Challenge To Get Mad
By Vic on Apr 3, 2008 in Blogger Unleashed
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Vic,
You had told me your story before, and it still touches my heart.
I completely agree with you about just as you think you have it bad, there is always, ALWAYS someone that has it worse.
My wife and I go through that every time we take our daughter to the hospital and see the other sick kids. We count our blessings that we have what we do. That doesn’t mean it makes it hurt less, or we aren’t tired of living life that way.
It just means it could be worse.
That is how we live each day, are able to get out of bed each day and keep going.
Life is too short to sit in a corner and feel sorry for yourself. You learn from your experiences, grow stronger from your weaknesses and continue to live.
Thanks Vic, and God bless you and your family!
The link to my daughters site is my signature.
Bless you and your beautiful family. I need to get my wife to get the family pictures to send them over. My dear friend some times in life we just do not have answers but faith gives us strength.
If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to your mountain, “MOVE!” and it WILL move… and NOTHING will be impossible for YOU!
- Matthew 17:20
Hey Vic, that was pretty damn shit man. No need for me to take your challenge.
I sort of know how that goes. Not quite as bad, cause I had my guitar so I could busk for change, but for 4 months I was living on the edge. I actually lived in my van with my dog, no job and it was tough as hell.
I was lucky that after 4 months I met another musician and joined a gigging blues band and got back on my feet.
That was my first year here in Spain, 6 years ago. Hard when its not your own country, but I agree with you, that shit transforms your life.
BTW, thanks for the reply to my subdomain question. I had a feeling there was a BH side to it LMAO…
Ok, I’m not looking to fill the domain with 100s of subdomains, maybe a dozen or so to keep under the radar. Just a way of expanding myself in more niches.
I’ll be careful not to get greedy!
The way I look at it buddy as long as you work really targeted trickle traffic and stay under the radar you should be ok, just do not rely solely on that tactic
Vic, I don’t need to take your challenge(winter here anyway) to understand you and how you feel. You should/must put a link of this post in the contact form or even create a page.
Your work or should I write your mission to teach us is a good thing that you’re doing. You don’t have to do it but you do. Think of it has a pre-retirement training. Later, it will be with money your earn from your 1000s sites all setup for your goal.
Yes sir, you are full of ….
information
Take care
I look forward for the day we are able to make a larger impact in our world and help those that need to be helped.
I hope top see all of you help out when the day comes
Vic
Just watched your “Challenge to Get Mad” video. I was deeply moved. Scammers and thieves make me want to get violent, instead I call them out and TRY (not always well) to take the higher ground.
Vic, call them out, do it as much and as often as it exposes these idiots. So what that you curse here and there, sometimes a good f-bomb conveys the anger behind our experiences better than soft p.c and “gentle” words. Screw em, tell it like it is, how it should be, and what they do to people who are vulnerable.
Btw, My step mom volunteers for Tampa’s Lamplighters that works with Hyde Park Methodist (and other churches)under the Metropolitan Ministries. MM does amazing work with homeless folks, meals, transitional and full time housing etc. My Orlando church has IHN (interim 1 week housing, job placement, etc,. IHN and MM do great work to help our homeless friends find hope and start new lives. Many people are ONE paycheck from being on the street, ONE. The working poor segment is growing….
Blessings, and yes, the “Inconvenient truth must be told” (the name of my evolving blog…)
Laura
Vic,
Thanks for sharing that. You certainly didn’t have to. I could really relate to some of the feelings you were expressing there. My family and I have been going through similar, albeit no as bad, circumstances lately and I’ve found myself staring out the window wondering what I did wrong. And you’re right, God was looking out for you and he’s looked out for us too.
I’ve bought lots of crap over the last year, lots of times when I didn’t really have it. And I don’t mean it would have left me unable to get my Starbucks…I mean DIDN’T HAVE IT. Rolled quarters to get it, kinda stuff. Yet as I sit here this morning, I can find some frustration in my heart toward the people that sold me the crap, but I find more anger at myself because I should have know better. You know, that whole “personal responsibility” thing.
I can say without reservation that my attitude toward life, money, and contentment has changed dramatically. I know that many of my old friends and acquaintances simply could not understand how I can find contentment sitting out here in the middle of nowhere, but I can. Its inexpensive and meets all our needs…and that’s something I can’t say about our previous living arrangements.
It’s easy to find people who will take advantage of your need. It is much harder to find the guy in the parking lot that can see your need, maybe he has been there too, and offers a hand with no strings attached. You and Griz have done that for me and it is changing my life.
While I can’t speak for everyone, I’m a firm believer that if one says it, ten are thinking it so on behalf of everyone who is or has experience a similar circumstance and recognizes the real value of what you do, thank you. Thank you very much.
For those of you who watch this vid and maybe read this comment and think, “yeah, whatever,” you are fortunate because you’ve obviously never had to go through anything like this…and I hope you never will. But don’t take today’s prosperity for granted. Take advantage of it, prepare for a future that, while it may mean being a little less comfortable yourself, you can actually make a positive difference in someones life.
