The war is about getting your money of course – so that no one else gets it.

I cannot really tell what’s true and what isn’t but if you use common sense and realize how greed and the desire for power (which of course comes from insecurities) are spreading like a disease around the world, then ideas written in the blog post to which I link above do make sense.

Once you read that post, find backlinks to it (using Yahoo.com link: operator) and you’ll find many other blogs and authors sharing their thoughts on this topic.

You’ll have much more information to make up your mind whether to really go after the latest new Internet marketing product out there or whether you can find the key info on how to succeed online from free blogs and forums online.

I’ve been very lucky to have found Thomas when I first started my Internet adventure. He was able to design the header of my Tennismindgame.com website exactly as I have wanted.

He of course designed all other graphics and ebook covers that I needed for my tennis site, including the sales letter Order Now button and the newsletter graphic.

Because I was so impressed with his skills, affordable prices and very quick response time, I stayed his loyal customer and EVERY new site that I started had his trademark cool looking design.

Thomas can design custom website templates (2 columns, 3 columns), ecommerce web templates and he can also modify AJ’s 3 column SBI template which I use on several of my websites.

Once you compare his response time, the price and the beautiful design you’ll get, you’ll feel that you have been ripped off by other website designers if you have used them in the past.

One of the reasons why I am recommending Thomas’ services is because I recently needed a modified ebook cover for my tennis strategy ebook (since I plan selling it in Hungarian language) and Thomas sent me the modified ecovers in the same day as I emailed him.

He impressed me again and I thought I’d return the favor here and of course help you get a great looking website template for your online business.

His professional design and customer service is unmatched in my 5 years of internet marketing and I highly recommend that you contact him through his website or at info@ecoverdesign.com in case you need a new template or any professional graphic design service that you might need for your site.

And if you have already worked with Thomas then please share your experiences below.

I was quite surprised that the Adsense team actually analyzes individual accounts that accurately. I don’t think this was an algorithm that was just checking my site and found 2 ads per page instead of 3.

I received this suggestion only for one of my sites – and that’s the one in a high paying niche with reasonable traffic (around 2000 daily visitors).

And if the Google Adsense team personally contacts you and “strongly suggests” that you do something new for your site, then you better do it.

I added the third ad per page ONLY on 5 T2 pages of that site – just to test it.

Those 5 extra ads increased my earnings of that site by 7%.

I will now ad the third Adsense ad on all T2 pages and see how that affects the earnings of the whole site.

As you probably know, the more ads you have per page, the less the bottom ones pay.

So I think that this approach (3 ads per page) works well only in high paying Adsense niches where there are also lots of advertisers – which means that the payout of the third ad will not be that low.

What are your experiences with the number of Adsense ads per page and have you also received a message from the Optimization team in your Google Adsense account?

And Alex now knows how to do more of the sites like that. And that knowledge is in my experience priceless.

My SBI site is DehydratorBook.com, which reviews food dehydrators and offers recipes.

For the last six months, the site has averaged over $500 a month.  I
built it to learn about online marketing, so any money it generates is
a cool bonus.

1. Did you know what you wanted to write about or did you have to find a niche?

I didn’t know what I wanted to build a site around when I ordered SBI.
Since I wasn’t going to be relying on my SBI site to pay the bills, I
knew I could take my time.  The Action Guide recommended not getting
stuck on an idea too early, and I remembered that.

After reading the guide, which took a weekend because of all the links
and notes, I checked out the forums.  The brainstorming thread you
started was about 20 pages long at the time.

(Last time I checked, it was over 40.  That thread is a must-read for
anyone that can’t decide on a site concept.)

After the forums, I visited your vacuum site.  I think you can see
your influence, as I wound up building a site about food dehydrators.
(I took nearly two months to decide on that.)

You may remember I emailed you for your thoughts on the idea, and you
predicted an average of $500 per month for the site.  That would’ve
been good enough for me, so I moved forward with it.

It also helped that I’ve wanted a dehydrator for a long time and the site (it’s a
business!) was a reasonable excuse to splurge on an Excalibur dehydrator.

