If you’re thinking you don’t know how to make a rag quilt, you’re wrong. As it turns out anyone can do it. Here is a link to an eBook that will show you exactly how to cut and sew the rag quilt.

HomeMade Candles

Candles are one of the most soothing and pleasent things around.  There’s not much that is as nice as lighting a candle and enjoying it fill up your home or office with your favorite scent.  This step-by-step guide will show you everything you need to know to make beautiful candles just like the really expensive ones you see in the stores, and of course since you’re making them yourself, you’ll get it done at a fraction of the cost.  There are even a bunch of people earning a nice part-time income making candles!

Homemade Pet Treats

Now this is a cool deal for the pet lovers in your family.  This is a great way to make home made pet treats that you can give as gifts!  How cool.  Evidently this guy has put together a recipe for dog treats that is totally save and healthy for your friends and family pets.  I think a gift basket of healthy treats!  This guy has special recipies for young dogs, old dogs, and gourmet biscuit recipes.  Bark Bark!  Click Here!

Homemade Gift Boxes

Now this is really cool and interesting.  This is a little different because it’s more about how to make a homemade gift box rather than the gift it’s self.  Basically they give you a bunch of templates that you can print, cut and fold into realy cute and personal home made gift boxes.  It’s really neat and you should check it out!

Homemade Bath And Body

This goes right along with the home made candles.  Maybe you could put together a “de-stresser” pack for that frassled friend of yours.  Make some soothing bath salts or body oils and a candle to burn.  The possibilities are endless!  This looks like a really professional site and the products look a lot like the high-end mall type “Bath and Body” stores.  There is a note that says this particular eBook won’t be available after December 15th.  I guess they’re moving to a video format.  Anyway, this really looks like it’s worth checking out.

Click HERE to go straight to the ideas and skip my heartwarming personal story of home made gifts and the lives they have touched

As I mentioned in another post, times are tough this year.  Every year at about this time, my wife and I have the “We’re not going overboard with Christmas this time” conversation.  We think back to previous Christmas seasons where the house is a total wreck with wrapping paper, bows, needles from the tree.  The kids are usually totally engrossed with some $2.00 stocking stuffer and aren’t paying any attention to the $300.00 Wii or whatever it happens to be.

Keeping things under control this year is going to be a lot easier.  The other day on the radio I heard a retailer start out their commercial by saying something about how “This season, things are going to be different.”  You know its going to be rough when even the retailers are advertising by acknowledging that we’re in tough economic times.

It got me to thinking about the things we’ve done in the past when times get tough.  Home made gifts are probably going to be on a lot of folks lists this year, whether they know it or not!

I remember a photo collage that I made once for my mom.  I spent a couple hours going through old photo boxes and folders on my computer looking for pictures of the family.  I finally picked out about a dozen or so and put them in a photo frame I got from Target for about $10.00.  There’s no doubt it was one of the most meaningful gifts she had gotten in a long time.  It’s too bad that we need these difficult times to push us into doing what we probably ought to be doing anyway.

Soooo .. I’ve put this list of great ideas for ways you can make a real meaningful statement in the gifts you give this year.  By putting together some genuine thoughtfulness and a couple dollars, you can make this Christmas one of the most meaningful and timeless holiday seasons on record yet.  So without further adoo, here are some great ideas for things you can make this holiday season that will show those you care about that you really put some effort and personal thought into their home made gift this year:

HomeMade Rag Quilt:

You can do it with stuff you have laying around the house. One great idea I had was to make one out of the old baby clothes our kids had grown out of and give that to our parents. You know how much grandparents love their grandkids! Can you imagine giving your parents a handmade rag quilt made of the sweet old baby clothes their precious grandkids have out grown? I think my mother would have to be hospitalized!

If you’re thinking you don’t know how to make a rag quilt, you’re wrong. As it turns out anyone can do it. Here is a link to an eBook that will show you exactly how to cut and sew the rag quilt.

HomeMade Candles

Candles are one of the most soothing and pleasent things around.  There’s not much that is as nice as lighting a candle and enjoying it fill up your home or office with your favorite scent.  This step-by-step guide will show you everything you need to know to make beautiful candles just like the really expensive ones you see in the stores, and of course since you’re making them yourself, you’ll get it done at a fraction of the cost.  There are even a bunch of people earning a nice part-time income making candles!

