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Over the last couple of years I have looked at several different ways to make money on the Internet. Paid posting, text links, affiliate programs, Amazon Books and even online stores. I do make a respectable little bit I guess. Not that I am making a living doing what I do. I work too much at my real job for that but if I set my mind to it I certainly could make ends meet.

There are all kinds of resources on the Internet to get information, I have even posted about them here before. You just have to do a web search to get the info you need.

One of the nice things I have been able to start getting into since doing some of the paid blogging is that I am now starting to get sent actual products to write reviews on. I just did one on Pepper Spray over at Shadowscope. I like doing the actual product reviews simply because although I may be doing the exact same thing, hawking someone else's link, I feel like I am being more honest when I tell people to go check out a certain web site or product simply because I have had the opportunity to try it first and if it really sucks I will tell you, or just not write the review in the first place.

I have a couple more to do over the next few days as well, and hopefully I can get them all done before the weekend is out.

The article over at PayPerPost's Advertiser blog discussing Disclosure badges comes as no surprise to me. According to them the little free disclosure badges that you are able to insert into your ads actually increase the number of hits you will get. It only makes sense. People's attention is attracted to graphics and if they have actually read all through a post and see who sponsored it at the end they are more likely to click it. That is one of the reasons that I like to put logos in the paid posts that I do. I don't always do it and the less I am making the less likely I am to put it there to use up my bandwidth, but any graphics, including the disclosure badges, generally make an article look much more attractive.

Later this month, in a couple of weeks really, I was supposed to be taking the weekend off to drive up to Helen Georgia and spend the weekend with a bunch of other bloggers that happen to be friends of mine as well. Anyway, one of the guys is from Tennessee and LOVES Tennessee football. I don't watch a whole lot of the game but I do like college and high school football and would love going to a game with him. Unfortunately it looks like I am going to have to work the weekend of the blog meet so I may or may not get the chance to talk football with him.

Over the last nine months I have looked into several different ways to blog for money and Smorty is one of them. They have a pretty simple and easy to use site. Like some of the other sites that allow you to get paid to blog you write your opinion on other people's products and websites but with Smorty all you have to do is write a review of their product and a link. Just recently I have started getting more and more opportunities from Smorty than I used to and I really like the ability to pick and choose what I post about

Smorty pays weekly by Paypal and is this fastest way to get paid for blogging. Opportunities are sent directly to your smorty control panel as well as via email. The more blogs that you have, the more money you get paid. Go check it out if you have the chance.

Smorty also has a pretty good affiliate program as well. They pay a commission for your referrals and a further commission for each referral that they make.

Progesterone Cream uses fat energy and protects against fibrocystic breasts, is a natural diuretic, natural anti-depressant, facilitates the thyroid, normalizes blood clotting, restores the female sex drive, normalizes blood sugar levels and helps to prevent endometrial and breast cancer.

When women are under stress the adrenal gland produces cortisol. Cortisol causes anxiety and increases stress levels. Progesterone is antagonistic to cortisol and counter-acts the negative effects of cortisol.

One of my friends is a regular customer in a couple of my restaurants and for the last couple of years he has been on a portable oxygen concentrator. I had always wondered where he got it and how it works but recently got the chance to find more information. Apparently he gets his from a local medical supply house but you can also find more information and purchase equipment online as well.

I have a good friend that lived in Arizona for several years and has also lived in several different states as well. According to my friend Doug, Phoenix is one of his most favorite places and Phoenix real estate is in pretty good shape right now. I would love to go out west for at least a couple of years and Phoenix would be a really nice place to base out of and check things out.

It certainly wouldn't hurt to invest in the area as it is one of the places that is showing consistent growth.

There is a pretty good article up on buying domains relevant to searches that are going on for keywords that makes quite a bit of sense over at Alan Ocab's place. If you have a couple of minutes of free time it makes for an interesting read.

One of the things I like about his site is that it reads like he is enjoying it. Now of course a lot of the keywords that he uses in posts are designed to bring visitors to his site(s) which in turn makes him money due to the Google Ads places there. I have been reading up quite a bit on this as it would be nice to make enough residual income that I could go back to blogging for the sake of blogging.

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A couple of weeks ago I was discussing the fact that we were considering moving my workshop back down into the basement to get some more space in the living room. I have been looking at different office desks for just that product. Although I haven't found one that I really like yet it won't be long before I do. I don't know exactly what I want but I will know it when I see it.