Time to Write Again
Sharing my heart, soul, and words through blogs in the past made a profound and lasting impact in my life. It many beautiful ways, and in…
Minute by Minute
If thinking about the long-term future feels extraordinarily heavy, burdensome, and challenging, and the current moment is filled with…
Stop lying to yourself and others. Get in touch with reality. Identify what’s true.
The best way to make decisions is to…have the most accurate data, or the truth, as much as possible to make the most informed decisions.
How the Economic Machine Works
I’m a huge fan of Ray Dali’s work. He put together a beautiful way to easily understand how our economics work. This summarizes so much…
Q&A #1 — Beginning in Real Estate
A few people have started sending me questions. I thought it may be best to share my responses with everyone. If you have any of your own…
Infinite Returns
When we invest, if we’re always required to put and keep our capital in the deal, it can become difficult to grow our wealth quickly…
Diversification — An argument against
Diversifying your investments has pros and cons. It’s fairly clear, most everyone understands the pros, and why you do it. Most financial…
Rebalancing Your Portfolio
As time progress, asset values continue increase or decrease, and new cash, for future investments is continually added to your portfolio…
Cashflow is King. Not Cash.
You’ve heard the saying, “Cash is King.”
Working Undisturbed on Your Mac
One way to be more focused, is to remove distractions.
Become a Better Investor by Becoming an Entrepeneur
It’s no surprise that many of the greatest investors are or were at once great entrepreneurs. Because as investors, generally, most often…
Forced Savings Mechanisms
For most homeowners, in their later life, their house is generally their largest and most valuable asset. (We don’t think your primary…
The Power of Unrealized Gains
Unrealized gains are one of the most powerful tools in becoming rich, and it is one of the reason why some some never pay any taxes. It’s…
Maintain Control — Worth it’s weight in gold
You’ve likely heard, how important in business it is, to maintain control of your company, generally more than a 50% voting rights. This is…
Prevent Selling Yourself Out at a Loss
One of the best ways to get rich through investing, is being able to invest into long-term assets, for 15–20+ years, allowing them to grow…
Trading vs. Investing
People get theses two mixed up all the time. Specifically, they consider their trading activities investing. We disagree, we believe they…
“You’re Not Listening” — The most overused and worthless phrase ever
People commonly say “they don’t listen”, or “he/she doesn’t listen”, or “you don’t listen to me”, and from my experience, it generally…
Building, Growing & Protecting Wealth — and how quickly it can really be lost
So often have many people I’ve known, including myself, after gaining wealth, ending up losing it all. The more people I’ve met, and read…
The best time to raise money, is when you don’t need it.
When you’re in need of capital, especially last moment, it’s harder, and more expensive to get.
Automation
One of my 2018 goals is to write a short & simple book on investing. I’m passionate about the subject, do a lot of it and have been both…
Simplicity
When investing, the simpler the business you’re investing in is, the better.
Know the Rules
When you know the rules, you know how to win the game, and it changes everything.
When you’re feeling down or something isn’t working right… You know what to do.
When you’re feeling down or something isn’t working right… You know what to do.
Are you investing into cryptocurrencies? Consider investing in it’s infrastructure.
Cryptocurrency is here to stay. What we do not know, is which cryptocurrency will win. And if one does, when will itself get disrupted. The…
You think real estate is getting expensive, the world more crowded, and work more competitive than…
We haven’t seen anything yet.
What’s missing every time investors talk about Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger’s “words of wisdom”.
It is true, Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger are extraordinary investors. However, there are some very important background…
CircleCI 2.0 Configuration for Laravel 5.5 with Laravel Dusk
Spent a day figuring this out. For anyone who needs help on how to configure it, here you go.
Healing Neck & Shoulders from 10+ Years of Deferred Maintenance
It’s time to heal my neck and shoulders. This time for good. The time is now. I will do it, and I won’t let anything get in the way of my…
Time to try Medium
All I want to do is share, and my Wordpress blog keeps getting hacked. I’ve wasted so much time self hosted that buggy piece of software…
Words ❤, more clarity, more understanding.
Words ❤, more clarity, more understanding.
Consider removing the word “should” from your day to day conversations, here is why…
Consider removing the word “should” from your day to day conversations with other people. Don’t “should” all over someone. Here’s why… Should isn’t a…
Better to write, than to not write at all
I decided a few days ago, that it is better to write something, even ever so small, than to write nothing at all. I got this from one of the Hive Global…
My Self Expression Leadership Program Project
I’m enrolled in the Landmark Curriculum for Living courses. They were recommended by my friend, Ryan Allis. The third program in the series is the Self…
Increasing your vocabulary of words to describe your emotional states
How are you feeling? How many emotional states do you know? Which words do you use to communicate how you feel? Increasing your vocabulary of words…
Words are powerful, they have the ability to change you
My friends & family went to Oprah’s Live Your Best Life Weekend Tour last year. It was amazing, I’d highly recommend it to everyone in the future if…
Build an organization to make a difference, not to last forever
I was scrolling down my Facebook News Feed today and saw that Mark Zuckerberg was talking live, in a Town Hall Meeting . I went to check it out…
Lost Digital History
Many people setup their WordPress blogs a long time ago, including mine in 2006 . Since they have all been setup, many of them have had deferred…
I’m attending Singularity University’s Executive Program in September
I’m very excited to attend Singularity University’s Executive Program this September (2015). Ryan Allis from Hive recommended it to me last year. I’ll be…
WordPress xmlrpc.php brute force attack
The server that hosts this blog has been down consisnelty for the last several months. Every time I restart the server to make it work again, a few…
Hive.org – Creating an Extraordinary Life – Day 3
Today was all about how to create an extraordinary life at Hive . I’m calling it day three, but it’s actually the official 2nd day of content out of…
Hive.org – Becoming a purpose driven leader – Day 1
I just got back from my 7 month trip in latin america , i will write about it more. We’ll later go to asia for another 5-6+ months soon. But…
Hive.org – Understanding Our World – Day 2
It was another amazing day. Today, was the first, of our 3 day training for Hive . The first day was really just a fun networking event, but…
Being Uncomfortable: My 14 Month Travel & Work Trip Around The World
I believe a life well lived, is a life full of great experiences. Trying new things, lots of things. Experiencing everything that life has to offer…
How I went from rich to completely broke
This is a guest blog post by Dennis Yu. The other day, a consultant I hired was whining about how I pay him only $260,000 a year. I’m sitting in a Motel6…
Missionary vs Mercenary CEOs
Missionaries build better products and companies than mercenaries do. This is an idea that both Jeff Bezos , the founder of Amazon.com, and John…
Why You Should Share More & The Blog Is Back!
