Friday, November 22, 2019
Twelfth Day of Adobo by SherwinJTB on Clarinet
Thought I'd share it on my blogger before I go eat dinner. Just uploaded on YouTube and sharing through some of my social networks. Merry Christmas in 2019. Early greetings in case I don't make another post here in a while. Have fun and God bless! Press play and listen to me blow my clarinet. =)
Monday, November 18, 2019
New Website Ready to Start Blogging
Hello! Feeling a little exhausted trying to get my new website up and running. The basic stuff has been fixed, but there's still a lot of work to be done. We still need to fix our SEO and we don't have a physical address to share. This is important if we want to scale our efforts. However, we have all the essentials to start blogging. We can find our new website here https://sherwinjtb.xyz/ and I'll end up paying more for the professional business email in half a year. The cost of a P.O. Box is around $135 in 2019. The price seems to be rising every year. Makes me wonder if my website can survive without an email marketing service. I'm fine with direct email contact at this stage. Not as fast as online chatting, but there are social networks that already makes this possible. I really don't want to continue doing surveys online to earn pocket money.
Our next step is to find an affiliate network program. I have my eye on a few already, but we need to register with them to actually get started. We're not exactly an official business yet. Still a hobby in the eyes of the taxation office. I think we're good if we don't earn more than $6,000 per month. We definitely don't want to earn more than $75,000 per year because that will seriously cause attention to us. I'm not looking to become super rich and wealthy. Just enough to live comfortably and free from financial burdens. This is something I'm fortunate to have. The lifestyle I have chosen is situational. Not everyone has the opportunity to start a blogging website. You really do have to work for something if you want to keep at it. If only everything came to us on our doorstep. None of us would need to struggle in life, but we'll miss out on the adventure.
Apologies if what I'm saying doesn't sound important. This is all a work in progress. My side of the story. How I came about answering online surveys to earn money and then buy myself a website. It only took me a couple of months, but we got there. Lessons in the past is not to risk all we have to make some money. Gambling was never part of the deal, but it can happen to the best of us. Gambling is a high chance of risk taking that most of us can't afford. However, we need to take certain risks in life to learn and grow. A lot of people fail at blogging, but there's a lot of encouragement online that has proven methods to work also. We're looking to be in the very small percentage of bloggers who become successful.
All we need is a little bit of guidance and discipline. We can't go off playing games all day and pretend nothing happened. I always remind myself that we need to balance work, rest, and play in life. I'm still deciding if our blog requires sponsored ads. The most well known brand is Google's AdSense. Yep, still deciding if or when I should include them in our new website. Actually, what's more important before that is finding out what to talk about. There's various topics we can go through, but we should probably stick to just one niche for now. We don't even have a mission or vision yet and that's going to hurt us the longer we think about it. Perhaps we want to help the homeless people in our community. Perhaps we want to continue to be entertainers in the gaming industry. The National Broadband Network should improve our situation.
I think helping the community could be a more well rounded approach, but it's going to be a challenge monetizing in this subject. Perhaps I'm not smart enough or don't know enough about this topic. Doubting myself before we even get started. This is probably what they call anxiety. The very first post is usually one of the biggest hurdles to jump. We need to write about stuff that actually has interest. If people aren't searching for the stuff we talk about, we'll never achieve the traffic we want. We'll end up earning a few cents every month, but that's not good enough. We know that monetizing websites work. I've earned money before by creating content online. I just hope we last longer than a a couple of years this time. Sadly, answering surveys online has earned us more money than our usual past failures. This needs to change.
I think I'm okay at story telling. Better than some people who don't check their spelling mistakes! I feel bad for some bloggers out there who don't correct or edit their articles. I take some pride in writing quality posts and check for mistakes often. I don't trust others enough to do the work for me. I still have that mentality that if I want something done well, I should just do it myself. This means all the blame is on me, but we're not in the blaming game business. I didn't leave the retail industry to blame others. I wanted to make a difference in this world. Help people in our community and feel that I have a purpose in life. I'm a little interested in running some regular community events if I ever find the time. Most notably for the elderly. I don't have the resources to start a charitable organisation, but there should be other things we can do.
Brainstorming ideas is something I don't want to keep doing, but it must be done. Shows that we're making progress or least trying to make a change. The difficulty in writing this post is that we're not really promoting anything today. Well, we're talking about the new website we've been building, but we haven't started blogging there yet. Oh, in other news I had a nightmare. It was the weirdest dream and quite devilish. Not sure if it's from playing too much Diablo 3 or whatnot. Never really fully understood my dreams. Scary if we dream of things that happen in the future. That's some freaky stuff right there. Maybe that's where people get the idea of angels and demons. Not quite the wild imagination after all. I think I'll stick to believable content though. However, being creative is another option if we do it in the early stages.
