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		<title>HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 13:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know Sunday isn&#8217;t a day I&#8217;m supposed to update the blog, but this is even MORE breaking news.  I logged into my Amazon account and I was amazed to find out that I made not one, not two, not three, but FOUR, count &#8216;em, FOUR sales yesterday!  I see the light! So yeah, my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know Sunday isn&#8217;t a day I&#8217;m supposed to update the blog, but this is even MORE breaking news.  I logged into my Amazon account and I was amazed to find out that I made not one, not two, not three, but FOUR, count &#8216;em, FOUR sales yesterday!  I see the light!</p>
<p>So yeah, my hard work is at last paying off.  I have found something that actually fuckin&#8217; works for a change.  And should continue to work down the line.</p>
<p>So as I now head right back to work (no, not a bullshit J-O-B), always remember: If it doesn&#8217;t work for me, it won&#8217;t work for you.  Chase the pipe dream.  Live the pipe nightmare.</p>
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		<title>Yeah yeah, another apology, but for a good reason this time&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 03:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You&#8217;ve been sorry so much, Biggy.  You ain&#8217;t been updating your blog lately!  I believe you&#8217;re getting to the point of procrastination!&#8221; Yeah, I believe this is what you&#8217;re saying in your mind right now haha.  But I have a reason why I didn&#8217;t give yall the AJ and the Rant this week.  I am [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve been sorry so much, Biggy.  You ain&#8217;t been updating your blog lately!  I believe you&#8217;re getting to the point of procrastination!&#8221;</p>
<p>Yeah, I believe this is what you&#8217;re saying in your mind right now haha.  But I have a reason why I didn&#8217;t give yall the AJ and the Rant this week.  I am too busy chasing this pipe dream.  And this blog has been a proven distraction.</p>
<p>In fact, my focus rate has been dwindling.  Yes, I managed to get some work done, but with these IM windows up and my urge to surf YouTube, the Warrior Forum, and look at Cedar Point pictures and videos (which is where I should be going next month, God willing), it has slowed and I haven&#8217;t got as much done as I could have.</p>
<p>So not only have I wrote a little notepad detailing my tasks, but I will now be shutting off EVERYTHING.  I will have to learn to suppress my urges and go at this with a full head of steam.  But don&#8217;t worry, I will be back soon to fill you guys in on new opportunities, to hate on the fucked up Coporate America a lot more, and ranting about all the online money making crap.</p>
<p>So until then, remember my words: If it doesn&#8217;t work for me, it won&#8217;t work for you.  Chase the pipe dream.  Live the pipe nightmare.</p>
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		<title>BREAKING NEWS: First Amazon Sale!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interrupt this program for a very special announcement&#8230;. Just when discouragement was creeping in deeper and deeper, I log into my Amazon account today to find out that I sold a product yesterday!  YEAH!  It is my first physical product sale EVER.  Now here is the thing &#8211; if I can get even more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>We interrupt this program for a very special announcement&#8230;.</strong></em></p>
<p>Just when discouragement was creeping in deeper and deeper, I log into my Amazon account today to find out that I sold a product yesterday!  YEAH!  It is my first physical product sale EVER.  Now here is the thing &#8211; if I can get even more sales on it, I just MAY choose to flip the site and get instant cash, or I may keep it for a little longer, get MORE sales, and flip it for even more cash haha.  So yeah, I&#8217;ve gotta get to work on building more backlinks.  I have just the idea&#8230;.</p>
<p>BTW, the Opp will still come later today.  Just need to figure out what to write about.</p>
<p>But never forget: If it doesn&#8217;t work for me, it won&#8217;t work for you.  Chase the pipe dream.  Live the pipe nightmare.</p>
<p><em><strong>We now return you to your regularly scheduled program, which is already in progress&#8230;.</strong></em></p>
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		<title>The Pipe Dream Chase &#8211; So Close, Yet So Far&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 19:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I keep taking action and not seeing results for all of my effort, discouragement continues to rise.  Making me wonder if I should stop chasing this pipe dream immediately.  But of course, if I do that, I know that my life will forever be for the worse. Nothing but big and fat goose eggs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I keep taking action and not seeing results for all of my effort, discouragement continues to rise.  Making me wonder if I should stop chasing this pipe dream immediately.  But of course, if I do that, I know that my life will forever be for the worse.</p>
<p>Nothing but big and fat goose eggs instead of cash in my Amazon account, though I managed to get 17 click-thrus yesterday (highest yet).  I&#8217;m seeing <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.imrant.com/recommends/these/76/1" target="_blank">these</a> when I am supposed to be seeing <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.imrant.com/recommends/this/76/2" target="_blank">this</a>.</p>
