My morning routine

First of all, Happy Serbian new year to all my friends and family here, hope all of you had awesome night and great time. So after a good nightout of drinking cocktails I woke up groggy and pushed trough it and did my morning routine. I am being persistent at my habit building, so there is no excuse, if you decide something, you gotta do it. The moment I warmed up, I started to love mornings to death. Rush of blood started to wake up every single neuron trough my body, giving a new meaning to waking up. During my workout I am listening to podcasts, and I tend to listen to different people every day. This is exploding my creativity, because each day I am waking up with fresh ideas. When I finish with working out I proceed to making my protein or Herbalife shake and drink it with some fruits. Fresh fruits are awesome energy boost after your workout.

If you are into burning fat, first thing you do in the morning should be working out. Your liver is depleting your sugar levels while you sleep, so when you wake up, there are no Carbo-Hydrates to burn energy from, so your organism is going straight for your muscle tissue and fats. And fats are what we are targeting, but don't worry about muscle tissue if you are regaining it with your shake or healthy intake of proteins trough food. Personally I am to lazy to prepare food, that's something that I am leaving for February habit building. Here's the intro from one of my favorite movies "American psycho", this is how I want my mornings to look like more or less:

And it struck me today, that I was actually anxiously waiting to get other things done, so I can start writing. You have a blank piece of screen and you need to fulfill it with meaningful words that you are aiming to strike at peoples hearts, one way or another. Writing online is meaningful conversation between you and the rest of the web and possibly rest of the world. I know many blogs that were transcribed to books and resold afterwards. Blogging means a world to me and it allows virtually anyone to become a publisher in the matter of seconds.

How I became passionate about writing? I started keeping a journal at the age of 15. I still have it and read it occasionally. This journal held some of my most private thoughts, it's still precious book to me and I still tend to write in it. And at one point during my adolescence, privacy of my journal has been breached by my mother. It made me stop writing in it for quite a while, but I wanted to make sure that there aren't any eyeballs reading my thoughts that I didn't want to. So the paradox was that I "moved" my journal online and wrote it anonymously. It was on local blogging service, that featured new blogs and somehow I had some readers on it and I started reading a couple of people also. That blog was up and running for 4 whole straight years. It's still in function, but I tend not to publicly claim where it is, somehow it's still my "private" place although online. And I have hidden most of it's articles...

I was amazed that I had steady readership on it and I became reader of my readers also, leading me to making a couple of wonderful friendships in the process and a fling in foreign city. So after a years break, I got back to it, and this time I wanted to go public, with my name attached to it, straightforward and with me standing behind every word. So if you are reading this, and have a blog of your own, be sure to leave a comment so I drop by to see who you are. Don't be afraid, I won't bite you, at least not right away :)

It's one of those mornings... errm afternoons

I went to bed late last night and wasn't sleeping that well. Had this really weired dream, that woke me up too early, and my cat didn't allow me to proceed with my sleep. She usually sleeps with me, but she wants to play in the morning, had to close her in the bathroom, but than she started screaming to let her out, no better snooze alarm than that...

So now I am drinking my late morning coffee in 1:34 pm and contemplating on what to eat. I followed up my routine of working out in the morning perfectly, but couldn't sit myself to write some proper article, so I came here to let my thoughts loose and was reading some good articles on RSS feeds. As coffee is flowing trough my stomach and warming it nicely I am thinking of my daily obligations and for the time being there aren't any.

I've received an email today from someone who was reading my blog and that is one of the biggest rewards blogger can get, that way it seems like you are communicating with the world. You write it once, and there is potential it's going to be read thousands of times, connecting your thoughts and ideas with many other like minded individuals, or potentially unlike minded. Internet is magnificent glorious way of interacting with entire humankind. So I decided to share with you this beautiful day with all of you accidental wanderers. This picture is taken from my balcony and the river you see in the background is Danube.

After the coffee I grabbed a cake and decided to leave the house and enjoy the sun of this magnificent day. See you around...

Industry report: Future of TV and Ads a.k.a. how Google earns money while you take a shit

Google TV, Apple TV, Tablets, mobile stream... There is this vertical in market that unites all of your devices. So on your way home you are watching a video on your phone, when you reach it, you can just continue on the TV, but after that you might wanna go to the toilet, so you can go watch it on your tablet. Yea technology is allowing us to watch TV anywhere. I am surprised how much attention is still being given to the TV. Netflix reached 50 million subscribers and each one of them is paying 8$ a month, no wonder they got into S&P 500. For anyone that thinks of getting a new TV these days, I recommend you to wait up for a year. 3D technology is something that will become widespread pretty soon and 

This is becoming a huge market and biggest fish in this sea at the moment in my opinion are: Google, Apple and Samsung. I believe that not many people realize how huge Samsung has become lately, with adequate support from Google software, and wide range of hardware support, we have a lot at our disposal. They make great phones, tablets, players in the Galaxy family. I am typing this article on Samsung led monitor, which I must say is quite awesome. Okay, let's not make this post an article for Samsung, but I can say that they grew a milestone, which not many have suspected.

So now let's compare one tiny Facebook with giants like Google and Apple and I am watching it only from the perspective of investor. 2 billion dollars a year, yea that's awesome, but how can we compare double digits revenue from giants? Let's not forget Microsoft. Seems like everyone fell for Facebook media hype and they can't be able to see that 2 billion this year is becoming a small number compared to Google ad's that are going to run on our TV's. It's absolutely the best time for IPO, because media fame is going down, and we need to talk about new topics like genuine ways to watch TV, while you take a long visit in the bathroom. And yea, you're right, Google will be servicing you the best possible ads for toilet paper, because they will know your Geo Location. No better time to give you a toilet paper commercial when you actually need one.

So now we can have a clear picture of how Google will know your watching habits and that data will be worth way more than anything else. Money is where eyeballs are and those eyeballs are still more into TV, whatever the new form of it may be...

Is your SEO consultant dream seller?

People in internet industries are numerous. Tonight I had an argument with two of my friends about SEO. Oh my how people are talking vague stuff and think they are high quality experts. I am not claiming that I am SEO expert, but I know quite a lot on the topic. One of most important bullets of the argument were about domain age and one of my friends was claiming how it won't affect SEO, which is complete rubbish and lack of general knowledge about Google and the way they threat their products. If SEO was so damn easy as they claim it to be, everyone would be making millions. 

That guy claimed a local project and charged a fee for 700 euros. First of all what kind of things can these people guarantee? If you have no knowledge of SEO, maybe you should rethink when buying agencies/individuals services. If you take into consideration many factors that are ongoing, you will figure out that no one can guarantee you #1 spot on Google for any keywords, especially not for keywords that are highly competitive and full of domains who are old with adequate backlink structure.

A lot of people who think SEO is easy rely on black hat tools and link buying, which can bring more damage than harm. I am not claiming that black hat SEO doesn't work, but if done without adequate knowledge... Think twice before you venture deeper in the SEO sea. Do some research before giving out money to some agency, which offers you illusions of grandeur for pennies of the dollar. This can cost you way more than those bucks you've invested!