1 post tagged “freelance writing”

The last time I posted to this blog was nearly a year ago.  How time flies!

When I was last here I was blogging often and taking advantage of all Vox had to offer in the way of groups, neighbourhoods, etc.  It seemed like a great place and, although I had made many blogs before at various places, I thought I would be staying here long term.

The problem was that while I was blogging away I had some serious financial issues on my mind and blogging here was my way of avoiding them.  So one day I decided that I had procrastinated long enough and had to do something to fix things... and what better way to do this than by blogging!

So I looked into ways I could make money from blogging.  Most of it seemed to suck big time; building blogs for adsense etc.  But then I found something I could make money from.  Adult.

And I set to work with a vengeance.  Today I have hundreds of blogs and sites selling adult material and making a reasonable living for me.  Most of the sites are on auto, so once they are set up they only need checking now and again.  But I wanted to go one step further.  I wanted to be a 'respectable blogger'.

So lately I have been creating blogs in mainstream and working as a freelance writer too.

But the catch here is that mainstream blogs can't be 'put on auto' so easily and freelance writing is damn hard work.  The pay isn't that great either (compared to adult), until you are well established and of course to attain that you need to build an online presence via social bookmarking, blog commenting, article submisions, etc, etc.  I'm getting there, but it's tough and 'being social' just to establish a 'brand' kind of sucks I think.  I want to be sociable because I feel like it, not because I need to network.  So basically, I am not very good at the 'social marketing' stuff.

And I think I've reached blogging burn out too.  There is only so much unique content anyone can produce without having a brain fade.  It's taken me nearly a year to reach it, which can't be bad, but it's still a problem.

So what am I doing to 'chill out'?  I'm blogging of course, here at Vox!  Probably not the most sensible thing to do, but, hey, I never have taken the sensible option.

And at least I can be sociable here without networking.

I just hope Vox hasn't changed that much, though from a few posts I have read I think it may have.

We'll see...