I am not really sure what direction that I want to take with my online dealings right now. I have not been very focused lately, and I was thinking about selling off some of my sites. Then I thought that may not be a great idea, especially since most of them don’t really cost a lot to keep online anymore so why not keep them. Safety them up a bit and check in on them every once in a while but other than that just hope that Adsense will pay for the BW.

So that is all that I decided. I am going to keep all of the sites that I already have. Great, now what. I have found myself sitting in front of the computer the last couple of nights stumped as to what to do. I have lots of ideas, but no really huge motivation to come through on them at the moment. Also I don’t really feel like writing, so that original content that you really need to have a site, well that has to be paid for until I get out of this slump that I am in right now.

The way I see it there are three avenues that I can meander down to give a shot at. There is CJ and other CPA, and affiliates sites that I could build a site for, market, buy ads etc and make some money. There is contextual advertising, which I have had limited success in. And there is drop shipping, or light wholesale. I already have paid for the World Wide Brands list of drop shippers so I guess I could give it a shot.

Right now I am leaning toward the drop shipping, or CJ. However for both of these there is a lot of market reseach work to do on the front end. You have to find the niche, find the product, find the competitors. If there are a lot move to the next product. Once you have found the product that is not saturated you have to do some test marketing on a small scale to see if it will make you money. Then you have to sit down and anaylze the results, if favouable expand, if not move on to another product.

Anyway we will see what happens. What ever I decide be sure that I will keep everyone up to date with my success.

So I have been thinking that it would be really cool to put videos from Google Video and YouTube (now both owned by Google) in my blogs. I checked out a couple of the standard plugins that are out there and they either did too much and the syntax when writing in the blog was convoluted or they didn’t work.

Therefore this weekend I began writing a plugin to do just that, however I found out very quickly that I am not very good at filtering strings with PHP. I have been able to get everything that I want it to do to do it so far except I can’t get it to work as a plugin. Basically the syntax will be [vid type='xx' data='xxxxxxxxxxx'][/vid], the type will be for the video, and the data will depend on the type. I am hoping that a simple id will work for most. Also in future versions you will put a title in between that will be either above or below the video, and maybe I will add functions so that you can vary the size too, but I think that will start making the plugin too much for what I want to be able to do.

If anyone else out there is interested in something like this please let me know, otherwise I am sure that this will sit on the back burner until I get very bored again, which doesn’t happen very often.

I have found a bit of time to do some work on Bluenoser Webmaster Books. It is starting to look right, but it is still not quite there. I am hoping to have more time in the future, but in the meantime let me know what you think of it?

Also if you are looking for a book that is not there just let me know and I will find and add it.

PS you have probably noticed that I have added a new category, if you haven’t well you should have,

Anyway this is the category that I will be adding any news about the books store. I have been thinking about expanding into other categories but I think that is going to be a while in the future, I am still not sure about my way around the script to do that with a sinlgle DB and make it “pretty”