Homemade Pet Treats

Now this is a cool deal for the pet lovers in your family.  This is a great way to make home made pet treats that you can give as gifts!  How cool.  Evidently this guy has put together a recipe for dog treats that is totally save and healthy for your friends and family pets.  I think a gift basket of healthy treats!  This guy has special recipies for young dogs, old dogs, and gourmet biscuit recipes.  Bark Bark!  Click Here!

Homemade Gift Boxes

Now this is really cool and interesting.  This is a little different because it’s more about how to make a homemade gift box rather than the gift it’s self.  Basically they give you a bunch of templates that you can print, cut and fold into realy cute and personal home made gift boxes.  It’s really neat and you should check it out!

Homemade Bath And Body

This goes right along with the home made candles.  Maybe you could put together a “de-stresser” pack for that frassled friend of yours.  Make some soothing bath salts or body oils and a candle to burn.  The possibilities are endless!  This looks like a really professional site and the products look a lot like the high-end mall type “Bath and Body” stores.  There is a note that says this particular eBook won’t be available after December 15th.  I guess they’re moving to a video format.  Anyway, this really looks like it’s worth checking out.

Times are tough this season, there’s not doubt about it. You know every year around this time, my wife and I have a conversation where we say “We’re just not doing Christmas this year like we did last year.” We always have way too much stuff. To be honest, sometimes when it’s over, I look around at the house with toys strewn around, giant black trash bags full of wrapping paper. My wife trying to collect re-usable bows and ribbons. The kids playing with the least expensive stocking stuffer and the most expensive gift overlooked.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas. Starting at about Thanksgiving and going through to the end of the year we have more fun,family and food than I’ve had for the entire year so far. The house is full of life and love and family. It’s really great. But dagummit there’s just so much stuff. Too much stuff. Having all that junk cluttering up our houses and our lives, makes it darn near impossible to enjoy the truly meaningful and thoughtful gifts.

Things have been pretty tough for my family and I this past couple years. We were in the real estate market and doing well for a while. Then of course the bubble burst and we were left holding the bag on a number of empty houses. Last year we didn’t have much money to spend on Christmas so we really had to dig deep and think of ways we could have a meaningful Christmas without breaking the bank. I spent a couple days digging through my computer and found about 12 pictures of my family. I edited them, printed them on my computer, cut them out and put them in a $10 collage picture frame we bought at Target. When I gave it to my mom, she knew how much that gift was going to mean to her before she even opened it. Once she did open it she couldn’t help but cry, even though I knew she didn’t really want to.

My point is that you don’t have to spend money to have a Christmas you and your family will remember forever. The meaning of your gifts and the thought you put into them is far more important than how much you spent. Gifts that you can’t return are almost guaranteed to be the ones that no one would ever want to.

Another really great idea is to make a rag quilt. You can do it with stuff you have laying around the house. One great idea I had was to make one out of the old baby clothes our kids had grown out of and give that to our parents. You know how much grandparents love their grandkids! Can you imagine giving your parents a handmade rag quilt made of the sweet old baby clothes their precious grandkids have out grown? I think my mother would have to be hospitalized!

If you’re thinking you don’t know how to make a rag quilt, you’re wrong. As it turns out anyone can do it. Here is a link to an eBook that will show you exactly how to cut and sew the rag quilt.

• You can make your rag quilt in ONE weekend
• You already have what you need laying around the house. The key to making your rag quilt a huge success is to keep it personal. The more personal the more meaningful.
• This eBook is jam packed and GUARANTEED to be just what you need to make your project a success, or your money back. No questions asked. And besides, for only $17.00 just think of how many lives you can touch making personal gifts
• Who knows, maybe after you make one or two of these, it could turn into a real business for you. I bet that after one or two people see what you’ve created, they’ll want one for themselves too.

I’ve built and launched several internet businesses.  Some of them have worked well, some of them, not so much.

I’ve decided to put together a video series that will show you, exactly, step by step, how to build and launch a real internet business.  It’s totally free, and it’s totally legitimate.  There’s no bait and switch, no trick or gimmick, no nothing.  It’s just me, and my screen recording utility showing you exactly how to start a rea, legitimate on-line business.

I got pretty sick and tired of seeing all these schemes that are basically just ways to take advantage of people who are desperate for money.  What I’m giving you is the blueprint for a legitimate on-line business.  It’s free and it couldn’t possibly be any easier.

The main reason I’m putting this together is because I want to show you that there are legitimate on-line business models out there.  This isn’t a “lazy millionaire” program.  It’s a real business with real customers and real products.

