This is a summary of my personal and professional blogging activities, published with the intent of encouraging newbies to stick with it.

Content: My own content has had a dramatic decrease. I’ve been trying new writers, and they’re just getting up to speed with regular posting.

Chitika: Not enough revenue to warrant payout.

Clients: One new client (small […]

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[Disclaimer: I am being paid for this review of ReviewMe, but am not obligated to write a positive review. Furthermore, I was one of the beta testers of the site.] ReviewMe is a brand new site that launched Nov 9/06 and is essentially similar to PayPerPost in that it’s a means for advertisers to have […]

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This is a shortened version because once I again I lost a crapload of writing by mistakenly pressing delete in my fave editor. Although now I no longer have a fave. I’m taking a different approach to these milestones:

Chitika: More clicks in a single month than since late last Fall. But still not enough to […]

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September has been my busiest month yet. So busy that I haven’t even been able to write all that much to my own websites. In fact, I didn’t even keep notes along the way for this post. (I’m writing this from scratch.) While my revenue passed low 4 figures for the month, once again, it’s […]

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In the last post, I mentioned a number of blogging job boards that are out there, so the number of opportunities for bloggers does seem to be growing. Before I became one of the moderators for the Performancing Exchange board, I had planned on setting up a blogger job listing as well, and have been […]

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Performancing Exchange
If you still haven’t checked out the bloggers-for-hire job board at Performancing Exchange, you should. Maybe I’m biased, since I’m one of the moderators, but there really have been a diversity of interesting paid blogging gigs. Exchange also has listings for blogs for sale and services wanted (web design, templates, etc.) All listings must […]

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Here are some of my blogging milestones for Aug 2006:

Tue Aug 1: I bought my first blog, and with no money down. I can’t reveal all the details, but I already write for the blog. My cost is a certain amount of future cash, as well as a bit of webmastering/ organic SEO/ copywriting  work. […]

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Every once in a while, I’ll have an epiphany while writing. The one I had this morning was a vision of how to build traffic on a website: ride a wave of popular topics. The fact is, if you’re not writing about the topics people are interested in, you just are not going to get […]

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If you define a “problogger” as being someone who makes the their entire income from blogging, then I’ve finally become a problogger. A couple of weeks back, I got my first payment that exceeded the monthly earnings of my previous part-time job. [I’ve been freelancing for several years now, since the recession of late 2001, […]

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If you read this blog (or have stumbled across it) and don’t know about Performancing, get your digital butt over there. Nick and Chris and the Performancing boys have set up two new sections: Exchange and the Exchange blog. The first section is aimed at helping bloggers find blogging jobs or for publishers to sell […]

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