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I would like to say that I have always been a very optimistic person and never get too worried when major crises arise in our country. But the truth is closer to: I have never felt like there was anything I could do about it so why bother to worry. All worry causes is more worry. So instead of worrying about things that I can’t control, I will do my best to control the things that I can.

Here is what I know for sure. There is only one certain way to make money online and that is to sell an actual product. Sure some out there will try to convince you that you can make a living with advertising on your site. Let’s take a quick look at what is happening with ad programs like Google’s Adsense and others. If you are an advertiser then your goal is to get the cheapest and most targeted traffic that you can get. When you are doing that you bid on keywords that will cost you the least. Say that you have a site that runs Adsense and you are displaying ads for other companies that have bid as little as .05 per click. If you are lucky then you will receive .02 and lose you visitor. In what world does it make sense to lose a visitor for 2 lousy pennies?

If you are new to internet marketing or have been around for a little while then do yourself a favor and don’t throw up a blog and think that you are going to make money. Do what marketers who have been around for a while know to be the surefire way to make money and sell a product. Most products that are sold over the internet are information products. This guide will offer you some great ideas about how to make your own products quickly and cheaply. You don’t have to re invent the wheel you just have to know where to start.

Don’t leave your future in the hands of our government and hope for the best. Take charge of your future and learn how to create products that you can sell over the internet for profit. It will cost you a whopping four dollars but it just might be the best four dollars you ever spend.

If you are still worried watch the video below of a Charlie Rose interview with Warren Buffet and know that all will be okay in the end.

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First let me say that for the most part I really love hubpages but there is one reason that the community there is for the birds, and I will get to that in a moment.  But first lets me say that as a marketing tool it doesn’t get a lot better than hubpages.  You can build relevant links to your site for the keywords you are targeting and build just about any website up using only links from hubpages.  The owners have done a great job of building a world class platform for not only promoting other sites but for making a decent amount of money from the traffic you receive there.

So if you are unfamiliar with hubpages, it is a publishing platform that allows you to publish what they call a hub about any subject you choose.  So you choose some great keywords and write and article about that subject, add some relevant pictures or video and publish the hub.  If you have done a good job with the article it will get picked up very quickly by the search engines and you will get traffic.  The traffic equates to probably some of the best traffic on the internet and hubpages through one of their other sites has done a great job of optimizing the Adsense ads that appear on the site.  You get a share of the Adsense by adding your Adsense code and receiving 60% of the impressions.

I have published 60 hubs and make between 3 and 4 dollars a day with Adsense just from hubpages.  That may not seem like much but over the course of a year it is one less mortgage payment I have to worry about.  But more than the money is the opportunity to build relevant links to your site using great keywords.  The opportunity in that regard is worth thousands of times the amount that you will make with Adsense. 

But here is where the problem with hubpages comes in.  Hubpages is mostly a group of writers who don’t promote other sites and focus singly on their hubs for making money.  Not really a problem until you realize what a backbiting group of shit heads they really are.  I have made the mistake of calling out some of their self proclaimed experts and written a few hubs that showed the rest of the community why they shouldn’t listen to people who don’t understand what they are talking about.  These experts claim to be Internet marketers but barely understand how to make hubpages work and really believe that if they get a hub on the first page of google that they have accomplished something.  I have also written some hubs about pit bulls that offended the other half of the community.  And because of that every time I publish a new hub a group of these infants decides to flag it as too promotional or deceptive.  And I have to go through the trouble of resubmitting it and waiting 3 or 4 days for the owners to look at it and approve it once again.

This in itself is just a hassle and tiresome.  I don’t write spam and I don’t mislead or deceive anyone, so I find it offensive and childish.  But I know by know that that is what happens with most groups on the Internet.  I should just let it go and deal with the babies, but quite obviously I am getting annoyed with the situation.  But I know that to rise above the trash you have to be the better person and just let it go.  At least the children gave me an excuse to write another post for my blog.