Sharing makes you bigger. If you hear a good idea, share it. If you share a life changing idea with ten people, they get to hear it once, but you get to…
Affiliate Network Name Generator
A small interactive affiliate-network name generator tool, built by Maria & Wes.
The Team On This Day July 29th, 2009
Here is a snap-shot of our team on this day. We’ve recently brought on a lot of help. Wes Mahler Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Twitter: @wesmahler…
Denver Affiliate Conference Keynote On Transparency, Collaboration, Trust and Innovation
MediaTrust CEO, Peter Bordes , gave the keynote presentation at this year’s Affiliate Convention in Denver. He talked a lot about the need for…
Introducing Alerts202 – Offer Email Alert Notifications
Alerts202 is a new product we are proud to release today. Alerts202 is a simple offer alert notification system that we’ve built using our new Offers202…
Mark Pincus’ Two Core Philosophies In Building Their Succesful Gaming Company Zynga
I wanted to share two core philosophies that Mark Pincus @markpinc had on building his company Zynga . We sat on this interview during the Startup2Startup…
Video Interview On The Importance Of Transparency & Innovation In The Affiliate Marketing Industry
Peter Bordes , the CEO of Media Trust was kind enough to invite me on the keynote panel during this year’s Affiliate Conference in denver . After the…
Our 4th of July Revolution202 Launch
written by steven & nana Happy Fourth of July to everyone in the U.S. and everyone who chooses to celebrate this holiday with us today, also known as…
Picture Of The Team, On This Day, June 23rd 2009
Capturing history is one of the treasures to pass along to your friends and family once your gone. So here is a photo of our team as of June 23rd, 2009.…
Some New Desks In The Office & A Quick Look Inside The 202 House
There were a few people who wanted to see the new desks I twittered about. So I shot a quick video of it. Yes I have something on my face if your…
The Myth: I’m Going To Work Hard Now, So I Won’t Have To In The Future
A short video on the myth of working hard now so you won’t have to later.
Video Interview With Paul Bourque From UberAffiliate On Becoming An Advertiser
Paul Bourque is an extremely successful pay per click affiliate, runs the blog UberAffiliate.com and is now on route to becoming a large advertiser in our…
How Jonathan Volk Scaled Past $300,000/month (video interview)
We had a pleasure to interview Jonathan Volk , one of our very good friends, and a very successful affiliate marketer. Jonathan is the founder of Surge…
Meetup202 AdTech Speakers – Jonathan Volk, Ralph Ruckman, Dennis Yu, Larby Amirouche and Paul Bourque
Here are some speaker presentations during our meetup202 event last ad:tech . I think I probably had a little bit to much to drink before getting on…
Meetup202 Ad:Tech SF 2009 – Event Video
Check out our video from our largest Meetup202 event which held over 400+ people during Ad:Tech SF this year. We want to thank our sponsors, Hydra Network…
Ryan Pamplin Video Interview On Affiliate Marketing & Operations
Ryan Pamplin is a good friend of ours that we first met at Affiliate Summit East 2008 in Boston. Ryan is the founder of Ryactive , a performance marketing…
Should You Increase Or Decrease Your Marketing Budget During A Recession?
I found this video over at the MediaTrust Blog and thought it was good enough to share. It’s a short video with some good content that is pretty valuable,…
Stats202 Beta Launch
We are currently accepting beta testers for our new service, Stats202 . Stats202 is a hosted application that will automatically update all your subids…
I Do Not Use Email Any More – Letting It All Go
Every week our team gets together and goes over what we call our ROCs. The ROCs stand for (Results, Objectives and Challenges). Our small team of seven…
Interview with Dr Ngo ( Charles Ngo ) On Media Buys
Meet Charles Ngo, better known as Dr Ngo . Dr Ngo is an active member of the WickedFire community and is known for his Media Buy expertise. A fast rising…
If I Had To Do It All Over Again
In every one of our interviews I asked the other person, “If you had to do it all over again what would you do differently?” It was interesting to…
What I Was Doing Before 6-9 months before Tracking202
Before I got into affiliate marketing I was helping my friend, Marques Alexander build what used to be called “BeaverRent,” which was a local college…
Interview With Ralph Ruckman From Convert2Media
Your about to meet Ruck, one of the co-founders of Convert2Media . Ruck is an active member of the WickedFire community and is known for creating the…
Notice Anything Funny In This Picture?
If you don’t see it, look to the right.
Interview With PepperJam about Tracking202
Kris Jones from the PepperJam Network recently did an interview with me, you can find it here:…
Meet Jason Akatiff aka Smaxor from Ads4Dough in our Video Interview
If you’ve ever heard of the network Ads4Dough , you are about to meet Jason Akatiff aka Smaxor, the owner. Jason is sporting his signature blue baseball…
A look inside our Meetup202 Culture ( Video )
We had a pretty ridiculous Meetup202 SF event this saturday. There were over 65+ attendees and the place was overbooked. There we SEM professionals, high…
NickyCakes Video Interview At Affiliate Summit West 2009
This is the fourth video of our up and coming Affiliate Summit West 2009 interview series featured on the new TV202 . This interview is with Nick from…
Kris Trujillo and Andrew Payne Video Interview on CashTactics
This is the third video of our up and coming Affiliate Summit West 2009 interview series featured on the new TV202 . This interview is with Andrew Payne…
Neil Turner Interview on Facebook Marketing
This is the second video of our up and coming Affiliate Summit West 2009 interview series featured on the new TV202 . This interview is with Neil Turner…
Meet Ad Hustler and Ian Fernando – Interviews from Affiliate Summit West 2009
Like last year, we put together some interviews for the 202 community. This year, we’ve refined our processes slightly and have a much more solid…
New Year’s Accountability
It was interesting to see all of the bloggers write their New Years Resolutions when the 1st of the came around. But I thought to myself — how many of…
Are You A Hedgehog Or A Fox?