<p>While this is a huge downer, I&#8217;m not giving up yet.  I&#8217;ve made a few mistakes that I will be ironing out.  In fact, I&#8217;m so excited over this new niche I&#8217;m going to be attacking.  I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m going to abandon the site I have now, but if things continue to go downhill I may as well.  But the new niche looks promising, and I will take every piece of advice Daniel Brock and Sara Young have gave me and continue with this Amazon thing.</p>
<p>But as more and more goose eggs show up in your Amazon/Clickbank/CPA account, keep this in mind: If it doesn&#8217;t work for me, it won&#8217;t work for you.  Chase the pipe dream.  Live the pipe nightmare.</p>
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		<title>Biggy Continues The Pipe Dream Chase &#8211; An Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 15:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It feels so good to be taking action, man!  Knowing that results are closer than ever.  Before I get to the update, I just wanted to fill you guys in on something.  I went to go see the new Freddy Krueger flick last night.  The new Freddy actor (Jackie Earle Harley) played Freddy really good.  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It feels so good to be taking action, man!  Knowing that results are closer than ever.  Before I get to the update, I just wanted to fill you guys in on something.  I went to go see the new Freddy Krueger flick last night.  The new Freddy actor (Jackie Earle Harley) played Freddy really good.  The movie is a load scarier and darker than any other in the series.  It&#8217;s as real as you can get, I highly suggest you go check it out.</p>
<p>Now, onto business.  I have been working hard on my Amazon niche site.  I managed to get some tips from Sara and submitted my articles to Ezine on Thursday.  They got accepted yesterday.  Great perk of being a platinum member!  I have already social bookmarked one of my articles, just gonna do the other ones in the coming days (don&#8217;t social bookmark all of the articles in the same day because the SB sites will just think SPAM).  I will also do some other minor link building like a few Yahoo Answering and Blog Comments.  Hopefully this will push the articles up in SERPs and get them noticed more.  Wish me luck.</p>
<p>And never forget: If it doesn&#8217;t work for me, it won&#8217;t work for you.  Chase the pipe dream.  Live the pipe nightmare.</p>
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		<title>The Pipe Dream Chase Continues (And Some Apologies)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve been feeling very apologetic lately on this blog, but once again I didn&#8217;t get around to posting up Anti-Job Thursday and the Friday Rant last week.  They completely crossed my mind, as I was busy on this paper chase.  My bad.  The new ones will be up this week, as well as another [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been feeling very apologetic lately on this blog, but once again I didn&#8217;t get around to posting up Anti-Job Thursday and the Friday Rant last week.  They completely crossed my mind, as I was busy on this paper chase.  My bad.  The new ones will be up this week, as well as another Opp.  Speaking of the chase, here is the latest:</p>
<p>Right now, I am marketing physical products on Amazon.  At the moment I won&#8217;t reveal the niche site and everything, but once it is making money, I will gladly show you everything (other marketers just WILL NOT).  Everything is going okay, I ordered some backlinks for the site (dirt cheap for a lot of stuff) and it&#8217;s just now up to Google to pick them up, index them, and move my site up in the SERPs.  However, there is one HUGE roadblock that I have encountered &#8211; article marketing with physical products.</p>
<p>Basically, I just DO NOT know how to do it in the way that Sara Young recommends in her course, the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.imrant.com/recommends/Article_Income_Blueprint/63/1" target="_blank">Article Income Blueprint</a>.  I highly recommend it, by the way.  The thing is, the article she shows in the course is based on a semi-broad buying keyword ( and doesn&#8217;t drill down to one specific product).  Out of respect, I won&#8217;t reveal that specific article (she most likely wouldn&#8217;t want me to in fear of competition), but what I mean by a semi-broad buying keyword is that it is about a specific brand (such as HP Computers), and not like a specific brand AND model (like HP 187666 computer).  What I want to know is how to write an article for the latter.  The good thing is that Sara has been very patient with me up to this point and has been very helpful to me via PM and Skype.  As soon as I get over this hump, I should be good to go.</p>
<p>So yeah, I&#8217;ll update you guys again Saturday.  But look for the Opp, the AJ, and the Rant this week too.</p>
<p>But hey, here&#8217;s a good idea for a resource box for your articles: If it doesn&#8217;t work for me, it won&#8217;t work for you.  Chase the pipe dream.  Live the pipe nightmare.</p>
<p>Click here to find out more!</p>
<p>P.S.: Sorry, just couldn&#8217;t resist.</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve put a gun to my own head!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lit a fire under my own ass.  I put a knife to my own throat.  I&#8217;ve placed myself under suicide watch.  I have started a &#8220;do it or die&#8221; campaign. Alright, I know what you guys are thing &#8211; I have suicidal intent.  Well, not a physical suicidal intent haha.  I have no plans [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I lit a fire under my own ass.  I put a knife to my own throat.  I&#8217;ve placed myself under suicide watch.  I have started a &#8220;do it or die&#8221; campaign.</p>
