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After being sick for most of the last two weeks I am finally starting to get caught up on things. Not only were my online interests suffering but my offline endeavors had been fairly neglected as well. Now that I am feeling better, well relatively, I have been scrambling trying to get back on track. I can hopefully take it easy this weekend a bit and be back to a more normal schedule starting next week. It is hard to believe that the month of February is almost over. I feel like I have missed the whole month. Simply put I look at February as a singularly unproductive month on my part. It pretty much crosses all boundaries too. Not just online but offline, personal fitness, hobbies, self-improvement...pretty much everything just took a tank this month. Obviously I was sick and that played a big part, but that really can't be where all the blame starts and stops. I am not very happy with me as a person this month. Just couldn't get going and then being sick certainly didn't h

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I am still sick with this nasty combination of flu and cold. I thought I was getting better, but I am still coughing like crazy and not really able to eat much without feeling awful. Combine this with a TON of other things going on and you can all see the result on my blogging time. After my big push for $1500 in January, February has been a bit of down month. Pretty much everything has suffered all around, from earnings to posts. I am starting to feel better and hopefully this last week I can start getting back to a more normal schedule. Well I must get on to other things....I hope you all are doing well and earning lots of money.....more later... later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED and my newsletter! or clicking the links below to bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites.

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This is some great news for all of you Blogger users out there. Google has finally gotten the message and upgraded the Blogger platform to include post scheduling. Nothing has really changed in the posting interface except that now when you select post options if you enter a future date and time the post is not published immediately (like it illogically was before), but it is instead scheduled to post on the date and time specified. Here are a few pics to show you how to do it and what it looks like. First pic just shows that I entered a future date and time for this post. This second pic shows the posts list after I hit publish for the article. As you can see the post is now shown in the list and is labeled as scheduled. Note also that you can now filter the posts by the scheduled status as well as the usual published and draft. This is a huge added feature to the blogger package and one that so many users have been waiting for. Now if we could just get a real archive page that would

One of my most memorable and romantic vacations was to the Poconos region. While the family was there the resort we were staying at was running several day long New York city tours that included breakfast, lunch, dinner, round trip transportation, and all admissions to the NY area attractions the tour was going to. The price for the tour was a low 60$. The whole family went, My wife, daughter, and I, my parents, my grandmother, and my sister and brother-in-law. We saw sooo many cool sites around the city. It was a very fun and romantic day with my wife. Yeah other family were along but my wife and I had a blast. It was a day crammed with awe inspiring moments, tearful memories, and national pride. We visited Wall St., Central Park, Manhattan shopping, Broadway, and the Statue Of Liberty and Ellis Island. My only regret about this wonderful tour was that it was only one day. I am really looking forward to getting back and spending some more time in NY. It was one of the best sightseein

Sorry to you all that I haven't been around or posting lately. I have been extremely sick since Saturday. It started out as what I thought was a simple cold and ended up being a very nasty flu. I have been laid up for several days and have not felt like getting on the computer. In fact, I haven't really felt like doing much except laying on the couch or in bed. I am starting to feel better today and can hopefully return to work and to blogging tomorrow. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED and my newsletter! or clicking the links below to bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites.

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While the Webby Awards are considered the Oscars for the Internet, there is a new Golden Globe emerging. Back in January some of the top "MEGA" blogs like TechCrunch started and held the first ever "Crunchies." These awards are much more focused on internet entrepreneurs, blogging, and the social aspect of the internet. You may have heard of Twitter, if not where have you been, and it was a Crunchie winner for Best Mobile Start-up. Now I don't know if you are using twitter, I personally don't. I have way to many things going on to have the time to be always posting crap about what I happen to be doing each moment. Heck many times I find it very difficult to work in time to post on my blogs. Anyway I thought you all might find this article interesting..... later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED and my newsletter! or clicking the links below to bookmark my site, or

There has been an ongoing debate on whether or not a clean desk leads to higher productivity. There are those that say an ordered desk is less distracting and that leads to higher productivity. Some studies suggest that requiring some people to clean their desk actually causes a drop in productivity. In a book titled "A Perfect Mess" co-author David Freedman writes that, Mess is good for a lot of reasons. First of all, you save a lot of time. Another reason is there is efficiency in mess," he said. "People who are really messy know where there stuff is. Because it reflects the way they work and think and in addition it's expressive. What a great idea, allowing people a bit of freedom to express themselves and the way they work and think. Some people come by a neat desk naturally, some don't. Some like order and neatness and that is how they work and think. Others think in a more disordered way and their "space" reflects that. It isn't to say th

I have started working with UBD on the new blog I am working on, and I really really like their stuff. Well Joe over at WebInfinit.com is holding a contest and has teamed together with Nate Whitehill , and Unique Blog Designs to provide an exclusive theme for one lucky reader of Webinfiniti dot com . The contest is very easy to enter, but it is only open until February 15th so head on over and enter today. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED and my newsletter! or clicking the links below to bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites.

