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.

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.

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.

Christmas Links To 12 Blogs

I received a Christmas link today and would like to share 12 more links to other websites.

Here’s how the game goes:

1. Each day until Christmas link to 12 blogs. (different ones each day)

2. Hopefully the spirit of Christmas will create many helpful links from blogger to blogger.

3. Pay it forward if you receive a link from someone sharing the 12 links of Christmas.

My Pissed Off Response To A Link Exchange Request

I got an email a few minutes ago asking for a link exchange with one of my sites. My site offers information about everything related to conferencing, has a PR 4 and is listed in DMOZ and Yahoo directory among others.

I usually delete suggestions like you’re about to read but this one really pissed me off and I even spent 2 minutes writing my response to hopefully help this guy get on the right track. (and to release my negative emotions )

Here’s his email:

—– Original Message —-
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:32:14 AM
Subject: Submission from “Contact” form

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First Name: Jim
Last Name: John
E-mail Address: chirag.shah@(Ok, I won’t be so bad to really show his email although it’s tempting ) .com

Respected Sir, Read more

Why Blogging For Money Sucks

Instead of including a few introductory paragraphs I’ll just go straight to the point and use Darren Rowse’s poll to show you why blogging for money sucks.

Here’s a quick summary of Darren’s poll “How Much Did You Earn In October 2007 From Blogging?”:

a) There were 3054 responses which, in my opinion, is a big enough number to allow us to rely on the results as being very accurate.

b) There are actually some good earners who blog for money:
- 9% earn over $15,000 per month
- 7% earn between $2,500 and $15,000 per month

This leaves 84% of bloggers earning less than $2,500 per month from blogging for money.

If you want to go one step lower, then 81% of bloggers earn less than $1,500 per month from blogging.

Five Reasons That It’s Easy To Get Links With A Blog

Having your blog and regularly adding useful content to it enable you to quickly build a small authority level in your niche.

You most likely won’t achieve total financial freedom with your own little blog, but you will be able to establish some authority in your niche; unless, of course, you compete with all those money making blogs.

It’s actually much easier to get incoming links and establish some presence online with a blog (especially Wordpress) than if you build a large, static website.

Why?

Because … Read more

Top Commentators Special Thanks

I’ve decided to organize a special thanks for all of those who contribute to this financial freedom blog by commenting on the posts.

There are 3 main reasons why I am doing this:

1. I want to thank the best contributors for making this blog more interesting

2. I want to encourage and inspire the readers to achieve financial freedom

3. I want to give someone a chance to try Site Build It for free for 1 year

Sitesell.com offers only once a year a special promotion where they offer two SBI packages for the price of one. This promotion starts just before Christmas and runs for about two weeks.

I plan to buy my fifth SBI site at that time and I will get another one for free. Sitesell.com allows the buyer to give the second site to a friend or a family member.

It’s the second free SBI site that I want to give away this year to someone with the most valuable comment on this blog.

First Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

If you are not aware of this law and you are a typical blogger doing your own stuff, then you probably start your day by checking your stats and your RSS reader to see what’s new in the blogosphere.

And what usually happens is that this time spent reading other blogger’s posts expands to fill in almost all the time you have left.

Eventually, you either have to go to work or to sleep or do something else and you realize that you haven’t really done anything that day.

You haven’t moved one step closer to obtaining financial freedom, being an A-list blogger, having a pagerank of 6 or fulfilling whetever your desires may be.

It’s the Parkinson’s law that got you.

In order to escape this law you need to follow the PPL strategy.

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