Lifes Like That

I got an e-mail yesterday from a very dear friend of mine. She is starting a weekly blogging series which spotlights some of her “favorite” mommy bloggers. When I first started blogging, I got so totally hooked on it, that I was telling everyone that I could how fun blogging was. And the fact that you could earn a little extra cash off you blogs was just a little bit of icing on the cake. One of my friends, Tammy started to blog and is thoroughly enjoying the blogging world. So in appreciation of me helping her through all the blogging bumps she wanted my permission to use me as her first featured mommy blogger. Of course I said yes as this is a very special thing to do for any blogger.

So, if you would like to read all the wonderful things that Tammy has to say about me, why not drop by her site and let her know that Kim sent ya!

Thanks again Tammy! Your the best!!

Well I am always looking around for different ways to earn a little income from home. Now that I have six blogs on the go, I am constantly looking for good programs to get involved with. I had heard about this site over a Project Wonderful and started doing a little research on the income level that I could expect from this program if I decided to join it.

Yesterday I signed up for it over at my other blog Thinking Outloud to try to test this system out. It doesn’t cost you a cent to join and you can potentially earn a small amount of income for it. The income that you could receive comes from people buying your ad space. Bidding starts out very cheaply ($0.00 actually) and the more people who become interested in your ads, the more you can charge for them. Right now my ads are set up at $0.00 so this is quite cheap advertising for anybody who would like to advertise on my site.

As I said, I just joined so I am not really sure how this will all pan out. But as soon as I start seeing any actual movement towards people buying my ads which will give me this income that I am so looking forward to, I’ll let you know. Of course if you want to advertise with me, all you need to do is to drop over to my site and place your bid.

I’ve got to tell you all that the biggest annoyance I have found on the Internet is having to sift through all the spam comments that I receive on all my blogs every day.  I literally spend a couple of hours each day rejecting spam comments.  But along with the time that it takes me to delete all these unnecessary comments, a couple of times I have deleted honest comments by mistake.

So, if I deleted a real comment from you, I am truly very sorry.  I value each and every “real” comment and I never would intentionally delete or spam your comment.  I wish there was a way in which I could make these spammers stop from visiting me.

Any suggestions??

Well yesterday I was sitting at my computer quiet bored, so I decided to start another blog! Yes, you read right!! Another one. But, I can honestly tell you all that this will be my final one. As of right now, including this one, I have seven blogs on the go. But, when I have all these sites up and running the way I want them to, I will be phasing out three of them. That leave me four blogs and that will be just fine with me.

If anyone is interested, my new blog can be found over at Rambling On. As I said this blog is really, really new with not much content on it right now (only one post so far). But, if you know me, it won’t take me very long to get it up to the standards that I so enjoy. So, if your looking for a new blog to read why not drop by this site and find out what I’m “Rambling On” about today.

Wednesday I had a very upsetting and quite unsettling day here on the Internet.  So, yesterday I decided to take a me day.  I found this was extremely important to me to step away from the computer and only worry about my “real life” for a change.  What triggered this horrible day was I wrote a post on a teenager being caught drinking. (it’s in this blog, but I won’t link to it).  You wouldn’t believe the comments and bashing I received over this post.  You would have thought people thought I was talking about their child and school.

So, since this turn of events did upset me quite a bit, I decided not to go online at all yesterday.  I needed to find out that if  by staying away from all the “nasty commenter’s” I could bring back my love of blogging.  I am happy to report that it did and I have come to a decision that these types of commenter’s will never get me down again.  It’s my blog and my words.  If they don’t agree with me and want to get nasty about the whole thing, then they don’t ever need to come back to my blog for another visit.

Now before anyone here gets upset with me for this post.  Let me make one thing clear!  I welcome comments and I do publish most of them.  Even if the commenter doesn’t agree with me.  But, when you start to get nasty, I will not publish the comment.  If you want to have a rational (even heated) exchange of words and ideas, I am more than up for this.  But, I will not subject myself to people who  just want to be nasty.

I’m in a better frame of mind today so that’s how I know a ME day was successful!

I have been working on the Internet for the past year and after seeing a post on someone else’s blog this morning, I feel quite flattered…I think?? After reading the post of this individual and seeing that the very first link that they posted to was mine, this shows me that people are finding some of my blog posts.

The reason why I am unsure as to why I should be flattered or not is because the link that he posted to was about one of the companies that I post for, but he actually got the wrong company. I have never made any secret to the fact that I do some paid posting and I have never tried to hide this fact. But because this individual isn’t a fan of one of the companies that I do work for he decided to use one of my posts as an example.

A lot of people would be upset that any site would link to them in a negative manner, but I guess my feelings on the entire thing is if he is posting about my site, then he is potentially giving me some extra traffic. Not what he intended I’m sure, but what the heck, I’ll take it!!

As a professional blogger, and yes…that’s what I consider myself now after getting involved in blogging a little over a year now, there are a lot of things that I have found that I have needed to discover to become successful in this type of business. One extremely important decision I needed to make when first starting out was where I would find the best and most affordable blog hosting service. Thankfully there are sites on the Internet just like aqhost.com that supplies all my hosting needs at extremely affordable rates. They offer a wide variety of hosting services to any individual. These services include ecommerce hosting, small business hosting, linux hosting, and cpanel hosting.

With this company, you can get all your hosting needs met through their business hosting online store. What this means is that you have the opportunity to make a lot of money through starting a business site and using this companies hosting services to help save you some cash. They will help you set up all you hosting solutions such as shopping carts, ecommerce solutions and merchants accounts. With all these services installed with your company you will be able to save valuable time and money for all your hosting needs. So, if you are just starting out in the business world and would like to see how this company can help you with all your hosting needs, then why not stop by this site and discover just how quickly they can help you in your endeavours.

Not me. But, that’s OK. As you all know, about a month ago I entered a scrapbooking contest. I bugged most of you for a couple of weeks to go into the site and cast your votes and I have to say you all did an awesome job!! I really, really appreciate all the time you all took to try to help me win the contest. But, unfortunately I didn’t win first place. But, I did win second place and that prize is pretty cool to. I won a year’s subscription to a scrapbooking magazine. So, I still won something pretty cool and something that I can use in my scrapbooking hobby.

So, first of all I would like to THANK each and every one of you for all your votes and if it hadn’t of been for you all, I wouldn’t have even come close to second.

So, THANKS!!

Most of you that read this blog are aware that I do a little paid blogging reviews for some extra income for my house.  I also do a couple of affiliate programs.  Yesterday when I checked my mailbox I seen a cheque in there from one of the affiliate companies that I work for.  I was so excited as this was the first cheque that I received from this particular company so I was really happy to see that they do pay their affiliates.  Well, I can’t even begin to explain my surprise and laughter when I opened up the cheque to see that it was made out to me for $1.50.  I have never  cashed a cheque for this amount in my life.  I can’t wait to see the look on the girls faces at the bank when I do eventually take it down to put in my account.  Oh well, hopefully next month I’ll get another cheque from them with  a higher amount.  I keep saying that every little bit helps, but….?

As most of your are aware, I have entered a scrapbooking contest over at Christine Murphy’s blog. If I win, I will win some pretty neat scrapbooking items. The voting has been open for a couple of weeks now. At first, I was doing really well, but as of today, I have fallen behind. So, this is a plea to all of you to pop on over to Christine’s blog and VOTE FOR KIM. Every vote counts so if you only vote once I would be so….grateful. But, if you’d like to help me out even more, you can go in every day and place your vote until October 31.

I would like to thank you all in advance for your votes and with your help, I may just win this awesome contest!