So, remember when I wrote about how I may get $500 for 10 minutes of my time? Well, I swung for the fences and I whiffed and struck out. But it’s okay, I knew the odds were against me. So, here’s the story incase you guys haven’t heard about it or been following it.

Let me go on to say that I would actually like to congratulate Jonathan Volk… so, me damning him in the title, that was to get more attention. Obviously, I’m joking. Okay, now that I got that out of the way, let’s continue with the story.

Well, our buddies Tyler Cruz and Jonathan Volk had a competition/contest against each other on who could lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks. Of course, the loser would have to cough up $500 and if both of them didn’t meet the goal, they would both cough it up.

As you guys know, I voted against Jonathan but I didn’t just randomly pick, I had a theory and points on why I thought he would lose. Plus, I had to pick one person to officially enter the contest for a chance to win $500.

You can read my original post at “Working as an Online Entrepreneur = Weight Gain?”

So, it was going so good and I felt the $500 being sent to my Paypal account. I mean, he was like 4.5 pounds away like two days before the deadline. And of course, he worked out a lot more, starved himself, etc so he would succeed and not have to pay.

I have to give credit to both of them for losing the 10 pounds. Though, they probably worked extra, extra hard in the last week. Tyler made his goal too so he didn’t have to pay anyone.

It wasn’t a loss for me (even though $500 would have been nice) because I got a lot of recognition from simply entering the contest. I got link love from both parties and got my name and site out there in front of 4,500+ subscribers not including daily visitors (Tyler and Jonathan’s total put together).

And this all happened because I took 10 minutes out of my day to write a simple post. If you take initiative, you may or may not win big but you will definitely benefit from it nonetheless. I mean, my name and blog was mentioned quite a few times in front of thousands of readers. If I were to pay for a paid review, I would’ve sent hundreds of dollars… but I didn’t.

Lesson learned. Take initiative… you win some, you lose some but if you can manage to win more than the losses, you should be pretty successful.