“I remember one time Kevin Garnett was mushing him, and shoving him in the face; and Tim Duncan didn’t do anything, he didn’t react. He just kicked Kevin Garnett’s ass, and won the damn championship. You know what I’m sayin‘? That’s gangsta. Everybody can show emotion, dunk on somebody, scream and be real cocky; but Tim Duncan is a … he’s a pimp.”

-Ron Artest

To me Grizzly is the same way.  He’s won the championship.  He is the king of make money online and you need only to search Google to see his million dollar belt.  He has a plain website off blogger with no glitz, no glamour – in fact the primary site hasn’t been updated in over 40 days – and he is dominating the online industry.  Does that not tell you all you need to know?  Hell, I don’t even know what his URL is.  Make money online for beginners dot blogspot?  I never even enter the URL, I just search make money online on Google.

So there’s Grizz and then there is the rest.  I’m not going to name URLS, but I was at some generic info site for the “make money on the internet” niche.  Seemed like overall decent information but very bland and it didn’t absorb like say a Grizzly – nor was it as believable as Grizzly.  While reading the articles and guest articles, there’s a huge difference: Do these guys know what they’re talking about or are they telling me what they think they know what they’re talking about?  Continuing on, there is an ad in the corner for what you need to know to be successful online.  Free ebook so why not right?  I start reading it and the guy starts telling me about life and giving life advice on how to live and how to be.  I scroll down to about p.25 before he starts talking about making money online and it’s just a bunch of generic garbage that everybody rattles off – nothing insightful at all.

I’ll tell you what that guy needs to know.  He needs to know that when you advertise a product as something, you deliver that something.  I don’t need instructions on how to live my life.  I want to read something insightful that helps me make more money.  Like I need advice from some internet marketer on how to cultivate my way of being.  The notion was so stupid I was in disbelief.  It went on for 25 pages.  I only read 2 pages, but what a waste of time.

If you’re going to write a book, title and advertise it appropriately.  If you want to write a book about how to live your life, label it as such.  This guy may very well be a successful IM, but that book was a failure.  I got less than what I paid for it because it stole my precious time, but you know maybe I did get something out of it.  Maybe I got burned for looking for an easy answer.  I can read everything I need to know at Grizz’s blogs.

On Google Adsense, I was smart priced for putting Adsense on my sites too soon.  No official word from Google, but its pretty obvious to me so I’m just going to have to wait before putting it back on my sites.  Hopefully this not only helps my clicks but also improves search engine rank.  I hate the thought of losing potential clicks and money, but this is the rules so long as I play with Adsense and I haven’t been approved with MSN yet so here we are.

I did sign up with Click2Sell today.  I found a great copy for an ebook and decided I would try to supplement my online income with the affiliate link.  I haven’t had success with affiliate marketing before, but I really liked the way the landing page read and how persuasive it was.  It’s so true that you shouldn’t put all your eggs into a basket so this is my way of diversifying my portfolio from Google Adsense and individual advertisers to adding affiliate marketing.  The program I selected ranks in the top 10 at Click2Sell so it does have results.  Another good indication of success is the creator openly encourages advertising offers so if he’s willing to pay for advertising, he’s making money.

And the quest continues to make money online.