“Moving out” today. Really just staying at a friend’s place to get work done. I’m starting two new companies, and my goal is to have them up and running by the new year. Gonna be close, but I’m gonna #hustle!

Still excited for Vegas next month, Affiliate Summit!

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Time is just flying. Where did this year go to?

Anyway, I was gonna be out of here in January, but I got some legal issues that might take a while. So I may be stuck in the US for a little longer than I wanted.

I’ve been busy enough to keep my mind off it anyway. I’m trying to start all sorts of things and they are all going well. Among them a premium WordPress theme store, which I am SUPER excited for.

I did list a site I made up on Flippa, hate to see it go to waste just sitting around on my hard drives. https://flippa.com/auctions/113590/ParcelProxy-com—Business-ready-to-go

I’m thinking about opening a gameroom here in GA. What is a gameroom you ask? Think video slots, but legal. Dun dun dun. I may be spending a lot of time with lawyers if this idea does pan out.

Working on my offline hustle a bit more too. Got some postcards made up, found out Word ’07 mail merge is a pain so I haven’t had the chance to send any out yet

I’ll keep updating when I remember, but it looks like I wont get out of here till March or April, if everything goes right, and it never does.

I was going through some of my previous posts and noticed this one entitled Money and Ideas.

1. I want to move into an apartment in a city. I have found cheap ($400-$500/month)  2-3bedroom apartments in the college town nearby, about 30 minutes. This alone would do drastic measures for me.I absolutely loathe living in the middle of nowhere.
2. I want to start an internet tv show. I have plans brewing, so it will happen.
3. Learn more Asterisk. I want to set up a phone system for some use.
4. Set up an LLC for all my projects.

My jaw dropped when I read this. What was I thinking? The first point is completely moot and makes no sense. Why would I want to go spend more money when I’m trying to save money? I don’t know what I was thinking.

Number 2 is a lot more work than it sounds. Getting people to help you is completely crazy. I had a meeting with Chris Cree (of Success Creeations) and we had talked a bit about an upcoming project the company I am working for is releasing. It’s about video editing and publishing, but struck me more than anything was this:  he said is that most people just don’t like to get in front of a camera. I haven’t really thought of this before, but man, it rings true. This idea is kind of stagnant at this point in time, but I will be revisiting and rethinking it for sure.

Numbers three and four are still ongoing. I haven’t thought of a biz name for all my projects yet. I have the money and legal understanding to form a company (this will be number 2 or 3), but I’m just hung up on a name.

My Asterisk learning is going ok, though I wish I had more time to read and play around with it .. heh, just need more time! More time and clients to get my learning on. There maybe a job yet to use my skills there. Just trying to figure out whats going on.

I guess I should say, uninterrupted time! There’s some GREAT information in a book I just got done reading called ReWork that talks about startups, similar to Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
(which is also a great read and is on my bookshelf). At least in the last half of ReWork, they stress having alone time/quiet time/uninterrupted time for work. Which I know all about. It’s something I need to do better with.

I think I actually did a review of Guy Kawasaki’s book over on my main personal blog here: http://www.riscit.info/2009/09/the-art-of-the-start/ It’s short but well worth the read.

I think I finally have a date-range when I should be able to get out of here.

I have a friend still in uni and he would like to complete his last semester abroad. He asked me if he should go back to Thailand or go to Japan. To which I commented if he goes to Thailand I’ll come with him.

Probably would end up there at the beginning of the next semester (in January). So now I have a target date at least!

In other business news, email lists are extremely fascinating. I offered something for free until Monday (tomorrow) and I’ve gotten an overwhelming positive response. It’s definitely driven traffic and sales my way.

I am using MailChimp to handle my email newsletters, and so far, they are fantastic! I would definitely recommend them if you are looking for that service.

Android mobile development is also coming up. I am in the middle of redoing a corporate web site (which is a lot more work than I would have thought), so when I am dome with that I am gonna start doing some development with my Droid X.  I believe I will start off using the Titanium development environment. It seems easy to get something up and running pretty quick.

I got to attend the first WordPress Wordcamp here in Savannah, GA. There were a few of the core developers in attendance, including Jane Wells (lead UI, she redid the UI for WordPress 3.0), Matt Mullenweg (founder of Automattic), Andrew Nacin (core developer), Mark Jaquith (core developer), and Daryl Koopersmith (core developer), to name a few.  It was great to meet everyone there and quite astonishing at the turnout. I think there was just about 200 or a little more in attendance.  It was a great time.

