Blogging reality check

I have been watching too much tv recently. It’s not that I think tv is bad, but if I am watching tv, I am not blogging. Or playing the piano, thinking up new business ideas or working out at the gym. Not doing much, in other words, that I consider life-enhancing for myself.
If I am […]

Business plan for Project Red

Could I face the dragons… and survive?
Project Red, my online project, has now begun in earnest. I am writing the initial business plan, attempting to answer such basic questions as: How does it work? How does it make money?
The site doesn’t exist yet, so I am plucking numbers out of the air based on what […]

Professional blogging as a business model

A blogger called Yaro Starak has written a series of articles on professional blogging as a business model. He contends that professional blogging is not a sustainable model because generally it is dependent on the owner creating their own content day after day, which means that there are limits to how much this content can […]

Making money from ebay

I have made my first foray into selling stuff on ebay. I have started small with a humble DVD but I can see the possibilities for making money if you can source the right products. This certainly deserves consideration as a future income stream. I have some ideas about products, but I will need to […]

Proofreading for Project Gutenberg

I have started volunteering as a proofreader for Project Gutenberg. This is an enormous online library of etexts that have been transferred to computer by volunteers.
Proofreading for Project Gutenberg is not exactly the same as normal proofreading as the idea is not to change what the author wrote but to make the text accessible by […]

Working for yourself

Slight panic while having my shower this morning. I have no idea what I’m going to do in the long term, no exciting business venture planned or entrepreneurial project to carry out.
A friend said to me recently that if you are going into business for yourself, you should try to do something you have a […]

Proofreading

Looks like the proofreading idea might not be a runner. I have looked at websites like the Society for Editors and Proof-readers, Book House and the forums on Homeworking.com. They all say that getting work is very difficult unless you have contacts, experience or specialist knowledge of a technical field. I have none of these!