Man was I excited to watch this terrific video by Ray Edwards. Most free online videos with a title like "How to Make Big Money Fast Online" are usually short teasers to get you excited to but leave you hanging.

Ray has taken the time to graciously share an idea that came out of our mastermind meeting here in Spokane Washington - and details the exact steps so that anyone can take this idea and run with it!

Ray is no lightweight in the make money online fast world because he has done it every way possible. Ray is an expert at creating info products and marketing them in niches - as well as working at the top with the biggest names  in doing multi-million dollar launches.

I stopped what I was doing and got a sheet of paper to take notes on Ray's excellent fast and simply strategy - I recommend you do the same thing.

If you've watched this video and want to discuss the strategy here - I'll be happy to give you my opinions or answer your questions here in the comments section.

Remember, in the end, no one gives a darn about what you are GONNA DO. Only implementation counts.

And I thought I was an edgy risk taker. Here's a guy who has totally sold the farm to voice his views. How long am I going to straddle the fence to both please people who have followed me for my marketing ninja skills - and take up the call to write the book that is fussing inside me to get out?

Hip Hop Republican can be found at   http://www.myspace.com/twentypoundsledge and his full You Tube video creations (extremely creative and entertaining) are at Macho Sauce Productions.

"Love me - hate me - there's no money in the middle." mouthy (successful) Internet marketing opinionator Jim Edwards

When I was at the JV Alert conference there were 2 presentations that blew me away.

One of them was by a guy I'd lost track of from back in the Traffic Equalizer Forum days. Do you go back that far?

Jonathan Van Clute is one of those geeky guys who continues to find ways to beat the silly roadblocks Google puts up in the sales prevention department - to make it harder for honest marketers to do business.

Using a very unique hacked PHP script and combining several BRILLIANT marketing strategies - Jonathan has created a bit of a monster in Landing Page Generator - with a software that
creates stunningly cool pages based on your keyword list - that Google just loves - (can you say quality score?) and clients click like crazy to make you money with affiliate or CPA offers.

Jonathan sent me an email tonight to remind me that the 1/2 price sale he was running ends in 24 hours.

Maybe he's not a political junkie like me - and doesn't concern himself with the fact that tomorrow night is Election Eve.

Come to think of it - he's probably too busy making money to worry about how much of our taxes are about to get snarfed up!

Jonathan is a brilliant guy - so check out his groovy app and tune into what he's up to. Landing Page Generator

I am getting into PPC largely because of how easy Jonathan has made it.

Best to you - vote early - vote often!

Rick Butts

This powerful video is the most watched political video on YouTube.

152 more Americans were killed in Chicago in the last year, than were killed in Iraq. Interesting juxtoposition, especially when you consider that Barack Obama's Illinois District is located there.

For all his rehtoric about "CHANGE" Obama did virtually nothing for his Illinois district to stop the violence, or ease the suffering there.

Obama supporters are in for a rude awakeking in the Spring of 2009. Get ready for a whole string of excuses why he cannot/will-not/should-not/ and more likely "never said he would in the first place cause it was you who misunderstood" all the promises and redistrubution handouts he promised to people to get them to vote for him.

Obama and Biden are consistently looking right into the camera and lying, saying they didn't say stuff that is on tape, reversing their positions on everything from campaign finance to "rebuilding the military."

If you liked the Carter Administration - you'll love an Obama/Reed/Pelosi trifecta. Get ready for gas lines, double digit inflation, and the worst unemployment numbers in years.

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How easily and subtly we accumulate possessions.

When I moved from Texas to Colorado Springs 12 years ago, it was with the assistance of North American Van lines movers. My (then) wife and I put our "personal" stuff into a my car and her 3/4 ton pickup truck which towed even more junk in a slant-nosed horse trailer she towed! Hey, my daughter, who was 14 at the time was still an active barrel racer. Thus the trailer.

