After a few months of not blogging, it seems that I am now back in the game. I love blogging because it helps me to keep a journal about my life and also give you guys tips on how to increase your revenue. I admit that I am not a master of revenue-generation, however, I am getting better and better.

So for just an update on what’s been going on.

- Accepted into Google Adsense (YAY, seriously Yahoo Publisher was sucking big time)

- Accepted into Tribalfusion, and then unapproved because I didn’t follow their TOS (I had their banners on an invalid domain). This sucked because Tribal Fusion was an amazing CPM company and I regret that I won’t be doing business with them anymore. Lost a lot of revenue because of this.

- Trying out CPA - I never really liked CPA but I have found a few programs that are very close to my niche.

There you have it. An update of my life.

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Why am I voting for Tyler Cruz

Ok two other prominent bloggers in the blogosphere are doing a contest of sorts. Basically they are getting other bloggers to “vote” for one or the other. I’m not sure what the vote stands for, since their contest rules are unclear. It’s just basically voting for the site that you feel should win their little contest. The loser has to pay 3 people that voted for the other blog $100 each. Right now, Tyler Cruz is losing 14 – 30 to Gyutae Park. Yet, my vote still goes to Tyler.

Why’s that? Well the thing is I had never actually heard of Park’s blog, Winning the Web. Looking at it now, it seems kinda interesting, but probably not a blog I would visit often. Tyler’s blog, on the other hand, has a bunch of content that I’ve absorbed in the past year.

I first visited Tyler’s blog probably sometime in 2007. It was interesting to see another web entrepreneur like myself making enough money to live without having a job (which I’m not able to do at this point). So he was kind of like the inspiration for this blog. I actually didn’t enjoy making blogs in the past and preferred to make other kinds of websites that had user-generated content like forums and communities. But I realize now that my blog can’t be considered as working its more like a place where I can document my thoughts while simultaneously helping other people.

So my loyal viewers, I hope that you’ll vote for Tyler’s blog. He still has some ground to make up until January 14^th. Why would I vote for the underdog? Well I don’t really care that much about the $100 prize, but it’s the fact that Tyler is giving out 150 Entrecard credits that really makes me interested in this competition. So if you’ve got a blog, hopefully you’ll also vote for Tyler.

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Well, this blog will be my new experiment and hopefully I can provide users with information while generating revenue for myself. I’ve been skeptical about making money with blogs because I didn’t think it could be done, but after reading and seeing tons of blogs make money I decided to make one myself. Since I’m pretty proficient with webmastering, I thought I’d make my blog on monetizing websites, forums, and tips for building your online business.

First let me give you a little background about myself. I made my first website when I was merely eight years old. At the time I liked Pokemon so it was a Pokemon website, and you can actually view it at http://maxpages.com/mew2spokegym

Haha so that website really sucks, but you must admit it was pretty ambitious for an eight-year old, and it even received 3600 visitors total. When I began making serious websites, meaning off of Maxpages and Geocities, I started learning the real basics of HTML and PHP. At such a young age it really gave me a great background for learning how to make good websites.

I started making websites for fun as a hobby, but it wasn’t until I found out that websites can actually make money did I start monetizing my sites. Back then, Google adsense wasn’t even created, so it was a lot harder to make money online, especially if you weren’t selling something or providing a service. For a while I just made websites to become popular, but I began to make money by selling designs.

Luckily I was pretty talented with designing. After initially starting with Paint Shop Pro, I began to become proficient with Adobe Photoshop. I was too lazy to make a nice design for this blog though, but this is mainly because I still haven’t looked through the Wordpress templating system.

After many years of making websites, I’m currently the owner of several online sites which are bringing in some pretty substantial spending money. Sorry, but I can’t reveal them in this blog, but if you search hard enough you can probably find out what sites they are.

I hope this blog will become very helpful for any aspiring work-at-home people, and this will also be another one of my projects. Although still quite a new blog, I’ll keep you updated on how much this blog is making to also assist you in making a blog like this of your own and monetizing it.

Good luck with all your web endeavors, and until next time. - Zen

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