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HerProBlog.COM – My Newest Blog Project Has Launched

Mona — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:10:01 +0000

July 15, 2008 marks the first official launch date of a project I have been working on for over a year and a half. It’s been a lot of hard work but is one of the most exciting projects I have ever worked on.

HerProBlog.COM is a website dedicated to helping women bloggers create and maintain professional quality blogs. The project has already brought a lot of interests and subscribers. The website is starting out with a some great stats:

Page Rank 3
132 Subscribers
426,000 Alex Rank

HerProBlog.COM is a multi-authored blog. We have a total of seven authors including myself.

I would love for you to stop by my new website. Men and women both can benefit from this site.

Very Busy Time Of Year

Mona — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:45:59 +0000

This time of year always seems to be a very busy time for me. I am not sure why but I always seem to have some kind of project just about to launch every spring. Right now the ProBlogHer.COM project is taking up a lot of my time. The problem with becoming busy is that my finances are often neglected.

I am trying really hard to find balance. Some days I feel as though I have a good handle on things and other days I feel very overwhelmed and disorganized. Today, I got a lot of things done around the house and working online but my budget and bills didn’t get much attention.

My hope for these new project like ProBlogHer.COM is that the income generated will relieve e some of our financial pressures. I am really excited about the fact that ProBlogHer.COM is already generating a buzz even though it’s still in pre-launch.

We will see if my online money making venture will pay off this year. So far my income has continued to increase every month. Like I said in a post I wrote earlier this year, I think this year for income earning.

Tags: debt+freedom, credit, make+money+online, make+money+blogging

ProBlogHer.COM is in Pre-Launch!!

Mona — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:59:34 +0000

The reason I a have been so busy lately and haven’t had much time to write is because I have been working on my latest website. ProBlogHer.COM is a website geared toward women bloggers who are interested in taking the necessary steps toward professional blogging. I am really excited about this project and expect it to be very successful. At this point I can’t tell you much more so you will have to visit the site and subscribe the email updates. I will offering articles about this site and information about when the site will officially launch. This project has been in the making for about 6 months so I have put a lot of thought into it. I really think readers will benefit from this site. This site is geared toward women but men a certainly welcome to be apart of this site. Visit ProBlogHer.COM for more info.

A Year For Income Earning – A Prediction For 2008

Mona — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:00:24 +0000

I recently wrote a fifteen part series of articles on my other blog, iwebis, titled 15 Things I Learned In 2007 That Improved My Blogging and Increased My Income. In this series I wrote about the things I learned in 2007 and concluded the series by stating that 2007 was year of learning for me. I learned so much about marketing, blogging, income opps, search engine opp and social media that I think 2008 will be the year of earning.

I did earn a decent income blogging in 2007 but I the majority of the year was spent learning about how to be a profitable blogger. Now that I have the knowledge, a laptop (for more efficient working), and a number of really good ideas, I think this year will be one of very decent income earning. I am by no means a “name it and claim it” kind of person but I do have good feelings about this year. My hope is that in 2009 I can look back on this post and see if my prediction came true.

Happy New Year! My Top 5 Financial Goals For 2008

Mona — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:00:33 +0000

I thought today would be a good day to share my financial goals for 2008. I encourage you to share your goals as well by leaving a comment on this post. I think there is power in setting goals and today is the best day to start setting them.

My Top 5 Financial Goals for 2008

Increase income through blogging to at least $1,000 a month. I hope to increase my income by continuing to blog on my existing blogs as well as two other blogs I plan to start this year. I also hope that my income will increase through a few other online ventures.
Save over $1,000 for emergency fund. We have found that $1,000 is not enough of a cushion. Our cars are getting old and need a lot of repairs
Reduce debt by $5,000. This is going to be a difficult goal to accomplish for us but I think it’s a goal worth setting.
Be more consistent with my budgeting. I am a firm believer in budgeting but truth be told, I sometimes miss a few months of budgeting in a year. Each time I do this I loose focus which usually causes ciaos.
Give more. We regularly give to our church but I want to step up my giving to people in need. I want to have a budgeted section for extra giving.

So these are my goals. Do you have any goals? Please share

Happy Aniversary to Time To Budget!

Mona — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:00:53 +0000

Well, I can’t believe it’s true but I created Time To Budget a year ago today. Actually it had a different name when I first started and I can’t seem to remember what it was. It also had a different purpose. I was going to post about shopping and coupon deals but I decided to create a blog where I could talk about making money online and money matters.

I stopped writing about making money online when I launched my other blog, iwebis. My very first post titled Are you broke? was simple and to the point:

So am I. So I decided to blog about the best ways to save money. Find the best deals, coupons and saving tips.

It’s that just true poetry . Boy has my writing changed since then. Here I am a year later. Still blogging and still making money. Currently I have 4 blogs with at least two still in development. It is very possible that I am addicted to this blogging thing.

I am very thankful for the opportunity the Lord has given me to use blogging as an outlet and an income source.

A New Look for Time To Budget

Mona — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:00:38 +0000

Well, I finally did it. I changed the theme for Time To Budget. I think this theme will give me more room then the last theme. My two columns were making it very crowed around here. Now that I have three columns I feel like I can stretch .

When I changed themes some things didn’t transfer over very well. For instance, the blogroll is all messed up. In the previous theme I had different blogrolls for making money online and favorite websites. So I will have to spend time separating the blogroll into two or three categories.

I will still be modifying the sidebars and the footer a bit but everything else is pretty much going to stay as is. The old theme was good to me and I am very thankful for being able to use it for almost a year. I hope you like the new theme.

Get ready for a new look – Time To Budget will be changing themes soon.

Mona — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:00:14 +0000

I found the perfect theme for Time To Budget and will be changing over hopefully within the next week or so. It’s a good simple theme so I think you all will like it. I am also seriously considering expanding Time To Budget by offering a community blog. The community blog would be in addition to this blog and would possibly be on a subdomain.

I will keep you up-to-date. Thanks for reading Time To Budget and I am excited about the future of this blog.

Time To Budget as a Community

Mona — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:35:53 +0000

I am curious to know what you all think of the idea of making a community blog for Time To Budget. I am in the process of adding a community blog to Horse Approved and thought it might also be good for this blog. This community blog would a great place for like-minded people (those actively pursuing debt freedom) to have a place to post their own articles about how they are doing it. The community blog is kind of like a cross between a forum and a blog.

The community blog would be one where members could join for free and set up their own blog but the posts would be seen on the homepage of the community site (home site address would be something like timetobudget.com/community). Anyway, let me know what you think! Do you think a community blog site would be useful?

Make Money Blogging – Can It Really Be Done?

Mona — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:39:55 +0000

Can you really make a decent living blogging? The more I work with blogging, the more I am convinced that you can make a living blogging. I have been working with blogs for about a year now and have come along way in my understanding of how blogging income works and how to best go about it.

If you are looking to make money blogging check out my new blog iwebis. I used to write more about making money online on this blog but decided to create a new blog that follows the changes in online income sources as well as social media, web 2.o and blogging.

Now that I am making passive income blogging it’s been a lot easier to make money. Your goal should be to make a passive income.