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	<title>Passive Income Online: Lis Sowerbutts&#187; Online  Business</title>
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		<title>Internet Business Plan: Making Money with a Travel Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in January I talking about business planning - and at the time I expected to do several follow up plans which would detail business plans for several of my bigger websites. But it never happened. Why not? Frankly &#8211; I was stuck! I couldn&#8217;t figure out a business plan for my favourite niche &#8211; my main travel blog. So I did, nothing. Well I did think &#8211; quite a bit, and thought of and discarded dozens of plans. Now, several months later, I do indeed have a plan. If you just CLICK HERE I will tell you how to make $997,999 in the next 7 days while planning your next vacation. Nah sorry &#8211; but I&#8217;ll tell you what I&#8217;m trying to do &#8211; who knows it may even work out!  Travel Blogging Is Tough   My first website (it wasn&#8217;t a blog) &#8211; was in travel &#8211; it never made a cent. I still have the domain, now it makes a few cents with Adsense.  My first blog is long gone (I have the content somewhere on the hard drive). It was the classic: this is what I&#8217;m doing type trip diary. Then I discovered you could get paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Marketing Business Plan &#8211; 2012 Edition</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/internet-marketing-business-plan-2012-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry this is a bit of long one, even for me! You might want to read my previous posts first if you haven&#8217;t (and they are shorter!): 2011 Looking Back, 2012 Goals &#8211; Introduction. Short version, why should you read over 3000 words of my ramblings? Because most people don&#8217;t have a business plan to make money online, and I think more of you need one!   A Whole Bloody Business Plan? Why Not Just Some Goals?  This started off as my 2012 goals post &#8211; and ended up as an Internet Marketing plan &#8211; how the frig did that happen?  I read some other people&#8217;s goals posts &#8211; and don&#8217;t get me wrong. I&#8217;m not knocking posts like this, or this, this one, or indeed the one that made me buy a book. I read them all, and they all seemed reasonable goals and plans.   But I wanted a bigger picture, I wanted a  vision, some frigging idea where I was going with this whole business thing, and 2012 in particular.   Or, to be allegorical, (&#8217;cause I am playing with language at the moment), I needed to know the layout of the forest, before I focussed on individual trees!  And then Google has failed me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I See Video In My Future &#8211; And Its Very, Very Scary!</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/i-see-video-in-my-future-and-its-very-very-scary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; I am scared of the camera &#8211; well one that takes moving pictures anyways! I don&#8217;t really have an issue with photos of me per se, particularly if they are stored on my computer so  I can delete at will. But video has always made me nervous.  I&#8217;ve tried it a couple of times &#8211; and I dislike the sound of my own voice. A lot.  Talking the camera is also perilously close to talking to an audience which is alive. And that gives me stage fright.  But the case for audio and video is becoming a bit overwhelming. For example. No prizes for figuring out that both this blog and Pat&#8217;s over at SmartPassiveIncome.com go after the same main keyword. There&#8217;s not much in it &#8211; at the moment he&#8217;s #2 and I&#8217;m #4 in the SERPs. But I&#8217;ve never been able to figure out one little thing &#8211; why the hell does he have so much more traffic than I do? According to SEMRush he doesn&#8217;t rank for another huge keyword in this niche &#8211; so WTF was going on?  Now there are a dozen ways to game social media figures and subscription numbers, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passive Income &#8211; There Is Such a Thing &#8211; Who Want&#8217;s a Business?</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/passive-income-there-is-such-a-thing-who-wants-a-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had to engage in the conversation here &#8211; Leo &#8211; says there is no such thing as passive income he argues that we all should be developing businesses not just relying on SEO to climb to the top of the rankings. Funny how my name has got associated with passive income &#8211; as friends pointed out to Leo (and not saying  Leo isn&#8217;t a friend  - merely wrong )  I would be in for the argument. Not Passive Income OK so lets step back. In the dark times pre-passive income &#8211; I used to be a highly overpaid IT consultant &#8211; I was paid a nice hourly rate by companies who wanted to upgrade or replace software. I used to work on a salary &#8211; a &#8220;safe&#8221; job right. Yup, it was &#8211;  I never got fired from a permanent job &#8211; but it was huge, huge millstone around my neck.  You see turning up 40 hours a week &#8211; even if the hours were somewhat flexible &#8211; meant that I could only travel in the holidays-  I only got 4 weeks annual leave so even with creative use of leave without pay, public holidays and anticipated leave &#8211; I could only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmer Update Fail? Why Google Hasn&#8217;t Changed</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/farmer-update-fail-why-google-hasnt-changed/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/farmer-update-fail-why-google-hasnt-changed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for headless chook image &#8211; could only find hoards of  tourists (close enough I think)! Thought I would do a follow up on my what is a content farm post &#8211; as the fall out continues on Google&#8217;s recent update - and just point out that human psychology is quite intereting and I am thinking that maybe Google has a number of psyc PhD&#8217;s amongst their software geeks. Google Farmer Update &#8211; What Was It? On or about 1 March in the US results (but will be rolled out worldwide) Google changed their algorithm &#8211; they made the unusual step of annoucing  what they had done and Matt Cutt&#8217;s is quoted as saying: This update is  designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on. Google claimed to affected nearly 12% of the search results &#8211; but a number of us found either nothing had changed, or nothing bad had happened to our sites. As I said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Content Farm and Why Does Google Hate Them?