Hello all, I managed to make some cash from an online import venture, and things started looking up… wait for it… here it comes… then work for my brick and mortar biz dried up, my email ran dry, and now I’m hitting the two B’s. Blogging, and well you know the other one. So as of right now, in addition to my 12-5 pt job, I’m a freelance web/graphic/flash/pc repair/Internet marketer. Things are going alright, just could be better. Anyway, on to the totals.
1. Offline Business (Hooray, Ebay has been dethroned!)
I’m consolidating yet again, and tossing out old ideas while trying new ones. My income levels have changed, but I’m still really small time, so I have some leeway to try new things before I’m locked into one or two things. Anyway, on to the list!
Profit Strategies (In order of largest profit to me)
1. Ebay (Still, don’t really like it)
2. My Brick and mortar business (Also online sort of, web and graphic design)
3. Paid Ads (Azoogle has actually paid me something so far, the rest I’m trying out.)
I’m dropping physical items from ebay, and focusing on selling digital items only (Entreccard credits, ebooks, etc.) and also looking into launching a clothing line with cafepress. Other than that, I’m staying with my web design and custom favicon businesses. Hopefully next time I’ll be able to post some earning s that aren’t depressing!
I posted about Entrecard in the past, and I believe I thought it would do pretty well back then. For me , at least, it has gone rather well, despite some major setbacks in my corner. I put up 1000 Ec on Ebay, since I don’t need it and hopefully It will generate some income for me. So in conclusion, Entrecard=good, ands that look like Entrecards=annoying.
I notice on many blogs I visit that the ad content usually fit the theme of the blog really well. While I do feel that this is important sometimes, I personally like an ad that’s linking to something of-the wall, or way out in left field. Based on that I’ve decided to stop forcing all my ads into one category, and broaden out some. hopefully that will help to spruce up my ad selection a bit.
Hey all, it’s been a while since I’ve posted due to some serious illness, but here I am, back again!
I’ve been expanding my offline business ventures, and consolidating my ventures online, to focus on exactly what makes me money, and more importantly, if it’s a sustainable income, or a flash in the pan. This all may sound like first grade stuff, but once you sit down and do it, you can really start to see where the money comes and goes (I’m looking at you, Ebay fees!).
Thus far, I’m working out a deal with an importer to sell some merchandise locally, and still doing the ebay thing. other than that, my online time is divided into my web-design business and freelancing. I haven’t given up on niche blogging or any of those other things that we all get ten extremely convincing emails about every other day, but I’m stashing those in the back seat for the time being. Not this blog though, I actually like this one.
I know I visited some of these things in a previous post, but hey, this is MY blog, so whatever.
Thanks to gigantic companies, you can’t use any of the following words, or you’ll instantly make your reader into an apathetic zombie who won’t listen and will go somewhere else.
New
Regular guy/girl
Free(This has been true for a while now, but still.)
Viral
Underground
New
Secret
All of these words used to mean something, but now whenever we see them, we just attribute them to someone else’s squeeze page, and move on. Or maybe that’s just part and parcel of being an internet marketer. Either way, it’s a wierd feeling.
I realized this morning that I have been spread thin for quite some time now, I just hadn’t noticed it. I have about two weeks left to make either one of my online ventures work, or my separate brick and mortar business, or I’ll have to go back to my inane day job, and wallow in a pit of de-humanizing idiocy. I’ve never doubted that I can make it online, or offline with my own business, but time is a serious factor. Add to that the fact that all of the money I’d budgeted to spend on advertising for my offline business keeps going to cover family expenses that arise as a result of bad planning and pointless spending on other peoples parts, and to put it succinctly “You’ve got yourself a stew going.” Anyway, I counted all of the different things I was doing online to generate money, and came up with this list, which is ordered by cash made, from greatest to least:
1. Ebay (buying low and selling high)
2. Gpt (Get Paid to, which is things like doing surveys and whatnot)
3. Azoogleads (small-time, need a higher Ctr)
4. Niche site building (prolly going at it wrong, need to re-evaluate.)
5. Adsense (thinking of dropping this.)
So in short, I’ve made total about a paycheck online in about three weeks. This isn’t “bad”, but I need something sustainable, so today I’m going to take stock of everything, and make some changes to the way I play this online game. It may include a site re-design as well, so stay tuned.
For free download Friday number 3, I’ll be giving away…. A random pack of ten plr articles, with absolute Master rights! Taht’s right, you can use ‘em, re-brand ‘em, put your name on ‘em and the cops won’t come and beat your door down! Have fun, and keep blogging everyone!Grab them here!
A good friend of mine asked me recently how to become a webmaster. He told me that he had a website, but still didn’t feel like a webmaster yet. I thought that was a wonderful question, and honestly, I doubt if the web can be mastered sometimes! But, in my quest for profits online, I feel that I have become something of a webmaster, and this can only come about through experience
You can read about how to be a webmaster from a million different Ebooks and other blogs, but the game changes when you have to do it for real. I thought that I would use this blog as a tool to make money, and nothing more. But you can hardly master something if you don’t care about it. I have come to really enjoy blogging, and I think the community that it has spawned is wonderful.
Another skill you must have in order to master the web is the ability to discern good information from sales pitches, bad information, baseless claims and total fallacies. This, unfortunately, almost always comes about through personal experience. It was the same way with me, (both online and off) until I reached the point I’m at now, where I can usually spot the bad without getting excited, buying into it, and then coming to find out that it wasn’t what I thought it would be.
These are just a few important things one must do, before the web, an unruly and ever-changing beast, can be tamed. Blog on everyone!
After a day of power dropping, SEO tweaks, and coding, I feel pretty tired and burned out. I’m also starting to hate the following things:
1. FREE MONEY!!!!!! MAKE A MILLION WHILE YOU SLEEP!
2. GET A BILLION PERCENT MORE TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG!!!!
3. LISTEN TO MY “SECRET” TECHNIQUE,AND YOU’LL BE RICH!
4. Ads that look like entrecards, but upon a slightly closer inspection, aren’t.
5. Twitter. And I’m not one of those guys who forms opinions and hasn’t tried it. I tried. I find it too personal for me, since I’m online to make money, not know what your having for lunch.
Just a random rant, pretty much, but man do I feel better after that!