2. How did you progress?

It took three months before I had my first 100 unique visitors in a
day.  I didn’t start putting ads up until then.  I started with Amazon
because they carried all the items I was going to write about.  Also,
because they sells so many things, I knew there was a chance I could
get commissions on items that had nothing to do with my site.

I use a little Adsense on a few pages and tested Chitika for a short
time too.  It didn’t make sense to me to be sending traffic to those
advertisers, since I already knew what they’re selling.

I could get cents for the click, but maybe that click to Amazon would’ve earned several dollars.  So on product review pages, I don’t use Adsense, but
I have some pages (like recipes) where I don’t have anything to sell,
so I use it on a few of those.

By December (the site launched in late May), the site was averaging
only 275 uniques/day, but still earned about $650.  January traffic
and commissions dropped (probably a natural thing), and then I slowed
down work on the site because I got bored.

At one point, I took down all Adsense code, because I thought I’d
rather have my traffic to go Amazon.  But I went to the Affiliate
Convention in LA, and keynote speaker Danny Sullivan joked that he
never heard of a site getting penalized for having too much Adsense.
I put it back on a few pages, and while I’m not saying that was the
cause, the effect was those pages’ rankings improved.

For two or three months, I stopped updating the site.  Traffic and
rankings were stable (stagnant), and I didn’t think it had potential
to earn much more.  I moved my site from SBI to another server when it
was time to renew.  The site was fine, but I forgot that it would
break all the C2 pages.

I left things broken for a little while, but when I came back to it, I saw traffic and revenue were improving.  So I felt it was time to fix it up, but it would’ve been too much trouble to rebuild all the forms and submissions.  I moved back to SiteSell.

Now the site gets 600 uniques/day and it looks like this month will
set a new high for income.

3. Can you share a few tips of what really worked well for getting more traffic?

I think getting a guest post on the site wisebread.com was the biggest
break.  That article was syndicated on msn.com, and that’s when I
learned the quality of a link was much more important than quantity.

When evaluating links, one of the best advice I read was to judge it
for its traffic instead of trying to guess its potential SEO benefits.
The idea is that traffic leads to exposure, which can lead to links
(or perhaps, sales).

For SEO, I emailed you for advice on the Yahoo Directory, and you said
it’s worth the fee.  I got that, and then submitted to a few more paid
directories.  They hardly send any traffic, but what I like is they’re
expensive for your competition to copy.

(Yes, I realize it was just the previous paragraph that I suggested
looking at traffic, but I don’t think anyone expects directories to
send much.  With directories, I look at the page my site would be
listed on and consider if I want to be associated with the others that
were accepted.)

4. Your plans for the future? (or anything else you’d like to share!)

I’m surprised the site is still growing, hitting 700 visitors for the
first time yesterday, so I think I’ll be adding more pages and working
on links.  According to Yahoo, I only have a couple hundred backlinks,
and that’s far from safe.  I see a lot of competing sites popping up
(everyone should be using Google Alerts), so that motivates me to keep
going.

I don’t have plans for another SBI site, but I’ve been able to apply a
lot of what I’ve learned in the AG to my other projects.

Thanks again for letting me share my SBI story here. And more thanks
for sharing your success and ideas, both here and on the boards.

1. Why did you decide for Site Build It?

I have a good friend who makes a full-time living from her online business, and when I told her I wanted to start a website she suggested I use SBI.  I knew absolutely nothing about the business or technical end of building a website, and I needed a program that would walk me through the process from start to finish.

At the price of $299, my husband thought my website would be an expensive hobby.  However, within a week of purchasing SBI, I chose a topic, registered my domain name and built my first few pages.

Several months later, I began earning a small monthly check from Google Adsense and recouped my initial investment.  I now earn far more than the annual price of an SBI subscription in monthly Adsense revenue alone!

2. Did you know what you wanted to write about or did you have to find a niche?

I teach my children at home and I knew I wanted to write about homeschooling, so I was relieved to find that the topic fit the criteria SBI recommends.

