New Ideas

Like I was saying before I am getting really busy at work, and as always that means less time spending on my sites.

To make this all work I am doing more focus on specific tasks.  First off I am going to make sure that I have all of the scripts that I am using up to date.  I found out yesterday that someone had hacked into one of my sites, changed the PP email and has been getting my sales for the last little while.  Since the site is not very busy this probably went on longer than was necessary, but it still meant lost revenue, and maybe even lost content.  So that makes #1

#2 is that I am going to be spending more and more time working on developing the sites that I have right now.  I have a few ideas for the sites that are making money now on how to make even more money from them.  My goals like I said before is to make $10 for every hour that I spend working online.  To do that and still be able to work on new projects I am going to have to start making more passive income from my existing sites.  I don’t think that this should be too hard, but it is still something that I am going to have to spend time on.

#3 is to ensure that I am enjoying the process.  I am going to cut as much of the stuff that I don’t like doing and either farm it out or find NEW and improved ways of doing the same thing.  This is a hobby afterall and therefore I should enjoy it :)

Akismet ho!!!!

I have finally broken down and installed Akismet.

I have been dealing with about 200 spam a day and in the process have been deleting just about all of them. I figure I have deleted more than one legit comment in the last little while.

So Akismet should take care of everything. I hope

Having some fun

I have been having some fun lately. At the day job I have been working about 10-12 hours a day which leaves little time for my online adventures ;) So I made the decision to let it sit till I have more time. There have been a few emergencies that I take care of, people complaining that they didn’t get their products, or somebody thinking that it would be fun to use a recently discovered flaw in one of the scripts that I use and deface a site, but other than that I have been letting my income grow passively. I expect that if I take too much time off that my revenue streams will start to drop off, I have actually just noticed them flattening, so a drop is expected soon.

My long term plan is to start up a new blog, that will be targetted to the university crowd, this will be coming online in August. There are a couple of other ideas that I have in mind, but I am going to limit my time to 1 hour an evening and stress on passive income streams.

My goal is to have 2 sites that are at 1000 visitors a day by the end ofthe year. The university community site should be no problem for that, but the other is going to be hard, well may be hard, I still haven’t figured out what I want it to be.

As always, I will keep you all up-to-date with the comings and goings….