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I have given this a lot of thought over the last 24 hours, and I’ve decided to end my radio show. It may come as a surprise to a lot of you readers and fans of the first pilot episode, but the reason for my decisions is because I have been lagging on producing episodes, and I feel as if I’ve failed any fans of the show or potential listeners. I know the idea is awesome, and it would do wonders for the blog if I would continue it, but honestly, it takes up too much time from my day, and I’m just not ready to devote so much time for one thing. Although it was a really fun experience until now, I would much rather put my focus on two major projects for webmasters. The blog, and the new forum.

Which leads me to the 2nd major development. Wickedfire.com launched yesterday, and although I wasn’t expecting too many people to join it and even post much it totally exceeded every expectation I had. I am happy to report that within the first 24 hours of launching we had over 100 new users join, over 2,000 posts, and over 100 new threads. I’m in complete shock too. I had no idea how active a forum could be, or overactive even. I really didn’t think there were that many webmasters out there who wanted to just hang out and shoot the shit with one another, but I guess now that there is an outlet for you guys and girls to just kick back and have some fun during your day that it’s a good thing already.

I’ve decided to setup a few contests that will reward winners with custom made sites made by my team of developers. All of the sites awarded will be overseen by me, personally. The winners will also be required to sign an agreement contract and an NDA, but, they are getting themselves some awesome new niche built sites specifically for them and no one else. These are the exact sites I have been making for the last few months. Although traffic is something they’ll have to bring on for themselves, I can assure you that the ease of use of these sites have no comparison to anything else around. I can sell them if I want, but where’s the fun in that?

WickedFire will also have an apparel line which will not be for sale. The only way to get your hands on them is to win a contest or be awarded them. I am lucky enough to have a family member who owns an apparel manufacturing business, so I can get really great quality items at very cheap rates. Lucky me! But seriously, I think it would be cool if people wore them at conferences and industry parties. I’m also going to launch a ladies line for any of the females out there who want them, because there are so few of you, there will be a unique design to them so you can feel cooler than the guys.

That’s it for now, gotta get back to the forum to keep tabs on everything for the time being, or until I start adding mods. If you have a lot of forum experience, you can shoot me an email with your forum track record to be considered for a mod position. Most mods will be via invite only, and mod powers are very limited so that we can keep a very “freedom” oriented forum concept alive. Only those who truly piss people off will be banned or punished. Almost everything is fair game on there too, which I think is cool.

I’ll be launching the premium section of the forum in the future, maybe a month or two from now, after we hit 1,000 members. I think without the focus of the radio show I can direct a lot more focus on what the premium forum section will be like. I have a ton of great ideas to really help people out. Some of them include a guarantee that every user on there will make at least $1,000 within the month. I don’t care who you are, or how stupid you are, or how little amount of money you have at your disposal. I will make sure and be there for support to prove that you can do it. This is the ultimate ebook killer too. Because they are always making false claims about their proven systems and all that bullshit, with no real support, well, that’s all about to change. So look out for it.

Again, thank you to everyone who has joined the forum. It’s extremely active, and there is a very minimal delay from posting something to getting a response back. Even the big forums don’t have that! Also, the forum is on it’s own dedicated box, so it’s very fast and can handle a truly shitload of users at any given time, and if things do start slowing down, I’ll add another box for load balancing. Keeping everything super fast is a big priority of mine for this.

That’s all for now.. keep pluggin’ away boys and girls.

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Finally, the forum that differs from all other forums is here. It’s my gift to the webmaster industry. A place where you can kick back, and shoot the shit with your fellow webmasters. Make new friends, put your affiliate links and banners in your sigs, no censorship whatsoever. Some other perks include that major players in the industry have agreed to join and become REAL mentors, unlike the policing mentors found on SitePoint or other forums. If you have questions post them there. It’s going to be my new hangout. I’ll be logged on there all the time, so it’s a great place to catch me and other all-stars of the affiliate marketing and traffic game. No fake gurus here boys and girls!

You’ll notice that there are very few categories, and no sub-categories. Reason for this is that I feel being too organized in a forum, especially for webmasters, takes away from the fun of ‘chatting’. It will also keep numerous new posts active for as long as they need to be, and allow the new to overcome the old ones. Well, it makes sense to me, so that’s all that matters!

The rules, as I’ve stated before are pretty simple. Don’t spam, and don’t harass the crap out of people. Poking fun is fine, but don’t go too far or you’ll be warned.

I’m going to add a scammer thread where we can act as a community and post known scammers, both people and programs so that everyone, especially newbies are warned and won’t buy their junk.

Join up and spread the word.

WickedFire.com

…and let me know what you think of the layout/design and logo.

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Well, the time is quickly approaching where we will all have a place where we can sit back, relax, and shoot the shit, aka network with our peers in the webmaster game. With tons of big name stars agreeing to act as mods for their specified sections it should be a very good mix.

I’d also like to mention that I’ve hired Mark Bridgeman from the UK to be the official Project Manager for this and the radio show. He’s been helping me out a lot recently, and to show my thanks I think this would be an excellent first managed task for him to take on. For those of you who have never heard of Mark, you can check out his blog here. He’s also working on a forum project called My Groovy Wedding. So everyone should give him a round of applause for making it onto my team as a project manager. I trust he’ll be a great new fit into the team.

