"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: and :eek::eek::eek: by turns, but mostly :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

What a rich vein I suddenly mined! Aren't we brilliant :beer::beer::beer:

Today, I have no such riches to report. I must, must, must instal the new printer, uh, because there's stuff I need to print. Three hours paid work today, with lots of fiddly stuff to be done around the edges, and a local bloke is coming along with samples of insect screens - I'd prefer a local firm to the one I saw at Grand Designs, obviously.

The "project" for the next few days, before I do any more work on the green website, is checking whether I can "monetize" the thing..... yesterday, I opened accounts at clickbank and commission junction, and the firms I'm looking at don't do stuff that way - clickbank, in particular, is almost useless, its full of those people who gather information and then do a one page "isn't this wonderful" thing. Because Martin says in his article about how *this* site is financed, that it mostly happens through affiliate stuffywotsits, I thought I could do the same, and maybe I can, but it looks like it will need me to sign up for every site under the sun - I'm not doing any more work on the actual site until the position becomes a bit clearer

Still, better to find out now

redsquirrel80

Hi Karma - I think affiliate sites are the way to go, and maybe Google Ads? Not sure if it's feasible to try and sell advertising on your site yourself? I looked at a few things for my blog but in the end only went for Amazon Associates for book links etc, but then it was never meant to be a money-making thing. Anyway, happy investigating!

Karmacat

Amazon, of course, thats a big one, isn't it. A couple of manufacturers that I've talked to have said, come back when your website is up and running - I think I should have made a separate list of who said that still, just monetized (oh god, I hate that word already :rotfl:) the blog, we'll see what happens - it won't earn anything, of course, because I don't do enough yet, but its just seeing, if I *did* do enough, would it work? And reading the library book I currently have, "PPC Marketing for Dummies" :cool:

Cheery_Daff

KC, have you seen things like Soulemama - nothing like yours I know, but she has a couple of new sponsors each month, introduces them on the blog and does a little mini interview with them - only ever takes sponsorship from organisations who fit with her values/work etc. Obviously, she's been going a very long time, and has a large readership, but perhaps something to think about for the future?

Lula-Hula

Good to see you're doing some investigating KC, even if what you learn is not what you hoped to , nothing ventured is nothing gained & vice versa

Ugh to jobs, the mischievous paperwork fairies have been here again, adding to my pile . will be attempting to make it all vanish by monday.

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

KC, have you seen things like Soulemama - nothing like yours I know, but she has a couple of new sponsors each month, introduces them on the blog and does a little mini interview with them - only ever takes sponsorship from organisations who fit with her values/work etc. Obviously, she's been going a very long time, and has a large readership, but perhaps something to think about for the future?

Thanks Cheery, I'll check it out later - blogs seem to be down at the moment, or blogger does. As I'm typing, I just noticed the title of Martin's latest blog post, which I've got out of the habit of reading: "the route to retirement riches". :D:D exactly my cuppa tea :beer:

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Good to see you're doing some investigating KC, even if what you learn is not what you hoped to , nothing ventured is nothing gained & vice versa

Ugh to jobs, the mischievous paperwork fairies have been here again, adding to my pile . will be attempting to make it all vanish by monday.

Exactly! Rather than take a job filling shelves (which I wouldn't have the energy or physical capacity to do anyway) I think I'd rather cut things to the bone for the next few years and then spend my sixties wandering about Europe while I rent my house out, until I can get my pension :cool:

No paid work today, so I'm doing errands in the town centre - the bank, the library, charitizing (thank you Lula!) and also off to the stationer's where I bought the printer - I tried to instal it yesterday, finally, and there's no USB cable :mad: not a lot of good! I'm also going to see if Robert Dyas stock any filler for the gaps between floorboards - needs a particular sort of wood filler.

And carrying on weeding - I was pulling grass and annual weeds up by hand yesterday evening (after rather a lot of paid work for me!) and I've more or less reclaimed the border - but I'll do more weeding today, and hopefully plant some stuff later on. When I'm bored :rotfl:I'll go through the affiliate links on places I've already joined.

Lula-Hula

Morning KC,

I love love love the sound of your renting & wandering project

DD1 visited yesterday & amused me highly when she said that she & her BF would like to see me "settled down in a nice little 3 bed suburban semi" :eek:. Having asked my opinion on her plans for me I said that it was far more likely that I stuff a few essential possessions in a sack & head off out to the great unknown while DD2 kept the home warm for me

Enjoy your day
xx

Cheery_Daff

If you're in need of more weeding KC, I've got plenty you can tackle!

Otherwise, have a good day xx

Karmacat

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Morning KC,

I love love love the sound of your renting & wandering project

DD1 visited yesterday & amused me highly when she said that she & her BF would like to see me "settled down in a nice little 3 bed suburban semi" :eek:. Having asked my opinion on her plans for me I said that it was far more likely that I stuff a few essential possessions in a sack & head off out to the great unknown while DD2 kept the home warm for me

Enjoy your day
xx

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: There's a lovely little hostel on a side street in Chania, on Crete - I'll meet you there. Or in a beautiful old fashioned hotel in Madrid within walking distance of the Prado :j

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

If you're in need of more weeding KC, I've got plenty you can tackle!

Otherwise, have a good day xx

Erm, thanks but no thanks, Cheery I've not been out there at all today yet, in fact, I've only just had lunch after my errand trip, which turned into a bit of a marathon, but which got *loads* done.

Interesting note on legal tax avoidance: I have a joint bank account, because I was practising civil disobedience in the 1980s, and the jointness prevented the Inland Revenue from nibbling at the account ... long story ... anyway, I want the friend I put onto my account at the time, taken off, obviously its well past time I did this - especially as, in the end, I paid the tax due, rather than go to gaol as a conscientious objector. They're trying to figure out a way for me to do that (I lost contact with her about 25 years ago :eek:) but just as an aside, the bloke told me that lots of people in their 70s do things the other way round, they *open* joint accounts - because if a joint bank account holder dies, the account stays open and the money automatically belongs to the surviving account holder. It avoids a little bit of paperwork, and a little bit of tax. But if I died any time soon, then my sister would have quite a struggle trying to untangle things.

Not planning on it, of course! But one never knows when the 69 bus will take a dislike to one

elantan

glad to hear your planning on hanging around a wee while longer kc lol ....

so i take it you wont offer to do my weeding either ? sigh ... lol