Now you might be thinking to yourself, whats a parallel VPS (Virtual Private Server)? OMG its the best thing ever.
Here are just a few things you can do with a parallel VPS?
- Run resource intensive programs 24 hours a day on a superfast internet connection anywhere in the world without disrupting or taking over your home computer
- Record webinars with 99% accuracy and reliability without worrying about internet connection dropouts
- Privacy, super important for creating multiple accounts with google, ebay, other affiliate programs you may have been *cough* banned *cough* from without them linking and thus disabling (badly) for repeat offending
Now let me explain what a parallel vps is exactly.
Basically its a completely seperate computer somewhere in the world (mainly US) that you can remote control from anywhere in the world and have it act as a completely seperate windows box for you. The best part is that if your using windows you already have the software installed on your computer, search for “remote desktop connection” on Windows 7
Why I think this is the greatest thing since sliced bread is that I was able to take a very mundane task that was reliant on me having a strong solid internet connection (that I routinely forgot to do) and combining with macros to have this task completed for me without fail everyday with or without me resulting in an instant $150/day+ increase in my business.
In the past I have literally setup new computers to do the kinds of things these servers can do and let me tell you it was not easy or fast for that matter.
You can also use VPS as a kinda dedicated host for any resource intensive websites that you may have or any that you care about having an increased uptime.
How do you get one?
Thats the best part, they are super cheap considering what they can be used for. My favorite right now is VPSLand who can get windows 2003 servers for as little as $18/month and you can do anything you want on a win2003 server, win 2008 is not needed.
Now there are a few tips I can give you for getting setup with VPSLand first being that they are used to getting applications from spammer and bad people so your application has to be flawless. It took me three attempts and over a week to get my first one. Make sure that your internet connection and your address on your application are the same, perhaps use proxies to make this easier. If you login from Vietnam and say you live in Australia it will be rejected (ask me how I know). Also pay with paypal and you will avoid any credit card issues as I did.
Let me know with a comment how you can use parallel vps to help automate your life
What do I think of Trey Smith’s new PPV/CPV course called Penny Traffic? Not much.
This course is for the uber newbie and if you have never seen the inside of a CPA network or TrafficVance (the super secret source of penny traffic) then you will get something out of this.
However if you have never seen the two used together successfully then you might actually be inspired to go on and make a business out of it. But be warned, PPV is no easy battlefield and uses a completely different way of serving ads to the customer than PPC and banners anthough they do have some similarity.
What disappointed me most about this course is the lack of reference to free tools available on the web right now.
Anyway we will be coming out with a much better PPV course sometime soon so stay tuned and we will show you how to make a real profit with PPV.
It’s Me,
Mike McMahon
There has been a lot of talk of the merger between YSM and Adcenter so here are my thoughts on what it will mean and how it will effect the industry. Here is what I think it will do…
Piss a lot of people off and generally suck.
I hate adcenter, why? Its a bitch of a thing to use and quite frankly sucks compared to YSM or even Adwords for that matter.
Adcenter requires and heavily promotes stupid bid pricing and for the looser of the search engine wars should be the cheapest. When I first started using Adcenter many many years ago I managed to overspend my $20 budget with 2 clicks! And this was 3 years ago!!!
From my current testing it doesn’t seem to have gotten much better.
Originally I thought that it would be Adcenter migrating into YSM which I was very happy about but it seems that Microsoft had other plans and with most likely be a huge let down.
Another stupid thing that will most likely happen is the lack of ability to separate between advertising on Yahoo or Bing they will probably just make it one big “search” option which is just stupid and allows for no split testing. I say this as Yahoo is saying it will increase your traffic by “69%” yeah right if you pay Adcenter’s stupid prices…
In theory its great two big boys teaming up to compete against the Google monster but in reality they will probably skrew it up with the Adcenter platform.
Nuff Said
Mike McMahon
Have you ever been spot on with your goals yet feel an underlying sense that your still not fulfilled?
Well I just finished watching a fantastic interview between Tony Robbins and Marie Forleo as part of the New Money Masters series and felt there was a lesson in there worth sharing with you.
In this interview Marie talks about a book called “Working on yourself doesn’t work” which she describes as changed her life virtually over night. Why this one book was so profound to her is that it talked about the idea of not paying as much attention on future goals like for example owning a house, making $10k a month or finding your soul-mate but instead engage with every moment of your life 100%, in other words get out of your head and into the moment.
By applying this to her life she was able to take up hip hop dancing at the age of 25 which later scored her a job with MTV which lead to books, exercise videos and a great deal of here external success and more importantly she enjoyed each moment of it so much more.
After a day of trying this out myself it works. So…
What can you engage in right now that will make you feel great?
Leave a comment below
For this split test I blasted an untargeted list of about 8,700 with two different subject lines and nothing else.
The two subject lines were:
“A complete money making system” VS “A complete money making system [{!name_fix}]”
The only difference being “[{!name_fix}]” which adds the persons name to the subject. The body, time, and everything else are exactly the same.
Other things to point out are this email list is old, about 6 months since I last emailed them and these results are 12 hours after mailing.
Here are the Results
The top one contains the name the second one does not.
From these results you can see that the number of opens is 54% more when you add someones name to the subject line.
What totally suprised me was that although the open rate was only 54% more the link clicks are 250% more meaning that those people openning them are 2.5x more likely to read whats in the email and click on the links within.
Also its worth pointing out that this, although scientific, is only a small test and to draw any solid conclusions would be unwise.
Funny Point: Notice the spam rate 
using someones name nearly doubles the spam rate too hehe so its a double edged sword, luckily this is a double opted in list so not much can happen to this account but I would definately be careful doing this with single optins as once aweber activate compulary double opt-in you have to start a new account to get it turned off and trust me it tried to get it turned off with no success.
It’s Me
Mike McMahon
by Mike on April 2, 2010
in Adsense
Have you ever wondered what a business looks like from somebody elses eyes?
Last month was our best month so far (until this month is over hehe) for adsense, it was so good infact I decided to do something I, well, basically never do and share with you exactly how much we made last month (March 2010) from just one of our accounts. Here goes…
Pretty aint it 
not really its just a bunch of numbers on a screen.
First thing you will probably notice is that it doesn’t say $39,049.31 thats because I am an Australian and we use Australian Dollars or as I like to call them Aussie D’s and my good friend xe.com is telling me that the current conversion rate in US$ is 39,049.31 thus the discrepency.
Secondly is that I blacked out all the details and stuff. This is because back in the day google had rules saying you can’t share sensitive data and after looking as hard as I can could not find this information so better safe than sorry.
Last month I seriously considered writing a course showing people exactly how I do what it is that I do but after a chat with some seriously rich people and some serious consideration I decided against it and for good reason. It was going to be just way to complicated for the average Joe to handle and product launches are really hard work which isn’t my style at this point in my life. Once I find a way to make this easy for the common man (or woman I’m not too fussed) to do I will be sharing this information so *HINT* get on my mailing list if you don’t want to miss it! I can almost guarantee you it will be a private launch to my loyal followers before anyone else.
The last thing I want to leave you with here today is what my future goals are and more importantly state them publically for the record.
My goal is to be earning over $100,000 a month profit by June 30th 2010 which from where I’m standing right now is one hell of a stretch, but I love a good challenge 
Let me know your goals by leaving a comment below
It’s Me
Mike McMahon
