So as ya’ll know I haven’t been posting as much because I’ve been working on my Myspace layout site. I already have a shitload of layouts and stuff and I’ve already paid for everything, just waiting for the CMS (content management script - like the platform it runs on) and the design to be finished. Found an ultra badass graphic designer to do it and it’s gonna look about 1000000 times better than all the other layout sites on the net. It actually isn’t gonna take as much time as I thought it would to maintain it so I’m planning on starting another thing at the same time, I’ll have all my time right now to set it up and then it’ll be up and running by the time the Myspace site is done. I brainstormed a few ideas, my thought process when analyzing new ideas is something like - amount of initial investment, growth/scaling potential (how big it could grow - if you’re looking at a 50% return but it could only operate on a very small scale, its still a waste of time), profit expectations, how much time it’ll take to manage it (I usually disregard setup time because everything takes a long ass time to set up, the amount of time it takes to run it once it’s already up is what’s more important), marketing strategies and target markets as well as if I have experience with these markets. Here are some of my ideas:

• Dating blog: A blog about dating advice and how to hook up with hot girls, stuff like that. I’m in my junior year of college (yup pretty young if you didn’t already know) and I’ve dated so many girls, done pretty much everything, had threesomes, picked up girls on Myspace, all that shit and I’m pretty well qualified to give advice about it and tell other guys how to do shit. The market for shit like this is huge and people are paying big bucks for dating gurus and all that bullshit so I think a free-to-read blog about it would be a hit. I could have some guest posts from hot girls I know and shit like that, lots of possibilities.
• Animal video blog: Basically a video blog version of Cute Overload. Funny/cute videos of animals/pets mainly cats/dogs/rabbits stuff like that. Again the market for this stuff is huge, if I remember correctly Cute Overload became a million dollar site in less than a year and other sites like Lolcats and all that stuff are really popular. And I have two cats that are always doing goofy ass poses like sleeping on their backs and stuff like that lol.
• Model site: Something along the lines of Babe BLVD, it’s a site where you pay ~$30 a month to be a member, and they have about 30 site models who post their pictures/videos/bios/interviews on the site for members to look at. I was thinking about doing the same thing but with all college girls and organizing them by school (only problem is I’m not sure if even just writing the name of the school is a copyright violation, anyone know? like if I were to have categories listed as “Harvard” “USC” and then like 5 girls for each school for example). Scaling would be ridiculous, 1000 members = $30k a month and it would probably have a lot more than 1000 members.
• Facebook Babes site: I actually did this before, it was a blog where we just posted pictures of hot girls from Facebook/Myspace, it was extremely easy to maintain, could spend an hour on it and have 5-10 new posts every day. The first day it went up it had thousands of views with no paid advertising. Obviously the market for this is HUGE (every straight guy in the world lol) and there’s lots of promotion possibilities. The problem with the last site was that anyone could register as an author and post pics, and a bunch of girls got mad because their pics were being posted without them knowing. I don’t really understand why they’re mad because after all it just meant that they were hot, but we shut it down after awhile because of privacy violations and shit. I think if it did go up again we could just approve all the authors and ask girls before posting their pics. or get a paki host and do whatever we want
• Lottery site: You pay $10 a month to be a member of the site and every week there are raffles for items like laptops, ipods, etc. there are also raffles for insane shit like tickets to Playboy mansion parties, win a date with a supermodel, have Lil Wayne come to your bday party, shit like that (and yeah I can actually get ahold of those things I’m not just talking outta my ass lol). Initial investment would be larger than the other sites but still not too big (I don’t know how much it would cost to set up the CMS, maybe a couple thousand?). So once you’re a member you buy as many raffle tickets as you want and we have a counter under each item (multiple items are up for raffle at the same time) telling you how many tickets for that item have already been bought. Tickets would be $1 or something. I’d probably also make it so you just buy credits and then use the credits as your raffle tickets (that way people will buy more than just 1 ticket at a time, they’ll buy a pack of credits and maybe not use them all, so I make more money).

