So...in doing my "research" to start the 'writing trip', I'm finding that there's a literal "fuck-ton" of "free" information on the web! Not that I'm unfamiliar with what's online, but I'll tell you that nothing is free. And I mean that. Absolutely NOTHING. If they tell you it's free, that's because they want your email address, so that they can spam the holy shit out of you with "future purchase opportunities". I hate it.
Anyway. I've taken advantage of a lot of the 'free' information. I'll tell you that my inbox looks like all I do is invite spam into it...there's so much shit in there. But I created a 'junk' email address for just this purpose. Nothing comes to my personal email. That would make me crazy. There's simply too fucking much of it.
In my research, I've stumbled across the idea to create 'money making websites'. All that involves, is researching a 'hot' topic, and building a blog around it (this is not the blog, although I guess being out of work would be a 'hot topic' wouldn't it?).
So...because I'm looking into doing some copy writing to make some money, this might just make some sense.
I was up until the wee hours last night, creating a blog on something so totally mundane, I almost fell asleep making it, but it's essentially a test. I'll document everything I did, but at this point, the only thing that I won't tell you is what the blog is about (you don't need to be my competition).
I've loaded it with a couple of articles so far, and I've set up an account at Commission Junction (cj.com) so that I can add affiliate links to it. I'd dabbled in affiliate marketing some years back, so I remember a little bit about that.
Why affiliate income?
Honestly, because the topic that the blog is about is so fucking boring, that I only want to set it up once, add some links and forget about it. It's not something that I want to be writing about every day.
Stay tuned...
A.
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