There comes a time in every internet marketer’s career when they are faced with a burning desire to do better and bring their business and projects to the next level. Unfortunately for most of them, they’ll never get there. This happens because most people aren’t willing to take on much risk, due to thinking too far into the future, or just putting too much thought into taking a leap of faith.
Just a quick story I wanted to share with everyone. I thought this was funny.
Some of you may be members over at a forum called ABestWeb. They’ve been around for a very long time. They are more geared towards the ecommerce site owners and newbies of the industry. Although they do have a very large and fairly loyal following of members. The more active members there are the consultants.
Anyway, I was on Facebook last week and the owner of ABW and I are Facebook pals, so as a joke I wrote on his wall something like “So this is who the competition is… Bah!”. You know, a typical Jon message, nothing too crass or too out there, just my way of saying “waddup sucka!”. So Haiko De Poel Jr writes back onto my wall with a seemingly harmless response of “Jon, you’re not even close to my competition, but thanks for the add… Bah!”. I figured that was a cute little response, so I go back to continue playing the little wall game people play on Facebook, only to find out that the fucker removed me as his friend because apparently he was OFFENDED! What the fuck?!
Some people are so lame. Here’s a guy that if you think I have a “holier than thou” attitude, he takes the cake, hands down. I’ve heard people bitching about it for years too, because he’ll have some parties or events, but for the longest time he wouldn’t come out and meet people in person, or he would limit his events to his loyalists only, which is fine I suppose, but I gotta say, ABestWeb isn’t the greatest forum out there. I would rank SitePoint and DigitalPoint higher. Although WickedFire isn’t in the same class as ABW, because we cover completely different topics for the most part, and the membership base is on opposite ends of the spectrum. I guess if you had to group forums together into classes, you could put WickedFire, DigitalPoint, DNForum, WHT, etc together. ABestWeb would be in the same class as WebmasterWorld, SitePoint, V7N. And then finally you have your completely useless forums like WarriorForum, EarnersForum, and every other forum that belongs to the self-proclaimed ebook gurus of the world.
Ah well, just thought I’d blog about this. Enjoy the rest of your day.
People always ask me what I spend my time doing all day. As if I have some set in stone schedule of what I do all day or follow like clockwork. Since taking my extended vacation from Affiliate Marketing, I’ve been able to free up some much needed time to focus on work related issues and topics, all for the greater good of WickedFire. That alone keeps me VERY busy. Even though I don’t follow any type of schedule, I do however try to spend at least two hours a day/night and many more hours on the weekend MANUALLY reverse engineering the Google Trust-Rank algorithm.
Let’s be very clear about this upfront. This is NOT something I would suggest for anyone to attempt. It’s reserved for only those who can sit at their computer for long period of time, and people with an abnormal sense of patience. I consider “market research” as one of my hobbies, so I figured this would be a fun little experiment. You know, to try and figure out how the TR algorithm actually works, since no one has really been able to figure it out. I can tell you from experience, had I known it would be this tough, I most definitely would not have started it. But now it’s become more of an obsession and passion rather than a fun thing to do or try. I’m already in the beginning of the 11th month of researching it, and I pretty much think that I’m in the 90%-95% completion stage right now. Only because the large majority of the over 270 different points/variables that I’ve logged and monitored keep looping or showing their ugly faces more and more often. I doubt I’ll ever get 100% of it, but I’ve definitely figured out most of the major parts of it.
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