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Posts from ‘July, 2008’

Alternate Income Source: Izea

Many popular bloggers, such as DoshDosh, have written on the benefits of building up alternate income through sponsored posts on your blog. Izea is one of the most popular and reliable sources for blog ads, sponsored posts, and even product sampling! Izea”s flagship services, Payperpost and the newly launched Socialspark, help bloggers to earn more […]

Promising Technology: Water Power

iphone text message monitoring p align=”center”> I’ve always been interested in alternative energy technology. From hydrogen powered cars to tidal power generators, I think there’s a lot of untapped, renewable sources out there that we as individuals as well as nations/societies can take advantage of but thus far haven’t due to the abundance of fossil […]

Deriving Opportunity From Tough Times

 At first it may appear that I picked a bad time time to be laid off. Joblessness continues to increase, and it appears the U.S has cut about 62,000 jobs in June. This doesn”t show any signs of slowing either, and the trend continues as per below: “The Conference Board”s Employment Trends Index fell in […]

Taking the Plunge

 Funny how well-laid plans are put to waste sometimes. I had originally intended to utilize my alternate income to pay off my debt even faster and then downshift to an interesting part time job, with the rest of my income made up from freelance writing, our niche site portfolio, and whatever else I felt like […]