First, my wife and I were not able to save our marriage, we both made too many mistakes before either of us were willing to wake up and try to actually fix it.  It was a case of both of us wanting to be right…even when we were dead wrong!  All the papers are filed, so we are just waiting on the courts now and we’ll be officially divorced, although, we’ve been separated for a year and two months now, so…yeah

Also, I decided to finish my degree.  I’m a huge fan of learning…I believe you should never ever stop learning in your lifetime and that you should always push yourself to learning as much as you can.  I had went to school went I left high school, but left when I got married and started internet marketing and then affiliate marketing.

Since my wife and I split, I had a ton of free time and I was sitting around at the house doing nothing…which is never good, so I decided I needed something that would get me out and around other people on a weekly basis…hence I decided to go back to school and finish my degree in Psychology…

If there is one thing that can help you in the business of selling, it’s probably knowing how people think!

Just kidding!  Actually I just really enjoy the subject!

I’m also going to throw a post up here telling of all the big changes happening at Click Consultants (like the CC Forums becoming FREE!!!) and also all the big changes that are yet to come!  Trust me there are a ton!  So watch for that post!

Anyways, I went through a bit of a rough patch in my life after the divorce, but I’m glad to be back and am planning on being back in full swing from now on!

I’ve been around, no where in particular…  I’ve been doing a ton of thinking this month about my online businesses and some other things going on in my life.  Internet Marketing is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I have no plans whatsoever of ever quitting this business…  I absolutely love it!

I also have no plans whatsoever of quitting blogging here on Click Consultants.  I truly enjoy helping others make it in this industry.  However, there are a couple routes that I may take that may change how I do this.  Some will require a ton of change to the way this blog works.

Also, if you really miss me that much I’ve really been trying to use social media more, so look in the sidebar and friend me if you want to stay in touch more!

Anyways, so no matter what direction I decide to take my business this upcoming year, it will most likely affect this blog in a huge way…  I believe it will be for the best and will allow me to help even more people enter this fantastic industry!

I have a post I wrote about A/B split testing that I plan on releasing either tomorrow or the next day, but as soon as I get that post out of the way, I promise that I will write a post about some of the decisions I’ve been thinking about and hopefully I can get some feedback from my loyal readers!

Moving On… Consultation Rates for December

When I first made my consultation services public, I started offering monthly packages, however, if you remember in the very beginning, I said that I would only offer these special discounted packages if I had the time and open spots.  You see, consultations is not my business… it’s brings me in maybe $2000 dollars a month.  I don’t do it to make money, instead I’ve always done it to try to help people.

Anyways, I’ve been pretty busy these last two months, again because I have a lot of big plans for the 1st of the year and I’m trying to decide which path to take and get the work done to get there…

Because I’ve been so busy with personal projects, I had no intentions of offering any special discounted packages for the month of November or December…HOWEVER, because I’ve had so many emails bugging me, I’ve decided to free a small section of time.  5 hours total.  This is the best I could do for both months with my projects and the holidays…

Anyways, so I apologize to everyone that was wanting to get some consultations done during the month of November and December and thought that I was offering these packages every month.  I’m not!  I simply can’t get more hours during the day…I keep praying for more time in each day, but God doesn’t seem to be listening to me

Good News!

Now for the good news, normally I charge $200 dollars per hour for consultations if you view my consultation page…  Every month that I’ve offered special discounted packages, I’ve charged $100 dollars an hour.

However, because I have such limited space and I feel bad that so many people are wanting to get consultations yet I’ve been unable to offer them, AND because it’s coming up to Christmas and I’m feeling generous, I’m offering these five hours at a rate of only $50 per hour.

This is the lowest I’ve ever offered my consultation services!  There is a catch though….

As you guys know, these special packages are not sold as a per hour type package.  Which means I can only offer this deal to two people…

For the month of November and December I’m offering only two packages.  Both packages are as follows.

2 and a 1/2 hours for $125 dollars.

Again, I have two of those packages available, which would be a total of 5 hours.  Normally I allow people to buy as many as they want, meaning that normally someone could purchase the full 5 hours if they want, however, not this time.  Anyone interested is only allowed to purchase one of the packages in order to allow more than one person to get the benefit of the monthly package.

Okay, this post is getting long, time to wrap it up…

One more thing I’d like to mention.  Depending on the route I decide to take with this blog and my online businesses, I will most likely not be offering any special consultation packages during the month of January as well, so if you are interested, I’d suggest contacting me as soon as possible about picking up one of the two packages listed above!

