Thursday, 15 April 2010

The Homeworking Forum

I have just recently discovered a brilliant forum for tips on all things homeworking. http://www.homeworking.com/forum.htm

This forum really is one of the best I've seen in a while and after looking around it I tend to trust it a bit more than the average forum as it doesn't focus on advertising various programmes (in fact this is banned) and seems to have a lot of people involved that want to give genuine advice.

If you are interested in a specific person's efforts to work online then there is the option to message the person or you can click through to their profile for further information. So there is still the option to gain idea's but it's not rammed down your neck if you know what I mean.

Due to the above this is not really the place to go if all your are interested in is advertising your affiliate programme or whatever but if you really are after advice then I would definitely pay this site a visit.

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Bloglovin

A reader has suggested Bloglovin as an additional way to promote blogs (thanks for the tip!) and I thought I would follow this up to see what it was all about.

So far I have had a quick look around their site and signed up but from what I can see so far it seems to be a way for me to add blogs that I'm currently interested in following rather than to promote my own blogs.

I can see what my reader was saying in that you could encourage others to add your blogs to their Bloglovin file but other than that I'm not sure how it's useful to promote my own blogs. Or am I missing something?

Anyway it's a really good looking site, clean and concise, with mainly girl users centring around fashion blogs mostly.

I would love to hear more from anyone who uses this regularly?

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Building Mania

I've hardly had a chance to get anything done lately it's been so manic here. We are having lots of things done to the house and have had various sets of building people here almost constantly for the past week. I'm currently hiding out upstairs while lots of banging happens downstairs and it's nice to just pop on here and think of something else for 5 mins.

I had never realised before how much builders moan! It started with the boiler people having a good old grumble about the cottage being old fashioned and pipes etc being awkward to get at and then the wall knocking down lot were unimpressed with the boiler lot and so had a bit of a groan about them and so far it hasn't stopped. The building trade is more gossipy than the housewife brigade I have decided!

Another week or so and we should be workmen free :-)

Saturday, 9 January 2010

SocialGo

Hey everyone,

This post will mostly be a plee for input from others out there also working from home online.

I once went on a site called SocialGo and now regularly get emails from them about setting up my own network and was wondering if anyone else had come across or was using this site?

It seems to be a place where you set up your own community for your chosen topic, so i.e. you get message boards, places for people to post pics and exhance idea's etc. Now I think it looks brilliant but there are many levels and I was wondering if anyone had used the free one in particular? I wouldn't mind paying a fee eventually if it was worth it but I would want to start out on the free package at least until I knew a bit more about it.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Monday, 4 January 2010

New Blog Still Going Strong

My newest blog is still going strong and now has 6 followers after 2 posts. Amazingly though my others are still getting hits, even when I haven't updated them in quite a while. The target now has to be increasing the amount of hits (and clicks I guess but I'm not sure how I can influence that and I think it's actually frowned upon by Adsense if you try), I'm hoping by increasing the amount of hits, the clicks will take care of themselves.

For now I have decided to concentrate only on blogging as a way of earning online. There are millions of ideas out there but I found I was getting pulled in all sorts of directions and not actually getting much done.

Saturday, 2 January 2010

Will This Ever Work!?

Sorry I haven't posted in a while but I was having problems with my old computer and so haven't been keeping up with things as I should. I fully intend to get back to this now though and make a good effort on it.

I have started a new blog for the new year and this time rather than making it about a specific topic I have just wrote exactly what I thought and it seems to be going much better! Ok so granted I have written one post so far but already it has 5 followers and 4 of those have commented. Now I'm not sure how everyone else's blog does but for me that is a pretty darn good result.

I'm hoping now that this leads to increased views and clicks which will all tot up on my Adsense account.

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Paypal Account

I've got an issue with my Paypal account at the mo. I've recently been sent a new bank card for my current account and the big number across the middle has changed, however my Paypal account is registered to my old account number.

I'm pretty sure this won't be a big deal as I've never actually verified my other account anyway so I've just removed it for now and plan to attach it to my new number asap. Has anyone had any problems with things like this in the past? I was just wondering if I did have any money in my Paypal account when this happened whether it would have caused me any big issues or not?