It’s been ages since I’ve posted here. I know. Don’t get me wrong, not due to a lack of interest, more or less no time and to much going on. Since the beginning of September, I’ve traveled like crazy. From Dublin, to London, Curacao and London again. Enough to write about, just no time.

Anyway, something cool came up two days ago, which I wanted to post here.

I was able to visit my new apartment again, and boy is it coming together. I bet that for all you people it’s just a pile of crap and dust. But I love this place already. I took my parents up there, so this was the first time they got to see where I’ll be moving into in a couple of months. I was kinda stumbling around there, cause I was operated on my toe one day earlier. So sorry for the shaky camera movements..

The camera performs great with a good light source, which wasn’t here so that made it all a bit difficult. I tried to brush it up with Pinnacle Studio Plus 11, since this is the only editor currently supporting AVCHD files. If anyone has experience with that, please drop me a line. Well at least we know the night vision mode is working

For a couple of years now, American Express has served as my loyal business partner and up until now I’ve never said anything but good stuff about them; But that’s changed now.

After Mastercard and Visa, American Express is the biggest Credit Card issuer in the world. Taking on a smaller issuer as a partner has proven to provide me with a little extra flexibility. As a company I spend over $450.000 USD per month on numerous of ventures. Seeing my uncommon situation, I’ve had nothing but respect for AMEX for taking such a professional and supportive attitude. I told my business partners, I told my friends and a few of my friends ordered an American Express card because of that.

Now all of a sudden, without zero communication their Financial department blocked my cards for over-exposure. At least that was their initial analysis. This heavenly fairytale has been going on for over a week now, and it’s going from authentication problems to talk about bank statements.

I’m not as cocky that I expect a red carpet for every service, but I do expect a company to take care of it’s big clients. Definitely considering that this is for corporate use and you are actually influencing revenue margins and therefor profit numbers.

It looks like the worst is behind us now, but it will definitely be a wile before you’ll hear some recommendations from me again..

One of my friends just sent me a blogpost about the Japanese sewer, interesting.. but when I browsed his site for a bit I found an interesting post about sleeping positions. Admitting to be a big fan of the cudly sleeping myself, this is a fun read.

Check it out here

Just a week ago, I got back from my summer Holiday vacation in Rimini, Italy. As promised last year, it was sure we were going camping again. Not sure what to expect we had an amazing holiday !

Right before we left Utrecht, I checked with Vakantiereiswijzer.nl (a dutch version of tripadvisor) and our camping got slaughtered by all the negative comments. Even though I was telling people horror stories about us camping in the jungle and eating bugs for survival it turned out we had a great washroombuilding with clean showers and extensive toilets.

Our trip began in Rome, where we stayed for three days to check out the Coloseum (impressive), For a Roma, the Vatican and some other must-see-places. Btw, thumbs up for TomTom for creating an almost flawless product which showed us around town like is 70 year old veteran tour guide.

After having to pay 65 euro fee ($90 USD) at the pike, for not grabbing a ticket at the entrance, we were heading for Rimini. Or actually we were heading for Riccione,it’s a little smaller village right next to Rimini.

The camping was awesome..we did a lot of… NOTHING. That’s right baby, we did nothing at all ! And boy did it fell good. I managed to work only a little this year, and for the first time did not think about work to much. 1 – 0 for Rimini in my book..

Camping life is great, everybody is sitting on a piece of dirt. And because everybody forgets stuff from home, it’s almost inevitable to borrow stuff from each other, which of course is an easy conversation maker. So like within a day or less, you already know a lot of people, and truth been told; All of them are fun people; I especially like the part where everybody sits in front of their tent each morning, around 08.00 AM complaining about their hangover and the fact that the sun burned them out of their tents. Just sitting there and seeing people getting up, feeling fucked up is worth getting some Popcorn.

Last day of our booked camping time, we had - had it with the early wake up burn too and decided to go to Florence to do some chilling at a reasonable Hotel and then had for the Netherlands as planned, the next day. I actually wanted to go to Pisa, to see the tower of Pisa (which for some reason I thought was in Rome lol) but we had no road fee ticket for Switserland so that was out of the window.

Last but not least I do feel that Camping Riccione can use, and has earned a better reputation. So all the freaks that stayed here. Do what you have to do and give them some better comments.

Checkout the compilation movie of our Holiday below ! Be patient while the movie loads, the movie is on a fast server but is almost 100mb, and in addition to that.. I have a lot of fans

A little over a week ago, I aged another year. Wise as I am, I now get to put 24 on all my forms instead of 23.

When you were 15, you were looking forward to become 16 because you got to drive a scooter. When you were 17 you were looking forward to become 18, so you could drive a car. After that comes financial independence at the age of 21, but after that,.. it’s nothing.

But that’s not going to get me down, I’m on my happy way to 25 and wonder if I will be more grown-up next year.. we’ll see

Here are some shots of the celebration with my family.

Oh yeah, after being on the receiving end of cease and desist letters and other heuristic crap I’m finally on the prosecuting end

That’s right.. I’m suing !

