Wes Mahler

Apr 13, 2024

Time to Write Again

Sharing my heart, soul, and words through blogs in the past made a profound and lasting impact in my life. It many beautiful ways, and in…

Mar 19, 2023

Minute by Minute

If thinking about the long-term future feels extraordinarily heavy, burdensome, and challenging, and the current moment is filled with…

Jan 2, 2019

How the Economic Machine Works

I’m a huge fan of Ray Dali’s work. He put together a beautiful way to easily understand how our economics work. This summarizes so much…

Nov 5, 2018

Infinite Returns

When we invest, if we’re always required to put and keep our capital in the deal, it can become difficult to grow our wealth quickly…

Oct 11, 2018

Rebalancing Your Portfolio

As time progress, asset values continue increase or decrease, and new cash, for future investments is continually added to your portfolio…

Sep 2, 2018

Forced Savings Mechanisms

For most homeowners, in their later life, their house is generally their largest and most valuable asset. (We don’t think your primary…

Sep 2, 2018

The Power of Unrealized Gains

Unrealized gains are one of the most powerful tools in becoming rich, and it is one of the reason why some some never pay any taxes. It’s…

Sep 1, 2018

Prevent Selling Yourself Out at a Loss

One of the best ways to get rich through investing, is being able to invest into long-term assets, for 15–20+ years, allowing them to grow…

Sep 1, 2018

Trading vs. Investing

People get theses two mixed up all the time. Specifically, they consider their trading activities investing. We disagree, we believe they…

Jun 12, 2018

Automation

One of my 2018 goals is to write a short & simple book on investing. I’m passionate about the subject, do a lot of it and have been both…

Jun 10, 2018

Simplicity

When investing, the simpler the business you’re investing in is, the better.

Apr 11, 2018

Know the Rules

When you know the rules, you know how to win the game, and it changes everything.

Aug 16, 2017

Time to try Medium

All I want to do is share, and my Wordpress blog keeps getting hacked. I’ve wasted so much time self hosted that buggy piece of software…

Apr 26, 2016

Better to write, than to not write at all

I decided a few days ago, that it is better to write something, even ever so small, than to write nothing at all. I got this from one of the Hive Global…

Aug 4, 2015

Lost Digital History

Many people setup their WordPress blogs a long time ago, including mine in 2006 . Since they have all been setup, many of them have had deferred…

May 20, 2015

WordPress xmlrpc.php brute force attack

The server that hosts this blog has been down consisnelty for the last several months. Every time I restart the server to make it work again, a few…

Dec 2, 2012

Missionary vs Mercenary CEOs

Missionaries build better products and companies than mercenaries do. This is an idea that both Jeff Bezos , the founder of Amazon.com, and John…

Jul 4, 2009

Our 4th of July Revolution202 Launch

written by steven & nana Happy Fourth of July to everyone in the U.S. and everyone who chooses to celebrate this holiday with us today, also known as…

May 16, 2009

Meetup202 Ad:Tech SF 2009 – Event Video

Check out our video from our largest Meetup202 event which held over 400+ people during Ad:Tech SF this year. We want to thank our sponsors, Hydra Network…

Apr 19, 2009

Stats202 Beta Launch

We are currently accepting beta testers for our new service, Stats202 . Stats202 is a hosted application that will automatically update all your subids…

Mar 10, 2009

If I Had To Do It All Over Again

In every one of our interviews I asked the other person, “If you had to do it all over again what would you do differently?” It was interesting to…

Jan 26, 2009

New Year’s Accountability

It was interesting to see all of the bloggers write their New Years Resolutions when the 1st of the came around. But I thought to myself — how many of…

Nov 28, 2008

Are You A Hedgehog Or A Fox?

What’s with this idea that having tons of “projects” is a good thing? Although it may be true that being a shareholder in several businesses that run…

Aug 18, 2008

Cloning Dinners

Cloning Dinners is a simple, but powerful concept to maximize your time networking with others. I wanted to say thanks to James Seligman from the Seattle…

Jul 11, 2008

3 Habits of a Billionaires

Steven Truong found this, the source is from Escape From Pianosa . I thought it was valuable enough to share with everyone. Forbes.com …

Jul 10, 2008

GetClicky.com – Web Analytics 2.0

I have to give a long and overdue shout out to my friends: Sean and Noah over at GetClicky.com . Tracking202 was actually inspired to be…

Jul 3, 2008

Tech Wisdom – More Quotes

Ok for those who know me by now, I love quotes , because they sum-up alot of powerful information very quickly. I stumbled across an article of upcoming…

Jun 26, 2008

One Book A Week

Hey everyone, just wanted to give you an update on the elite mastermind reading group . I’m in process of setting it up right now, I was going to…

Jun 5, 2008

Do What You Said You Were Going To Do

Do you open up your email inbox, read the emails and then think to yourself, “I’ll just reply later?” And then 50% of the time we never reply with…

May 27, 2008

This is fun: Tracking202 in the past.

