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July Income Report and a Day in my “Glamorous” Life.

Larry C. — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:57:00 +0000

7:15am, Ughh, can’t she at least sleep in till 8:00am?

7:20 am, Get up and change the little ladies diaper, Sarah my daughter(2), stumble out to the kitchen and get her some juice to keep her occupied, while I start the diapers.

7:30am, get the bag of washable, re-usable cloth diapers, by Bum Genius, start the wash cycle. Wash hands, and heat a cup of water for my morning green tea.

7:35am cut up some organic strawberries, to get Sarah started with breakfast. We try to eat ONLY organic food in this household, especially fruits and vegetables.

7:45am, cut up a cantaloupe and give it to Sarah. start checking emails, affiliate sales, AdSense income, Amazon income, check comments.

8:00am, start replying to comments, read other posts by fellow bloggers who are trying to make a living, making a living or are in my crowd or tribe.

8:30-9:00am, make oatmeal with cockroaches and dirt for Sarah. (Raisins and Cinnamon) Feed Sarah.

9:15am, start the second (hot) wash cycle for the diapers, put on Elmo or some other educational program for Sarah, and *try* to get something done, more commenting, reading, emailing and start thinking about what posts I am going to do today. I have over 10 sites I post to weekly, not including this one, as it’s been the one I have neglected most. Not so much anymore.

10:00am, start final rinse cycle for the diapers, continue to work on sites or approving profiles on my main dating site. Start Mary Poppins or Lion King because Sarah likes to sing and dance. So do I.

10:30am, Hang diapers to dry in the back yard.

11:00am, Put Sarah down for a nap, get ready for gym.

11:30am, Hit the gym for an hour and a half, listen to podcasts, let Lisa sleep and get rest.

1:00pm home again, home again, jiggity jig. Feed Sarah lunch. Spend some time with Sarah as she wants daddy time.

2:00pm, put on Lion King or Muppet Show, get diaper shells so they don’t heat rot.

2:10pm, start working again, or at least try.

3:00-6:00pm, try to get as much done as possible as after about 7pm I am toast.

6:00pm, dinner for Sarah.

6:30pm-7:30pm, Daddy time for Sarah, then off to bed at 7:30.

Where’s Lisa in all this? She’s tending to our 3 week old Hannah June. She’s pretty much attached to her for about 1-2 hours, every 3 hours. This will go on for another 4 or so weeks when Lisa’s C-section incision is healed, at which time I might get more time to go work on things at a coffee shop. Until then I am stuck at home doing A LOT. But I like it, this is part of the reason I am doing the whole Internet thing.

8:00pm start dinner for Mommy and Daddy. That’s Me and Lisa.

Dinner is usually at about10pm most days, while making dinner I try to get more done, but sometimes it causes me to burn dinner if I am making it, if Lisa makes dinner it’s a little more time to work on my sites and the dating site.

So yeah, MY life isn’t so glamorous right now. Eventually it will be better and we will be traveling. For now we have a new one to nurture and a business to grow.

In my last post about Quitting The Day Job, I spoke of my IT consulting business that WAS my day job. I also talked about how I am making 2k+ a month now, from stuff online, online referrals, or referrals from people who have used my hosting services and WordPress installs. What I forgot to mention is that even though I am making that nice chunk of change, it is still not enough to support my family completely. What I forgot to say was that we have to pull a little bit each month from our retirement fund, to make ends meet. This does not make me happy, but I am having to pull less and less as this business venture grows.

I do still have 2 very small IT consulting clients that call me occasionally for some small amount of work, but it’s only about $450 a month on average, and that’s not included in my monthly income reports. So small in fact I don’t consider it a day job anymore as I do almost all the work remotely, and only on the 5Th day, of the 3rd week, of the 1st blue moon. Most often this work is done at anywhere from $80-$120 an hour, so you see I am used to making WAY MORE, thank these little trickles of money coming in from all over. However one thing is true: Little streams turn into bigger streams, like the Mighty Mississippi

In case you are wondering what an IT consultant does, in my case I am a Network Engineer. I go to small and medium to larger medium sized companies who can’t or don’t want to afford a full time IT guy. I set up their computer network, or fix their existing one(hired gun sorta stuff), and then get it all running just right so it doesn’t break too much, install backup procedures, and then remote access stuff so I can monitor and fix any problems from this desk I am at right now.

