For The Girls: Priceless Education

Hello Girls.

As you know, I've been looking out for your best interest, and have gone out of my way in the past to help you in your quest to get the guy. Well, I came upon a valuable resource recently that I believe every girl should take note of. So it is with great delight that I present the following to you:

A Must For All Girls!

Now go put this lesson into practice.

Millionaire Quest: Progress Report

Good Day All.

As you know, I am attempting to make an extra $500 USD per month, outside of my regular salary. And as I said in my last entry, I'm for now focusing on adsense and hyips. So what I want to do here, is just give you an idea of how close I am to meeting this goal.

With adsense, I am not allowed to say how much I'm making from it, so I'm kinda restricted here. However, what I can say, is that the minimum required before I can actually request a cash-out, is $100, and at the rate I'm going, it could take several years before I see a dime from this income generating vehicle.

For the HYIP I referred to that I recently placed a small amount in, I happened to have gotten some positive news last week from the admin of the program. So as a result, I added some more funds to it. Still not as much I would want to, but if I am to deposit anymore, I will need to go through a longer and somewhat tedious process to transfer the money, as I don't have anymore money in my e-currency (e-gold) account now. So if I don't insert new funds into it, to get back my principal and start making $500 each month, should take me some months (probably 5 or 6). This is of course assuming the program doesn't crash prematurely.

Oh yes, one of the other programs I joined is now looking to show some positive results soon. Hopefully I can give a nice update on that later this week.

Aside from all the above, I have ideas. I'm always coming up with ideas, and I think I have some good ones in store. I have to put some more time into building up my adsense revenue (ie. increasing traffic to my sites) before I start pursuing these other ideas though.

So overall, things are looking really nice. I can say I'm on my way in my quest to becoming a millionaire. Might be a little too early though to say well on my way. But it's still some progress, I think.

Millionaire Quest: First Targets

Good Day All.

I apologise for the break in transmission. As I partly explained in my last post, I was quite preoccupied.

Well now I have time to once again focus on this quest of mine to become a millionaire. So far I've recounted various attempts I have already made, which turned out to be quite a mess. As you can see, I have not given up. What I want to do now, is to start setting targets, and iterate the methods I'm currently thinking of, to get where I intend to.

Ok, so bearing in mind my mishaps of the past, I decided to start with a modest goal. For now, I will endeavor to make a monthly salary of $500 USD in addition to what I get from my regular job. Once I can do this, and sustain it, then I will step things up a notch. Yes, I know, a far cry from the first million, but it is a start.

Now, let me make it clear, that I fully intend to make my extra cash, mainly through internet projects, if not entirely. For now, I'll be focusing on these two areas:

1. Google Adsense
2. High Yield Investment Programs (HYIPs)

For the first, I have already created a few sites with adsense, but they have almost 0 traffic so far. In case you don't know, to really make money from adsense, you need to have a lot of traffic to your website. But I will be taking care of that obstacle in due course.

For the second, I will be proceeding extremely cautiously. I mentioned in a recent post, that I joined one that should pay close to 60% per month. We'll see how that works out. I might even consider adding some extra cash to it. Also, from my dabbling in these things over the last year and half, I still have hopes of some programs coming through. So if any of them do happen to do something exciting, I will let you know.

Ok, that's all for now. I had other things I wanted to mention here, but I will save such for a future post. Keep checking to see my progress. I intend to give a report on that soon.

Millionaire Quest: Short update

Hello Readers.

I know it's been a while since my last post. I'm currently preparing to give a presentation later this week, so have not found the time to attend to this blog properly. I will try to get back to posting soon. In my next entry, I think I will start to talk about my plan going forward in my quest to become a millionaire. Some things I have already started, and others, still planning/contemplating.

Stay tuned...

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Millionaire Quest: Entering the World of HYIPs cont'd

Good Day All.

In my last entry, I gave a synopsis of how I got involved with High Yield Investment Programs (HYIPs). I mentioned how last year this time, I was fully expecting to be able to retire in 7-8 months (from then), despite the fact of suffering a massive loss just a few months prior to this.

How did I manage to move from such a disaster to such great hope in so little time? Well, as it turned out, I had also joined a few more programs aside from the total fiasco one. Of these, one produced close to 90% per month, on an investment. Principal and profit would actually be returned each month.

At about the time when I discovered I had been scammed BIG TIME by the other guys, I discovered another program that paid 90% per month, and they were actually doing that for about 10 months up to that time. For the former, which I was already in, I had only invested a small amount, as I had little faith in it. For the latter, as I had just suffered great loss, I was very much reluctant to risk any more, so I only put a very small amount in. Oh how I now regret not putting the bulk of my funds in these, rather than handing them over to outright scammers! I would have made a tidy sum if I had.

