Argh, these make money online bloggers, in their little crews and gangs and affiliations. They make me sick.

I am targetting my frustration right now at one or two extremely commercial “super affiliates” who seem to just leech off the noobs in the industry.

I should probably start off by saying I’m a hypocrite, as I can imagine doing what they’re doing, just in a different niche. I could sell things to people that they don’t need quite easily. It’s just being only a young Padawan myself when it comes to internet marketing, I feel it is worth at least pointing out that these bloggers are assholes.

I don’t need to name names, you know who they are.

The latest thing to annoy me is this. One MMO blogger says how this other MMO blogger has an awesome product, and you must buy it. If the product was worth it then yes, but the product was a crappy Wordpress template that wasn’t that impressive.

It may well have been worth the $97 price, but I can’t think of many people who should be purchasing it. It’s a luxury that most people can’t afford. Why waste money on a Wordpress template when you can download one for free.

Then again, looking at it from the other point of view. The more noobs that are misguided into buying crap they don’t need, the less competition for me.

Maybe it’s not so bad after all.

That’s what this whole journey is about, success through failure. I’m still plugging away at various projects and campaigns with minimal success so far. Here’s a quote by Brian Tracy I found quite helpful today:

Every single peak performing human being, every single high achieving man or woman, has been a person who has thrown off the natural tendency to play it safe and stay within the comfort zone, and has continually tried to exceed their previous levels of accomplishment, has continually moved forward into the risk zone, to try something more and bigger and better and more important. Every single accomplishment in the history of man, has come from men and women who have had the courage to take the risks, to step out even though they had no guarantee or assurance of success…

In studying the lives and stories of the most outstanding men and women of all of history, we find that every single one of them has been a great failure. People do not understand the importance of failure in achievement. The fact is that it is impossible to succeed without failing, that failure is an indispensable prerequisite for success, and that all great success is proceeded by great failure. Every single person who has tried to accomplish something outside the ordinary has suffered setback and obstacle and defeat and adversity and disappointment and heartache over and over again as they have moved toward their goal. There is no record of anybody ever having achieved any kind of success without having failed over and over again. The only difference is that the winners continually pick themselves up and carry on knowing that ultimate success is inevitable as long as they keep on going on.

Just hit a rut and can’t get out of it, at least for today. Stuck at work doing a mindless job, usually I’d say it was the best job in the world because I get to work from home but tonight I just can’t focus.

I want to work on my business projects but there’s nothing I can do right now to move things forward, and my energy levels are really low as well. All I am reminded of is that I’m not making any money - ha!

I wanted to work on a particular site but the domain hasn’t propogated properly. Tried to mess some affiliate stuff but I can’t get my head around the subID tracking and don’t want to risk starting a campaign that just throws money down the drain.

The lesson here is that it’s ok to call it a day until the next day, no more work today.