The other day I had a garage sale to get rid of junk.
When all of this stuff became “junk” I cannot recall, but when it did it wound up in the loft of the garage. When it came time to sell it it wound up in the bottom of the garage and in the driveway.
It always seems we are acquiring more material things to make us happy. We attach to them for a period of time and then we grow less fond of them.
Right now I don’t care much for material things. Maybe someday I’ll buy a Porsche, but right now it doesn’t really interest me. Of course if I could afford a Porsche, I probably wouldn’t be having a gararge sale.
The material I care about is creative, and my home is the stable base of my creative foundation. My house will be 100 years old in 2012. I think I will throw it a birthday party.
My Internet house is my blog, and it is only about six months old. A mere baby, though that might seem like a long time in Internet time, since everything moves so fast here – like the speed of light.
You will notice that I have been accumulating some junk here – like Adsense. I am trying to make a bit of change on my blog as I did at my garage sale because we all know blog posts take time to write and it’s nice to try and pay yourself for all that effort. I don’t expect to make a lot of money, as I have noticed many of you bemoaned the fact that Adsense doesn’t pay very well, if at all. If you have any Adsense advice please feel free to share.
I also have added a Amazon Showcase plugin by Aaron Forgue. I like the fact that you can choose the books you want on your blog. Where as you can’t choose the ads from Adsense, and some of the ads seem kind of stupid – things about swords and helicopters on some of my posts.
There is a nice plugin I uploaded by Joe Tan that keeps track of your Google Analytics data and RSS feed subscription data called WordPress Reports. I downloaded this plugin to track who was coming and going because I plan to sell my stock photography from this site. I will sell my own stock or get in with another stock company, I haven’t decided yet. Either way I will probably advertise from this site. And as my Marketing and Sales Goddess friend, Karen Swim says, marketing is the precursor to sales.
Since I have been messing around with my RSS feed account I may have messed up the settings, so if you do subscribe to my blog, 1. thank you, and 2. please add the feed again if it doesn’t work because like I said, I may have messed up the settings.
Also, if you have any questions about any plugins or what nots you see on my site, please ask. There are no secrets in this house. If I can share some information with you, I would be happy to.
All I ask is that you wipe your feet on the mat and don’t break the China.
Photocredit: © Ellen Wilson