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Wouldn’t you like to have a true passive income?

Sure you would, everybody would but can this be accomplished with a simple blog? Read on.

The beginning
Back then when I have started this blog I didn’t have an intention to make a lot of money with it. I was pretty active reader of various webmaster forums so I knew what Adsense was, I knew that one could make money online but the core reason I have started a blog was to learn more about SEO which very fascinating thing back then and it is still today, at least for myself.

If you take a look around this blog you will find out that at the begging I was publishing new articles pretty fast, a couple of articles per week surely. This made my blog get some visitors, some publicity and a free book from David Meerman Scott – The new rules of marketing and PR which is the most valuable asset in my book collection.

So you’ve got free stuff, big deal

What, you don’t like free stuff? Everybody loves free stuff but as I have mentioned earlier my intentions were to learn SEO not to make a lot of money of get free gifts. What happend after some time? I have discovered that I could make some passive income (even dough not truly passive) from my blog so Adsense ads came to this site. Adsense can make you some decent money if you have a lot of visitors or high cost per click ads on your website. I had neither.

Affiliate programs came to my attention when I saw some threads on DigitalPoint forums. I was pretty sure that I will be able to make some money as an affiliate. And I did, not much but a couple of bucks here and there.

Today

Today I can say that I make truly passive income. As you can see, my last post was written three month ago and since than I have made almost 600$ with Adsense and affiliates. I know that it doesn’t sound much but it is pretty good considering that no work has been done since. No here is where my problems start to rise. So should I keep developing this blog, redesign it and produce more quality content for or should I sell it to somebody? Investor in me says: Keep the passive income fool, you can always sell your blog! So this is my decision. Not only I will keep this blog but I will build one more with different niche but pretty interesting.

What would you do? Would you sell or build more?

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When I was younger (not that I’m old today) I was bad at organizing my schoolwork and my personal life. I would always do thing in the last possible minute. It was a kind of thrill to be rushing to finishing a project but it is not productive as one might imagine. Even though I was great under pressure and I have produced some great results I felt that it could be done differently.

I also had one big problem that I’m still dealing with and that is not finishing what I have started.

Today I’m working on two projects, my final paper for college and currently I’m writing this blog post which is not the state of art copy but it still requires time to be written. So how did I achieve the ability to manage multiple things at the same time? Actually, I could also do it but I was to lazy to do it.

Planning is the key to success

When starting multiple projects or adding new projects to your current one it is important to plan your time. One should use to-do lists, calendars and every others means of technology that can make his or hers life more organized.

Plan your day ahead of time. Instead of watching comedy shows before sleep take 15 minutes to organize your next work day and believe me, when you have multiple projects every day is a work day.

Have a milestone

Divide your projects into categories or put milestones in front of you. You must know what is the end result of your project and the road to your result should platted with milestones. Remember, even the longest journey starts with a single step so step into you projects and deal with them.

Will I succeed in all my projects? Certainly. One will be a success, other not so much but they will be finished and this is the key component that motivates me these days.

What’s your opinion on multiple projects and time management?

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While browsing through one of the biggest job sites in Croatia I have noticed a job offer from Google Inc. Being so involved in seo and Google itself I just had to apply for that job.

So what are they looking for? Google need Online sales and Operations account manager for their EU headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Even though Dublin is pretty far away from Croatia I wouldn’t think a second about moving to Ireland if I get an opportunity to work for Google.

Some of may say that this job is stressful and maybe not the best job in the world but since I have two years of experience in two different call centers my belief is that I’m capable of doing it right. Currently I’m considering about starting a call center consulting business and if I don’t get that job in Google my consultation idea may become real company.

Looking forward to see what will Google say, wish me good luck.

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Just after I have upgraded the blog to Wordpress 2.5 version 2.5.1 came out and I was really lazy to do another upgrade. Today I have decided to be good to my blog as it is good to me so I have upgraded it to 2.5.1 but I was using Automatic Wordpress Upgrade plugin which is great. It does everything for you and it can even do you a back up just too be sure.

Great little plugin that made my life a couple of minutes longer for every upgrade that will come in the future.

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I have never liked rss and I don’t really know why. It is very cool thing, keeps you more organized and more up to date than anything else. Still, I have a trouble getting used to it….

As you may have notice there is not “Subscribe to” buttons or link currently right here. This is going to change today. I have set myself a goal of getting 2000 rss subscribers and I’m going to do whatever it takes to get them. Well, almost whatever.

First things first, After I publish this post you’ll notice Feedburner counter and new subscription links/images/buttons/something and this is the first step on my trip to 2000 subscribers.

Wish me good luck.

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