Ok, long enough. Sorry to ramble. Thanks again Vic! And keep calling out the scammers. If you don’t who will?
Thom I used to serve the all mighty dollar today I serve a higher power. My needs today have nothing to do with money. Money to me is just a tool that we need in the world we live. As such I only need it to get what my family needs.
He who is not happy with out money can not be happy with it.
I remember one day commenting to my dad about a gentleman that lived in a small shock close to my dads house and how my dad had told me he used to be a local successful business owner. At the time I remarked how can a person end up homeless. Today my answer is. Easy!!!
Touching Vic… I’m not going to take your challenge… but I can tell you for sure WHEN you start your organization I’ll be getting in line to give back some of the money you’ve helped me make.
Thanks,
DeMerch
DeMerch I will be honored to have you at our side. And can not wait for that day to come where we really start changing the lives of people that need love and compassion.
Vic,
Thank you very much for sharing that. I don’t even know what to say. Very touching and also inspirational. You are an amazing man for making it through that and for giving back so much the way you do on this blog.
I’ve never had an experience like that but I have been close to flat broke before. Luckily I did have friends and family that helped me out.
Thanks for being the way you are. Don’t change! Since the day you started this blog I have always loved your style and the way you keep it real.
Trent
Trent my drive is the sincere need to make sure that people do not confront the failures that I have had and the pain that has come with that.
Vic, Thank you for that. I pray all your dreams come true and that never again you suffer. Somehow I know you will get what you are after. Under that hard shell is obviously a tender heart and I respect you even more because of it.
Mel as I have said before. Sometimes what seem to be are not really what they seem. Principals and dignity in life is so much more then a dollar value.
That video was obviously a very difficult one to make for you and I thank you for taking the time to share it with us. When I first strolled into your site I would not have thought for a second that you, too, had your hardships in life. Your a true inspiration, Vic; and your dream of helping the homeless is as selfless as it gets. 22:12 minutes ago you were the guy that advises me. Now, you’re the guy that inspires me. Thanks.
John it was extremely hard I actually finished drained and had to lay down for an hour. Not so much for remembering my journey but more in knowing that as I made the video and write this comment their are people right now sitting i a park or a mall because they have nowhere to go and tonight they might have to sleep in a cardbor box that was the hard part about making the video.
You honor me and my mission in life with your words.
Bless You
Folks I lived in Tampa for 50 years only recently moving to St Petersburg because of a story of my own. That is not important. I worked in a ministry, (church) for 5 years a block away from Metropolitan Ministries. Vic I’m sure you know exactly where that is. I fed people, I clothed people in positions just like Vic was everyday. It is real, it is authentic and it fucking hurts. Vic told me this story once on Skype and I shared some of mine with him. I have never told a soul about that conversation
Those of you who have not been there have no idea what that feels like, Vic’s post will touch some of you. Some of you will think is bullshit. It is not. I have been there myself live and in living color.
What I am about to tell you may surprise you and I’m a not proud of it. I once took a hacksaw and sawed the lock off a Tampa Tribune Newspaper box for .70 to buy a bag of potatoes. How I got there isn’t important. The fact was I got there, but for the grace of God I might still be there.
People we all are by-products of our lives and experiences, but I will tell something we all learn form things like this. ‘Champions are born in the labor of defeat”
Vic you are a champion, a champion for your cause and a champion for your family.
Stay the course
Don real believer that what does not kills us makes us stronger but also those of us that learn from that over come and come back stronger. But we must always remember for those of us that survived many more will not so we must help and guide those in the need.
Freely you have received, freely give.
Great stuff buddy. I have never known someone that tells it like it is as you bro. I will be around for most the day. Give me a holler when you can.
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Vic man,
Thanks for sharing your story. It’s really hit hard - although I’ve never experienced such things myself, I have friends who have.
I’ve decided that I will hold off selling eBooks for the near future because of your video - although I tried to provide quality information to my buyers, and stuff that has actually worked for me, it just doesn’t seem right anymore.
I have subscribed to your feed and will continue to follow you. Expect a post soon enough.
Jason
Jason the most important thing in my story is that it can happen to anybody and as such we must be wiser with our decisions in life. And sometimes choosing the faster road is the one that leads to nowhere.
Vic,
Very inspiring and touching story, and extremely courageous of you to share with everyone. I know to a very small extent what it’s like. I went through a rough period where I had no friends, family, job or home - but I was lucky enough to have had money saved up to get by on, so I was able to eat and stay at a motel for awhile. Friends used to laugh at me when I worked in NYC because I would toss a dollar or 2 to the homeless people on the corners. I tried to explain to them that a mere $1 might mean a meal for that person but most people don’t get it.
I don’t charge my visitors for anything and have nothing to sell. But should I reach that stage someday, I’m confident I’ll remember this video/post and think long and hard about how I proceed and what it is I’m offering.
Thanks for sharing.
