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Given the current events on my current job, I think I’ll be fired really soon. This is very sad as I’ve worked on the company for 6 years and a half. I don’t know what I will do next, I guess it’s better that I wait until I get fired and then I will see. I think that this will be in around 1 or 2 weeks.

The reason I think I’ll be fired is because the company I worked for was acquired by another bigger company.

Sooner or later, I knew this was going to happen, it was just a matter of time, actually I think I’ve been very lucky as I have friends that didn’t last as much as I did. Unfortunately we are no longer living on the industrial age, and we can’t expect to spend a lifetime in a single company. On the other side, the “information age”, which is the age we are living on, presents great opportunities for those that are able to see them, we just need to jump to the Internet world, and grab a piece of that huge world that not everybody can see.

So let’s see what the future has for me, hopefully it is something good

Hi, my name is Hector Sanchez and I am from Guadalajara, Mexico. This is my first WordPress blog and this is also my first post.

I started in Internet Marketing and doing business online in 2004, when I started an online store called My-dog-supplies.com, this store was created with Yahoo. After that, I stumbled upon Joomla and changed my online store to Joomla. Then, I realized that running an online store wasn’t that easy, and I decided to look at creating informational websites in order to gain some Google Adsense Revenue.

Up until then, Joomla was my top CMS and I became their number 1 fan. Then it occurred to me to start blogging in Joomla but I found that even though you can blog in Joomla, it doesn’t have all the great features that WordPress offers. So everything became really clear, Joomla is great for Portal, News, Community and Online Stores, but if you are talking about Blogging, there is only one system which is WordPress. Both CMS are really great, I love them, but it depends of what you want to do.

So thanks for taking the time for reading my first, as you can see I still need to make some changes but I hope I can fix them very soon.

UPDATE: All the posts that you see on this blog, dated prior September 2007, were created in Joomla, it’s just that I imported them into Wordpress to keep track of what I blogged when using Joomla. In reality, this post you are reading is the first one created with Wordpress.

Through one of my favorite blogs www.doshdosh.com , I found an interesting article; published by FastCompany.com magazine , about a teenager that makes more money than John Chow. Here name is Ashely Qualls of Michigan, and her website is whateverlife.com .

For those of you that don’t know who John Chow is, he is a Canadian guy that on August 2007 made $17,929.61 dollars via his personal blog. To me, making that amount of money was pretty exciting, I’ve been following John Chow’s progress on his blog since June 2007 approximately, but last week, I just found out that a teenager of just 17 years old, is making an average of $70,000 per month, that translates into $840,000 a year!

The facts of Whateverlife.com

I know it sounds unbelievable, but let me give you the facts of Ashley’s business so you can have a better idea of what we are talking about:

Monthly Visitors: 7 Million people
Monthly PageViews: 60 Million
Quantcast Site Rank: 349 out of 20 million sites

Just to give you an idea, Oprah’s website is ranked as No. 608 in Quantcast , and her website has a much larger audience than the magazines Seventeen, Teen Vogue and Cosmo Girl combined.

Also, as FastCompany article says, she refused two bids to sell her website, one for $1.5 Million and another to sell it for $700,000, a car, and her own show. Pretty amazing, isn’t it?

How does Ashley make her money?

As an amazing as it might seems, she doesn’t sell anything, actually she gives away MySpace layouts for free, to girls of her age. Her only source of income is through Advertising, which so far is made of Google Adsense and CPM ads run by Value Click . Currently Google Adsense accounts for around 60% of her income. She has also created an online magazine and is planning to sell cell-phone wallpapers that anybody can download for prices between 99 cents and $1.99 each.

How can we replicate Ashley’s business model?

It’s all about finding a niche and giving people what they want, branding ourselves at the same time. In Ashley’s’ case, she found that girls of her age, wanted to have a customized MySpace profile but they knew almost nothing about HTML coding, she had the knowledge, branded herself and now she is a recognized source in this field.

She also has been very persistent and constant, she started her website in 2004, when she was 14 years, by posting several HTML MySpace layouts a day. Most of us would have quit much sooner than that.

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