For those of you familiar with PayPerPost you have known about RealRank for quite some time. For those of you that aren't RealRank is a new Blog ranking system from Izea the site - IZEARanks.com . I got the email today letting me know the site was live. I stopped by registered my blog and checked everything out. Understand this is a ranking system for blogs and nothing else. In fact they allow users to flag sights that aren't blogs. The downside I see right away is the opt-in facet of the system. There will be sights that choose not to participate because of it's association on some level with PayPerPost, or some other reason. RealRank according to the site is a "blog ranking system that uses real data to calculate which blogs are getting the most traffic and have the most influence on the web. IZEARanks ranks the top blogs in the blogosphere via actual site statistics, not an extrapolation of estimates." There is a very nice graphical chart somewhat remeniscent

I have quite a few PayPerPost referrals and haven't been paid for a single one. I have been hard pressed to find many who have been paid. Now I don't have hundreds of referrals but I certainly have enough where at least some would have published and been paid for at least one article by now. Yet not a single status that isn't still pending. Have you been paid for any of your PayPerPost referrals? If so how long did it take? later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED and my newsletter! or clicking the links below to bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites.

I really have no idea what that means. I am back though and ready to get back in the blogging swing of things. So if you were wondering why the posting had slowed down here is why. I was on a brief excursion through the lush concrete jungles of the 3rd largest metro area in the US. Fondly known as the "windy city." That would be Chicago folks. Well now that I have returned I feel that it is once again time for me to begin making plans to leave again. I love travelling and certainly love vacations. I try and get away as much as possible. It really isn't as expensive as you might think. I can pick up tickets to many great places in the Caribean for around $150 round trip. The travel dates aren't the most flexible and usually you only have a few days to make a decision and purchase them, but you can't beat the prices. I know I have a lot of readers from Australia and I would love to visit that country. I was actually checking on prices for a flight to Australia and

Now that the month of January is over I had a bit of time to total up the numbers. I know I was anxious to see if I had reached my goal. I know many of you were probably wondering the same thing. Oh yeah, In case you missed it I set a goal for this blog to earn $1500 in January . When I set this goal it was on January 15th and I had earned a total of $606.33 so far for the month. I was very determined to meet the goal and I tried to keep everyone updated as to my progress. Now it is time to see the final numbers. Here are the final earnings numbers for the January. Affiliate Sales: $937.18 Paid Posting: $430.34 Contextual Ads: $73.88 Ad/Link Sales: $10.00 Misc: $11.37 Total MTD: $1462.77 A new earnings record for the blog!!! While not quite to my $1500 goal it is an average of roughly $47.19 per day for the month. I have to admit I am a little disappointed. I know I was very close, but close is still not good enough for me. Stay tuned for what is coming February. I will be busy the r

While I have never had a true identity theft episode in all of my years on the internet I have had one issue with Paypal and chargebacks and my bank account. It was a big mess that took weeks to sort out, and in that time I was out around $2000. It was not fun and tons of work for me. I have spoken with several people, one in just the last severl days, that have had identity theft episodes where a credit card or in one case a very large home loan was taken out in their name using their social security number and other personal information. In all cases trying to sort the mess out has cost a lot of time and money Because I do so much work online and have quite a few different places that have my personal information, I have taken steps to protect myself against identity theft. If you are looking to make money online many places will require your personal information for 1099 purposes. If you are not protecting your identity you are taking a huge risk. The company I use is called Lifeloc

I have to say that the practice of "domain tasting," "domain floating," or "domain kiting" is one that I had not heard of. In fact I honestly didn't know you could return a domain name within 5 days with no penalties. Really if you could register several hundred thousand domains a day and just make a few cents off of each one before returning it that would a decent little chunk of change. Well now that I know about the practice it is too late to take advantage of it. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED and my newsletter! or clicking the links below to bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites.

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