-Jim
Jim my wife used to complain to me about me giving also a dollar to an addict or a homeless person until one day I told her that the only difference between him or us was probably one decision. How ironic that in later years I would live that decision.
I think it was very hard for you to make this video. I went also through a rough period but I was lucky enough to have my parents near me.
I just hope that this video will show some scammers how they can harm people and maybe they will choose the right road. Though, something said to me that they don’t give a damn about all these. Their only goal is to earn money, despite of everything.
Diana I just hope by making the video people will open up to listen to what I am saying. To open their minds to the possibility that their could actually be a person that all he has in his agenda is the wellbeing of others.
Dude, all I have to say is that your completely right. Justified anger is one, if not the most, powerful emotion to bring about change. Most people including myself have not gone through a situation exactly like yours but everybody has their shit.
People take that emotion, anger that raw power, and use it to fuel your goals. If you are passionate enough you will start setting other people on fire. Just like Vic is doing.
Let the Revolution begin!
Pierce Let the Revolution begin! Indeed! Let’s hope that with the same rate that new make money blogs show up their will be a revolution of people willing to call out scammers and fakes. As you have said so well let them take their emotion and just unleashed it on all this scammers.
This vlog post thoroughly explains where you’re coming and I do understand why you feel the way you do about other bloggers giving out misleading information.
Most of us here, myself included, are trying to make a better living for ourselves and our families, and I certainly don’t want to be taken advantage of or see anyone else in that predicament…
Thank you for your candor and honesty. I do hope that others will be able to realize your sincere intentions.
You know many people want to have millions but the facts most people all they really want is the money to support their families and once in a while take a vacation or a nice dinner. To have sacammers taking advantage of these is just a sin.
Vic, thanks for sharing, telling our stories like that is tough. Fuck those three idiot emails. Look at all the people that are with you here.
I lost everything when I was 38. Without going into the gory details, I’m almost fifty now and driving a truck (I own it too so it’s not all bad).
Vic, that’s what people love about you is your honesty and you willingness to help others in a truthful and sincere way. Most of us can now tell BS when we see it, thanks to you. Some people can’t handle the truth, Fuck ‘em.
Keep my email, when your Vegas trip gets closer, look me up. I’ll be sure and be home during that week.
And count me in on that other stuff too.
Wayne thank you for your kind words. I look forward to seeing you at Vegas. I want to try to on both trips be there days before so maybe I can get us a small conference room at the hotel for a few hours and just do a cool question session I think it would really helpful nothing better then actually talking in person.
Conference room? You’re coming by the house. We’ll sit the laptops around the pool.
LMAO That sounds great dear friend maybe I can make us one of our famous Piña Colada
Dude, im big tough 240 pound guy but i did almost cry, your story is insipring, especially considering where you are now. One question i have though and i feel your one of the few people qualified to answer it.
What was it that enabled/inspired you to turn your life around? What i mean is it must have taken a massive amount of motivation and hard work to get where you are now. Sometimes i look at my own life and the things i want to achive (most are not money/business related) and i just think i dont have the heart to do it. I just seem to think other people have something i dont.
Keep up the amazing work man. Paul B
Paul I wish I had an answer that was not a cliche but the facts are it is all about my family. I asked myself if my family would be better or worst with out me in this life and after doing the math they would be better with me here. So I had a responsibility to not only get back on my feet but also to provide the best opportunities to my 4 children. Join that with the fact that my life was in the hands of a greater power and that instead of fighting life I needed to accept things that I could not change and learn to make the best of everything. Since then I placed my life in his care and I cherish everything that happens in my life even the bad things because in order for something bad to happen to me I must be alive and this is the greatest gift we have.
Man! I expect to visit your site and have my eyes tearing up from laughing but never thought I’d tear up from serious emotion. Thanks for having the courage to share this really personal experience. Myself, I have been on government welfare assistance and it was probably over a year of feeling really degraded and depressed. For those people who have never had to struggle a single day in their lives I don’t think they’ll understand. For me failure is not an option. I’ve probably wasted 4 months reading the “guru’s” and getting nowhere. People need to have better radar to see through shit. I work at a prison and believe me you’ll find lots of “nice”, “friendly”, manipulating, frauds there. Actions speak louder than words!
All I want is to be a voice for those that may not want to speak out in fear of being exiled from the blogging community. In the beginning I was an outsider and now I still am so the fact is that I can not be exiled from something I was never accepted from the beginning.
Vic,
First, thank you for being so open and sharing your experience. Growing up, my father would kick us out (my mom, sister, and I) on the street when he would come home in an alcoholic rage. My mom would have to ask her friends if we could spend the night and thank God they would help us. I can’t count how many times he did this. My mom always had a plan for us to leave and one day with only $2k in her savings account and 2 young kids, she moved us across the country.
It was rough through those years but we always had a roof over our heads and food to eat. I have a strong faith and I know that God provided for us and continues to do so.
Like the other readers of your blog, I truly appreciate the help that you provide. I have bought products and followed other advice with no success. It wasn’t until I started reading your blog that I actually feel like I can do this.