I’ll be setting up a section for ideas on new sections and whatnot. The forum will pretty much be self contained and managed by Mark, myself, and you the users. There are only two rules. Don’t spam, and don’t harass the crap out of other members. Poking fun is okay, so long as no one is deeply offended. Everything else is fair game. The goal is for people to make friends and develop new business relationships. Everyone on the board will be treated equally.

There is a new post coming after this one sometime soon.. Just wanted to let everyone know about the forum.

For the radio show, I’ve been waiting for Matt to come back online, but since he’s been MIA for a bit we will continue without him. Myself, Andrew Johnson, and Shawn Weeks will host the show, and when Matt decides to come back, we’ll just add him back onto the resident crew. Keep the questions coming for material from our guests. Thanks again to everyone for the support too. And thank you Shoemoney for jacking my ideas and guests, I appreciate it.

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Just wanted to let everyone know I’ll be posting some more top 5 niches and the weekly niche this week. I know I didn’t post anything last week, but I had a family emergency that took up most of my time, so I had to deal with those first. Things are back to normal now, thanfully, so I’ll get back to posting the juicy stuff that everyone seems to like.

The new webmaster forum will launch sometime either this week or the next at the latest. Got the new server for it, site design/logo is done. Got a new project manager for it too, so there is lots to look forward to.

I’m going to be launching a newsletter for the forum and whatnot this week too. It will probably be a bi-monthly one with a strong focus on SEO trends, affiliate and niche marketing. I’ll keep it really short and sweet too so that it doesn’t take up much of your time and gets the point across quickly.

That’s all for now, so check back shortly.

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Time and time again, webmasters are constantly seeking that one golden secret that the big boys seem to know and keep safeguarded away from them. Other times people we’ve never heard about make false claims with inflated stats to sell their ebooks and self help products that make you wonder “well, if it works so damn well, why don’t you keep it a secret and just replicate the crap out of it yourself?”. Yeah, well, the answer to that question is because they are either too lazy to keep on doing it and want to cash out really quickly, or they never really accomplished it, and know that since everyone is looking for an answer, they can tell a pretty good story to make you believe that they have it. Which leads me to the next question, of all of these self help ebooks and fluff, have you made it big yet? Have you done as well as the author or even come close to it? The answer is probably no. Sure, they may have made a few great statements and points, given you some new ideas, but really, all of these products are the same product of Grade-A 100% pure packaged bullshit.

So how does a regular webmaster win big in the affiliate marketing game exactly? Just like a recipe for a cake, you can’t just make something out of one ingredient, you have to combine them, measure them out correctly, and follow specific steps to come out with a final product that absolutely rocks. And just like with baking, as a newbie in the field you will fail, make mistakes, and most probably will not succeed as much as the pro’s do, especially on your first time. But it’s up to you, and you only to keep plugging away and staying focused with your eye on the prize.

This is by far, the biggest mistake ever made by webmasters who are trying to conquer a market. Their drive for success just plain sucks. Don’t get offended and deny it either, because if you aren’t happy with your success, or you have had very little or no success at affiliate marketing, then your drive to succeed is not where it should be. Don’t ask me where it is, because I don’t have that answer for you. You should know yourself well enough now to realize that you need to change the way you work, research, think, and develope your sites and strategies.

To get yourself into the right state of mind, with the right attitude you have to do something that really excites you and gets you revved up. For me, I like mob movies and movies about guys pulling off big jobs while everyone doubts them. I don’t sit there and watch a full movie to get myself revved up, instead, I’ll sometimes take a DVD of The Godfather, and watch some of my favorite parts. The whole thing takes 20 minutes or so. Sometimes, when I’m not in the mood for that, I’ll listen to a song that gets me in a real working type mood, something fast and heavy usually, like Metallica, or a really high energy trance track or set. Generally, when I’m doing my work I am listening to trance music. I know a lot of people don’t get it, but this is something I like a lot, and it keeps me focused, happy, and energized. I also have a drink near me at all times, usually soda, and I go out for cigarette breaks every so often. It may not be a healthy routine, but it’s my routine, and it works very well for me.

So now that you’ve laid out what gets you revved up and ready to work, you have to actually have this great thing called FOLLOW THROUGH. With many of my projects, including the blog, follow through is by far the toughest thing to master. Following through with your ideas and projects is tough because you have to sit down for what seems to be long periods of time to perfect it. It seems like suck a daunting task usually, so I’ll procrastinate it, put it off for another time or for “later”, except later almost never arrives.

My point is that you cannot give yourself excuses anymore. Don’t let anything get in your way. If you have a task to do, do it, and move onto the next thing. If you are doing something well, and making money from it, there are always areas to improve on. Comparing your setup to your competition’s is key, because you can bet that they are doing the same with their setup to yours.

The answer to the secret is that one of the most serious ingredients to really succeed is getting yourself in the right state of mind. The most common mistake is when a webmaster convinces themself they are ready for the project, but really, all they are ready to do is count their money, or even worse, what they could be making (spending it before they’ve made it). This is poison to a potentially successful webmaster. The answers to your questions are laid out right before you, it’s up to you to reach out and grab it and do something with it. If all those idiots that make the bullshit ebooks can do it, so can you.

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