I don’t mean to post the same stuff on my blog, as I post on the prosper202 blog. But when something fun like this comes around I’ll surely post it.…

May 9, 2008

Meetup202 Seattle – New Meetup Group

We just launched a new Seattle Affiliate Marketing Meetup group . If you live in the area feel free to meet with us and other affiliate marketers in the…

May 7, 2008

What’s taking us so long?

Distractions are the killers of dreams. Why is it that there are so many tasks that we want to do, that we could honestly accomplish a lot quicker…

Apr 29, 2008

Phantom Cash Flow, Fast Word #2

Let us continue on our journey of exploring the language that accredited investors use to build wealth quicker by using Fast Words . We are now on Fast…

Apr 23, 2008

Something Is In The Air

Oh boy, I’m excited. Something is in the air, and no it’s not a macbook.In 12 hours Tracking202 and Export202 self-hosted are going to launch. Also this…

Apr 21, 2008

Hiring A Hacker

Everyone needs a hacker! We just we just started working with someone who tests the cyber-security state of a financial institution for a living . I was…

Apr 17, 2008

New Alexa Ranking System

I check alexa quite a bit, and I noticed today that the rankings have been dramatically changed. It seems like alot of websites got hit pretty hard on the…

Apr 14, 2008

The Scorpion and the Frog

Everyone should know the story of the Scorpion and the Frog . One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted…

Apr 13, 2008

Veni, Vidi, Vici

Veni, Vidi, Vici :: Latin for, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Well it has been a year since I first declared I would drop out of college and move to…

Apr 12, 2008

Twitter :: Follow me and I follow you!

I actually had a Twitter account for over a year now, although it seems like everyone is on it, so I’m now actually using it. Follow me , and I’ll follow…

Apr 11, 2008

Looking for Self-Hosted Beta Testers

We have some applications we are releasing here shortly, they are currently in the beta testing stage. We are looking for some PPC affiliate marketers,…

Apr 8, 2008

Learning How To Fly

I’ve always wanted to fly a plane, and see the world from up above in the driver’s seat. Fortunately I work with Rob Norton who already have experience…

Apr 6, 2008

Meetup202 – Taking Off

Meetup202 is gaining ground, we have over 30 members now and growing. There is already a lot of people who are confirming that they will attend the event.…

Mar 30, 2008

Busy Bee

Haven’t posted in a little while, just been pursuing goals and deadlines. And of course, making progress. Lots of action, and little talk. I hope your…

Mar 14, 2008

Corporate Tax Returns Due Money

Opps, I was thinking the corporation tax returns were due also in April. However, I forgot Corporations have to file in March, although luckily you can…

Mar 8, 2008

Why The Web Is Free

This was a great interview I saw on TechCrunch that I really enjoyed, the first part was with Chris Anderson, author of the Long Tail, and he is talking…

Mar 1, 2008

Doug Davis With CPAEmpire - Interview

This is a video interview with Doug Davis from CPAEmpire . Doug has been with CPAEmpire for awhile now and was my very first affiliate manager. He has…

Feb 29, 2008

Affiliate Summit West and The Datacenter

If you were not here to attend the Affiliate Summit West , you must attend next time. This event was incredible, it was awesome getting a chance to meet…

Feb 5, 2008

From Zero To One Million – The Book

Ryan Allis, the Co-Founder and CEO of iContact, someone who I admire has launched his book today and it is already #4 on the best seller of Amazon.com as…

Feb 3, 2008

Tracking202 – PPC Affiliate Tracking 2.0

I’m excited to announce that we have launched our product out in the wild today, Tracking202 a highly advance PPC Affiliate Marketing Tracking Software.…

Jan 19, 2008

The Crunchies

Yesterday my best friend, Cam came with me to go to the Crunchies awards; it was an amazing an event. The best…

Jan 3, 2008

Be At The Right Place ALL Of The Time!

