Saturday, January 3, 2009

Creating 2 minute movies...

It is January 3rd today—a Saturday—and I can’t get wireless connection possibly because everyone in the neighborhood is online, so I’m writing this offline in Notepad ready to drop in as soon as we get connected.

The good news is I have found a writer at NAA (Need-an-Article) and I should be able to outsource all my writing except for blogs. Lynne, my new writer, has written up several articles recently and one of them is Funny Facts which is all about those trivia things that kids enjoy and learn a lot from. She is also writing up an article about Funny Kids and the crazy things they get up to. This should be worth reading ‘cause it is usually quite funny.

I am looking for an open source 2D animated software; if you know of an affordable one please drop me a line or email me through my email at http://FamilyFunCartoonsBlog.blogspot.com I’ve only looked at Opus and Retas Pro but they look complicated and they are expensive. I sometimes go to Amazon to check out the feedback on software and books, if it has less than a 3-star rating I do not bother to read it.

My goal is to create two-minute movies for YouTube which will be about characters who are slightly dysfunctional but they get on well with their siblings and friends but less so with strangers. They will play against each other in with a lot of humor added, some of it a bit zany and some outright crazy. I will leave my movie URL’s on this blog so please call back, email or go to my RSS feed either here or on my website.

Friday, January 2, 2009

An Exciting Year Ahead!

This has been one of those exciting times of the New Year when I will go over the past year and locate all the failures I’ve had and the “not accomplished goals” and find out why these have not been attained.

I’ve had many wins this past 2008 and any given action I’ve done to achieve this I will duplicate and strengthen for this years goals. In fact, 2008 has been a great year for me. I am a relatively newbie on the internet and especially putting together my own web page.

It all started last February when I’d spent countless hours looking on the internet for any ideas I could do from home to make a modest income. There seems to be innumerable offers to make bucks from all and sundry. Your head begins to spin after awhile and you get to a stage where you do not believe anyone. It is all hype.

GRQ was an acronym I got to know well (get rich quick) and I discovered there is no such thing on the internet…it took some time to discover this but it eventually sunk in. “I get up at 10 am, have my coffee and start to work my 1 hour day in my PJ’s.” This came up so many times it made you want to puke!

There may well be genuine offers but not one GRQ that I found valid. I trashed them all. I also went through hundreds of “This is not a GRQ scheme” and found this was also a ploy to bet bucks from your wallet.

A friend then showed me his stats for the past year and how he struggled getting up his own website for his home made wooded toy products. I was impressed with his slow gains in the first few months which then took off after about 6 months; he had about 10 or so unique visitors a day to 300 in six months. In the first nine months he didn’t make a dime and then the orders slowly trickled in and the money followed.

He said, “Do yourself a favor and check out SiteSell.” Which I did and so in February last year I signed up with them and I’ve never looked back. It was a huge struggle at first learning HTML, how to write content, how not to spam and thousands of others things I had to put together—but eventually it all came together and I got my first check today from Adsense.

I’ve now had thousands of unique visitors a month and they are growing steadily and my CTR is creeping up slowly but surely.

If you have the time, go to my website and check it out. It would be great if you can leave feedback, good or bad…I always learn heaps from other people.

The best to you for 2009, may it be all that you have planned for and more!

http:www.familyfuncartoons.com

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Looking for More Writers For My Website

I have spent a lot of time today looking for more writers to add content to my web pages. I have, no kidding, about 600 more pages that need to be written up. Of course my pages are all about family fun, a little humor added here and there; coloring-in pages, games and a few pages about cartooning.

Writers have to have a unique voice as if you are talking to a person in front of you. Writing great content begins with keywords and this is not always easy especially if you are writing for children.

First post January 1 2009.