I'm not sure how many of you listen to Coast To Coast AM but I try to catch as much of the show as I can. I was more of a fan back when Art Bell was the fulltime host. Anyway browsing some of the guest sites on the coasttocoastam.com site I noticed that a 99% of the people on that show had no clue on how to build a site. All the designs were from the 90s with no SEO or any other proper formatting behind them, the only thing they had was domain age. So I started thinking... I could do a lot better then that.

This is when aboutmyplanet.com was launched. It was originally supposed to be a website that talks about alternative energy, UFOs and other weird stuff. I got three other friends interested who also listened to the show, however after the initial interest they never ended up contributing much to the website. Again the word DEDICATION just jumps out at me.

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Over the past year I've been very intrigued by the top 1% of the people online who can actually make a living from some type of a business online. I say 1% because they're very hard to find and when you do find them not all of them are keen on sharing much about their success. There are a few like John Chow - Making Money Online who go into great detail on how they make their money. It's not easy but for a dedicated person it's a dream waiting to come true.

I'm going to start putting more effort into my personal blog here and try to reveal as much as I can about different techniques and theories that are available for making money online. I've been trying to break into the market over the past year and I think I'm on the right track. Every so often you hear of someone like Shoemoney who got booted to stardom very quickly and it's great to see but very rare. I hope that with a lot of hard work I'll be able to get to a level where I can be my own boss and dedicate most of my time to my online projects.

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Well this was the weekend... the weekend where I got to see Donald Trump live... and let me tell you I was not disappointed. The guy is a great entertainer, even if he doesn't consider himself one to be, he is. For those of you who missed it, well that's too bad you can wait till next year but for now here are some thoughts I had about The Learning Annex.

We got there Saturday nice and early at 8am... the Toronto Convention Center was already packed and buzzing with entrepreneurs from all over Toronto. I promptly proceeded to get my schedule for the weekend which wasn't included prior to the event. One of the first things I noticed was that all the "Big Shots" aka Trump, Bach, Branson weren't there till Sunday... however Tony Robbins was going to be there. Having listened to his CDs before I thought that might be interesting.

We got to one of our first workshops and the place was buzzing, there was about 10 different speakers that had their own workshops and every single one of them was trying to sell you "The System". Ohh man let me tell you it's was damn frustrating as hell. Each session was about an hour and a half and I kid you not they spend about 80% of the time pushing their products... here is the scoop of what you get... :

• Do you want to be rich? People clap and cheer...
• Are you sure you want to be rich I didn't hear you... people scream louder... this happens about 100 times in each session...
• Here are some pictures of cheques I get every week and how I became a multi millionaire
• Here are some pictures of my family and houses I live in... you can just be like me
• This is the only way you will get rich, join right now and you'll be rich in a few months... some say you can be rich next week...
• Here is how you get rich, buy my binders and cds and you will be rich, do you want to be rich?
• Here is a deal our cds cost $10,000 but just for today and just for 29 people today we will be giving it away for free... well almost $995 (which looks like what the agreed number seemed to be between all of them)

Anyway you get the idea... every single class was like this... you had to really read between the lines to get any useful information out of them.... and let me tell you there was a lot of NAIVE & DESPERATE people there... jumping up and down with their credit cards going further into debt trying to get rich quick...

So you get used to this pretty quick... we then got to see Tony Robbins, I've never seen him live but man he had about 30,000 people in the main keynote hall jumping up and down, hugging people next to them and acting very very crazy. A few times he had 30,000 people jumping up and down and I swear the entire convention floor shook. The guy was good.

The next day the same thing continued but I got to see David Bach, Harry Saxton ( Condo King ) and obviously Trump. Those were the highlights for me I got really inspired by all of them... and by far Harry Saxton and Trump were the best speakers... they told you how it was... no bullshit and you actually got to learn from them.

Donald was just amazing I'm so glad I was there, he's a really funny character if you haven't noticed. I got most of his speech recorded so I'll see if I can get it posted in the next little while.

All in all, the $60 I spent for the weekend was absolutely worth it... I'm pumped up and I can start getting some of my projects going again... if you missed the chance this year make sure you go next year, you won't regret it.

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Came by this video today, talking about evolution of the web and trying to define what it is and where it's going. Check it out...

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Yesterday was a great day for Apple, by far the best keynote speech to date. Apple TV looked amazing and well the iPhone, what can I say WOW.... it really put my eTen PDA/phone device to shame. I want to go on record and say that I'm buying the iPhone the first day it comes out, it's a very exciting time and I can't wait to see what people will start coming up for it once it gets released, widgets galore ;) .

Anyway since the iPhone is still a couple months away I thought I would play a little devil’s advocate and look at some of the problems that Apple might be facing with the iPhone, I'm sure everyone wants them to succeed, as you can see none of the smart phones have yet but if anyone can Apple will. So here we go:

Complexity of the phone

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What am I talking about you ask eh? :) Well I'm talking online purchasing, specifically eBay and their lack of shipping price control. It's absolutely sick that you have pay $60 for shipping of a memory card from China or Hong Kong. I'm sure everyone one of you have gone through this at least once in your life... you order some tiny product on the web, it gets shipped to you for twice the cost to purchase it and then UPS slaps a 29.99 price tag for breakage fee, plus taxes on top and you're paying 3x the amount you purchased the item for.

So I was thinking would it be great to try to get rid of this process? Well I think for certain purchases it's possible to do. For example: Lets say you buy a brand new ipod for $100 on the web. It's NIB (New In Box) and it's located in Australia. Now lets say someone else buys the same product but it's in Canada and they're located in Australia. Instead of shipping the items cross continents you ship the same item but locally between the two people. When you find people like this you connect them together, so you have two buyers and two sellers involved in each transaction

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Ok so from time to time I get some good ideas... I'm always thinking of new products that could make it big... some of them like software I'll keep to myself because I can actually produce them and see where they go; however from time to time I get some good product ideas that involve manufacturing... and to say the least I'm not interested in getting involved in that at all. I'm dedicating a section of my site for those kind of ideas... and if someone has the resources to make these things happen, well good luck :) and if you make some money maybe send some my way ;)

Anyway I love coming up with ideas... product development is something I want to get into... I love taking something and brainstorming on how to make it better and come up with an approach nobody has ever thought of.

So my first idea I would like to share with you is:

Digital Picture Frame on steroids :) Let's call it FlicrFrame

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I'm starting a Video Category for SEO discussions, tips and tricks that I find on the net... written tips are great but I think you can get a ton more info from a video and it's a lot easier to read between the lines if you know what I mean ;)

Here is the first one of Jeremy, I started following his blog at for a few months now, I love his success, he's really given me a boost in my confidence to make a living online.

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I wanted to share this with everyone as it's a function I would not be able to develop without... every project I start this is the first function I put into my code...