Thanks so much for all that you do.
Eartha I am here for you and your loved ones. I do this to give back for all the blessings I have being given and I am not talking about money I am talking about Michelle, Gabriel, Jennifer and Carmen and I hope one day mine are treated with the same respect and with the love that I treat those that are in need. Bless you and your loved ones and remember.
Say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”
Vic,
I can tell by the comments that I’m missing a good one. I have been unable to download past the parking lot on night 1 - and that takes about an hour to download. Have tried several times but it just keeps bogging down. Not sure if it’s viddler or my satellite system but tis a shame. Wish I had known you then bud - you would have had some help.
Grizz dear friend I know you are that phone number you always have in your wallet in a little piece of paper tucked really deep inside that wallet the one that gets old and yellow but the day you need it you make the call and get an answer
I am sorry you are having problems with Viddler this is my first time using them. I decided to use them because Revver has adsense ads and I just did not feel comfortable talking about some thing so dear to my heart and knowing an adsense ad was showing.
Let me know if you keep having trouble I will uploaded to another service to see if you can see it complete.
Vic,
John and I sat here with tears in our eyes. We saw how this is shaking you up big time, even after all that time. I don’t have to go through the three day ordeal to know exactly how you feel.
While I never lived on the streets we came close to bankruptcy after my MLM days. We were trailing about one payment in advance which is nothing really before having some serious trouble with our mortgage. That was freaky enough in terms of never wanting to not be without a cent financially.
The hardship you have gone through is unreal and like you many others are suffering. As a matter of fact we read about these people every day in a newspaper and our heart goes out them.
The something happens and they are forgotten while still battling for survival. I have to say that I’m ashamed of being that way. I too want to help and have done in the past, but I also know that I can do so much more.
I thank you for posting this, even though I know upsetting it all is and hold you in highest esteem. You are a true honest to god man who cares for others wellbeing more than sometimes for his own. (The posting of this video is proof of that).
Because of you I have finally seen the light and I’m honored to know you and call you my friend.
My wife asked me after watching the video (she watches my videos she says I crack her up) and asked me why I would expose myself like that. I told her because they might be people sitting in front of their computer feeling hopeless and alone and I want them to know they are not alone and their is no need for pride things like this can happen to any of us and all we should do is not be ashamed but instead proud that we stood up again and now we need to pay forward the fact that we where given the opportunity to stand up again and help others by extending a hand.
I am also honored to know you and can not wait to meet you and John. If not in Vegas in AU as we have it marked on our go before we die list LMAO
Vic that is spot on. You should be proud of yourself for surviving and battling on because it takes a special kind of person to do that.
You could have just as easily chosen to do drugs or become an alcoholic. Well done and we will meet one day. I have every intention of coming to Vegas (after all it is one of my fav places in the world
) Unfortunately John won’t be able to since it is the busiest time for him at work.
Vic,
You truly are an inspiration. I have to admit that I have a story closely related to you own. On the fast track one day, and looking around wondering how you have gotten in such a mess the next. I was fortunate to have had a few people who saw what was happening and reach out before my circumstances got so dire.
Luckily things are finally improving. I recintly got my health and life back. Now I just need to get my career on the right track again. If you and others who have written of their struggles here can, I know that I can too. Thanks to all of you who have had the courage to share your stories.
You are right when you say that these are life changing events. When you strip everything else down you realize that this can happen to anyone. It does day in and day out. I made the commitment then as well that once I found my way back I would extend a helping hand to others in need. You can not live through a situation such as you did and not realize that the ones who reach out are the angles among us. We could use a few more of those in the world we live in.
I remember having a similar thought when I started reading your posts several months ago. You dared to be the real deal in a world of fakes. Dared to help those who were being taken advantage of, and dared to challenge others to do the same.
Sort of goes to show that you don’t need to change the world all at once…just extend a hand and give others an example.
Marjorie one of the incredible wonderful things that came about was the incredible lesson that I got of how little a person really needs in life. Tell you what when I have a need now I buy what I need and not what I want. Before I always bought what I wanted.
The important thing is to only look back to what got you there but not to pity ourselves but only to make sure we do not fall prey to the same mistakes that took us down that path.
Vic,
You are very brave and it takes a real man to have the courage to reveal what you have been through.
I fully empatise with your feelings as I too have gone hungry in my life though I must say I do not have the pride and courage like you. I sold every thing I had to keep things going. My car, my wife’s jewelry, everything and I borrowed. everything is gone. I had no choice. I got 5 mouths to feed.
That’s why I’m here, 52 years old, when everyone my age is planning how they are going to spend their retirement, I’m here trying to make a few extra bucks to pay off my debts. LOL
But I laugh at myself. Life sucks, but it’s short. So what the hell. Come what may.
Take care, my friend.
