Latenight Gamming

Ok so I'm a big fan of online games such as World of Warcraft and Runescape and it keeps me up til late at night sometimes because that is about the only rime that I have to play right now!

I maybe get in about two to three hours almost every day and night. I also only have one level 80 in WoW right now, about six others are close... That's right I switch toons a lot!

I have fifty toons on one account and about fifteen on my second account, my sons share my second account and both have about four toons each I'm not sure how many toons my wife has on her account.

I need to get my wife a new laptop so we can both help the boys level their toons, but it'll have to wait until I'm turned loose and making more money because the kids needs and the house come before our wants!


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Getting Close

It's getting close to time for me to go back home for the Christmas season plus if all goes well I'll get to move into the new home after New Years (yep I got the house).

Maybe we can have my youngest sons birthday parth there it would be really nice, plus my wife and kids will feel safer and being closer to my mom and dad is a plus also so someone can be there when my mom needs something.

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Waiting to Get My Boys

4:45 will be here soon and my wife Andrea and I can go pick up our sons from their after school program.

Ida has been downgraded to a tropical storm so that's great news for us being that we are only about 100 miles from Mobile Alabama!

Well that's about all for now as I may not have Internet access tonight due to rain because we are on WildBlue kind of like Hughsnet!


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Apple iPod Touch

I bought an Apple iPod Touch with an 8gig drive about two days ago. I really don't know why I put off buying one until now, because I really love this little thing!

I'm able to do so much more than I've been able to do using my BlackBerry Curve. When I don't have time or even access to my laptop, the iPod Touch allows me to work on my blogs, update Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and much more at much faster speeds than before!

The only thing that is giving me a little trouble is inserting links and clickbank hop links into my posts.

But I'm sure with a little work and practice I'll be able to master that part of working with an iPod Touch, there may even be an app for what a need.

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Twitter Witty

I've gotten hooked on Twitter, a first I did not see the point it seemed like a total waste of time! But once I started using it I found that I liked it.

My only regret is the length of space that Twitter allows you to post updates, I think that it should at least be 200.

I've found that Twitter can be and is a great tool for business. After all the first few sales at www.uber-market.biz came from Twitter users!

Also I wanted to invite you to follow me on Twitter... ratchison.


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iPod Touch Blogging

Started blogging with my iPod touch thanks to a very cool app called BlogPress and I would recommend it to anyone!

So hop on over to the iTunes App store and download it today there are free, paid versions. So if you are in Blogging on the go then this App is for you.

-- Posted from my iPhone

Blackberries and iPhones Are Great But

Blackberries and iPhones are greats smartphones But I'm left thinking that there has to be a better handheld tool that can manage email and allow you to work on and view websites.

Take my Blackberry Curve that I'm using to make this post, half the time I can't make out what I have typed, It really get under my skin sometimes.

There are times when I don't need to break out my laptop due to setup time or lack of room, I want something with bigger keys, maybe a wireless mouse or trackball, about a 6 to 8 inch screen and can fit in a smaill thin case that I can ware on my side.

Debt an American Way of Life

My fellow Americans! Is it just me or does the whole world seem to be a little distressed over the rising cost of fuel, food, and the general cost of living? Also the declining job market, low wage increases, companies leaving the good old USA in favor of countries where they can pay far ten to twenty people what they have to pay one of us Americans... plus they work harder and longer which increases productivity.

Now this is just my opinion and should not be in any way a view of reality, but companies like Fruit of the Loom that closes the doors of companies like Vanity Fair should have their products removed form every single shelf in every single store in America. Their company should be burned from the face of the Earth. After all their are other companies that make t-shirts and underwear.

The companies like this are one of the main causes for the lack of jobs and increase of debt in our country. If things don't get better soon some of our fellow people having a strong need to live may start taking things into their own hands by robbing, raping, killing, rioting, and all of the bad stuff that falls into those categories even more than they do now.

Then you have these software companies that charge your an arm and a leg for their games and systems and some even charge you monthly fees helping to take even more hard earned money form the mouths of our nations children.

Lets take a look at one of my favorite games World of WarCraft by Blizzard Entertainment! Now this is a company that charges you $19.95 to buy their game and then turn around and charge you $14.95 a month to play the bloody thing. Now here is the kicker... they have over 1,000,000,000 people playing this game but to make it a bit easier we will figure on just one million.

Say one million paid $19.95 for just World of WarCraft not counting The Burning Crusade... which would net Blizzard a few million because the stores have to get their cut. Forget about that let's take that same million and have them pay $14.95 a month and Blizzard makes a whopping $14,950,000.00 a month or a mind blowing $179,400,000.00 a year.

