What Do You Need Help With?

by Chris Hughes on January 27, 2012


Some of the ideas I have are out there. Ideas like hiring me for a week have turned into pretty cool little adventures for me. (PS- you can still hire me for a week if you’d like. I haven’t traveled anywhere in a while and would love to venture outside of Florida again soon)

Well, I decided that I want to do something else that’s a little crazy.

I want to find a way to help you out.

As you may or may not know, I’m obsessed with learning and read constantly. I’m reading Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi right now and he talks about the value of the relationships you have with people. I try to implement things I learn immediately to see how well they work. To be honest, they usually work out really well and end  up teaching me quite a bit.

So, yet another experiment comes out of the crazy brain that’s inside of my head.

I want to know exactly what you need help with.

Seriously.

If you need a website designed, let me know.

If you need SEO work done on your site, let me know.

If you need someone to teach you how to dougie, let me know. I know of a how to dougie video on youtube I can show you ;)

Haha, but really… I have a huge network of people that I know that are willing and able to help you out.

What Do I Get Out Of This?

I do appreciate that you’d think of me in a time like this, but who cares what I get at this point. This is about you and helping you out.

My business is coming along great and each month it is improving. The reason it is constantly improving is because of the people I meet, the connections I make and people like you who help me when I need help.

Now it’s time that I start giving back even more.

I want to turn this post into a sort of “Help Me” section for you.

If you need help with a specific thing, let me know in the comments below. I’m willing to bet that I personally know someone who can help you, or one of my readers will be able to help you find someone who can help you out.

So Tell Me….What Do YOU Need Help With?

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Why I’m Switching: HostGator to BlueHost

by Chris Hughes on January 23, 2012


I manage a lot of websites.

Especially since I started creating affiliate blogs.

With those affiliate blogs, I need to have every one of those little sites up and running every single day, all day long.

If I don’t have that site up and running and someone goes to the site that I personally recommend and put my stamp of approval on and that site is down…I lose credibility.

If I put my time into creating something or finding a site that I believe will be of value to my readers, I expect that site to work 100% of the time. Not 95% of the time.

Not 97% of the time.

Not even 99% of the time.

That site better be up 100% of the time.

HostGator didn’t do that for me. Well, they used to.

But it really wasn’t 100% of the time then either. It was more like 97% but it didn’t bother me because I didn’t have all those affiliate blogs up and running and making me money.

Now that those sites make sales at all hours of the day, they need to be up. If they aren’t, I miss out on money.

I spent time building those sites, writing content that helped people and monetizing those sites so that they would make me money.

I followed a specific system and it was working.

When one part of the system breaks, the whole thing breaks.

HostGator was apparently the weakest link, goodbye.

Anyway, I’m switching all of my sites over to BlueHost and will hopefully have a great experience with them.

You can learn more about BlueHost here. I should probably write about why I’m choosing them as my new host…

I’ll do that in another blog.

/end rant

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I Won a MacBook Air and You Can Too!

by Chris Hughes on January 18, 2012


Last month I entered the Mobile Money Bandit affiliate contest. It was a contest to help promote the Mobile Money Bandit “Tap N Talk” marketing.

This was the first time i’ve won something that made my jaw truly drop. I won a brand new MacBook Air!!!!

I spent a good amount of time promoting this, creating blog posts, videos, sharing it on social media sites and working with others to become a point leader in the contest. It’s honestly amazing what a little bit of work and some effort can do.

Just remember that when you work hard, good things do happen. It doesn’t always happen right away, but if you continue to do good things for other people you often end up receiving good things :)

I’m so grateful for winning this contest, but winning this has simply motivated me to do more, work smarter, and win more contests like these!

Check out the video of it’s arrival:

 

Click Here to Join the Contest

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Bring Yarik Home – Help Spread a Great Message

by Chris Hughes on January 15, 2012


Lately I’ve been in a “I want to help people” mode. The past few posts here have been about finding ways to help other people and spread other people’s messages.

Think I’m crazy for trying to help other people? Good. I am.

The other day while I was at one of my part-time jobs and I started talking with one of the girls who I work with. Little did I know, she was doing something that I admire a lot. Her husband and her were on a mission to adopt a boy from the Ukraine.

People who do things like this honestly have hearts of gold and I admire them…a lot.

The problem was that they need to raise $30,000 to get him over to the US. That’s quite a bit of money to raise when you think about the average salary of someone in the US.

Who is Yarik?

Before you continue reading, I want you to learn a little bit about Yarik. This was taken from Bring Yarik Home‘s website:

“Yarik is an 8 year old orphan from Ukraine who was fortunate enough to be part of a group of children that came to the United States for a 3 week stay over the holidays. During his stay with a wonderful family (The Melnicks), we were able meet and spend time with him. Over the course of the three week stay, we developed a special place in our hearts for little Yarik. We have decided to move forward with adopting him and bringing him back to the United States to his forever home. The process we are about to embark on will be a very costly and time consuming one. We are asking for the support and prayers of all of our friends and family while we continue this process and eventually bring Yarik home. ”

How I Want to Help

Alright so I want to help Jenn and Paul. I don’t have $30,000 to just give them to adopt, but I do have a specific skill set that I can use. I’m very good at Internet Marketing and creating simple web sites that can be used for small businesses. What better way to help them then by giving away a website in exchange for a donation?

I have a very limited amount of time, but can build 1 website for a small business this month. I charge $500 for websites that I create with 50% paid up-front and 50% upon completion. That is a very good deal for anyone who wants to have a website completed. There may be some extra charges if you want to have a new logo created for your business and have a graphics package, but the average cost is $500. The logo and graphics will bump the price up to $600.

If you know of any businesses that need a new website, I would love to create it for them as long as they are willing to use the money to go towards bringing Yarik home.

How You Can Help

There are a few ways that you can help. One of the simplest and easy ways you can help is to just share this post on Facebook or Twitter. This will spread the message and help more people see this.

You can choose to donate $5 or $10 on the donation page here > Ways to Help Bring Yarik Home

 

 

(I just donated)

You can contact me by leaving a comment below and buy that $500 website package. I will then donate the money on behalf of my company, Brain Smart Success.

I hope to help Jenn and Paul get this kid because Jenn has a heart of gold and although I haven’t met Paul, I can pretty much guarantee he does too. Please help spread the message and help.

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WaterForward: The Clean Water Movement

January 6, 2012

The other day I sent out a tweet that said that I’d like to help give back $5,000 this year to meaningful causes. When I sent this, I received a message from Adam Haun and he said he had something that I might be interested in helping with. He sent me over an email with information [...]

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