My topic was barely met the criteria for what SBI recommends in terms of supply/competitiveness so I have had to work hard to make sure I have a high-quality site that stands out from the competition.

However, the good thing about my niche is that demand is also high, and there are many individuals looking for the information I provide.  There are also many different ways to earn income in my niche.

3. How did you progress?

I built my site very rapidly, and after 2 years with SBI, I have over 300 content pages.  Because I am in a competitive niche, it has taken me much longer than I expected to reach my traffic goals.

I have taken several breaks from active work on my site – 3 months last summer while I was pregnant and 6 months this year after my 4th child was born.  Despite these breaks, my website continued to grow and even doubled in traffic and income.

This year, on a typical day, I have between 800 and 1,000 daily visitors.

4. Can you share a few tips of what really worked well for getting more traffic?

After building around 100 content pages, I submitted my site to directories, built Hub and Squidoo lenses, answered questions on Yahoo Answers, promoted my site on forums, and wrote 40 ezine articles.  However, because my niche is so competitive, I’ve found that I have to think outside of the box in order to distinguish myself from other websites and draw traffic to my website.

I host an annual contest that has generated over 1000 C2 pages for my website.  In addition to building keyword rich pages that draw search engine traffic, the contest also exposes my site to new visitors and potential advertisers.

Another project that has generated traffic and backlinks for my site is my free e-book about choosing a homeschool curriculum.

A large portion of this e-book consists of interviews with prominent homeschooling experts who linked to the e-book; thus creating high-quality links to my website.  I also e-mailed the book to several webmasters who made the book available to their visitors and newsletter subscribers.

My next phase of promotion will focus on social networking.  I have a blog with a page rank of 3 and a Facebook fan page with over 1,000 fans.  I recently began creating videos and my YouTube channel has over 60 subscribers.

5. Your plans for the future? (or anything else you’d like to share!)

Within the next year and a half, I’d like to convert my site to a three column, CSS format and explore monetization options beyond Google Adsense.  I plan to add additional affiliates, sell advertising space and create an e-product.  Once this website is mostly on autopilot, I plan to start a second site – also with SBI!

My advice to anyone pursuing financial freedom through online marketing is:
Use SBI.
Think long-term.
Be creative.
Don’t be afraid to experiment.
Have fun!

If you are not aware of the importance of links yet, then check this post on what it takes to get more traffic.

The obvious question that comes after is, “How do I get links?”

I would rephrase this and ask, “What are the most effective links and most effective ways of getting them?”

Here we have links that in my opinion are NOT effective: links from Yahoo Answers, blog comments, forum posts, Squidoo, Hubpages, Answerbag, Yedda, submitting to hundreds of directories (total waste!!!) and most of other Web 2.0 links.

SO what are the most effective links (that once you get them the rankings and consequently traffic of your site will go up significantly)?

These are links from high page rank pages of quality related sites.

That is it. This will give you the most bangs for your buck – or the most link juice for the effort you put in.

These links will be the 80/20 that will be driving the rankings of your site.

The system you’re about to see is what I did for all of my sites that do well. Like I said in the title of this article, this system is boring and takes a lot of time. These links are typically hard to get and it takes time and perseverance to get them.

But once you do, your rankings improve significantly and so does your traffic.

You can basically laugh at those people doing blog commenting and answering Yahoo Answers (both no-follow) who have taken the easy route and hope for a miracle.

If it was that easy to get quality links, one could outsource comments and answers to freelancers and in a few months your site would have thousands of links and you would be on top of rankings without any hard work.

It is impossible.

Everyone would do that. So Google must have tougher rules and algorithms to determine whether your site deserves top spots.

The key rule here is that your site must have high PR links from quality related sites (many of them).

The Boring Link Building System That Works

What I have done for all of my sites that are doing well is I researched other sites in my niche, looked at where they got links from and tried to get them for myself from the same places.

I also tried to get links from the sites in my niche that ranked well.

