Quest for Quiescence

The last post I wrote for this site was back in November of 2009. Yes, I’m still here and no, I haven’t given up on the site. The purpose of today’s post is to provide an update about what I’ve been doing this year and what my plans are for this blog going forward.

My Basement is finished!
Last fall, when I was publishing to this blog regularly, I was struggling to keep up with my posting schedule because I was busy working on developing my basement. It was critical that I get this project finished because I was having a hard time being productive. You see, at the time I was working on the blog from the bedroom in the evenings with the lights off while my wife slept. Very difficult! I decided at that time to cool it with the blog so I could focus on higher priority tasks such as finishing the basement.

Anyway, now the basement is more or less finished and I even have an office down here with a proper desk and lighting to work from.

We had a Baby!
Back in April we had our third child. A girl! This has been exciting, but it has also made it even more difficult to focus on building passive income. Now more than ever I need to prioritize my work to make sure I get the best use of what little time I have.

I’m sinking my teeth into Internet Marketing
Back in April (around the time my daughter was born) I started to get back into building passive income. This time though, I decided to dig in and do it rather than spending a bunch of time blogging about it. The model I’ve chosen to use this time around is internet marketing. There are just so many options in this arena, plus I can build websites about things I’m really interested in.

So for the last couple of months I’ve been busy plugging away at setting up sites, creating content, and various activities around bringing traffic to those sites.

What’s next for this blog?
I’m not planning on getting back to the old posting schedule here anytime soon. In fact, the posting will probably be slow and sporadic because my other sites (the moneymakers) will need to be the priority. However, what I will commit to, is creating very high quality content only. As I learn more and more from the various things I do on my other sites, I’ll come back here and post really useful information about what I’ve learned. Information that you’ll be able to duplicate for yourself. Personally I prefer following blogs that post great content infrequently over blogs that post daily (sometimes multiple times per day) but the quality isn’t as good. I’m short on time and don’t want to waste it reading mediocre content.

I have some very specific objectives for what I want this site to be…

1. HOW-TO oriented: I want this site to not only show you what I learn, but also how to implement those lessons. Expect tutorial type posts.
2. Low Cost Methods: Internet marketing can be very expensive. There are services to pay for, tools, books, courses etc. The truth is, I think that there is very little you should be paying for when you first get started. You need to make sure that you are only buying things that you need when you need them. I hope to help in this regard by sharing free or low cost products and services and how to use them (see 1 above)
3. Information Filter: Internet marketing is a huge space with enough content available to make your head explode. I’m going to strive to give you the cliff notes version here. I’m also going to point you at other internet marketers that are offering great fluff free content. And finally I’m going to try and do some analysis/commentary on the big product launches to keep things in perspective.

This is where I’m headed. If you have any comments on this, please post them in the comment section, I’d love to hear from you. The next time you hear from me it’s going to be some really high value content. Watch for it.

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