The important thing dear friend is no matter what age or how long we both go down with a fight! And as long as we are here, hey why not just make a real fight of it
Vic, all I can say is “wow!”, I mean I watched it this morning. It stuck with me man, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I watched it again. “Wow!”. Man, I’ve never been in your shoes that way, nor do I hope that I ever am, so no challenge taker here. But what you have done for me is caused me to be much more cautious with everything since I started listening and reading here. See I’m not broke but we struggle, that’s why I’m trying this the best I can so that we don’t have to struggle. Having a large family like yours (wife, 3 kids and an Aunt - long story there, but she’s ours) I’ve been trying to branch out to make the ends meet better than I have and I am so thankful for running into your blog and the other 2. It’s so easy not knowing this stuff and trying to get started thinking your doing something right only to fall prey to schemes like you call out. So what, so you’re an asshole. You’re a good asshole IMO. I love you man, keep up the good work. Here’s to hoping you get to start that shelter of yours and I get to make the ends meet well enough to help out as well.
Oh yeah, and if I do actually make enough to go to the expo and meet you face to face, first rounds on me man. I can’t make enough to make it to the expo, I’m done.
Chris, if it’s not this year you can afford to go to the expo, you will always have next year or another expo. Plus, your domains will be older by then and out of the sandbox
Don’t give up and be patient. That’s the lessons Vic, Court, Griz gave us.
Man, I know what you mean. I feel what you all said in the video. I have been there like you. I fed myself and put myself to college. With work and school everyday, I only get 1 - 2 hours of sleep. I know what you mean by being hungry, tired, no where to go and your body just want to die.
We should be thankful to every experience we have. Good or bad. If its bad its better. Because what can’t kill you can only make you stronger.
Good luck man. More power.
Jeffrey that is so important that we just take all of it and use it to grow and learn after that all is cake
Thank You Vic.
I just wanted to say thank you for bringing forth your knowledge and honesty. I have been looking at your website for a couple of months I have learned so much!
Looking at your latest video, I can also relate to your situation. A couple of years back, my husband and I (with two kids) were homeless. We were able to get out of that situation but I know how hard it is. (especially when the stomachs that you hear growling and need to feed are for little ones)
That experience also changed the way I look at working and living. This is no joke. Many people are one paycheck away from being homelss and don’t even know it. I can happen to anyone and still happens today.
I just wanted to say keep up the good work.
God is not good some of the time….He is good all the time.
Kendra in the days of ignorance I would see homelessness as some thing that was impossible to happen to me. Today I see it as something that is just so easy to fall prey to. Some times things happen to us that are just so out of our control that can put us in positions that we never though we could be.
Vic I haven’t seen someone so raw and honest on the net. Truly one of a kind.
I’m 22, I’ve never gone hungry, never not had a roof over my head. Ive done minimal charity work. You have changed my ways I think with that post.
As for your challenge, I was thinking today at work if i could except it. I recon i would break in the afternoon of day 2 at best. While doing this I had a slight idea which is similar and more productive (in ways)then ur challenge.
Australia’s World Vision have a program http://www.worldvision.com.au/40hourfamine/
I have no idea if you know of it? Ive never done it before. This year I will. Its the closest I hope I will get to your challenge. However while im doing it Ill work for those 2 days with what you and court have taught. The site i set up I hope can make around a $1 a day of adsense/ebay a day of it… this would fucken FEED a third world child all year(s).
You have changed the way I think.
If my idea works you will change someones life.
Thank you Vic for sharing. Ill be in touch.
James you are so right on how just one dollar a day can cause such a drastic improvement with some folks around the world. Worldvision is a global known and establish charity and has been known for doing incredible work. Also remember in our local communities some times there are really small groups that are not known but also just do amazing work.
I’m amazed with one thing: You take the time to reply to all your comments. I have read all your blog and last night I went to bed at 2 am and I woke up my wife to tell her about you.
It is incredible how generous you can be trying to share what you know, trying to educate people, and doing it by behing just a direct and honest person.
Kudos for you Vic.
Your blog has inspire me, and I believe being able to see you, to hear you, puts you in a much higher level.
Thanks mate and best of luck, thanks for remind all of us, that life is much more than clicks, revenue, ads and websites.
Gabriel some times in the world we live we are raised with a perception of what is important that in reality is not. Some parts of the world they still do not have cell phones does that mean they are less happy the us? But sometimes we need in our lives a good smack to realize what is and what is not important.
Hi Vic,
I had to think long and hard about leaving a comment. In the end I just had to. You will understand at the end.
Your video made me feel sick. It brought back feelings i have tried to forget. Its amazing that two pleople in different countries can have similar experiences.
I remember the hunger, drinking so much water, to make my stomach feel full, that it came back up my throat when I laid down. I remember trying to sleep in the car and not being able to, because you can’t lay down properly. Even if you could, you’re to scared to sleep. Every noise wakes you up.
I remember my wife and me living on nothing but crisps (chips) and black tea for 5 days. There were weeks when we would have to choose between bread or potatoes. Later, when the children came along, there were days when we would not eat so they could.
None of it mattered in the end, because we pulled ourselves up. We ended up with our own business and life was good. That was until 4 years ago.
