My Definition Of Success

I am writing this post on my Caribbean cruise on Freedom Of The Seas ship. Today I met many SBI-ers and Ken Evoy was the first to give an opening speech.

One thing that he asked everyone to do is to define success.

So here’s my version:

You are successful when you have reached the limit of your potential.

This is of course totally independent of everyone else.

And the most important thing to keep in mind is that we are all limited.

We are limited in our IQ, in our communication skills, in our ability to decide, in our ability to stay focused on a certain task and so on.

Some of this abilities or skills can be improved with practice and some cannot.

Look no further than Brian Purkiss from Plainbeta.com.

Brian offers plenty of blog design tips and tricks on how to improve the functionality, ease of use, choice of colors and SEO of your wordpress blog.

If you are thinking about designing your blog by yourself then you need to check his post about What Makes A Website’s Design Look Good.

Brian shared 7 tips that will make your blog look good:
• Easy navigation
• Images
• Graphics
• Colors
• Engaging content
• Minimalism
• Animation

Bloggers Head To Head

I just learned of an fun contest between Tyler Cruz and Gyutae Park who are going head to head on who is the better blogger.

Actually the contest is about getting more RSS subscribers, more traffic and so on.

So it’s up to us to vote for one of them.

Well, I vote for Gyutae Park for two reasons:

1. The posts on WinningTheWeb are more useful to my interests. And I also liked the cutely disguised Adsense ad in the header.

You guys are so creative when it comes to making money with Adsense, I give you that.

2. Gyutae Park actually emailed me (although I know the main part of the email was copy / paste ) and I asked for my support.

So there you have it. You got my vote.

Site Build It Q&A

A friend recently contacted me about my online business, Site Build It and achieving financial freedom using SBI.

This post is the Q&A we had about all of the above and I encourage you to ask more questions about SBI or anything else in the comments below.

It makes it the easiest for me to come up with a useful post.

Q: Tomaz, what you write sounds fascinating! I have some questions:

In your high traffic sites I expect hundreds if not thousand of postings per subject, instead I see one or two, isn’t this pretty anemic for an high traffic site?

And example of this high count postings are tennis forums like:

http://www.tennis.com/messageboard/category-view.asp

http://www.menstennisforums.com/

A: The only way to really get that much content out there are forums where many other people write content for you.

How To Stop Global Warming – WATCH THIS!

If you wonder how to stop global warming and want to do something about it, then watch this video.

I first came across this global warming debate video through Yahoo News and then I watched some of the associated videos on YouTube.

This video doesn’t really look like it’s on topic with financial freedom, but in the worst case scenario, money won’t really be the issue.

Your life will be.

So again; if you really want to know how to stop global warming you must first understand your choice and the consequences of it. (Hmm, sounds like Morpheus from Matrix…)

You can watch the video here on my blog or head straight to YouTube and watch it there with all the other associated videos from Greg Craven.

Oh, and if you have a blog and at least 1 reader, you can help spread the word!

Remember the risk of not taking action… ;(

GetAFreelancer.com Review

I’ve been using GetAFreelancer (GAF) lately and decided to write a review about the site and my experiences.

(Note: the links in this review are affiliate links.)

My first experiences with freelancers began with Elance.com a year ago and I was never 100% satisfied. I tried hiring writers and link builders and none of those were really good.I also didn’t get that many bids for my posted projects. (maybe I was just unlucky…)

I decided to test GAF a few months ago with a few smaller projects like outsourcing ten articles or getting a few links to some of my niche websites.

There are two things that I really liked about GAF:

And The Winners Are…

Thanks everyone for commenting and helping this blog grow in quality content and interesting discussions.

In case you don’t remember, I promised a few prizes for the best commenters in December.

Choosing the prizes was a hard decision but eventually I had to make it.

So let’s get straight to the point…

The winners for the most valuable comments on this financial freedom blog are:

Why I Don’t Follow

Well, I never followed “the herd,” but this is not really about following other people – it’s about the “do-follow” movement that’s becoming quite popular.

I recently came across some posts and groups discussing the pros and cons of having a do-follow plug-in installed on a WordPress blog that passes the pagerank to the commenter’s blog.

Here’s Sarah’s take on “no-follow, do-follow” and here’s what Deron Sizemore posted about his thoughts on the do-follow links.

You may also want to check what Darren Rowse had to say in the comments of the latter post.

A Review Of Sitesell / SBI Improvements And Add-ons in 2007

Today is the last day when you can still get the 2 for 1 Special Offer from Sitesell.com where you receive 2 Site Build It packages for the price of one.

Just in case you are still undecided whether this product can help you achieve financial freedom, I wanted to show you something:

One of the outstanding qualities of Sitesell is that they continually improve and add new features to the Site Build It package without increasing the price.

Ken Evoy made a post today in the forums highlighting the most important improvements and add-ons Sitesell has implemented this year.

I’ll try to explain a little what each module does. My comment is in the ()…