Need Advice on Asking for the Money

I've been taking fitness classes from a woman for about a year now. These classes are extremely effective but also frankly extremely *pricey*. In my town, semi-private group sessions are 40 dollars an hour; a private lesson is 50. And I don't even live in a big city where a private session can cost *100* dollars and up. I never considered that I would keep taking these classes because they were way too expensive and at some point i knew I would just have to quit and find something else

Corey Haim and my fifteen minutes of fame.

In 2010 Corey Haim, a promising but seriously medicated and ultimately failed film actor and teen heart throb -- died in Hollywood.I was not that interested in Corey -- honestly, I swear, even when I was a kid I mostly didn't do the whole Teen Beat thing. I was pretty snotty and was quite sure it was beneath me. But you couldn't help but be aware of the outrageous affection people had for him. He was the kind of kid who you just realize has a fantastic talent for getting *lots* of attent

Make. Money. Online.

So you want to make money online.Did you ever ask yourself why?I will tell you why I want to.I want to be free. I don't want to be tied to a job or to a desk. I want -- well, actually what I really want is to be able to travel where I want to go. I can't because I have to go to work in the morning; I have to be *at that place* to *make my money*.I don't really want to *travel*, travel. I want to see the beautiful places in the world of course but what I want is the freedom to be whe

Commerce is Creative.

Imagine it's 1775. You have just dragged yourself off of some miserable boat and landed in a place called Massachussetts and it is cold and it is weird and you feel just dreadful. But you trudge off the landing and you straggle off the harbor into town.You need stuff. Man, you want a warm bed and a cold beer and you want to get warm and stay warm for a little bit before you figure out what you want to do next.Luckily there are people who have showed up in Massachussets before you did -- and

So how do you like the new Google?

I've been reading a lot about the changes to Google the past couple months but I haven't really paid much attention to *Google* lately - I just type stuff into the search bar and go.But I've been researching something in depth this weekend and I finally noticed it.A lot of the sites I used to count on for pure information are just not there. A lot of sites with good content that are *not* in blog form are not there anymore. What's replaced kind of a homemade information network a

Domain Names: Violating Federal Law for Fun and Profit.

Sooner or later you might get the bright idea that what you should really do is buy a lot of really cool exact match keyword domains in advance. You could buy the name, and then just hold onto it -- in fact what you could do is just buy the name and put lots of ads on the empty site that people might click on. Or maybe there's a person or business that hasn't bought up their own domains. Hey, what you could do is, you could buy them, hold onto them, and then sell them to whoever wants to

How to Identify a Shiny Object

When you're first starting out trying to figure out internet marketing, you'll run into this idea: shiny object syndrome. What people are trying to communicate when they say this is that there is an idea or strategy that sounds really REALLY profitable that someone says they're making tons of money using.Naturally, you want to know what it is. And you're willing to pay for it.Usually, if you go ahead and pay for the information, you will get some information. Sometimes it's h

omg machines review ( a bit blunt)

I have no words.This is probably the worst, most blabbery, information-free upsell ridden piece of crap information product I have *ever* seen in my whole life.SO DO NOT BUY THIS.The boys who put this out are clearly on some kind of meds that make them think what they are saying makes sense when in actuality what they are saying is insanity. It;'s not even insanity that makes a point, it just meanders through stuff like HOW TO MAKE A WORDPRESS WEBSITE ONCE YOU BUY A DOMAIN.Right outside the

Interesting strategy for images...

I ran across a blog yesterday in search of image sources. This woman has gorgeous images on her site and you know where she gets them?Allposters.com -- http://www.allposters.com/ ( no aff link)What she's doing is taking all that beautiful art and creating affiliate links for allposters out of them to pair with her content. Free image, plus a possible commission.I signed up last night and haven't tried it, but I did test a link using one of the images. The affiliate link is just a clickth

Spoiler: What the heck is "PTO"?

You might have seen this little acronym floating around lately -- possibly folded in with the suggestion that PTO will be replacing SEO...and you need to find out how to get ahead of your competition RIGHT NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE..and so forth.K, so what is PTO?It stands for People and Traffic Optimization -- as opposed to SEO which stands for Search Engine Optimization.But all it really means is that you can get traffic by actively engaging on the social networks -- pinterest, facebook, and for