Today is going to be one of those odd days.
It’s the last day of the school term, the last day my wife works as a volunteer at the school, the day that my colleagues are all called for one of “those meetings” where they might find themselves out of a job or exported to India - and also the day when I find out if I am being taken on as a perm member of staff.
No pressure….
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So as I sit here in my car munching on my salad baguette (no butter) listening to some boring bloke on Radio 4 mumbling on about politics - I can blog too!
Wordpress have released a bloggin app for the iPhone which is pretty damn amazing!
Well worth getting Wordpress now. And an iPhone too.
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Playground accidents are not what they used to be!
I remember falling on my head whilst sliding on the ice at school. I never got to go to hospital though. I just wandered off and fell down in the snow and slept it off (it might explain alot!).
My little one collided with his classmate in the playground and hurt his finger. We sent him to school the next day thinking all was fine, just bruised and sore but a trip to A&E confirmed a fractured finger.
Ouch!
And he is left handed too.
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The widely publicized hack to use Google to search for MP3 files has been around for a long time. Several sites have done a good job of using the technique to produce a good front end to the process and also allow you to search for other files too such as PDFs and videos.
I stumbled across the new WorryAboutYou site today which does an amicable job of the same process, with the added benefit of giving you a direct download link to the file - which other sites do - but not so easily.
Other sites like Seeqpod are better as they let you create a playlist of tracks you find on the fly, but do not give you the link to download the track from. WorryAboutYou is simple, quick and provides relevant tracks - even though the name is a little odd. You can also choose to remove duplicates from the list too.
You can use this to download tracks to upload to your MuxTape account. What? You haven’t started using that yet either?
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It has been announced today that Oasis will be releasing their new single “The Shock Of The Lightning” on September and 29th.
This will be closely followed by their new album “Dig Out Your Soul” on October 6th.
I know lots of people hate the pretentious, arrogant, gibbon-like rockers but I still love them.
Plus - it will give me a few new tunes to play on my guitar!
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It has been just over a month since I posted my grand plan to get 100 affiliate sites up and running by the end of the year to bring in some extra cash. - hopefully enough to pay my mortgage each month.
I have only created 4 more sites since then - so I am way off target for completing my goal.
I have started to realise that making 100 sites will bring me some money, but I will also have to do the following:
So, making a few sites selling high value items that are optimised is the way to go I think.
Quality not quantity
I have a total of 7 sites using the new software I bought to make them with and I am on target to earn back what I have spent already. Including the cost of the domains.
It does get addictive though.
Searching for a new niche market that has the right amount of searches in Google and the right amount of competing pages backed by a solid, regular selling high priced item that people NEED and WANT.
It’s actually fun just doing that bit!
If anyone is interested in what I am doing, I might knock together an eBook describing the process and how to make money at the end of it.
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Hmmmm..
I fancy being creative this weekend…
Give me a subject or a theme and I will crank something out for next week.
It might be a photo, a cartoon or something else all together!
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I have a confession to make.
I am into “Blogging” more than I am actually into blogging.
By that I mean that I am more interested in the whole area of writing blogs, promoting content, internet marketing, search engine optimization,keyword research and that sort of thing - rather than actually writing on my blogs.
Just the same as I am more into the technology and ideas behind Flickr - rather than photography and actually taking photos.
It’s kind of like when, after playing guitar for 15 years or so I would go to see a band play and spend more time and concentration on seeing what chords were being played rather than enjoying the music.
Writing witty posts and having fun has been replaced with the technical aspects of PHP blog plugins, search engine hacking and trying to get some extra cash from what I was writing at the same time. There was a time that I was making about $3 per day from 1 page - until Mr Google blocked the ads that were being displayed as they were against their terms of service.
I have a lot of knowledge in “this here head of mine” and it’s time I did something major with it - so here is my promise to myself I made recently:
To have 100 websites active by the end of the year that earn me money.
And - the websites will be low maintenance, self perpetuating and income generating too. I don’t have the time to spend slaving over continual blog posts or networking with other “like minded professionals” either. I just want the cold hard cash!
It will take time to get this up and running - but the seeds are out there already and growing. I now have to decide on a few things to move forward. They are technical stuff like whether to use full domains like www.megatao.com or use subdomains like moneysite1.megatao.com. There are pluses and minuses to both though - but I will not bore you with the details.
I am not going to be able to quit my day job with this scheme - but if it works and I can bring in some spare cash then I will be more than happy.
There is some initial outlay for web hosting and domain names (100 domains = aprox £500 per year!) but I would hope to recoup this easily within the first month of the 100 sites being live.
Then I can go for 200 sites by this time next year!
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Is anyone planning to get a copy of Wii Fit?
I have been hanging on this Wii Fit Deals site as all of the shops seem to be sold out.
Not sure if I should get one though.
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Well, it's not a giant lizard slaying robot and its not a new religion.
It's just a place for me to hang out, store my thoughts and technical musings and stay in contact with my friends. It's purpose may change in the future - who knows!
That's all part of the fun.
