Godaddy Goodbye

Baligena.com has transferred its domain name out of Godaddy.

Haha whats up with the discount until 12/29/11 Godaddy. I hate when companies act as if they're above their customers and when the shit hits the fan they come back apologizing, expecting everything to be alright. But its too late to apologize and if Godaddy is having a hard time understanding, below is a video that will help.



Baligena is now with namecheap.com because it's being mention alot from internet advocates such as techcrunch, hacker news and reddit. Also they are also apposed to SOPA and I their current slogan. Exercise your right. Yes, you're damn right I'm going to exercise it. They also have good prices.

I invite you to join me.
Click here for step by step instructions on how I did it.

Quote: Stick to it

Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO at Apple today. He is an inspiration to me and many others through his products, life and beliefs.

The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it. That’s somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That’s when you find out who you are and what your values are.
So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective. -Steve Jobs

Self-discipline

Simple definition to self-discipline

The ability to make yourself do, what you know you should do, when you should do it, when you feel like it or not. That's the difference between success and failer is whether you feel like it or not. -Brian Tracy

No off Season

When I wrestled in high school what separated the best wrestlers from the crap wrestlers was there was no such thing as an off season. We trained all year round.

Part of the season was training, competing, testing your skills and winning awards and the second part was just training. The first part was the funnest, most rewarding, shortest and the in season.

After the season ended more than a third of the team stopped training and came back when the "season" started back again. All those who did this eventually quit or achieved mediocre success. Whats great about an individual sport is that all the work you put in is exposed. There's no one to blame but yourself.

Whats separates the champion from the loser is sometimes "showing up". Working at your goal not only when you feel like it but when you don't, in season and out of season. Remember there's no such thing as an off season to the successful.

True Underdog

An underdog is a person or group who is popularly expected to lose.

YouTube Success

Internet is one of the best things that happened to mankind. To have the ability to build a business from scratch is liberating. Your internet success isn't determined by your weight, height, race, nationally, looks, gender, family background or your boss but by you.

Freddiew has been able to create a successful business by making youtube videos. He also shares his knowledge. Read his post on how to become a successfull youtuber.

As a side note, I think too many people get hung up on ideas. From my experience, ideas are worthless. Execution is more important than anything else -FreddieW

Coolest Website Design

There's always a trade off. A cool ass website and slow or boring website and fast. The one to use will be determine by your needs. Tijuana Flats is by far the coolest website design I've seen.

37 signals Blog

I spend hours reading their blog and enjoying their unordinary views of how to run a business.

Check them out

http://37signals.com/svn

Revenue means CRAP!

Companies measure success by quoting their revenue to the public but the bottom line is its all deception. Revenue (the amount of money exchanged) means nothing. I can teach a 5 year old kid how to created a million dollars in revenue.

Buy 2,000 iMac computers and sell it for $500 on eBay. You will sell those incredibly fast and easy, make $1 million in revenue but also $1.4 million in loses.

Instead of stating the amount of revenue give us the amount of profits. The amount of money left over after all the expenses have been paid.

Secret on how to Sell online

Ever wonder how to sell online. Here's the secret

JUST SELL!!!

Last year I decided to sell online but didn't know where to start. eBay seemed to be the best idea. It was more important to get started than to make a profit at the time.

So I looked around my table and spotted this cheap calculator, created an eBay Sellers account and guess what happened next. It didn't sell, and I posted other things that didn't sell either. Eventually I was able to sell a golf club. Once I sold my first item I was addicted and continue to sell and learn. Now I have made over $200 from the things lying around the house, expanded to Amazon.com, and now working on my online store.

Birds of a Feather

Business school always felt like a waste of time, effort and especially money. My professors made me uneasy because they taught how to run a business while they couldn't do it themselves.

The concept of setting a 5 year projection for a business that hasn't started never made sense. The notion that your business isn't successful because it won't appeal to venture capitalist made me cringe.

Is there a way to start a business without a load of money?

Is this school stuff a bunch of crap?

Am I the only one who FEELS THIS WAY?..........NO

What David Heinemeier Hansson writes and says feels like my mind speaking back to me. David is the creater of Ruby on Rails and a partner in a multi-million dollar company called 37 Signals that started from nothing. He is known for is controversial views and arrogance but what he says contain truth.

Leaving a trail.

I listened to an interview of Collis Taeed the creater of Envato on how he started his business. Something that caught my attention was when he was starting out in order to get initial traffic he would go on message boards and post a comment and leave his trail which was his website information. I have started couple of sites and in order to get traffic I did the same thing but I stopped. Now that I look back I made a mistake. The reason I stopped was because I thought it was wrong to beg people to check your site. If it is wrong? I don't want to be right. So for now on whenever I post something online I will put my website information.

Relationship vs Skills Job?

There's two type of jobs a skill job and a relationship job. People with the skill are those who really don't care if they fired because they know they can move on to another job that pays the same or more. However a relationship job is the job that if fired you are screwed. You move up the company because you been there for so long or because you know the boss or better you blew the boss. I'm tired of reading stories about people who lost there job and are complaining because they can't find what will allow them to the same thing with the same pay. Like watch youtube and surf facebook all day. They expect to be high paid babysitters for the rest of their lives and yes I'm talking to you managers. Anyone can do your job, you have no skill and if the company go bankrupt you're the next one to complain to the world. So stop your winning and complaining, how long did you expect watching youtube and facebook for a living was going to last

We control the world?

As more and more people become dependent on computers the more we developers are needed. From doctors office to garbage truck drivers they all use devices created by a programmer. We are everywhere. The device the doctors use to help them in their practice, was it a doctor that created it? NO. The movies you watch I created, the screen you see I created, phone you answer I created. I'm the creator, I'm a developer.

The wrong reason?

Love for money is the root of all evil. Quote from the bible. Money as a motivator to start a new venture it always seem to phase away. There's two schools of thought that says pay me and I'll be motivated to work or do what you love and you'll be motivated to work. Which is right? Sometimes what you love to do today is not what your love to do tomorrow though. Emotions and feeling change over time. Its something called "getting bored". It brings me back to the fact when I was a child I would get a new toy and it would be the best toy for me to neglected after a couple of days.

Honestly there's a lot out there doing what they love and broke. So what's wrong? I believe there must be a balance between love and hate. To simplify, I will relate it to excersizing. You hate to run but love to look good in that new outfit, which give you a sense of satisfaction. You hate your coach for pushing you too hard but love him for helping you will the championship. You should not love what you do all the time but you should not hate it either, again there's a need for a balance. If you want to be a champ you have to choose what you love but fight through the pain in which you hate.

Imagine how it will feel and let that be your motivator!

Why do you do?

Why do you learn how to program?

In case I get fired from my non skilled job at least I'll have a skill set to fall on. ha

Why did you make videos?

I believed I could make a business out of it but I also got so much satisfaction in making people laugh (damn it I think theres a bug in my ear). And its an excuse to get with friends.

Why are you learning how to build computers?

so you can make the best computer for the least amount of money and give you the ability to customize.

You have a good job be grateful for it, work to keep it but don't stop applying. Don't forget the reason your learning to program right now. Stop trying to be a billionaire. Have fun making videos. Use the slight edge (good book by Jeff Olson). A little a day or you just need to work harder.

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