Less Stress More Calm

How Bloggers Are Getting Rich

Ok. Bloggers can make lots of money. I’ll have to start putting some ads up!

Read about it here.

Terry

Who Else Wants To Make A Million Or At Least Get A Raise

There are a million experts spewing out a ton of crap on how to make money. First of all you won’t make it through your blog. Guy Kawasaki make a bit over $3000 last year, and he is a king pin. Now you can buy that cardboard box home you always dreamed of! Besides, it looks like this whole blogging spectacle will be moving more and more towards sites like Facebook where it’s much easier to connect with people, and the bloggin A-list bullshit is already dying.

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Want to make a fortune? Guy Kawasaki interviewed a few Internet millionaires including the PlentyofFish.com   guy who is pulling in 5 to 6 million dollars a year on advertising alone. Bastard! Here is a guy who kept getting laid off in Vancouver so decided to launch a free dating service. The guy who created Hot or Not is also making a tidy fortune. He says he started the site as a joke. Lesson learned?  Never underestimate your stupid ideas. Got it? So get that robot pancake flipper out of the basement and sell it to the world!!

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Selling stuff on Ebay can be very lucrative. Here is a hint. You know those old LP’s that Grandpa has in the attic? Well, the Japanese are coo-coo puffs about old LPs, and will pay thousands of dollars for some of them. I had this discussion with an avid record collector the other day. Those crazy Japanese - if it isn’t anime cartoon sex, its old LP’s. Go figure.

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Ask for a raise. Raises don’t come marching in your door with intentions of snuggling into your pocket. In the real world you’ve gotta get worked up, create a resume of accomplishments and demand a raise. Even yelling helps because some bosses are as deaf as a dead tree trunk when it comes to their employees. Most are already sucking up to their own boss so badly that they’ve created a severe lack of oxygen and the air smells like dung. So take the bull by it’s something and go ask for that raise!

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Recap. Don’t dismiss any of your drugs or beer inspired million dollar ideas. Check out what the Japanese like to buy other than tea cups, bondage rope and raw tuna. Go ask for that raise. It can’t hurt.

Fin

We Are Neck Deep In The Information Age

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.