Please check it out and leave some comments for me.  I know I’m not the most dynamic speaker you’ve come across in a while, but give it a whirl and put the information to work for you.  I think you’ll be glad you did.

Chris

Now he wants to start a “pressure washing business.”  Which I happen to think is a really great idea, and would be an excellent introduction into building and running a business.  It’s pretty simple in terms of the business concept.  People have dirty houses and driveways and decks.  We have a pressure washer.  They pay us to clean their stuff.  Simple.

But there are a lot of great concepts at work here.  We’ll have capital expenses (more on this later please), marketing costs.  Plus we have partners (me, my 7 year old son, and I can’t leave out my 5 year old), so we have to talk about ownership and how we split the money we earn.  Plus we have simple operating costs like the gas it costs to run the pressure washer, soap, and any repairs we’ll need.  Overall, I think it’s a really great little business for teaching entrepreneur concepts to kids.

So it got me to thinking.  How cool would it be to have a non-profit organization or school or something that would teach kids how to start and operate businesses?  It could teach kids at a young age how to do things like market research, find a need, fill a need.  Learn about expenses and profits operatinng modesl, etc.  WE could have courses on lawn cutting business, pressure washing business.  Maybe even things like tutoring businesses.  Kids are smart, motivated, and eager to learn.  This would be a great opportunity to teach them stuff they can’t (or don’t) learn in school.

Now.  Here’s where I ask for something.  I really want to get this business off the ground, so I’m asking for donations.  We need to buy our first pressure washer to get started.  My son and I did a lot of research at epinions.com, homedepot.com, walmart.com, lowes.com and other places on the internet, trying to find the most economical pressure washer that got high marks in reviews from others, and this is the pressure washer we came up with:

http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200347873_200347873

So.  If you’re an entrepreneur or a kind hearted person would would like to help us get this business started, let me know and I’ll tell you how you can donate!

Chris

It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything here.  For those who are keeping score (Bob), this blog is getting something like 0 – 7 unique visits per day.

I recently added two websites to my stash of sites:

www.Acne-Domain.com

and

www.Easy-Pet-Insurance.com

I really just stumbled upon these.  I subscribe to an email newsletter called “Early to Rise.”  Generally it’s pretty good.  It’s a little too long for me most of the time, even though the content is good.  The other day they had an article titled something like “The fastest way to start earning money on-line.”  Which of course caught my attention.

The crux of the article was to buy a website, and suggested that ebay was a good place to check for good deals.  So I went hunting.

I found a bunch of crap sites for sale, lots of adult stores, lots of folks that have obviously written scripts and are selling the same “template” to lots of people.  But eventually I did find a couple sellers that were selling stuff I thought was worth checking out.

I paid $7.50 for one of those sites, and I paid $45.00 for the other.  So I would say that’s a bargan.  Both sites come with pre-loaded content, and both are monetized with Google AdSense, Amazon Associate, ClickBank, and/or Ebay affiliate programs.  One of them also came with a nice, easy to use, administration interface for managing the content, links, affiliate programs, and advertising space.

So go check them out:

www.Easy-Pet-Insurance.com

and

www.Acne-Domain.com

Stay tuned and I’ll let you know how things are progressing.  If you feel compelled to help, please feel free to send some traffic my way by adding a back-link.  I’ll try and find a way to return the favor.

Thanks All!

Chris

Mesothelioma is a very aggressive cancer and can often be difficult to
treat. One of the characteristics that makes Mesothelioma so
difficult to deal with is the fact that often the cancer will not
appear until between 15 to 40 or more years after a person has been
exposed to asbestos!

So what is asbestos? Did you know that asbestos is a
naturally occuring substance? It’s mined from rocks, and is
made of of lots of tiny fibrous materials. It’s particularly
dangerous because the fibers are released into the air where people
breathe them in or swallow them without even knowing it.
Asbestos fibres are not able to be seen without
magnification, and they have no taste or smell, so most of the time,
people don’t even know they have been exposed.

There are basically three different kinds of Mesothelioma; Pleural
Mesothelioma, which affects the lining of the lungs, Pericardial
Mesothelioma which affects the lining of the heart, and peritoneal
mesothelioma which affects the lining of the abdomen.

This lining of the heart, chest, and abdomen is made up of cells called
mesothelial cells. The most common form for Mesothelioma is
Pleural Mesothelioma, then Peritoneal Mesothelioma, and the least
common is Pericardial Mesothelioma.