I set up Mail Servers, File Servers, I do hosting and some website design or WordPress installs. I mainly just make sure that companies can come in, in the mornings and go right to work. Most of the companies I deal with depend on their computers to earn money. Companies like Interiors Designers, Architects, Lawyers, Doctors and other creative types.

Finally, here’s July’s income report:

Amazon – 54.96 (lower still this month, but coming up fast in August)

Dating Sites – 690.38

eBook Sales(Mine) – 77.76

Affiliate eBook Sales – 49.70

Clickbank Sales – 12.35

Dating Site Affiliate – 147.00

Text Link Ads – 48.57

Google – 280.04

Side Jobs (Hosting, WordPress Installs) – 880.00

Total July – $2240.76

Last month (June) – $1694.87

Difference of $545.89

July 2010 Income Report

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June Income Report

Larry C. — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:46:21 +0000

Last month I was talking about this months income report, and how it was going to be much better. Well it is. As you can see it’s about $700 better, which was a nice boost. I am shooting for even more in July. I’ve started on several eBooks, 4 of which are already online and selling, Rockabilly Hairstyles.

My next ebooks are about black and white Hollywood Glamour Photography, something people have been asking me for, for a while now. I am hoping that will be a good seller. I am also going to start my fetish photography site, and a digital photography site. Yeah I know there’s a ton of them, but mine will be different. I promise.

As you can see, I did a website flip last month. I didn’t make much from it but the experience I gained was invaluable. The income from the dating sites went up a bit too, and I sold some old wedding photos to a client whose wedding I shot several years ago. They were sitting there on my hard drive, and I thought maybe I should offer them a disk of unedited images. They can edit and print as many as they want. it’s been like 3 years. They bought it instantly.

Amazon was back up again, and going to be even better for July, I guarantee it! You can also see my ebook sales in there too.

Amazon – 98.79

Dating Sites – 730.83

eBook Sales(Mine) – 76.79

Affiliate eBook Sales – 45.40

Text Link Ads – 62.73

Google – 320.33

Website Flip – 110.00

Photography Sold – $250

Total – $1694.87

last month (may) –$1002.88

Difference of $691.99

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May Income Report

Larry C. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:10:56 +0000

May’s income report was a slight increase from April, for a total of 1002.88. May was the month to start reorganization of my thoughts, my workflow and my direction in Internet marketing and making money online. I started the focus on writing my own product. I’m doing 2 to start with, a photography book on my style of photography, Hollywood Glamour Photography, and the second on my new way of monetizing websites, the fastest way I have found to do it so far.

While all the marketing and money making programs I have done have been good in their own way, for one reason or another, they do not monetize fast enough to help pay the bills.

Like I said This month saw a slight increase from last month, and I am forecasting a gradual but steady increase from here on out. I have a few new sites I’d like to talk about, one being a Kindle Forum. http://www.thekindleboard.com.

I am hoping to make a community of people chatting away about their Amazon Kindles, Apple iPads, and Barnes & Noble NOOKs. If you are one of my readers and wish to help me out, I could use more people signing up and posting on that board. As we all know, no one posts to an empty board. Eventually it will be monetized so if you all stick around maybe you will watch it grow?

I have also decided I have a Domain Addiction. I buy domains with the intentino of monetizing them, but I have way too much on my plate to really do anything about it. So I have decided to start a 12 step program called domain buyers anonymous. For those of us afflicted with Domain Buying Addiction. I almost bought 2 domains today but decided not too, I have tons of domains I can monetize, but just need to sit down and do it.

Do you, or someone you know, suffer from Domain Buying Addiction? We can help…hahaha…

BTW I own over 350 domains, is that sick or what? I ‘d like to know.

Anyway on to the report for this month:

Amazon – 48.43

Dating Sites – 465.17

Affiliate eBook Sales – 47.50

Text Link Ads – 57.67

Google – 284.11

Advertising – 100.00

Total – $1002.88

last month (April) – 977.53

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Flowing with The Current Economy

Larry C. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:36:02 +0000

What people are buying and what they are not.

