First of all I must start with an apology. I just realised that it has been two weeks since I posts here at SOB and I am sure you guys are wondering if I even care anymore.

Well I do, and it has been nice to see my feed count continue to grow in my adsense, but everything has been crazy busy and I don’t see it slowing before Christmas.

  1. I Am Doing 40 Hour Work Weeks At A Cabinet Making Business
    A family friend offered me a casual job up to Christmas at his business and for the last 5 weeks or so I have been working about 40 hours a week – on top of the work I was already doing. The money has been nice, but I am glad it is only for a season.
  2. My Regular 3D House Design Work
    I work at my brothers Architectural Design company, and handle all the 3D house designs. We are trying to get a new product out for builders in the early new year as well as individual designs for clients.
  3. Freelance Design Work
    I had the opportunity to design a series of t-shirts for a friends new clothing line (and she is looking for 2 more designs before Christmas), and I also recieved a website design contract from one of our clients at Archilads. Preview the website design here: Tin Can Bay Builder – still a work in progress.


My Blogs

My blogs have been going quite well, and I have been focusing on my more local, Australian focused domains.

  • FranchiseBuzz.com.au
    I now have a couple of Franchises that are sending me news stories on a regular basis, and one has requested information on advertising. I have made a couple of dollars from Adsense, and the traffic is going steady. It’s just about to break into the top 4,000 websites in Australia.
  • SurveysForMoney.com.au
    Know I know what you are thinking. ANOTHER BLOG? And to a small degree I agree. But since I last posted, I sold IHeartWorship.com and I have let a lot of my useless domains expire, as I try to refocus my blog portfolio. Plus, my wife let me buy a new domina as a birthday present and I saw a great niche and jumped in.

    I see this as a long term project, that has a lot of potential, and will be adding an email list in the coming months and fine tuning the design. However, already I am starting to rank for some great keywords, such as surveys for money, high paid surveys, get paid for doing surveys and earn money surveys. Each of these keywords were chosen because they are getting daily exact traffic and have quite low competition. As usual I have created a Twitter account – @Surveys4MoneyAU -  and will use it to drive traffic (especially to my email list when I create it)

I am working with a new affiliate program for this website, and will give it a decent review at a later date. It is my first foray in getting paid per lead, and I have already got one lead and an Adsense click – but looking for it to grow.

Well, that is where I have been. I am hoping that in the new year there will be a little more time for SOB. How are all your blogs going? I hope everyone is going well and your blogs are continuing to grow and become profitable.

Arrows to ecourse

About Thomas Sinfield

Thomas run multiple blogs and is busy testing different strategies and systems to increase profitability and exposure. He is currently working on a new project (yes another blog) that is set to be his most profitable yet.