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Well, last night was pretty productive… I managed to get a new page up for my PF2007 project. Which I had originally hoped would be done for the end of March. But, you know me - I procrastinate like crazy… life gets in the way…. man, I’ve got an excuse for everything. But last night I think I just had a small panic attack and felt like I had to get “something” done. So I did a new page for my project.

But, like I always do - I finish one thing and dust off another project that I’d started a long time ago. Earlier in the day I did up a new header image for the site, and uploaded it to the site. I had about 10 pages up on the site, but you know, I just wasn’t really happy with the direction - and it was going a bit off course in the way that I had originally wanted it to go. So I deleted all the pages. Then I deleted the layout and put a new one up. I love the layout - from Desperate Curiousity (WritersSpace) called DigitalPop. It’s fun colours and nice three column layout was a really nice change from the current layout seen on this site. So I went ahead and modified the layout to suit the dusted off old project of mine… I’ll call SMS2007.

Currently no content… but I have a really nice layout.

But with the theme comes a button called Twitter. Now I’ve heard the rumblings about Twitter. I didn’t really read anything further than it was something new and people were checking it out. So of course… since I have the button on the site - I signed up.

Ummm… it’s different. I signed up - that was easy. I added some “twitter” in the - what am I doing box provided. Because I don’t have a lot of friends who would appreciate the twitter thing, I haven’t added anyone. I can see it being handy to keep people posted on events. But it doesn’t give you a lot of space to write (something like 150 characters) - which I suppose is enough, or it turns into a blog thing. I don’t really know if it will be overly useful for me and the site I’m using it on… but I’ll give it a shot for the month of April and see if in the end its useful - or more of a waste of time.

Anyhoo… hopefully tonight I’ll have a bit of extra time to start building up the content for SMS2007. I’m kind of excited… many projects… so little time… I lurve it!

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Ok, here’s the thing - Moola.com is totally addictive. Totally. I signed up for their beta testing - where you can play games online for money. Not a new idea, but I like money so I thought why not

You sign up for free and you get a free penny to start the whole process. If you win - you double your money. You have the opportunity to double your money all the way up to $10,000,000. Of course that sounds great - and EASY right?! Of course nothing is ever that easy, but it’s a fun way to pass some time.

I’ve managed to get up to .64 cents (oh yeah… champaign for everyone!!!… lol).

So after all of that - if you’d like to give it a try I’ve got 4 offers to sign up. Just comment here if you’d like one with a legit email address and I’ll send them along. (you can also just sign up for the beta test, but you’ll have to wait a few days or so before you can get in).

Check it out: Moola.com (not an affiliate link)

… on a sidenote: It’s an ingenious way for us to watch the ads… and they make money

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I suppose this is a review of sorts to the software called RSS MINI. This download offers a quick way to build websites in PHP faster than you can say… Wazzzup. Here’s what they say:

RSSMini File is another script with which you can make a full website of your choice! You can add any pages! Well… Adding Pages… That Seems Boring… Not with RSSMini File! Adding new pages was never been easier before! All you got a do is duplicate a file and rename! RSSMini File displays content based on the file name! All you need to do is rename it! Simple! You can add unlimited pages!

It seems pretty simple doesn’t it? So of course I took a peek at their demo and then downloaded the script. So tonight (or sometime hopefully this weekend) I’ll be able to put it on a site and see how “easy” it is to make a site.

If it saves time, is worthwhile… why not right? Has anyone else given this program a try?

… more of an update later!

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For the past couple of days I’ve been mulling over some ideas. Mostly because I saw how I was doing in the Affiliate Marketing end of things… maybe it’s the time of year or I’m just tired of being nickled and dimed to death by the affiliates I’ve signed up with.

Of course I love my nickles and dimes.

I just want a bigger cut.

Who doesn’t??

Anyway…

I love Amazon. I really do - lots of available merchandise to flog on your sites. Of course they only pay out 4% per sale (when you start out each quarter and then you can move up the ranks… only to have to start over each quarter. Bah!) So anyway… I love the products - not so fond of the payout. Since working with Amazon more and more, I’ve had a little success with them. Actually their my biggest success so far. Which makes me sad about the 4% (yes, I’m really stuck on that 4% aren’t I!). I’ve made almost $2000 for them. Awesome right? So awesome I’ve made just over $100 dollars with them - for the effort. That makes me sad…. mad… *shaking my fist in the air*. I totally get that they need to make their money too - but I just wish the affiliate cut was more than 4% (ok, I’ll stop now!).

So my thought process has been mulling over the whole “different income streams” idea. Which makes sense - why put all your eggs in one basket right? But what different streams could I get into?

ClickBank Products
Affiliate Products
Ebooks
PPC engines
…. sell my own products??
Dropshipping

They all ran through my mind. I’ve been doing a little on the Clickbank stuff, working my butt off for the Affiliate Products, not really gotten into eBooks…. PPC engines - nice to suppliment (but I think having them on some of my affiliate sites takes away a potential sale… but I’ll deal with that later). Dropshipping - scary…. don’t know where to look for reliable/legit dropshippers. Selling my own products - sounds nice, but what do I have to offer?

Well, I thought about the last one a lot.

I think I have something to offer.

I have a website I could offer it on.

I wanted a shopping cart.

I looked around at the free carts available.

Saw that Template Monster was offering a really nice looking template for Zen Cart - for free. So I loaded Zen Cart up, and added the template from Template Monster. Did it work. Not so much. Not at all. The instructions for loading it up were poor - and I will admit that I didn’t ask their support for help (didn’t really think of it… and I’m not sure what they’d offer someone who just took a free template anyway). But it didn’t work. It was very, very frustrating. I’m not sure going by that experience with the free template I’d want to bother buying one from them. Those ZenCart templates are a bit more expensive than their run of the mill templates they have on offer.

I will admit that when I loaded their free Wordpress templates - I didn’t have any problems. It could just be the template I downloaded… maybe I’m not “getting it”. But I’m not that dumb. I just don’t think it works. Anyone else tried the ZenCart Free template from TemplateMonster… and it worked?

Then I tried working on Zen Cart itself. I just got fed up (because of the template debacle). So I uninstalled it and now I’m working with CubeCart. I’ve got one of their basic templates up - and now I’m going to try it out.

… Really after about 1 1/2 hours I realized that I hadn’t really accomplished much and decided to play the Sims 2 before I went to bed.

I hope CubeCart isn’t quite so challenging template-wise.

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