I don’t know if this is hard to believe. I’m sure it’s really not that hard to believe actually but I’ve never written a proper treatment for a video. I’ve written plans and all that – but never actually one that I could hand over to someone and say, “here read this, and let me know if you want to work with me…” or something along those lines.

Preparation is key to everything you do in life I believe. My Dad always told me “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail..” Which is completely true to me anyways… So I’m now taking it upon myself to write professional looking treatments for all the videos I plan to do in the future.

Pretty much I just searched on Google – Professional Music Video Treatment Templates – etc etc. Downloaded some, looked at a couple that were viewable online..And concocted up my own little creation for Ncane & F.O.X’s TRILLA Freestyle.

I’ve shot the video this past weekend and I can’t say it went completely according to plan – but at least we had a plan! Look out for it!

Late night editing. That’s the story of my life. Writing this post as a video is rendering while listening to the tune of another music video soon to be shot. Got an awesome Gini Rig that I’ll probably use in that shoot as well. I’m happy though because the song is great and we’re gonna have fun making a sick visual for it. UNI started for a black man (me) this week. My schedule is absolutely ridiculous…but better to be busy than be doing nothing. Redbull (no vodka) ftw.

The rig feels awesome and it is awesome. I’ll be filming with it shortly. Slim to None had to be put on the back burner as life caught up with me. But it’s still in the oven believe that. Anyways I’ll put up a video one of these days of me using the rig.

I was testing out the new Magic Lantern and I figured I might as well make a video while testing it. It’s not bad you know. Check out my ghetto extremely half assed first review. But I liked it. So I’ll be doing more of these which each item I get.

I never really post proof pics or any pics at all. Hopefully someone will steal this and say it’s theirs for their new Clickbank product. This money was made in about 5 days at the beginning of April but then they removed the offer I was pushing which was Zoosk.

So I went over to Tatto Media and pushed around $6k+ worth of traffic through them. Anyways, it’s a bitch depositing these checks in England cause they are in USD. And AdCommunal doesn’t have too many payment options unless you’re making over $5k and weren’t very helpful at all in resolving the situation.

My affiliate manager was cool as hell though but besides that I don’t have much else great to say about them.

So…the MacBook Pro Aluminum has these nasty sharp edges…I think it was a fashion over function thing. I wasn’t feeling them so I bought this for only $15 bucks. Pretty much lifts the MacBook off the table with 4 little things that fit onto the bottom.

They’re called Cool Feet. They’re supposed to keep your PC a little cooler and make it less stressful on your wrists to type. Do they work? Yes.

Installation: Easy as hell.
Effectiveness: Works great.

Over at Bluelounge.com you can find Coolfeet and other cool accessories.

I recently switched Hosting providers and I’m glad I made the move because before I didn’t feel like I had complete control over my sites and now I do. Someone told me that HostGator was doing 1 cent hosting on the Baby Packages for the first month and after that $9.95 a month  so I knew I couldn’t pass up on that hot deal.

I mean I got unlimited sites and bandwidth and all that good stuff so resources isn’t an issue and I used to host with them before so it’s solid I honestly have no complaints.

So if you get a chance be sure to take advantage of the deal at HostGator using the coupon code: WordPress

Oh and I started trading with my real FOREX account. I know I wasn’t supposed to but I made 50 bucks? Cool.

Anyways, let me give you the rundown on Adsense Pirate. I used to make pennies per day on Adsense and now you can see that my Adsense Earnings have skyrocketed over the past couple months. I got many emails asking what techniques I used, what tools I used, and questions upon questions asking about it. The funny thing is I’m not making that much compared to some people on Adsense, but I still have enough knowledge to share with those who are in the position that I used to be in.

That is how Adsense Pirate was born. It’s geared towards newer users of Adsense trying to break through the barrier and make upwards of $20 a day. The tools and techniques within the eBook are the exact same tools I currently use on my Adsense projects. It worked for me so why wouldn’t it work for you?

If you put in the time and apply what you’ve read there’s no reason for you not to be better off than you were before reading Adsense Pirate. Anyways that’s all I can say pretty much. I’m not that great at writing sales pages.

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I’ve mentioned a few times that I planned on getting into affiliate marketing sometime soon so like I always do I wanted to give an initial review of the service that I’ve received so far. You may not have heard of them and I don’t really know if they’re nw but you should definitely check out T3 Leads out.

If an affiliate network doesn’t have great suupport it’s always a hassle working with them but these guys have nothing to worry about as they have it covered. Their support service is top notch and the one little kink I had was ironed out within a matter of minutes. If their support isn’t available they alsoo have a community which you can find at forum.t3leads.com

Most of their offers have to do with financial things – payday loans, tax debt, mortgage loans and insurance. If you can find the right place to promote these you could definitely make some extra cash.

They also provide a bunch of promotion tools which will definitely affect your conversion rates for the better.  Once you’ve reached 300 bucks with them you’re eligible for an ePassport card but..I’m not there yet.

Anyways – be sure to check them out and let me know what you think. http://www.t3leads.com

There are quite a few ways to monetize your sites nowadays. Adsense and Yahoo Publishers network to name two of the main ad networks out there. Today, I’m going to be comparing two In-Text/Contextual Advertising programs: Infolinks and Kontera.

They are both comapnies which give you the power to advrtise through the text on your website. A code that you insert at the bottom of your site will pretty much crawl your site looking for keywords. Once it finds those keywords it will turn them into a link that when hovered over will produce a small popup. You make money when either that link is clicked or the advertisement is clicked.

I ran Kontera for awhile and realized that I was making pittances. I didn’t know whether or not it was worth it to run ths ads bcause after all – I am somewhat tricking my readers into clicking these links that are actually ads. But I’m all about my paper on the site I ran it on so it didn’t matter. Here are the earnings I made with Kontera over February.

Kontera Feb 1- Feb 27

As you can see, it was a little less than satisfying. I won’t reveal the number of clicks, but they were respectable and I still wasn’t earning at least a dollar a day. That’s unacceptable.

So I was on somones site, unfortunately I forgot who it was, and I hovered over one of their links and got a tiny popup from a diffrent In-Text Advertiser: Infolinks. In my search to find somone who pays more I decided to check it out.

I recently joined Infolinks and easily integrated it into my website by pasting a simple code. Support on the site is top notch I sent them a message asking a question and got a response very quickly.

I signed up and got approved within a day, and removed Kontera from the site with a swiftness. They also allow you to change the color of your Content Link like Kontera but they also let you choose whether it should be underlined once or twice. This can make the difference and I think having only one underline adds to clickablity.

Infolinks was a hit from the first day. I’ve been running it on the exact same site and I’ve made twice as much as I made on Kontera all February in 10 days. Not only that, but I’ve made half as much as I’ve made using Kontera for the last 5 months, in just over a week. Here is a screenshot from my Infolinks account:

Infolinks March 1-March 10

As you can tell, if you’re trying to make money with In-Text advertising you’re better off with Infolinks. I feel Kontera has been holding out and ripping me off for the most part and that’s just being honest. I also feel that their users are starting to see that there is better money elsewhere.

I’m glad I made the switch to Infolinks. Kontera just wasn’t working.  They were paying me over 50% less than what Infolinks offers .

If you are currently with Kontera – they are holding out on you. I’ve come to a conclusion that Kontera makes you pennies – Infolinks makes you dollars. It’s a no brainer.