Justin Wyatt

It’s been way too long.

Posted by Justin under Personal, affiliate marketing

So I’m looking at the date of my last post… 29 January.  LOL!

Yeah, anyway things are going well I have been busy doing the upkeep on my 30 other domains now, doesn’t leave me with a lot of time and/or motivation to write a personal blog.  But complaining aside things are going pretty well, last month (May) was my best month yet in the affiliate marketing journey I’ve taken.  I made around $2500 solely from my internet promotions.  With my goal being $5000 a month by the end of the year I am halfway there!  My work ethic has been not the greatest lately either, I could easily be making my goal now if I had kept at it like the beginning of the year.  Oh well.  This is a short post but I thought I would update this.  This thing is really ugly I need to change the theme as well.

Anyone still reading this, wow.

Justin

CRUSHED MY GOAL

Posted by Justin under Personal, affiliate marketing

I made over $1500 this month so far…still got a few days to go.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

brought to you by crown royal and cheap rum that i had left over in the freezer.

Hulk Hogan Launches New Energy Drink: Hogan Energy

Posted by Justin under Personal, review

“YOU WANT ENERGY BROTHER?…

NOW YOU’VE GOT IT!”

Hulk hogan has launched a new energy drink mix that comes in these little packets.  The packets are handy kind of like those kool-aid and other such packets you can buy in the stores.  They have a free trial going on, I just ordered mine to try it out.  I’m kind of amped to get them actually, when’s the last time you saw Hulk Hogan endorse something? I mean I’ve got to buy it almost because of that…plus it’s free except for shipping, so what am I out in the end, right?

These “extreme energy granules” claim to do the following:

• Immediate Mental Clarity and Focus
• Fell awake, alert and productive for hours
• Rapid energy jolt without jitters or crash
• Combat morning grogginess or afternoon lulls
• Tastes Great!

This will no doubt be a great gag gift at the very least, I can’t wait for my box to arrive, I’ll let you know how it tastes, or you could just try it yourself.  I am completely comfortable shelling out the $3.95 to try the Hulk’s “amazing” new energy drink, haha.

Maybe it will make me remember the good ol’ days of wrestling, steroids and spandex.

2:26AM Happy New Year!: New Goals and I guess Resolutions?

Posted by Justin under Personal, affiliate marketing

Well this is the first New Years I’ve spent sober in recent memory, it’s probably been about 8 or 9 years.  I spent it being rather unproductive and playing Fallout 3 which I got for Christmas on my xbox 360.  It felt kinda weird doing nothing on New Years especially with the dorms being so empty but I feel good about it as I ventured into excess most nights while I was on leave the last week back home in Des Moines.  I have a few regrets and some shameful moments from this to reflect on but I’m trying not to regret as there’s not much I can do about it now.

On a lighter note one of my best-friends got married while I was on leave, Jason.  I wish him and his new wife Holly,  luck.  It was pretty great to be around them and their families compared to my usual environment here.  I also hung out with Ake quite a bit which was always a good time.

Anyway, to get down to business here, this post was more intended about my affiliate marketing venture.  For instance last month I not only made my first conversion doing it but ended up making around $480 since I’ve gone down the rabbit’s hole with this stuff.  I am pretty happy with myself on this as I’ve only really been consistently working on this and not spending more of my time reading/studying marketing and reading those godforesaken “e-books.”

I started out originally just wanting to sell one of ANYTHING at the beginning of December but by the end of it I’m VERY content with making what I did.  My goal for January is to bring in $1000.  This is not much compared to some of the guys out there but I’ve only been at this in a realistic way for about 2 months.  Most of my time at the beginning was spent reading/learning as I said earlier.  Originally, I planned on solely using this blog as a personal thing and writing reviews for products I enjoyed, but found out no one would care what I think until I’ve made a name for myself.

I guess if you want to call it a “resolution” that would be mine.  To make a name for myself this year.  Obviously my work schedule will interfere with this and I’m planning on going to school as well as a deployment if I can get a slot for one.  When I accomplish this goal, I plan on trying to find the ceiling from there, but with this sort of thing the great thing is there really is no ceiling.  That is, if you plan your business model accordingly.

Now, I am getting ahead of myself though.  I will focus just on this month making $1k.  While I’m not at my full-time job…in the military, ugh.

If you’re interested in how to do something like this please feel free to leave a comment and check out My Affiliate Networks List. I would be happy to answer any questions you have, but like I said I’m no expert, just a beginner myself. I’m getting a firm grasp on the basics though I would say for how much time I really put into actual “work” on this.

Netflix on XBox 360 Review

Posted by Justin under Personal, motorcycles, review, xbox360

Living in the dorms on a military base, I chose to just stick with the internet rather than getting hosed by the ONE cable provider we’re provided with on base, which has a monopoly so as you’d guess their service is absolutely horrible.

Simply because they know you have no other choice.

Now I do have an hdtv and it happens to have a VGA port so I can hook my laptop up to it. With all the video sites around now and NetFlix and it’s competitors offering viewing of entire movies on their web-sites I said no thanks to cable….

