The bizarre word of internet marketing

I have been trying for quite a bit of time to understand the dynamics of internet marketing. And I could not say that I do have a clear understanding.
For once I have no idea how some people can post 4 or 5 times a day. Don’t they have any other job? I guess not.
There is absolutely no way you can work a full time job and then when you are home, dedicate the rest of your time writing about things you could not care less.
I have been reading some blogs belonging to people who make over 1000 dollars a month writing blogs.
Some of them are boring to say the least. Others are passing info found on other sides, using their words or putting it into a different format. Hence, when PayPerPost verifies their blog for example, the content seems to be original.
To some extent it is, but more often than not I could not find any real value to whatever was written there.
And I am not saying this because I am not a good sport. This is what I really believe.

I truly believe that if you write about things you are interested in, probably you are not going to find too many company eager to pay you money for that.
For example: my role model is Leonardo DaVinci, and if I could channel his spirit I would do it in a blink of an eye.
I would like to write more about his personality and his genius.
Now, most marketers will pay you to write about car insurance, life insurance, plastic surgery and other things like this. You can’t monetize your blog writing about DaVinci, right?
Then, what is your solution? You have to prostitute yourself and write about something you can be paid for. Right?
How much joy is that?
Probably the joy of getting the cheque. In today’s super pragmatic world, there is no room for dreamers.
Do you remember the artists in the past? Most of them lived and died dirt poor.
Now we have a new motto ‘It’s no business like show business’.
Some artists are very rich. But I digress.

Going back to the question ‘how to make money on the net’, I must accept that I don’t have the stomach to write about stuff I don’t believe in.
So, probably I am not going to be accepted by any program that pays you to blog.

Donald Trump on Larry King Live

Do you like Donald Trump?
Yesterday evening I watched Donald Trump on Larry King Live; I guess he was there to promote his new book ‘Think Big and Kick Ass’. I hope it’s not ‘The Secret’ version for business men.
I was surprised how eloquent he was. Obviously he is a ferocious businessman, and at the same time he is very articulate.
Abstracts from the interview:
- George Clooney is not tall: 5’10 apparently
- Angelina Jolie is not really ‘beautiful’ and it was just gross the way she French kissed her brother some years ago at Academy Awards and how disgusted he was hearing her recounting the making up with the then husband Billy Bob Thornton in the back of the limousine on their way to the same ceremony
- If you are successful you have to have a prenuptial agreement
- Revenge is therapeutic and you have to hit back
- Feud with Rosie: asked if she was a friend to him, he answered
“It was OK. I was never a friend. She came to my wedding. She ate like a pig. And — I mean, seriously, the wedding cake was — was — it was like missing in action. I couldn’t stand there. I didn’t like it, but a particular woman wanted her at the wedding — Marla. I think they were friendly or something. And so I said what’s Rosie O’Donnell doing here?”
- The reason for writing the new book:
“They asked me to do a book — a book on toughness, on making money, on sort of creating a happy life, in a certain sense, through money and through other things. And we came up with the title, which I think is pretty descriptive, although some people thought it was a little bit tough, adding the words “kick ass”. But it is a little bit about kicking ass because, unfortunately in life, sometimes you have to do that. And the book has become a tremendous best-seller”
- You have to love what you do; to be successful you need knowledge and if you don’t like what you do you are never going to work hard enough to get the it ( I totally agree)
- He owns 2000 acres in Aberdeen, Scotland where he plans to build a development of about $2 billion of hotels, houses and a golf course

All together the interview was kind of interesting; more to the point of watching Larry King being silenced and cut short by The Donald rambling on Rosie.

What is Occam’s Razor?

It’s no secret that I am a big fan of House; I’ve liked the show since the beginning.
Long time ago, in 2004, it was an episode called ‘Occam’s Razor’. I came across this name again today, reading a pretty interesting blog

According to the definition:
‘Occam’s razor (sometimes spelled Ockham’s razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory’

The title of the episode is borne out in that a very likely condition, a cold, combined with a somewhat unlikely mistreatment, the pharmacy error in this case, lead to a collection of conditions which could only be explained by a far more unlikely combination of maladies. The cause, though difficult to envisage, was actually the simplest and most likely of those that they had considered, thus conforming to Occam’s Razor.

The Plot:
A guy (Brandon),while having sex with his fiancee, passes out.
Symptoms revealed by House and his team: cough, nausea, low blood pressure, fever and abdominal pain.
Everybody has a theory about what it might be, leading even to a bet between House and his friend, Dr. Wilson.
Finally we discover that House was right (almost all the time he is) and the patient took by mistake a drug for gout instead of one for cold.