I recently ran into a really cool new social network site. Its called join 3gb community www.3gb.biz. You can meet new people or old friends. Its great to upload pictures albums or chat with people. You can even listen to mp3s on this site. Me personally I’m not too much into the social sites. I know people that use the bigger ones but I dont really get into it too much. I did join one thats internet marketing related today just to get ideas on making money. I currently belong to a paid per click related forum so I guess I do belong to a social site but its a little different. This site did however add blogs for everyone to personally use. You get your own blog that links to your profile.

One great thing about these social sites though is you can put your profile up and you start getting old friends contact you from your highschool days.

I recently posted about this. Since internet marketing is so streaking one day your making great income the next your making less then a fast food person. As I mentioned in the past if you look in the middle of the united states you can find much cheaper homes. I searched on craigslist and found this out. If warren buffet the richest guy in the world can live in Omaha I think I could handle it. Its strange he could live anywhere in the world have anything he desires and still lives a modest life. It almost seems like he doesn’t think he has as much money as he does. I found one realty company in nebraska that sells some investment type properties. Its sorta weird how the cheaper ones they mention great investment or they already have tenants.
Seems they are trying to lure in the investers. A couple of them have 9-20 properties selling as a package or they are selling off. This is something to investigate as to why they would be doing it. Unless they are just trying to cash out the equity and start over or invest in other things. I did read about a sewege reconstruction and some of these sellers have a non discloure policy that is legal for them.

Lately my internet marketing business has seemed to struggle. I use to do alot of blogging but just keep my blogs for fun. I have had them so long I just keep them and its not too expensive too keep them so I do. The income is enough to cover the expenses so I don’t mind. If you can get some traffic to your blogs then you can make a nice side income. In the past I was doing ok sending traffic to some of my sites.

Recently I have gotten into pay per click using google adwords. So far this is been a losing proposition. I found one campaign that was converting great for a few days but then it tanked. This helped recover most of my losses for the month. I have sorta lost motivation on this market but not giving up just yet. I am part of a paid ppc forum group and trying to learn from this and use some tools it comes with. The traffic outside of the usa I’ve heard is higher converting so I plan to do this and see how it goes. It is hard to get this type of traffic but I will try and see what happens.

I don’t make much money right now but I was doing a normal income. The internet is a business of ups and downs from what I have seen in the years I do it. Everything keeps evolving. What works today might not work tommorrow. So I ran into a guy from one of the paid forums I frequent who lives in Nebraska. I read that he bought hes house for $70,000 . I thought wow that is super cheap compared to most places. I actually think its one of the cheapest states to live in. I live in Portland Oregon and homes have gone up quite a bit in the past 10 years. 10 years ago you could of bought a median home for around $150,000 maybe a little cheaper. Today that house is probably worth $250,000 or more. You cant find anything under $200,000. Maybe a few but not likely. I got too looking on craigslist and you can find livable homes for as cheap as $40,000. One person was even selling fixers for $10k each. One had a big hole in the roof. Another the bathroom needed to be fixed. So I have sorta planned to try and get into a cheaper home and maybe do some tic investment things. I would have to do the numbers cruncking to see how profitable it would be. I would try and buy twenty cheaper houses and rent them out. I would shoot for a low profit maybe 200.00 a month on each one. Not sure what would be possible for profit. I didnt think there still was a area you could buy a home at a affordable rate. I knew of places in PA but they where townhouse type homes that are connected to each other. I’m always looking at ideas and real estate is a less risky business unless you try and fix and flip then most businesses. You see alot of people who already have money investing in real estate. As a kid my best friend his father did this and had at least five homes. He probably has at least 10 investment properties by now that was about 15 years ago.

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I love business and I usually watch cnbc’s show called the big idea with Donny Dochce. He had a inventor on with a robot alarm. It was bascially just the head of the robot and it moved ect. I had the idea of this one I’m writing about. Something you can throw or get pissed off at. Also another idea I would of made the robotic alarm say things like get up dirt bag or something to really piss you off to get up out of bed. Most the time you dont want to get up right away. You want to laydown for a few mins and slowly wake up or just go back to sleep. I got another idea of making a padded helmet for the robot one so you could throw it. So I think this alarm here should sell pretty well.

Last night I was bored so I got to watching all the warren buffet speeches on google video. Whats cool is you can watch 60 min videos which is nice without any commercials to drive you nuts. Well I got to video surfing and ran into some Tom Lykis videos. His voice doesn’t seem to fit his appearance. Well he got this one crazy call were the lady who lives in Arizona got so pissed off at her one time sex partner she murdered him and got away with it. She confessed to murder on a national radio show. She got pregnant and the partner planned on not paying child support and quit his job. They were both nurses. So one night the partner was drunk and she shot him then called the police. She said he committed suicide and they fell for the story. Well Tom Lykis got this ladie to confess by running through the story and she was agreeing with everything. Then he tells her you have just confessed to murder and I we have all the phone numbers of the callers since we pay for the calls with a 800 number. She got scared then hangs up. Later Tom offered a $5,000 dollar reward for her capture. When crimes are committed you need someone thats professional to retrieve the data such as Computer Forensics

I love the show to catch a preditor because these dirt bags need to be caught and placed in jail. Using computer forensic will give evidence in the courts to prove they broke the law. You have to be careful in this world with the sex offenders and pedofiles out there. If I had a child I think I would have my wife or me drive them to school and pick them up. They can trace emails, text files, images and other data on the personal computer. I recently just messed my desktop by adding ram that supposely was the correct ddr chip. So now I have a computer being built for me as I type. I probably could give these guys mine and get the data back or restored. Luckily my good contacts I still have. I potential would of lost thousands since one of them is a worker of mine and has made me some nice money.

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Now this is a super great gadget to use. I like gadgets or electronic toys. I’m typing on my laptop right now and waiting on my computer desktop to get built correctly without running slow. If I don’t keep my laptop plugged in the battery says 2 hours 30 min
on a full charge but I don’t think it really runs this long. This device is great that if your on the road or out camping you have some battery power with no batteries required. Oh ya one of my new toys is a GPS made by magellan. The Magellan explorist 500. I finally put batteries in it and was playing around the other day. I’m still hunting around were to buy some TOPO maps. I will use it for hiking and if I ever buy a ATV. Which I hope to have the extra money to buy someday before I get too darn old.

I perssonlly know a few people who have gotten Structured Settlementafter a big car accident. Two of the people used a company like the one I just linked to get their money now instead of in the future. The other was a minor girl whos mom made the desicion to take it over a thirty year period. So she doesnt get as much I think maybe a few thousands a year. So by time she gets her money inflation will be huge and her money will be worthless. I know about inflation first hand. My grandfather saved up some money over $100,000 maybe up to $200,000. Back in the early 80s this was a larger amount. You could buy a home here in Portland Oregon for around $80,000. A few years before that maybe end of the 70s you could find 2 bedroom homes for $30,000. So it was a decent amount of money for the time. I grandfather died and left it to my grandmother that moved in with our family. So to this day they never did anything with the money. They left it in the bank making barely any money from interest. My guess maybe around 5% or whatever certificate of deposits get. So if i was to get a Structured Settlements I would for sure take the money up front and not in the installments. By time you get that money inflation will just lower the buying power.