When I got divorced I moved out in several trips in the truck. Mostly I remember moving a lot of office furniture and like 3 forks and 2 Corelle bowls she allowed me to take to start my new life alone.

By the time I remarried (sorry, my bad) it took the largest truck Ryder would rent to move me down to Scottsdale. Hey, by then I'd gotten tired of batching it - and bought some STUFF!

When I left Scottsdale with my tail between my legs, broke and broken, I was able to cram my stuff back in that largest truck Ryder had to rent - even though she kept all the groovy stuff from Crate and Barrel we got for our wedding. I left some of my office stuff and the King Bedroom set - you can imagine why.

Scottsdale, Arizona reminds me that one day we will be able to colonize the freakin' SUN! Did I tell you I love snow and hate hot weather?

A month ago I sold my house, returned my leased car, had a big Craigslist sale and sold all my furniture and a lot of other stuff, and used my friends pickup to stuff it all in a 14' storage unit that can't be more than 4' wide.

Tonight - after throwing up 2 out of the last 3 nights - and anguishing over the decision - I returned the pickup I was driving, rented the SMALLEST Uhaul truck, a 10 footer, and loaded every single thing I own, (plus all my 25 year old daughter's childhood keepsakes - I'm talking more than 2 million Starbucks bears) and it all fit into the 10 foot truck and it wasn't even nearly full

The only piece of furniture I still have is my cushy office chair - an essential component for online marketing.

So, my wish to get a chance to start my life over - completely over at age 53 - has come true.

Thanks to Carrie Wilkerson I've been giving the gift of freedom, time and money enough to not have to worry while I make this transition.

So How Does It Feel That All My Stuff Fits in a Tiny Truck?

On the one had, it is pretty scary.

I've not visited Spokane in years, since playing there as a rock and roll road musician. Yeah, like back when I had hair.

I have a good friend there in Kirt Christensen of NetBreakThroughs and I'm really looking forward to spending some time with Frank Sousa and Ray Edwards and Jim Stone.

On the other hand - I am so thankful to God that I do have this opportunity.

Finally I am thankful that I have you as my dear reader!

What is a writer if he has no one to read his ideas?

I am grateful to you for taking the time to read this personal post. I'm hoping you stick around long enough to see me startup my talk radio show to help you be more successful - and have lots of laughter.

I'll be checking in from the road in Wyoming and Idaho on the way to Spokane Washington. I'll read your comments and well wishing and thank you in advance for your kindness on Twitter and here on my blog.

Ladies and gentlemen - I want to introduce you to a very bright light who has entered my life and can transform your online success - Carrie Wilkerson, AKA Barefoot Executive.

Here are my Top 10 reasons for following and learning from Carrie:

1. Carrie Wilkerson has an amazing background that she has turned into 4 companies - all of which she runs from her home in Texas
2. She is married with 4 young kids (a new baby through age 12!) and is an expert on overcoming excuses for not building your online business.
3. Her Magnetic List Building course is FREE and will show you how you can finally get off your butt and build a highly profitable niche email list in any market.
4. She totally motivated and inspired me as the hands-down best speaker at JVAlert in Las Vegas.
5. Carrie's focus on getting things done by focus, intention, outsourcing, outtasking, and simple clarity is a voice that we all need to hear on a daily basis.
6. She has a honey sweet Southern Drawl (Dallas/Fort Worth Texas) that is easy on the ears.
7. You can tell when Carrie has made a killer point because she will often say "I'm just sayin…"
8. Carrie's 4 real world companies in publishing and direct sales + her HUGE values about personal freedom and family and not wearing shoes - are where she gets the name barefoot executive. And, isn't that what we are alll sort of striving for?
9. Internet Marketing Gurus don't know what to do with her because she really does speak "Truth to Power" with perfect wisdom that flies in the face of the "next great thing to buy" gurus obviously belive because that is what they MAIL YOU EVERY DAY. Carrie is not about buying more stuff but about getting more stuff COMPLETED.

