Goodbye Blogging?
More of my blogs will bid goodbye before the year ends. It’s sad not to renew them since they have page ranks but I have no choice I can’t pay the renewal fee anymore, it is getting expensive to renew the domains and blog opportunities are getting scarce these days. I have only earned about $20 for the month of November and it isn’t even enough for my internet load expenses, how much more domains renewals?
Upon updating the site metrics I have found that most blogs and websites went down, the domain authority dropped tremendously which is not a good sign for bloggers since it is a very important measurement in websites popularity after updates on page ranking was stopped by Google.
Well, I don’t know what I should do now since I can’t design blog themes anymore, the internet speed isn’t good enough to constantly reload a website while designing it, it requires a strong internet connection to upload images repetitively, and there isn’t an order for new theme designs anyway since earning through blogging is very slow making the bloggers can’t afford to buy personalized theme for their blogs. It’s true that a lot of my blogger friends quit blogging and look for regular job; I guess I must do the same but with the number of unemployed graduates in our town my chance of finding a work without a connection is slim. I guess I should start accepting laundry task from neighbors or learn carpentry skills huh?
Maybe in a few months, or a year I’ll be gone in blogging world and the internet and I’ll be just at home looking at the ceiling and counting lizards. Even so, all I pray is to have food in our table enable us to survive living.
Home-Based Business: Buying and Selling
Buy and sell business is profitable if you have loyal customers who know how to pay without giving you a severe headache when their due date for payment came.
When the internet connection is good, browsing on shopping portals online became my habit since the products were loaded immediately. A week ago, while looking for dresses I have found a sale on clothing and I have informed my mother about it, and I was told if I have budget for it I could buy few and we could sell them in higher price. So I have ordered 8 short dresses to start with, when they arrived the other day, my mother and sister brought them to prospected client, three of the dresses where immediately taken and another one were taken separately so there is still four dresses in our care, hopefully we could sell them too.
The dresses were not bought as cash by the people who took them; they are one month to pay so I have to wait a month before I could get the payments. I have been planning to do buy and sell business when I have enough capital to start with it because I cannot forever depend on my father’s care since working online isn’t good anymore, lots of bloggers copied me too for being a link broker so the trade is really slow.
My mother suggested that buying and selling appliances, gadgets and other electronic devices will be profitable since most consumers wanted to own this things, but I need ample amount of money to start on that trade, all I can do right now is to sell few dresses in affordable amount and hopefully it works well without being copied by our neighbors.
Well, maybe if I got lucky and won in a lottery I will be able to build a clothes and beauty products shop in front of our house, since my Uncle has no plan yet to use his lot.
Earning Extra Cash from Home Through Printing
Earning money from home is possible if you know how to work with it. My family is accepting research, photocopying, typing and printing job at home. I think it helps that I worked in internet providing company with internet shop a long time ago where my sister stays at my work during lunch break and there are times I let her work with me or as substitute when I am not feeling well and she has no class schedule in school.
When I sent home my old sluggish laptop, they bought a cheap printer to accept photocopying, typing and printing jobs. The earning per day isn’t big, there are times there is and there are times there’s none. It is expected because our house isn’t in town nor in front of a school, people who need things to be photocopied or printed just came when they need it. The earnings which is sure is the $2-3 earnings per week from printing service program for the church beside us and the same amount monthly for the electric cooperative in our barangay. Isn’t big but it is one of the business that we though nobody can copy since not everyone knew how to do it.
The old cheap printer they bought is already worn out, there are times it stops printing and you have to hit the printer hard so it will run. When we left South Korea, I have send J’s printer home, they were able to use and have the ink converted to CISS but it didn’t take long because the cartridge stop working, it was initially dried up when it arrives to them and someone they knew just made a way to fix it but since the cartridge is only available in Korea the printer became useless. It was just left in the corner to collect dust.
When I am able to earn enough money online to buy a printer and I found a huge savings from an online portal, I bought a new printer to be use in our small business so there will no pain in the ass when the old printer stops, and my sister will not refill a lot anymore. The printer I purchased online is Brother DCP-J100 Multi-function printer, at first we thought it can copied legal size paper since it has 200-400% reducer but it turns out it only caters A4 size paper. The printer is CISS ready and by passing the close printer error is easy.
Well so far, within almost a month since we bought the printer we already earned almost $10, quite small but a little something is a blessing and it is better than nothing, isn’t it? This little something is helpful to buy small things especially when my father doesn’t have a job. If your house is in town and near a school you can do this business too and surely your earnings is much bigger than what we earned at home. You might earned $10 per day or more if your location is good.
So far this is the home-based business that our neighbors can’t copy yet, but who knows in the future.