As I researched incorporation, I started noticing a lot of remarks along the lines of:
“…which the state does not charge. Except California.”
Guess where I live. Yes, folks, to incorporate at all, even if I’m operating at a loss or put the business on hold for a few months at some point, I have to pay [...]

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This July, I made: $355.57. Yeah, that’s a little lower than I estimated the other day - I suck at math. This time I’m right though! No, really. Sources of income, in order from highest to lowest:

/* : not the most ads sold, but I had an affiliate payout of $25
LinkWorth: with two affiliate payouts [...]

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Lately I’ve been experimenting with ways to trim fat from my daily schedule. Today I decided to eliminate some blogs from my feedreader, which always seems to have “more than 100″ new posts for me. The funny thing is: who I eliminated.
I got rid of a lot of the A List/big guys/gurus not because I [...]

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It’s been a productive week.
I changed all my blog email subscriptions from FeedBurner to FeedBlitz (which is also provided through FeedBurner). They just look nicer, have more options for your readers, etc.
I finally sold a BlogAds ad on B-2 Bomber. I think that’s the ideal network for that site, since the site’s focus is on [...]

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Today’s big project? Putting invitations to subscribe to RSS or email updates at the bottom of my posts on all my sites. I gotta tell you: that really, really works (20 new subscribers in 3 days).
Yesterday, I got a frightening amount of stuff done. I cloaked all the affiliate links I could easily cloak (those [...]

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This month I made about $350. Not quite a record month, but for the first three months this year I hovered around $275. My income sources were, in order of muchliness:

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ShareASale (nice couple of commissions there - and this is the year I want to start earning regular affiliate commissions instead of sporadic ones)
AdBrite [...]

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I’ve got a lot of thoughts in my head right now, and they’re keeping me from getting stuff done. Time to vent them.
My next big project was going to rely heavily on paid links for monetization. I’m more than a little frustrated with Google pulling this crap now.
I don’t care what Google does to hurt [...]

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This lens seriously helped me today: Seth Godin’s Squidoo post on writing an ebook. There’s not a lot to it, but it was just what I needed.
I’ve been forging along on the eBook I’m writing. Well, except for last weekend, when I got sidetracked by creating some sister blogs for the B-2 Bomber (well [...]

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About a month ago, I finished re-doing a bunch of sites - including this one - with two-column themes that loaded fast and worked well.  Then they came out with WordPress 2.1, and some of those didn’t work too well with it.
Then they deprecated the very feature that had convinced me I could squeeze all [...]

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Every now and then I feel the need to ask myself: where am I, where am I going, and what am I doing to get there?
Where I am:
I can now depend on about $250/month to roll in just from ads.  That’s a far cry from my original goal of $15, posited back when I just [...]

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