What I do is sell thoughts and create useful databases. It is a part time hobby for now. The wife and I think exactly the same in this respect, except she is also a brilliant programmer, so that helps immensely to create interesting databases and websites. Thus we both own websites and have income from subscribers, ads and affiliates. The wife is doing much better than I. In the past, Google phoned her twice to do business and they are also advertising on her site. Boeing used her site for their executive leadership program. She also had a part time paying blog on about.com (traffic rank 112). Purdy cool.
I never envisioned myself trying to set up a business to sell shoes, food, dry cleaning or any other product with a physical identity. What I love is information. I love thought, I love the written word. I want to crawl in your head and make you think. I want to erase your ignorance.
I also have a deep rooted obsession to understand the world around me. That screaming voice is forever lurking in my psyche.
I seek like minded thinkers all the time and my recent blog surfing has produced some interesting results. I read Joe Pageants blog recently and bought his book. I E-mailed him for a suggestion and I bought that book as well. Just this small flurry of blog related, human interaction has made me very content. I would have never E-mailed Joe and picked up another interesting book otherwise. The book he suggested is, The Ascent Of Humanity.
I'm not sure if I will ever make serious money with my website, perhaps a corporation would wants its employees to subscribe or I sell it. I have something in the works now, involving 4000 potential sign ups, but I'm not holding my breath. The Internet is a fickle God. Thus I am reinventing it into an authority site which it is evolving into already. If it only gets people to start to be a bit more introspective, then I have done my job.
As for the wife, she is tinkering with another website which will use the Ajax coding language. I have almost finished creating the specification for another website geared towards the corporate world.
We wait and see who will be successful enough to enable us to write and design while being stroked by an ocean breeze.
We continue to do business with the world and compete with the world. It doesn’t get any better then that.
If you want to help save the world start by reading, The Evolving Self.
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