There. That is what I have done and that is why sites rank well. There is your magic secret to success online.

Except that it is tedious, boring and frustrating to get links that way. It’s much easier to answer a question on Yahoo Answers, comment on a crappy blog-post and then feel good pretending that you actually built some links today.

If you did not build one PR1+ link at all – then nothing significant will happen to your rankings. You are just avoiding the real hard work that gets results.

But back to finding links that actually work…

Here is a system you can follow infinitely long and you will never run out of ways of finding quality links:

1. For every keyword that you add an article to your site, do a Google search.

2. Check top 10 (or 20 if you are really a hard working person and you are determined 100% that you really want to become financially free) sites for that keyword and see if they exchange links or whether they accept articles from other sites or whether they link out to other sites from within their content.

If they do, contact them and start negotiating. Suggest a link exchange or submitting an article with a link back or something else that might get you a link.

3. The MOST IMPORTANT next step: Do a link analysis in Yahoo.com (by typing link: www.domain.com) and see where that site got their back links. (Of course, do that for all top 10 (20) sites in Google that show up for your keyword search)

4. Try to get links from the same places! If those other sites were willing to link out to your competitor’s site, then they might link out to your site too.

5. And where did those other sites that link to your competitors get links from? Do a link analysis for them and see where they got links from! Go to #4 and repeat #4 and #5 as long as you want.

6. Once you get really tired doing that or better, get a few PR1+ links, start with #1 again. Every time you build a page for a certain keyword, start the process of getting links that work with #1.

That is all.

That is the process of building links that significantly affect your rankings and traffic – in a positive way of course.

The other links: Yahoo Answers, Answerbag, forum posts and other Web 2.0 links HAPPEN automatically exactly in the way they are supposed to happen!

Some of the gazillion people that browse the Internet and use those sites will come across your site and mention it because it provides quality content. That is how those links are supposed to happen – and not by you adding them there.

These links help perhaps 0.5% with your rankings and I certainly will not waste my time building them. They will happen eventually because other people will build them for you.

You need to realize three things while you are doing this:

1. You may contact 10 sites and only 1 will reply. If you get a PR1+ link, it is worth it, trust me. You will never run out of sites because you can simply run the #4 and #5 indefinitely.

2. If you are just starting out and your site has a page rank of 0, then it is going to be tough to get links from high PR sites. A PR1 site is more likely to give you a link than a PR5. You might also get lucky and that PR5 link can change your life.

So go with your gut or just simply keep trying. I know that I got a few lucky links like that and that got me PR3 from a PR0 in a few months. Once I had PR3 it was much easier to negotiate a better link exchange. Other sites started to contact me for link exchanges and I had many more options.

3. You will be doing this hard work ONLY ONCE per site. I typically worked hard for links for about 6-12 months per site. Once you establish your site high in the rankings, you will start getting organic links.

These are links when other sites just link to you because they feel you as an authority on a certain topic. To become an authority and occupy top rankings, however you will have to do the hard work.

Once you get there, you get the unfair advantage – you get one-way organic links and solidify your rankings on top. Remember the saying, “The rich get richer.”

That is how it is with top sites – they have tons of links and they just keep getting them automatically. Get to that place.

Keep that goal in mind while you get no answers from 10 emails you sent. Keep trying and looking for ways to get quality links to your site because once you do, the work stops.

You are showing on top of rankings for your main keywords and the traffic and income keep rolling in without you doing anything.

The system you see above is the real key to getting links. If you believe you have found another system where you can “easily” get links, it will not work, trust me.

The only system that gets real outstanding results is the system that takes a lot of work.

That is how Google (and life) weed out losers from winners.

It is like that in all areas of life and it is the same with your online business.

What usually needs to happen is for you to get lucky at some point, get a PR4+ link and see how your traffic almost doubles just because of that. That will hopefully wake you up and motivate you to keep doing the tedious work of building links that work.

And if you keep in mind the outcome you’re looking for, then working on these links will not really be boring. It will be exciting and for every link you will get you will feel that you are one step closer to freedom.