So what are the symptoms of malignant Mesothelioma? Symptoms
of Malignant Mesothelioma may include:

• Shortness of breath
• Pain in the chest or back
• Difficulty swallowing
• Caugh, Fever, sweating
• Caughing up blood
• sensory loss
• swelling of the chest, neck or face

Where can I get more information about Mesothelioma?

American Cancer Society
University
of Penn OncoLink
The
Mayo Clinic
American
Institute for Cancer Research

by: Chris Hackett

What is Sleep Apnea?

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is usually caused when an obstruction, usually the soft tissue of the rear of the throat, collapses and closes during sleep.  Central Apnea, is when the airway is not blocked, but the brain fails to send the signal for muscles to breath.  Mixed Apnea, as the name implies, is a condition which is a mix of Central Apnea and Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Sleep apnea is a serious condition which often causes a drop in Oxygen levels in the blood.  The most common type of sleep apnea is Obstructive Sleep Apnea.  With this type of Apnea, enough air can not flow into the lungs despite the breathing attempt.  This can result in a drop in oxygen levels in the blood.  Normal breathing generally begins again with a loud snort or choking sound.

Left untreated, sleep apnea can increase the chances of having high blood pressure, and even a heart attack or stroke.  Untreated apnea can also increase the risk of diabetes and the risk from accidents related to drowsiness.

What causes sleep Apnea?  At the most basic level, obstructive sleep apnea happens as a result in the temporary collapse of the throat.  The throat and tongue muscles relax more than usual, if you have large tonsils and/or adenoids, if you are overweight, or have a smaller boney structure in the nose and throat area, are all factors which can influence the occurrence of obstructive sleep apnea.

What are my Treatment Options for Apnea?

Changes in Activities or Habits.  Avoid alcohol, smoking or medicines that make you sleepy, as they can make it more difficult to keep the throat muscles open during sleep.  Also, try and loose weight if you are overweight.  The extra soft tissue in the throat can make it difficult to keep the throat open during sleep.  Even a little weight loss may help apnea.  And finally, you can try sleeping on your side as opposed to on your back.  This can make it easier for the muscles in your throat to remain open.

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP).  This is one of the most common treatments for sleep apnea.  This treatment basically involves wearing a mask over your nose which blows a stream of air into your throat at a pressure that’s right for you.  The increased pressure helps keep the throat and passageways open.

Mouthpiece (oral appliance).  This may be helpful for individuals with mild apnea.  This may also be recommended by your doctor if you snore loudly, but do not have apnea.  This piece is generally custom fitted by a dentist or orthodontist, and helps to position the lower jaw and tongue so as to maintain an open pathway to the throat.

Surgery.  Surgery may help some people with apnea.  The type of surgery that is appropriate will depend on the type of apnea.  For children with apnea, a surgery to remove the tonsils and or adenoids may be helpful.  Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (U-vu-lo-PAL-a-to-fa-RIN-go-plas-te) (UPPP) is a surgery that removes the tonsils, uvula (the tissue that hangs from the middle of the back of the roof of the mouth), and part of your soft palate (the roof of your mouth in the back of your throat). This surgery is only effective for some people with sleep apnea.  Laser assisted UPPP can stop snoring but may not necessarily treat the undeylying apnea.  Because of this, it’s very important to have a sleep study first.

There are currently no medicines for the treatment of sleep apnea.

Living with Sleep Apnea

Getting treatment for sleep apnea can help you and your family members.

• Getting treatment can greatly help your sleep and can improve symptoms of snoring.
• Treating apnea can help you feel more rested and alert during the day
• Healthy lifestyle changes which can be helpful for treating apnea are good general health and lifestyle choices such as stopping smoking and loosing weight.
• Some sufferers of apnea will need to wear a mask (CPAP).
• Few people will require surgery
• Get help from your family in the form of moral and emotional support, and encouragement to follow your doctors program, including use of the CPAP device if necessary.

Click here for information on current research and clinical trials for sleep apnea.

This is a real story, from a real person, ME!

I have two boys, ages 5 and 3 now.  They were BOTH super easy to potty train, and we did it in ONE day.

I’m not kidding you.  With our first son, we planned for it, and then on one Saturday morning, we started, and by Saturday night he was out of his diaper, and we never put a diaper on him again.

