Easy Simple Side Money

Okay, so I understand that this is my side money blog, but I’m running a short little experiment that may last for a couple days on vacuum cleaner reviews. So the question is does this place fair better, or rather does my vacuum cleaner reviews sites fair better when I write about vacuum cleaner reviews, or reviews in general? Or should I just stick on my side money topic and leave it at that? Does mingling side money and vacuum cleaners reviews screw with my ratings, or is it helpful, or does it do nothing? Eh, only time shall tell right? Generally speaking, whether you are talking about vacuum cleaners or side money the main thing that matters is the amount of work that you put into it. So after a 30 day blogging challenge where I reviewed hundreds of items, and did a lot of work getting the templates for my easy simple side money blog here ready for a long haul run… then never went the long haul… well it only makes sense to pop in occasionally with some side money news from time to time ya know? But that’s not really what today is about, for the most part today is about my vacuum cleaner comparison site that does decently well, but not as well as last year… so the goal is to regain the supremacy that I had on the vacuum cleaner rankings stuff again. So how does one do that? Well that is the question of the hour is it not? In general being so lack luster and spreading the same message over a wide birth of topics is not a great thing… but I am hoping that I can make this vacuum cleaner reviews topic long enough to make up for the indiscretions that may present themselves at times. I think that what I am missing may be much worse than just a few vacuum cleaner reviews, but rather a vacuum cleaner content lack… so we shall see. Onward and upward though, that is the side money way right? Or is that just the best vacuum cleaner ratings talking to me?

As a stay at home father, and husband finding the energy to update 9 blogs every day doesn’t come easily! Besides trying to keep up with a rambunctious 2 year old, my wife never got her drivers license, which means driving her to work, and picking her up most days… which interferes with sleeping schedules. Since our son generally sleeps in the car, thats a minimum of 2 hours of sleep that he gets, and I do not. Plus, driving generally wakes me up getting a little bit of adrenaline flowing, so I can’t go back to sleep right after, and by the time I could go to sleep our son is generally awake! I’ve always been against performance enhancing drugs, but have accepted their usefulness as of late! Especially caffeine where Folgers Cappuccino, Mocha Chocolate Coffee Beverage Mix, 16-Ounces Canisters (Pack of 6) (with Amazon’s auto-ship for extra savings) has become a life saver! I also extensively take Organic Life Vitamins which are specifically formulated for that extra burst of energy!

The combination of organic liquid vitamins, and caffeine allow me to keep up with a crazy 2 year old boy, a demanding wife who needs to be driven to and picked up from work most days, and a rigorous blogging schedule where I update at least 9 websites a day!!! It’s like working two full time jobs, and believe me I would not make it through my day without my magic juice

I’ve seen some preliminary results from my 30 day blogging challenge that I started with CodySortore.com/Blog/ which officially ends in 2 days… on the 19th I will have done a full 30 days of blogging… well actually since last month was a 31 day month the 18th will be 30 full days of blogging!!! Well, as everyone says it takes 30 days to form a habit, and it’s habit, I blog every day out of instinct now! Which is a good thing in many ways If you’ve followed me here I created a 90 day blogging challenge here, and I intend to follow through on it, especially after I’ve seen what kind of power you can get from a 30 day challenge on what ended up being 3 sites… I’ve taken the challenge to the next level though, not only have I extended it, I also added 9 of my websites with any kind of PR to the challenge! So the goal is to go for the next 90 days with 9 websites, thats 810 posts in 3 months… most of which will contain Amazon Links, some will be sponsored in other forms. Either way, I couldn’t do it with the basic bare WP template, So I got some Wicked WordPress Themes to pimp out my sites!

There are a few reasons why I chose the specific themes that I chose… but don’t be too surprised if I add 3 or 4 other websites to the mix by the end of this! I enjoy building my own websites, but WP is just so easy to use, and get started with… for the next 90 days I plan on being a WordPress master

Okay, it’s kind of a funny story getting into this… but one thing that a lot of people don’t think about is the fact that being a successful blogger means you don’t have to leave your home. Some times we joke about working from our boxers. It is one of the major perks of the job! You can sure save a lot of money on pants if you don’t have to put on an expensive pair of dress pants to go to work! In fact I’m blogging comfortably from my chair in these premium boxer briefs:

Yeah, I know you wish you were me we’ve been talking a lot about how to become a successful blogger… and I’m not quite sure you could call me a successful blogger just yet, but hopefully if you keep following us on this journey we can all say that we have become successful bloggers, sitting around in our boxers kicking out stories and making bank

Stronghold 3 is the long-awaited third installment in the award winning castle-building series. Set 10 years after the original, it appears the Wolf has cheated death, and during his painful recovery he’s become even more bitter and twisted. Now he seeks revenge. Raiding villages and towns during the dead of night, the wolf has created a tide of panic. You and your allies are the only force that stands against him. In this stunning new update to the world’s favorite castle sim – will triumph by day or die by night?