What’s with this idea that having tons of “projects” is a good thing? Although it may be true that being a shareholder in several businesses that run…
Why Building a Fortune is better than Building Passive Income
I used to believe that building passive income was the absolute best way to achieve financial independence. This idea of having passive income was…
Will be in LA this weekend, let’s meetup.
Hey everyone we’ll be driving down from San Francisco to Los Angeles this weekend, for our LA Meetup202 event to talk with local advertisers…
In Partnerships. Don’t Make The Plans Yourself, Make Them With Everyone Involved.
If you’ve been in a partnership before, you may have come across this dilemma before. Over the course of days by yourself, you have come up with a…
Having a ‘Balanced Life’ Is Over-Rated.
It seems everyone likes to preach to others, “live a balanced life-style”. It’s more the idealistic way of thinking, and a lot of book gurus will…
Grabbing the Tab At Dinner (all-the-time) Can Sometimes Create Tension
Yesterday I noticed in slightest of forms of how I can sometimes generate tension between other people trying to be as nice as possible. I…
Getting More Unproductive As Your Business Grows.
Although it may appear from the outside looking at a company as it moves forward, and becomes more successful that stuff is now getting done faster and…
Should I Program Myself, Or Pay Someone Else?
Have you asked yourself this question before? “Should I program myself, or pay someone else?” It is a question asked every day by internet entrepreneurs,…
Cloning Dinners
Cloning Dinners is a simple, but powerful concept to maximize your time networking with others. I wanted to say thanks to James Seligman from the Seattle…
Some Ideas On Running a booth/table at an Expo Event
Ok, don’t make fun of me now. This is my first attempt at using some new video equipment, it’ll get better as it progresses. I’m going to…
Before its to late. It isn’t until you lose something that you realize how important something was.
Sometimes it isn’t until we lose something that you then later realize how grateful we should have been to have what it is we had in the first place. What…
3 Habits of a Billionaires
Steven Truong found this, the source is from Escape From Pianosa . I thought it was valuable enough to share with everyone. Forbes.com …
GetClicky.com – Web Analytics 2.0
I have to give a long and overdue shout out to my friends: Sean and Noah over at GetClicky.com . Tracking202 was actually inspired to be…
Favors – Why Asking For Favors, Can Be Good
So I always use to think, up until now, that doing a lot of favors for others builds the relationship with the other person, and try to ask for…
Tech Wisdom – More Quotes
Ok for those who know me by now, I love quotes , because they sum-up alot of powerful information very quickly. I stumbled across an article of upcoming…
Elite MasterMind Forum – If Your Serious About Reading and Personal Development
For anyone who is serious about reading and studying success, we have just put together the EliteMasterMindForum . This was a long-overdue idea that I…
One Book A Week
Hey everyone, just wanted to give you an update on the elite mastermind reading group . I’m in process of setting it up right now, I was going to…
Share Brass, BrassTV : the money side of life.
Bryan Sims is someone whom I highly respect as entrepreneur; not only in his ability to generate a highly profitable company, but more so in the…
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink was an interesting book about the first two seconds of looking–the decisive glance that knows in an instant. I just finished reading it on…
Sharpening Your Edge – New Mastermind Group and Looking For Serious Entrepreneurs
During the 18th century two brothers walked out to the forrest, both had axes in their hand. They planed on cutting down as many trees as they…
Do What You Said You Were Going To Do
Do you open up your email inbox, read the emails and then think to yourself, “I’ll just reply later?” And then 50% of the time we never reply with…
Will be in Seattle, and Portland next 2 weeks
Hey everyone, I will be in seattle from the 2nd of June, to the 8th, and Portland from the 8th to the 15th. If you live around here and want…
This is fun: Tracking202 in the past.
I don’t mean to post the same stuff on my blog, as I post on the prosper202 blog. But when something fun like this comes around I’ll surely post it.…
Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
“Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language”. – How To Win Friends and Influence Them by Dale…
WorldProxy202 – proxies from around the world at your fingertips.
I’m pleased to introduce you to WorldProxy202 , a proxy designed for International affiliate marketers. WorldProxy202 is…
Meetup202 Seattle – New Meetup Group
We just launched a new Seattle Affiliate Marketing Meetup group . If you live in the area feel free to meet with us and other affiliate marketers in the…
What’s taking us so long?
Distractions are the killers of dreams. Why is it that there are so many tasks that we want to do, that we could honestly accomplish a lot quicker…
Phantom Cash Flow, Fast Word #2
Let us continue on our journey of exploring the language that accredited investors use to build wealth quicker by using Fast Words . We are now on Fast…
Meetup202 – Bay Area Affiliate Marketing Meet-up was Awesome!
Yesterday we had our first Meetup202 event in downtown San Francisco. It was a huge success, there were almost 20 people there. Some were…
Say Hello to Prosper202, (Tracking202 and Export202 Self-Hosted), and were giving it all away!
Prosper202 is what everyone has been waiting for. Prosper202 is a self-hosted PPC tracking solution, it is the same code used on Tracking202 .It also…
Something Is In The Air
Oh boy, I’m excited. Something is in the air, and no it’s not a macbook.In 12 hours Tracking202 and Export202 self-hosted are going to launch. Also this…
Hiring A Hacker
Everyone needs a hacker! We just we just started working with someone who tests the cyber-security state of a financial institution for a living . I was…
If your not going to the events, your dying. ad:tech was awesome.
