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	<title>Passive Income Online: Lis Sowerbutts&#187; Online  Business</title>
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		<title>2012 Goals &#8211; Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plan Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in passing in my last post 2011 &#8211; wasn&#8217;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 next age grade in Dancesport ie instead of competing against 35 year olds, we are the youngest couple again (well I am, partner&#8217;s 10 years older!).  HOWEVER, we want to compete in Latin again, so I need to look good wearing this:  Let&#8217;s face it, I probably won&#8217;t be going back to looking like this:   - but it&#8217;s got to better than this!:  As of today I&#8217;m 108kg, in the 1988 photo I was probably about 70kg (and yes over-weight according to the  wisdom of the day &#8211; trying to get to 65kg from memory). Now apparently 75kg is OK weight for my height (180cm) &#8211; you see why I have a problem with the weight loss industry! Frankly if I got down to 90kg that would be a) record-breaking low for the last 20 odd years for me, and b) still &#8220;obese&#8221; by the stupid &#8220;one size fits all charts&#8221; , and frankly &#8211; I&#8217;d look pretty hot in my latin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Review Looking Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmm, looks like although I&#8217;ve used Chris Guillebeau&#8217;s approach to planning before, I&#8217;ve not actually blogged about it!  I don&#8217;t have a lot of time for most &#8220;self improvement&#8221; blogs, and I first noted Chris&#8217;s site because he has, what I still think is, a stupid idea of visiting every country in the world. Really, I love to travel, but there are number of countries that I&#8217;ve never wanted to visit, so why spend money going there?  Anyway I like his writing and his goal setting is quite unusual. This is part 1 &#8211; looking back, check back in a few days for when I&#8217;ve actually figured out my New Year&#8217;s goals!  Anyway &#8211; this is the easy part of the process: looking back:  Pretty much I&#8217;m looking at health, travel, business,  in that order, because that&#8217;s probably what matters.  &#160;  What Went Well in 2011  Frankly I was kinda worried about reaching that &#8220;certain age&#8221; that women get to.  I had heard so many bad things about menopause. Well I&#8217;ve reached it, and what happened? For the first time since I was 20 I&#8217;m not popping a daily pill, had the odd weird dream, woke up hot a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shake Rattle and Roll</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online  Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business continuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hubchallenge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drizzle with a chance of earthquakes in the afternoon&#8230; On Saturday morning I was asleep &#8211; I usually am, but I was late getting up and getting online. &#160;I noticed that Skype was flashing a message &#8211; it was SY from Hospitalera Blogs asking if I was OK. Hmm I thought yes &#8211; why? I turned the radio on &#8211; it was talking about the big quake &#8211; obviously not &#160;the long awaited Wellington earthquake, and was in fact a huge quake of 7.1 in Christchurch. Its been an interesting few days &#8211; and I don&#8217;t just mean the minor earthquakes that we &#160;have had in Wellington (and yes quakes do come in swarms, and no I didn&#8217;t even notice them). &#160;Two things came out of this: trends blogging and business continuity and communications in the Twitter world. Christchurch Wordsworth Colombo Streets (c) NZ Herald Trends Blogging OK in my defence I knew no one was dead &#8211; but my second thought was &#8211; hmmm wonder what happens if I Google &#8220;earthquake insurance New Zealand&#8221; -ah I find my own Earthquake Insurance &#160;hubpage (which was written almost a year ago after Hubpages did a disaster hubmob) ranking just below the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passive Income Online: Best Posts of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Money Online]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well this seems to be the tradition at this time of the year to look back at your &#8220;best of&#8221; posts of the previous year. In fact its not a bad idea because internal linking is really a good idea &#8211; and hey some of your visitors may even find some benefit. To (mis)-quote Dickens it was the best of times, it was the worst of times&#8230; My optimistic 2009 goals are a fairly embarassing example of now NOT to goal set &#8211; they are too vague, not tied to abig picture aim really &#8211; but at least I had some. I did at least realise that yes, you can make $1000/month with Adsense This post was pretty much when I hit rock bottom with my hopes for making passive income online &#8211; I figured out that all the options were worse than bad &#8211; and oddly enough once I understood that  if I didn&#8217;t believe in my business no one else would things really turned a corner &#8211; mainly because of one my worst written posts ever! May was the month of the infamous 100 hubs challenge and although I boosted my hubpage earnings significanty. They have since dropped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need to Make Online Cash Now? Consider a Freelancing Business</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/need-to-make-online-cash-now-consider-a-freelancing-business/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/need-to-make-online-cash-now-consider-a-freelancing-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freelance Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yup you read that right- if you are desperate to make an income right now. You have been told your job ends in two weeks and you don&#8217;t know how you will make next month&#8217;s mortgage repayments &#8211; then making passive income online won&#8217;t help you &#8211; yet. I have been playing this website building game for two years &#8211; my income still fluctuates &#8211; I wrote that in July I had made $2000 online- I am yet to get past that approximate figure again &#8211; in fact my passive income was significantly down in October &#8211; but overall I was up because of a domain sale and some more freelance work. It swings-and-roundabouts &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t make me lose sleep at night. But it might &#8211; soon. My partner&#8217;s contract finishes at Christmas and we are moving back to New Zealand. My income suddenly becomes our only income &#8211; at least for a while &#8211; the pressure is definitely noticeable i.e. my partner now asks every month how I am doing LOL &#8211; see partners are interested when the money starts rolling in &#8211; or not! So what do you do if you really,really need the income and you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermonster Beats the wicked Lawyers- Was it SEO of Social Media ?