I know, I know, marketing is all about you not me but in this case I just wanted to do a quick backgrounder on my internet marketing experience to give a bit of grounding to this blog.

Back in about 2001 I started printing out and reading Yanik Silver internet marketing books as well as Corey Rudl and Declan Dunn and any other stuff I could find. I still have a binder with a lot of stuff in a box somewhere.

In 2003 I got a Palm Tungsten that had MP3 capability and around the same time I started a blog or two and finally got myself going. I think that one of my early problems was not acting on what I had learned and compressing all the learning in that MP3 player really quickly on too many subjects.

With tons of knowledge from anything I could find about internet marketing and at the same time getting my feet wet meant that I tried every scam out there but spent very little to do it.

I had a blog with just Book Reviews, I started about 5 Amazon book stores and then a couple of clickbank malls. I used RSSG to build a bunch of sub domains of spammy content and of course a lot of blogs and article marketing, I really like the simplistic publishing of blogs. Finally one of my big things in the last year was the compiling of a Realtor Marketing book that sold horribly to my expectations so I have even unsuccessfully published.

Now over the last year I have come to some realizations about the crap that we get from the Gurus of internet marketing and how some things make sense but most of it is just old crap that will not work anymore. Also I have had enough of a look at the black hat crowd to know that I am not interested in making a 100 sites a month to make a 1000 bucks a month. So it comes down to extending on what I have and start with more new carefully planned strategies.

So if you look at my history especially over the last three years or so I have tried almost everything and at the present have about 85 sites of various kinds. wow, 85 sites should make you a lot of money right? Well not exactly, I am making only about $1000 or so per month and to hit my $100,000 in the end of 2008 I will need to increase that to $8333 as a monthly average. We all know that January will not be a big month likely so I will have to make things up as the months goes on.

I do not want to do any planning in this post but just wanted to lay out the where I have been kind of stuff.

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