The real education isn’t the information you will find on the public blogosphere, or even my blog. The real gold mine of information, I mean the really…
New Alexa Ranking System
I check alexa quite a bit, and I noticed today that the rankings have been dramatically changed. It seems like alot of websites got hit pretty hard on the…
Fast Words, Faster Words That Create Wealth Faster. An Introduction: Accredited Investors
One way to dramatically increase your net worth over time is by changing the words you use. A long time a go I talked about fast words , how you could…
The Scorpion and the Frog
Everyone should know the story of the Scorpion and the Frog . One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted…
Veni, Vidi, Vici
Veni, Vidi, Vici :: Latin for, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Well it has been a year since I first declared I would drop out of college and move to…
Twitter :: Follow me and I follow you!
I actually had a Twitter account for over a year now, although it seems like everyone is on it, so I’m now actually using it. Follow me , and I’ll follow…
Looking for Self-Hosted Beta Testers
We have some applications we are releasing here shortly, they are currently in the beta testing stage. We are looking for some PPC affiliate marketers,…
Ad Tech San Francisco - April 15-17, 2008 | MOSCONE CENTER
Hey everyone I will be at Ad-Tech on April 15th through the 17th. I already live in San Francisco so I will definitely be there. For those in the area…
How much does it cost to get your Private Pilot Certificate – First Experience – Cessna – D-Jet and More!
Today I had my first real time flying an airplane. Everything was great except for I was extremely air sick during the first flight and my stomach almost…
I would rather earn 1% off the efforts of 100 people than 100% off the efforts of myself
“I would rather earn 1% off the efforts of 100 people than 100% off the efforts of myself.” Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an…
Learning How To Fly
I’ve always wanted to fly a plane, and see the world from up above in the driver’s seat. Fortunately I work with Rob Norton who already have experience…
Meetup202 – Taking Off
Meetup202 is gaining ground, we have over 30 members now and growing. There is already a lot of people who are confirming that they will attend the event.…
Busy Bee
Haven’t posted in a little while, just been pursuing goals and deadlines. And of course, making progress. Lots of action, and little talk. I hope your…
Subids.com – How Subid Tracking Works and Examples
I just got a pretty good domain for SEO, it is subids.com . What is surprising, is that I believe the domain was registered before, maybe not, but I…
Meetup202: Calling All Bay Area PPC Marketers
Do you live in San Francisco, or around the Bay Area? Join our meetup.com group We are putting together a Bay Area meetup group for Pay Per Click…
Corporate Tax Returns Due Money
Opps, I was thinking the corporation tax returns were due also in April. However, I forgot Corporations have to file in March, although luckily you can…
How To Get The Same Amount of Knowledge As A Book, In About 3-5 Minutes.
Being able to read, learn and study from books that teach us how to be stronger, wiser, and better are so valuable. Lately I have failed to get a lot of…
Win A Nintendo Wii From Tracking202 – Contest
Tracking202 is giving away a free Nintendo Wii! This post is copied from http://tracking202.com/blog/nintendo-wii-bonus-prizes-giveaway-contest-2 .This is…
Why The Web Is Free
This was a great interview I saw on TechCrunch that I really enjoyed, the first part was with Chris Anderson, author of the Long Tail, and he is talking…
Michael Semira with CXDigital Video Interview
Mike Semira is my personal affiliate manager at CXDigital , I was very impressed with their presence at the Affiliate Summit West convention last month.…
Adam Dufresne from MaxBounty Video Interview
This is an interview with Adam Dufresne from MaxBounty , unfortunately this is the interview that had the most audio interference out of all the ones we…
Jonathan Van Clute with LPGen Video Interview
Jonathan Van Clute is an experienced PPC Affiliate Marketer who resides in San Francisco Bay Area. Jonathan developed a landing page generation product,…
AffSpy Video Interview At the Affiliate Summit West 2008
AffSpy is a new tool for affiliate marketeers which will allow you to find the best offers to promote. The tool aggregates of all the campaign data from…
John Chow Video Interview At Affiliate Summit West 2008 - TheTechZone and TTZMedia Founder
John Chow is a highly recognized successfully blogger, and affiliate marketer with his website JohnChow.com , and TheTechZone.com , he also has his own…
Ian Fernando Video Interview at Affiliate Summit West 2008
Ian Fernando is an internet entrepreneur and active blogger at IanFernando.com. Ian runs Ianternet Media, his own company and is starting to heavily dive…
Doug Davis With CPAEmpire - Interview
This is a video interview with Doug Davis from CPAEmpire . Doug has been with CPAEmpire for awhile now and was my very first affiliate manager. He has…
Paul Bourque - UberAffiliate - Interview at Affiliate Summit West 2008
Paul Bourque is a quote unquote “super affiliate”, he is recognized for his affiliate marketing blog UberAffiliate.com . UberAffiliate is now a well known…
Affiliate Summit West and The Datacenter
If you were not here to attend the Affiliate Summit West , you must attend next time. This event was incredible, it was awesome getting a chance to meet…
How To Always Know What Your Competitors Are Doing With Almost No Work
War can be a good analogy when you think about battling with your competition. Competition is fierce, some people will get injured and…
The Best Way To Do Your Accounting Is To Not Do Your Accounting.
Anyone who has been into entrepreneurship for more than a year or two knows that personally keeping track of your finances can be quite a hassle. I have…
Why Is Tracking202 Free – My Mistakes – Launching Under Fire
I’ll have to admit, we have made some mistakes during our launch, but I’m the one to blame. Although we are still gaining momentum in our marketing push…
From Zero To One Million – The Book
Ryan Allis, the Co-Founder and CEO of iContact, someone who I admire has launched his book today and it is already #4 on the best seller of Amazon.com as…
Tracking202 – PPC Affiliate Tracking 2.0
I’m excited to announce that we have launched our product out in the wild today, Tracking202 a highly advance PPC Affiliate Marketing Tracking Software.…
How To Register A Trademark And What’s The Difference Between TM and ®
If you are coming out with a new company, or product, or tag line you are going to bring to the market place, and want you own the name. You should look…
The Crunchies, and Meeting Shoemoney!