</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/vermonster-beats-the-wicked-lawyers-was-it-seo-of-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well from the looks of their front page  Rock Art Brewery is claiming victory in its Rock Art Brewery vs Corporate America little fight over the Vermonster beer trademark &#8211; in fact you can even buy the T-Shirt &#8211; though I am alittle sorry to see apparently it was &#8216;America&#8217; who saved them &#8211; I thought it was all of us &#8211; after all Monster Drinks sell their camel piss flavoured &#8220;energy&#8221; drinks in Australia too! They bet me to it really cause I really wanted to do the follow up for the double-indexing but also to get some link love out there you know! In fact it was interesting little storm &#8211; who would have thought that Victor Franqui could write an entire post without swearing once, and giving those to care to read a quick lesson on US-based trademark law. Some other excellent blogs that you should be reading: Dirk Poulson -  who writes about how to make money online and wonders if Mondelis is a Scam Phil who likes to say &#8220;I  Need Money Now&#8221; EJ who thinks Monster Energy drinks are screwing the little guy Buy Made in the USA (which I don&#8217;t agree with but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROCK ART BREWERY vs Corporate America &#8211; The Biggest Scam of All!</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/rock-art-brewery-vs-corporate-america-the-biggest-scam-of-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There you go &#8211; just when you thought I was behaving &#8211; here is the mother of all scams &#8211; and this one is an official scam including lawyers! My friend Allyn on his gay vblogger site brought this one to my attention. Basically a small craft brewer in Vermont is being threatened to by a cease and desist letter from a crappy energy drink manufacturer called Monster Energy &#8211; like duh &#8211; I had to look up the Monster Energy crap up in wikipedia &#8211; but its one of the those high sugar, high caffeine things which has nothing do with alcohol &#8211; beer does &#8211; Apple can&#8217;t stop the New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board using their trademark &#8211; and neither can an energy drink go after a craft beer brewer in Vermont: Apple computers and the fruit are different: so are energy drinks and beer LOL So this is a basically a bully-boy tactic &#8211; oh can&#8217;t afford $65,000 a court case &#8211; back off now! So much for the myth that US is  the land of the free and particularly the land of the entrepreneur. Over the last couple of years of being online I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Its Spring! End of a Quarter Report &#8211; How To Manage the Dollars</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/managing-online-income/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So its the end of another month &#8211; another quarter anywhere so how is my journey to passive income online.  Well to be honest its been flat-lining since my record of making over $2000 in one month &#8211; in July. Bouncing around at the same level give or take in US$ terms, dropping in local currency because of the strength of both my local currencies (yes I run accounts in two countries &#8211; I don&#8217;t recommend it!). Oh and finally spring has sprung &#8211; downunder in Perth anyways &#8211; finally I might add, so much for global warming its been freezing here for far too long. The photos in this post were taken in King&#8217;s Park, Perth a couple of weeks ago &#8211; yes we have quite a display of wildflowers at the moment. New Custom Thesis Theme I&#8217;ve been spring cleaning this blog too &#8211; a couple of you have noticed that the design has changed a fair bit.  None of my doing &#8211; Costa who makes cool custom WordPress themes at blogigs.com wrote to me saying that my previous design hurt his head and here is a new one. Well OK I can take a hint &#8211; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Have a Plan B to Support Your Passive Income Business?</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/do-you-have-a-plan-b-to-support-your-passive-income-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Money Online]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I like planning &#8211; its so much more fun than doing. I&#8217;m quite good at planning too -just ask anyone who has been travelling with me. But business planning is a whole different game &#8211; I know the theory: Decide what the end is &#8211; say $1,000,000 in round figure and by when. Work out where you are now  &#8211; that&#8217;s easy just done the taxes Work out how to get from 2 to 1 Hmm yeah oops &#8211; 3 is kinda the problem in my experience. This blog started as my attempt of at least an online diary of my journey of 100 sites &#8211; but got re-named when I figured I was the ONLY person who ever searched for that keyword LOL.I thought that might be close enough to a business plan &#8211; I may have been wrong &#8230; Last month I wrote about making $1500 from Adsense and Affiliates this month its pretty much the same &#8211; slightly different winners and losers but generally, overall add up to about the same figure. I&#8217;m actually fairly happy with that &#8211; August is usually a very slow month online and I wouldn&#8217;t have been at all surprised to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eBay Rule Change Leaves Blogger, HubPages, Squidoo Out in the Cold</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/ebay-not-allowe-blogger-hubpages-squidoo/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/ebay-not-allowe-blogger-hubpages-squidoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[eBay Bans Blogger etc Its official &#8211; as of 1 August 2009 you cannot not use eBay (EPN) to monetize Blogger (blogspot) blogs, HubPages hubs or Squidoo lenses or InfoBarrel articles. This one is a bit a of a shocker &#8211; the time frame of less than two weeks is pretty bad too. Actually eBay will tell you that they &#8220;told you so&#8221; back in May when they mentioned that both: Ad Networks:  Using any graphical ad network to place eBay ads (ads that go directly to an eBay domain) on websites not directly under the publishers’ control&#8230;Sub-affiliates:  Any arrangement where publishers distribute their earnings from eBay Partner Network to other publishers. were no longer acceptable to EPN. Source EPN Official Blog. The Ad Networks paragraph reflects the HubPages and Blogger business models, the Sub-affiliate model reflects the Squidoo model. This is a huge change and will take some affiliates out of business and for many more will mean that they will take a huge income hit while they rebuild their business. Is eBay evil? Is  eBay is bad, ugly nasty company who treats their sellers like dirt and their affiliates worse? Nope, the point is that nothing has changed: he [...]]]></description>
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