WHEN I GET RICH .com

I’ve started out two weeks ago with Whenigetrich.com. Even though I’m learning a lot from professional bloggers like Darren Rowse and John Chow. I too have a little of my own experience. When I was 14 (ten years ago) I ran my own website with a cheap dot TK-domain name: Tha-underground.tk. It wasn’t a very big deal, about 500 visitors a day, but it was fun.

Besides everything else I think that’s the only thing that should matter when you’re running your own blog. It needs to be FUN! Don’t do it to make money, or anything. The moment you have to force yourself to write an article, stop. Continue Reading

The moment I signed up to twitter, I immediately started getting followers. After a couple of days, I was on to fifty followers. Without doing anything special. Fifty might not sound as much, but keep in mind that they are all followers that are in the business I’m in – Advertising and Blogging. By tomorrow, this fifty will have grown to a hundred.

There are a lot of tools and groups out there that promise you thousands of followers as soon as you register. How does that work? Easy! Just register and gaze upon a list of 1000’s of other people that will follow you back as soon as you follow them! Sounds great doesn’t it!? It doesn’t? Oh… right. Because 90% of these people aren’t interested in what you have to say – or tweet. We have a saying in The Netherlands: I’d rather have one bird in my hand, than ten in the air. Why? because the other ten are useless. Well, that’s the system these websites have build up. Register, and step into a giant community where nobody’s interested of what anybody has to say. Try finding the right connections in this club. That’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. Never going to happen.

The real deal
Yep, you heard it right. I’m going to tell you how to gain followers, that are interested in what YOU have to say. Why? Because they do it too. Mutual interests. People that want to follow you around all the time, because they’re interested of what YOU have to say. Your own TWITTERAZZI!

1. Be witty, inviting and sharp. Don’t bother your public with the shoes you bought or the time you went to bed. Talk about the stuff that matters to you – because that’ll matter to them. If you’re into sports, talk about the football results. Get it? Only then you’ll find the twitterers (wow, try pernouncing that) that you’re looking for.

2. Tweet often. Make sure you Tweet often so you’ll be noticed in the Tweet Timeline. Use Hootsuite’s Hootlet to quickly tweet interesting sites or blogs you’re visiting. If you comment on a post on a blog other than your own: tweet it! It’ll gain you followers AND traffic. Two flies in one *SPLAT!*. September 29 ‘09 - Don’t exaggerate, tweet often, don’t tweet every five minutes – thanks Bunni. 

3. Timestamp your tweets. Use Hootsuite to timestamp your tweets, so you can spread your tweets all day like a true Sir Tweet-A-Lot, even when you’re sleeping. Timestamping offers you a chance to be noticed by different people in different timezones. Growing your network to all the corners of the world.

4. Don’t protect your tweets! Obviously…

5. Follow others. Last but not least, a very important step. Follow your followers. What I’ve noticed on Twitter is that nobody’s bigger than the other. We’re all people – or Tweople? If people are interested of you, they’ll follow you. So follow them back, if you’re interested of them. You’ll be surprised about the ideas you can gain from all those people.

29 september ‘09 – I found a website called Tweetfind.com. Here you can submit your twitter site AND your own website to gain more followers. The good thing about Tweetfind is that the Twitterprofiles are divided by category. So you’ll only gain followers of your interest. Good luck!

Other tips are always welcome. So if you have some, leave a comment!

It can happen to anybody, you’re on your way to becoming a big shot. You’ve got everything arranged for making your creation a success and then you wake up all dizzy and slow. Yes, dude, face facts. You’ve got the flu. The flu blocks you from pursuing your goals. You lose your focus and your inspiration to write. It can happen to anybody, including you – and me at the moment. And besides eating lots of fruit, drinking thea and everything else your mother taught you, I composed a list of things to do to drag you through these pointless days.

1. Watch all the episodes of your favourite series, or watch your favourite movie of all times, or both.
 - I watch South Park all the time right now.
2. After that, you could finish the videogame that’s been collecting dust in your closet all this time.
- I just bought a PS3 so I don’t have that much games yet, but maybe you do, maybe you bought a game on sale once but never had the time to try it out. NOW is the perfect time!
3. Third on your list should be catching up with the people in your IM-client that you never talk to or..
4. Spend time cleaning these people from your contactlist.
5. If after all this you’re still knocked out you could reorganize your MP3-collection.
- Try organizing them by artist and album, OR spend time updating the album info so WinAMP or WMP can do it for you!
6. Check Digg or Youtube for funny pictures and videos and mail them to you friends that don’t consider this spam.
- I know I do.
7. Maybe you’ve been missing out on an awesome TV-serie! Check TV.com and find out what’s new!
8. Clean your mailbox.
9. If after all this you’re still sick, you need a good laugh. It’ll cheer you up and make you feel better. Try downloading a performance of your favourite stand up comedian.
- I still get a good laugh from Eddie Murphy’s Delirious.
10. And last but not least, search WikiPedia to learn everything about subjects of your interest
- I’m currently reading into 9/11 conspiracy theories, because of a South Park episode. See how this list is working out? It doesn’t matter how long the flu locked you up in your house. Doing the things in this list’ll keep you busy and ‘productive’ the entire time!

