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	<title>Passive Income Online: Lis Sowerbutts&#187; Passive Income</title>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Online  Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plan Review]]></category>
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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>All I Want for Christmas Are Long Tail Keywords &#8211; Keyword Researcher Review</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/all-i-want-for-christmas-are-long-tail-keywords-keyword-researcher-review/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/all-i-want-for-christmas-are-long-tail-keywords-keyword-researcher-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paid Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Internet Marketing, maybe I&#8217;m just bloody lucky, but really all the bad stuff that&#8217;s happened to me has been thanks to the TOS changes with HubPages plus nervous clients.  Google has been, interesting, but the most interesting thing, and totally bloody irritating part, are their continuing moves to restrict access to their goldmine of data known as the Google keywords tool. For a long time using the tool direct doesn&#8217;t give you real long tail keywords &#8211; you only get to about 3 or 4 words: a real long term is longer than that. Its very, very focussed, its not in Google&#8217;s best interest to reveal those because a) PPC advertisers would save a fortune only bidding on very specific terms and b) evil affiliate marketers would make way too much money.  Google&#8217;s changes to their API TOS has meant than some previously good tools have gone away &#8211; and I am sure I&#8217;m not the only one who has found I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Bloggers Selling Links and Making Money &#8211; Should You To?</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/travel-bloggers-selling-links-and-making-money-should-you-to/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/travel-bloggers-selling-links-and-making-money-should-you-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Back Links]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For fucks sake &#8211; I am over this whole  -&#8221;Google hates me&#8221;, &#8220;I must please Google&#8221;, &#8220;is this OK with Google&#8221; shite going down in certain circles. Google is a company. Google is a search engine that using a superbly complex algorithm. Google doesn&#8217;t give a shite about you &#8211; because you are not Google&#8217;s customer. I think a lot of people need to get over this unhealthy relationship with Google. Because as it is now Google appears to be winning the war &#8211; which war? The propaganda war. You know spreading mis-information and fear &#8211; the oldest propaganda trick in the book. And its working.  Take for example the bullshite about buying and selling links. Google hates it. Of course Google hates it &#8211; links are what their search engine algorithms are still (mainly) based on. The reality is though, its pretty darn difficult for Google to know when a link is &#8211; well just a link &#8211; and when a link is a paid endorsement. So often times you can get away with lots of paid links. But even more importantly: If you are not ranking in the search rankings anyway why the hell wouldn&#8217;t you sell links &#8211; it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Money Online &#8211; Your Mind is Your Biggest Enemy</title>
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		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/making-money-online-your-mind-is-your-biggest-enemy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Money Online]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cocked up a client&#8217;s site today -well not their site -the new website is just fine and they are happy, but I stuffed up their email. I hadn&#8217;t realized that I needed to add a MX entry to redirect the mail sub-domain to ensure that mail still went through their current provider. It took me a few hours to figure this out between several calls to find out who the email provider was and then get the right tech details from them, and a live chat session with Hostgator to make sure I didn&#8217;t fuck it up further. I was working under pressure, people&#8217;s email was heading out into the interstitial void instead of their inboxes. I didn&#8217;t know WHAT an MX record was at the start, I just knew I must have caused the problem. I chased the people I needed to find the right technical info, I learned a lot about how email works on the Internet, I implemented the solution. I focused and worked and sorted it out. I looked up after 3 hours, decided the dog needed a walk and I needed a coffee. Then I wondered &#8211; why? Why can I focus that well [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/passive-income-there-is-such-a-thing-who-wants-a-business/#comments</comments>
		<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>We Don&#8217;t Need No Stupid Badges!</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/we-dont-need-no-stupid-badges/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/we-dont-need-no-stupid-badges/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/making-passive-income-record-keeping-and-online-income-taxes/</link>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Online  Business]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/passive-income-and-what-people-think/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/passive-income-and-travelling/</link>
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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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		<title>Passive Income: 2010 In Review and The Two Day Work Week</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/passive-income-2010-in-review-and-the-two-day-work-week/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/passive-income-2010-in-review-and-the-two-day-work-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah I know &#8211; there are nearly 2 months left until the end of the year &#8211; but  I am about to hit the road for a spot of independent travel so I will probably have more important things to do than to consider my business position &#8211; like spending the loot! Yeah I now make $1,110,223.21 a month in my sleep &#8211; and could too &#8211; if you would just sign up &#8230; Anyway about a year ago I had some passive income goals for 2010. By the end of March I reported an income of : Total income of around US$3000/month – of which about 1/3 is passive;; In the last 6 months (May &#8211; October) I earned an average of US$3500, the 6 months before that $3200, and the 6 months prior to that US$2156. My all time record was last month, October, where I was just $8  short of US$4000.  The individual months bounce around but the general trend is definitely in the right direction. Still short of my US$5000/month goal &#8211; but not so far off as to be depressing. But the really exciting bit is that in the last 6 months I have never [...]]]></description>
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