Well as time progressed, I developed more confidence in these 90%ers, as I saw the results coming in. So I focused my funds in these programs, and managed to recover most, if not all, of my losses by January (last year). That is, if I were to withdraw everything, I'd have covered my losses. Based on these rates of returns, I had projected retirement by around July or August last year. Now I had a specific amount in mind that I wanted to reach, before doing any withdrawals. I was scheduled to reach that amount by the end of January or early February. Essentially the plan would be to withdraw some at that stage, which would have been enough to cover all my prior losses, and leave the rest to compound. Alas, Murphy's law came into effect at this point.

Just days before I was scheduled to be paid for one of the programs, trouble found its way in. The details are somewhat complicated. But the bottomline was simple. A big fat 0. That's right, I would get back nothing. I must say though that the operator of this HYIP was not a scammer, and it was due to malicious outside forces that caused the whole thing to end. It was still a sad end though. At least I still had my other 90% project going, or so I thought.

It was just a matter of weeks before the other 90% HYIP took a hit too. They had a series of unfortunate events in a short space of time, which essentially crashed the project. I had managed to withdraw all my capital before this, so I was not losing additional funds here. However, I had accumulated a decent sum in profits by this time, which now would never materialise, so there was still some emotional trauma to deal with. Of course, my retirement plans went right out the window. I can't say for sure whether the operators of this HYIP are scammers, but based on the evidence, it seems to be the case that these guys are honest, but just happened to have a string of bad luck. They are still in the process of trying to refund all those who suffered loss of capital.

Anyway, such is life. I should mention though, that the first HYIP I found from the google ads, which I mentioned in my last entry, turned out to be genuine, and is still operating. However, they have had some difficulties, which have slowed its progress. Nevertheless, things are progressing, and it might turn out very well indeed. They have said from the start that it would take a few years to become a millionaire, with the kind of small investment that I made. So things are not so off-track.

I should also mention that as of last week, for the first time in several months now, I have joined a new HYIP. This one is supposed to pay something like 60% per month. I have entered it with only a small amount. I'll give updates on how this is working out from time to time.

Millionaire Quest: Entering The World of HYIPs

Greetings All!

This is my first post for 2007. So let me thank all of you who kept up with reading my blog last year. It does help me going when I'm down, to know that so many of you out there are interested in seeing me progress.

Well last year seems to have gone by pretty fast, and without the results I was hoping for. Imagine, just a year ago I was expecting to retire in 7 to 8 months. Yes, my biggest concern at the time, was how I was going to explain to people, especially my parents, that I was already retiring. Considering I had no money to speak of then (still don't), you'd probably have concluded that I lost a screw or two up there. So what was my plan this time?

Back in the middle of 2005, I discovered High Yield Investment Programmes (HYIPs). I did a search on the web one day, looking for investment opportunities, and came across a very enticing offer in one of the google ads. Essentially I'd become a millionaire in 3 years, with an investment of as little as $50. It was an offer I could not pass up, so I got in! I still wanted to know more about this thing, to see if anyone could corroborate that this was real. In doing research on this programme, I came across a LOT more programmes offering some very high yields in short spaces of time. Of course, some were clearly ridiculous, like the hourly payers (ie. they pay on an hourly basis) that promised some huge returns. Those no doubt would require hourly prayers. But there were some that I thought worth trying out. Afterall, they didn't require much capital to get in, and I told myself that I would not spend more than a specific amount out of my pocket. I would just use the profits from these and build.

Well it wasn't long before I found another excellent offer. This one promised to give $35000 for an investment of $1000, after 6 months. Now $1000 was much more than I had given myself permission to spend on these ventures. But I'm not the pessimistic sort. The way I looked at it, $35000 was too much to pass up, rather than, $1000 is too much to risk. So I was in.

Six months is quite a while to just sit back and wait for the big one. So to occupy myself, I did some more reading. These guys making the $35000 offer, also had another programme going. Basically you could double your money in 4 to 6 weeks. Also, they had options for taking out your money (principal+profit) at the end of each week. Not bad, I thought. I could just put a little in for a week or two, then take my capital, and reinvest the profits. So that's what I started doing. I did it for a week or two, and it worked fine. But then I started to look at their other options. The most lucrative was double your money after 4 weeks. But it would require leaving it for a full month, before being able to withdraw principal, AND, the minimum for this one was...well let's just say thousands.

Ok, that's a lot to be playing around with when you don't have much, and things are so risky. I did some thinking, and weighed my options. I saw that these guys already had a perfect 6 month track record for paying, and I was sure that if I could handle my stock market losses, then I could surely handle this if it turned sour. I guess you already figured that it did go sour.

If I recall correctly, it was less than two weeks before the programme folded up. They didn't disappear entirely in that period. Actually they made it seem that their servers were hacked, and that they'd be returning soon. Well after they had a good laugh, they confessed to being a scam from the start, then had a bigger laugh, and then they were gone. With my money. Well that did hurt a bit more than I was expecting. Yet this was all wrapped up by around September 2005. So how come by January, I was still having grand plans of retiring in just over half a year?

I'll tell you more next time.