Yesterday my best friend, Cam Boehmer from Palo Alto came with me to go to the Crunchies awards; it was an amazing an event. The best…
How To Register Your Business With The State – It’s Easy
Registering a corporation legally is easy I just filed our new company’s entity, a California Domestic Stock Corporation, also referred to as a C…
Vesting Ownership/Shares, The Golden Handcuffs?
As your company grows bigger it will require more manpower to keep it going. When you start having more tasks than you can complete alone, you…
Be At The Right Place ALL Of The Time!
While reading the Millionaire Real Estate Investor book I found a good piece of philosophy I’d like to share with you now. Instead of saying, “he was…
Wes 2.008, a new image
Hey thanks for bearing with me, everything is fixed now, WordPress is working like a charm now and I’ve switched laptops. I apologize for some of my…
WesMahler hits $10,000+ this month, and growing
Wow, I seriously can’t believe this, I’m really starting to not like wordpress While writing this blog post wordpress totally freaked out on me, I tried…
HOW TO – Affiliate Marketing with PPC Overview [VIDEO]
Here is a video I compiled for anyone who is interested in affiliate marketing with PPC Marketing. This video was made for the people whom I work with,…
Old WorkStation [Video]
Here is a short video on the place I’ve been working out of for some while, it is a short walk through of my old office that I won’t be working in any…
October Overview – Progress Towards $10,000 a month and much more.
October Income – Progress to $10,000/month Well things have been a rocking, and those who have taken the advantage, the people who are action oriented…
Progress, Goals Modification, Affiliate Marketing, Checks in the Mail, Silicon Valley, Moving, New Life, Massive Activity To Produce Massive Results
Its 1am right now, I’m getting ready to head down to San Francisco tomorrow morning to look for a place to live. I’ve been wanting to go down there for…
Wow, Just Wow. Month 2 Progress. Did I already hit $10,000/month?
Wow, just wow is what I’ll call the title of this blog post. Things have been going super incredible fantastic. Affiliate Marketing CRAZY MONEY. I haven’t…
Week 4 Progress – Month 1 Results – Goals, The Double Edge Sword
I’am in Columbus, OH right now, it is 8:21AM, I haven’t been able to get much work done here because I’ve mostly been visiting with family. …
Say Hello My Dedicated Friend
I just got my dedicated server today, came in a huge box. Got it and drove down to Corvallis, and dropped it off at where it will be located. This bad boy…
Comp Setup
Leverage It Up
As someone who desires to be a sophisticated investor we should aim to have leveraged assets building, whether it is the leverage of other people working…
Week 3 Progress – I came I saw I conquered.
Week 3, does time go fast or what? Pretty soon we’ll be dead…ly rich. Ok here goes week three, just been rocking it, on avg work time ~12-16hrs/day for…
You know you have been at the computer to long when
you’ve been working non-stop for 14 hours and your wrists now suddenly hurt EVEN with your ergonomic setup. But you just have a little bit more work…
Study – PHP Security – Affiliate Increase
If you ever want to get something, study it. If you want to be rich, study wealth. If you want to be influential, study influence. If you want to have…
On Track To $10,000/month?
While I was down in San Francisco not doing much work, my affiliate income was hard at work. I’m excited to say that I really truly believe I’m on…
Week 2 Progress – Affiliate Income Needs Boosting
I’m in San Francisco right now, my future home, I haven’t been able to do work at all down here, but whenever I’m not at the computer, I’m reading my…
Importance of Tracking Affiliate Stats
Thanks to GrayHat for recommending to start tracking affiliate stuff, I’ve did what he said. After running two landing pages for one campaign, I have…
Do you have momentum?
Do you have momentum, you know momentum is with you when you are steadily making progress every day towards your goals and momentum is building. …
Week 1 Progress
While I’am waiting for some DNS changes on beaverrent [doing a huge update] I’ll go ahead and blog my progress on my goal of $10,000/month by January 1st…
Keep on trying, untill you succeed
Ok for the past year I have been trying to get someone to help me build my rotary engine websites. They are a steady source of income, anyone…
Wes Mahler is earning $10,000 a month by January 1st, 2008
Here goes nothing, I’m am going to complete my goals for January 1st, 2008. I’ve wrote them on here many times, and it is a great reminder to…
They Say Money Doesn’t Make You Happy And The Love Money Is Evil
What a bunch of crock, if you are interested in money go after it. When I look back and when I was in debt with credit cards, I have $10 in my bank…
My Favorite Business Model [subscriptions]
Well exciting times, things are moving, even more so for my buddies at GetClicky.com, Analytics 2.0 . They are going to be doing a business partnership…
Leverage Yourself – Hire Other People
The way to make more money, is to do more and more with less and less. One way to do that is leverage yourself by hiring other people. One of…
Putting Together a Real Estate Deal For Someone Else
This is a long post, you may or may not want to read it. One way to be an owner in a real estate transaction is to simply retain a percentage of the…
Welcome Cody – The Siberian Husky
My parents and I just picked up a new dog today. We got a Siberian husky, I’d always wanted a Siberian husky, our old dog molly passed away about 2 months…
When the idea is hot, take action, action pronto, action immediately!
Well as I was taking a break from programming BeaverRent.com , I had an idea that I will pursue. Whenever you have an inspired action, thought, or idea,…
Caculating Networth
If focused on building your asset base, it is good to know where you are upon your journey. A good way you may consider tracking your progress is by…
Best program to download individual songs
If your familiar with p2p sharing, there are some good and some bad. Lately I have been using isohunt.com to find torrents, its great because you can…
Sleep - 4 minutes of info to help thousands of hours sleep
I’m not sure if you ever searched on the internet the ideal sleeping position and what is best for your spine in different sleeping styles. For the…
A meeting every two months.
