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I read alot of books in the last year. I read books about the financial crysis, about investing, money safing, more investing, crysis, money, Warren Buffet, Rule #1, the rules of life, work and money and other books.

My conclusion: The best book for everyone who wants to get rich is this book:

“The richest man in babylon” by George Samuel Clason.

It kinda became my personal bible. It’s about stories about financial advise set in the time of the old Babylon. This means, it has such an easy language to understand, but the main core is still true and important. I told some of the stories to my girlfriend as bedtimestory (no, I don’t do that often haha) and it’s the only book she wanted to hear about of all my crazy finance books I read.

There are interesting stories about donkeys, money, empty wallets or the walls of Babylon. While you read, you will learn many rules about how to handle money effectively.

This book is not about investing. But for starters, investing is not important. You cannot invest if you have no money. First you need to save money. “Now, that’s an obvious thing” you say? I agree, but how many people invest by lending money from the bank or their credit card? Too many. To say it in the words of the book: “Those who focus on lending money instead of paying back their debt will stay slaves forever”

I read through the books so many times and I will continue to do so until I have all the rules in myself, until I live them. I will give the book to everyone I love as a present.

Do yourself a favour. Buy this book, and live them Babylon!

The first encounter that I will analyse is the impact of the two most expected games at the moment: Electronic Arts’ Dragon Age Origin and Activision Blizzards Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2.

Grow a beard and swing the axe
Dragon Age Origins’ release date is the 4th of november. It’s the follower of the beloved role playing games Baldur’s Gate, Mass Effect and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. RPG fans will get a huge package here, as the game already looks like a true blockbuster. A first test of the german game magazine PC ACTION rated the game with 9.1 of ten points.

Electronic Arts stock’s price is now at 18.24 (02.11.2009). Let’s see if the release has any impact on the stock.

Get a weapon and do not become a terrorist
Call of Duty (6): Modern Warfare 2 is the direct follower of CoD(4):MW(1) (Direct because it’s been made by the same developer studio Infinity Wards, not the one from the not so perfect CoD5). CoD4 has been rated as “the best game ever” from many game communities. It’s the second most popular online multiplayer shooter after oldschool counter strike.

The game already suffered from a leaked part of the game in public – You heard people whining about gamers that will turn out as terrorists after playing the game. Yes, I also think so. And after playing GTA4 I will go out and steal cars and drive them into the sea. What a joke. Anyway, this might have pushed the games publicity to a higher level as people already read about the game in the news.

If Activision Blizzard’s stock will go up after the release? We will see. Right now, ATVI is at 10.83 (02.11.2009).

People like games with weapons and explosives
I personally think that IF we can see an impact, it will be on ATVI as Dragon Age is really more for hardcore rpg fans and MW2 attracts more players around the world. I will check the two stocks again in some time.

Btw: it’s my birthday today! Happy b-day to me!

Nowadays it’s not hard to start a blog
You don’t need much technical understanding. Take myself as an example: I have the technical understanding, but I am tired of setting everything up by myself. So I found a provider that made everything for me. I just had to register, choose the package I wanted (most likely the basic package for beginning) and give the domain name VideoGameStocks.ch. Webland.ch made the rest for me: Gave me some space to put my blog and files on, registered my domain and set up my database. And the best bonus about it: It even created the wordpress blog for me with just some clicks! I didn’t have to do any technical rubbish, I didn’t have to upload the wordpress files by myself – nothing. Just click some buttons and start blogging. Internet services rule nowadays.

Alright, so you have your web hoster, your domain and your own blog with a shiny free theme – that’s cool and exciting. But don’t expect an income for a living in the first week!

The main income by blogging is created by advertising machines like Google Adsense or some affiliation programs like Amazon. But to get money, you need two things: People that visit your blog and people that click on your Adsense window. Obviously, the first thing leads to the second, but it’s not easy to get visitors in the first place.

Now think about yourself
What makes you visit a webblog? Or a homepage? Take a gaming homepage like ign.com or gamespot: You visit them because they have some crazy news about all the new games that will come out soon. They have the newest movies, reviews, previews, walkthroughs and Tokyo Game Show visitings. And they have a forum with a huge community where you can talk about every aspect of real and virtual life.

And what have you got? A blog entry with the title “Earn a living with blogging”? That’s not really much compared to the content of ign or gamespot.

Of course ign and gamespot are a much bigger organisation with so many people working in the backgrounds giving you all the content you want in full time work. You probably just do it next to your daily job. But you get the idea: Have something on your blog that people want to read.

And maybe you have content that is not too much static or restricted. You could easily fill your blog with the live of your dog. But unless your dog gets pregnant or bites a postman or gets alienated and overwhelms the whole american army with his twelve laser shooting tails you probably won’t get too many readers on your blog. Except your grandmother. She would like to read it and get happy about it. Grandmothers love alienated dogs.

The philosophy of VideoGameStocks.ch
Stocks in general are very dynamic. They change every second. But I don’t want to bore myself or the visitor. I just want to point out important dates or events and what happen to the related stock, most likely the release of a new game or the general analysis of a stock. I also write about games. But I don’t want to bore myself or the visitor. I just write about games that I absolutely love and that are worth to write about. Or games that are so shitty you would hate it if you bought them. I want to expand the world view of my visitor.

The most important rule to earn income with a blog imo
Did you mention that I wrote nothing about earning money in the last paragraph? Now I tell you my own secret how I think you will get the most money out of your blog.

The most important rule to earn money from your blog is not trying to earn money from your blog

Got it? If you only concentrate your goal of earning money, you will get lost. You will get angry soon and lose the ambition for your blog. Earning money from a blog takes a lot of work and time.

Take my blog again. I am earning absolutely nothing from my blog. But that’s okay for me, this blog is so new how would I have built up a readership in such a short time? That’s impossible. Also I don’t rely on this money to get rich. Maybe you read about my dream of playing Heroes of Newerth the whole day. I don’t want to get there with this blog. I want to get rich with hard work and smart investments.

Let me tell you a story
I always wanted to live healthier. Just drink water. Eat more apples and bananas instead of pizza and burgers. But I always forgot about it soon. I just had more important things to think about. Yesterday I came back from buying my lunch, and I realised I reached my goal without noticing: I was not so hungry, so I bought a salade, a banana and two apples for the afternoon. And I had a bottle of water, as I got used to drink water in the office. There is no way to eat healthier I guess.

This is exactly what I want to show you: Ensure the quality, and the profit comes by itself.

Please be aware of the fact that earning a steady income with a blog may be your dream for now, but it could also be hell on earth once you got there. Read this quote about this topic.

From esvl:
“I thought I could get rich quickly from the internet, so I quit my job only to find out that I had to work harder than when I had a day job. Sometimes working until 4am. Only after 6 months did I start to make enough money to make a living on the internet. And I still have to work hard to maintain it.

If I look back I might choose my dayjob because it was way easier. But the perks of working for yourself just beats that by a mile.”

Many people will always reach for higher goals. Many people will always be unhappy. Maybe it’s easier just to be pleased with what you got instead of always wanting MORE MORE MORE. Think about it.

I plan to write some articles about happiness, as I am also very interested in this theme. I already read some nice books about how you’d be happy with what you have. I often look around and realize the wealth I already have and can be proud of. Money gives you satisfaction. But it’s not the only way to get there. Maybe some pot will do, too.