• Carrie is the "real deal" - she's a real person, a real mom to 4 kids, a real business executive, real smart, real cute, real funny, and the first person who has caused me to use the numbered list feature in the WYSIWYG editor here on my blog!

Carrie is the new owner of my "how to make money on the Internet" products, domains, including Twitter Squeeze.

Please stay tuned to this blog (subscribe) and get updates on my new direction to help you know better and do better. Get over to barefoot-executive.com - or watch the Boss Movie - and of course, grab the incredibly cool freebie Magnetic List Building course to find out why I'm so amped about Ms. Barefoot Executive!

OH - I almost forgot - go right now and start following Carrie Wilkerson on Twitter - I'll tell you why in a case study very shortly. http://twitter.com/barefoot_exec

Last night I was blown away by one of the most surprisingly wonderful motion pictures. Ghost Town looked like a light and funny romp and I love Greg Kinnear and Tea Leoni so I bought my ticket and salted my popcorn.

There were only about 20 people in the theater on a Tuesday night so I had the 3rd row all to myself and I settled in to enjoy a comedy. I don't usually see comedy films in theaters, preferring to see sci-fi or special effects type films that have BIG SCREEN action. Comedies usually get viewed on cable or DVD.

I laughed and laughed and snorted and squealed like a braying donkey (so much so that people leaving the theater took the time to tell me I had a "great laugh." Ghost Town is brilliant written and so well acted by the lead Ricky Gervais I couldn't believe it hasn't gotten more press. Ah, well, maybe the movie elites were busy with a Britney story.

Creative, fresh, funny and poignant. Gervais plays perhaps the least empathetic human in New York, a dentist who does his work and goes home to be alone. While under anesthesia for a colonoscopy he "dies for 7 minutes" and gains the ability to see, hear and talk to dead people.

NOTE: The Saturday Night Live actress Kristen Wiig who is known for her bizarre interrupting "better than you" routines, and played the producer in Knocked Up, is BRILLIANT as the surgeon who has to reveal to the paranoid Gervais that he died on the table. Her obfuscating dialogue with Gervais is nothing short of comedy dynamite and should be studied by anyone who wants to be funny.

As funny as the movie was I was not prepared for the huge emotional arc that the snarky dentist would go through as he began to see the plight of the dead people who asked him to help them get closure and move on to wherever movie ghosts go.

Gervais had so convinced me of his hard boiled meanness I was nearly blown away as he started to see what was really going on around him.

I have to admit that this film made me look at my own selfishness and self absorption. As I've been mulling over my options about where to take this next phase of my life - I've gotten so wrapped up in ME that I forgot that there are a lot of other people on the planet too.

When the dentist's partner sits him down and asks him how being such a total prick is working out for him - and how long he plans to continue with it - it hit me in the chest.

With all the lame and awful films asking for my $10 (and so many depressing brutal films made for twentysomethings) I wanted to find the writer, director, and producer as well as the Hollywood exec who let this film be produced and thank them all.

Ghost Town gave me laughter that released tons of endorphins, entertained me, and had the impact of a great inspirational speech - and it only cost $10.

Last night I leaked out to some friends on my personal email list as well as my Twitter Followers that I had decided to sell my Internet marketing business. (My Tweet Peeps get secret messages!)

Here is the link for more information about this very unique (1 buyer only) opportunity.

A couple of people emailed me and asked what I was going to do if I quit doing online marketing. To clarify, I'm NOT going to stop making money online. I am simply selling off the part of my business that you probably know me for, creating products for Internet marketers.

This blog will stop posting Internet marketing related articles - and transition to the stuff I really want to be doing - creating videos, satire, music, opinion and commentary - and quite probably an Internet radio show.

I LOVE Internet marketing - but as I mention in the Internet Marketing Business for Sale page - I'm just no longer really turned on by creating stuff for our market.

