My life

Hauntings and the selling of Books One thing which always sells on Ebay is a book about the supernatural. Haunted East Anglia is a book we’ve sold on several occasions. People love books about a haunted area. Doesn’t mean to say they will ever visit that area, but nice all the same. For those of you in the US, East Anglia is a bit of England that sticks out East. Its very old and very weird. The most haunted house in England (and possibly the world) was Borely recterary.This was priest’s house,... Sign in to see full entry.

Ebay! Tora..Tora..Tora!!! I’m pleased to say that the money is trickling in through my renewed efforts on Ebay. If I could make this much every day, I could quit my day job and just find a part time supplement for the rent. Oh what a happy thought? So what books sell on Ebay? Anything with the word: “Pony” in the title. Anything by Enid Blyton, especially secret 7. Any French philosophers, especially Satra. In other words, there are no rules. People will pass up wonderful 19 th century books for... Sign in to see full entry.

Life goes On Ebay is the only thing paying me any money at the moment. I’ve started up my book selling scheme and its going well. To my surprise the charity shop we used to use has agreed to renew the link. I’ve gone back to collecting car loads of books for £10 and I’m now in the process of typing like hell to get them online. Of course I’ve still about 1,000 books that have never been put on Ebay. They have been in the house over 5 years and have survived the great cull that happened over a... Sign in to see full entry.

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.