My favorite (by far) ideas are the dating blog and the Facebook babes blog. Initial investment is very small, easy to set up, easy to promote and I’m already familiar with the markets, and easy to maintain. The dating blog would probably be my favorite idea if ya’ll think the market for it is as big as the market for the Facebook babes site, because it would be so easy to write a post a day rather than looking for hot girls and/or paying people to look for them. could also possibly combine the ideas like a Facebook babes / dating advice all in one, who knows lol. I’d really like to hear your feedback, ideas, suggestions, or even entirely new ideas if you have any. I’m looking to do this asap so I can buy the 09 SL65 the day it appears lol. So hit me with some feedback!

been really busy lately but i felt like posting something and a few people have been asking me to go into more detail about some of my marketing, so i thought i’d just put this out there since i’ve been focusing on my myspace site and haven’t done any affiliate marketing in a long time. i know this is kinda rushed but im busy pretty much all the time now, i just didnt want yall to think i was leaving

one of my landing pages was www.ringtonepimps.net and my keywords were “soulja boy ringtones” “soulja boy ring tones” and a few names of songs, dont remember which ones i think one was yuaaaah and the other was donk. and for the record, i hate soulja boy, but teenage girls like him and want to buy his ringtones so it doesnt matter. with ringtones you dont make a lot per lead because of the click costs and epc is usually just a little above that. the fact that all the landing pages now cant mislead people into thinking its free when its not makes it a lot harder and more ridiculous so unless you have some cash to invest its probably not worth it. the first page i had was just a straight redirect until i realized it wasnt such a good idea. both of them made decent money but you really have to already have a huge pile of cash to put in if you want to go anywhere with it

the myspace site is progressing really well, i already have about 800 layouts and i have my buddy working on a design, the cms is almost done i dont know what the fuck is taking the dude so long but it should be done in the next week. im thinking about taking a big break from dating too, its really just starting to annoy me for a lot of reasons. (a) girls are clingy and i dont have time for stupid bullshit like that, once a week is enough for me (b) i date a shitload of girls and havent found a single one that i care about in the slightest (c) apparently i look like im “17 or 18″ and highschool girls are always talking to me and then i waste time talking to them before i find out they’re only in god damn highschool THAT REALLY ANNOYS ME BECAUSE I HATE WASTING TIME MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, I CAN NOT STAND ITTTT LOL (d) when girls talk about their drama with their boyfriend and how they’re all sad because they broke up, or when they talk about how much they’re in love and shit, i just find it so trivial and ridiculous (e) i dont know it just seems like a waste of time. if i have a choice between going out with an ultra hot girl and fucking around with my buddies i always choose my buddies, and no im not gay. i dunno i just felt like putting that out there lol

UPDATE: Just wanted to know what you all thought about these last few posts. My traffic has actually been going up but comments have been going way down. Let me know what posts you like and don’t like and I’ll be able to write more about some of the more popular topics. Thanks.

I’ve said this many many many times and I’m saying it again: the DESIGN and IMAGE of your site/product is almost as important, if not more important, than the actual quality of the site/product. If you see a website that looks unprofessional, you’re likely to assume the company is unprofessional and that their product is poor quality. This is especially true for “make money online” blogs and landing pages offering products related to making money - if you can’t even afford a few hundred dollars for a decent site design, why would anyone believe that you can show them how to make money? It doesn’t make any sense.

I’ve received lots of emails asking who does my designs, namely for this site (Stak Loaded) and the Lambo Sweepstakes project I launched a while back. I designed Stak Loaded myself, based it off the designs of a couple other blogs that I liked but for the most part I did all the Photoshopping and coding myself. I don’t really have time to do designs for other people but if you have a $1000+ budget and would like me to do something for you, send me an email. Other than that, I’d recommend looking around at graphic design forums and just Googling “blog designer” or “graphic designer” and checking people out. I WOULDN’T recommend posting projects on DP, Get a Free Lancer, or any of those sites, because 99% of the people who contact you are just bullshitters who don’t know the first thing about creating effective designs. It’s always better to seek people out yourself rather than have them come to you.

