I think it is interesting to look back and try to find the moment when you discovered something like a new way of making money. You discover something you had never heard about before or haven’t given it any thought. It could be from reading a magazine or newspaper article or reading something on an internet forum.
I can remember the time I was reading a post on a Japan forum, by a guy who was boasting how he had just made $3000 selling a Japanese antique on ebay. Just that one post turned on a light for me and I got into buying and selling Japanese antiques. I had never given it a thought up until that day.
I remember just after I had started this blog, I did a search on “make money blog” and I found Probogger.net
I have lots of different ideas every day for new businesses and the last few days I have been thinking a lot about this one idea. I have had the idea for quite a while, but I came up with something related, while I was reading the 4 Hour Work Week. If I go through with the idea, I could say that was the A-Ha moment. The more I think about it, the more I can see the potential.
I have registered a couple of domains that I could use and have started doing more research.
I enjoy travelling, but it would be nice to settle down in one place for a while.
Nice Blog and I had the same a-ha moment recently around blogging. Unfortunately got a bit overzealous with the ads and sending the blog to family/friends who clicked on the ad links a bit too much. So my adsense account was put in hold! Any idea on how to get it reinstated via appeal?
Andy.
For the little money you are probably going to make it is probably not a good idea to put adsense on at an early stage. Also if your blog has little traffic but high click throughs this is going to raise alarms with google. As tempting it is, it is probably not a good idea to show friends/relatives your sites with Adsense.
All you can do now is write to google appealing your case. There are some threads on webmasterworld.com on how to get your account re-instated.
Good luck!