Watch this video and decide for yourself. See what happens after about 34 seconds. Can anything human-made move like that?

I never really got into the you tube hype until today. I just didn’t know what to watch when I logged in to you tube. Then I saw my friend searching for UFOs on you tube and I spent hours in front of the computer watching one video after the other. All whilst asking myself the question, “are they real?”

I’d rather hear the answer “no”. Unidentified objects carrying unidentified beings in them is one hell of a scary idea. But regardless of the truth, it’s really entertaining to watch. I went from searching for UFOs to the Loch Ness Monster to Giant Squids. I used to have to depend on the TV for such claims that they exist, but now I can watch them at leisure and make up my own mind.

Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of documentaries on UFOs. I watched one about the Russians keeping records of UFO alien sightings. They had tons – and I mean TONS – of documents on UFOs that remained hidden for years. Most are still hidden from public view. Then I heard astronauts talking about it, and finally, after watching this video, I went from being a disbeliever to a believer. I believe that UFOs are real. Do you?

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Can’t stop my bad habits

I call myself an entrepreneur. If people can sell toiletpaper and be called an entrepreneur, why can’t I sell websites and call myself the same thing? Selling is the key word. If you sell, and you sell regularly, you’re an entrepreneur.

Being an entrepreneur has it’s ups and it’s downs. The good thing is, you work for yourself and it’s easy to take the day off because you have no one to answer to except for yourself (and well, your customers, but 10 minutes online will do the trick and then you can take the day off!). The bad thing is, you have to spend money to earn money. And I’m not good when it comes to money. I earn a lot sure, but for the past few months now, I’ve been spending just as much money as I’ve been earning, which makes me feel like all my work has gone to waste.

I like investing, what can I say. But I go a little overboard. Like, did I really have to buy that abandoned website because the logo was so nice? Or did I really need to buy that template I never even tried out? In the back of my mind, I’m always worried about that dreaded end of month profit and loss calculation. Because I know what it’s going to say.

Loss = Profit

This month I’ve been really careful not to spend money. I had to refund someone for a payment they made, but other than that I’ve done pretty good. The thing is, I’ll still be at a loss at the end of this month. To actually make a profit, I have to stop my spending habits for 3 more months.

That, for me, is impossible.

You get what you pay for

Not all my purchases are good ones. Recently, I bought a traffic exchange site. I wanted to tip the seller because I felt like I was paying him too low. Only now do I realize how much of a traffic-debt the website is in right now! Quite simply, the website has given out more traffic credits than it can deliver and it’s going to cost me hundreds of dollars to be able to give everyone their well earned traffic and to repair the script!

This problem is more common when it comes to PTC (Paid To Click) type of sites. They sell the website to you for say $200, but then you find that you must pay the members $1000 – and realize what a bad purchase that was! I’d advise you to stay away from these types of sites at all costs!

They’re not all good people

Some people you deal with maybe so shady that they sell you copied content, scripts that don’t work, or websites with photoshopped revenue and traffic screenshots. I have a story to tell. A fellow blogger once asked my opinion on whether this person selling a website was a scammer. He sent me a screenshot of the revenue – and guess what – the image was so obviously photoshopped and to top it off – I could see the photoshop tab on his screenshot! I got a good laugh out of it.

Fluff friends is the latest online phenomenon. I myself spend hours on it everyday. It is a facebook application that lets you adopt a pet, so you can feed it and race it against your friends’ pets. Some people maybe surprised to know that fluff friends has become a community within facebook. Fluff friends users probably have the longest discussion board on facebook where daily trades and pleas for pets take place. There is a marketplace for it where you can buy and sell clip art you’ve earned through petting other pets. The turkle itself is worth so much ‘munny’ (fluff friends money) that you can keep it and sell it on e-bay for profit in a year’s time.

Fluff friends is successful because it keeps people coming back. They’re constantly adding new competitions such as the recent fluff art competition where the people with the best looking habitats won rare clip art – the fox – which can’t be bought with munny. You have to buy it with gold – which is bought with real money! You’d be surprised how many people are willing to pay money just to put a rare clip art on their profile!

Currently, there is an egg hunt going on which has got people hooked. I myself spent days clicking profile after profile to find the hidden eggs just so I can get a pink leppit to put in my pet’s habitat. Then they announced that bountiful baskets will be given for people who find at least 10 eggs everyday for a week, and I clicked so many profiles that my hands and eyes hurt. Just when I thought I had enough, they suddenly came up with a choco leppit and once again sent me on a wild egg chase. And halfway during the competition, word spread that there are secret eggs to be found for those who’ve collected 100 eggs.. I’ve currently got 82.

For fluff addicts like me, this is fun. For fluff owner Mike Sego, this is profit. BIG profit. Think of fluff friends as the next Google. Lately I’ve been searching for eggs more often than I’ve been searching for websites and Mike Sego is definitely the man of the decade! Just ask anyone on the fluff friends discussion board. They’ll be happy to tell you how much in love with fluff friends they are and ask you to pet their fluff friend while they’re at it!

WPdesigner.com is now for sale at sitepoint for $65,000 and already has a pending ‘buy it now’ offer. I recognize this site as the distributor of the Jello Wala Mello theme I mentioned in my last post.

The reason behind his success is no secret- he designs and distributes free wordpress themes, which helps to bring in traffic and increase his page rank. But this doesn’t mean that anyone who designs and releases wordpress themes will be able to sell their website for $65,000. No. I myself have released a few themes and have gotten absolutely nothing in return accept for the occasional visit or two, and backlinks from a PR0 blog. Yep, after you spend days tweaking a theme to try to make it perfect, you may end up with nothing but frustration.

It takes one hell of a talented designer to get a following that big. WPdesigner has a PR7, and unlike some other theme websites, has cleverly been monetized in a way that doesn’t compete with similar sites. Whereas premium wordpress themes fetch for around $100, WPdesigner.com offers multiple templates for $5 per year. Any new themes they make are made available for download by these subscribers. And judging from their 400 paying themes club members, this marketing tactic works. I didn’t find any themes there that I liked, but obviously other people do and don’t mind paying extra to have access to those themes.

Now, here’s the juicy bit. No one knew how much WPdesigner was earning before the sale, but of course it was disclosed to the public when it was listed at sitepoint. Ladies and gentlemen… WPdesigner, who is a cut above the rest of us trying to earn money online, earns $890/month!

Top executives who work offline earn $8900 per month, but the highest earning people online make $890. It dampens my spirit, it really does.