Guthrie Castle History:

The ancient seat of Clan Guthrie, the castle was built in 1468 by Sir David Guthrie, Lord Treasurer and Armour Bearer to King James III. The historic keep, which was added to over the centuries, remained in the hands of the Guthrie family until it was sold to a property developer in the 1983, following the death of the last male chieftain, Colonel Ivan Guthrie of that Ilk.

The 55 room estate sits on 156 acres was purchased by American businessman Daniel S. Peña Sr back in 1984 where he lived in the castle for 19 years. He spent millions of dollars restoring the estate and opened it in 2003 to corporate events, birthday parties and group functions. It now has an 18 hole public golf course that he built as well. src

Why do I want to buy the Guthrie Castle?

Well, besides the obvious fact that owning a castle would be beyond awesome it would be even more awesome to own a castle that my great great great great etc. family lived in. I'd also like to reclaim the Guthrie castle for my fellow Guthrie's. The castle was owned by the Guthrie family for over 500 years until they lost control just 26 years ago and I would love to reclaim it. I would buy the property to run it like a real estate investment property like Daniel is now except every day at noon I'd ride out on a horse in full knight armor chanting things like Sto Pro Veritate (the Guthrie clan member crest) which means "I stand for truth." Again, I wouldn't buy the castle just to live in it with my family, instead I'd prefer to keep it open to the public like it is now. Obviously the goal would be to make enough money from group activities, weddings, birthday parties etc. to pay for the taxes and upkeep as well.

My 20 Year Plan To Buy:

I can't seem to find any records about how much he paid for the castle; however, I do know that Daniel has written numerous books so perhaps he mentions it in one of those books. I'm still doing some more research to figure out how much the castle would cost me; however, I know that in 20 years the current owner will be 85 and that could be the perfect time to sell the castle and who better to than a Guthrie? Needless to say I need to earn a significant amount of money to purchase a castle in 20 years which means I really need to think much bigger than I currently am. The only way I can earn the millions of dollars I'd need to buy the castle is to focus on building businesses that truly scale. The current business model I've been using can earn me a nice solid income to live on, but not enough to buy a castle. In either case, I have plenty of time to accomplish this goal and truly believe it's possible.

My first mini goal is to make my first $1MM which I will do before I'm 30. Then sometime after I've earned enough money to even come close to buying Guthrie Castle (many millions of dollars more), I will try and meet Daniel Peña to discuss my intention to buy his castle. My ultimate goal would be to keep it within the Guthrie family, but an alternative (although still attractive option) would be to pool money with other wealthy Guthrie's to buy the property together. I don't even want to guess at how many millions it would cost because I know he spent millions renovating it, I do know the Nicholas Cage sold one of his castles for only £3.5 million.

How cool would it to be to own a castle? Let alone one that your family from hundreds of years ago used to own? Yes - no need to answer because I already know - it would be awesome.

Think I'm ridiculous? I probably am, but let me know what you think in the comments below

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Side note: I just checked the ClickBank marketplace for my product and it's actually on page one for popularity at spot #4 out of 120 products! Sweet

Upcoming: I'm changing gears and won't discuss my product for a change (Yah, I know some of you may have been annoyed by my emails and blog posts, but what can I say? I think it's great ). In any case I will be sharing a post that some people will call me insane for trying to accomplish, but it's a new goal that I've had in the back of my head for a few years but I wanted to share it publicly both so you can laugh at me (many will) and also to tell me what you think.

40 billionaires pledge to give away half of wealth
There's a chance you read this one before as well, but I thought this was worth showing. Instead of passing on all of their wealth to children that didn't do anything other than be a member of "the lucky sperm club" - as Michael Bloomberg put it - dozens of the world's billionaires have agreed to donate at least half of their wealth. This is a pledge that each person has taken, and although they are under no contractual obligation to give the money it is something all pledge takers plan to do. Noticeably absent: Sergei Brin and Larry Page (co-founders of Google) and any of the Walton heirs (Walmart) - just another reason to hate Google and Walmart I suppose (kidding of course, except for Walmart).

Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech
This post is well worth the read and highlights just some of the numerous problems in the public school system. Here are my favorite quotes from the article: "School is not all that it can be. Right now, it is a place for most people to determine that their goal is to get out as soon as possible." and "I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I'm scared." This is why I'm glad I finally figured out that my purpose in college wasn't to spend all hours of the day studying to get good grades and get a good job. In fact, I never once was asked for my grade point average in an interview and the only thing I wish I could do differently was to spend even less time studying. I played so much Halo 2 in college and I loved it (I got my first D the quarter Halo 2 came out for the Xbox) and in the end Halo 2 is what lead me down the path to the online business I run today not the marketing degree I got for my efforts (see my about page).

The Oatmeal: How to Get 5 Million People to Read Your Website
Quick video from Matthew Inman speaking at a conference here in Seattle. He's the guy that runs The Oatmeal and makes me laugh every day. My favorite so far is a new one and I've linked to it at the bottom of this article - be sure to check it out.

Would you Travel 1,846 Miles for this Man?
This one's from Annabel Candy and it's a post about her experience traveling to meet Darren Rowse at the local meetup they had in Australia earlier this month. You can call me an ignorant American but I never knew Australia was so huge. That distance is nearly as far as driving from Seattle, WA to Chicago, IL (to put things into perspective for my fellow ignorant American's).

