Now that I’ve written a title for this post – I feel a bit more like I have accomplished a thing or two this week! I have some things to muse and mutter about, and some updates and new items and recommendations to share. Maybe I shouldn’t put it all in one blog post – but then again, I’m not limited to 140 characters here! I will break it up into sections – will that help?

This is kind of a combo Squidoo, Internet marketing, and most important Pets and Christmas section

First off, I want to thank everyone who has helped promote Pets as Christmas Gifts and say keep at it and keep sharing and yeah – thanks! I updated it a little today because a friend of mine has created a lens that is the perfect companion lens – Furreal Pets and Friends. Sandy describes several of the fun new electronic pet toys and gives you a chance to vote for your favorites.

While I’m talking about pets , I want to share this unique business opportunity with you. You can open your own online pet supply store through this offer. I signed up for it myself because it looks to me a bit like my online sex toy shop deal. Over the years that little shop has been a dependable money maker even when I am not actively promoting it. Along with the online store, you are able to purchase your own pet supplies at a deep discount. So I’m thinking this would be very cool for someone who does pet rescue from their home – you get a discount on your stuff, you make a few bucks that can help defray the costs of rescue, and it would be painless to promote – face it, you have a zillion pet loving pals online don’t you?

That rather nice segues into my next subject, making money on the Internet. I don’t usually write much about this, because I don’t feel like I am all that successful at it. I’ve been working at making a living on the Internet for almost ten years now. Wow. I’ve tried adult sites, affiliate marketing, selling my art and stories, and had a bit of moderate success but I am most definately not a millionaire yet. Not even a thousandaire.

I have tried a lot of different Make Money on the Internet programs and found out that the vast majority of them are scams. I’m pretty cynical at this point.

My roommate sleeps with the TV on. This means that we get exposed to a whole lot of those late night informercial programs. About a week ago he told me that he had seen a program on making money on the Internet that actually sounded practical and real. As he described it to me, I became interested because I could see from my Internet experience, what this guy – Anthony Morrison – was doing and it is a legitimate business. A few nights later, I happened to see the program. I was intrigued enough to write the number down, and on hubby’s payday, I called and ordered it.

What impresses me the most is Mr. Morrison over and over says that you are not going to become an overnight millionaire. You aren’t going to buy your Lambourgini and lay on the beach at BoraBora while your website magically cranks out the big bucks without you lifting a finger. He tells you that it grows slowly and that you do have to put in some work. You know – like in the real world. I got my free website, which is right here if you want to check it out and have been going through the training videos. I laughed my butt off last night at the last one I watched where he says that people who go for that “overnight millionaire” scams are living in a dream world. So true.

The website actually has some good offers. Shit – I signed up for one myself! That is – the pet shop mentioned above. I’m still going through the training videos right now. I’ll let you know how things progress. This might finally be a legitimate “Make Money on the Internet” business. Cool.

Mini-brag about the “old” novel And this is one of those Law of Attraction serendipity things, too. I gave a copy of The River Way to a friend who works at WalMart. He put it in the break room to share and it wandered from employee to employee and has vanished, never to be returned. He asked for another copy. I finally remembered on the way to town yesterday to run an errand that turned out to be a)unneccesary and b)a waste of time – but I stopped at storage and grabbed my last three copies of the novel. Why all three? I dunno. Tossed them all in the car. Stopped at Walmart and my friend was not there, but another mutual friend was – so I asked her to hold his copy for him (I’m not in town much) and she said she would, but also asked if she could BUY a copy. I have to admit, of the big 12 author copies I bought – this is the first one I ever SOLD. I sold it at cost – she is a friend and fellow writer – but it was kind of a thrill anyway

Meanwhile, on Twitter, a new follower there insisted on going to Barnes and Noble to buy a copy of The River Way, rather than downloading the free ebook version. (The link to the Amazon buy it page is on the picture up there) Thanks!

BTW if you’ve bought the novel and read it – can you do me a favor and do a review on either or both sites?

Wow. I just noticed there is a REALLY nice review up at Barnes and Noble. Thank you anonymous whoever you are!

Speaking of Twitter, I’ve tried and loved two Twitter applications. And they are both free, so how cool is that?

TweetCatch.com gives you a simple, easy way to find people to follow and hopefully they’ll follow you back. You can set up filters to gather folks by certain keywords. I have filters for goth, birdwatchers, coloring pages, Squidoo, writing – the things I do and twitter about. Since I started using TweetCatch I’ve gone from about 100 followers to over 700. What I really like though – is I have discovered some of the most fun, interesting people to follow. Twitter is like 100 times more fun to read for me now! No affiliation, I don’t get a commission or anything – but it is really a good Twitter application. The first week is free and then it’s under $10 a month. I thought I’d cancel it – but nah, no way.

The other cool Twitter application I’m using is TweetMyBlog and I am an affiliate although I only get paid if you decide to buy one of their upsell products. Actually, they have some pretty cool stuff they are offering. The application itself, though, is free. This application links your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Whenever you add a blog post, it is automatically tweeted. You also get a nice widget (you’ll see it to your right here) that puts your tweets on your blog. Myself – that’s all I use it for and I am really happy with that. It’s just a little time saver, trouble saver and if I happen to also make a buck or two – well, gee, cool! I’ve got it on several of my blogs now and it works perfectly. Very easy to install and get set up. And it’s free.

Okay. I think that’s it. For now. Not sure what I’ll be doing today… maybe draw a few more coloring pages.

Oh yeah – that reminds me. I am really trying to get my Free Printable Christmas Coloring Pages lens to the top ten in the Parenting and Kids category on Squidoo this month. You see, being off line I missed the Google dance, and poor Color-Your-Own.com doesn’t appear ANYWHERE in the search engine results for Christmas coloring pages. Which is a real bummer. I COULD maybe make a buck or two if I could grab some nice Christmas traffic, and get some new followers and bookmarkers, too. But I got search engine fucked (sort of my own fault since I had no Internet around the needed time). So if you happen to love me and my coloring pages and want to help out (hint hint hint) visit the lens, blog about it, tweet about it, pass it to your pals, rank it, comment on the guestbook, whatever you feel like doing. Thank you!!!!!! And BTW this really does help, since I started begging you wonderful people to help me out the lens has gone from #206 all the way to (as of today) #62. We can make it to the Top Ten and Squidoos front page – yes we can.

Okay, now that is all – really…

Summer Fey Foovay

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