To cut an already long story short, I was diagnoised with MS and lost everything. Now, we’re back to living on food stamps (as you call it).
I will tell you this, it is a lot harder the second time around. The only tools I have to pull myself and my family back up, are a 9 year old computer and an internet connection.
That was until a man called VIC, knocked on my car window and said I know a way you can eat.
Thank you, for giving me back hope.
GOD Bless, All the best John
PS - open a bank account for the shelter. I am sure no matter how little we have, if we all club together we can get it going.
We could all start a blogspot blog and donate the adsense revenue to the shelter!!!
Dear friend bless you and your loved ones. Let me say that your story just hit me really hard and know a hispanic dude and his family including his congregation will have you and your family in our prayers.
I pray every night that he who guides me gives me the opportunity to keep my health long enough to realize the dream of an organization that helps the homeless and less fortunate.
As such we work really hard trying to get our income to level we would need and to pay off over 200k worth of medical debt to be able to start the organization.
The way I look at the structure even those that might not have the income to help can help by being the local person who the organization can actually use to help those folks in need.
I know it’s a little bit off topic, but I just got an email from the eBay team. Here it goes:
“Thank you for writing back to us with further information regarding your
application.
We have re-evaluated your application and concluded that we could not
accept you at this time. We are sorry for the inconvenience, and wish
you the best for your other endeavors.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.”
Their affiliate program management is a joke, sorry, but “it is what it is” as Vic would say. It would have been a lot easier if they just didn’t list my country.
Hey Paul, that sucks big time. Were you an active ebay affiliate with CJ before the changeover? Also, are you registered as a seller and how long?
I think those two points might have some bearing on whether you get accepted or not, but I’m only guessing from my own experience.
I got accepted but I’ve been a ebay seller for 2 years (even tho’ I never actually sold anything) and a CJ affiliate for about a year. However I live in Spain, which seems to be regarded as a 3rd world country by many US based affiliate programs that turned me down for loads of shit. I just bounce back…
If you’re not registered as a seller, try setting an account up for that first, then re-apply. It can’t hurt to try.
Paul this just get’s me livid I have included some thing in my comment video.
Another off topic question rather than email you.
My next purchase was going to be SEO Elite. I have seen and commented on the April 3rd post on Court’s site about SEOQuake which is a free Firefox plugin. It seems Court’s comment is that there is no need for SEO Elite.
Can you comment on the added features of SEO Elite (which is expensive) and the need for them vs. the free SeoQuake? Thanks Vic.
DJN - yeah I bought SEO elite then saw Courts post. I haven’t used SEO Elite that extensively but it appears that SEOQuake will do what I need it to do for free. At worst it is a good place to start if you can’t shell out the $$$ for SEO Elite.
Bruce on this one I will have to really disagree with Court LMAO. I tried SEO Quake when it first came out and compared to SEO Elite it is a toy for noobs.
But to be fair I will download the extension today and see if they have improved so much to actually become a viable option as you know my moto if it is free and it is good it is always better LMAO.
Right now I use FireFox 3 Beta so the extension does not work and I went to there website to read the features but there site is down they have the following message:
http://www.seoquake.com/
Sorry, due a technical problems service temporarily unavailable until April 4.
We are working hard to fix it.
For request more info, feel free to contact us via e-mail.
mmmm LMAO some one needs to tell them today is the 4th
But I will later today and install the extension on my latop which has an old firefox install so I can compare and tomorrow I will make a side by side review to see if it resolves our issues and needs for free that would really be a welcome tool.
Hey Vic,
I have something to ask you that’s really bugging me. And before I go doing anything stupid, I thought I might as you.
So here it goes: I am planning to build 2 new websites next week. Website 1 is a database site, which has 2 purposes:
1) Having tens of thousands of pages indexed in the search engines, thus also being a link farm for site 2;
2) Bringing in a nice steady Adsense income.
Website 2 will be a wordpress blog, and will have as a primary goal to bring in money from adsense. Now, knowing that site 1 will be providing lots of link for site 2, here is the tricky question:
Should I host them on the same hostgator account or should I have 2 different Hosting accounts, one for each? Will the fact that they might have the same Ip affect my rankings? I am
inclined to think that yes, it will affect my rankings. What do you think?
Thanks man.
Paul the explanation will be long so I will add it to the video.
Vic,
Thank you for reminding us of just how blessed we really are…to wake-up each morning to a brand new beautiful day, to be able to hop out of bed with our own strength, with the ability to breath God’s air, knowing that there’s food in the frig, having the freedom to worship as we choose, in a country that allows us to pursue whatever & how many opportunities we choose to pursue. God truly is sooooo good to us.
May He bless you & your family. And thank you for sharing your gifts & talents so freely. As you give, it shall be given to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over…
Thank you John. Live is so fast sometimes we only realize what we really have until it is lost. Today I slow myself and look at all the wonderful things he provides and just praise him for it.
