ruthhammers

CHOICES, CHOICES, AND FINALLY BEING DONE WITH THE DEBATE!

ruthhammers — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:58:21 +0000

I know it’s been awhile since I have posted any new blogs and that’s due to some financial choices I had to make. For awhile now it has been bothering me on how I can use Google Adsense with the currant wordpress policies and I’ve finally realized that I cannot find a loop-hole. I’m sure everyone has that complete and utter point of denial where they try to find every conceivable way out of having to do or change the inevitable. I also think our minds know when we reach that point and it stops letting us fool ourselves. I do believe I have hit that point. I finally went over the other blog services and found one that is partnered with Google Adsense. I choose to go with the livejournal.com service. The website is http://ramallicote-28.livejournal.com/ . I haven’t yet posted anything to it. I wanted to notify all of you what was going on before I export this blog to the livejournal account. So Sunday night this blog will be exported to the other service. I hope that I will be able to transfer all of my content. If not, at least you have the new web address to find it. I will also move my book blog as well in a few weeks when I can manage it. I will also be linking all facebook and twitter accounts to the livejournal account. That way everyone will be notified of what is going on. So I hope to see you at livejournal. Till next time.

Ruth

Frustrated and workin through it!!

ruthhammers — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:11:26 +0000

Well after this past week of dealing and processing family stuff, as well as suffering a major let down, I feel like I can get on with it. So the let down had to do with the Google Adsense and wordpress policies. I can’t get approved due to the fact that wordpress has their own type of advertising and third party advertising not allowed. So that was a major bummer. But I’m working on a way to fix that even if it means switching Blogs. Although it’s not something I want to do, but it’s a possibility I have to consider. I’ve also realized that all those programs promise you the moon and getting rich quick. They say do this, get this, and you’ll see a return. What they don’t tell you, is that you have to read the policies of all the products because they may not comply with the other programs. I did my research, but not as well as I should have, I guess. I know that this is the way to go; my father got a confirmation basically that we were on the right track with this the other day on the radio. There was this public speaker as well as an affiliate marketer. He stated that online businesses are a good thing and that if the programs promise you that you’ll get rich quick, run, run very far away; because they are lying through their teeth to you. He also stated that it takes time, and patience, and that’ll be disappointments as well. On a positive note , I got the first page on the book blog up and running. So it’s a good day because I got that accomplished. I still am perfecting the Facebook pages, hopefully I’ll have them done soon. Till next post.

Ideas or are they disordered thoughts and distractions?

ruthhammers — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:06:57 +0000

As I stated yesterday, started the new blog and am putting the finishing touches to get both of these blogs linked and “perfect”. Well not perfect but pretty darn close to it. I’ve also been researching ad and business solutions on the facebook platform and getting my heard wrapped around that. Not to mention getting the facebook pages up and running with these blogs. Man my plates full! I’m still waiting to hear from Google Adsense. May account is still under review. I don’t know if it’s because of the wordpress policies or if it a descrepency on my end. So I’ll just keep my fingers crossed and hope it goes through. Good news; seen some activity from my Amazon.com affiliate and PeerFly.com networks. Now just gotta give it that final push and I could see some revenue soon. Back to work. Til next post.

Ruth

I did it!

ruthhammers — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Hi everyone this is a follow up post to yesterdays. I went and did it. I created another blog on books and music. I figured why not go for broke. I have finished designing the theme and getting everything ready to view. I have the bio up. It’s mainly my views and quirks with books and I send anyone looking for a more personal bio to this blog. I haven’t gotten any new posts up or reviews so to speak but thought I’d pass it along to my followers here. The name of the site is Ruth’s books and music and you can find it at http://lovebooksreview.wordpress.com . I’m also in the process of creating facebook pages for both blogs that stems from my personal facebook account so go ahead and take a look around the other site and I’ll have more up soon. Til next post

Ruth

To add or not to add?

ruthhammers — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:54:38 +0000

Here lately I have been thinking of adding a new blog to this one. If I do so; this blog will focus more on the types of books i read and giving reviews. I think it might be an interesting way to monetize another site as well. I like and enjoy reading and I figure if I get other people to read books that I suggest without getting money for it; why not jump on that bandwagon so to speak and see if it works. I’m stuck in the debating phase with this and letting it percolate in the back of my mind. I hope to have more on this type of marketing business for you in a few days. Til then peace out and continue to work at being happy!

Ruth

Confirmation of things to come

ruthhammers — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:30:25 +0000

Well lately it’s been a holding period waiting for everything to come through. A few things have happened this past week that leads me to believe things are gonna break. I finally figured out how to add HTML code to the blog to run banner ads. Yay! The only thing left to do is figure out how to embed the code into a pdf document before I convert it to pdf. That’s the hard part at this point. I really don’t want to have to buy more software to be able to do it. Other good news is that I was accepted to two networks after getting rejected by one. So I was really happy bout that. I’ve really been counting my blessings and researching products to market and create pages for. I’ve been working with one of the affiliates that based entirely on sales and conversions have been slow, to say the least; but with the new networks I can hopefully generate revenue with leads instead of sales only. I will also be happy to report that within a few hours I will have created and published two product pages to the blog. So double yay! I finally see the accomplishments that I have waited for. So needless to say it’s been a good week, frustrating but good! Til next time