A long time ago - back in the Blogburner/Blog & Ping days, people used to say - "DUDE! Why are you selling this technology and methodology? If you would simply DO the strategy yourself you'd make a pile of cash!"

So, my plan is to apply my mad skills to getting paid for the stuff I really enjoy doing.

I would really appreciate hearing your thoughts for me - nice words - advice - or head's up opportunities below. If you know someone who loves Internet marketing and wants to be in this business to help people make money online - please let them know about the opportunity?

No matter where I go - I always seem to end up in Breckenridge Colorado. Perhaps it is because 10 years or so ago I first came here with Rachael, my daughter; me to learn to ski - Rachael to learn to snowboard.

We both learned to shred the mountains. Funny but I still remember how scary the thought of a "ski mountain" seemed to me. Without ever having done it - I had visions of being on a vertical icy cliff with my feet strapped to slick sticks and God Forbid, no way to stop - except a tree or worse!

It's late September, 2 days from Fall (my father's birthday September 23d - the Atumnul Equinox.) The aspen trees are turing brilliant gold, the afternoon rains have watered the trees and brilliant color paints the majesty of the Rocky Mountains in every direction into postcards that never quite capture what the human eye sees so easily.

The night after I sold the house I stayed in a little suites hotel near the Denver Tech Center, sore and achie from lifting furniture and weird stuff through the yard sale, Craigslist and donations to friends family and charity of my sticks and bricks.

The next night - I stayed up in Grand Lake - pulling in the serenity of the 275 foot deep dark green and blue of the largest natural lake in Colorado. The native indians called it Spirit Lake but in that flat caucasion way someone came along and named it Grand - as if that were an improvement. Trust me, if you go there, you'll feel the spirit of the place.

In scenes from Kubrick's "The Shining" fall preparations were underway to pack things away. See, Grand Lake is pretty much a summer destination. It is also the Western entrance to the Rocky Mountain National Forest and home to winter sports primarily snow machine, snow mobile. Sarah Palin's First Dude would be right at home here. And, if you go straight East from here you could evenentually end up in Loveland Colorado and hang out with Joel Comm!

The next night I dragged my still sore carcass to the promised land, ie: Hot Sulpher Springs. Yes, all my dreams came true (well, there were not bikini clad hot girls) as 24 pools of natural hot sulpher water awaited my achie breaky body. Tucked into the hillside are these truly cozy little pots of water growing progressively hotter as you ascend (that means go up higher) the mountain.

This place has been used for such hedonistic soaking since 1850 as the pictures in the lobby attested to. I'll try to fish out some photos of the place and post them here.

Yesterday I would my way through Kremmling (think Moose) and down Hiway 9 to Breckenridge.

Can you interrupt your life for a moment - and imagine what it's like to sit here in this Starbucks (of course) and consider what to do with the next phase of your life? You are 53 years old, single, daughter grown, and you make you money doing niche Internet marketing for which you can literally be anywhere on the planet with link to the web.

You have already fulfilled you dream gigs multiple times. Professional rock musician (guitar, bass, vocals) for 10 years, started and run several businesses, gone to seminar and been the pastor of a church, led men's discipleship groups, toured Internationally as a way-overpaid professional motivational humorist, stayed in the finest hotels, met world leaders, and finally burned out completely on travel.

You figured out how to make money online - have armloads of cool connections with some of the smartest people in the business and have a kind and smart flock of readers and followers (yes, I'm actually kissing your ass right this moment - dig it!) and can make money by sending an email nearly at will to a variety of niche market lists. I'm not really bragging, I'm grateful. I got nothing to sell ya, this is kind of just where I'm at right now.

Here's the question…

What do you want to do with the rest of your life?

Your comments, ideas, and thoughts here below would be greatly appreciated - as much for me as for you to explore your own options if all those nasty boundaries and boat anchors were released - it just might happen…