This economy has made things a little rough, as people aren’t buying luxury items as much, but what they are buying are things that they are desperate for, things that will either help them to Make Money Online, something that is a necessity, or something that they are desperately seeking a fix for. That would be something like a medical condition, or something that affects their social life or romantic life.

Seeking Desperate Solutions.

One such problem people would seek a fix for would be people who have little red bumps (aka Keratosis Pilaris) on their arms or legs. A “bride-to-be” might search desperately for something that will get rid of those little red bumps before her wedding. Why? So when she is wearing her wedding dress, she is not going to be embarrassed of those little red bumps. See my picture?

Seeking Desperate Fixes.

Another thing might be for a heart broken ex-boyfriend wanting to get his ex girlfriend back. He might seek out something on the internet and buy an eBook or a report on “How to get your ex back in 30 days“. This is the sort of thing people are buying right now so being able to adapt and change with the ebb and flow of the changing economy, is what is going to make or break an online entrepreneur.

One product that helps to find or identify niches that people are needy for or desperately seeking is Alexis Dawes’ “Desperate Buyers Only”. I have bought it, I have read it and I have gotten the revised edition as she gives free updates, and I can’t tell you how much this has helped me. My first ever desperate buyer only product that I made, a report on how to get off of painkillers, is consistently making me money each month and I can tell you it’s paying a couple of my bills each month.

I will be putting out a few more “desperate buyers only” products soon, as soon as I clear my plate of a few other projects that need to be tied up. Then maybe I will be making a fortune but until then I am happy with how things are going so far. As Alexis says on her sales page “You DON’T have to be some big-name guru to make thousands of dollars a month selling information products online”. I wasn’t a guru, I still am not a guru but I am doing what I set out to do when this economy started going south: Making extra income from sales generated on the internet to supplement my income.

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EBooks: A High Profit, Low-Maintenance Business

Larry C. — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:48:48 +0000

If you are serious about making money online, there are a number of ways to do it. One idea is eBooks. They require very little cost upfront and can provide lots of revenue for your business. This is one way I make my money online.

What are EBooks?

EBooks are digital reading media that is easy to pass along to others. Many are choosing electronic books over printed books these days for several reasons. One, eBooks are shorter versions of more traditional books that can be created and published by you.

Second, eBooks are easy to use and store. They fill space on your computer instead of space on bookshelves in your home. EBooks can be read in PDF format online or printed to take with you. Unlike traditional books, as soon as you order an eBook, you can have access to it in minutes.

What does that mean to you?

Do you like to write? If you have a way with words and a talent for enticing readers, you can use eBooks to bring a profit to your blog or website. Use your niche as subject matter for your eBooks. Since you already have knowledge about, say, Internet marketing, put your experience to work by offering it to others in the form of an eBook.

The cost to you is negligible. With a blog or website, you already have access to the Internet and a computer that is probably filled with software that is needed to work with eBooks: Microsoft Publisher, Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word. It is not a matter of creating the inside of the eBook. There are books and online articles that give tips for writing eBooks people will want to read.

EBooks vary in size. You may be able to charge more for longer books or you may command a good price for shorter ebooks that provide very concise and valuable information.

An eBook can be composed in a Word document on your computer. Use Microsoft Publisher to format your work and add extras to attract readers. Turn your Word document into a PDF file for easier downloading and printing by customers.

Selling EBooks

Now that you have created this eBook, you’ll need to find a way to get it into people’s hands. Marketing your eBook follows the same lines as marketing your website or blog.

Use article marketing to draw attention to your eBooks. Create an article series based on your eBook. Submit these articles to article sites and on your blog or website. Give just enough information in the articles to have the reader wanting to know more. In the resource box, mention the eBook and link to your website. Submit articles to social bookmarking sites with links to your website page showcasing the eBooks.

For customer ease, link your eBooks with your checkout process. Once the customer pays (PayPal, credit card, debit card) they will receive a link via email or automatically where they can download your product.

EBooks cost you next to nothing to produce so the money you make is all profit. Turn your writing skills and expertise in a certain area into money for your business.

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