Then a while back while I was waiting god knows how long for my xbox 360 to get back from their repair depot. (Click Here to read that horror story) I had read about Netflix offering the ability to stream movies through xbox live. This sounded fantastic to me as that is what I primarily use netflix for since I’m not a big fan of waiting a day or two to get the dvd.

This is my mess of a setup

My Cash for Christmas

Posted by Justin under Personal, review

With Christmas only a few days away I thought I’d post this.  I don’t make a whole lot of money so coming up with cash for the holidays is no easy task in itself.  This year I found myself scrounging for dough.  Not really financially able to get what my family deserved with our tightening economic crunch and my lack of any credit cards I thought maybe I’d try one of these holiday loan things.

So I found this “my cash for christmas” site and thought I’d give it a whirl.  I plan on paying it back relatively quickly as I only needed a small loan.  And this worked out great for me. The response was instant and I got the cash within a business day to go get the gifts I needed.  I got my family everything that was reasonable and I could afford.  I’ll pay the loan off after the 1st when I get my check and already made a small payment on it.

I think I’ll probably do this next year.

A week since my last post?

Posted by Justin under Personal, affiliate marketing

Well it’s been over a week since I last posted an update, I apologize to those few readers I have that I see trickle in on a daily basis through my statistics.  I’ve been working a lot on other sites but still having less than hopeful outcomes.  My adsense revenue is going up steadily but still lacking on the affiliate network income.

I’ve been trying to push a few sites here and decided not to outsource anything anymore due to my last attempt at it spawning several competitors…that and a new paypal dispute.  That is a whole other thing in itself.

Anyway expect some steady updates the next few weeks as I’ll be not at work a little bit with the holidays, I’ve been using netflix on my xbox 360 here lately and plan on writing a review about that.  It is really handy, I’ll save that for my next post.  Thank you for reading.

My XBox 360 Horror Story/Experience: UPDATE

Posted by Justin under Personal, review, xbox360

This is an update to my previous post on my experience with Microsoft XBox 360’s customer support

So, I finally recieved my Xbox 360 after a little more than 2 months.  I ended up having to go to UPS myself to pick it up because for some reason they could not get the address right for the SECOND time.  There was no issue when they sent the empty box for me to ship it to them the first time.  Yet when it came time to send me the replacement they simply could not get the address right.

The first time they forgot the apartment number, and it was sent back to their repair facility.  Then when it came back the second time with the

I knew this day would come..

Posted by Justin under Personal, affiliate marketing

So it’s been a little over a month since I started this internet marketing thing, or trying to rather.  I still have yet to make a sale, the only income I’ve had (which is still virtual until I get to $100) is via adsense.  I’m not sure if it’s the niche I’m in, my horrible site design or what.  But obviously I need to change something.

I figure it has to do with the niche I chose simply because a friend of mine was having much luck with it.  It’s something I have absolutely ZERO interest in, so anything I write on the subject is almost entirely fluff.  I’ve been having trouble coming up with a niche people spend money in that I’m also interested in though.  I think it’s because I’m such a cheap-skate I always find ways around paying for just about everything.

I guess I could also try some sort of drop-shipping methods rather than all this affiliate business.  The products they have to promote on most of these networks markets are so saturated already its pretty ridiculous.  I’d have better luck coming up with my own products I think.  These markets are simply over-run with every other guy/girl out there, like me, trying to make a buck.

Even the competition for this one low-result key phrase I’m going for is insane, I have like 40 articles out there and at least 200 backlinks from decent PR pages and I’m still on page 3 of the search results…

That is pretty insane, even the SERP’s for this site, my own personal site suffer from the google-dance constantly.  I don’t know if it’s all the lawyers with my personal name jockeying for the number one position or if Google changes their algorithm that much.

Time to find something else.  If you have any ideas for a new niche you should comment below. 

My XBox360 Horror Story/Experience

Posted by Justin under Personal, review, xbox360

This post has been updated you can reach the updated post by clicking this link.

Phone Rep: “No, You need a real address..”

Justin (Wyatt): “But, I do have a real address, it’s on a military base and your web application on xbox support won’t accept it?”

Rep: “Well, uh, you need a real address…”

Justin: “That is a REAL Address!”

Rep: “No, it’s not, uhm, you need a real address”

My thoughts:        (I think this guy clearly is a mental degenerate.)

Justin: “Well, can I speak with someone who’s not an idiot please?”

Rep:  “Well, sir there’s nothing we can do for you unless you have another address.”

Justin: “Well…sir, let me speak to your supervisor…”

(Insert another 2 hours worth of phone conversations over the course of about 10 phone calls)

Well, if you can’t tell from that I happen to unfortunately own a Microsoft Xbox 360 that I got for a bargain price off a friend a few months ago, that I cannot complain about.  However, just recently (a couple months ago now) I suffered the infamous “red ring of death” like so many of my fellow xbox owners.  I had just purchased Saints Row 2 and was amped to put it in and start playing.  I get to the loading new game screen and sdafdsccrsssssssssshhhhh, the xbox starts making all kinds of unnatural noises and freezes.

I start it up again to see to my not-so-surprised face that I have those god damn three red lights.

“Fuck.”

So I start checking on the XBox support web-site what I can do about this.  I find after putting in my