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A College Dropout’s Hunt For Success

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This blog is about a College dropout's efforts to become a successful internet entrepreneur. I'm a College dropout that left College to pursue my goal to make a living online. Do I sound crazy? Do you think I can do it? Bookmark or subscribe to my blog and see if this College dropout can make a living online!


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April’s Current Earnings From Squidoo

April 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Squidoo’s monthly payment has come and gone, and I have to say that things are getting better, slowly but surely.
Squidoo Earnings: $13.64
Clickbank Earnings: $16.61
Total: $30.25
Woohoo! Finally made a Clickbank sale!  The sale was from one of the five lenses I made to promote a memory improvement […]

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Why Ron Paul?

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

There are many reasons I’ll be supporting Ron Paul for president. For one, Ron Paul is against the income tax, a tax that U.S. citizens are made to believe that they are required to pay, while they actually are not.
If you don’t know much about Ron Paul, you can learn more about him and […]

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Helping New Visitors Understand What Your Blog Is All About

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

If you have a blog, have you ever imagined what your blog looks like through the eyes of a new visitor? I recently tried to imagine that I was a new visitor that had just stumbled onto my blog, and the first thing I thought was, “What is this site all about?
Often I find […]

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Does Traffic Swarm Work? Yes!

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Traffic Swarm is a traffic exchange site that I have been using to promote EyeEarn.  I don’t use traffic exchanges to send traffic to any of my web sites, because firstly, the traffic is generally poor quality, and secondly I would be violating the Terms of Google Adsense.
The only traffic exchanges I have been using […]

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Stat Checking Obsessions

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

I haven’t been blogging for a long time (consistently anyway), but in the time I have, I have found that I tend to spend more time checking stats than doing actual work.  It’s as if I hope to one day just check my stats and see that magically I made a ton of money without […]

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How To Create A Wiki

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Want to learn how to create a Wiki? Wiki’s are everywhere, and now it’s easier than ever to make your own. I just recently made a lens about how to create a Wiki. While it isn’t entirely finished, you can stop by and learn about the 3 ways you can use to create […]

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March EyeEarn & SFI Earnings

March 11th, 2008 · No Comments

My downline has been steadily growing. I may not be making much money from my efforts on Squidoo, but I am managing to get some EyeEarn referrals from my Get Paid To Drive lens.
Don’t Know What EyeEarn Is?
EyeEarn is a program started by SFI, an mlm program that offers many products and programs for it’s […]

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InstantBuzz DOES Work! InstantBuzz Is A Free Traffic Exchange

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments

I have seen many discussions amongst InstantBuzz users saying that InstantBuzz doesn’t work. Here’s what I think.
What is InstantBuzz?
InstantBuzz is a free traffic exchange program. After you sign up you install the InstantBuzz bar on your browser, and every time you visit a page on the Internet, the ad you made is displayed on an […]

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Who Makes Money With Squidoo?

March 9th, 2008 · No Comments

There are many people who are making money from Squidoo. What they earn from it solely depends on how much work they have put into it.
These are just a couple of Squidoo lensmasters that are making money with Squidoo…
Loyalis currently has 312 lenses and reported earnings of $649.67 in February.
MrLewisSmile currently has 203 lenses […]

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Is A Squidoo Lens Ever Really Finished?

March 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Not if you want to make it the best it can be! After making a Squidoo lens it’s good to continually tweak it, add to it, remove things, rearrange, whatever you think will make it better.
Why should you always work to improve your Squidoo lenses?
First of all, lenses that are continually being freshened up will […]

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