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I hope everyone had a good weekend.  It was father’s day here in the USA, so I spent some time with my dad.  What I really love about internet marketing is that it works for you 24 hours a day.  I made $213 yesterday, while watching golf and eating junk food.  Today I’m going for a hike with my two dogs, then go to the pool for a swim and work on my tan.  But when I get back, it’s back to business (maybe).

Today I’m gonna try and do some of the things that were frustrating me on Saturday.  Writing articles, bookmarking to social sites, and post to some forums.  I’m not even going to start an email campaign.  I know, the money is in the list.  But I just can’t bring myself to do that yet.

It amazes me that rss feeds haven’t done better in internet marketing.  When I find a blog I like, I bookmark it and/or add it to my google reader.   That’s really all anyone should have to do, rather than give out their email address and subscribe to some list.  I wish all the people I subscribe to had an rss feed passing out the same information to their feed subscribers rather through email.

There is the occasional special offer that you wouldn’t want to publish in an rss feed, but that is simply solved by password protecting the post so that only members can read it.  I can’t tell you how many lists I join to get some free report, only to later unsubscribe because they had nothing else unique or interesting to offer.  They usually just send out the canned affiliate provided newsletter to upsell me on some other product.

Anyway, it’s getting too hot outside, so I need to get going if I wanna go hiking.  Here are a few shots from last week.

Like I said, internet marketing is great!  I’m not rich, but make enough so I don’t have to go into a job everyday.

Well it’s Saturday and I’m getting frustrated. One of my best converting adwords campaign is dead. The merchant getsmart.com has cancelled their affiliate program with commission junction. I was just getting it started and after two weeks and $650 net profit, they quit on me. WTF!

The bigger problem is I’m having trouble breaking $300/day. Sure, I’ve had bigger days, but on average, that’s all I make. I mean, $300/day is not bad, it’s a living. But why not $3000/day? Maybe I should work harder. I’m only putting in about 10/hours per week. Most of that time is spent just checking stats, participating in forums, and tweaking bids.

Maybe I’ll give article marketing a another shot. I have several articles already done, but not much traffic ever came of them. What’s the point of having hundreds of useless backlinks? I want traffic. I’m tired of paying google, msn, and yahoo for traffic. All the experienced marketers in the forums swear by writing articles, social bookmarking, building lists, etc… I’m a ppc guy. I love writing ads, researching keywords, and crunching numbers. I hate writing articles, and the thought of building a list just makes me cringe.

I suppose niche marketing is a not that difficult. I find potentially profitable niches all the time. I just don’t feel like writing the articles about something I care nothing about. Many niches aren’t suitable for ppc. I have a great plr company, infogoround. They have tons of articles covering several niches. But you can’t submit plr to ezinearticles. Again it comes back to writing. Whether submitting to article directories, building up your autoresponder, or posting to a blog.

Sorry, I’m just in a negative mood today. I guess I should stop being lazy and start writing, building links, bookmarking, and think about building lists. Maybe try and put 40 hour week in. LOL. I make myself laugh sometimes. I miss the days when all you had to do was put up a banner. I’m gonna start with putting up a sign that says “Why Not $3000/day?”

If anyone is reading this, thanks. I’m flattered. Odds are nobody is. Yet…