I think I will be occupied for awhile! She is amazing and I love everything about her! Maybe I’ll post more in the coming weeks/months

I only bring up this point because I talked about going to Uganda Africa to build a pig farm and many of my visitors since those first post have been people begging me to give them money or to help them start a pig farm somewhere in Africa. I did go to Uganda in the summer of 2009 and had a 45 foot by 15 foot building built to raise pigs. The farm is about an hours drive outside of the capital city of Kampala Uganda. It always depends on the condition of the roads because any road off the main road to Kampala is dirt with rather large ruts. After a few rain showers and you will be fording small rivers in the roads making your travel time to the pig farm much longer.

The purpose of this pig farm is to help support orphanages that are being built by a non profit organization that has been in Uganda for the past 22 years. The idea was to build a pig farm to generate money to help start other businesses throughout Uganda. These businesses would then generate enough capital to support the overall cause of raising orphans and to better help these people’s lives. It was a project that made sense, so I asked a few friends who donated money and in 2009 I brought with me $3,500 to build the farm.

I visited the pig farm a few weeks ago, May 2010 and their biggest complaint was that they needed more room. With six large pigs, four girls and two boys, one had just given birth to 10 piglets and three others were about to give birth. One of the obstacles, and there are many, is to teach these Africans to take the money from selling piglets to buy food, medicine and to start building onto the current structure. Instead of relying upon or always asking for money, they need to start using the resources they have to get the job done. In the America if we need to expand our business we either take the profits we have and build, or we go to the bank and get a loan. In Africa its something that needs to be taught.

Feeding the pigs is one of the biggest headaches right now. Cost of feed keeps going up and for a bag of Bran, it cost around 30,000 shillings (the current exchange rate is 2,233 shillings to the US dollar, the highest I have seen it). This could make a bag of Bran cost $13.44 and the bags usually last one week. We had planted Matoke trees around the piggery to help feed the pigs when those trees started producing its fruit. Another resource we are looking to plant are sweet potatoes to help supplement the food the pigs eat. Eventually we want the pig farm to be completely supported by the land and not outside food sources. This is also something that needs to be taught to the Africans because they expect the white man to pay for everything, including food.

Matoke Field

I write all of these because I do get request for help, to send money to help someone start a piggery. I understand its difficult and I had to start a business with very little, but once you start something continue to grow it and expand and eventually you will have a successful and unstoppable business.

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Those where just three of the top programs I was in back in 1999. This was all right before the Dot Com Boom and when I was still in high school. I once won $1000, had a referral downline of over 5,000 people and was making pennies every hour! Boy did I think I was living the life back then. If you don’t know how those ‘paid to surf’ programs worked, you basically had to download a toolbar onto your computer and run the bar when you surfed the internet. Every hour you surfed you would get credit. Advertisers would pay the company to show their ads, which then they would split the profits with the people. This kind of advertising would never work, because ‘forced’ advertising will never work, not then, not today and never in the future. Ads that I saw never interested me so it was just a waste of money for the advertiser, the biggest reason why those programs all failed during the Dot Com Boom.

Right after I made about $2000 doing nothing online I started looking at other ways to make money. I looked at starting an online store (which failed because I knew nothing about what I was doing). I also looked at selling on eBay, which took off and did well for about two years.

What I did not know back in those early days was that they would lead me to where I am now. From making money online, ‘paid to surf’ sites, affiliate marketing, ebay, forex and now ecommerce and small niche sites that make me money, I have been doing this for years. I have learned what works and what does not work. I am no geneous and definitely no guru, but if you do listen to me and follow me I will try to share my wisdom about making money online.

I believe the internet levels the playing field and that anyone who puts time and effort into making money online will eventually make something. I have learned that the more time and effort you put into building a business online, the more you will succeed. I dabbled in Forex for about a year and was on a crazy roller coaster ride with it. I eventually realized that I wanted my life to be more stable than the ups and downs to forex trading. I made money and I lost money with Forex.

I now own a few online stores, a few small niche sites in the tattoo market and this blog. The online stores pay the bills and the small niche tattoo sites are being built to pay for a car and house. One of the first tattoo sites that I built back in 2006 has been making between $400-$800/month since 2008. I plan on sharing everything I know in this blog so that one day you can also make money online, just like me!