About a year ago, I paid a programmer to do some work for one of my landing pages. The dude got sick and got hospitalized for a couple of months. In January I got an e-mail from him where he told me he wanted to make things right and he would install stuff next week. I didn’t hear stuff from him, and I contacted him again. This went back and forth for about four months, where get sick and stuff in between. About two weeks ago, I saw his name pop up somewhere on the boards. Apparently he owed some company over 10k.

I was tricked and scammed all along, he was not sick. Other companies were his victimized as well.

Since I’m overseas it makes it a bit harder to get my money back, but I’ve now hired an international collecting firm, and they mean business.

I was patient, respectful and understand. Now I’m coming after you moron !

Die Hard, is the necessary obligatory movie for every healthy dude.

Bruce Willis started kicking ass with his first movie back in 1988 and it was awesome. I was 5 years old and my mom let me watch all this violence. Guess we know where all this emotional scaring is coming from huh

2 years later John McClane, blew up some other terrorists and 5 Years later some dude wanted to take vengeance and send him into Harlem with a white board saying “I hate niggers” lol.

Now  12 years after the last chapter, John McClane is back to kick some new terrorist ass. “Live Free or Die Hard” looks like a really good turn-your-brain-off action movie.

Check out the trailer here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/livefreeordiehard/

Yesterday I received a colored sketch from my Interior Architect to give me an impression of what the interior is going to be looking like.

The whole place is finally coming together, and with a little delay on the building site, I just extended my current place for two more months so I can move my stuff without all the hassle. Even though my friends want me to stay here, I cannot wait to get settled in. For me, this has been a 2 year project of the first real money I made, and a huge learning process. But I’ll save the EMO talk for my house warming party

Here’s the sketch..

Losing money is never fun, it just sucks.. But in this industry you always have to invest to see if you can make money on some items or not.

Being one of the bigger affiliate I only go for the big money, since one big cash cow is easier to manage then 20 smaller ones. Per performance marketing basically means that the responsibly lies with the affiliate to make money, which is a good concept compared to flat rate marketing. But it doesn’t always mean YOU make money and sometimes this doesn’t even have to be your fault. Which can make it even worse if you don’t have any grib on the situation.

Let’s say your clients conversion is starting to drop. What can you do about that ? Nothing..

Don’t forget, you client is still monetizing your traffic, as he is always paying you less then he makes on the lead or sale. So who ends up with the loss? That’s right.. You.

I’ve found some clients generous enough to reimburse you for lost sales, but a lot of them don’t do that. I guess what I’m trying to say that after you have lost a month worth of profits and sales still don’t pick up. You need to draw the line, screw traffic numbers or sales amounts. Just monetize everything again and make sure that you start earning some money again and not your client alone..

Just got back from spending a long weekend in Paris with Christine. In April I already went for the Ad Tech show, and did some small sight-seeing but now I revisited to see if Paris is really the city of love..

After a delayed flight at Amsterdam airport we flew the Paris, right in the middle of bad weather. I was hoping on some bad turbulence to see Christine wet her pants But unfortunately we had a nice soft landing. Because if Paris most efficient we arrived at our Hotel right near the Arc the Triomph after two hours of dragging a 30kg, marked as heavy suitcase from track-to-track. This must have at least cost me 3 years of my life..

The Hilton sweet-sleeper beds were comfortable as hell, and I went down the minute I touched it. Next day we got up early to see the Montmartre, which is the artist neighbourhood of Paris, which had a really good atmosphere.

Later that night we went to the student district where we had dinner, and Christine ran into an old friend. We had the cheapest dinner ever; 2x 3 course meal and 2 bottles of cheap-and-going-to-give-you-a-hangover Rose for only 28 Euro’s (38 Dollar).

We were drunk as shit, so we decided to go to a Salsa bar. Obviously we rocked the place, because we kept getting more room on the dance floor. Now that I think about it, this might also be due to the fact that we kept stepping on toes and kept bumping other people away

The next day I was obligated to attend a romantic picknick in the park, which turned out to be kind of fun when I emptied an ice-cold bottle of Vitel over my tanning Girlfriend (See pictures)

After that we climbed 284 stairs, to the top of the Arc the Triomph, which almost killed my hip on the 283rd step.

As a surprise I had booked a romantic, modern-chique restaurant with a great view over Paris for the night. I enjoyed some very fine Filet Mignon (as always) and Christine had the best grilled duck I ever had. After that we went for a closer-look of the Eifel tower, and I almost puked my guts out in a merry-go-arround, carrousel.

After waking up the next morning, we went to the Louvre which was enormous !! and I saw the Mona Lisa, man I’ve never seen so many monkey’s look at a painting the size of toilet paper before. I don’t wanna butcher a great painting, but come on, it wasn’t that special.

So what else is new ?

• I got tired of all the sweet things, so to keep up my though manhood I now refer to everything sweet as “gay”
• Christine owes me 2 cinamon candy sticks
• We are never moving to Paris
• Christine has started talking about herself in the third person format

and last but not least, she now loves me even more then before we left

Anyway, check out the picture HERE