To days post is simply a list of whats most important in my life these will change one day soon (mostly #2 and #3).

1. God

2. Parents

3. Girlfriend

4. Work / Business

5. Responsibilities / Paying Bills / Fixing Problems

6. Blogging

I believe this order is ideal for life to go smooth, this is of course my own opinion but it works out pretty well for me.

So in the last couple of week a lot has changed for me and today I want to encourage you all to take notice of what is happening and capitalize on it!

Magazine, tv and other publications are starting to go out and the internet is just getting bigger and bigger as you read this!

The internet can’t be stopped and its just waiting for the next big invention to hit!

You could be the next big thing on the net so what are you waiting for? NOW IS THE TIME PEOPLE! Get To It!

See I was blogging along and all was fine and dandy, I had money in the bank, a new bike and paintball gun to play with and I thought life was great!

It was until I got my bill from the IRS for over $300…

I made out the check (even though it hurt) and within 1 week they took the money. I was down to my last dollar before I made any more, luckily I am back up to where I should be but I still have to be careful with what I spend.

The moral of the story is I should have been ready for a blow like that, I half way was and that’s the next part of this story…

The day I made out the IRS check I emailed an old advertiser that had stopped advertising with me. I simply emailed them asking if they would like to grab an add on my site for a cheap price since my audience has grown since they were last with me. They quickly agreed to a $50/mo deal and paid me for 2 months in advance. Basically I made $100 that day and I now have them hooked in as a monthly customer!

Its a great feeling and I am now generating over $700/mo online from my various businesses and blogs.

I am super excited for the next couple of months and years to come with you all but I really need ideas to make posts about. So please send your ideas to me or I may just have to ask some buds for guest posts or something.

God bless guys and keep the juices and green stuff flowing!

So today I decided to make a video for IBB thanking all of my readers (you), I am very blessed to have you all as readers to my blog and I hope I can continue to bring useful content to you for years to come! Obtaining readers has been a tough journey to say the least and everyone of you is special to me, if there is ever anything you need or want my email box is always open to you! I check every email and always reply so send me a letter even if its just to say hi!

I saw a few of you commented on my mac post yesterday about seeing pics of the mac laptop (I’m writing on it right now) so I decided to video it and hopefully you all enjoy it! So far I really like the mac laptop, especially since I got a wireless mac bluetooth mouse for it, along with video editing on it (the video below) I have fully loved my experience with it so far.

I just love Apple products and now I have the laptop a desktop and an iphone, what other apple products am I missing out on?

Note: I am considering opening my blog audience some and starting to do some more product reviews (laptops, devices, phones etc) would you all be interested in that or should I focus on MMO only topics? It really is up to you all!

With that I just wanted to say thank you once again for being a reader of my blog!

This is the first official post I am making here on IBB with my new Mac Laptop!

I purchased the lap top so I can blog on the go, eventually I want to get wireless net for it but till I do I will just use it for some gaming and for videos!

I love it so far but only time will tell if it was really worth it or not, whats some cool spots with free wifi I can go to and blog from?

Today is a little strange for me, I am actually encouraging you NOT to work! That’s right, today is your day to sit back, relax and drink lemonade (unless your on a diet like me so its water with lemons for me).

OK so we all work A TON in our lives, lets just look at my past 30 days, I have worked 4/10 hr days for the last month, that’s 160 hours of work! That’s so much work that life can become stressful and we all need to learn to aleve stress.

I recently came across Volleyball, although its a sport and actually tires me out to play, its so fun that I don’t even mind. I think if we all found more hobbies we would enjoy life better, granted I understand when you have a family to feed taking time for yourself seems impossible but I hope you at least try to squeeze 30 minutes a day for yourself to do whatever you want to do!

Maybe thats painting, designing or playing a sport, whatever it is I encourage you to give it a go for atleast 30 minutes a day. I think after awhile you will become more productive because you will get your mind off things and in turn think of ideas you would have never had before.

Here is a video of me and my gang playing volleyball last night! Can you spot where I am at on the court?

Today I want to talk about cleaning up your blogs for summer, I know summer is nearly half over but its better late then never.