While reading the Millionaire Real Estate Investor book I found a good piece of philosophy I’d like to share with you now. Instead of saying, “he was…

Jan 2, 2008

Wes 2.008, a new image

Hey thanks for bearing with me, everything is fixed now, WordPress is working like a charm now and I’ve switched laptops. I apologize for some of my…

Nov 6, 2007

Old WorkStation [Video]

Here is a short video on the place I’ve been working out of for some while, it is a short walk through of my old office that I won’t be working in any…

Sep 27, 2007

Say Hello My Dedicated Friend

I just got my dedicated server today, came in a huge box. Got it and drove down to Corvallis, and dropped it off at where it will be located. This bad boy…

Sep 23, 2007

Leverage It Up

As someone who desires to be a sophisticated investor we should aim to have leveraged assets building, whether it is the leverage of other people working…

Sep 19, 2007

On Track To $10,000/month?

While I was down in San Francisco not doing much work, my affiliate income was hard at work. I’m excited to say that I really truly believe I’m on…

Sep 14, 2007

Importance of Tracking Affiliate Stats

Thanks to GrayHat for recommending to start tracking affiliate stuff, I’ve did what he said. After running two landing pages for one campaign, I have…

Sep 11, 2007

Do you have momentum?

Do you have momentum, you know momentum is with you when you are steadily making progress every day towards your goals and momentum is building. …

Sep 8, 2007

Week 1 Progress

While I’am waiting for some DNS changes on beaverrent [doing a huge update] I’ll go ahead and blog my progress on my goal of $10,000/month by January 1st…

Aug 31, 2007

Keep on trying, untill you succeed

Ok for the past year I have been trying to get someone to help me build my rotary engine websites. They are a steady source of income, anyone…

Aug 25, 2007

Leverage Yourself – Hire Other People

The way to make more money, is to do more and more with less and less. One way to do that is leverage yourself by hiring other people. One of…

Aug 18, 2007

Welcome Cody – The Siberian Husky

My parents and I just picked up a new dog today. We got a Siberian husky, I’d always wanted a Siberian husky, our old dog molly passed away about 2 months…

Aug 14, 2007

Caculating Networth

If focused on building your asset base, it is good to know where you are upon your journey. A good way you may consider tracking your progress is by…

Aug 3, 2007

A meeting every two months.

I’ve set up a meeting with my CPA every two months now, it is always good to know the best methods of moving your moving around for tax purposes. …

Jul 23, 2007

Favorite Posts

Here are some of the best blog posts that people have learned from: You know you’re personally developed when…. So do you really want investment real…

Jul 19, 2007

New Company Logos

We have created new logos for three of our sites, they look great take a look…

Jul 18, 2007

Did you have big plans this summer?

Are you like most people who had big plans this summer, oh this summer I’m gonna do this this this and this. Especially related towards business on…

Jul 8, 2007

My Library

Here are most of the books/audibooks/programs in my library. I have an ipod nano which has 95% audiobooks on it, and a new 30gb ipod video…

Jun 29, 2007

What the heck is wes doing update!

I haven’t been updated on current status issues with life and the 4 projects that are being worked on! Well it has been exciting, my income has increased…

Jun 24, 2007

TIMING

Timing is incredibly important with success, sometimes the timing for idea is great, you can launch it and the marketplace is ready for your idea. …

Jun 15, 2007

Bye Molly

Molly is our family dog, we’ve had her for 15 years, wow. Thats a long time, I remember, ever since the 1st grade we had molly, the black australian…

Jun 7, 2007

America’s First Millionaire

Did you know America’s first millionaire was a real estate investor. The astor family, the famous family, the most wealthly family during the later 1700’s…

Jun 5, 2007

HURRICANE KATRINA, EVERY SINGLE MONTH

By 2010 the first of the baby boomers are going to retire, 75 million people. We are going to be hitting a large recession my in opionion, alan greenspan…

Jun 4, 2007

Have you seen HDR Images Before?

HDR imaging is a process, well I’m not a photographer, but they take different exposures of the same picture and then combine it into one. I saw…

May 15, 2007

Photos of my new house!

After 2 years of planting seeds, starting in HS I always knew I wanted to get an investment property asap. When I turned 18 I immediately got a credit…

May 12, 2007

Leverage and Your Financial Future

If you would like to be someday financially indepedent and never have to wory about financial trouble again, the quicker way to do it is using some form…

May 9, 2007

Interesting Experiences From This Blog

I’ve started to have some quite intersting experiences from this blog, at one point I was going to take it down. One person decided to go through and read…

May 6, 2007

Facebook Classifieds

Facebook will be launching a classifieds sooner than later. While working on CorvallisClassifieds.net a year ago, I always consider the thought if…

Apr 30, 2007

Hey What About Your Idea?