I’ve set up a meeting with my CPA every two months now, it is always good to know the best methods of moving your moving around for tax purposes. …
Time to put on the boosters! Goal Review – Analyze – Action!
Setting goals is great, a lot of people set goals, and then a few people actually review their goals frequently, and then others review, and analyze their…
Unhappy with current situtation, you’ll likely be unhappy in future situtations.
After I’ve begun reading biographies it has been clear, some of the most super successful individuals sort of empty towards the end of their lives. …
Lets not try to set appointments with others, and then never go through with it.
One of the great lessons you learn when doing sales for awhile is the attitude that if someone says no to your product or service, in your mind, it’s…
Why should you have more than one line of credit, or credit card.
I was eating dinner with my old boss and other business associates I work with on RebuildingRotaryEngines.com , when it came time to pay the bill I pulled…
Favorite Posts
Here are some of the best blog posts that people have learned from: You know you’re personally developed when…. So do you really want investment real…
So do you really want investment real estate now? Get raid of laziness haunting your mind.
I’m working on putting together a real estate transaction with two of my close friends, I met them in middle school. They are excited about putting…
New Company Logos
We have created new logos for three of our sites, they look great take a look:
You know you’re personally developed when….
I thought this would be an interesting blog post, if you have some concepts to throw in it that would be great. You know you’re personally developed when……
Did you have big plans this summer?
Are you like most people who had big plans this summer, oh this summer I’m gonna do this this this and this. Especially related towards business on…
Is your network growing or staying the same size?
One of the great things about the internet is it has totally connected people together. On the last post about the law of association, and how you…
Incredible – My energy has SkyRocketed, I feel the best I ever had, Alkalise
Over the past several weeks, I’ve noticed a decline in my energy. Although I’ve had energy and eat fairly healthy, my energy was not…
It’s easy to tell how much you make, lets just look at your friends.
Law of Association – “You become like the combined average of the five people who you associate the most with.” Am I making such an unrealistic suggestion…
Bill Gates, no longer the richest man in the world
M exican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu is now the world’s richest man, according to a Mexican financial Web site Sentido Commun which has been tracking…
Depressed? Follow Your Bliss : What Excites You?
It amazes me how many people sorta go throughout their day, negative, depressed, and not sure what to do. The for sure way to be depressed is to…
My Library
 Here are most of the books/audibooks/programs in my library. I have an ipod nano which has 95% audiobooks on it, and a new 30gb ipod video…
What the heck is wes doing update!
I haven’t been updated on current status issues with life and the 4 projects that are being worked on! Well it has been exciting, my income has increased…
The Miracle of Personal Development by Jim Rohn
The foundation of good living, is built upon an individual’s level of personal development. The code I live by: One day Mr. Shoaff said, “Jim, if…
TIMING
Timing is incredibly important with success, sometimes the timing for idea is great, you can launch it and the marketplace is ready for your idea. …
Bye Molly
Molly is our family dog, we’ve had her for 15 years, wow. Thats a long time, I remember, ever since the 1st grade we had molly, the black australian…
HEY! GET GOING, START SUMMER OFF WITH A BANG!
Here’s one of the secerts to success. the idea of mommentum, mommentum builds, you want mommentum. You can only gain mommentum with activity, and achieve…
America’s First Millionaire
Did you know America’s first millionaire was a real estate investor. The astor family, the famous family, the most wealthly family during the later 1700’s…
Ron Paul 2008
I’am not big into politics, and neither really dem or rep, but just seeking who is the best candiate from whatever party. I’am going to be voting for Ron…
Ron Paul – 2008 – Champion of the Consitution
I’am not big into politics, and neither really dem or rep, but just seeking who is the best candiate from whatever party. I’am going to be voting for Ron…
Are you in fear of Credit Cards and Debt?
Well you shouldn’t be! Are you building credit, having a history of credit is very very important if you want to do real estate deals. You…
HURRICANE KATRINA, EVERY SINGLE MONTH
By 2010 the first of the baby boomers are going to retire, 75 million people. We are going to be hitting a large recession my in opionion, alan greenspan…
Have you seen HDR Images Before?
HDR imaging is a process, well I’m not a photographer, but they take different exposures of the same picture and then combine it into one. I saw…
Look at this,
New google map feature, its crazy just check it out found it on my buddy Steve Truong’s Site. click here …
BeaverRent, our Buisness on the Frontpage of the Barometer
http://media.barometer.orst.edu/media/storage/paper854/news/2007/05/30/News/For-Rent.Your.Summer.Guide.To.Corvallis.Housing-2910212.shtml My buddy Marques…
Trip to San Fran, and Massive Personal Development
I split descion went down to San Fran this weekend to visit the grandparents, they are now 91 years old. Orignally from China, and moved to america…
The rich have money — and passion
Just found this article, thought I read it, common theme: Entrepreneurship. Interviews show that only a minority of the nation’s top 1% inherited their…
My New Earth Moving Machine, 1st Deposit and New Company!
So I purchased a new vehicle today, it runs on disel. I heard if you dig far enough into your soil sometimes you can find treasure. Which I…
Photos of my new house!
After 2 years of planting seeds, starting in HS I always knew I wanted to get an investment property asap. When I turned 18 I immediately got a credit…
Leverage and Your Financial Future
If you would like to be someday financially indepedent and never have to wory about financial trouble again, the quicker way to do it is using some form…
Interesting Experiences From This Blog
I’ve started to have some quite intersting experiences from this blog, at one point I was going to take it down. One person decided to go through and read…
Facebook Classifieds
Facebook will be launching a classifieds sooner than later. While working on CorvallisClassifieds.net a year ago, I always consider the thought if…
Today is a GOOD day, what am I talking about, every day is a GOOD day!
