I’ve been pretty stressed out lately; mostly due to the combination of not doing as well as I’d like to be doing sales-wise and the fact that my boyfriend is currently unemployed - I’m pretty much supporting the entire household on my craptacular earnings right now, and it’s been keeping me up at night. As much as I like running websites, I’ve been very discouraged and the notion that I should throw in the towel and get a “real” job keeps nagging at me.
Even though I am working at something, being productive, and getting paid, I still always have this underlying feeling like I’m lazy for not going out and getting some shitty retail job for $7/hr like everyone else. I’m sure part of this comes from the general attitude among most people I know IRL that what I’m doing can’t REALLY pay the bills, that any online/work-from-home money-making scheme is a scam or a cop-out. The other part is that at its heart, this type of thing is unreliable. Even if you usually make a certain amount of money every month, it’s not set in stone. I was raised to always be SURE that I had income, so taking this sort of chance is challenging for me. It’s kind of funny when I think about it; I was raised by a woman who worked contingent for most of her life, but she still managed to instill within me an aversion to risks/not having a normal, steady job.
Steve and Kimo have pretty much been giving me a crash course in being a successful webmaster lately; with Steve especially it’s totally like web school. Dude could totally write an e-book and make loads of cash, he’s awesome at teaching dumbasses (me) how to functionally run websites (see the newly-relaunched-as-a-Latina-blog Caramel Cams for my new skillzzzz… ha). Kimo’s got the motivational skills in spades, too - Tony Robbins needs to move the fuck over.
Lastly, I decided to start promoting the affiliate programs that are currently doing the best for me, on the off chance that anyone reading this hasn’t heard of them. As you can see on the sidebar, it’s currently Widget Bucks (a mainstream company that I’m averaging $0.30/click with right now) and Adult Webmaster Empire (hands-down my best converting/money-making adult sponsor - plus hey, they gave me a free $250 this month). So Kimo, whenever you actually do something with winebeerliquor.com or your mainstream toaster fan site or whatever the fuck, sign up for Widget Bucks, okay?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Came from your blog link at DP. I know what you mean. Need capital to make more money. Key is continue doing what you are doing, be consistent, in 9-12 months you’ll be making great money. Try wickedfire forum or GFY.com (probably know this already) huge adult forum.
Good luck,
January 15th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
remind me to show you more about plugs this week.. i’ll get you started on trade scripts and everything
January 16th, 2008 at 5:26 am
Steve, you need to stay up later so you can e-hang out with the cool kids.