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December 2011 Income Report

alphawolf — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:58:16 +0000

November Total Profit= $158.48

ACP Business 50% Ownership= $2200.00 / 2 = $1100

Direct ad revenue, CPC and affiliate sales from PUA Lingo

Honeyplex Business= $112.75

ebook sales

Expenses= -$1,054.27

Linkbuilding budget
fiverr gigs
odesk and elance projects outsouced

Lessons:

We made bank on PUA Lingo this month, mostly thanks to increased traffic. We’re getting about 7000 visits a day. Posts like this help with organic link bait and referral traffic. It is also the first time we broke $2k / month.
Seduce With Style has taken a hit, with decreased ads on Lingo and also, some affiliates dropping out. I’ve also stopped promoting it regularly as I step into production for SWS 2.0.
Had some ideas pass by about creating an ongoing style technique membership site, and also, the production costs for SWS 2.0 is starting to take its toll, eating into profits this month. Developing a full system / product while working a full time job simply isn’t easy. Weekends need to be sacrificed to make due. At the same time, if you stay home all day and work after the 9-5, you quickly need to release tension by going out. Casual said something interesting at lunch on Friday, “Hm. It’s not that I don’t like work. It’s not bad. It just takes too much time.”

Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. -Harvey MacKay

November 2011 Income Report

alphawolf — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:47:59 +0000

November Total Profit= $517.57

ACP Business 50% Ownership= $450.00

Direct ad revenue, CPC and affiliate sales from PUA Lingo

Honeyplex Business= $567.57

$154.91 ebook sales
$272.75 ebook sales

Expenses= $500

Linkbuilding
Outsourcing video production of sales page

Lessons:

There this new service called “inDinero”. Pretty cool – auto links to Paypal and your bank accounts, and automatically does accounting for you based on your revenue and expenses. However it isn’t as smart as your accountant – it counts returns in Paypal twice, and on e-lance, there are many projects that need to be re-edited and each time I do it, it counts the total $$$ amount again as costs. In reality, my profit this month in Nov was about $1200 and expenses just over $500.
My expenses have gone up significantly because of my recent investments in linkbuilding and product creation for SWS 2.0. These are one-time costs as we prepare for launch. Normally your online business expenses are minimal, 10% if that.
I still think we are WAY under-utilizing PUA Lingo, given its immense traffic count. However, this is a business that is shared with my business partners and I simply don’t have time to focus on it while I grow SWS and the Honeyplex business.

Lessons from Porn Director Pierre Woodman

alphawolf — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:10:42 +0000

Those of you who are heterosexual males have no doubt heard of Pierre Woodman. If you haven’t, then you are missing some of the most intense (and real) online videos of “online porn”. Woodman’s production doesn’t follow the ”staged sex scene” method of major porn companies and instead focuses on real girls having real sex scenes that showcase superior technique by a guy that most would consider a “fugly beast”. Of the lessons I learned from watching Pierre Woodman’s HBO documentary:

We seem to be programmed to sexually desire different genetics. Sex desire is based on smell. Depending on the girl, sometimes he feels that his sexual desire is intense, while other times, mediocre. This is regardless of the girl’s looks and simply relates to the way she smells close up. Perhaps a biological trigger for us to mate with those that have a varied and complimentary gene set.
As a really hot girl or a man of super high status, usually these people need time to build trust with the opposite sex.
Having a girl already there creates social proof and additional comfort. Notice the following scenes and how he uses another female there as preselection and social proof in his interview process.

Lessons on How to Become A Better Lover

Be gentle but firm in your approach
Kiss her before you get sexual
Touch her body all over and her breasts – most guys always forget this
Think of the clitoris as a miniature penis
Re-framing anal from painful and weird to fun, exciting and good feeling

Lessons in business

Most people are puppets in the 9-5 grind
Fight for your freedom. “Break from the chains“
Freedom in sex, freedom in relationship based on trust. The separation of physical and emotional bonds
To live freely… in money, health, and relationships
Answering to no one but yourself, being your own boss

Woodman on finding girls:

Woodman on how to touch a girl sexually:

Setting precedence before a sex scene:

Woodman on jobs, puppets and the 9 to 5:

Woodman on freedom in relationships:

October 2011 Income Report

alphawolf — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:46:01 +0000

October Total Profit= $617.57

ACP Business 50% Ownership= $550

Direct ad revenue, CPC and affiliate sales from PUA Lingo

Honeyplex Business= $567.57

$257.51 ebook sales
$316.06 ebook sales

Expenses= $500

Outsource linbuilding
$200 seed money for friend, 10% ownership of secretsofdancegame.com

Lessons:

Sometimes you just need cash to invest in things – this incurs expenses
Things are looking good but I just need to spend money to build the foundation for SWS 2 before money comes in in large flows.

