Why I Named My Blog I Need Discipline
March 28, 2008
I have had a few emails recently asking me why the blog is called I Need Discipline. This is something that I have been meaning to address for a while now so I shall do it now whilst I am thinking about it.
It is pretty simple really.
I was sitting in a pub with a friend of mine and we were talking about boxing (I’m a fan of this sport and made a lot of money when people thought Hatton was going to beat Mayweather) and we were talking about how boxers require a lot of disciplline.
As the chat changed topic I began to think about my blog (it is very common to think about you blog while you are meant to be enjoying yourself with friends) and I started to think how true it is that if you wish to earn money online you need to be disciplined.
So many people pick and choose when they feel like earning money online and this is why they, more often than not, fail. You need to have some self discipline to keep a strict routine going.
I will use my brother as an example here.
He wanted me to teach him how to make money online with his blog, he then went and set up half a dozen blogs when I told him to stick with one and now he has lost interest in them because he is not disciplined enough. He allows himself to be distracted.
That is why my blog is called I Need Discipline.
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Adbrite Theory
March 24, 2008
I have been using Adbrite for about a year now and apart from the ads that I had on Football Reloaded I have struggled to make any real money with them. I admit I have not been trying that hard because I was more concerned about making Google Adsense work.
But now I have decided to see just if it is at all possible to make money with Adbrite.
A lot of people may not know about Adbrite. They run ads on your web site just like Google Adsense but the main differences are that they do not scan your site and show relevent adverts based on the content of your site.
The second diference is that they also allow you to sell advertising space using them as a middleman. Somethign that I have managed to do once again with the Football Reloaded forum.
I intend to add Adbrite ads to this blog and my other blogs (you can find them on the side menu).
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WordPress 2.5 Preview Part Two
March 20, 2008
Write
The write screen has also been given a working over and now only shows the most common things that you use a lot, anything else you don#’t use that often is hidden away until you decide that you wish to use it.
Manage
The manage page has been designed so that it looks exactly the same as the other management pages (comments, pages, etc) and it has been tinkered with to speed it up. Again a few of the unimportant things have been removed or hidden until needed at a later date.
Other
There are other things that have been changed as well such as a new and funky colour scheme, but if you hate it and want the old one back then you can just switch it back to “Classic” in the Options section of the admin panel.
This is also pluggable so you can actually add and share your colour schemes with other users.
Release Candidate 1 is now available but please beware that this is a very early BETA release and there will be bugs so only install this if you make regular back-ups of your database and wish to help out the deveopment team.
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WordPress 2.5 Preview Part One
March 17, 2008
Although it is not being released yet Wordpress have decided to tease us by allowing us to have a look at the new features that will be included in their new 2.5 version of the awesome blogging script.
There are so many new features that this article will be cut into two posts so you can take it all in.
Dasboard
This has always been the first page you see when you log into the admin panel and they wanted it to have as much information on it as possible for you. Such as latest news, posts, comments, etc.
Apparently most users ignore this page for various reason so the designers hve given it a complete overhaul and have simplfied the designe.
There is also a new feature where you can add an RSS feed.
Navigation
Although I found the navigation quite easy it did apparently confuse a lot of people so Wordpess have decied to redesigned the menu at the top of the admin panel. They have set it it so that only the relevent sub menu links show up.
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Setting The Record Straight
March 1, 2008
I get a couple of emails a week from people who contact me via my contact form asking me if I really do make money online via my blog or if I am just making things up to get people to view my blog in some desperate hope that I just might be telling the truth.
The truth is if these people had read my blog for any length of time then not only would they know that I am telling the truth but they would also find instances in posts such as First Payment From Review Site and also Earn Money By Writing Reviews.
At the first of each month I also make public the amounts of money I earn the previous month which is the same that a lot of the other blogs do, although I also include traffic details which a lot of others do not offer.
I do not pretend to earn a fortune online, I simply publish on my blog various avenues that have worked for me in the hope that they will also work for my readers.
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