I have acquired a consulting position with a local voip company that is a little bit past it’s startup (they started in 2006).

This gives me some regular income to save up, woohoo! Just what I needed. Also gives me a chance to build and enchance my skillset with a few things I’ve been needing to do (namely Asterisk and UI design).

Monthly income allows me to stretch it into other projects of mine to get those started. I’ve been so busy this past month it’s insane. I haven’t had a lot of time for my big hobby of homebrewing.

I have a site I’m going to be doing some offline advertising for, 6each.com, and had some small 3×4 flyers printed out.

I’m also going to get some stickers printed, and maybe some bookmark-size flyers (2×6) printed as well. Advertising these around some campuses should prove to be fruitful I think.

I have a website I built and I’d like to sell it ( http://freeforexsms.com ) because I just don’t have time to add more features and continue development. Now selling websites is no new thing to me or some cryptic ordeal. But my complaint is that there is no place where you can sell for free. The old adage really does go everywhere; You gotta spend money to make money.

Here are some places where you can sell websites.

Flippa.com

Probably one of the best places I’ve seen solely dedicated to selling websites and they do a very good job. I hate their fees though, that goes without saying.

• Listing Fee: $19
• Success Fee: 5%
• Maximum Success Fee: $498
• Minimum Success Fee: $5

It cost’s me $20 just to even list my site for sale on there? Damn. I wouldn’t mind that if  I was asking for a bit more. Here is their complete pricing structure because they do take a percentage of the sale. I think I’ll pass on listing here.

DigitalPoint Forums

The Digital Point forums area haven for webmasters. Not just for selling and buying websites and scripts, there’s a lot of discussion and help on various aspects of web development, search engines, internet marketing, and the like. I tried to post my site for sale in their for sale section, but was unable to.

You must have been a member for 14 days, not have an overall red reputation and have 25 total posts to post in the Buy, Sell or Trade forum (which includes link exchanges) or the Politics & Religion forum.

Now being a member for 14 days was no problem, I’ve been registered since May 25, 2007. However, I never had made any posts yet. I don’t want to spam their forum, and it’s probably a large enough forum where I can start posting and in a few days I’ll easily have 25 posts, but that’s not the point. I can’t really nag on these guys for this rule, it weeds out a lot of crap that would probably get posted there.

Ebay.com

Ebay was my last idea only because I don’t know of any other free places (well, next to free) to list. Ebay will definitely take the least amount from my sale.

I’m not even going to try and explain Ebay’s fee schedule here, it’s way too complicated. But here is a link to it: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

So my question is, where can one freely list a website for sale? Because I cannot find a decent reliable place for this. Does one even exist?

I’ve had a few thoughts running through my head about branching out and making money not only online, but offine as well.

I figured, what do I like to do naturally? Computers (for the most part). So I pondered some more and thought about moving to the other city again and possibly opening a business doing computer consulting. Computer repair, installation, network installation, phone installation, and of course VoIP, just to name a few.

I don’t doubt my abilities. I’ve installed networks for 100+ computers back in the days when we held LAN parties. I know computers like Bob Dylan knows music.

I just have to take that step and do it. Once I get enough money from hustling online, I think my next action will be do move to the other city and start doing this consultation business on the side, because lets face it, my REAL goal was to get out of the USA. I can’t lose sight of that goal, even it takes me longer than I imagine.

Does anyone have any other ideas that I could do for making money offline?

It’s now just about February and I’m not very close to reaching my goal yet heh. But I do have some short term goals.

1. I want to move into an apartment in a city. I have found cheap ($400-$500/month)  2-3bedroom apartments in the college town nearby, about 30 minutes. This alone would do drastic measures for me.I absolutely loathe living in the middle of nowhere.
2. I want to start an internet tv show. I have plans brewing, so it will happen.
3. Learn more Asterisk. I want to set up a phone system for some use.
4. Set up an LLC for all my projects.

Well, those are my short term goals. Hopefully within the next 3-5 months these will be started.

One thing I’ve wanted to do for about seven years now is homebrew, that is, brew my own beer.

I finally took the plunge and bought a homebrew kit yesterday.

Then I got to thinking, how can I make money off of this??? And so my brain went to work. Perhaps you’ll see a new type of beer being advertised here soon