Fleeing The Social Scene

The Ups and Downs of Being An Entrepreneur

admin — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:42:10 +0000

Can’t stop my bad habits I call myself an entrepreneur. If people can sell toiletpaper and be called an entrepreneur, why can’t I sell websites and call myself the same thing? Selling is the key word. If you sell, and you sell regularly, you’re an entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur has it’s ups and it’s downs. The good [...]

Fluff Friends - It won’t eat your dollars, but it will eat your hours!

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:17:54 +0000

Fluff friends is the latest online phenomenon. I myself spend hours on it everyday. It is a facebook application that lets you adopt a pet, so you can feed it and race it against your friends’ pets. Some people maybe surprised to know that fluff friends has become a community within facebook. Fluff friends users [...]

wpdesigner.com on sale for $65,000

admin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:02:54 +0000

WPdesigner.com is now for sale at sitepoint for $65,000 and already has a pending ‘buy it now’ offer. I recognize this site as the distributor of the Jello Wala Mello theme I mentioned in my last post. The reason behind his success is no secret- he designs and distributes free wordpress themes, which helps to bring [...]

Magazine Style Themes Scrutinized

admin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:15:37 +0000

Magazine Style Themes require more of your time than other themes because of the time involved in cropping pictures down to the correct size, adding more categories and actually finding a magazine theme to start with. But magazine themes are taking the wordpress community by storm and if you’re ever going to use one, now [...]

My Website is a Fake

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:30:36 +0000

Today, I got this e-mail from Review Me. We are sorry but the website you have suggested http://www.fleeingthesocialscene.com has been declined at this time. The main reasons a website is declined are: - The website is a suspected fake. - The website does not have enough link popularity. - The website does not have enough traffic. *Please note [...]

$xxx,xxx Cheques Earned by Bloggers

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:46:40 +0000

The picture I am about to show you will either really motivate you, or make you feel like a failure. Hopefully it’ll be the first. Here is the CJ earnings of fellow blogger Jeremy SchoeMaker, better known as ShoeMoney. Earning from affiliate programs takes a lot of time, a lot of money, and a lot of [...]

New Ownership

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:23:27 +0000

If you happen to come across a post mentioning my girlfriend, let me assure you that I am completely straight. I bought this blog from a fellow blogger, propstm, and we have some similarities and some differences, the most important difference being our gender. I’m a girl, and he’s a boy. Hence the girlfriend mix-up. With [...]

What’re you trying to do with your blog?

admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:00:37 +0000

You heard me. For all you out there who got a blog somewhere, why do you do it? I’ve seen this question asked a few times mainly within “blog-for-money” types of sites, and obviously the overwhelming answer is make some money with the blog. Eh, admitting that I think i’ve gotten over [...]

money making possibilities?

admin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:03:48 +0000

Forums, Blogs, what else does everyone use? Myself, i’m experimenting with mass posting via timestamp on a few of my blogs. See if i can’t get a few of them to get some traction and grow a bit. Also i’m thinking maybe Adsense will be a good fit for this project? Only time [...]

From nobody to somebody

admin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:49:52 +0000

When and how do you make the jump. I’m not talking from no one blogger to big time blogger. I’m talking a bit more businessey than that. (yes i know it’s not really a word but run with me here…) In a world of YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr, I’m willing to bet we’re [...]