That was truly won of the most honest and touching post I have ever seen. God bless you and your family and I hope that you will be able to start your orginization to help hurting people very soon.
I also wanted to tell you that I am so excited because some lady emailed me and told me that I need to stop blogging because my grammer and spelling is terrible. But, I got on the front page of good with a 3 word search phrase in one week, so she can jump in a lake.
Thanks for all the help
Chad
Chad, I had a guy do the same thing using a anonymous and trow away email asking me to learn English. French is my first language. At least, he should had pointed to me the errors
Chad every time some one makes fun about your writing do what I do. I laugh myself to the bank
Hello Vic,
I came here today becaue I was referred here by Monica Mundell, she speaks very highly of you and that is a strong recomendation to me. Your story is very powerful.
I have had some very challenging times in my past myself. I can relate to a lot of it. These are where the major life lessons are learned. I am looking forward to knowing you better.
Wendi Kelly
Wendi welcome and I sure hope you can get past my rants and language and gain some insight that will provide you better opportunities.
Vic, thanks for sharing this story, it has truly inspired me. You’re a truly amazing person. I hope one day I can meet you and shake your hand to thank you personally. Keep doing what you’re doing. You are helping a lot of people specially people like me who are new to IM. God bless you and your family.
Xel bless you and your loved ones. I just hope by sharing this at least one person can not be hurt by these scammers and also know that if they already have, it happens to all of us in the process of learning and trying to get ahead.
Vic,
From the very first video I watched at your site I knew why you were as passionate as your are about scammers and fraud.
I visited several third world countries while I was in the Army and when I hear people in America complain about how tough they have it because they cannot afford cable (or other luxury item) I just wish I could send them to a third world country for a month. Only then will they truly understand what poverty really is and the pain of hunger.
Take this challenge a little farther… What if you had no car to sleep in, no mall with water fountains, and no parks?
I admired you from that first video because I could tell you were a man who would say the honest truth, no matter what. The world has too many people who tell people what they want to hear, not what they NEED to hear.
Rhonda
Rhonda,
You hit the nail on the head. That’s why I thought long and hard about commenting. I don’t wont to speak for Vic, but I’m sure he feels the same.
A week of discomfort does not compare to what’s happening in the third world. I feel guilty everyday for being so self-indulgent. I have running water, government support, and food.
At the end of the day everyone is selfish. All that separates us from each other is the ability to share our surplus.
Sorry, I was about to go of into a speech. Lets all listen to Vic. Go and make money and then give something back.
Sorry Vic for turning these comments into some kind of therapy/crusade.
All the best John
I bet caroline isn’t really worried about a thing you are saying about her.
I would say that she is ignoring you and moving on with her life instead of wasting time worrying about what you have to say.
she doesn’t have to worry about a thing because she knows that she is still going to be alive tomorrow.
Forget about it and move on.
I’m not disrespecting i’m just telling you what’s on my mind.
This is probably true and the fact that she won’t change is the problem and is the point Vic was trying to get across in his vlogs. But, if it suits you just keep reading her worthless blog and keep thinking you will make money because it leaves more money for us!
I get your point but Vic is not trying to get her to take notice of him and change her, but to hopefully get those who are being scammed by her to take notice and learn the real ways to make money online.
The whole thing is not about her at all, she’s just another example of scammers like Yaro.
Who the fuck said I was trying to change her? You can not change a scammmer. I am here to let others know and hopefully help them. I could careless what the fuck that bitch does but I do care the people that get her. Just as she is not worry about me I am neither worried about her this month I will make another 17k honest and she will make her 2k scamming people.
BTW one more troll and you can go fucking troll some one else’s blog!
Vic,
I totally understand your pain. As others I have been where you have been but with two babies to feed. That lonely despair never ever leaves. It took a lot to get beck to feeling like a human being again and gaining some sense of self respect. When thoughts of death have a sweet smell it is scary. But when you cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel, hope is gone. It is a hollow sense of being. If it had not been for those precious babies I would have succumb to my despair. I give thanks for them every Day.
I understand your rage against these scammers. I have lost thousands listening to these people and trying to make money like they have said to. I am also guilty of being one of them. They said to do the things they do and I would make money and be successful. At the time I never thought of it as being dishonest, it was just the way to make money online. I believed that was what we were supposed to be doing. Now I feel so low. I thought I was doing this right. So many people are looking for ways to make money online to pay their bills and keep a roof over their heads, I just thought I was directing them in a right path to make extra money. All the so called gurus that I knew were saying to do this. I was offering the information that I was told to.
I am so very grateful that you have exposed all of this for what it is. I wish I could have seen what was really going on. I am so truly thankful for your insight.
Thanks also for reaching out to me with your extended hand and giving me a hand up and not a hand out. You have given me hope again when hope was flickering out.
Denise the fact is that not knowing is kind of like being blind. Cab you be mad with a blind person for knocking down your expensive vase?
