Uruguay…I truly hope to make this my Home one day!

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HOW I MAKE MONEY ONLINE – THE JOY OF MAKING MONEY WHILE I SLEEP!

Hello Everyone! Summer is finally here and you all know what that means…Sheila Brown aka The Onyxtraveler is traveling again. Whoo Hoo! My summer travel season officially started on May 15th, 2010 when I left my home in Austin, Texas and headed West to Los Angeles for a month of fun. Actually, my motivation for coming to LA was to clean out my storage unit I obtained to hold my remaining possessions. These are my collections that I said I would never get rid of. Well, guess what, after a year of not thinking about any of those items, it’s time to purge. I’ve spent the past 4 weeks selling a good portion of my collectibles and also giving away a huge portion. I’ve so enjoyed myself here in Sunny Southern California, that I’ve decided to spend another 6 weeks here and leave the first week of August to head to Glacier Park, Montana for a few weeks of fun. Actually, I’ve decided to travel for the next 12 months straight. I’ve used my time here in LA to plan out my travels thru May 2011!!

This leads me to the purpose of writing this post. The one question that people ask me all the time (and if they don’t ask, they definitely want to) is “How in the world do you make money to travel & have your fun life if you don’t have a job????” I am a very private person, so I NEVER EVER EVER answer this question directly until now. The truth is, I do internet marketing. I use MANY different strategies to make money online, but I will only reveal one in this post. One very successful strategy that I employ is the creation of blogs that run “automatically” in many different niches. I discovered this strategy and most importantly, discovered my teacher, Mike Johnson, in February of 2010. I loved the idea of basically having hundreds of ATM’s aka websites out there making me money 24/7 once I set them up correctly. Trust me when I tell you that there is no better feeling in the world than to make money while you sleep!! As I was psycho busy traveling for my then client, I was only able to set up a handful of blogs, but they are a VERY profitable handful (I’ve chosen my niches very well). I’ve since gotten back to my original goal of setting up a very large number of them every quarter. Think about it, if you have one site out there that is generating $10 – $100 a day (and this is VERY attainable), imagine if you multiplied that by 100 sites, 200 sites!! Crazy right!! Imagine what it would feel like to make $3,000 a month on autopilot? Mike is now up in the $30k – $40k per month range after doing this for 18 months. That is of course, not to say you will have the same results, because you have to actually do the WORK to actually make money. Novel concept, I know.

I am sharing this information with you because my brilliant teacher, Mike Johnson, has re-opened access to the course that I purchased back in February that taught me, step-by-step, this profitable strategy. The version that I learned was his Auto Blog Blueprint 1.0 course. He closed access to the course back in early April for 2 reasons: 1. he wants to limit access to the information to be able to work directly with his students and 2. he decided to release a 2.0 version with even more POWERFUL, money making AutoBlog strategies. After waiting with baited breath for 2 months, I was given early access to version 2.0 and OMG…IT IS KILLER!! So much so, that one of the main motivators for me suddenly deciding to stay put in LA for an additional 6 weeks is so that I can use this time to implement his new, super tactics and reach my goal of having xxx # of sites up and running and financing my 12 months of travel! Man, this version was worth the wait and then some!!

Since you all follow my travels and I do keep getting the question, I decided to become an affiliate for Mike’s course and share this information with you. He launched Auto Blog Blueprint 2.0 today and is limiting access to only 1,200 new people. This is not a scarcity tactic. He is serious and he will shut it down once he reaches that number. He added 400 members last night in a pre-launch event, so space is limited. Currently, the price for Auto Blog Blueprint 2.0 is $97.00, but because I am one of his early users, I have been given a $20.00 discount coupon for you to use, so the cost will only be $77.00. He launched at 6:00pm CST tonight and the coupon is limited to the first 300 that purchase and will not be valid if that number has been reached. As of June 29th, 2010, it will be $147.00. This content in invaluable no matter what price you get in at, but why wait?? BUY IT NOW!! If you ever wanted to know how to make money online, this is THE course to get. I have never promoted an Internet Marketing course because so many of them are pie-in-the-sky B.S. I am sharing this one with you because I do use it and am making money with it. This is one of the main platforms in which I am building out in my total Internet Marketing strategy.

If you are interested in purchasing this course, and if you are smart, YOU WILL DO IT NOW, then CLICK THIS LINK NOW to purchase & input COUPON CODE: 947DE9483F or CLICK ON THE PICTURE BELOW. As I mentioned, I am an affiliate for this product and by purchasing thru MY LINK, I will be compensated. Your time really is limited, so do not miss out!

I want to hear about your successes when you implement what you learn. Make sure you Facebook me and keep me posted on your progress. I’ll be sharing mine once I start hitting some major financial milestones with this strategy at the end of 90 days! Go out there and PROSPER everyone!! Stop WISHING you could have the life of your dreams and now, actually do something to ACHIEVE IT!! I HAVE!! XOXO

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Montreal Canada – I love Canada!

Hello Everyone. I believe this is my first official post of the new year. Damn! Sorry ya’ll. Not much has been going on except for me working hard for my client. They send me out of town every week to a new city to do consulting projects, so the traveling has been a bit out of control. Combine that with the fact that I am still exploring and totally loving my new home city, Austin Texas, and it adds up to Sheila ignoring my blog.