Lambo Sweepstakes [screenshot] was designed by Umar Salman. I’m a very picky dude and it literally took me months to find a designer I liked, but as soon as I saw his portfolio I contacted him, paid him the next day, and the design was finished within a week. I highly recommend him and I’ll definitely be working with him on future projects. If you have a $1500+ budget and would like to work with Umar, email him here and tell him you liked his work on Lambo Sweepstakes (Lambo Sweepstakes, not Stak Loaded!) and he’ll reply almost instantly.

If anyone knows of any other good web/graphic designers, please post them up in the comments so I can check them out!

This is why people don’t like Myspace.

I’d also like to reiterate that Host Gator is the worst hosting company in the history of the internet. They decided to reset my password for their own amusement again, without prior notification of course, and then made me change it to something new, saying I couldn’t use any of the passwords I had used in the past. This happened a little while ago and today I tried logging into my FTP account but of course I couldn’t remember the new password they had given me. So now I can’t login to my FTP which also means I can’t login to my cpanel. If you try to visit this site and it doesn’t show up one day, you now know the reason: Host Gator = FAIL.

You work all the time, you risk money, you lose money, you struggle with important decisions, and you’re just stressed the fuck out all the time. Too much stress is very unhealthy not only because it makes you age a lot faster (it does), but also because it makes you not think straight and you might end up making the wrong decisions, or playing it too safe. When I start a new venture, be it a new site, a new ad campaign, or whatever, I definitely spend a lot of time planning it out and making sure everything looks good, but I don’t think, “Oh shit this is so huge, if it fucks up, I’m gonna lose a lotta money and be pissed as hell.” I took a risk awhile ago with a really obscure offer that I thought I could push, spent about $1000 total and made less than half of it back, but I really didn’t care, just said fuck it and called it a day. A couple of my friends thought I was crazy and they said they’d never have spent so much money like that right off the bat, and if they had, they’d have been extremely pissed and stressed out that it didn’t work out. But here’s what I think - it doesn’t really matter. Losing a few dollars really doesn’t impact my life or ruin any of my other campaigns. It’s not like I gambled away my life savings. So it’s not really that big a deal. If you get into the mindstate “oh I can’t do this, I can’t do that, it’s too risky” you’ll never make any money.

If you’ve ever taken a test skills or study skills class, they also tell you not to stress too much about tests. It’s been proven that if you go into it thinking “holy shit this is a huge test, if I fail it my life is fucked” you’ll do worse than if you go into it thinking “this is important so I need to do a good job, but if I get a C instead of an A it’s not like it’s gonna kill me.”

If you’re way too stressed, you might want to try changing up the way you think. The next best cure for stress is comedy (not sex, surprisingly), so hit up those torrents and download a few movies and just sit back and have fun. I also recently had a funny conversation with some chick who messaged me on Myspace (yeah I have a Myspace, sue me lol … seriously Myspace is a great place to meet girls, and HOT ones, if you haven’t tried it I definitely recommend it ). At first I just blew her off but I was with one of my buddies from highschool and he thought it would be funny to be really mean to her, just for kicks (lol). Here’s the convo, along with a little commentary, hopefully it gives you a few laughs:

random slut: hey stud i answered your paper
me: lol thanks
her: im hannah did you see my pic yet?
me: nah im at work
her: ok but im very hot so you might want to put some shades on or you’ll burn up im all for making a man horny
me: [ignores her]
her: if you want ill give you pleasure before bed
me: lol wtf
her: well you know how it is you tell me what you want to do to me and ill respond in that way
me: wtf you talkin about
her: what do you mean wtf i was talking about making you horny
me: [ignores and hopes she wont say anything else]
her: [waits awhile]
her: whats happenin babe?
me: yo bitch i just made a fatass sandwich and stuck it in my ass and farted real loud bet u still wanna eat it
her: ohh baby i woulnt eat it but i’m horny and in need of a sex mate i wana fuck till i cant fuck nomore
me: ur so fuckin ugly i cant stand lookin at u bitch dig a hole and bury ur fat ugly ass
her: what happened 2 whats happenin babe an hey sexy no writin no see i really want u
me: yo i tell you what you should do, take a shit and put it between some bread and eat it like a fuckin sandwich. do that shit bitch
her: knw what youre an ass an 2 think i was interested in u .ughh
me: hell to the yeah bitch