I don’t normally do many tech posts on here, or posts that have to do with software that isn’t related to affiliate marketing, however, I just downloaded Firefox 3.5 today and I felt that I must let everyone know that hasn’t updated to it yet that it’s freakin awesome!

Seriously, one of the big things they claimed with this version was that it loaded webpages a lot faster…  Now of course, they say that all the time whenever any company releases an update to their browser, but the bottom line is that Mozilla isn’t lying!

I’ve been using this version of Firefox for a couple hours now and I can honestly say that I’ve never seen webpages load as fast on my computer as they are now.  I’ve definitely noticed a huge improvement with the new version.  Huge!

Anyways, I was just extremely impressed with Mozilla that I couldn’t help but post that everyone using Firefox needs to update like….yesterday!  Seriously!  If you’re not using Firefox, then well…GO GET IT!

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Well, it’s been a while since I’ve given an update on how things are going with my Wife and me.  I’ve had several people ask me what’s going on, so I figured I’d do a quick post about what’s happening with it all.  So far, we are still married, we have started marriage counseling finally, however, after the first session, we got into a fight (my fault) a day or two later, and I messed it up.  Thus, right now we are meeting with the counselor separately.

For some reason, I thought that once we started the counseling that we had to get all of our problems fixed asap….I was dead wrong, by trying to push Joy to talk about all of our problems outside of counseling, I actually pushed her away and now she is back to wanting a divorce.

As I said, we are both meeting with the counselor still seperately for personal reasons that we each have that we need to work through…

I’m totally uncertain as to what’s gonna happen and to be honest it’s killing me!  All I know is that I have finally realized (hopefully not too late) that I love my wife more than anything else in this world and I would gladly do anything at this point to prove it to her and to get one more chance at saving our marriage.

So, if your religious, pray for me, if your not…pray for me anyways!  I’d appreciate it greatly and I’m trusting God to make a way where there seems to be no way!!!

PS: Thanks to everyone who has shown concern and have kept me in their thoughts and supported me through this.  I appreciate all of you as my readers and I hope to soon be able to post as regular as I was in the past once I get through all this!

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This has to be one of my favorite songs at the moment, if you haven’t heard it, I suggest you listen to it….right now!

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One of the worst, yet also sometimes best, thing about working on the internet is that fact that things change very quickly.  This is especially true in affiliate marketing.  I’ve seen niches come and go in a matter of weeks!  Now of course, most of us are looking to make a killing using the internet and working from home, however, we are also looking for this income to last us as a career so that we never have to work another 9-5 job again!

The chances of becoming extremely successful in this business is already a thing that a lot of people fail at, however, becoming successful and then making money for a long period of time can also be a huge barrier for people to overcome!

You see, making some good money using the internet in my opinion is actually the easy part….Turning that income into a revenue stream that lasts for years becomes a lot tougher!  So what exactly do you need to do?  There are several great sources for creating lasting residual income, some of them can be tied in with affiliate marketing, some can’t.

If you are strictly an affiliate marketer and that’s all you like to do to create your income you’ll probably want to skip over this post or just skim it for the parts about AM…However, realize that if you want to make GREAT money and you want it to be an income that lasts for any long period of time, you are going to have to become an internet marketer instead of just an affiliate marketer!

• Mailing Lists – I personally use Aweber to build all my mailing lists for several reasons, but the bottom line is they are one of the best (in my opinion they are the best).  Their prices are very very reasonable and very affordable as well.  Mailing lists are a sure fire way at creating a beautiful residual income stream.  Most mailing lists can be sold to over and over for years if done properly and as long as they aren’t abused.  For ideas on how to make money with a mailing list, check out john chow’s post about it!

• Subscription Sites – Subscription sites are another great example of an income stream that can become very residual if it’s done correctly.  One of the great things about Subscriptions is that they can be added to almost any type of site that is offering just about any type of service.  They can be added to forums to offer members extra features or private forums, they can be for a learning site where you charge members a monthly price!  Basically if you’re not using subscriptions you could be potentially losing out on a ton of money!  For more information on subscriptions and ways to implement them check out the post by Shoemoney.

• Affiliate Offers That Pay Monthly – Some affiliate offers actually pay you every single month that the person you referred stayed a member.  Some companies in the make money online niche that do this is Aweber, Shoemoney tools, Wordze, Wordtracker, etc.  These offers give you a certain percentage of the price that the users you referred pay to them each month.  So while it may cost a bit to get them as members, you could find that some of these people you refer will stay members for a very long time for these sites and thus you’ll make some great residual income!

There ya have 3 different types of residual income that you can now work on getting set up, and if the response is good on this post I’ll even maybe do a second post about residual income on some more ways to get it going.  Also, this post wasn’t made to share with you exactly how to do each of these types of incomes, but instead was just to educate you on some things you may not be thinking about!  Read the articles I linked to and do a search for some more or leave a comment and I’ll be glad to answer it!

Peace,

-Derek-

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Hey guys, well as I said in the last post I made.  I haven’t been able to keep up on posting much new blog posts.  I explained the main reasons for this in the last post and one of those was simply stated as personal reasons.  Well, I said that I would let you guys know what was going on…so I am.

My wife left me early last week, we’ve been having marital problems for quite some time now.  I really don’t want to get into a ton of the details, but, honestly I think it may be for the best.  I just don’t see us going in the same direction in life anymore.  I have a ton of stuff I’d like to accomplish, and she just seems to want to coast through life as easily as possible.

Anyways, I’m still hoping however that we can get some more counseling (been 3 times now), and actually see some changes, that is of course if she is even willing.  She’s pretty set on getting the dissolution which as I said I think I agree with her on it, but, hopefully we can still try to work on it afterwards if she’s willing.

I don’t believe in Divorce as a Christian, but I also don’t believe staying in a relationship that causes you to sin all the time anyways by screaming, hateful remarks, swearing at each other, etc.

Also, I’m not going to be able to post very consistently while all of this is going on, so I’ll be taking on some guest posts.  If you would like to write a guest post for this blog (free backlink to your site of course) please shoot it over to derek [at] clickconsultants [dot] com.  I won’t post crap on this blog, so unless you’re willing to actually take the time and write something worthwhile for my readers don’t bother sending it.

The guest posts do not have to be about affiliate marketing, I’m willing to take anything related to making money online, internet marketing, social media, etc.  So help me out and shoot over an article or two and enjoy a free backlink or two!

Thanks everyone for the support you’ve shown!

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