We all agree, twitter is awesome! If you run a blog, you have to run twitter to expand your network. An active blogger is an active twitter. If my tweet brought you to this page then it’s obvious my evil plan worked on you!

I admit, the title of this post is a little misleading. Offcourse you expect to find an answer here to the question in my tweet: “How do I get more traffic to my blog?”.

Well, ladies and gentleman. The answer will be here, but not right now. The coming days I’ll be trying some selfmade tricks to attract more traffic to my blog using Twitter, Hootsuite and my blog. Be sure to check out this article regularly.

If my tweet message brought you here, please be kind and leave a comment?

Hear from you soon!

We’ve all seen them, type a phrase like “get rich quick” in any search engine and you’ll see millions of PTR(Paid-To-Read)-sites as a result. Some of them are good, but barely pay off. Others, promise you millions. But only if you pay them first. Here’s how it works.

As the guy on the left wishes to remain anonymous. So do million’s of others that ever fell for this scam. The setup is simple. I start a website called something like stableptr.com, bestptr.com. Then I advertise a lot promising you something like $ 100,-, $ 200,- or even $ 600,- per read e-mail or clicked ad! You’ll click on the ad and at the landing page I promise you a minimum pay out of only $ 5000,- to $ 10.000,-, which is easy to reach. Offcourse. By this time, if you’re a little sensitive for easy money, you’ll register yourself at my website. Once you registered, I’ll start bothering you to upgrade your account for ‘only’  $ 199,-. Because I lied a little, the minimum payout of $ 5000,- is only for people that upgraded their account. For you, a free member, the minimum payout is $ 2.400.000,-. Which is, I’m sorry, not that easy to reach with only one e-mail per day. You read the e-mails I sent you and you’ll see the only advertisements I offer are nothing but testimonials, instead of regular businesses. By then, your scam-sensor should be tingling.

A good way to check if a PTR-site isn’t a scam is to check if the webmasters respond to your e-mail. In that way you know they’re serious about their business. [ad#Bidvertiser]On StablePTR.com I sent an e-mail to the address under the contact button and till today, I never received any reaction. The simplest way to check if you should even be seduced by their ads is to see the amount of money they offer you per read e-mail. If it’s $ 0,01 – $ 2,- it should be fine. Sometimes $ 10,- is even possible. Also look out for the minimum payout. Most trusted PTR-sites pay at the minimum of $ 1,-. If the PTR-site you found does’t meet one of the above requirements, it’s 100% scam. Don’t register, or you’ll be receiving letters from Mr. Hong. And most important, DON’T UPGRADE your account.

As I told you in my previous post I once fell for a scam named: Cash Generator Pro. In the rest of this post I’ll refer to it as Debt Generator Pro (or DGP) and I’ll explain to you why.

If you google certain phrases like: “get rich quick”, “make money online”, etc. etc. Guaranteed you’ll run into this scam and by the looks of it, it should work. And to be honest, it does!
Here’s how it’s done: the kind people of DGP instruct you to start with maximum bets of $ 1,-. This so you won’t immediately lose all your money – and later come back for more. You start by placing a bet on black (no numbers, just black) if you win, you doubled your money, if you lost, you double your bet. Why? If after this bet you win, you’ll gain $ 4,-! So that’s the total of $ 3,- you just spend plus one whole dollar!

It is a beautiful strategy, I must admit. Based on pure logic and math, it should work. The only thing is, which off course nobody pays attention to, it is illegal in most casino’s. [ad#Bidvertiser]Why? Exactly. Because it works. The reason DGP wants you to go with this scam is because nobody seems to pay attention to the fact that online casino’s aren’t as honest as they seem to be. A computer generating random numbers should off course offer the same experience as any other real casino has to offer. But, and there’s a giant BUT here, this computer can also detect strategies. Just like the security guards behind the camera’s in Las Vegas do it, this computer can do it to. If you take a seat at one of the roulettetables in your favourite casino – which is another thing to be worried about - you’ll triple your starting bet in five minutes, that’s a promise. Another promise is that the big shots upstairs’ll start keeping an eye on you. And my last promise to you is that five minutes after you just made a $ 100,- (!) you’re either out on the street without the $ 20,- you began with, or on your way to Mr. Police Officer’s office – depending on which country you’re in.