<p>Alright, I know what you guys are thing &#8211; I have suicidal intent.  Well, not a physical suicidal intent haha.  I have no plans on taking my own life.</p>
<p>However, this pipe dream I&#8217;m chasing is a whole &#8216;nother different story.  You see, I gave myself an ultimatum here which will motivate me to work harder than I have ever worked.  Basically, I want to make an income online that I can be proud of by the end of 2010.  If I fail to do so, I will be pulling the plug on it all.  This means I will stop chasing this pipe dream of working at home and that I will give up my entire personal livelihood.  In other words, I will just let my life take a nose dive straight to the ground until I do eventually die.</p>
<p>This means I will get rid of everything that I have set up online &#8211; my domains, my hosting account, just remove myself from the online world.  I will also be removing myself from all of society and sever ties with everyone I know and love.  But I won&#8217;t physically take my own life, just sort of a mental suicide.</p>
<p>Now I know what you guys are about to say &#8211; Why don&#8217;t you just get a fuckin&#8217; job?  Have you guys been reading my Anti-Job Thursday posts?  It is my true feelings about Coporate America, and not some satirical thing going on.  Plus, I just can&#8217;t convince myself that I can get a job, making me 100% unemployable.  My ego and my pride just prevent that.  So getting a job for me is way, WAY out of the question.</p>
<p>But let me give you some guys some good news &#8211; I&#8217;m close.  I can smell victory.  I see the light at the end of the tunnel.  It is all within my grasp.  I am currently working with Amazon (more on that to come Saturday), and I&#8217;ll be documenting my progress with that.</p>
<p>So on December 31st, 2010, I&#8217;ll post here on what&#8217;s going to happen.  But I&#8217;ll be working hard to achieve my ultimate goal.  This means no procrastination, no fear, taking risks, that sort of thing.  If I can&#8217;t make some decent money online, there is no use for me to even continue to try.  My livelihood is on the line for something that is not guaranteed to work, but I have to make this happen or else.</p>
<p>I will be returning to the blog once and for all now, so expect the new Wednesday Opp tomorrow.</p>
<p>So wish me luck and always remember: If it doesn&#8217;t work for me, it won&#8217;t work for you.  Chase the pipe dream.  Live the pipe nightmare.</p>
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		<title>The Pipe Dream Chase &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, I want to apologize once again for not giving yall the Opp, the Anti-Job, and the Rant.  But I have been so tied up with chasing this pipe dream that I&#8217;ve been forgetting about this.  Not to mention I am still trying to think of what to write about for the three subjects [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First off, I want to apologize once again for not giving yall the Opp, the Anti-Job, and the Rant.  But I have been so tied up with chasing this pipe dream that I&#8217;ve been forgetting about this.  Not to mention I am still trying to think of what to write about for the three subjects (I have big ideas but I don&#8217;t want to bring them out yet).  But yeah, now it is time to bring you up to speed on just what I am doing (something long overdue).</p>
<p>I am doing the XFactor Adsense course.  If you don&#8217;t know what it is, let me direct you to it:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.imrant.com/recommends/Adsense_Course_eBook/42/1">Adsense Course eBook</a></p>
<p>If you can&#8217;t spare the $77 for the course ATM, John has given you a huge 32 page thread on the Warrior Forum exposing some of his secrets.  I have patiently read this after fellow Warrior Kelly Verge directed me to it after I nearly put it all down.  It is the thread that I have studied HARD and put into action.  Here that is:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.imrant.com/recommends/32_Pages_Of_Adsense_Talk/42/2">32 Pages Of Adsense Talk</a></p>
<p>Putting the techniques into action, I am seeing numbers instead of goose eggs for the first time in a while.  Just this week I had three consecutive $3 days and then I had a huge $5 day.  But Adsense, being so unpredictable as it is, I only made less than a dollar yesterday, sadly.  But of course this goes up and down, but as I build more sites for this (built one yesterday, another one to come Monday and another on Tuesday), I can get it up to start seeing consistent $5, $6, and even $7 days, eventually getting it up to my first goal of $10/day.</p>
<p>Let me tell you this, though &#8211; Goal setting is important.  Not only does it motivate you, but it does keep you busy.  Another helpful thing is to place some inspirational and motivational sticky notes around you or tape some notes on the wall around you (I had those but my stepdad didn&#8217;t want them there for some bullshit reason, so I had to put them in my room where they don&#8217;t really do any good).</p>
<p>But yeah, I am seeing success.  Small success, but success nonetheless.  As I continue to scale this up I&#8217;ll fill you in.</p>
<p>But here is one note you can put on your wall: If it doesn&#8217;t work for me, it won&#8217;t work for you.  Chase the pipe dream.  Live the pipe nightmare.</p>
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