Hi I’m Lissie

Welcome if this is your first time here. This is my personal blog about an on-line journey to make passive income - one website at a time! I'm no real expert - but I have slowly built my online income from zero (or less if you count the hosting expenses) to around US$3000/month. Read more »

Passive Income – The Dream and the Reality

Hi and welcome to my blog about starting up and running an online passive income business.  This is a little different from most of the others that you may find if you Google for “make money online”. There are no fast cars, or skinny gorgeous women here! Sorry – probably just lost of bunch of you right there. Also – you know that secret about how to make millions of dollars while you sleep …  Well if I knew that I wouldn’t be maintaining this site would I duh! Actually this site is genuine -the pictures really are of me, I really do make money online and I am quite happy to tell you how I do it. Can you make money doing what I do? I have absolutely no idea – probably not though – most people aren’t prepared to put the work in. If I haven’t scared you off yet and you actually like what I have to say feel free to subscribe to my blog’s feed to be notified when I get around to updating the site. Why Passive Income? That’s my dream – lying on the beach getting paid while I sleep. Who wouldn’t like that! That’s why [...] Read more »

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Market Samurai – Rank Tracker Alternative

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Sometimes you don’t know how much you like a tool until its gone. Although I’ve never been an affiliate for Market Samurai – I’ve used the tool on basically a weekly basis for years – I may have had it for about 3 years actually!  I used it to track my rankings – and now changes to Google mean that they are going to probably start charging for ranking data, at the moment its only working it a limited format.  If this is all news to you – then check out James’s post on Rank Tracking Software Other Than Market Samurai and Pat Flynn’s Interview with Market Samurai’s CEO Bugger, as they say, in software development, what do I do? (Oh I could rant on about the changes in costs for Market Samurai- but frankly, even if I never use them again – I’ve had enormous value from them for a $97 payment some years ago – I have no problem with them – I understand the problem is Google not them, and I can’t fix Google!)  But my issue is that I feel like I’m flying blind with no quick and easy way to check rankings – and worse – [...] Read more »

Earlier…

Pinterest For Backlinks, Affiliate Sales, and Recipes

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I am liking Pinterest! SY gave me a heads up about why I should use Pinterest ages ago, and sent me an invite. I ignored it. Then she told me I REALLY needed to have a look, and finally I did. I fig[...] Read more »

Right Keywords + Right Platform = Cash!

Gum Digger with His Tools - (Kauri gum made some people a lot of money in 19th century NZ - if they looked in the riight place) Dargaville

Who needs new keywords then?  Well any of us who want to make money online in my experience. As I mentioned recently, I’m using Wizzley to make some fast cash - though this approach will make [...] Read more »

Empower Network Scam or Legit?

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I was introduced to the Empower Network by an acquaintance at a rare blogging meetup in my home town.  I have said that I’ve sworn off scams – but this one came looking for me – i[...] Read more »

Internet Marketing Business Plan – 2012 Edition

Cape Reinga, on a bad day, the Pacific is meeting the Tasman somewhere in the background

Sorry this is a bit of long one, even for me! You might want to read my previous posts first if you haven’t (and they are shorter!): 2011 Looking Back, 2012 Goals – Introduction. Short ver[...] Read more »

2012 Goals – Introduction

Ugly photo! December 2011 - though they did send me a medium when I asked for an XL!

As I mentioned in passing in my last post 2011 – wasn’t the most exciting year of my life.  Personal Goals  Gonna hit big 50 this year, which is cool because it means we can dance in the[...] Read more »

2011 Review Looking Back

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Hmm, looks like although I’ve used Chris Guillebeau’s approach to planning before, I’ve not actually blogged about it!  I don’t have a lot of time for most “self improve[...] Read more »

All I Want for Christmas Are Long Tail Keywords – Keyword Researcher Review

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Yeah Christmas or whatever you choose to celebrate or not in this happy/stressful/profitable time of the year!  I think its fair to say that 2011 has been a bit of an up and down year in terms of Int[...] Read more »

I See Video In My Future – And Its Very, Very Scary!

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Let’s face it – I am scared of the camera – well one that takes moving pictures anyways! I don’t really have an issue with photos of me per se, particularly if they are stored [...] Read more »

Wizzley Review: The Answer to the Hubpages Scam?

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Are Lissie and her scams right? Well its hardly my fault that scam is a the word Google likes to give this blog authority on. Well OK maybe it is my fault! And so yes I can use it to my own benefit as[...] Read more »

NZ Electoral Law is an Ass – I Will Comment Today!

Mt Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand

Yeah this is my first and probably last political post on this blog! Yeah I don’t mean the politics of A-List and Z-List bloggers I mean genuine NZ politics. Yeah NZ is having an election and fr[...] Read more »

Archives

Making Money Online – the Reality

Hoi An, Vietnam - real sellers

I started off without a clue in this business.  I’m not saying I was uneducated – I had a degree in science and had even done some marketing courses. I was computer literate – in fa[...] Read more »

The Keyword Academy

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I have quite a few posts about  The Keyword Academy so I thought I would gather them all together in one place. I’ve been a member there since April 2009 and being a member has transformed my o[...] Read more »

Resources

Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, Wellington

As this blog gets bigger and bigger I find I am forever sending people the same links over and over. So here it all is in one place.  If you want to use the tools I use then this is the place for you[...] Read more »