it!

6 responses so far ↓

Leonard // Jun 13, 2006 at 7:20 pm

You do a lot better than I do. I have websites, but I have a devil of a time posting to them. My wife puts google adsense on most of them so we do make a little bit off of that. Good luck to you.

Leonard
Ron // Jun 14, 2006 at 10:21 am

Talk about not having enough time. It’s 3am here and I have to get up at 8am or so. I just spent the last hour reading your blog, one article after another. Not only did I find each and every one very refreshing, I was/am addicted to your writing. Rather than “clicking out on one of your adsense links” I had to keep checking out other recent entries to see what else you wrote and your view on the subject.

To summarize, I honestly think you have something going for you and just need the traffic/market. Your writing is excellent and kept me wanting more. Sure there is the fact that I agree with pretty much everything you wrote and enjoyed seeing I wasn’t the only one but the way you write has more to do with it.

This is my first visit to your blog and I have already been through probably 30 others tonight…but couldn’t close the page lol. I don’t comment on blogs often so just usually leave with what I learned but I had to at least let you know that I appreciate your writing. And from reading the other comments you have gotten, most everyone else that visits thinks the same.

I don’t know if you enjoy the critical slant when writing but have you considered any kind of review site? With you writing/opinion on products/services you could write your review and then even link to the products through affiliate links and such. I am sure there are products that you would endorse so you wouldn’t have to make false claims and such but I have a feeling that with your writing talent and your refreshingly open and honest approach you could do very well just critiquing “things”. Maybe not the most exciting arena but adsense, amazon, cj and ebay could easily be affiliated into something like that.

I don’t have the tech know-how (programming/scripting) or even the design skills, but I do share the passion, lack of time and underlying feeling that “there has to be a way in” to this stuff. At least you have the writing talent heheh .

I don’t know how interested you would be, but if you are looking for some kind of “partner” for different projects I would be happy to work with you trying to defeat this adsense thing together. Feel free to contact me if interested .

Regardless, don’t give up and please keep writing. From the 1 hour I have spent with you, I feel you deserve those big checks from google and it can only be a matter of time before everyone knows that .

BTW get some damn ads on here! I am sure contextual ads would be interesting with the content of your site. I am sure I would be interested in checking out those links considering the context .
Splork // Jun 14, 2006 at 12:49 pm

Hey Leonard. Keeping your websites alive is such a drag. I know. I keep building all these weblogs and have to keep feeding them. That is the downside to blogging I suppose. They are born to consume. The one thing that I can offer you is to get RSS2B, if you can justify the cost, and automate the process somewhat. If I can say that I have been successful at any level it is because of that program.

And good luck back to you. I haven’t really cracked this nut in any big way, but when I do I’ll spill the beans here. Keep checking back. Thanks for reading.
Splork // Jun 14, 2006 at 1:25 pm

Hey Ron. Thanks for the nice words. I must say that I am very surprised that people get my writing, or attitude for that matter.

Every post I make I fear will be the last. I wonder if I can keep coming up with ideas and observations to write about. But this business is such fertile grounds for commentary and I find something else that bothers me. Or I make another ill-advised purchase and can rip on my self-induced stupidity.

At some point I am going to sell out and create a page of things that have worked for me in some small way. I’m not so much interested in monetizing this site as much as just seeing if there are people wanting to read about my blunders and observations.

Thanks for reading. Hope you stop by again.
Ray // Jun 14, 2006 at 4:04 pm

Sometimes I believe that every honest person, working hard to make this internet marketing work, and documenting their experience; will somehow morph into a “IM Guru”. Actually this could be applied to any person, in any industry.

Your stories build trust and a readership. If and when success finally comes along, everyone soon asks the question “What really works?”. Splork, your stories are refreshing and I look forward to your next entry and maybe your “What Works Affiliate Links”
Splork // Jun 14, 2006 at 7:25 pm

Thanks Ray. I’d like to think that the readers can trust me. The think is, I am right here in the trenches with you.

You motivated me to write up an article on trust or at least what I think of trust and how I believe some people take advantage of that to get you to buy their stuff. I’ll post that one up in the week or so.

Thanks for reading.