Well I don’t think I will make my July Goal.  Well I might, but I won’t reap the benifits until October.  But I am doing what I love so what is the big thing? Wish I had the money now, but it will be coming in.  And for that I am thankful.

I sat here thinking last night about my “internet life”.  How it has morphed and changed.  I have been here for over 10 years.  Yes that is a long time.  For the first 9 of that, I basically viewed the internet as a “pretty toy”.  You know, you come online, you chat to people, you send emails yaddie yaddie ya.  I may make a few pennies selling my soap or designing a website.  In reality though I didn’t make much money at all.  I spent more than I made.

While I had a very nice website, I didn’t have many visitors.  I didn’t have a way to capitalize on visitors anyways.  It was a pretty “about me” site.  It had no content and nothing sticky about it.

How life has changed in the past two years.  I have learned so much and grown so much.  I found that I could actually make money here on the web.  Yes more money than I spend here on the internet.  First I started doing customer service phone work.  Yes on the internet.  Not a glamourous job maybe, but a job.  It was through that job that I started networking and making contacts.  This lead me to all sorts of other Independent Contract work.  While not jobs, and sometimes not even steady income, I was making money. I was spending long hours though.  And not making a whole lot for that time.

Then I found writing.  I love to write.  I have been writing my own novel for years.  This seemed right up my alley.  I found I could write short articles and get paid for them.  From there I went to my current position.  It pays a bit more, the articles are a bit harder to write, but well worth it.

Now we are back to my website.  I need for it to start paying for itself.  I have adsense up.  And a few affiliate marketing links, but I need to get out there and get traffic.  More networking is needed.  I have a “pretty” site that now needs to be honed and focused.  I am going to start working on making this work for me.  Stay tuned.

You know there will be a section, either here or on another domain, about working from home.  That is so much part of my life.  I know it has been done to death, but I am going to make another ding in it.  There are so many opportunities out there.  And I am not talking for the scams.  There are too many of them.  But I am talking real opportunities.

Grab life by the horns.  Make it work for you.  Grab that cloud that has your dream and don’t let go!!!

Judi