Posted on September 27, 2011 by Eric
Coffee is wonderful.
It’s hot on a cold morning.
It wakes you up a bit.
It smells like pure awesome.
It’s difficult to make it right, but it’s worth the effort.
I started my love for good coffee only about a year ago. I have drank coffee for most of my adult life, but it wasn’t until I had really great coffee that I was able to tell the difference… and was never able to go back.
I mean, I’ll drink shit coffee. You know those bags of coffee you get in hotel rooms and it takes 1 minute for the $20 machine to make? That’s pretty bad coffee.
But I’ll drink it.
I guess it’s kinda like sex. Even bad sex is good… but great sex is better.
Now that fall is here though I’ve come to miss my Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks.
But instead of caving in and going for a terrible espresso drink from the ‘bucks I decided to make my own.
I actually wrote about it on my new cooking blog here.
So welcome back pumpkin spice latte! I missed you.
Posted on September 27, 2011 by Eric
I don’t even know… and I’m Eric!
I’d say that this site has gone through a number of incarnations over the years but nothing has really stuck.
Why? Well I guess because I’ve always tried to make the site something that I’m not really interested in.
I’ve tried to get an audience that I don’t really care to speak to.
And finally I’ve tried to write about things that I don’t really care about.
So here it is… the new Eric’s Estimate. The final Eric’s Estimate. The REAL Eric’s Estimate.
So what are my thoughts?
- Affiliate marketing is awesome (but most people do it the wrong way)
- Coffee is one of the greatest things in the universe (but most people do it the wrong way)
- Copywriting is something I want to learn more about (because I do it the wrong way)
- Split testing for some reason makes me all warm and fuzzy inside (but most people do it the wrong way)
- I love to create websites… new ones… interesting ones… not boring it’s all the same ones.
- I like talking about the brain… in fact, I love the fact that my brain is the one talking about my brain.
- I love wine… pretty much all kinds… except the shyte kind.
- I like flowers… and even though I am a man I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.
- I like to dress well and eat well
- I feel that cooking is something like dancing, everyone should learn how but still do it in their own way
- I’m trying twitter again.
That’s it for now. Leave me a comment… or don’t. It’s up to you.
Posted on January 21, 2011 by Eric
Hey all,
I know it’s been a while, but I wanted to drop a quick note about hosting plans and what I’ve found to be the best ones.
First up, I love hostgator. I host everything I have with them, and in fact it’s the first hosting company that I recommend whenever I need to setup a friend with a website.
Hosting these days is pretty cheap as it is, but you can actually find a bunch of hostgator coupons around the web. The best site that I’ve found with hosting coupons is http://www.ahostgatorcoupon.net. There are always updated coupons and I’ve never run into a coupon that didn’t work.
Go check ‘em out and let me know in the comments below how you make out.
Cheers!
Posted on May 10, 2010 by Eric
Back towards the end of December 2009 I wrote an article on how to get paid by google.
Basically, it was an article about how to quickly get the extra cash out of your Google Adsense account and I wanted to give an update on how everything went.
I ended up not putting in as much effort as I would have liked, but I built out one of my domains to the point of getting no. 1 in Yahoo for a specific keyword.
This keyword doesn’t bring in a ton of traffic, but it does net the site somewhere around 20 bucks per month through adsense revenue now.
The site that I used was not this one, nor have I made any significant adsense revenue from this site.
What was my goal?
The original goal was to hit the 100 mark (I was about 40 bucks short) by the end of January 2010. That gave me 44 days and it ended up being a bit too ambitious for how much effort I was willing to put in.
How did I do?
Well, at the end of January 2010 I had somewhere around $79 in my account.
At the end of February I almost hit the mark at around 96 bucks, and in March I finally hit the mark in adsense revenue giving me my first Google cheque!
How much work was it?
Well, to be honest it was a breeze. I grabbed a 6 pack of beer and dumped a ton of content onto the website in about 4 hours and that was it. In about 2 weeks I had ranked for some keywords and started getting the traffic.
I used wordpress to post the articles over a period of time. So in other words the site posts a new article every day without me having to do anything! In fact, from those 4 hours of work I STILL have articles being posted once a day on that site.
I think that the revenue will continue to grow slowly. This site will definitely not be a money maker, but it’s good enough to bring in around 240 bucks a year… and that’s like 12 cases of beer that I can drink to make 12 more sites!
Posted on May 5, 2010 by Eric
Drink up my friends!
Grab a beer or a margarita and toast Cinco De Mayo!
I don’t want to write a long post because I have to go drink beer, but check out more info here.
Be safe, and party hard!
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