Comments for Damien at the Speed of Life

Comment on How Adsense Works by Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:10:53 +0000

“Your comment reply actually exceeded the length of your original post Damien, LOL.”

Ha. That’s so me :)

Comment on How Adsense Works by Jodi

Jodi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:23:32 +0000

Luckily I have no expectations of making money blogging anytime soon. Even from the onslought I knew that if instant gratification was what I was going for, blogging was definitely NOT the venue to choose. At this point, although I’d love to make money blogging, I’m still on the fence as to how much time I’m willing to commit to the whole process.

Your comment reply actually exceeded the length of your original post Damien, LOL. But thanks for offering up your perspective on all of this.

Comment on How Adsense Works by Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:16:06 +0000

Well said Jodi. I know people who have held true to that philosophy for years and are still blogging strong. At the same time, I can’t even count how many people I’ve known who have blogged for personal reasons (in other words, not to market their writing for money) and now their blogs say “NOT FOUND” a few years later. It just depends on what you do it for.

As for me, I started Dec 2006 and sometime late 2007 I decided I wanted to make money and write, not just write. If I couldn’t get paid for it, the time away from my family just wasn’t worth it for me. I started researching how people make money at this and I feel now, from MY perspective and mine only, I am able to write as I make a couple hundred a month or write and make nothing. I choose the couple hundred, always with ambition for more.

You can ask Sarah though, I have really scaled back the time I spend blogging and planning. If it got to be more than the couple hundred somehow, I definitely would allocate more time for it. It has become, not so much a career for me but, a second part time job like the way I teach guitar at my school after-school.

You are just starting out so I really “get” your feelings about mmol. I would just say, don’t get discouraged because you don’t make money right away. If you get in a good routine with a good company (my favorite is PayU2Blog) it is just like music running in the background as you continue writing the way you want.

When I say “marketing” that for me is a mixture or writing about the events of the day and studying the most popular entryways to my blog. It rarely curbs my enthusiasm for writing on a personally relevant topic. And the best part? I get a check or a PayPal payment every week!

Thanks for sharing, this is probably the longest comment reply I’ve ever left ;)

Comment on How Adsense Works by Jodi

Jodi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:26:33 +0000

I actually gave this post a little more thought and decided I needed to add one more thing. Most bloggers begin that first blog because they have a passion for writing. So of course, it’s naturally the best case scenario if they can get paid to do what they already love to do. The problem is if bloggers perpetually cater their posts to whatever is “marketable” at the time, this can squander their creativity, eventually drying up their writing to “commercial”-like posts, and ultimately negating the reasons why they began a blog in the first place. I’d love to earn money by blogging, but not at the detriment of squelching my freedom of expression. For example, I seriously doubt that snails getting it on with each other is a very marketable topic, but I wouldn’t be true to my own voice as a writer if I didn’t write such posts.

I’m just hoping there’s a happy medium somewhere in between “marketable” blogging and “creative” blogging. =)

Comment on How Adsense Works by Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:29:30 +0000

Hey, I have made like 38 cents off my Adsense ads, so what are you fools talking about? LOL

Comment on How Adsense Works by Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:23:26 +0000

Oh there’s some good stuff in there, to be sure. It’s a journey!

Comment on How Adsense Works by Jodi

Jodi — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:11:44 +0000

See, this is why I need to read your eBook over spring break–so I can learn all of these little blogger tips!

Comment on When Justice Feels Like Inspiration by Jodi

Jodi — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:54:09 +0000

Classroom management can be tricky for teachers, because the process of writing one little timeout can practically derail an entire lesson. But it’s a necessary evil–students need to see that there are swift and firm consequences for their actions, or else they will take advantage of the system all year long. I’m glad your friend was able to see this situation through to a satisfying resolution!

Comment on When Justice Feels Like Inspiration by Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:14:31 +0000

I hope now that these students were expelled, you will see a positive change in the other students. It is hard to elicit behavioal changes in students if they are not particularly concerned with referrals, classroom discipline, etc…now that they have the threat of being kicked out of the school looming over their heads as an ultimate consequence, perhaps their behavior will improve…Well, one would hope anyway!

Comment on The Things That Hold You by Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:29:17 +0000

That is great. Are you in image management??? Thanks for the comment Shannon. :)