Greetings to the herd. Your ranks are thinning as I commit to the death punch of traffic decline by not posting anything noteworthy over spans of months. Most have traditionally come to this blog to hear from a Lost Ball making his way through the sewers of web. Perhaps my ramblings have encouraged more than discouraged. I do not know. Much like your interest in visiting this blog, I have little use in Affiliate marketing.
Let’s break this down:
How many domains do I own? 7, down from three figures.
How much money do I make a month? 3 figures, down from an impressive 4.
How is the ecommerce effort going? Badly. I despise the fees and the government compliance.
Could I recover from this malaise? Probably.
Do I want to? Not really and I am pretty okay with that.
Why the lack of interest? I no longer feel compelled to participate in SEO for search engine glory. I have no interest in understanding or riding the social signals.
Bonus: My wife is now taking up the mantle of collecting extra income where my ability has waned badly. Her furniture restoration business is giving her an outlet for her impressive creativity. I’m more than happy assisting in this operation as it represents tangible work.
Sorry to disappoint kids but, outside the random Squidoo lens/Tumblr logs/Pinterest quest, I have little to do with web site creation and affiliate marketing. Those days are nigh past.
I still have a desire to collect words into well placed arrangements. I have written my first Kindle book and am working on my second. I intend on finishing three before I post them to the bookstore. I would like for them to be well received but even if they are not I have enjoyed visiting them each day I write. I believe writing, as poor or great as it may be, is an important exercise for the well-being of your skull matter. I encourage my daughters to write and have made it a significant part of their homeschool curriculum. I practice what I preach.
Where does this leave Lost Ball? As the interest in IM waned fewer people came calling to this little raft floating in the web sewage. I haven’t been clever enough to make this anything more than a comical whiny introspective. Where this takes a web sewer magician? I don’t really know, but rest assured very little of what will be discussed here in future missives will have anything to do with IM.
Maybe I’ll ponder the culture. That is certainly a lost ball in high weeds. The same could be said for civics or the economy. Perhaps we could wrestle over the Star Wars/Star Trek ongoing debate (I despise Star Wars if that helps). What I do know is there are far better things than to get tangledup in Google’s preoccupation with their zoo.
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