September 2011 Income Report

alphawolf — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:39:36 +0000

September Total Profit= -(115.28)

ACP Business 50% Ownership = $593

Direct ad revenue, CPC and affiliate sales

Honeyplex Business = $201

Mostly Ebook sales

Expenses = $909.28

Lots of expenses. Purchase an expensive domain, and starting to outsource linkbuilding

Lessons:

Checkout www.indinero.com for auto tracking of your revenues and expenses
Odesk has great cost for linkbuilders
Always negotiate for domain price from existing owners – they wouldn’t be talking to you if they didn’t want to sell

August 2011 Income Report

alphawolf — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:56:57 +0000

August ~$1600 / 2 = $800.45 + 747.55 = $1548 – 345.46 = $1202.54

ACP Business (I have 1 partner who owns 50% equity) – $1600 / 2

8/31/11 – $250.00 – direct ad revenue
8/31/11 – $72.25 – clickbank
8/19/11 – $128.30 – affiliate sales
8/17/11 – $62.57 – clickbank
8/17/11 – $16 – affiliate sales
8/4/11 – $492.25 – affiliate sales
8/3/11 – $186.04 – clickbank
8/3/11 – $34.00 – affiliate sales
8/2/11 – $359.50 – affiliate sales

Honeyplex Business – $747.55 (I own 100% equity)

8/31/11 – $155.21 – Ebook sales
8/18/11 – $309.21 – Ebook sales
8/3/11 – $283.13 – Ebook sales

Expenses: $345.46 – All my expenses related to the business

8/28/11 – $59.13 elance work
8/23/11 – $28.50 elance work
8/16/11 – $20 – server hosting (faster server)
8/14/11 – $44.94 – elance work
8/2/11 – $46.03 – elance work
8/2/11 – $193.80 aweber – 1 year prepaid

Lessons:

Good business partners are hard to find as they are. Furthermore, you need to find someone who can put into the business the same effort as you do. If this criteria is not met, it can be the source of much frustration and arguments. Furthermore, you need to find someone who has a different skill set than you. Unless the partnership can add more value than the two combined, (more than 50% each), eventually one of the partners will start feeling like he or she can make more on their own. Therefore, find good partners and do it on a trial basis to begin with.
Setup a bank account early and learn to funnel your money effectively into that channel. A good control on cashflow ensures business flexibility and fluidity.
There were a lot more expenses now that I do not have a tech partner, which means I need to outsouce my work. I also signed up for a separate aweber account and that costs a lot because it was prepaid for 12 months.
Overall though, the expenses are far less than the total 50% cost of the equity ownership in the previous agreement.

July 2011 Income Report

alphawolf — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:00:17 +0000

July ($1070.86)

7/24/11 – $10.00 – new affiliate test
7/20/11 – $20.87 – clickbank
7/20/11 – $129.74 – SWS
7/20/11 – $109.80 – Affiliate
7/9/11 – $147.00 – Affiliate
7/6/11 – $211.94 – SWS
7/6/11 – $77.76 – clickbank
7/6/11 – $363.75 – Affiliate

Lessons this month:

We only made about 1k this month, but a lot of the money came in during August 1-5 and we netted another 1k within 5 days. Sometimes your cash flow comes in later and you have to be ready to expect cash variances from month to month. As always, plan it out and make sure you have enough money to pay your expenses. Always have savings just in case.
The new affiliate product we tested wasn’t great, but we are getting record signups and building up a significant list.
This month I bought the Seduce With Style business, and going forward my main focus will be on growing that business, the sale of the ebook, and its subsequent upsell programs.

Style and Beauty at the Workplace: Do Good Looking Men and Women Make More Money?

alphawolf — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:57:41 +0000

Question: Do good looking men have it better in the workplace?