The company has taken a different approach (it does not really matter what they are up to) and that results in much lower income for most publishers.

For example, I earn around 60-70% from what I used to.

After this change I got a few e-mails from people asking me what had happened and there were lots of complaints. I found a bunch of negative forum and blog posts about Chitika and how it “sucks” now.

The underlying message of all these messages was that Chitika is responsible for poor income and emotional state of these publishers.

In other words, “It is Chitika’s fault that I do not earn enough and I do not feel well.”

From my perspective that is not taking full responsibility for your life.

It is placing the responsibility of our income and well being into the hands of someone else.

Since I do not have control of that someone else it is very likely that person or company will do something that I might not like. They have to take care of themselves much more as for me obviously.

If you take full responsibility for your income and your life, then your goal is to have multiple sources of income and so that you are not affected as much when one or more of your business partners stop generating that much revenue.

So what if my Chitika earnings have dropped by 30 or 40%? I can rely on other sources of income because I have worked hard to get my online business to a point where all this does not matter much.

You need to be prepared especially if you are planning to quit your job and rely purely on your online business to fund everything.

Here is a plan which worked for me and motivated me to keep working hard even when I had enough to live from:

1. Calculate the average monthly expenses you need to live your preferred lifestyle.

If you want to travel and spend some time in Southeast Asia or visit Chicago because of a seminar you want to attend, add those expenses into your yearly budget and see how much you need per month on average.

2. DOUBLE the amount and work hard to reach it.

Why double? In my opinion this gives you the safety margin you need if one of your main income streams dries up.

You are earning less but if you have a healthy and sane relationship with the money, then you do not really care that much – you are still earning enough and you are still free.

Of course, if your self-esteem is tied up with how much you earn and you have made the wrongful connection that making more money makes you more worthy, then you will be very sensitive to any fluctuations of your income and you will basically be a slave for money.

3. Once you have reached the double income needed for your preferred lifestyle, just keep updating your sites and stay in touch with the latest happenings on the Internet.

There will  always be new ways of getting traffic and new ways of monetizing your sites and if you want to be successful in what you do, you need to keep in touch. Think really carefully why you would want to build more sites and earn even more money.

Do you really NEED that much? Is there some deep emotional need or wound that is being somehow fixed (only in short term) by earning more money? If it is, you will never fix it that way. You will need to address it in a different way and heal the cause.

4. Focus on your passion and your calling in life – but keep your other businesses alive.

Work on yourself and deal with stuff that is not where you would like it to be.

It is very dangerous and tempting to spend the whole day behind the computer and by being a workaholic avoiding the things we need to face in order to grow.

Take a few minutes and think whether you really need to spend so many hours behind you computer or whether you are just avoiding something uncomfortable that needs to be dealt with by convincing yourself that you need to build more sites and find the latest trick to get more links.

If you follow your path and passion in life, you will automatically generate more income because you will be providing more value to people. Certainly we need to find ways of doing well financially since we live on planet Earth where everything has to be paid – and I found that to be one of the greatest challenges in life.

How do I earn really well and become financially free by doing what I love? In my case, it is not exactly ALL my passion. I am earning money from some niches that are not really my passion but I treat them as a separate business that enables one of my other passions to thrive – the freedom of doing what I like and the freedom of exploring this world.

I do not neglect those businesses because they are crucial to my lifestyle and my freedom. I do not see world as a perfect place where I can do everything I want all the time and be ecstatic every second of being awake.

The reality is much more complex and sometimes I need to spend a few hours per day doing not very exciting things – like doing keyword research and looking for quality links and publishing articles on my sites that do not interest me that much.

But because I had experienced some of that “boring” feeling and I had experienced working hard, I appreciate much more the times that I have  when I am free and when I travel around.

One of the reasons why rich spoiled celebrities get so depressed many times is exactly the lack of hard work and the lack of fulfillment. If you are living such an amazing life ALL the time, you stop appreciating it.

