Spin-off: Making Money Making Blogs

This is a spin-off of my two other blogs (which were spin-offs of my dozen or so proto-blogs). The two current blogs are: Back to the Well, a diet and fitness chronical, and So Lonesome I Could Die, a blog about my life as a writer of hardboiled detective fiction.

What happened is this. I started adding ads and stuff in an effort to pull in a little extra beer money -- though it is doubtful I need any extra beer -- and I suddenly found myself excited by my grassroots e-commerce experiment. It is funny because I have always had a hand in e-commerce, especially since my days of working with ClientLogic, now Sitel, a business process outsourcer for companies like Microsoft, Hewlitt Packard, TiVo, Logitech, Gevalia, etc. We made millions working with these companies, but it wasn't until I earned a whopping $22.30 from people clicking on my Google ads that I realized the true thrill of making money from the Web.

Anyway, I started writing about it in my fitness blog, and the fitness readers said, "Hey, enough of the e-commerce crap, let's talk diet and exercise." And they're right. One main idea to each blog.

So I'll continue to rant and rave on my earnings and site visits and page impressions here, and I'll continue to lament about my hunger and meager weight loss and sore knees there.

Either way, please visit my sponsors by clicking on their ads. And order any of the books I recommend that appeal to you. And...well, enjoy the blogs, too.