Answer:

Beauty is a big advantage in the bedroom, but it is also an advantage in the boardroom.

Although it does not approach racism or sexism in magnitude, lookism appears to be a form of discrimination in the workplace. And a silent one. No one thinks that has been offered a lower salary because he is short! Good-looking men are more likely to get hired at a higher salary, to be promoted faster than unattractive men – Nancy Etcoff

Despite physical limitations (height, facial features), style plays a big role in one’s stature at work. Of course, being lazy doesn’t help. Ultimately, a good work ethic and a mastery of your skill set will ensure proper and competitive employment at all times. All things being equal, the guy who looks the most masculine and in control gets the highest salary. Keep in mind that there are differences in company culture and we are speaking generally. At Google, for example, the geekiest engineer may control the higher salary.

Despite his jarring personality, Entourage agent Ari gold still commands a room with his tailor fit suits and dominant attitude

Question: What about for hot women at work (corporate white collar)?

Answer:

For women, the relation between appearance and success at work is less straight forward. Good-looking women and, like good-looking men, are more likely to be hired to receive higher salaries. But this is not always true.

A few studies show that good-looking women actually fare worse than plainer women and that looks in a woman can “backfire”. One explanation is that good-looking people of either sex get more “sex-typed”. Good-looking men look masculine and good-looking women look very feminine (physically, not in their clothes). This helps a man, who is assumed to be powerful, in the know, and independent, but it hurts women, whose appearance brings the unwanted assumption that they may be submissive and overly sexual rather than tough and decisive. However women’s looks are “read”, they don’t advertise the kind of qualities sought by management teams.

The economics of being female are never really advantageous. A good looking-woman with career aspirations may be penalised for her looks because she is assumed to be too feminine to do a highly powered job efficiently. She may be sexually harrassed by men met, and envied and left out by other women.

But it is homely women and who are truly disadvantaged economically — they are less likely to get hired or to earn competitive salaries at work. They are less likely to marry, and less likely if they do marry to marry a man with resources. These facts alone drive high consumption of beauty products. It may not always pay to look great but it pays to look average – Nancy Etcoff

I would add that this differs in places in nightclubs or bars. Hot women get tipped more, and command more attention through their looks. Strippers, waitresses, actresses and those in the entertainment industry would qualify.

hooters girls and waitresses command higher tips with their looks and charm

Eric Schmidt, Ex-CEO of Google, despite his computer science background and somewhat geeky glasses, commands great respect in the Googleplex culture. Voted one of the CEOs with the highest employee approval ratings among Fortune 500 companies.

My Interview with Ryker Koh on Style, Dating White Girls, and Making Money

alphawolf — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:49:13 +0000

AlphaWolf Style Interview

Interviewer: Ryker Koh
Guest: AlphaWolf (Vince Lin)
Date: June 2011
Subject: Dating White Girls, Interracial Dating, Racism in the US, Style, Men’s Style, and Making Money Online!
References: White Girls With Asian Guys, Men’s Style Seducing With Style

June 2011 Income Report

alphawolf — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:02:01 +0000

June Net Income: $810.64

June ($1770.27)

6/22/11 – $150.35 – clickbank
6/22/11 – $211.57 – product sell
6/21/11 – $91.30 – affiliate
6/20/11 – $33.95 – affiliate
6/13/11 – $450 – direct ad
6/8/11 – $42.18 – clickbank
6/8/11 – $153.00 – product sell
6/3/11 – $444.00 – affiliate
6/2/11 – $160.00 – affiliate
6/1/11 – $34.00 – affiliate

Expenses: - $149

5/38/11 – $49 – Aweber
6/13/11 – $100 – zippykid hosting

Lessons:

We migrated to a faster hosting company this month. The difference is phenomenal. No longer do users have to wait 9-20 seconds for PUA Lingo to load. As such, I realized that we should have done this sooner. Our traffic spiked and has maintained higher rates than before as people search more pages. It also allows us to edit posts and access the FTP faster.
We haven’d done much proactive building this month on the business. Mainly due to my commitments to help out another fellow PUA and also, my partner’s time into salsa. As such this business right now is a “true passive income” mode. We are reminded of how lucky we are to have this, and how amazing it would be to eventually have a passive income stream in the hundreds of thousands per month.