Nick was 2 and a half when we potty trained.  Matthew was also about 2 and a half when we potty trained him, also.  Same story.  Woke up one morning, and said ‘This is going to be the last day Matthew wears a diaper.’ And it was.

Here’s what we did!

The first thing to make sure of is that your child is showing all the correct signs that they’re ready to be potty trained.  I believe that if you force a child who isn’t ready to be potty trained you’ll just set your progress back even further than if you wait until they’re ready.  I think there are reports and studies about potty training that say this bodily function is one of only a very few things in a toddler’s life that they can control, and if they’re not ready to give up that control, they’ll exploit it to make the experience miserable for you and for them.  It won’t be pleasant if you try and potty train them before they’re ready.  What are the signs?

1.  Make sure they’re able to follow and obey simple commands like “Come here” or “Stand here”

2.  Be sure they are able to pull their pants down by them selves.

3.  They should be waking up from their nighttime sleep with a dry diaper.

I think that’s pretty much it.  If they can do these things, I think you’re pretty much ready to go for it!

We purchased a doll that goes potty to show our children how a person goes potty and to show the kids that when the pants of the doll are dry, we’re very pleased and make a big deal about the dry pants.  I think it’s more important to positively reinforce dry pants than to negatively reinforce wet pants.  We definitely focused more on staying dry as opposed to avoiding being wet.  Stay focused on the goal and not the behavior that you’re trying to eliminate.

We let our son pick a name for the doll so it would develop a bit of an attachment to it.  We spent about an hour showing our son how the doll had dry pants and we would say things like “Wow, look at Mike, he’s got dry pants!  He’s such a big boy keeping his pants dry!”  Then occasionally, we would say “Hey!  Mike has to go potty!  Hurry, lets take Mike to the potty.”  Then we would deliberately go through all the necessary steps to go potty.  First we actually walk (or run) to the potty.  Then we would have our son help “Mike” pull his pants down, and then Mike (who had a small squeeze bottle inside) would actually go potty.  Then we help Mike pull his pants up, flush the potty, and wash his hands.

I think that having our son “help” Mike with what to do, was key part of getting everything mentally straight with our son.

All the while we are doing this, we’re loading our son up on water, and juice.  I would recommend that you stay away from juice, or at lease seriously dilute it.  It turned out ok for us, but it will give most children diarrhea.

Another important thing to do is to make sure you relate the doll’s dry pants to your child’s pants.  We would always check “Mike’s” pants, and then immediately check our son’s pants and make a big deal about them being dry.

When he would start to go potty, we would help him hurry to the potty, help him take his pants down, and help him “aim” properly.  If we managed to help him keep his pants dry, we would praise him a lot and tell him what a good job he did with keeping his pants dry.

If he didn’t make it to the potty, we would encourage him to try and keep his pants dry next time.  And here’s an IMPORTANT step when our child didn’t keep his pants dry.  “Rehearse” the episode three or four times, or as many times as you can without inducing a meltdown.  Start at the place where the child was when they first noticed they had to go potty, help them hurry to the potty, help them pull their pants down, and help them up onto their step stool or whatever.  Do this several times, and always encourage the dry pants.

For us, I think the key to success was several things:

1.  BE sure they’re ready.  Don’t force it if they’re not ready

2.  Be patient and encouraging.  Don’t yell at them or reprimand them.  This is new and intimidating for them, and they have 100% control over this aspect of their life.  If they decide they don’t want to be potty trained, no amount of training will work.  So be sure to keep it positive, fun, and encouraging.

3.  Be consistent.  Don’t start the project if you’re not mentally ready, or if you don’t have the whole day to dedicate to it.

For us it was totally worth it, and it worked really well.  I think when we did our second child, we even took our older one to his grandparents for the day so we would not be distracted.

We used a book called “Potty Training in a Day” and I would highly recommend that you pick up a copy.  It really worked for us.  And it didn’t just work one time, we were successful with it twice!!!

Check out our next article about how we got both our kids to sleep through the night by 6 WEEKS!!!  Wow .. I would have gone insane without this!

About a year ago, we signed up and we went with the annual plan.  I think it was about $200 for 12 months.  We figured that we would try it out, and it service and reliability were good, we would cancel our Bellsouth services.

Well service was not good at all.  In fact it was totally unusable.  We put the router in front of the “gizmo” as Sunrocket called it.  We tried putting the router behind the gizmo.  Nothing worked.

