A Jane of Most Trades

It happens from time to time, there comes a point where you look at a blog and you’re just cringing. It’s old, sad, the content is drooping– it has seen better days and if it were a horse it would be put out to pasture or sold to the glue factory. Fortunately, with a little [...]

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” Ben Franklin said it first. It’s probably better to save a penny than spend it and earn it back later because the earned penny will be taxed a second time. I’m not talking about being miserly or cheap, but wisely frugal. When you are working online it’s important [...]

I tried it. Image Space Media is the advertising network that uses javascript to overlay ads onto images. It seems like a really good idea and I could see it being more effective once the network is larger and has a broader range of advertisers but the ads were absolutely not relevant to the images  [...]

Although it’s not my highest earner, I like using Project Wonderful for managing paid advertisements. Here’s why: Payout is low (ten dollars) If you don’t meet payout you can easily set up your own ads on  other peoples sites without a separate advertiser account You can set minimum bids for your ad boxes You can [...]

Hi, my name is Wendy and I have not checked my stats for 10 minutes. All kidding aside, with as many blogs and sites as I have (and those that I maintain for others) I can’t take too much time to obsess over traffic stats, reader behavior, or unique visitors. Mainly because I have this [...]

Is it SEO, networking, network marketing, plain old marketing, advertising, directory submissions, blog carnivals, or building back links? Or is it being able to go outside and witness the rain with your kids, taking photographs of moments that would might go unnoticed, developing otherwise impossible friendships with people states or even countries away, voicing your [...]

Seriously, stop it. If you already don’t abuse tags, then you’re on the right track. I honestly love a particular home school blog, but I’m constantly irritated by not being able to find what I need (which in a reasonable universe would actually be on the site and probably is) because the list of tags [...]

Spend a few years working on your blog. Make some really interesting pages. Keep working on your blog. Join Stumbleupon Stumble for a while (this is really easy to do, remember to “like” or “dislike”) so you know how to define ‘awesome’ in your topic. Keep working on your blog. Make some more really interesting [...]

I know, sometimes I find it hard to believe but I do. Here’s the basic gist of what’s going on: I use one advertising network to bring visitors, I am a publisher with the same network (meaning  that their ads are displayed  on a few of my sites) which allows me to finance my advertising [...]

Sitting in front of your computer. Hands on key board. Blank page in front of you. And an hour later you’ve realized that being stuck on that first sentence would be a luxury compared to the living terror which is that cold and relentless  blank page before you. Staring back at you. Mocking you. I [...]