So many ideas, so many thoughts, so many opportunities, what to do with them all. All the abundance around the world is amazing, opportunites…

Apr 26, 2007

People Calling Me

This has been a good week. I went over to another city to raise some capital for a real estate investment possibility, it came out with an…

Apr 22, 2007

My Home Office!

Yeah, I got it super clean. No paperwork, all digitalized! Now lets lets make $10,000 a month out of it!

Apr 20, 2007

BrassMedia and Bryan Sims’ WHY

Things are moving, just recently went to several speakers. One including BrassMedia with Bryan Sims, a very dynamic speaker, young entrepeneur…

Apr 14, 2007

Full time entrepeneurship.

I’ve been working non-stop this week, and every week and finally we are starting to move on several things. My good friend Marques Alexander has really…

Apr 10, 2007

Northwest Real Estate Investment Club

Last Developments: Officially closing on my house on the 30th this month right now, got favorable terms with the seller. They are compensating me for the…

Apr 4, 2007

Ack! Oil Tank

Well we did our inspections on yesterday, the house was pretty good except for the oil tank. The oil tank is leaking and it needs to be…

Apr 1, 2007

Freedom or Security?

I finished my last couple days at the RISE Conference, an incredible resource for Finance Majors, of course thats not me, but for anyone interested in the…

Mar 27, 2007

Dayton OH, 3 Buisnesses And Real Estate

at 7am I’m headed off to Dayton, OHIO for the RISE Conference , a congolmerate of 200+ colleges, for the Global Student Investment Forum. Paid mostly by…

Mar 23, 2007

OH man! I’m excited

Wow, just talked to my buddy Cody Willner, hes working too. I had just had one of my counter offers accepted for a house. Sreaming good deal, I…

Mar 23, 2007

This is the time to make it happen

So the school is shutting down pretty much. Everyone is going to break, some people are going to party, while some of us are going to work. Most…

Mar 20, 2007

Blog

Um I haven’t posted in awhile but I’ve been working. Since last post: Made 6 offers on different properties, looking at one in particular in N…

Mar 15, 2007

Paying for help is expensive

Ohh, when I already lost enough money this year. In 2006 I was able to generate around $15,000 in gross profits from buisnesses. Although I…

Mar 7, 2007

$114 PASSIVE in 6 days!

Cool, so I was just checking my adsense revenue today for my two engine sites. March is looking like a pretty good month so far with an average daily…

Mar 5, 2007

Backup Harddrives

What a joke! Sometimes, I think you’ll agree with me all of this technological stuff is awesome but it just breaks. This is a rant but I purchase a backup…

Mar 4, 2007

Whats New

On Friday we shot 2 more videos on the rotary engines for my website. Today, I have been programming for the past 13 hours. It took me 10 hours to…

Feb 28, 2007

Bryan Baker Dot Com

I never knew so much about the blogosphere untill my buisness friend I met on YoungEntrepreneur.com , BuisnessProdigy, showed me a blog of an individual…

Feb 28, 2007

Hahaha Oops

So I’ve been searching for my little note pad with stuff to fix and stuff to add on my web 2.0 company. I walked into Wells Fargo, made a deposit,…

Feb 28, 2007

RISE Conference

Still programming. Oh, I accidently missed a midterm today, lol. Good news however, plan is in effect to travel to Dayton, OH March 28th-31st, for the…

Feb 25, 2007

Programming

My web host was down yesterday, so I created another Rotary Engine Rebuild Video , read a book on Exit Strageties (Selling Your Business), and created a…

Feb 23, 2007

Plan Set Into Action

This was a very interesting visit to my parents this week. We are having alot of family issues, my parents are talking about moving, my home is…

Feb 22, 2007

I’m Done With School - San Fran

I’ve decided I’m going to take my second leave from college, and this time for good. For the past week I have been very passionate about building my…

Feb 20, 2007

Ummmm, what happend!

It is 2am, on monday, I have class at 8am! This weekend was incrediblly productive, I had turned off my cell phone and kept communication to strict min.…

Feb 18, 2007

$100,000 within 3 months

Well this weekend, I decided to block out almost all communications, and work, start that process of deserving…. I ran a scenario with everyone at the OSU…

Feb 14, 2007

2nd Real Estate Property - NO GOOD

Well this friday I made an offer on a three unit, apartment building in N Portland. They were asking $295,000, I made the offer of $295,000 and the…

Feb 14, 2007

Great Deals Move Fast & The Secret

Yeah, looks like I was to slow on that 9plex for $505,000.00 that would have been a great deal. Someone made an offer on it and I’m a little late…

Feb 6, 2007

5 Lines of CREDIT?!?!

So I was talking to our family Bank of America banker today, Liz Miller who has been treating me very well. Because my parents have a preimer banking…

Feb 6, 2007

Sometimes we can network too much!