Sunrocket tried to help a couple times, but we couldn’t get anything working.  We kind of forgot about it, and we were planning to move, so we thought we would try it at the new house.

Our DSL is MUCH faster at the new house.  The Speed Test reports that we have about 6.2MB downstream and I can’t remember what out upload was, but it was a lot.  Still nothing seemed to work.

By this time, we started getting email, voicemail, and maybe even some postal mail announcing that Sunrocket was going out of business.  Not surprising if others had a similar experience as what I had.

My wife checked her account balance, and there’s a charge from Sunrocket for like $208.22  You’ve got to be kidding me?  For what?  I’m sure that this charge was placed after the annoucement they were going out of business.

A phone call to the credit card company and I’m sure it’ll all be taken care of.  The lady at the credit card company said they’ve been getting LOTS of calls since Sunrocket made the announcement.

Have you been charged by Sunrocket?

We finally got all our materials together for the coregistration project.  Here’s basically how it’s supposed to work.

We have a series of 5 email messages that we loaded up into an autoresponder (AutoResponse Plus).  Then we researched and selected a Co-Registration records provider.  We talked with a couple and eventually selected a provider called CoReg Media.  Supposedly they’re a pretty big player.  What they do is provide records from other websites.  You’ve probably seen coregistration if you’ve ever signed up for an account somewhere, and then before you “checkout” or finish the registration you get a screen that says something like “Hey, are you interested in any of this other stuff?” and if you are, you check the radio button and click continue.

At that point the surfers information is passed to the coregistration company and they probably do some scrubbing or validating and then post the record (lead) to my autoresponder and we start sending the emails.

The first email is sent immediatey, the second email is send the following day, and so on.

All the emails are basically a “pitch” that points the potential customer to a landing page where we put the hard sell on for the product.

So far, we’ve been delivered a little over 1100 records from CoReg Media and we haven’t had a single conversion.

We have a couple places to look and see if we can make improvements.  We’ve already tested two versions of the initial email we send out.  The first email we sent was a pretty long pitch and I suspected that it might be delivered to spam folders, we tried a really simple email, and so far it would look like the stats are about the same.

The next place to check is basic deliverability.   We might try using a third party email provider like Intellicontact to deliver the email and track open rates.  Although, at this point, other that poor conversions and clickthrough rates, I don’t really have any reason to believe the ARP program isn’t working.

Of course after that we’ll start analyzing the actual records to make sure they’re not incentivized or pre-checked or something like that.  Those are issues that are difficult to figure out.

We have had a pretty low unsubscribe rate (24 unsubs out of 1108 records provided).  I don’t know if that means that the messages aren’t being delivered properly so people aren’t opening or unsubscribing.  Or it could be that the records are incentivized or pre-selected in some way, and the recipients are expecting “spam” on their journey to win an ipod or something.

Either way, we still have collected about 1100 emails so far, and we fully intend to continue sending messages to that list until they unsubscribe or die

Seriously though, I do intend to send a personal email message to a handful of the records and ask them where they coregistered and to make sure it wasn’t incentivized or pre-selected.

I’ll keep you posted!

It’s not really specifically geared toward Internet marketing, but there’s good general information about getting in the right mind-set for direct response marketing.

I think there are a LOT of people out there who have good ideas for marketing and advertising efforts, but never do anything about it because they’re afraid of what people will say or something, because they think their ideas are too crazy or different or something.

Anyway, I would recommend that book if you’re starting on a path to making money on the internet!

I’m new to this whole blogging thing, but it’s all over the place, so I figure I better give it a go. We’ll see what happens. I’m not sure if I’m disciplined enough to do this everyday, but I guess we’ll find out!

My goal here is to document my journey in my quest to earn a full-time living on-line.

I suppose I should tell you just a tad about me so you can tell where I’m coming from. I’ve done a lot so far.

After graduating from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro GA, I went to work at the CNN Center in downtown Atlanta as a “webmaster” for CNN. This was back in like 1995 / 1996. IN fact, I think when I started, there was no such thing as CNN.com. I was there for a couple years and then jumped around from place to place until just a couple years ago when I decided I had about enough of sitting in cold, loud datacenter floors at 2:00 in the morning.

So I packed up my technology bags and headed toward real estate. I got my license and started investing heavily. Things went well with that for about a year and a half, but has fallen apart nicely lately.

Now I’m absolutely determined to earn a fantastic living on-line. This blog will document my journey.