Now if they only charged $5 per month they would still make over five million dollars each and every month and that should be more than enough to run something that they already have setup and running. These greedy bastards have had more than their share and I'm adding to their riches at $179.40 a year for myself and double that because my wife has an account so I pay $358.80 a year!

That's more than my monthly rent, water, and trash all combined. They are not the only software company that is bleeding us dry look at Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo they all want way too much for their systems and too much for the games. The systems and the games should all cost half of what we are being charged.
Oil companies are dry fucking us until our asses bleed and we scream in pain! Sorry for such graphic use of terms but it is how I feel and thus needed for accurate depictions of how I see this matter! Companies like Shell, BP, Chevron, and others have made billions over the last few months, it's no telling how much these kind and generous people have made form squeezing every last cent from people around the world.

Oh, and if any company wants me to remove their name from this list I can be bought for a couple hundred thousand to a couple million... maybe! Just contact me I'll be happy to accept free products like games, systems, electronics, gas, cars, houses, boats, whatever. ;)

Hats For TJ | Copy of Letter I'm Sending

To Whom It May Concern:

My name is Robert H. Atchison Jr. and I writing to you today asking for a few minutes of your valuable time. I not asking you to buy anything or help me in anyway what so ever, all I want of you is for you to visit a website.

It’s a simple site that’s about a young man that my wife and I meet through World of Warcraft, his name is TJ and he has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (Pro-B). His whole story is on the site so I won’t waste your time reading it twice.

This young man has a dream of beating the world record for owning the most hats, but that’s not all… once he has beaten the record he plans on giving the hats away to other kids with cancer.

I believe that this is a very good cause and worth all my free time trying to help him reach and exceed his dream. TJ lives in Grand Rapids, MI and that’s a long ways from where I live in Alabama my wife and I are not well off, but we are sending him hats, as many as I can afford and still pay the bills.

Go to the site, and if you agree with the cause then by all means send this young man some hats… ten, twenty, fifty, or thousands if it’s within your power and resources. Also if you’re unable to aid TJ in his cause then please forward this letter to people who can.

Sincerely,

Robert H. Atchison Jr.
Ratchison2000@gmail.com
http://www.inet-market.biz
http://twitter.com/ratchison
http://coolwebdeals.blogspot.com/

P.S.
I don’t want anything at all, other than my friend TJ to reach his goal… so don’t visit or link to my sites, you may contact me through them if you like. But my dreams are not as selfless as TJ! My dreams are centered on making money and giving my wife and kinds everything they need and more, unfortunately I can’t seem to do either, but that is my problem and many other people are in the same boat… TJ has a much bigger one!

Sneak Peek into Autoresponders

If you’ve reached the point of exhaustion trying to keep up with answering the mountain of emails that threatens to bury you alive each and every single day, then you must be ready to learn about autoresponders.

It’s kind of funny how people expect prompt replies to their email inquiries. However, unless you can figure out how to work continual twenty-four hour shifts, or hire enough people to constantly monitor incoming emails (while they’re eating up your revenue), you have a problem. The good news is an autoresponder is an inexpensive - or even free - method of quickly responding to emails. What these programs do is automatically respond to incoming emails as soon as they are received.

Emails are essential to your business for many different reasons. Most importantly, these invisible email voices give you their feedback about your website - for free! However, if you spend all your working hours answering these emails, how are you supposed to run your business? The answer is simple: use autoresponders. Autoresponders are programs that automatically respond to your emails without you so much as having to click on your mouse.

There are a number of good reasons why you need an autoresponder besides just answering your email. For example, autoresponders can be used if you need a way to send information about your services or products, price lists, or if there are repeated questions asked across large numbers of emails. Maybe you want to offer your site visitors a special bonus of some kind, such as advice or relevant articles. All of this can be handled by an autoresponder. Additionally, you can advertise your business and then build stable relationships with your customers by using autoresponders.

Autoresponder programs vary from software that runs with your email program to a specialized script that runs on your web hosting company’s server. This kind of script may use a web page form or simply operate with your email account. This kind of script is programmed to send out a standardized message whenever an email is received. The message is sent to a particular script or email address.
Some autoresponders can do more than simply send out standardized messages. They can send out an unlimited number of follow-up messages sent at predetermined interval of time. For example, you can set your autoresponder to send out a new message every day for as long a period as you desire.

