Diary of a Wahm

Secret's Out - Google Reveals % They Pay You

2010-05-25T16:14:00.001+01:00

Secrecy and rumour has always surrounded Google AdSense, in terms of what percentage you actually get from the fee paid by Advertisers. Not any more - in a surprise move in the name of 'transparency' Google have now confirmed that you get the following share of revenue... 68% - for ads that appear on your website51% - when you use a custom search box on your site I'm pretty happy with that

Webmaster Rollercoaster

2010-04-02T00:07:00.000+01:00

What a day! Been making some discoveries now that DD3 has a few hours play-away... First I was very happy to find that my Ning site has jumped up to a page rank of 4, having had nothing for absolutely ages! Plus, memberships have doubled in the past week or so, not sure why. Then, I discover I made a boo-boo with a redirect from my store to Card Making World, resulting in the wrong domain

Email Marketing Woes

2010-04-01T00:04:00.001+01:00

Not a happy bunny right now! After ditching Aweber (after a year, for poor customer service), I signed up to Constant Contact tonight because I wanted to mail my 15,000+ list before the Easter weekend. So I spent 2 hours importing, verifying and learning the ropes...finally got an email together and hit 'schedule'. Then I got an email to say I needed to call the company for a List Review. I

Not Fit for Pigs! (but OK for Kids)

2010-03-30T15:47:00.004+01:00

"Hey kids, how's about we go to the rubbish tip and find something for tea?" This is a bit of a rambling film tracing the path of a fresh tomato to the tip, until the crunch at about 9mins...and then you think you've heard the narrator wrong when he says food that's not fit for pigs will go to feed the women and children... But no, after the pig-keepers have taken what they want for their pigs,

New Lease of Life

2010-03-23T14:40:00.005Z

For the first time in many months I feel back in control, refreshed and confident things are going to fall back into place soon.Springtime and recharged batteries have done it I think. Looking back I've just been chasing my tale 'existing' in a haze of stress. Now I've managed to arrange a few hours childcare and together with the sunshine I feel a whole lot better!Quite giddy in fact - I have

Wicked Witch Says "There IS no Santa" Kiddies

2009-12-20T22:29:00.008Z

What sort of mother tells her kids there is No Santa 5 days before Christmas?This one :-(Full of cold and at the end of my tether with back chat, being told I'm a mean mummy who never gives them "anything!" and sibling rivalry, with warnings of "Santa will be watching!" falling on deaf ears...out it comes, mouth opens and bleurgh, on the table. You could have heard a pin drop.I know, I know...

Mum's Got Wellies

2009-11-14T01:52:00.001Z

Today I made a voluntary purchase of wellies. They are Card Making World purple with faux roll over sock tops. Fetching. The girls also got new wellies after a 24 mile shop-run to find some before tomorrow. Ended up at Tescos and everyone was fully catered for, even me with my trademark purple! Must go back one day, had some gorgeous kids winter boots! Anyway I digress - needing

Octomum

2009-11-13T02:33:00.001Z

While i'm not going to judge her on being a bad mother or not, I would just like to say 'How can your house be so tidy with 14 little kids living in it?!'

What diary?

2009-10-18T02:40:00.001+01:00

Not much of a diary this is it? The very times I should be writing my memoires, I stop. Too much going on to write about! Defies the point really. Watched something other night about how humans are going to be having computer chips in their brains in the future - well if I can Bluetooth my thoughts to my Blog, without having to type it, then i'm all for it lol. Wow think about it, dictating

:-( Deleted kids photos!

2009-08-24T01:28:00.001+01:00

Not happy.

Taking Root

2009-08-14T00:36:00.001+01:00

Set my alarm for 5am this morning. . .who was I trying to kid! Wanted to get up and get ahead before The Wild Things woke up. I did hear the faint chimes but in the end I was woken up by being trampled on, and then lay snoozing to the sound of crashing waves from my 'natural alarm clock'. Had the chance to go out tomorrow for the SECOND time this year! But I passed it up, I'm whacked out.

Reputation

2009-08-01T01:56:00.001+01:00

I feel like I could sleep for a week! Been working on members.card-making-world.com all day and night - my eyes don't focus properly with looking at the screen for hours on end. Will need to be off tomorrow though, just me and T at home so I'll be spending some time with her. Feel guilty after being so caught up in work past couple of days. Had an email from a person who said they wouldn't

What a 24hrs!