5 Ways A Marketer Can Hurt Their Reputation
This is a good one from David Risley. These are all things I was conscious about avoiding during my own product launch of Niche Profit Course last month. (Yes I did have an exit pop but not to a cheaper offer - instead it was just for my free eBook). In either case if you're considering creating your own product this is a good post to read.

3 Steps To Promote Clickbank Products with Your Blog
This was a guest post from Jonathan Volk and a pretty good one indeed. It lists out 3 potential problems with selling products on Clickbank and then offers solutions. I really should have taken the advice on problem 1: "People buy through their own affiliate link" I didn't even have an affiliate program set up (technically) but because it was on Clickbank a ton of people purchased through their own affiliate link (almost 20%!)

Finally, there were two great posts on F@*! You Money:

No, You CAN’T retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
Just pocketed $4MM from your recent internet start up sale? Congrats, but that's still not enough to live on for the rest of your life according to Tony's calculations - or is it?
How to retire at 30 on $1 million
Ryan Waggoner has a different point of view and in either case both of these articles were great reads and well worth checking out.

Why working at home is both awesome and horrible (comic)
Last but not least, this is exactly how I feel when I'm sitting in my office all day. When I go out of the house to drive my car it literally doesn't feel right because I do it so infrequently. There are even times when I'll go out to eat with my wife on Friday and realize I haven't left the office all week! If you live in Seattle and want to meet up feel free to drop me a line. I apologize in advance if I show up unshaven, poorly dressed and unable to form sentences during our conversation.

What did you read in August that was particularly useful? Share it in the comments below.

Coming Up:

I have contemplated stopping my income reports because I'm starting to wonder how much benefit they provide and I also wonder about how wise it is to just openly share my income. Do you think they're worth it? Would you like me to continue? I still believe I can meet my goal of $150k in 2010 although I know it's still going to be a tough road ahead.

This month I'm going to try a new challenge to write 30 guest posts in 30 days as I really want to continue marketing myself and my blog elsewhere around the interwebs. Want me to guest post on your blog? Contact me here.

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Upcoming: In the coming weeks things will be getting back to normal around here. I still have a few more posts planned related to Niche Profit Course, but after that I'm excited to share some details about new projects I'm working on. I also have another product that I'm putting together and plan to launch later this month; however, this product is in a niche entirely different than online business. I can't share any more details about it yet.

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Full Niche Profit Course:

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Niche Profit Course Outline

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Module 5: How To Make Money
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Module 8: Live Authority Site Case Study
Module 9: More Live Website Case Studies
Module 10: Niche Profit Course Wrap Up
Bonus Module: Outsourcing
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The free eBook provides a ton of great information, but in the paid course I've put together 13 training modules covering every aspect of my business model in painstaking detail with some videos over 30 minutes in each section (including live case studies of some income generating websites for you to check out). I'm also including the WordPress theme that I use on my niche income generating blogs that I've paid about $2,000 to develop over it's various modifications and alterations completely free with the price of the course.

More details to come very soon. I'll be very happy to have my life back when all this launches, since I've been working non stop on everything related to this course for about three weeks!

Income Graph:

Income Analysis:

In the spirit of brevity I've decided to change up the way I run my income reports and instead of going through every single source and writing about it I will just explain the income as a whole in a single section here:

My biggest earner of the month was the Amazon Associates program with $3,730.26 which took up 84% of my total income. I'm down about $1,000 from last month's Amazon earnings, but I'm not too concerned as July is the traditionally the worst month in the website industry because it's the heart of Summer. Companies rarely release new products during July and there isn't as much to talk about. August is always better as near the end of the month back to school shopping is in full swing and I'm prepared to earn money during those sales. I have numerous people email me every day asking for more details on how I earn money with Amazon's Associates program and because of the requests I am releasing a free eBook in just a few days which outlines a lot of information that you can use to make money with Amazon. The only way to get the eBook is to (subscribe to my free newsletter). You can also get a few tips by reading these articles: Top 7 tips and 5 Worst Ways.

All other income sources are down along with Amazon this month due to the summer slow down, but things will really start going great as we move into the fall.

Plans for Next Month:

In addition to the free eBook sharing how to make money with Amazon.com I'm releasing a paid course that dives into much greater detail on how I make money with Amazon.com. The price is not announced yet, but I will be using ClickBank as the way to sell it. That means, if you're interested in being an affiliate simply sign up for Clickbank (if you don't already have an account) and then I've set up an affiliates newsletter which will include the details as to when you can start promoting it and other details etc.

I believe the course I'm putting together will be very good and should sell very well based off the initial feedback I've had on my the free eBook I've been putting together. I also think that fact that I actually make legit money from Amazon.com differentiates me from the other people selling similar products / make money online products in general. I'll show a live video of me logging into my Amazon affiliate account just to prove to the naysayers that I'm legit as well.

Stick Around:

My iPhone application should be finished before the end of the month and I'll be documenting that process and how well it sells which should make for an interesting case study this month. As I mentioned before I'm also releasing my free eBook on how to make money with Amazon.com.

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