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I have started blogging over at my new site with an awesome URL. My new site is all about internet marketing. I am teaching step by step instructions on how to make money online. So far it’s been pretty popular. I’ve gone from 4 or 5 visitors per day to over 100 visitors per day in the last 9 days. People must like some of the stuff I’m writing about.

The site is at http://www.matthewwolfe.com

Here’s a sampling of some of the articles available over there:

How to make money with affiliate programs

How to create a WordPress Blog

How to Find and Keep a Mentor

The Best Plugins For Wordpress

18, Must Have, FREE tools for internet marketers and bloggers

I strongly suggest that you go check it out. You can really learn how to create an easy passive side income.

-M

So I have been spending a lot of time writing for the blog over at MBT Media. I have become pretty obsesed with affiliate marketing. I am trying to make a full time career out of it. Well actually… It is my full time career at the moment. I quit my job at the shutter company because my boss and I just didn’t see eye to eye on things. Since I am currently out of work, I have been focusing all of my effort on building a successful online business. So far, the best business model that I have found has been through online marketing and advertising. It has become an obsession of mine. The more I learn about it, the more fun it becomes. Anyway, I wrote an article today about how to get accepted by the advertising networks. It is the first step to starting a career in this business. If you are interested, please check out the post “How to get accepted by the CPA networks“.

I haven’t been posting a whole heck of a lot lately. I do think I have a good reason for that. I am getting married in about 30 days from now, I purchased a house about five months ago and I’m down to my final three classes in my pursuit of a bachelors degree in finance. I’m in the home stretch of a lot of things. The wedding planning is very time consuming and we’re meeting with various people and making arrangements constantly. It just seems to get more and more expensive as we feel like we want no one to be left out. My mom is one of fourteen kids and my dad is one of five kids. I think it goes without saying but I have a very large family. As for the house, we bought a total fixer upper. The price was right, the timing was right, and we were in love with the neighborhood. The main downside is that every free second that I get when I’m not working on wedding planning or studying for school, I’m spending on my various house projects. We’ve put a new roof on the house, put in new carpet, painted the whole inside, replaced the windows, began working on landscaping and so much more. While I love blogging, and I miss it so much, I’ve had a rough time keeping up with it.

To add to all of this drama in my personal life, Joe and I have formed a partnership and opened a bank account. We’ve decided we want to experiment and test the waters of affiliate marketing. We created a company called MBT Media and began studying the various ins and outs of the industry. It appears to be a very lucrative one to some people and we are hoping that sometime in the future, maybe we can join in and become profitable in this industry as well. Joe and I have started yet another blog to discuss the details of our affiliate marketing journey. If you have any interest at all in affiliate marketing or want to learn more about it, please check out our blog at mbtmedia.com.

I want to thank everyone who still subscribes to my rss feed and to all the people that are still on the mailing list. I know I haven’t been giving you guys much but I promise to get back in to this real soon. Things look to be calming down in my life. Once school is done, I am back full time.

I want to talk for a little bit about the attitude of some of my employees. Before I do, I want to give a little background about what I do on a day to day basis. A few years back I developed a piece of software, specifically tailored for my company. It is a piece of software that is linked to a database that stores all of our customers, all of their contact information, when they’ve paid, how much they owe, if there was any problems with their job, etc. It’s basically a massive compiling of all of our customers and every last, little detail about each customer. I’ve trained my employees on how to use it and how to keep it up to date. When the program is updated daily, I can generate a huge assortment of reports. I can generate reports that tell me exactly how much we are spending, how much we are making, and get down to every last detail for analysis. It’s like Quickbooks but tailored around our company and exactly what we do.

A couple weeks ago I went to generate some of my usual reports and noticed that a few of the numbers that were coming up just weren’t making sense. It bugged the hell out of me. I just couldn’t figure it out. The data is updated on a daily basis and no one had missed any days. How can my reports be coming out wrong? I wanted to pull my hair out, I was getting so frustrated. I talked to all of my employees and they all claimed that they were getting the information updated on a daily basis. There was one employee in particular, however, that made a comment that really got to me. She claimed that she knew for a fact that she was getting the information in there accurately at least 90% of the time. This comment upseted me. If you only get your job done 90% of the time, my data is going to be 100% wrong.

Being 90% effective at what you do is not good enough. In my case, the reports that I generate are completely useless unless the data is entered correctly 100% of the time. I guess I just don’t understand the mentality of thinking that 90% is good enough. I believe that no matter what you do in your career, you should do your absolute best. Give 100% all of the time. I don’t care if you are in a job that you hate. Be the absolute best at that job that you hate. If I had a job at McDonald’s cleaning toilets in the middle of the night, I’d be the best damn toilet cleaner they ever had. Do you want to know why? Because that’s how you get noticed. That’s how you move up in your career. If you just give everything you do a partial effort, people will notice that too. You don’t want that reputation.
I had a professor in college that always used to make a statement about percentages. He used to ask us, “if you knew that a plane that you were getting on had a 90% chance of making it to its destination, would you get on it?” Of course the answer to that question is absolutely not! That’s a 1 in 10 chance that your plane is going down. Those are not good odds. Why is that acceptable in your career? It shouldn’t be. Give every job you have 100% and be the best damn person in that position that you can be. You will move ahead faster than anyone else and guarantee you a much more successful career.

-M

I, in no way, condone dropping out of school. I do believe that school is necessary to make it far in your career. I recently found this article, however, that lists 15 Successful Entrepreneurs that didn’t graduate from college. Heck, the creater of Hershey’s didn’t even graduate from elementary school.

I love reading stories like this of entrepreneurs that have been successful and I will probably constantly point you in the direction of great articles that are both motivational and inspirational. Give this a read because stuff like this really gets those creative juices flowing.

Read the Full Article Here.

(By the way. That’s a picture of Steve Jobs back in the day. Yea… You remember. The Oregon Trail days…)