In the law of diminishing returns, it talks about sometimes the more you do something the less benefit you get. Just like when we eat that pizza,…

Feb 2, 2007

63 AGLOCO Signups

Well AGLOCO continues to move, it is starting to take off. Already within a week there is 63 sign-ups, not bad with 7 direct referrals. I believe most of…

Feb 2, 2007

My Primary Objective

“What we focus on grows.” I have been unable to focus on my web 2.0 project, and sometimes lately its been almost, a, what shall I say, disapointing idea…

Feb 2, 2007

Some Properties Are To Much Trouble

Today was an awesome day, I woke up at around noon, killed a econ 201 test, and then went ahead and did the visual inspection of the property on Kings…

Jan 30, 2007

Sometimes I’m feeling overwhelmed

Sometimes after many weeks of putting together transactions, organizations, clubs, mentoring, school, partnerships, events, planning, networking and…

Jan 29, 2007

Things are going crazy!

Well I have some positive challenges coming up, busy day for monday. Set date to, appointment to get property inspected Run numbers with mortgage broker…

Jan 28, 2007

Why not get paid while you surf – Agloco

Well AllAdvantage is back! For those who don’t know, AllAdvantage was a site that paid you to surf the Internet. Whats more, it paid you when you refer…

Jan 24, 2007

Real Estate Gathering – Week 2

We had an incredible presentation today talking about the real estate process, and equity vs. growth investing. My friend Alexander Neighbors spoke…

Jan 22, 2007

Friend’s new online startup venture

Well this is a plug for my friend Adriel who has begun to start his own online empire this week by launching his first two sites. We have been…

Jan 8, 2007

Progress On OSU Real Estate Club

Well after a good long break of productive activity, planned events are now finally coming into swing. We’ve had a lot of help from Justin Shanks,…

Jan 5, 2007

RebuildingRotaryEngines.com

With the partnership between Pineapple Racing and I, we have been developing “How To Rebuild, Rotary Engine” videos. Putting them on the websites,…

Dec 28, 2006

The Most Rewarding Experience

I believe that the most rewarding experience in life is having your name appear in another person’s testimonial. After my mentor Mr. Sean Mikael a very…

Dec 23, 2006

The Scorpion and the Frog

Do you know the story of the Scorpion and the Frog? One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change.…

Dec 20, 2006

Heres An Idea

Well I’m sure like yourself, as a fellow entrepreneur reading this forum you have had, and have many buisness ideas. Sometimes we can not sleep at…

Dec 20, 2006

The Ants Are Busy Working All Season Long

Well I made a mistake, another one! Incredible! I messed up, I thought the kid wanted to a full trade, but it turns out he wants cash in addition to my…

Dec 14, 2006

Website Progress – Foundation

It is about 5:45AM right now, I woke up at 5:30PM today. Although there have not been to many interesting ideas to post as of today, which I can share at…

Dec 12, 2006

Today will be incredibly… productive..

It is 6am right now, yesterday I was so tired after applying my no prcastination technique that I found myself keep doing chores throughout the day…

Dec 11, 2006

Time Invested Is Worth A Fortune

After moving all of my furniture to a new apartment In corvallis, and celebrating my mother’s birthday today I’m now going to focus 95% of my energy on…

Dec 6, 2006

I’m Excited School & Programming

Today was a good day, I studied for my math, and geology final for tommorow. I should be doing above average on both of those tests and did it fairly…

Dec 5, 2006

A Semi-Typical Day In My World

Well I’m finishing this blog at about 6am, it is not uncommon for me to go to bed very late because I’m normally up working on my laptop. With the 24/7…

Dec 4, 2006

Wow, What Personal Development Can Do

I discovered the blog of this young 18-year old entrepreneur who makes over a million dollars a year with his company off the America’s Best Young…

Dec 3, 2006

I Work, While Others Study

Although studying for finals is extremely important in getting good grades in school, I tend to focus my time on creating a business that will provide…

Dec 2, 2006

I’am So Happy and Grateful Now That

Here are my goals for the next three years, which I will accomplish. It’s so powerful to have your goals infront of you everyday, it keeps people focused,…

Dec 2, 2006

Should I Program Myself?

I’ve been debating whether or not it would be worthwhile to program my new web 2.0 project myself, or have someone else do it for an equity share. I’m…

Dec 2, 2006

Why I’ve Created This Blog

To whomever is reading this, I’ve created this blog because I felt that it could provide some useful information to those who were interesting in seeing…