There are numerous companies who offer autoresponders free of charge. Your website hosting company often provides autoresponders as a free service. If this is not the case with your web hosting company, there are numerous companies who offer this service for a small fee, or free of charge, providing you attach an advertisement for their company to your emails.

To personalize your autoresponder messages, you can attach a signature. Signatures in this case are much like business cards. You can include your name, company, all your contact numbers and addresses, and a brief message.

It’s a good idea to attach a signature to every email that is sent out. This works as a repeated reminder of your business identity every time a customer sees it. The more they look at your signature, the more likely your company will spring to mind when your particular service or product is needed.

You can create a standardized signature that every employee in your business uses, or you can go wild, and let every staff member create their own personal signature. Of course, like everything in life, there are some rules and guidelines to creating a personal signature.

Keep the length of your signature between four to six lines of text, with no more than 70 characters in a single line. Make sure that your email program does not cut off your text! The content should include your name, your company name, your email address, fax number, and any other contact details, such as 800 numbers. Lastly, always include a short personal message about your company. It should be a subtle sell of your services or your products, and possibly your company’s reliability and longevity.

Another specialized use of autoresponders is to create courses that you can then offer your site visitors for free. You must choose a topic in which you are an expert and that precisely targets your potential customers.

Once you have carefully chosen your subject, divide it into a number of different sub-topics. Then offer your site visitor a free 10 or 15 day course, each day offering a different sub-topic. The first topic should always be a welcome message to your site visitor and an explanation about what is to follow. Your explanation should be enticing, getting the point across that you are offering free, quality information that your target audience will find of great value.

With every lesson, include the number of the lesson, the topic title, information about your company and its services or products. At the end, include a few blurbs about the next lesson to entice the subscriber to continue on.

Make sure each topic is packed with essential and valuable information, and leaves the visitor lusting to know more. Otherwise, you may lose them in the very beginning.

Of course, you have to write up your course before you can offer it. Once you have done this, and gone over the material carefully, employing a professional writer or editor if necessary, you must transfer your text to your autoresponder.
There are a number of free autoresponders you can use.

Try http:/www.getresponse.com, or http://www.fastfacts.net. Or go onto Google and you will find a long list of free autoresponder companies. Then sign-up for your chosen autoresponder. Once you do, you will receive instructions as to how to set it up and transfer your text.

Email is an excellent marketing tool; it is inexpensive and it is fast. Use it to advertise your business by choosing your email address carefully. Your website should contain different email addresses for different contact requests. For example, use info@yourdomain.com for information requests, or sales@yourdomain.com for questions about sales. It’s a good idea to set up one for the owner, such as president@yourdomain.com. This presents your company in a personal, approachable light and insures that direct contact is provided.

Autoresponders are an effective and powerful marketing tool, allowing you to make contact with thousands of potential customers. This is an invaluable asset considering how many potential customers you usually have contact with before you make an actual sale. Essentially, an autoresponser allows you to automate part of your marketing campaign.

Getting Listed With The Big Hitters

If your like the countless others floating around lost in the ever expanding void the is the Internet and wondering what to do now that you have your own website/blog, then I'll tell you what you need to do in the following few paragraphs.

The first thing you need to do is be sure that your site has some sort of content that will keep people coming back for more, content can be any number of things such as jokes, articles, news, games, photographs, art-work, music, videos, how-to information, interesting things about your wild and crazy life, ways to make money, ways to save money, going green, and countless other topics that can fill pages and pages on your site.

Next you'll want to make sure that you have a good description and keywords in the correct places in your source code. Also the description and keywords should be used on your site... this should be done before listing your site with the search engines like Google, Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Windows Live, Bing, AOL, Mamma, and the many many others out there in the tangled web.

Moving right along, in order to get higher rankings with the search engines you'll need a little something called back-links, no it's not some sort of magic software program that will make getting your site to the top of Google, Yahoo, and other search engines "I wish it was that easy". Back-links are other websites that link back to your site. So how do you get other websites to link to your site.
ɸ You could ask friends and family to add your links and description to there websites, blogs, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc.
ɸ You can offer other webmasters a link on your site with a quality review in-return for them linking to your site.
ɸ You can join a traffic exchange(not my favorite method)where you place a little code on your site, and for each click through you the ad you earn credit and more rotation in the ad cycle.
ɸ You can add you link to classified ad sites (again not a favorite of mine, but it works).
ɸ You can hire a marketing group for do everything for you if you have the money... prices very from agency to agency.