As always, it’s first come first serve… So if you’re wanting to purchase a package, use the contact form to let me know ASAP!

PS: I’ll get the post up talking about the upcoming changes as soon as possible.

So why should you care?  Well honestly, you probably don’t!  But I do, and I want all my peeps to wish me a happy birthday!  Wahaha!

So, leave me a comment saying Happy Birthday!  I’d appreciate it!

Anyways, I’ve always been the type of person that when I do get sick, I can normally go to sleep that night and by the time I wake up the next day, I’m good! However, when I woke up Sunday morning it only got worse… I told myself that if I was still sick Monday I’d go to the doctors to get checked out cause of this whole swine flu thing…

Monday, I woke up and I was actually feeling a little better, so I decided I didn’t need to go, however, by Monday evening it hit me again, and to add on to everything else, my chest was extremely congested and I was wheezing when I’d breathe. Oh No! I figured I’d definitely go in now, cause it’s never good when you’re not breathing correctly! Of course, since it was Monday night, I decided that I might as well wait until Tuesday morning! LOL!

Tuesday morning I woke up and all my flu symptoms were gone, however, I was still having a rough time with my chest and being congested. However, being the great person I am (actually I just hate hospitals/doctors) I decided since all the rest of my symptoms was gone, I’d see what happened…

Anyways, It’s now Thursday, my chest is still a little congested, but it’s definitely getting better.

The whole reason for this post was to simply say this lol…I’m a little behind now because of this flu, so if I haven’t contacted you back yet I apologize. If you sent me an email, facebook message, twitter message, etc please be patient as I get caught back up!

Hey guys, I’m constantly bombarded on a daily basis with emails from people asking if I do one on one consultations.  I’ve never really advertised the fact that I do, and instead have simply offered it to members of the Click Consultants Affiliate Forum (29.99/month) and through word of mouth or by simply people that email me and ask.

Anyways, I thought that I’d finally once and for all make a page about my one on one consultations with all the information so that I could simply point people to it instead of having to answer all the emails with the same stuff over and over again.  Much easier to send a link to a blog page!

After I made the page and was thinking about it, I realized that most of the people that send me the email and ask are blog readers anyways and also I thought that there might be people out there looking for it, but simply didn’t think of asking me if I offered it.

Let me say two things though, I don’t accept everyone (on the consultations page is a list of requirements) and I also have a very strict limit on how many people I’ll counsel with at a time during each month.

Anyways, if you want more infomation head over to this page which tells all about my consultation services, the price is $200 an hour, however, since I’m a little slow this month with work stuff and with consultations, I figured I’d offer a special rate to the first 3 people that email me (derek [at] clickconsultants [dot] com) or contact me through the contact form and send payment once they receive an email from me letting them know if they are one of the first three.

If you sign up for a five hour consultation package instead of the normal price of $200/hour, I’ll give them to you at the price of $100/hour.

Again this is only for the first three people that shoot me an email and then must send payment shortly after I reply with my paypal addy.

This is only a promotion for the public launch of my one on one consultation services and thought it would just be fun to give a couple people a good deal!  I do not normally offer any discounts on my consultation services even if bought in bulk because I feel that the price I give is already low enough, so if you are interested, check out the consultation page and then shoot me an email or use the contact form!

It’s been like this since the day I bought it, and I searched all over the internet for a fix and couldn’t find one.  I should of taken the laptop back when I first realized the problem, but to be honest, I was too lazy to go through the hassle, and instead like an idiot, just dealt with the problem when it arose… or, I just used other computers (I have too many anyways!)

However, this laptop is suppose to be the fastest one I had, with the best processor and memory compared to my other computers, so I’ve always been kinda annoyed that it’s had this problem.  I also figured since this was a windows vista problem, getting another computer would be kinda senseless…

I heard about others saying that they just reverted their computers to Windows XP, however, to be completely honest, besides this problem, I actually really liked Windows Vista even though it’s had a ton of complaints!!!

Anyways, so I finally decided to download and install Windows 7 Release Candidate as I plan to buy Windows 7 as soon as it comes out anyways, in fact I’ll probably preorder it here in the next day or two!

So what do I have to say about Windows 7?  Well, first let me say that I believe all the hype about it being faster than Vista, I’ve definitely noticed an increase in speed in how fast it loads, shuts down, and opens programs and runs them.  Before anyone says anything, I didn’t do a complete wipe on my system, I just upgraded so it’s not because there isn’t crap on my computer, there is tons of crap on it!

