If you have known me for a while you have probably noticed a lot of improvements to the blog over the time its been online.

What you don’t see though is the the effects those changes have made.

Everything from getting more traffic, getting better search engine rankings, and yes even some affiliate sales.

Now its no way near as profitable as it could should be but it is getting there.

This blog would probably make a lot more and get a ton more traffic if I didn’t resist against all the information I was given by Mike Paetzold. He has been telling me for years everything I need to do to have a profitable blog up and running.

I always just blew it off as unnecessary work that wouldn’t be worth the time or effort.

Well it took me long enough but I have started implementing some of what he has been telling me to do. Turns out he was right all along ( yes Mike go ahead and say it , you told me so) ,and to top it off  it doesn’t take nearly as much time and effort as I had made myself picture.

It’s a common mistake that a lot of people make and one I normally talk about, but I was a victim of it too!

Over thinking and Over Complicating things. It’s so easy to start thinking of everything that needs to be done and everything that will need to get done that you can easily overwhelm yourself and convince yourself that its too much for you to take on.

Well there are a ton of old sayings that could apply here,

“You don’t have to see the whole stair case, just take the first step”
“whether you think you can or can’t you are right”

or one I often use is “How do you eat an elephant?” to which the answer is “one bite at a time”.

What it all boils down to is not overwhelming your self with everything that needs to be done. Yes its good to have a plan but the best plan in the world is useless unless some one actually follows it.

Luckily for me I didn’t have to do much planning since Mike Paetzold had already laid one out for me. He has told me exactly what I would need to do, but I just got hung up on all the details and staring at the elephant as a whole instead of whipping out my fork and knife and taking that first bite.

Luckily for you Mike has taken all that same information he has shared with me and created a bite by bite audio /video series that tells you exactly where to dig in and where all the best parts of that elephant are.

In his new audio/video course at Profitable Blog Steps Mike walks you through the exact steps to easily have your own profitable blog.

If You hurry you can grab an extremely discounted Price at

http://profitableblogsteps.com

OK now this review may sound biased a bit but it really is because I love this site.  It is going to be hard to hide my enthusiasm as i discuss it because , well it just simply rocks.

So what is TE Command Post anyway?

According to the Sales page it will ” Command Your Credits, Control Your Time And Cash in Cool Commissions On Autopilot, All with Push Button Simplicity!”

Wow thats a pretty bold claim, if you ask me so lets see if it lives up to it or if its just marketing hype.

Well first of all the site was created by Paul Kinder and Scott Martin, Now I know Paul is a great marketer, but he also normally delivers on what he promises, so that right there leads me to believe that there may be some validity to these claims. And Scott is a programmer that understands what TE members need so that is another check in the box. So lets go ahead and open it up and see what its all about.

In the following video I walk you through the basic process of how the site works.

OK so as you can see it definitely lives up to the claim of  “Command Your Credits, Control Your Time”  TECommandPost  has already saved me a ton of time and I have just started using it.

So what about the ” Cash in Cool Commissions On Autopilot” part?

Well this part could possibly be a bit misleading. It does leave out one important detail. You actually do have to promote TE Command Post to make this happen. This should be a given when you look at any site that talks about you making money. We have talked before about there being no big red easy button to making money, that there is and always will be some element of work involved.

But if you do promote TE CommandPost, the rewards are bountiful. There are ( like with most sites) upgrades available and the One Time Offers are really hard to resist if you are a serious Traffic Exchange user. And as your referrals join you will be credited with up to 50% commissions on them.

Then the site works like a downline builder as well, all the TE’s that you entered your user id for are now being shown to your downlines, and all those exchanges have upgrade offers as well. There is also the secondary downline builder for usefull tools that any TE member should need and you will also be credited with commissions from any of those sales.

Now , here is the best part, I mentioned above that Paul is a great marketer. When he writes emails people pay attention and often times they click the links and they join.

Well when his emails go out to the members of TE Command Post, they will have your links in them. Depending on your membership level your link go go down 6 levels. That can work out to be a lot of emails with your links and all you had to do was referr a couple of members.

So yes a little bit of work up front is involved, but once you have done that , the Commissions will come rolling in on autopilot.

To wrap up, yes I think TE Command Post does live up to its promises, it will save me a ton of time every week, and I have already started seeing some of those autopilot commissions coming into my TECP account and other sites that are connected. This really is a must have tool for any one using traffic exchanges.

It’s Saturday morning and my ears are still ringing from last night. No I didn’t go out partying, I took my son to see the Monster Truck Rally last night.

It was held in what has gotten to be one of the worlds smallest indoor arenas, and we had good seats so there was plenty noise and burnt rubber fumes to make it a complete night.

Any way this is the first time I have been to one of these things since I was a kid about my sons age. It would seem I was in the minority there though as everyone seemed to have a favorite truck, or driver, and knew all the different teams and who wore what etc…

I was amazed when they asked a 10 year old kid in the audience some monster truck trivia and he nailed all of it ( along with extremely excited guy on my right that was upset that kid got a free T shirt and he didn’t )

I was surprised at the following this thing had, I was even more surprised after the first run of trucks when the winner just happened to be the last truck on the track and the driver ( who was also a big part of the pre-show ) was out of his truck to claim his victory before the “judges” even gave their score.

After that first event there was some Quad Wars, where “Team Indiana” was getting beat up on by evil outsiders “Team Ohio”

I know I haven’t lived here very long but you would think you would here of a state team of quad racers at some point, but I digress.

Needless to say the results were a bit biased and no matter what happened there were only a couple of people to win every event, these were also the same people that were in charge of the pre show hype and making everything happen.

The sad thing is there were better drivers doing better things than them but I guess they were not good enough to take center stage and “act”

All in all it was entertaining, and that’s what I paid for was to be entertained and more importantly my son had a blast, he didn’t pick up on the quirks of the whole show. And I really wonder how many people there did.

I mean Wrestling has done it for years and the fans still love it , but it makes me wonder if anything is real at all.

Was there a time that there was an actual monster truck circuit where anyone could win, or has it always been a stage act?

Was there a time where wrestling was real?

What about furniture? I know there was a time you actually had to get your furniture delivered, but now that seems to be a dying trend in favor of modular pieces of compressed saw dust with a sticker of wood on it.

No one seems to complain, everything continues on, there was no one last night demanding there money back because it was staged,but is that where it all starts?

Do we as marketers keep pushing to see what we can get away with and as long as no one complains it must be ok?

Do we as consumers just take what we are sold and even when we find out its not what the commercial said just say to ourselves, looks like a was a victim to marketing again?

If that’s the case are we out marketing ourselves? If everyone begins ( or actually I think most already do ) thinking that all marketing is a lie, how to we convince the public when we are actually telling the truth.

Some one could create and market the answer to life, eternal happiness or anything else, but will there be any one to buy it, or will everyone already be jaded by broken promise after promise? Will it end up on late night TV being sold by Billy Mays or on daytime TV being sold by Oprah, is there really much difference between the two?

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