Google Ads

If any of you have been to any of my websites, you've seen Google Ads. Why? Because Google pays me cash money for those ads on my site. I'm not suppose to talk about what I make from the Ads, but I will tell you it's more than $100 a month. Isn't much, but pretty good for doing nothing. Which of course, it varies from site to site and depends mostly on how much traffic you have and how many times visitors click on an ad. I learned about Google Adsense last summer while reading an article about a 17 year old girl that was making $17,000 a month from her web sites ads....not just google ads...she was also using another company as well. She started using Google Adsense because she couldn't afford to pay for her web sites hosting, so she thought she might make enough to cover the hosting but, instead she made enough money for her mom to quit her job. Craziness! She runs a Myspace graphics and layout sites and obviously she's got traffic backed up for miles! Just something to think about....especially if you have a blog or informational site!

15 minute rule!

Ok...so I totally need to take up on this rule, myself. Practice what you preach....this I will do. Follow the 15 minute rule every day by taking time out from the laundry (it will still be there), playing twister and adding products to your site to do some networking. Very simple:: 15 minute rule = networking 15 minutes a day. How? Email another designer and make a friend. Read designer blogs and post comments or reply to comments from other readers, get the hook up on myspace, join designer groups, find other couture sites to advertise on....that's what those banners are for! If you spend 15 minutes a day on networking and you make 2 friends per day for a whole year, you would have 730 new friends that might take advantage of or talk to another friend or customer about your business, which obviously in turn, generates traffic to your site. Making a small concious effort daily, can lead to large results....unfortunately, I am backwards (until now) I don't make an effort to network daily. I take one day a month and spend that whole day networking. WRONG! It does work. But doing it daily is way more effective. (so, I've been told)
Ok, so....FRILL dogg!
Thanks, Lovesssss!

Here I go again....

Trying to do something with this blog. I was actually inspired by another blog today. I have been sooooo down in the dumps about my YAHOO email giving me trouble for such a long time and I've had so many people get mad at me because of it. I would get emails days sometimes weeks late and even worse not at all. Then, I started to discover that my clients and potential customers were not getting my emails either. The problem? YAHOO's email filtering and spam protection. Slightly OVER-protective, I'd say. Today, while reading another designers blog, she mentioned how she had the SAME terrible issues with YAHOO email. I was actually excited to hear some one had the same issue and my email address is not cursed. I've lost atleast 5 clients that I can think of over my email issues....and I am heartbroken over it. If anyone out there uses YAHOO email, please reconsider. I really cannot stress to you how important it is...especially when you're trying to run a business from home. Or even if you don't have YAHOO email, please keep in mind that people with YAHOO email might not be getting your emails.
Thanks, Lovesss!