Also, I love the new taskbar and how it groups things and instead of long bars, just has images of the application and groups all of those applications under the image icon.  I think it’s brilliant and can’t believe they didn’t think of it for Vista, it may annoy some people and you can change it back to the way your use to, but I don’t know why anyone would if they actually gave it a shot!

Now, do I recommend upgrading now to Windows 7?  Well, probably not if you aren’t having any problems with your current setup as I have heard a lot of people say they’ve had software issues and compatibility issues, however, I haven’t had any kind of issue at all with Windows 7 yet…(granted I’ve only been running it for about a week now)…

If you are having problems with Vista, and you’re willing to take a chance on some compatibility issues, then I say to go for it and upgrade to the release candidate and then buy Windows 7 when it comes out as I think it’s worth every penny personally.  It seems like a great solid piece of software unlike Vista.  I think Microsoft truly learned from their mistake with Vista and came back with a bang on this one!

Microsoft Windows 7 Release Candidate Download

I’m sure some of you are running Windows 7 as most of us are not only affiliate marketers, but also tech enthusiasts!  If you are, I’d love to hear what you think about Microsoft’s new operating system!  Leave me a comment!

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!

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!

So I’m sure you’re all wondering what’s going on?  You all want your information and you want it now!!!  You’re here to make money and this blog is suppose to help you with that!  So again, what’s up?

Well, the first and major thing, I’m just unable to currently talk about.  There have been some major personal problems going on for a while in my life and it seems like things have finally happened with the situation leaving some carnage behind.  So, I’m working on getting things in my life put back together.  Hopefully I can get back on a more stable routine here shortly again.  Of course, I’m sure I’ll post about the situation once I feel it’s appropriate.

Secondly, and this is something that I can share and express freely, is that I’ve been finding some other revenue streams that have been producing more income that affiliate marketing stuff, although in all fairness it still kinda has to do with AM and AM still has a part in it.  Anyways, I’ve been debating this for a while and I believe I’m going to go ahead and just do it…

Do what?  Well, CC is going to start changing and I believe this change in the long term is going to be for the best.  CC started out as a professional blog.  Most that have been reading it has noticed that in the beginning there weren’t many personal posts…if any really!  Recently however personal posts have been picking up more.  I’ve been talking about favorite iPhone apps, death of a pet, etc.  Anyways, I believe that I’m going to continue to post personal posts and also I believe I’m going to start posting about more stuff than just affiliate marketing!  *Gasp*  Yeah, I hear ya!  I did a poll here a couple months ago in the sidebar and a lot of you said to just stick with posting about AM, but here’s the problem… I’m discovering that there are tons of other ways to make a ton of money online!  Yes, AM is great and it’s still my biggest money maker at this time, however, I can see several things taking over that.  I want to share these things with you guys!  So….I will be…

This blog will be changing, don’t worry most of the info here will still be AM related I’m sure, but slowly you’ll see other subjects coming up as well!  Not a bunch of fluff and stupid stuff, but things that actually make money!

Also, I’ve been neglecting the paid forums just like I have this blog and for those that are a part of the forums I’d just like to add that be patient with me just a little while longer and you’ll see that it will be worth it!

Keep me in your prayers about the direction my life is heading and that the Lord will guide my steps.  Thank You!!!  My readers and subscribers are the best!  Woot!

So Thanksgiving was only ONE day you’re saying…so where was I for the rest of the time?  Well, I’ve always been in sales and marketing in my life, even before I started internet marketing, yet I’ve never ever experienced a black friday.  So I went with a bunch of teens from our church youth group including my 3 sisters.  We got up early as heck and hit up Kohl’s, Walmart, the mall, and more.  It was a blast!

Also, I decided to do some catching up on the new World of Warcraft exspansion.  Wrath of the Lich King recently came out and because I’ve been extremely busy this last month or two getting ready for this last quarter of affiliate marketing (biggest quarter of the year) I haven’t had much time to devote to it.

So, that about explains what I did for Thanksgiving week and I thought I’d explain to all my faithful readers why I haven’t been around.  I promise I’m back and writing up another great post as we speak to get posted up shortly.  I would of posted this earlier letting you all know that I would be around for the week, except, I didn’t even know myself…It was more of a spur of the moment type decision.

Last but not least, I’d like to say that I’m thankful for all of you that read this blog, those that are a part of the CC forum, that I have a job that allows me to spend time with family when needed, and so much more that I could write forever!

Anyways, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I’d love to hear in the comments what you did for Thanksgiving and what you’re thankful for!  Even if your not from the United States you can still post a comment letting us know what your thankful for as it’s good for everyone to reflect once in a while!

Happy (Belated) Thanksgiving!!!