Since playing in an online casino is 100% anonymous and nobody can watch your strategies, this technique is fairly possible to work. It might actually be a get rich quick scheme that works! BUT (yep, another one) consider the computer generating the random numbers being the security guard behind the camera. Not only can this piece of technology track you’re every move back to the moment you started gambling in ’his’ casino, it can detect patterns much more accurately then the best security guard in the business! 

As I was reading through a Dutch version of DGP, on one of the pages they suggested a couple of casino’s where the technique would work, 100% guaranteed!  - One thing that occurred to me later is that different sites suggest different casino’s. Maybe it’s a trick from the casino’s? Anyway, I chose to download the Casino King software. I started out with a deposit of $ 20,- and got 100% bonus. I chose to play French roulette (cause then if the ball hits the ‘0‘ you get half of your bet back, unlike American roulette). Within ten minutes I tripled my $ 40,-! I remember telling my fiancé: this is too easy! And offcourse I kept playing, till the turning point.

My bet was on red and I already lost three times, which meant that in order to get my previous losses back I had to bet $ 16,-! I lost again, I bet $ 32,-… I noticed the computer kept handing out black numbers. So I tried black, he handed out red. At that moment I was back to $ 20,- and already lost my bonus money. I put all my money on red again and lost. After this I started reading into this on multiple forums. A lot of people fell for it and a lot of people lost their money. Only thing I still can’t figure out, if it isn’t a scam by the online casino’s how do the site creators make money from it? What do you think?

What is this all about – whenigetrich.com!? You must be wondering which genius came up with this! – Or maybe not. Well, whatever your reason is for being here, first let me introduce myself

Hi! My name is Daan, I’m 24. I live in one of the smallest countries in the world: The Netherlands. In a relatively big city called Groningen (don’t try to pronounce it ). It’s about 120 miles east of Amsterdam. I live together with my Fiancé soon to be wife Mimi (we’re planning to get married next summer!). Currently we’re renting a little place close to the center of this city. But a couple of weeks ago, by accident we found the house of our dreams, and it was for sale! So after doing multiple calculations to check if we would be able to afford it we decided to buy it – on a 30 year payment plan. All these changes in my life, made me think about and realize a lot of things. Which brings us to the question that all of you – at least that’s what i like to believe – are wondering: why in the world did I start this blog?

Well, kind people, it’s a long – perhaps average length – story.

Being worried about my finances and future a lot, I went online and googled multiple search phrases like: “make money quick”, “get rich quick”, “how to make money online”, etc. This lead me to a lot of (and with a lot, I mean A LOT!) get rich quick schemes. I’m embarrassed to say it but I even fell for a couple of them. Like the all famous ‘if you lose on black/red, double your bet’-roulette technique. Which, thank God, only cost me € 20,- in the end. My google-journey also led me to millions of people selling E books and claiming that this technique will change your life and increase your income by 90000%! – The percentage might differ.
Anyway, after seeing all this crap I came up with an idea. I’m gonna make money online by telling people I make money online! After I googled this phrase, popping out as the first result was John Chow’s website – The Miscellaneous Ramblings Of A Dot Com Mogul. And unlike the scam artists out there, he offered his E book for FREE! – I recommend it, sincerely.

Not having a printer at home, I decided to print the 59 page novel at work – the paper’s free and reading of a screen is bad for the eyes, right? Reading his E book changed my life, while I was reading his strategy the whole obsession with making money online and wanting to get rich quick moved to the background. It wasn’t any longer the top priority. I started remembering passed dreams of wanting to become a writer, a web designer, an astronaut – even though the third dream has nothing to do with this. It was this moment that the idea for Whenigetrich.com was born. The idea is simple: with this blog, you can follow me on my making money online-journey. I’ll continue my search, analyze every possible way and share my experience with you. Whenigetrich.com will grow out to be a one-stop website where the get rich quick schemes are separated from the actual possibilities in an objective, but fun, blog! So who knows, maybe one day you’ll contact me to be your financial advisor.

Starting a blog was the perfect way of combining the two things I always wanted to do. I want to thank my fiancé Mimi for supporting me on this journey. And John Chow, from now on reffered to as my inspiration. And you, I’m looking forward to your comments!

Thanks,

 Daan