Instead of seeing how great it is to be free and travel around the world, you find it boring and not really special. And unfortunately the only thing that really stimulates your mind even more are all sorts of addictions – which in the long term hurt you even more.

So the key of making yourself and your business invulnerable to all the fluctuations of income is to focus on an least doubling your preferred monthly income.

I suggest that you really set that income in your mind (write it down!) as you will be much more focused on reaching that instead of just “wanting more money”. “More money” is not a specific thing and your mind does not focus like a laser on goals like that.

My personal goal a few years ago was to earn at least $2500 per month to be free and the double of that was $5000. Having such a clear goal in mind helped me reach that goal in about two years of hard work.

Taking full responsibility for my income and my life has helped me to become invulnerable to such things as Chitika changing their approach or anything else that might happen in the future.

Hope this article gives you food for thought and helps you become personally and financially free sooner that you thought possible.

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Hi Tomaz,

I know you always stress in the forums how important getting back links is. I’m just starting up serious link campains for my 2 year old site and also my 5 month old sites and I wanted your experience and advice on something.

I always tend to link to the home page when I do (what little I’ve done) link building but I imagine getting a nice range of deep links would be even more beneficial. If you had to allocate 100% of your inbound links to all 3 tiers of your site how you would do it?

Homepage 50-60%
Tier 2 – 20-30%
Tier 3 – 10-20%

…or does it not even matter? Can we just vary the link text, link everything back to the home page only and still get good results?

Thank you for any insight you can offer.

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I typically build links to homepage first. Since I optimize my homepage for at least 3 different keywords, I try to get links to it with those keywords in link text.

Once I start ranking well (let’s say even in top 20), I alternate between building links to homepage and to T2 pages.

I typically continue to do that and focus then on those T2 pages that still don’t rank that well.

I don’t look at some predetermined percentage, I look at the results.

If my homepage ranks in top 3 for my main keywords, then I don’t need to build links to it anymore.

If I get a chance for a very strong link from an established site I would still probably try and get it to the homepage – just to strengthen the whole site.

But generally I would look at my T2 pages and build links to those which still don’t rank well. I rarely build links to T3 except if those T3 keywords have really good demand (around 1000 based on SBI MKL) and it’s actually worth getting that page higher in the rankings.

So in summary – I don’t have a system of percentages but I build links based on what needs to be done.

If the page (usually T2) doesn’t rank well, I try to get links to it. I still look to get links to the homepage too here and there…

But I was also planning to visit Chicago for some personal reasons – there are some personal development seminars that I will attend.

So if there’s anyone from Chicago that wants to pick my brain while they show me around, I’d be happy to do that.

Email me at tomaz at freedomideas.com or contact me through +38641923766. I’ll get a US prepaid phone once I get there…

I am arriving tomorrow on 10th and departing on 21st of June…

This is also another example of the freedom you can achieve with a home based online business. If you decide that you want to go somewhere at any point of time, you can actually do that.

You don’t need to take a holiday or get a permission from your boss. You also don’t worry about the price of that journey – I’ll actually earn more in these 11 days in Chicago than it will cost me for the whole trip – and that includes flying business class.

I hope that motivates you to keep your goal in mind and keep building your online businesses.

Will update this post with some pictures of my travels in Chicago…

Update: Chicago proved to be one of those typical American cities with huge skyscrapers, huge streets and huge portions of food.

Very friendly people too!

Airbus A340-600 from Lufthansa was very comfy

It gets cooler by the river

Fish & Chips - I can eat only half of that. Here's where US obesity begins...

Chicago a windy city? Looks more like cloudy city...

Simple American lunch. Now that's the right size.

Great view for a relaxing afternoon

Cool reflecting sculpture in the park

T-Rex Sue and me

Scary reality

There are so many negative beliefs around money that cause us to self-sabotage our progress and keep us stuck at the same monthly income for years.

While just changing beliefs can’t just magically manifest money in your lap, it’s crucial to have positive attitude towards money if we want to have a great income and be financially free.

