My life

Books Stick to what you know best. The only thing we ever made any real money( and I’m taking salary here) on was the selling of second hand books on Ebay. We started on ABEbooks and Alibris but they just died in the water. In the case of Abe it was down to their listing policy. We used to make £100 a week from them, but they were taken over by some clever people who were going to revolutionise the system. And they certainly did. The sales dropped off to nothing, and we jumped ship. Ebay will... Sign in to see full entry.

Advertising Not much happening today. But I thought I would keep you informed on my projects. My website Tinwellbooks.co.uk is undergoing more changes. I wanted to just use it as an experimental site to find out what I could do. Once I did that I was going to go on and make another site cloned on these results. Well none of that has happened, and I’ve been reduced to setting up the main site as the heart of the project. This is where I want to post the jobs in details. Steve Sign in to see full entry.

Writing Jobs! Most of the times I post these writing jobs, I rarely follow up to see what the hell they are selling. On this occasion I did, and boy did I get an eye opener: http://www.galaxyweblinks.com/adultanimation/ This is one of the most bizarre animations I have come across for some time. They want someone to write some copy to try and explain just what the hell this little fellows are doing. I can only assume it is for an adult education project. Either that or for someone with a truly... Sign in to see full entry.

With the never ending rain in England we are dreading the come rise in food prices. This is inevitable due to the poor harvest and change in world circumstances. China no longer wants to live on just rice, and is importing meat and other food stuffs like never before. Not only that, but a great deal of agricultural land is now given to the production of bio-fuels. You could look on this with some pessimism but for a few strange facts. Many small grows and business people got out of the market... Sign in to see full entry.

Dilemmas Do I blitz the blog sites with lots of useless tat in order to gain some click-through traffic, or scower the forums and tease quality traffic? If it was not for this awful job, I would hold out for the quality option. But I’m so desperate to escape, that I’m tempted by the thought that I can gain the same amount of money just for posting junk! Of course the truth of the matter is that you could never turn out enough pages to bring in a living wage, no matter how much junk you typed in... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday Morning I’m struck by a new idea for making money out of blogs. As I’ve often toyed with the idea of making money from just posting entries I’ve done a lot of research into how you can get the most out of this. The findings I’ve come up with are that you need to post a paying banner on the site to get money from click through’s. If you’ve ever wondered why those Google Adsense banners appear everywhere, these people are making money without trying. Now they aren’t making a fortune, but... Sign in to see full entry.

Well things are starting to come together. Maybe I’ve been driven here by the closure of all the other roads I’ve travel down. But the only way I can make fast steady money is through Web sites. Nothing new there. But in the past I’ve tried to put together shopping sites. Safe in the knowledge that people want shops. But the sorry truth with my own shopping web sites, tells me that people will not buy anything. Not at the prices you want. So you can’t make money selling things, just information.... Sign in to see full entry.

I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a website and series of blogs to make some money. The method of making money would be to big up a product on the page, in the hope that people reading it would click-through and buy the thing at the other end. Now my field of interest is pretty limited. I hoped to write about what I love, but websites on magick and the Occult don’t pull in the crouds, and there is another problem. When folk are searching those sites they are only going to buy... Sign in to see full entry.

Battle on! Well the battle with MySql and Dreamweaver goes on. The problem is down to the link between Dreamweaver and its ability to find the data base. Basically it can’t, so we are up a certain place without a paddle. This would be a good time to reflect on what’s what. Regular sufferer’s of this blog will know that I work at a supermarket. Not a very nice supermarket and a job which is going nowhere. I sit down every day at this bloody screen and think: “how the hell can I get out of this... Sign in to see full entry.

I’ve had some break through’s with web design and yet just as I thought it was all coming together, it fell apart. Having some trouble with connecting the database up to the web page. Have you ever had one of those days when you just know it should be working, but Christ it just won’t! I’m going to keep going with this as I can see this is how web design is going to get me out of the supermarket. Maybe I won’t be riding around in a Rolls Royce and worrying about my carbon footprint, but it could... Sign in to see full entry.