Well today is a GOOD day, like yesterday, and the past days. But whats good about today. I like to blog and listen to music, for some reason I keep…
But Wes, you can’t afford it, your going to need to wait!
Buisness is going GREAT! We have 29 properties on BeaverRent.com currently, and in our first 2 days we have had 25 people register for accounts. It…
BeaverRent Buisness Cards
The acutal buisness card is smooth: But Whatcha guys think? Looks Pretty Web 2.0 To Me! —————————— ——————————
Hey What About Your Idea?
So many ideas, so many thoughts, so many opportunities, what to do with them all. All the abundance around the world is amazing, opportunites…
People Calling Me
This has been a good week. I went over to another city to raise some capital for a real estate investment possibility, it came out with an…
My Home Office!
Yeah, I got it super clean. No paperwork, all digitalized! Now lets lets make $10,000 a month out of it!
BrassMedia and Bryan Sims’ WHY
Things are moving, just recently went to several speakers. One including BrassMedia with Bryan Sims, a very dynamic speaker, young entrepeneur…
Full time entrepeneurship.
I’ve been working non-stop this week, and every week and finally we are starting to move on several things. My good friend Marques Alexander has really…
Northwest Real Estate Investment Club
Last Developments: Officially closing on my house on the 30th this month right now, got favorable terms with the seller. They are compensating me for the…
Ack! Oil Tank
Well we did our inspections on yesterday, the house was pretty good except for the oil tank. The oil tank is leaking and it needs to be…
Freedom or Security?
I finished my last couple days at the RISE Conference, an incredible resource for Finance Majors, of course thats not me, but for anyone interested in the…
First day at the RISE Conference | Stocks Vs. Real Estate Investing
Well today was an exciting today at the RISE Conference, there was a ton of spakers. Including some of the ones I enjoyed the most were Peter…
Dayton OH, 3 Buisnesses And Real Estate
at 7am I’m headed off to Dayton, OHIO for the RISE Conference , a congolmerate of 200+ colleges, for the Global Student Investment Forum. Paid mostly by…
OH man! I’m excited
Wow, just talked to my buddy Cody Willner, hes working too. I had just had one of my counter offers accepted for a house. Sreaming good deal, I…
This is the time to make it happen
So the school is shutting down pretty much. Everyone is going to break, some people are going to party, while some of us are going to work. Most…
Blog
Um I haven’t posted in awhile but I’ve been working. Since last post: Made 6 offers on different properties, looking at one in particular in N…
Paying for help is expensive
Ohh, when I already lost enough money this year. In 2006 I was able to generate around $15,000 in gross profits from buisnesses. Although I…
This is why you want to be in Silicon Valley for web companies
My uncle sent me this article, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/11/MNGKKOCBA645.DTL&hw=neo+nomads&sn=001&sc=1000 You…
Blast From The Past – What Happend To Me In HighSchool
This post may be kind of long, and is a reflection on myself and an outlet to share some experiences which has happend to me during high school. But it is…
$114 PASSIVE in 6 days!
Cool, so I was just checking my adsense revenue today for my two engine sites. March is looking like a pretty good month so far with an average daily…
Blast From The Past (Elementary/Middle School)
I was browsing on the internet on my old friends site back from 2000 , I think was around 12 then! Anyways, it was interesting to see the work I did back…
Backup Harddrives
What a joke! Sometimes, I think you’ll agree with me all of this technological stuff is awesome but it just breaks. This is a rant but I purchase a backup…
Whats New
On Friday we shot 2 more videos on the rotary engines for my website. Today, I have been programming for the past 13 hours. It took me 10 hours to…
Bryan Baker Dot Com
I never knew so much about the blogosphere untill my buisness friend I met on YoungEntrepreneur.com , BuisnessProdigy, showed me a blog of an individual…
Hahaha Oops
So I’ve been searching for my little note pad with stuff to fix and stuff to add on my web 2.0 company. I walked into Wells Fargo, made a deposit,…
RISE Conference
Still programming. Oh, I accidently missed a midterm today, lol. Good news however, plan is in effect to travel to Dayton, OH March 28th-31st, for the…
Is it risky to leave school to work on your business?
Alot of people have expressed their opinions to me that leaving school is pretty risky. But is it really? I’ve dropped out of school a year ago, worked on…
Programming
My web host was down yesterday, so I created another Rotary Engine Rebuild Video , read a book on Exit Strageties (Selling Your Business), and created a…
Plan Set Into Action
This was a very interesting visit to my parents this week. We are having alot of family issues, my parents are talking about moving, my home is…
Be Careful Whom You Accept Advice From
We have to be very careful on whom we accept advice from; I’m following in the footsteps of Robert Kiyosaki. He was poor and homeless for 9 months of his…
I’m Done With School - San Fran
I’ve decided I’m going to take my second leave from college, and this time for good. For the past week I have been very passionate about building my…
Ummmm, what happend!
It is 2am, on monday, I have class at 8am! This weekend was incrediblly productive, I had turned off my cell phone and kept communication to strict min.…
$100,000 within 3 months
Well this weekend, I decided to block out almost all communications, and work, start that process of deserving…. I ran a scenario with everyone at the OSU…
2nd Real Estate Property - NO GOOD
Well this friday I made an offer on a three unit, apartment building in N Portland. They were asking $295,000, I made the offer of $295,000 and the…
Great Deals Move Fast & The Secret
Yeah, looks like I was to slow on that 9plex for $505,000.00 that would have been a great deal. Someone made an offer on it and I’m a little late…
5 Lines of CREDIT?!?!
So I was talking to our family Bank of America banker today, Liz Miller who has been treating me very well. Because my parents have a preimer banking…
Sometimes we can network too much!
