If you haven’t, check out Blog Premiere’s killer contest where you can win a blog theme that’s better than this one, fully coded with custom drawn mascot. I will also be doing guest posts over the next month or so to promote this so if you have 1,000 RSS subscribers or more and are interested… send me an email.

As a few of you know, I wrote up a post a couple days back promising that I would teach ten people how to make $100/day. As of today, I’ve received more than seventy emails (still a week to apply, so submit if you haven’t). I will reply to all emails in one go at the end of the week – I have read them all though so do not worry.

First off, let me state this – read the damned rules. Most people have followed through fine, but a large majority have not done so, and this has led to an experience I thought would be enjoyable slowly starting to become annoying. I will still take on ten people, no matter what – however, some of you are shooting yourselves in the foot.

I specifically said do not contact me via instant messenger about this… now, I’m a guy that doesn’t like turning people down – which is why I asked for emails. I’ll be totally honest with you – it is easier to say no via email, and although I do not want to I will have to say no to quite a few people.

Despite this, I’ve had people begging to be included… feel free to tell me why via email, but I’m sorry – I do not want to hear about your dog dying, you losing your job, you breaking up with your girlfriend over instant messenger – I know it’s important, but there is only so much emotional trauma a guy can listen to. I’m Jason Pereira, not Dr. Phil.

Anyways, what else have I had to deal with?

- People sending me multiple emails… sometimes 3-4 an hour asking about whether they were included and if they were not why not… barely half a day after I wrote the post.

- People contacting me on MSN asking to send them more details, or explain what I’d be talking about – please. I hope I made it as clear as possible in the post, and if I didn’t leave a comment there and I’ll get to it.

- People sending emails that were 2-3 words long. Seriously – if you cannot send a proper email that adheres to the instructions, you are not going to be someone I want to work with.

Sorry for the harshness, but please remember that this is my own time and I do not have to do this. I will work my ass off until you have made your first hundred, but I am not going to do all the work – and if you cannot follow simple instructions in a post, you will not be able to follow instructions through instant messenger.

This is nothing ground breaking… what I like to do is take existing methods and tweak them, add a twist to use them to my advantage. This will be fairly easy to do for both me and the people selected, so please do not make it difficult.

I have culled about 25% of the people that have applied, however I will still email them to let them know. Do not contact me through instant messenger asking if you are one of those or else you will be next.

Just for the record though – most of the people that have applied are fine; so do not worry about it. You will know if you have done the above or not.

Other stuff

There have been quite a few problems all over the blogosphere with the Planet fire (9k of their servers were shut down I believe) so that is the reason why certain websites will not work. Luckily for me, my main websites were unaffected and Blog Premiere’s contest has managed to kick off since them. I’ve seen a 20% increase in total members and a few hundred posts which is good; the promoting hasn’t even started yet.

If you have more than 1,000 RSS subscribers or know various blogs that do, let me know. I always treat guest posts slightly better than I treat the posts on TUK – they are more rare and thus generally contain more usefulness (as opposed to the rambling here).

If you joined my Aweber list at the beginning, you should get your third email today about various things related to affiliate marketing. Nothing spectacular, but a couple pointers that should help people out.

Anyways, time to promote the contest, so I’ve gotta run. Good luck to all!