I am truly blessed to have manifested a consulting client that pays me to travel & do really cool work for them. In the past 6 months, I have been sent to Los Angeles, Kansas City, Saint Louis, Phoenix, Baltimore, Boston, Atlanta, Savannah, New York, Vermont, Denver, Houston, Nashville & Wisconsin. In the midst of all of this business travel, I have had the opportunity to sneak in a few vacations. Ya’ll know how I roll! LOL I went home to Kansas City for my birthday, McAllen, Texas for Thanksgiving and Christmas, Dallas to chill, Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival and I just returned from Montreal Canada. Montreal rocked and during my amazing time there, I was inspired to start blogging again. Please allow me to fill you in on this amazing city.

My client sent me to Burlington, Vermont last week to work and in looking at the map, I discovered that Montreal was very close to VT. I determined that if I worked my ass off to complete my consulting work, I could free up at least 24 hours to drive 1 1/2 hours to Montreal and explore the city. I finished up my work Thursday evening around 6pm and hit the road North. After a quick stop at customs for the obligatory “why are you going to Canada” questions, I was off. I arrived into Montreal around 8pm. Since I live in hotels Monday – Friday, I decided to book a hostel to stay in. I’m going to write a separate post about the joys of staying in hostels that I hope you all enjoy. After checking ratings on www.hostelworld.com…, I decided to book space in a 12 bed room for $20.00 a night at The Le Jazz Hostel Saint Denis in the Latin Quarter area of Montreal. As I knew absolutely nothing about Montreal, I chose this hostel based on previous ratings from other guests and also because staying in an area called The Latin Quarter had to have some flavor and energy right?

I definitely made the right choice in Hostels. I was in the heart of a very vibrant and happening part of town. Tons of restaurants, bars, people in the streets and partying. Upon getting checked in and entering my room, I met one of my roommates Mili. He was a mega cool Asian dude that had just moved to Montreal from Vancouver. As I was hungry as hell, I asked him if he wanted to join me for dinner and we headed off to find a great restaurant. We ended up at a Mexican restaurant called Three Amigos and got our grub on! Mili had never had a margarita before, so I suggested he get the Cadillac Margarita, which was their strongest one. He was a little dude and he was drunk as hell when he finished it. Hilarious! After dinner, we walked back to the hostel and I crashed.

Whenever I am faced with the dilemma of being of being in a totally cool city with a very limited amount of time to explore, I follow a strategy that has never failed me. I make my way to the main Tourism office and book one of those red double decker bus, hop-on-hop-off tours. This works so well because it allow you to sit on the bus and let the tour guide tell you all about the city and sights while you take notes of the 3-4 things you want to go back and revisit. As it was the winter season, they did not have the hop-on-hop-off tours, so I booked a 3 hour bus tour that drove us all over the city with an amazing guide. During this tour, I learned some of the most fascinating facts about this city regarding its history, culture and lay of the land and completely fell in love with Montreal even though it was 20
freaking degrees and ya’ll know Mama does not do cold weather!!! LOL

Highlights: Montreal is a city in the Providence of Quebec. Because of the cold weather, Montreal has an underground city that runs for 33 kilometers. It is a series of tunnels mainly under the downtown that contains over 1,100 shops and restaurants. It connects buildings and also houses its subway system. It allows people to maneuver around when the temperature is below zero degrees. It was amazing! I also got to explore Old Town Montreal which is comprised of buildings built at the turn of the century. It is a popular, lively area for tourism with shops, restaurants and outdoor venues all along the water. We also hit Chinatown, the Latin Quarter, Notre Dame, the Olympic village and buildings, the Botanical gardens, museums, parks, etc… Montreal is definitely a summer city with MAJOR festivals occurring every week. It is a city that is built on tourism and truly loves tourists to visit. I felt incredibly welcome from every person I encountered. Montreal is a French speaking city and unlike snobby Paris, a huge majority of the citizens are also English speakers. Most of the signage was in both French and English. I loved hearing the beautiful French language being spoken, while being able maneuver around because they spoke English as well.

If Montreal is not on your list of cities to visit, please do yourself a favor and put it on there!! I am seriously toying with the idea of traveling around Quebec this summer as it is a part of Canada that I want to learn more about and fully experience as a result of being in Montreal. In my 28 hours there, I was able to walk over 5 miles exploring the city both above ground and underground, tour the entire city by bus, have awesome meals, meet incredibly warm people, go to a Blues club, stay in a great hostel and discover a new favorite city. Thanks Montreal. I cannot wait to return!

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Visiting Every Continent on the Planet

One of my big audacious life goals is to visit every continent by 12/31/10. Not sure if I’ll hit every single one, but if I can do at least 60%, I will be very happy. There are some it simply does not make common sense to visit due to political unrest, etc… but for those that it does make sense to visit, I will do my damndest to get to them in 2010. Per the map below, I was shocked to see that I have only visited 9% of the continents on the planet. I thought for sure that I had done more traveling than that. Oh well, I’m happy with that number.

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