2009-07-30T00:17:00.003+01:00

Blimey, what a busy 24hrs it's been...Purchased aMember and had them install it for me, and immediately installed Moodle over it! The lovely people at CGI Central re-installed it again for me *doh!* ...but then had to ask for a refund because it's not going to work with my setup (sites on different servers, they need to be on the same one - looked at dedicated servers but WAY too expensive).My

Quit?

2009-07-29T01:27:00.001+01:00

I've put card-making-world.com for sale on sedo - i guess out of curiosity more than a burning desire to sell it. But I would consider any offers - had a couple before but they didn't even match my Google Adsense income. See what happens. Just signed up to premium services for my Ning site too, but starting to wonder if it's all getting too out of hand. But would I be able to have the same

Site Builder or Business Builder?

2009-07-23T23:39:00.002+01:00

I've spent weeks trying to figure out the best way to host my new membership site. Today I'm thinking I chose the wrong package. The software is jam packed with features and is really promisIng but it's fairly new, a little bug-y and I've had a few tickets in to support already. Imported old shop tonight and it didn't quite work out. Thinking maybe stick with Zen Cart, which is free, and

Burning candles

2009-07-22T01:30:00.002+01:00

Been burning the candle at both does lately and I'm starting to pay for it. Was going to have am early night tonight but didn't manage it (although 1am is better than 3am!). Been busy adding new products to the shop, got loads I forgot I had and I STILL went and bought more in the latest Scrapgirls sale! Rather than buy stuff from lots of places I think I will stick with 2 or 3, and really get

Mains powered thermometer?

2009-07-20T02:37:00.002+01:00

Now there's a marketing idea! I'm surely not the only person to find the batteries are flat on their thermometer whenever they have need to dig it out (assuming you can find it in the first place). And why can't they make them that take NORMAL batteries instead of these obscure flat things that you have to trawl eBay for? Hence wishing I could just plug it in the mains, or a USB port would be

Like a kid in a sweet shop

2009-07-19T01:26:00.002+01:00

Do not feel tired but have to give up now or else I'm going to pay in the morning when the kids are bright and bushy tailed at the crack of dawn!Asked my craft Club list for article writers today and got some promising interest. Not many issues to deal with after yesterday's newsletter went out, which is lovely! And then . . . Was tidying my virtual stash of digital craft supplies when I found a

All in a night's work

2009-07-18T00:23:00.000+01:00

Swine Flu is officially at my kids' school, and my ex reeled off some statistics which were a bit grim, but on the whole I'm not too worried. Probably helps that I don't read the papers or Watch the news! It's carry on as normal at school - in fact we have been warned that if we keep kids off without them having symptoms of flu then it will be treated as unauthorised absence! Well sorry, but

Super WAHM

2009-07-17T00:42:00.001+01:00

Unusual for me but have been very productive these past few days. Maybe because I finally decided on which membership site to use for the new Commercial Craft Club. Worried though cos it's a new package from JROX and I just hope it measures up when real users get hold of it!

2009-07-02T00:44:00.000+01:00

Having a good run lately with work. The Card Making World Trolley Dash has made it's mark as i found people blogging and posting about it. It has to stay, i found a product by chance! I also built anticipation thanks to a very real problem with the site sinking under pressure, rather than it being a marketing stunt to create demand. I learned to expect a percentage of snotty emails and to be

Thou shalt blog!

2009-06-28T00:46:00.001+01:00

OK long time no speak. I haven't been on track for a long time now, and even when I was the last thing I felt like doing at the end of the work day /night was blog on here. However, this IS supposed to be a 'diary' and as such i'm writing this in bed! Oh yes, Techno-Geek here finally set up a mobile phone to do email! After HOW many years of phone ownership?! It's a bit tough on the old

Fired Up

2009-04-18T16:48:00.003+01:00

Site Build It! fires me up every time I get chance to really get back into the guts of it!Just finished my 3rd SBI eLearning class and I'm just itching to get working on my new site...but I know I have to hold off till I have a longer stretch of time :-( Baby T took AGES to get off to sleep, so I was lucky to even be able to log in to the session at all this week. Also for the past month my

My 1st eLearning Course

2009-03-12T21:20:00.006Z

Tonight, I start my first ever eLearning experience, with a 'virtual classroom' and everything!I already use Site Build It! to build all my sites, but they have just launched their eLearning course which teaches you to "Build the Foundation of a Real eBusiness in 10 Lessons"Now, obviously I've already done this a few times now but it's been 3 years since I started and I'm taking the new course as

Funny Christmas Eco-Video

2008-12-21T00:31:00.002Z

Check out the trumpets!