Today I went through my blog sidebar and cleaned things up a bit, I removed the Clickbooth affiliate banner because it has not been doing well and instead replaced it with a banner for my ebook.

I also took out unneeded links and added an about me section as well as a quick easy way for you all to connect with me via twitter, youtube and technorati.

I believe this new setup will prove to be more useful then the last sidebar (be sure and let me know what you think).

I hope you all take the opportunity to look at your blogs this summer and clean up your sidebar a little bit!

IBB Update

So I am going to bring back the videos here on ibb! That’s right, those awesome video casts I used to do will be back starting sept 1st provided the blog has generated enough income itself for me to invest in a flip mino hd camera. I’m half way there this month so if you want to help out and make it happen grab a advert slot today.

I will also be working on a little something for all my current and new newsletter subscribers, I think its time to really give back to you all and I am going to develop a little section I like to call Free Wordpress Themes for anyone who wants them! The great part is all you have to do is signup to my newsletter and you will get free access to them!

I will also be putting a new theme for the blog up once I have time to work on it, right now this one will suffice for atleast the summer time but come winter I want something different and more organized so be watching out for that to!

Life News

So I found out this morning that my grandma died last night, she and my grandpa had moved back up north a year or so ago and my grandma became ill with cancer for I believe it was the 3rd time. This time it got her and she passed away but she is in heaven now and I know she is happy there! I look forward to seeing her again one day!

I WAS WRONG!

That’s right, I should have been checking the blog because as it turns out my email subscription box (that gives away my free ebook) was not popping up when visitors came to my homepage. What does this mean? No subscribers for the last 30 days!

So I went ahead and saw this and fixed it yesterday, in one day I went from 888 rss subs to 896 thats alsmot ten new ones practically overnight! Who knows how many I missed because my subscribe section was not functioning properly!

I am so mad at myself for this but I understand these things happen, I encourage everyone to do minimally a weekly check to ensure everything is working, and don’t be afraid to be a good samaritan either, if you see someones blog not functioning right go ahead and email them letting them know, you may become a friend for life!

Today is no different and its time to find out what you all really want to know! Below I have provided a couple of  new ideas that I am willing to do to IBB for you all and its up-to you all to decide which you want most!

Video Casts – I have really been slacking off the video casts because video at this point is kind of hard to monetize for cold hard cash but if its what you all want then I could start doing more video posts?

Contests - I know my readers love contests, and I thought we could start running more contests but doing them for shorter periods of time, perhaps something like contests like 2 weeks long.

Free Wordpress Themes & Premium – I was thinking about giving out some free word-press themes as well as selling licenses of my main themes for $19.95 each.

Free Domains With Web Hosting Purchase- I thought about starting a web-hosting deal where if you signup to hostgator with my affiliate link I give you a free-domain in return?

Pick one and comment below with why you think it should be that one, let me know guys!

 I hope you all join the contest and you can do so by following the below…

How to enter

To enter simply follow these steps…

1. Follow me on twitter

2. Tweet the following message to all your followers:

Just entered the Cash $$ contest. You can win by following @shandaman and retweet http://xr.com/spq. He follows back too!

Contest winner will be announced at the end of May 2009 or once I reach 2,500 followers (whichever comes first). Anyone can enter so use multiple twitter accounts if you want!

Be sure to tell your friends to join as well because it won’t hurt your chances of winning because there are many prizes up for grabs, here they are again in case you forgot…

Prizes

I know you are probably wondering what you will win after doing the above simple steps, well here is a breakdown of the current prizes. More may be added in after some time.

• 1st Place = $50.00 PayPal Cash
• 2nd Place = $25.00 PayPal Cash
• 3rd Place = $10.00 PayPal Cash

PRIZE UPDATE

One of the readers on IBB, Suwari has put up some prizes for the contest! Check out his blogs and prizes below!

http://thingsaboutcomputer.blogspot.com- 2000 EntreCard Credits
http://allblogcontest.blogspot.com – 1000 EntreCard Credits

PRIZE UPDATE 2

Alan Mater, one of the readers here on IBB, is a certified proofreader and offers Professional Proofreading and Editing Services. He’s offering his service as a prize for the contest as well.

http://www.replaceyoursalary.com/proofreading.html – Free article/blog post edit up to 1,000 words!