A Problogger Mom

I was just surfing around, and stumbled upon this very helpful site for women and mom entrepreneurs. It is Ponn M. Sabra’s site Empower Women Now. If you are like me, and new to the blogging scene, and also trying to turn blogging into a money making venue for yourself, you must check out her site. She has many useful tips for those of us starting out, and well as a Link Directory for sharing the link love among those of us with similar entrepreneurial spirt. She also offers a Free “Special eReport: Make Money Online: How You Can Too!”. I just signed up and am anxiously checking my inbox. I will be checking out her site often, and hope you all find it as useful as I have.

In case you missed this post at DoshDosh, I just have to give it a mention: A Definitive List of Paid Blogging-Websites. Of course the list starts out with the well known Payperpost and ReviewMe, but there are several on here I have not heard of and will be checking out soon.

I just read a great post on the Get Rich Slowly blog titled You are Your Own Worst Enemy. It was like a glimpse into my past, right before I had my “lightbulb” moment. I was Gillian in that post, so dead tired of always being broke all the time, but looking for a quick fix instead of truly working on the problem, because it does require work, and lots of it.

ACK! Yes, the kids finished school last Friday, and I am trying to establish some sort of “routine”, but chaos seems to be winning here. I find I am most productive with my “work” in the late evenings, after the kids are in bed. Hopefully, they will all learn to sleep in soon. :D My oldest would sleep in if givin the oppurtunity, but the younger two generally wake her up early to entertain them, and once they are all up, I am too. I am sure by the time we establish a “routine”, it will be time to alter it again to get us back in school mode. I hope all you other WAHM’s, can find some time to enjoy the summer as well as continue to be productive.

I just wanted to let folks know, that I just updated my feedburner feed since I changed my domain. Here’s the new feed:

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Apparantly, Paula Neal Mooney is again tackling her list of blogger salaries and should be posting an update soon. That is one brave woman as that job seems monumental! She was kind enough to ask me if I’d like her to post my earnings, so I just shot off a quick note to her with my totals. Hopefully, I’ll make her list, but if not, I figured I would go ahead and share my earnings so far with you all.

I think I am finally here! It took a good long week of learning a lot of new things, figuring out how WP works, tweaking things here and there, but it is now done! I’m sure I will continue to tweak things here and there, but this blog is now functioning, and the old one on Blogger is now retired.

 Many thanks to Maki at DoshDosh and Daniel from The Wrong Advices for this awesome Prosense theme I’m using. Also, many thanks to Agentsully at  Life Learning Today for her many helpful articles on making the transition from Blogger to a self-hosted WP solution.  So what do you think? Please let me know if you see anything not working or any glaring mistakes!  

The New York Times recently ran this article: Can Blogs Become a Big Source of Jobs?

The article points out, that as blogs are becoming more and more popular, there is more demand for employees who can write or support them, from CEO’s on down.

“There’s almost an ecosystem of jobs that have emerged around blogs,” said Paul Forster, chief executive at Indeed.com, a job search engine with postings from more than 5,000 sources. “It’s an emerging area where there are many more opportunities related to the blog rather than being a dedicated blog writer.”

Please wish me lots of luck! I have been wanting to go the hosted route with Wordpress since the get go, but this here blog allowed me to get my feet wet, and I am now ready to make the move. Tomorrow is the big day! I am no techie, but the hubby has agreed to sit with me as I make the transfer and walk me through any rough patches. I am not anticipating much trouble, but am nervous just the same. So this is just a heads up, watch for big changes in the coming days!

When I discovered at the beginning of this year, that blogging was actually a viable income earning opportunity, I first came across the Problogger himself Darren Rowse. Next I came across John Chow. In searching online for other women who called themselves Probloggers, this information seemed harder to come by. Since then, I have found several popular female bloggers who attempt to earn an income via blogging, and I have many of them listed in my blog roll. Recently, a couple of them have posted their earnings, and in my eyes, they are DEFINITELY successful female Probloggers who are my inspiration! I hope they will inspire you too.