• Build and manage mighty castles with an improved building system allowing unprecedented levels of realism and intricacy
• Dramatic night time sieges add a new dimension to the Stronghold franchise.
• Besiege other players’ castles or defend your own in a range of action-packed online multiplayer modes.

Stronghold 3 [Download]

If you are looking for the direct link to get the applied 20% off discount the Stronghold 3 [Download] link is as follows. Just click the “Stronghold 3 [Download]” Link Text which will automatically apply the discount and yes you’ll still be able to use the game through Steam. In fact its actually required to download the game.

If you’re investigating the-team.biz scam for yourself right now… chances are you’re having a very difficult time finding any real information on the program. The site tells nothing, the sales pitch tells nothing, the information material tells nothing… so it’s very hard to decide of the-team.biz is a scam or if the-team.biz is not a scam. I did as much digging as I could, trying to figure out if the-team.biz was a scam… So here’s what I’ve found:

First off, I was introduced to the-team.biz by an old acquaintance from high school. They emailed me with the message “Hey my husband owns a leadership and life training business, and I thought of you. No promises but I think you two would hit it off and should talk.” This email came off a little odd… so was I being offered a job? Was he looking for partners, and she figured I could help him? Never the less my curiosity was peaked, so I decided to follow it up.

I met her husband to try and figure out what in the world she was going on about. I mean, it’s his business, he’s got to have more information than her right? I could understand if I had talked to Rose about wanting or needing some help with my websites, and her talking to one of her friends with only half the information. I wouldn’t be able to offer someone an hourly paying job, but might be interested in inviting someone to partner with me. So I could understand if Rose sent a confusing message like that. When I met up with him… well… I got about as little information as you could imagine from someone who doesn’t understand their business that they are a part of. He gave me 4 CD’s that he promised would explain what the business was about to listen to before our next meeting. 2 hours of my time wasted listening to a couple of guys rambling about how to become successful with these 13 virtues… that are never explained or even mentioned in the CD’s. Okay… so how does that explain what the business is? Well lucky for me the day after we met again there was this great speaker with a teleconference going on that I could get in on! Sure… if it will explain more about the business that’s no problem… oh… you want $30 for it… uh… you want me to pay $30 to get the business that you want me to get a part of to help explain it to me? Yeah… no. If you can’t explain it to me for free, I ain’t paying shit to find out about it.

So he wastes my time with a couple more meetings, and a whole lot more nothing CD’s and books on the business that he is a part of. Okay, so I’m tired of the bullshit at this point, so I start doing my own research on the-team.biz Good luck, I hope that I can make that exploration phase easier for someone with this. If you aren’t familiar with the MLM (or multi-level-marketing) business model… I guess I need to explain that first. Okay, so back in the 1920′s there was a guy named Richard Ponzi, who created an “investment” opportunity that guaranteed results… for some it worked, for others they got shafted… It was deemed illegal because of the unethical tactic of using the investments others paid to pay back other investors who had previously paid in after 90 days… Ever since small businesses all over have tried to imitate this process of having employees recruit new people in with incentives for the more people they recruit. In the 80′s we got the first successful MLM business Amway, while it was successful at doing this, and avoiding being slapped with a Ponzi Scheme lawsuit by making it so that people were making more off of the products being sold than the from how many recruits they brought in… Well then along comes a spider a couple of guys named Chris and Orrin who are tired of their engineering jobs get involved with Amway… but they spot a problem right away. The program has a 90% drop out rate, and a 99% failure rate of those who do not drop out. So these two guys who have NEVER run a successful business, and have no business creds to speak of… decide that they are business experts and will teach others to run their own business. They approach Amway and say that things are broken, and they can fix them. Amway creates Quixtar lead by Chris and Orrin, they take the McDonalds philosophy and apply it to MLM. When you are recruited into Quixtar instead of going straight to work selling Amway products you start with a 2 year training course with Chris and Orrin where you buy their motivational talks, and they teach you to be a successful employee of Amway (all while telling you that you are your own business owner). Later Chris and Orrin realized that they had reached the end of their earning potential with their Team of Destiny (the training program for Quixtar) and the whole Quixtar program. They noticed that they were starting to lose some of their 6 figure salaries because of that 90% drop out rate and 99% failure rate that they failed to fix with the Team of Destiny… So they went to get out of the Amway business and create their own MLM business where they are at the top of the pyramid getting all of the cash.

This is where we get the-team.biz from. It is essentially the training program created for Quixtar, now being sold by itself as a multi-level-marketing campaign that supposedly sells nothing, and asks for nothing from anyone. After revealing this information to him… since he wasn’t able to explain the business to me I explained it to him… After which he told me that I didn’t understand the business at all, and all the information was in the book… yeah, the book doesn’t have any information at all. The following conversation says everything there is to say about this business.