In the law of diminishing returns, it talks about sometimes the more you do something the less benefit you get. Just like when we eat that pizza,…
63 AGLOCO Signups
Well AGLOCO continues to move, it is starting to take off. Already within a week there is 63 sign-ups, not bad with 7 direct referrals. I believe most of…
My Primary Objective
“What we focus on grows.” I have been unable to focus on my web 2.0 project, and sometimes lately its been almost, a, what shall I say, disapointing idea…
Some Properties Are To Much Trouble
Today was an awesome day, I woke up at around noon, killed a econ 201 test, and then went ahead and did the visual inspection of the property on Kings…
Sometimes I’m feeling overwhelmed
Sometimes after many weeks of putting together transactions, organizations, clubs, mentoring, school, partnerships, events, planning, networking and…
Things are going crazy!
Well I have some positive challenges coming up, busy day for monday. Set date to, appointment to get property inspected Run numbers with mortgage broker…
Why not get paid while you surf – Agloco
Well AllAdvantage is back! For those who don’t know, AllAdvantage was a site that paid you to surf the Internet. Whats more, it paid you when you refer…
Wow – Internet Business and Real Estate
It is extremely difficult to pickup a large programming project when it has been left alone for a month, due to school I have not been focusin on my…
Real Estate Gathering – Week 2
We had an incredible presentation today talking about the real estate process, and equity vs. growth investing. My friend Alexander Neighbors spoke…
An incredible amount of projects, and people to network
This last week has been incredibly exciting, like every week. It is almost getting to the point where there are to many people to network with, on…
Friend’s new online startup venture
Well this is a plug for my friend Adriel who has begun to start his own online empire this week by launching his first two sites. We have been…
Progress On OSU Real Estate Club
Well after a good long break of productive activity, planned events are now finally coming into swing. We’ve had a lot of help from Justin Shanks,…
RebuildingRotaryEngines.com
With the partnership between Pineapple Racing and I, we have been developing “How To Rebuild, Rotary Engine” videos. Putting them on the websites,…
The Most Rewarding Experience
I believe that the most rewarding experience in life is having your name appear in another person’s testimonial. After my mentor Mr. Sean Mikael a very…
The Scorpion and the Frog
Do you know the story of the Scorpion and the Frog? One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change.…
Heres An Idea
Well I’m sure like yourself, as a fellow entrepreneur reading this forum you have had, and have many buisness ideas. Sometimes we can not sleep at…
The Ants Are Busy Working All Season Long
Well I made a mistake, another one! Incredible! I messed up, I thought the kid wanted to a full trade, but it turns out he wants cash in addition to my…
1993 Mazda RX-7 Sales Page Done - Now Posting Fakes
Ok, today I just finished making the sale page for my RX-7, check it out by here: http://rotaryengineillustrated.com/1993RX7/ In all honestly, I probably…
Can I Make An Extra $5,000 – $10,000? Of Course.
Well, after thinking about how much time and money I’ve spent into getting my car ready for sale . It is paying off, I would not normally talk about…
Never Sell A Car Like You Do - Because It Sucks!
Today I’m going to get the interior and the engine bay of my 1993 Mazda RX-7 detailed and afterwards putting it up for sale, around $18,000-$20,000. I’m…
Maximizing Learning – Online Conference
My good friend Stephen Ramil had a good idea to maximize the learning we do from reading books. His idea was to get together and teach eachother the…
Website Progress – Foundation
It is about 5:45AM right now, I woke up at 5:30PM today. Although there have not been to many interesting ideas to post as of today, which I can share at…
Today will be incredibly… productive..
It is 6am right now, yesterday I was so tired after applying my no prcastination technique that I found myself keep doing chores throughout the day…
Free Wealth Building Seminars In Large Cities
I’m greatly interested in setting up large seminars, which would be free to the public teaching others how to generate wealth in various ways. This…
Time Invested Is Worth A Fortune
After moving all of my furniture to a new apartment In corvallis, and celebrating my mother’s birthday today I’m now going to focus 95% of my energy on…
Two Simple Philosophies to Help Take Immediate Action
After reading several books and listening to audio CDs, not only have I learned the philosophies in the book, but I have started to apply them and they…
The Best Investment Possible, Is Investing In Yourself
As I was programming my website today I came across a ton of information about making my site secure. Unfortunately, I did not know how easy it was for…
I’m Excited School & Programming
Today was a good day, I studied for my math, and geology final for tommorow. I should be doing above average on both of those tests and did it fairly…
Only 2 Hours and 10 minutes late to my final exam today!
This morning I will was up till about 6am after working on the book, websites, reading blogs and my book, Six Great ideas. I set the alarm on my…
A Semi-Typical Day In My World
Well I’m finishing this blog at about 6am, it is not uncommon for me to go to bed very late because I’m normally up working on my laptop. With the 24/7…
The Journey of 1 Page A Day, Begins Again, For Good
Several months ago I decided to write a book on the law of association, “How you become the combined average of the five people you associate the most…
To Many Buisness Ideas, No Focus, No Progress
If you are an entrepreneur you have probably came into the challenge of having to much abundance in your life. If you are like me, an individual who wants…
Wow, What Personal Development Can Do
I discovered the blog of this young 18-year old entrepreneur who makes over a million dollars a year with his company off the America’s Best Young…
I Work, While Others Study
Although studying for finals is extremely important in getting good grades in school, I tend to focus my time on creating a business that will provide…
I’am So Happy and Grateful Now That
Here are my goals for the next three years, which I will accomplish. It’s so powerful to have your goals infront of you everyday, it keeps people focused,…
Should I Program Myself?
I’ve been debating whether or not it would be worthwhile to program my new web 2.0 project myself, or have someone else do it for an equity share. I’m…
Why I’ve Created This Blog
To whomever is reading this, I’ve created this blog because I felt that it could provide some useful information to those who were interesting in seeing…
Wow, Blogs Are Incredibly Useful - I Never Knew Till Now
Little did I know that reading other entrepreneurs’ blogs would be so englightening. It is true that you become the combined average of the five people…