Here’s what Amy from The Leaping Lamp asked me about the money mindset and what I shared:

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Dear Tomaz:

1. What are your level of skills regarding SEO and making a high traffic website? Would you consider yourself an expert?

I think I am an expert although I think SEO in these days is very simple.

This is like 95% of the stuff that I do.

2. How do you perceive money differently before you became financially free vs. today? For example, What was expensive to you before, but today you consider to be a great deal? Does the word /expensive /mean something different to you today?

I read lots of books on money before. Think and Grow Rich, Rich Dad Poor Dad and similar. I simultaneously changed my goals related to money as I was earning more online.

I decided at some point that I want to earn 1 million dollars. Not because of the amount but because of what it takes to get there. I am not there yet but I am still aware of that goal that I “installed” in my brain at some point.

Of course, when you earn much more, then stuff is not that expensive. Although I realize that there are some people who are obsessively frugal even though they have millions.

I am not like that. I don’t mind paying $2500 for business class flight to Bangkok. In fact, I enjoy it.

3. What is one of the biggest changes in attitudes you’ve had about money since it has flowed abundantly into your life?

I enjoy paying for stuff. When I get my monthly bills, I enjoy paying for them.

I read somewhere: “I pay this bill effortlessly.” Start with that mindset every time you pay a bill and eventually you will pay effortlessly.

Before I felt that people with lots of money couldn’t be 100% good. I felt slight resistance towards lots of money.

Now I don’t. I like it. I am not bound by money and it doesn’t define me – but I simply like it.

I keep a detailed record of my online earnings since the first month when I started to earn online. That was in February 2006.

I can see for every month since then how much I have earned and with which program (Adsense, Amazon, Chitika, Clickbank). This signals to the mind that these numbers are important and that I enjoy when they grow.

I also am not greedy. I never felt greedy wanting much more money. I was always very very happy when I earned more than previous month.

I am very grateful to my own talents (intelligence, perseverance, good concentration) and people who showed me the way – Ken Evoy, Andy Williams and others.

I do set some interesting goals when it comes to money – like I want to earn a minimum salary (of Slovenia) – per day. But again – it’s just an exciting goal and not really that I want that money so much.

What I am going to do with it?

So I think I have a healthy and exciting attitude towards money and that probably attracts it into my life too.

4. How has your thought process changed over these years of your business success? Do you brainstorm good, profitable ideas more often?

It has simplified. I used to complicate more, now I focus on what works and don’t waste time on other stuff.

I don’t brainstorm much – I just grow the sites that I have. It’s more than enough – I don’t need more sites or more money.

I am focusing on my coaching career in tennis in the near and distant future.

5. How much money do you comfortably carry with you on your person? ( I ask this because I’ve heard that people with larger bank accounts carry more cash with them and I should carry more cash with me, too. Get out of my comfort zone a little bit and mimic those who have more wealth)

Very different. Typically around 100 euros. But I may have an empty wallet too and that doesn’t feel uncomfortable either.

But at some point I learned to have a very organized wallet. High notes at the back and lower notes in front. It signals to the mind that you respect money.

Some additional thoughts I think are important:

Money is just metal and paper. It doesn’t mean anything.

What’s important is to feel confident about money making skills and feel confident about entrepreneurial success regardless of the situation – whether I have something in my pocket or in my bank or not.

That inner calm and confidence is what works in the long term and not the outside results – how much I have in the bank.

With that inner confidence you feel calm in any situation. People who focus on the results and the amounts they see in their bank accounts are dependent on those amounts.

When the amount goes down, they feel very bad. They are slaves to the money.

I am not. If I lose everything today, I know I can build websites that bring lots of traffic which will transform into passive income.

So in summary, one should focus more on the inner game:

• not having negative beliefs about money
• enjoying any extra money regardless of the amount (not being greedy but being grateful)
• and developing good skills in creating successful websites that give you confidence and inner calm regardless of the state of your bank account

The other part of entrepreneurial success of course lies in taking action, being productive and keeping your goals in your mind.