Now that you have your content and you have people linking back to you, now you need to pick up the pace... just kidding, it's finely time to list your site with the search engines. Sure there are lots and lots of sites and programs that you can use to add your site to search engines, but I'd rather do it manually. Why I don't like to use the easy programs is because I've had very little luck with them... but I'm sure that some of them work fine, just not the ones that I've tried. If you want to get you site submitted fast you could try the following sugestions.
ɸ Instant Customers | Get more website traffic for around $49.
ɸ Submission Hub | LOL... take your pick because the two appear to the same thing, offers then same stuff, costs the same, looks a little bit different but not enough.

The above two links are affiliate links through Clickbank, it just goes to show just how many clones are out there... I research about ten sites that all had the same price, same features, same offers, almost the same design, only with different names.

Anyway to manually list your site would take a few hours so use a form filler like Robo Form it stores all your information and passwords and can fill in forms at the click of a button. Oh and no it's not an affiliate link and yes I am an affiliate, and yes I'm crazy for not using my affiliate link.

Alrighty, here are the main websites that you'll want to list your site with! These sites will be about all you need to get listed with, but you can list with as many as you like big, small, it does not matter getting your site to the top takes time so just keep submitting your site around the same date each and every month, be sure to update you content from time to time... a few times a weeks should be fine even if its nothing but to say what a crappy day you had.

Google, Yahoo!, Bing, AltaVista

Well I'll add more tips to this article later, right now my pillow is calling my name.

Blogging for Dollars Baby!!!

There are a number of ways to make money online, affiliate programs, online stores, games, and much more. Let's not forget about social networking themes such as blogging, posting to sites like MySpace, Blogger, Twitter, and others.

Starting out you'll want to get your hands on all the information that you can about making money with your blog... to help you get started faster here are a couple of options.

- Blogging to the Bank
- Social Bookmarking
- Atomic Blogging
- Blogger Generator

These are just a few tools to help you start making money with your blog. Here is a tip that you may already know... It does not matter how great of site you have, if no one knows about is you'll make very little money if any.

So the very first thing you HAVE to do after your blog is up and running with content and affiliate links in your posts is to list your site with Google, Yahoo, Windows Live, Lycos, Mamma, and other sites that you use. Get your friends to add a link to your site on their MySpace pages, do a little Twittering, use Facebook, and other social sites like Digg or whatever your favorite bookmarking site is.

These sites get tons of traffic each and every day, if a link to your blog/site appears on these sites a few times then chances are your site will go up a few places in the rankings. Submit your site once a month to the major search engines... do this manually as then automatic submitters may leave out some needed information.

Add you link to your emails, place free online ads about your blog/site, place an ad in your local news paper, tells everyone that you know and tell them to tell their friends about your new site/blog and see if they will add links to your site on their sites if they have them... a.k.a linkbacks!

Link Backs are links that appear on other websites that point back to your site, this will boost your search engine ranking too. The higher your ranking is the higher on the search engines page your site will appear.

Affiliate Marketing | Starting Out

Well as many people know there are so many ways to improve your life financially, freeing up more of your time for the more important things like more time to spend with your family, friends, and self.

I stumbled across affiliate marketing quite some time ago… oh about 10 years ago. Was I skeptical? Oh, yeah I was… and I thought that there was no way I could make any big money doing this.

Well I felt compelled to give it a shot my first affiliate marketing experience was with a group called All Advantage, it was a slow start at first but as I placed an ad here and an ad there on web-sites and in email I started seeing checks in the mail at first it was only $50, then $100 and it went up from there.

However, they went belly-up and there I was with no extra money coming in, so I signed-up with Click-Bank a large affiliate marketing network… I’ve had some luck with them and other networks. Again it was a slow start, but after about five and a half weeks I started getting commission checks for $200 to $600… it was not all that great but was still extra money.

I now had a taste of what I wanted and had to figure out just what I was doing wrong… after all I’ve seen where other people were making over $10,000 a month, so why was I unable to break the $1000 make. I sat down and made a simple web-site and I then placed my affiliate links on the pages. I put my Click-Bank, Friend Finder, and other links on every single page in little short articles and I started seeing results.

At first I put one to two links in my little articles and later started adding four to five, but no more than five to keep everything simple. You’ve heard of the K.I.S.S method I’m sure… Keep It Simple Stupid (or Silly) whichever you prefer; anyway I’m a firm believer in keeping things simple.

Oh, and before I start rambling even more and get off topic the affiliate that I’ve made the most money with so far was Adult Friend Finder. Anyway affiliate marketing is done online using the Internet, email, and classified ads. Basically you need to do anything you can to get people to click on your affiliate links… just don’t use SPAM or other shameful tactics.