Me: “Okay, since you can’t give me a straight answer on what the product is, or how much it’s going to cost me… Tell me this: What benefit is it to YOU being here selling this training series to me.”
Him: “The product is a better you!”
Me: “Which is free… so why are you here?”
Him: “Listen, the first day we talked you said you have some financial goals that you are working towards, all we are here to do is help you achieve those goals.”
Me: “And it won’t cost me anything?”
Him: “Of course it’s going to cost you, you will have to work towards financial freedom.”
Me: “Yes, but I’m talking about the actual cost of the training program.”
Him: “You can’t put a value on something like that! Listen, when my wife and I first started this it was our goal that she would be able to be a stay at home mom, and that we would have 0 debt. Since we started she hasn’t worked since she was 3 months pregnant with our oldest daughter, and I’m about to retire in 3 months.”
Me: “That’s pretty impressive. Being that with the Fed keeping interest rates low you’ve either got A) $1,500,000 in a savings account to live off of the interest or B) $3,000,000 in a 401K program.”
Him: “I don’t get what you’re saying…”
Me: “Well, retirement… that’s a big thing! You’ve got two daughters, and a wife to support you’ve got to supplement a $40,000 a year job for the next 65 years since you’re only 24.”
Him: “That has been supplemented by this program, I don’t need the money in the bank.”
Me: “So you’re not retiring, you’re working from home… Which I already do… so what benefit is this program to me now?”
Him: “No, I already did that, now I’m retiring.”
Me: “Right… so you’re not working with the program anymore?”
Him: “Nope, I’m mentoring now.”
Me: “Which isn’t working? you’re teaching, but not working… and people aren’t paying for the program… and you’re teaching them to be better themselves which doesn’t benefit you in any way… and without a dime in the bank you’re retiring from work to teach which doesn’t pay but makes you so much better that you don’t need anything else… am I following you clearly?”
Him: “The program provides everything you need to live a better life. Listen, this program isn’t for everyone… if you don’t want to achieve your goals, and you don’t want a successful marriage, and you don’t want a better faith then this program probably isn’t for you.”
Me: “So… I won’t achieve my financial goals, and my wife will leave me… and God is gonna kick me in the nuts if I don’t buy into your program that doesn’t cost anything and only serves to make me a better person?”
Him: “I don’t think you understand the freedom that we are offering here.”
Me: “I don’t think you understand the brainwashing you’ve been offered here…”

After this he left with little to say other than something along the lines of “I’m sorry that you don’t want to be a better person, 95% of people will never try to be more than they are now.” or some crap like that. Which says all that there is to say about this program to me. I don’t know if I would cal the-team.biz a scam… no… scam isn’t quite the right word for the-team.biz… Cult… yes, Cult is the right word! A brain washed nationwide cult of people who have been tricked into believing that they have been freed… all they need to do is pay another $30 to get another fix of their life altering nonsense spewed by Chris and Orrin.

No you’re not losing your mind!  You know your coffee loving self would love the simplicity of a Keurig Single-Cup Home-Brewing coffee machine without the huge price tag…  You can even chose your color and style, ok… ok… there are only three choices, but this beauty is suppose to be brewing your coffee and be a slight show piece in your kitchen.  Not hung on your wall with spinning rims

Just to start off even if you’re not particularly interested in finance or the stock market. You should spend a couple days reading The Snowball. Its a fantastic laid back humorous and even at times sad account of “The Oracle of Omaha.” Or in other circles one of the worlds best know philanthropists.

“Life is like a snowball.  The important thing is find wet snow and a really long hill.” – Warren Buffett

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett.  The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies and wisdom.  The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known to many as the might “Oracle of Omaha.”

One of the first things you will notice about blogging a lot… is that it is a pain… no seriously, if you’re trying to do our 90 day blogging challenge you will soon notice pains everywhere… wrist pains, finger pains, eye strain… working on the computer requires a lot of special attention to ergonomics. The most ergonomic keyboard that I have ever found is the Logitech Wave K350 2.4Ghz Wireless Keyboard this thing is beautiful! The Logitech Wave K350 2.4Ghz Wireless Keyboard has a slight angle, much better than most split keyboards that have sharp angles some times worse than a straight keyboard. The Logitech Wave K350 2.4Ghz Wireless Keyboard also has a slight dip in the keys where your longer fingers rest, it creates the most comfortable natural keystrokes ever. I’ve been using a Logitech Wave keyboard for about 2 years now, and I cannot imagine ever using another keyboard. I’ve got some other ergonomic tricks up my sleeve for working on the computer, but we’ll talk about those later Your keyboard is your primary weapon in your blogging arsenal, so the $40 it will take to get a good ergonomic keyboard is well worth every penny. Even a 2 year lifespan will easily pay for itself… repetitive motion injuries are no fun to deal with, trust me when I say that before you begin this journey a comfortable keyboard like the Logitech Wave K350 2.4Ghz Wireless Keyboard is a necessity.