Make Money While Waiting for a Tow Truck...

Yesterday was one of those days. It started out calm enough. We had purchased my wife a used toy car to drive around to and from work. We love our Lincoln Navigator, lovingly called the Lincoln "Valdez" in reference to its 4 valve per cylinder high output V-8 premium fuel gas guzzler performance. It is a beaut & comfortable, but with our gas prices soaring we picked up a new little buzz bomb Mitsubishi Eclipse Turbo. Yup, it still burns premium but should burn about half as much. AND it should be a lot more fun on a daily basis.

Well I had been piddling with the Eclipse & fixing a few minor things for fun. Then I took it to go pick up my wife for lunch. So far so good. After lunch well let's just say that things went to hell in a handbasket. After following an old lady for a while who was definitely in the sloooooow mode I punched it to go around the old lady. The turbo kicked in & all hell broke loose. We zipped around her in nothing flat & just as it hit the rev limiter ....nothing....she just died.

Coast over to the side of the road. Back it up off the road & call AAA for a tow. Three lies from AAA about ETA & 2 1/2 hours later we are loading it up on the tow truck.

Finally...

We had to take it to two different mechanic shops before I found one that could get to it in my lifetime.

We had owned the car less than 48 hours & it was already in the shop. I had "broken" HER new toy and now she had to walk the remaining block to work. No joy for papa!

But here (finally) is the ending of this story. I got back to the house and was plenty PO'ed as you can imagine. I popped the top off a beer & sat down at the computer. I really hadn't had hardly any time to look at it for 3 days.

Wouldn't ya know. Those three days had sales for me that were better than most other days for the last month! I seriously had to laugh...and the beer hadn't even kicked in yet. :)

THAT my friend is the eye popper about working on the internet with passive sales income. You can be gone on vacation, working on the car, going to the doctor, mowing the yard or broke down at the side of the road and still make money because you don't have to be there or even KNOW what is going on except every so often. Sure it depends on your business model. Some PPC activities have to be watched virtually daily. And yes I know you should probably PAY someone to work on the car so you can go design your life but sometimes I find working on the car is FUN and afterall I AM paying someone else to work on the car now, aren't I? :)

Here's to hoping that your car keeps working and your sales still be up!
Rex

Follow Me on Twitter or the Dog Dies!...

You said WHAT? OK I'm in trouble now. This is my wife Dara and her Siberian Husky puppy Zues. Well he WAS a puppy. He's a 93lb eating machine now. But he's our BABY!

Nope if you're looking for violence you came to the wrong spot. If you want to see violence you'd have to see what my wife is gonna do to me when she sees this post! :)

So what's the point?


Twitter is a storm on the horizon. I have really just awakened to the whole Twitter thang. So what the heck IS Twitter? Well...that is hard to explain.

Right now you are looking at a blog. Think of Twitter like a mini-blog. People can "follow" you. You can "follow" them. You can see what they write and they can see what you write. These are little short notes of 140 characters or less. It is kinda like instant messanger too. Hey, you can find well known people to follow and guess what, much of the time they follow you!

The idea is everyone can get to know everyone else better. Naturally, I have gravitated toward the internet marketing crowd or people who are following the internet marketing crowd. You can follow John Reese, Joel Comm, Brad Fallon, and a multitude of others. Sometimes the Twittering (Tweets) turns to Americal Idol or "off to dinner".

Whatever, come join the fun.

Go sign up at www.twitter.com & see for yourself. To say it is addicting is an understatement.

You can follow me at http://twitter.com/RexTurner .

Stop by and say hey.

Don't worry...the dog is safe!

Free Links to Your Website From a PR4?

This is really cool. Today I stumbled into a new Web 2.0 style website that is gonna explode.

What is it? It is a website that has a Google PR4 at the time of this writing that allows you to link to your websites for one thing!

Another thing is it allows you to put articles on the website, or just little snippets of information they call intel. (No not the chip maker.) This allows you to associate certain information to your websites as well.

You can review other peoples intel & earn $$ that are used on the website. To boot you can put money making intel on the site & you get to keep 100% of the profits!

It even can ad AdSense to your areas & YOU make the money!

Just how cool is that?

Go check it out. I'm already signed up. You need to use one of the links in this post though because you have to be invited to join. As a reader of my blog I am inviting you!

Go here now it is free.

You might wanna hurry too, because the early worm gets more links so to speak!

Best regards,
Rex