First the good I have been live streaming regularly, and it is going well. I have over 130 followers, have a few regular viewers, and am gaining new viewers every day. I've worked out a great schedule that works for me and the kids, and allows me to fit everything in a day I want to fit. I've been g
Read Full StoryThe video train has been going all through the internet for quite some time, but I hesitated to jump on. I didn't really think I had much of a video personality, and I thought doing videos seriously would require expensive equipment that I couldn't - or didn't want to - afford. Then one day a few
Read Full StoryI've been doing things wrong. I know that. And I know what I've been doing wrong. One of the things I've been doing wrong I just remedied. I watched as sites all around me changed to nice magazine-esque themes with "sliders" and pictures and etc. while I did nothing. I stuck to the "simple and cl
Read Full StoryHave you heard about SOPA? If not, you need to educate yourself about it right now; because if you use the internet, SOPA affects you. If you have a site, take part in the SOPA blackout tomorrow (January 18th). There's even an easy Wordpress plugin to make it simple!
Read Full StoryI posted this in response to someone spamming this page on reddit... If you want to make money blogging, here's some tips. 1. Don't put up some crap in the user's way that they have to close to read what you blogged. All it does is make users so frustrated that they leave your blog entire
Read Full StoryI hesitate to call Swagbucks a work at home job, because there isn't really any work involved. Swagbucks pays you to do things like search the web, view videos, play flash games, etc. If you're like me, these are all things you were already doing, so why not use it to make money? Swagbucks has
Read Full StoryNo updates since February 14. Get your butt in gear, me! I have been making a few bucks through Amazon, through the affiliate program, selling books I wrote, and the "Mechanical Turk" thing. The affiliate program is pretty good, and has a high turn over rate if you manage to make relevant referra
Read Full StoryIt has been really hard for me to want to "work" for the past few months. Some offline stuff has got me all depressed. I've mostly been finding ways to save money rather than make money (although that is no excuse since I have a site where I should be posting about that) and wasting time doing thing
Read Full StoryThey are now $3.95 for the first year. That's still a great deal, though!
Read Full StoryI have been wasting a lot of time deleting spam, and I don't know why I didn't think to look for a way to deal with it until a site I host asked for help. I found ways to deal with spam and spammers that are not only free, they are surprisingly easy. The first is Akismet, a plugin that usually
Read Full StoryUp until recently I’ve used reseller accounts, but now that I’ve decided to get serious about working from home, I don’t want to have to worry about downtime or reseller account limits. A week ago I got my own server, and today I finished moving all my sites onto it. I’ve put less than a [...]
06.7.10 | How do/did | s0nicfreak
Yesterday my power went out, and the only internet access I had was on my Kindle. As I tried to type with it, I realized something I’d never thought about before; part of getting work done fast when you work at home is being able to type fast. When I was about 5 I taught [...]
06.1.10 | How To | s0nicfreak
I have a “high needs baby“. He wants to be held by me and only me 95% of the day, and to be within arm’s reach the other 5%. He wants to nurse a lot, all day some days, and refuses to take a bottle. So if I couldn’t do something with one hand, I [...]
05.26.10 | How To | s0nicfreak
but all the HITs they have up right now want people over 55.
05.21.10 | How do/did | s0nicfreak
I started working as an Amazon Mechanical Turk today, and have made a whopping $0.01 so far If you are an Amazon Mechanical Turk, don’t take any HITs from Tom Petroshi – he’s a scammer putting up fake submit buttons!
05.19.10 | How do/did | s0nicfreak
Here is how to start a site just like this one for free, without knowing HTML or anything. Go here, to FreeWebSpace.net’s free hosting offers forum. Find a free host that looks right for you that offers cpanel with Fantastico. Note that many hosts may require you to get a domain name first. If you [...]
05.10.10 | How To | s0nicfreak