But the fact is with this scammer I wrote multiple post where I said what she was doing was hurting people and it was wrong. And she did nothing to change it. I can understand the new person replicating what they think is right but once you know all the excuses are out the door in her case she was told many times that she was hurting new people but the fact is she did not care because this was her income so by definition she is a scammer
@ Denise: welcome to the rest of us “converted” ex guru followers. Like you, I did the same when I first started out. You wouldn’t know how much money I spent on worthless ebooks and not to mention the time I wasted listening to their crap!
It is nothing to be ashamed off however, since we didn’t know better. But those who do know better (and this includes all who have heard about Vic and seen his blog and still act like scammers). They should all be very ashamed indeed!)
I’m happy for you to have found Vic and no doubt you will do what’s right now.
I agree with you 100%.
Since I started reading Vic’s blog, I verify that I don’t harm the reader with the advise I give on my blog or free ebook. Of course, it’s base on my own experience with products or services that I used.
But People would have to read Vic’s and the other guys too which I understand can take some times because of the amount they gave already. Having Justin come on this “blogging boat” will give us another view/style.
Btw, I got my eBay affiliate ID last night. I never had one before(no CJ). I’m really new and I’m from Canada. I submitted in the early morning when they opened the new site. I give this info for those that are still waiting. So, they are starting and it’s a matter of time now.
Vic, just a quick comment to say how your video touched me. After clicking the Play button, I started filling up the dishwasher while listening the first minute or so of your video. Believe me, you won my attention span big time over the stupid machine, and as a matter of fact, after listening to your video podcast twice and now commenting, I haven’t touched the darn thing, it’s sitting there with 2 glasses and 2 plates in. I thank you for sharing your story, I think it’s THE best thing you published so far… but don’t get me wrong here, I say this because now we understand the person, the human being behind Vic, the blogger unleashed.
Thank you, Vic
Patrick
p.s.: got to go back to my dishwasher
I felt that people needed to understand why my rage and why I am so determined to speak out and let folks know that this scam needs to be stopped. A few A-listers have lived of peoples misery long enough and for a long time know body said nothing but now it is time to get what they deserve getting exposed for what they are scammers.
Hey Vic,
This is a truly touching story, and I appreciate you telling it. I have no doubt this was a very hard time in your life.
Also, I hope you get well soon. And while I don’t have a continual update of 30 minute BU vlogs. I desided to go through the archives and brush up.
I then came across your post on your $400 lunch where you said this:
“Anyway on our way to the restaurant we stopped to get gas and this crazy bum scratched the door of our new Mercedes with a supermarket cart, fucking homeless I wished they would pick them up all of them and just put there ass in jail.”
Now, I completely understand how random acts of vandalism would piss you off. But the jail comment seems like a pretty harsh reaction, for someone that was almost in a similar situation himself.
This was an early post on your blog, and I’m sure you were just setting a tone. But I was wondering if you would care to comment.
To reply to my comment. I now see that the post is a parody. Disregard my ultimate in stupidity.
LMAO no worries I would had been pisst to if I would had read some shit like that. It was my way of making people look at how John Chow does things
My story is similar, Vic. I love the way you tell it, seemingly, without rehearsal. My situaltion lasted 3 weeks, and yes I had a car. The car was what made it easier. There are some out there that don’t even have that. And it did change me, into an honest man. Sometimes I think that’s why I can’t make money on the internet, because I can’t scam people of their hard earned money. I don’t know you very well, Vic, but I could learn to ‘love’ a guy like you (honest and hard working).
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i have no money…i resort to warez sites for getting these scammers’ e-books….saved money and frustration from all their dribble and bullshit.
I’m just very relieved for you and your family that things are better - your story is a testament to the human spirit. I thank God for the angel who knocked on your car window.
Every night In my prayers I am thankful for that life changing moment it has been a real blessing. Bless you for your kind words.
Wow Vic, great testimony. I wouldn’t wish that upon anyone. I know for myself when I don’t thing that I have anything (I really don’t have a lot). I remind myself that I still have a roof over my head and food in my stomach. That is a really humbling story and speaks volumes about your character and spirit. I am thankful that I found your blog and advices at the right time in my life.
We are blessed always people out there that have way less and as such we should always be greatful. Thank you for your kind words
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Vic
I’ve been watching the videos on this site for a few weeks now, and being totally honest here, you have become one of the people I most respect in this world. You’ve opened my eyes about a lot of things, the MMO thing obviously, but also about the world, life and people etc.
I can’t relate to homelessness but have similar experiences relating to my health. I can only now appreciate it, and how drastically someone’s life can change in the space of one day, or one single moment.
But then again if it hadn’t been for what my experience I would likely have never come into contact with the affiliate industry, and would still have literally no idea about it. I would have continued with other plans I had.
This just makes the scammers all the more despicable, even though I can’t back it up, I have a feeling that there is a disproportionate amount of people who search for information on MMO who are desperate. And then to see how these scammers are all on the take, it just beggar’s belief.
I don’ know whether I’m sounding weird but tbh after watching your vids I feel as if I know you, even though you have never heard of me, lol.
Keep it up man.