Ruth

Rejections and how to deal

ruthhammers — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:03:28 +0000

While in this holding phase, I’ve been researching new content and finding new offers to market. I have also been applying to the affiliate networks and received my first let down. I had one of the networks that I applied to reject my application, stating that they could not accept me at this time. It was a major let down. I had visions of all the networks doing the same thing. It has been a very tough day getting back on the affiliate marketing horse so to speak and muscling through. I really am trying to stay positive and not think I am going to fail at this business. I just pray that the Adsense application goes through. That’s another big worry I have. It’s the feeling every writer has before they send off that first manuscript and when they actually get the rejection letter. My mantra for the day has been; just because the first rejection has occurred doesn’t mean more are to follow. I truly have to believe that or I might just curl up in a little ball right now and call it quits. I knew going into this that there would be some hardships and let downs. I had hoped that with that first rejection; it wouldn’t have had me thinking that I just wasted about two months research and a month of actually putting it all together. As I’m writing this something occurred to me. I’m done whining and kickin’ myself in the rear because one thought was recently brought home. I’m new to this and learning. I’m not going to get this right straight out of the box. So my ending thought for the day is: No matter the problem, big or small; no matter the rejection, personal or professional; just muscle through. Because at the end of the day we are all held accountable for what we accomplished or didn’t accomplish. And whether we like it or not we get a sense of pride from what we have when we muscle through. Until next post.

Ruth

Finding Balance between work and home

ruthhammers — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:34:58 +0000

I’ve found it’s hard to find that balance between work and home when you work from home.The distractions pile up especially when it’s a day off for the school systems. I’ve found there is no amount of television, DVD’s, or going outside to play to ever fully engage your children enough to get about eight hours of work condensed down to two or three. I’ve also found that getting even a semblance of balance is hard work, especially with a start-up. I love the software that I have because it helps to automate some of the work; which is great because I don’t have to put in 20 to 30 hours a day in just to get my content ready to upload. I’m also waiting on my application for Google Adsense to get approved so that I can get another stream of income. So I am really in limbo waiting to get everything really going. Although I have software to do the content for me, it’s finding the time that is distraction free at this point to get it done. Luckily there are a few hours after the kids go to bed to work. I hope.

Until next time.

Ruth

Taking a day or two off

ruthhammers — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:52:09 +0000

It was made clear to me on Friday or Saturday that I have just spent way to much time researching all of this affiliate marketing. I just had to step back and take two days off to look at it with fresh eyes. I mean I was just on information overload. I was wondering if I was making mistakes because I had no revenue coming in. It just was disappointing and overwhelming. I needed the down time. I got to spend time with my girls, exercise, and just relax. Which is something that I needed. I hope that with new eyes so to speak I can try things that I was leery to do. I realize a lot of this is a big risk. Like the saying goes, no sacrifice no victory or something to that effect. So here’s to relaxing and taking a day or two off when starting a new business. Til next post.

Ruth

Easier way to accomplish this affiliate marketing or is there?

ruthhammers — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:19:12 +0000

All day I feel like I’ve been playing catch up, Why is that you ask? Well let’s see. I am trying to get a lot accomplished in a short amount of time. I felt like I’ve got nothing accomplished. My online business to do list is getting longer and longer. I also have a two year old with me all day. So there are a lot of distractions, not to mention all the house hold chores. So how do I do all my affiliate research as well as start the business. My day typically is get the girls up, one off to school and come back and feed the other. I then try to work researching ways to get free traffic, creating my PDF documents with embedded links, finding products to market, find ways to blog, tweet, and find any social networking way to get my presence out there and traffic coming in. I also have to try and get as many affiliate networks to accept my application so that I can start marketing these products, as well as keyword search all products. And in between all this take care of a precocious and rambunctious 2 year old who likes to get into everything. So I’ve made a decision. I will continue to blog about my daily activities but I will create the product posts as pages and let ya’ll know when there up in my daily blog. Sound good right. I hope so. I think it’ll free up some of my time, instead of trying to do all this stuff daily. The great thing is that some of the processes have software to make it easier. So that helps a lot trust me. But do I see a lot of late nights in my future, you bet. This will take work especially on a limited to no budget. Have I seen results? yes! So I don’t want to give up. I truly believe this is the way to go and support my girls. So I’m gonna look at the things I have accomplished. So here goes. This is what I’ve accomplished today and my tiny little milestones since I started this venture: Created two product pages that will be up tomorrow, third in the works, created this blog post to keep all of you up to date. I have tweeted and posted on facebook some of my activities today. I have linked some external sites to my website and researched social networking sites. I created a list from a couple hundred social sites to about thirty to get a good following. I created accounts to several document sharing sites to upload the PDF’s. Now for my tiny but important to me milestones: 7 days ago created this site and have had some traffic about 7 hits total. I’ve got two followers on Twitter. Used software to create PDF and got 55 reads in a 12 hours on Scribd. Uploaded another four documents on Monday and had one reach 341 reads in about 45 minutes after uploading. So I am getting results. I just have to pace myself. I hope eventually I’ll generate some leads to get really going soon. Thanks for reading and please post comments they do help to let me know if I am doing something right and all advice is appreciated. Thanks. Have a Goodnight and post again soon.

Ruth