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Calling it in

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This is strange. In the past month I’ve actually been asked to do a few speaking engagements regarding my success with websites and blogging.

One business contact is holding a series of four seminars and they begin next week. The seminars are out of town so I can’t attend in person. He’d decided that perhaps he’d just do a phone interview with me and I suppose, hand out the interview to seminar attendees.

Now he’s changed his mind.

He wants to call me during the seminars and interview me via a conference call. He says the calls will only be 5 minutes. Somehow I doubt that … but $50 bucks for a short phone interview? I’m not sure yet. but I might do it.





Using business cards to promote my blogs

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I mentioned on one of my other sites that I’ve been invited to a few speaking engagements recently. One of them is a 4 hour blogging seminar that will be held in June. There’s four sessions open for those who want to sign up and learn more about making money through blogging.


If I attend and speak at these seminars I’m going to make up some business cards first. So I think this weekend I’ll head over the one of the office supplies stores and get one of those packages were you can print out your own cards. I’ve done this before to promote my sites but I haven’t made up any new business cards since I started blogging a year and a half ago.

People are always trying to come up with new ways to promote their sites and I’d actually forgotten about using business cards. I mean if you have a job where you meet a lot of people and sometimes talk to them about blogging, or if you socialize often ie attend parties, take your kids to their after school activities and sit with other parents etc … why not make up some cards with your site address on them and hand them out to some of the people you are talking with if they’re interested? You might end up getting a new regular reader by doing this.

I know this worked well for my websites. My websites are exotic pet related so if I got into a conversation with someone about exotic pets, or visited a pet store and let them know who I am (my sites are very popular and I’ve written several articles for top reptile magazines) they happily take my cards so that they can hand them out to their clients. They do this because my websites are a source of care information.

Whether it will work for blogs I’ve yet to find out, but it’s worth trying.

Tired of waiting for work

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Does anyone else do work on the internet to make some extra cash? I do, but you know, sometimes I find that it’s a big waste of time. I love getting assignments and being able to do them when I want to. I can whip off a lot of work in an hour or two when I just sit down and do the work.


However, one of the companies that I do work for is basically first come first served and while I don’t sit here staring at the computer screen all day waiting for work, I do keep the site open from the time I get up, to the time I go to bed at night, watching and waiting for good opportunities to come up. The work I do for that company, when I get work, amounts to maybe an hour or two worths a day, but when you add up all the time throughout the day that I glance at the site hoping something will come up well … I waste an awful lot of time on it!

Yep, I love my reserved work, and of course the money I make just by putting code up on my sites such as for Google Adsense. Speaking of Adsense, I should put some on this site too I think.

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