Making Money As A Blogging Woodworker
Larry | February 22, 2010
I’ve been a blogger for a bit more than a year. I never thought of it as a money-making venture and, in fact, it’s lived up to those expectations. But if you’re on the Internet you can’t help but notice that there are lots of people making, or at least claiming to make, lots of money from their activities.
The “big-money-made-by-blogging” thing is has exploded in popularity as those who have lost jobs due to the Wall St. debacle have flooded the Internet with websites and blogs telling us how they can teach us to make lots of money. Who’da thunk that a recession could create so many experts who know how to get rich? Anyways, these folks hawk courses, eBooks and themselves as they will teach you the obvious while pushing your “get rich quick” buttons.
So I figure, why not? I’m a smart guy..sort of…so why shouldn’t I make lots of money too? I’m going to give you an advance glimpse into my own money-making venture. As a loyal Wood’n Bits reader I’ll give you a peek at my program that will let you benefit even before any of my break through program is available as an online course and eBook. Everyone else will have to wait as they don’t yet know of the Wood’n Bits greatness like you guys do.
I call my new program the NutriSawz-Um Fitness Program. Imagine achieving these results while continuing to eat pizza, drink beer, and helping out Frito-Lay stockholders. No need to shun desserts and there are no expensive gym memberships involved either. My program will attack these biological realities:
Calories In > Calories Out —> Weight Gain
Calories Out > Calories In —> Weight Loss
I know it’s complicated but my NutriSawz-Um Fitness Program will make it easy. I’ll show you how to lose weight, make stuff for your house, and you’ll never have to use a Nautilus machine, those silly elastic bands, or spend money on diet books.
While it wouldn’t make sense to give away my entire program now that I’ve got you all excited to buy it and become my disciple, because you’ve been so supportive of Wood’n Bits I will provide a couple hints.
There are actually two workout stations required for the complete NutriSawz-Um Fitness Program workout. The Sawz-Um Station, from which the program gets its name, requires at least one saw and saw bench. The wood pieces on the shop bents are an additional side-benefit to this program and in this case, these pieces will become a couple of vanity cabinets. Calories burned? I estimate about a gazillion but my program doesn’t count calories as big numbers make my brain hurt. With the purchase of the NutriSawz-Um Fitness Program you’ll receive plans for 10 complete projects that will help guide you to success.
This is station two, the Planz-Um Station. Here you will burn calories, tone smaller muscles as you maintain plane orientation and build muscle mass as you push a big hunk of metal along a wood edge or face. To those of you who want to start accumulating the workout equipment, I’d recommend a long straight-edge, a square, and a jointer plane. Oh…the entire NutriSawz-Um Fitness Program benefits from an iPod and your favorite tunes.
The other half of the NutriSawz-Um Fitness Program is to gain control of your diet. Throw your Atkin’s and Suzanne Summers diet books away. You have to make choices here and it’s not easy, but traditional diet books won’t help. I need to line up some celebrities to promote the program and their diets may assist you in your decision-making. In the mean time, Bob Easton, world-renowned woodworker, eats a lot of Snicker’s bars. In reading their work I surmise that Chris Schwarz (aka – “The Schwarz”) and Roy Underhill (aka – “King Roy”) prefer thinner foods made from barley and hops. For myself, I’m something of a beer and pizza kind of guy but donuts will do in a pinch. Whatever your choices, make sure you eat a lot of it. The NutriSawz-Um Fitness Program requires it.
Cheers — Larry
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