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I’m not going to directly link to this article:

http://blog.butterflymedia.ro/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/

I’ve never seen anything like this before.  The article itself isn’t the problem… but if you roll your mouse over the words…. hmmm…. I don’t know if I should be amused.  Somehow this site ended up there, along with A LOT of other people.

What’s the point of this?

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I think I’ve referred to this adventure in making money online as a bit of a rollercoaster ride, quite a few times.  You know how it goes - when you’re up your up… and when you’re down it’s going about 100 miles per hour and you feel like you’re going to be sick!

But you know what - as I’ve said to the Naked Affiliate - I’ve got a whack of tickets and I’m ready for more rides!

I’m working on a couple of things right now and feel great about them.  I just have to suck it up and do the marketing bit (you know that bit I don’t particularly enjoy) and get things rolling.  See if I can work out a little plan that makes me happy, gets people to the sites, and maybe see a bit of an increase in revenue… which has dropped a bit a la Google Adsense since they made those changes to their ads.  We’ll see how it goes

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… has anyone else noticed a drop in their Google Adsense since they made changes to the way they’ve got their ads linked? Mine seems to be going down… just wondered if it was me or if this is happening to you too?

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I have been cutting back on buying domain names.  I’ve been letting domains go and I’ve not missed any of them … yet.  Lately I’ve been working a lot on trying to build up a little side business and as it is, I’m getting a little snaggled up by the whole marketing end of things.

I’ve never been particularly good at that sort of thing - and looking back on everything I’ve worked on as far as getting sites out and live and getting traffic and marketing - I’ve fallen hard on this.  I’ve fallen and can’t get up sort of thing.  Almost every time, and it’s getting frustrating.  So what do I need to do to pick myself up, dust myself off and get moving again and trying again and get my little site that could out there and be productive and work it girl.

*deep breath*

I’m going to have to research more.

I’m going to have to get out there and market myself (I HATE TO) but I have to, if I’m going to make this a go.  I’m going to have to challenge myself with little goals - not $$ so much, but you know - contact 5 people this week.  It’s like going out on a job interview.  Get out there and try.  I’m so not good at it - so not the outgoing type.  This I think has totally stumped my growth up to now.  Even online I’m not outgoing enough.  I don’t feel I am - I think to be a successful entrepreneur you have to be willing to put yourself out there a bit.   I think you’d have to be super lucky if you don’t.

I guess I’m losing track.  Losing track of the things I love.  This happens to me more than I’m willing to admit.  Online, and offline.  Trying to balance it all out.  FRUSTRATING!  I have the tendancy to find things that I’d love to do - get things started and then move on to the next thing.  Lists/schedules be damned!  But that’s with my online projects.

With my little side business -  I’ve been loving it.  I’d love to do it more but I’m going to have to get out there and market myself.  Read up on marketing.  Find cheap ways to market myself.  Just keep trying.  Try not to get down on myself if it feels like things aren’t taking off.  Just try.

I’m not really sure where I was going with this ramble, but it did feel good to say.

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