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Are you looking for a way to earn $10,000 or more a month on a consistent basis?

This isn’t a gimmick or some kind of scam. I wouldn’t even say that it’s easy. Well, for some folks it will be. But for others, nope.

There’s a package I recently got to review that talks about how to make $10k in a weekend. Technically, that’s true. If you’re fairly aggressive, you can do that every month. And you can probably even earn more than that.

If you’re a REAL GO-GETTER, like someone who can build a small team and manage several projects at once, you can EASILY make two- to five-times that every month.

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There are literally thousands of ways to make money online. One of the most solid business models to ensure a continual monthly income is a subscription based membership website.  This article presents an interesting perspective on how to accomplish that.

In these situations, members pay a monthly fee for access to a private member’s area where they can access your information. You can provide a variety of information in as many formats as you choose. You can offer articles, reports, audios, videos, teleseminars, downloads, software, almost anything you can imagine.
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After using Twitter for almost a month now, I think it’s rather interesting and will keep using it. I seem to gain about 10-12 followers a week somehow. I have to admit that I don’t know most of the people following me, which is actually a rather strange experience for me.

For the uninitiated, Twitter is what’s known as a “micro-blogging” platform. It’s like a blog, but you can only post 140 characters at a time. And some of that space is taken up by your own name. You can find out more at http://twitter.com. You can search for me as “thetoolwiz” and follow me. (I don’t post a whole lot.)

If you’re looking for a handy guide to working with twitter, try this: TwitterProfits . In this post I’m reflecting on some of my experience using Twitter for the past month.

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I’d like to call everybody’s attention to something that all internet marketers need to be aware of and keep an eye on, whether you’re involved with this particular business or not. The reason is that the CA Attorney General has decided to declare war on companies that sell web sites for money-making purposes and are coupled with monthly maintenance fees, especially when most of the buyers either mis-interpret what’s being sold and/or fail to take the action needed to earn any money from those businesses.
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Someone emailed me with a question relating to domain names, and it motivated me to write down something that I’ve had rolling around in my head for a while.

This is just a “theory” I have.  However, it’s totally consistent with everything I’ve learned about SEO and how the SEs work.  I have no solid proof that things work this way, other than tons of empirical evidence that really doesn’t contradict it.

Ok, so here’s the general idea…
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I’ve been listening to a terrific audiobook version of a new book entitled Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

This is a really fascinating account of several experiments done by the author, Dan Ariely, who’s a “Social Economist”. If you think this stuff is boring, you’ve got another thing coming. Actually, the audiobook version is quite fun to listen to. The guy reading it has a nice British accent, and in many situations it’s really amusing.

If you’d like to learn some new business strategies that work because of the way people just tend to act, then you really want to read this book.

One example they discuss is a strategy for “getting the guy/girl at a party”.

There’s also an excellent discussion on “Why People Cheat” and how you can predict when it’s most likely to happen.

The audio book contains 7+ hours of material, and it would take quite a while to go through it all. Just visit the link here and see what else it contains. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!

Phishing fradusters are everywhere.  I get “PayPal Fraud Alerts” several times a week.  I get stuff from banks I’ve never heard of, and banks I don’t do business with.  But the ones you need to be most careful of are the ones you DO work with.

Well, I just got a Phishing spoof purporting to be from Google advising me of the following:

Dear Advertiser,

This is your official notification from Google AdWords that the service(s) listed below will be deactivated and deleted if not renewed immediately.

As the Primary Contact, you must renew the service(s) listed below or it will be deactivated and deleted.

Renew Now your Google Search Advertising services.  <<— FRAUDULENT LINK!

SERVICE: Google Search Advertising
EXPIRATION: July, 23 2008

Thank you for using Google AdWords service.
We appreciate your business and the opportunity to serve you.

Since your Google AdWords account is tied not only to credit cards but to stuff that can cost you a LOT OF MONEY if it’s messed with, be VERY CAREFUL with these kinds of things!

Do NOT click the link!  Rather, go to your AdWords account the way you usually do (adwords.google.com) and see if you get any kind of notice when you login.

Personally, I’ve never been advised that my AdWords account needs to be renewed — only that my credit card is expiring and that I need to update my records.

Be informed, and be careful.

-David “The Tool Wiz” Schwartz

Somebody recently posted a complaint in a forum, whining about the fact that services like GMail, Yahoo Mail, HotMail, and others apparently either won’t accept emails with big attachments, or they strip them off.  That’s like complaining that you can’t fit your entire wedding party into your Volkswagon Beatle for a cross-country trip.  It’s the wrong solution to the problem!

Email attachments get encoded into a form that roughly doubles their size, called Base64.  So a 10k attachment makes the email around 20k.  I had someone try to “forward” me an email to which she attached a 40MB zip file.  She was confounded that her email service wouldn’t accept it.  DUH!  Even if it would have, my mail server is configured to reject any emails with attachments over 2MB.  I just don’t want ‘em!

Most viruses and trojans are sent as attachments to emails.  And most of THEM tend to be files with extensions like .exe, .com, .dll, and .js.  Google even rejects emails with zip files attached to them that contain files with these extensions.  I think that’s smart.

Here’s the solution:

If you have a hosting account ANYWHERE that gives you FTP access, all you need to do is upload the file to your hosting account via FTP and send the person a URL to it in the email.  It’s that simple. This is a great use for those free hosting accounts your ISP gives you with your internet service.

There’s absolutely no need to send big file attachments on emails to anybody, EVER.