</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/what-is-a-content-farm-and-why-does-google-hate-them/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/what-is-a-content-farm-and-why-does-google-hate-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Cutts has the best job in the world. He writes one little blog post and puts the whole of the Internet Marketing community into a tail spin &#8211; and his latest is a good one &#8211; in fact when googling &#8220;what is a content farm&#8221; the first result was a news result &#8211; indicating that the term is hot, hot, hot at the moment. But WTF is Google doing? Are they trying to destroy all of us who want to make a few dollars of passive income a month? Is the era of making a living online gone forever? Google search is failing &#8211; and what Google is doing is a public relations exercise in order to recover some credibility &#8211; and the evidence is in the results of the above search. So what is a content farm I thought? I asked Mr Google (using US results via the nifty Chrome Google Extension tool) &#8211; and Google told me - News results: according to joisic.com: The term “content farm” is commonly used to describe these sites that add pages and pages of unoriginal, useless information to the search engines database. and gigaom.com thinks that: Companies that do this have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Don&#8217;t Need No Stupid Badges!</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/we-dont-need-no-stupid-badges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Money Online]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Keyword Academy has this absolutely infantile, ridiculous scheme where you can apply for badges to match your (verified) income &#8211; I mean its like pre-primary school right? Except for some odd  reason it does seem to matter to me &#8211; and today I made it &#8211; I made the next badge up &#8211; in the last month I earned $2500 in passive online income and I have nice pretty badge to prove it. Half of that was from Adsense and that figure represents a 50% increase over December&#8217;s Adsense figures. So how long does it take to make at total of $4000/month of online income? So in answer to the question &#8220;Can You Make $1000/month with Adsense&#8221;  (written almost exactly 2 years ago) &#8211; is YES, I DO. And yes at the time, I really didn&#8217;t think it would be ME that did! In fact I blame Mark Butler (from the Keyword Academy &#8211; yup you can get a personal consult for free within the Academy &#8211; its smart move by them &#8211; but unbelievable good value for members) &#8211; I had a consultation with him a few weeks ago &#8211; and I wrote on my white board &#8211; make $2500 by April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Passive Income, Record Keeping and Online Income Taxes</title>
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		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/making-passive-income-record-keeping-and-online-income-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a recent thread in the forum at TKA regarding managing your Internet Marketing income which I added my 2c to. I then got quite a number of PMs from people asking me follow up questions &#8211; given the thread wasn&#8217;t even mine &#8211; I guess my commonsense approach to record keeping and taxes are not so common. So here&#8217;s what I think is important &#8211; your mileage may vary. My approach is quite simple &#8211; I&#8217;m not an accountant &#8211; though I did pass ACCY101 a million years ago. I have never found a &#8220;system&#8221; which manages multiple currencies the way I need to &#8211; so I developed my own. I use an OpenOffice spreadsheet &#8211; but any spreadsheet program which can sum figures and do the odd bit of multiplication will do just fine. The system has evolved over the years &#8211; but I&#8217;ve never had to start again. If I didn&#8217;t have some complex real estate investments I could do my own taxes off these figures &#8211; as it is I give them to my accountant. Having a system to record your expenses and payments is what&#8217;s important &#8211; once you have that you can do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passive Income and What People Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making an online passive income from Internet Marketing is the strangest thing. When I had a job as a geologist few people understood what I did &#8211; but no one doubted that I was well-paid for it, when I worked in IT even fewer people understood my job, but they took for granted that I made money. Now I do something really simple &#8211; I put up websites, based on topics people search for, I use SEO techniques to rank my sites and I make passive income. And even now that I make enough passive income to go travelling for 2 months they don&#8217;t understand how I make money. That&#8217;s OK &#8211; I&#8217;m used to that. What kinda of amazes me  is that &#8211; they don&#8217;t believe that I make money either! Now frankly I don&#8217;t give a shite whether they believe me or not- my partner believes me &#8211; he sees me pay the bills, my bank manager is happy, my accountant is advising me to make provision for tax &#8211; but the other people &#8211; they seem to think I&#8217;m delusional. If you are starting out this game &#8211; here&#8217;s some advice. Don&#8217;t expect anyone to be supportive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passive Income and Travelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had actually had doubts about whether having my own passive income business would ruin travelling for me. I have a full-time writer and a number of my sites have suddenly decided to rank just before we left home so I decided to buy a 10&#8243; emachine netbook and keep an eye on rankings and progress while on the road. I was worried about the practicalities though. I know quite a number of people who do this successfully &#8211; for example Kirsty from Nerdy Nomad, Matt from NomadicMatt, and Dave from GoBackpacking &#8211; but they all have a common characteristic &#8211; they are all single and travelling solo. I&#8217;m not single &#8211; I have a partner, who having just done 10 months of contracting was definitely in holiday mode. So how is it working out &#8211; do I resent that I get up early to login while he sleeps on, that I hide out in the aircon room while he scouts out the local town? In a word &#8211; no &#8211; its working quite well. Just as I&#8217;d read that people with kids are more efficient online when they can&#8217;t be online 24/7 &#8211; I think I&#8217;ve become more efficient [...]]]></description>
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