I need to get my priorities sorted and spend time on the more important things, urgently!

I’ve 2 MAJOR things which need to be addressed and while they will both be longer term items, they are potentially worth a lot of money and won’t take much time to get moving, and won’t take much time each time I need to keep them moving.

What’s not much time? Probably about an hour each, in fact one probably even 15–30 minutes each to write a letter to chase them and threaten legal action.

I’m now committing to doing something about both of these things this week!

What I’ve done instead, is spend almost the last 3 hours moving sites around, setting up temporary pages and starting a project which will eventually allow me to automate a template to try and make some income from Google Adsense.

When I initially setup this blog, the idea was to just commit myself by making a public statement of what I’m doing and hopefully build up a little traffic and some feedback and maybe inspire some other people to do the same. Once I’d setup the site, I realised I could maybe make some money from the site (monetize my blog, as they say) by placing ads from Google and linking to Amazon books, where I’ll get a small commission. the books aren’t linked properly yet, since the CMS I’m using doesn’t support amazon UK yet, though I’m hopeful it will soon, otherwise I’ll have to do that bit manually and I don’t have the time.

I’m slowly doing thing to increase the traffic to the site, though not yet going full out with linking and SEO strategies yet (writing a post like this take enough time, without going back and adding in keywords and descriptions).

One of the things I did was point a number of domains I had to go to the blog, but I’ve also been aware that some ISPs put ads on expired domains, adding maybe a title and an H1 to the page, but not much else, so one of my unused domains (don’t ask!) was setup in this way, rather than just pointing to this blog. Imagine my surprise when I actually earned some income (the $2.95 of the title). when I looked into it, it all came from this other domain, so as a result, I’ve spent the last 3 hours setting up other domains in the same way, cross linking them, check which pages were indexed in Google so none of them ended up as broken links and were wasted. AND FOR WHAT!! ANOTHER $2.95. WHAT AN ARSE I’VE BEEN!! In less time than it took me to do that,  could have written the letters that would at least have brought in about £4k that overdue and possibly been the start to retrieve a possible £28k – £18k of which is highly unlikely, but if I don’t try I’ll get absolutely nothing, and I’d settle for nothing less than 5k out of the other 10K, so 9K minimum versus $2.95/ No wonder I got so much in debt when I can’t sort out priorities that are as obvious as this.

The only defense I have is that I actually enjoyed doing it, and maybe it’ll bring in more than $2.95, you can tell I’m an optimist can’t you.