Is it okay to change our writing style every now and then or just stick to the usual structure? We don't want to shock our readers every time they come to visit our website. I'm going to reward myself after writing this post. Play a bit of Diablo 3 and perhaps watch some Netflix. Probably should find out more about Diablo 4 if there's any news. I haven't read anything yet since watching their game trailer. I'm going to have to learn how to cook also. Moving house with my beautiful partner next month. Looking forward to having faster internet speeds with an NBN (National Broadband Network) connection. I'm not holding my breath though. I haven't heard great reviews lately. Still need to pack my things into boxes. The big things like furniture is the greatest challenge. Well, cleaning the house is also on the list. Oh well, it must be done.
Our next step is to find an affiliate network program. I have my eye on a few already, but we need to register with them to actually get started. We're not exactly an official business yet. Still a hobby in the eyes of the taxation office. I think we're good if we don't earn more than $6,000 per month. We definitely don't want to earn more than $75,000 per year because that will seriously cause attention to us. I'm not looking to become super rich and wealthy. Just enough to live comfortably and free from financial burdens. This is something I'm fortunate to have. The lifestyle I have chosen is situational. Not everyone has the opportunity to start a blogging website. You really do have to work for something if you want to keep at it. If only everything came to us on our doorstep. None of us would need to struggle in life, but we'll miss out on the adventure.
Apologies if what I'm saying doesn't sound important. This is all a work in progress. My side of the story. How I came about answering online surveys to earn money and then buy myself a website. It only took me a couple of months, but we got there. Lessons in the past is not to risk all we have to make some money. Gambling was never part of the deal, but it can happen to the best of us. Gambling is a high chance of risk taking that most of us can't afford. However, we need to take certain risks in life to learn and grow. A lot of people fail at blogging, but there's a lot of encouragement online that has proven methods to work also. We're looking to be in the very small percentage of bloggers who become successful.
All we need is a little bit of guidance and discipline. We can't go off playing games all day and pretend nothing happened. I always remind myself that we need to balance work, rest, and play in life. I'm still deciding if our blog requires sponsored ads. The most well known brand is Google's AdSense. Yep, still deciding if or when I should include them in our new website. Actually, what's more important before that is finding out what to talk about. There's various topics we can go through, but we should probably stick to just one niche for now. We don't even have a mission or vision yet and that's going to hurt us the longer we think about it. Perhaps we want to help the homeless people in our community. Perhaps we want to continue to be entertainers in the gaming industry. The National Broadband Network should improve our situation.
I think helping the community could be a more well rounded approach, but it's going to be a challenge monetizing in this subject. Perhaps I'm not smart enough or don't know enough about this topic. Doubting myself before we even get started. This is probably what they call anxiety. The very first post is usually one of the biggest hurdles to jump. We need to write about stuff that actually has interest. If people aren't searching for the stuff we talk about, we'll never achieve the traffic we want. We'll end up earning a few cents every month, but that's not good enough. We know that monetizing websites work. I've earned money before by creating content online. I just hope we last longer than a a couple of years this time. Sadly, answering surveys online has earned us more money than our usual past failures. This needs to change.
I think I'm okay at story telling. Better than some people who don't check their spelling mistakes! I feel bad for some bloggers out there who don't correct or edit their articles. I take some pride in writing quality posts and check for mistakes often. I don't trust others enough to do the work for me. I still have that mentality that if I want something done well, I should just do it myself. This means all the blame is on me, but we're not in the blaming game business. I didn't leave the retail industry to blame others. I wanted to make a difference in this world. Help people in our community and feel that I have a purpose in life. I'm a little interested in running some regular community events if I ever find the time. Most notably for the elderly. I don't have the resources to start a charitable organisation, but there should be other things we can do.
Brainstorming ideas is something I don't want to keep doing, but it must be done. Shows that we're making progress or least trying to make a change. The difficulty in writing this post is that we're not really promoting anything today. Well, we're talking about the new website we've been building, but we haven't started blogging there yet. Oh, in other news I had a nightmare. It was the weirdest dream and quite devilish. Not sure if it's from playing too much Diablo 3 or whatnot. Never really fully understood my dreams. Scary if we dream of things that happen in the future. That's some freaky stuff right there. Maybe that's where people get the idea of angels and demons. Not quite the wild imagination after all. I think I'll stick to believable content though. However, being creative is another option if we do it in the early stages.
Is it okay to change our writing style every now and then or just stick to the usual structure? We don't want to shock our readers every time they come to visit our website. I'm going to reward myself after writing this post. Play a bit of Diablo 3 and perhaps watch some Netflix. Probably should find out more about Diablo 4 if there's any news. I haven't read anything yet since watching their game trailer. I'm going to have to learn how to cook also. Moving house with my beautiful partner next month. Looking forward to having faster internet speeds with an NBN (National Broadband Network) connection. I'm not holding my breath though. I haven't heard great reviews lately. Still need to pack my things into boxes. The big things like furniture is the greatest challenge. Well, cleaning the house is also on the list. Oh well, it must be done.
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