Remember how way back when, when I started this site – I started to list credit cards? And, I listed about six or so cards before realizing that selling credit cards will be more soul sucking than any day job ever could be?

Well, today I get an email from the credit card companies that I did list, and forgot about it with a laundry list about all the infractions because these posts didn’t have tradmark terms etc. They actually pay somebody to check EVERY page I had their credit card listed and sent a very specific list of all my infractions. If I didn’t complete and comply with their infractions, they would have to delete my account. (The credit card companies pay about $50 or so if you apply through one)

So, I deleted all the credit card infractions. It was just copy and paste of code they gave me and I can’t seem to figure out how if I’m quoting them verbatim they’d be upset, but anyway. I hit the delete key to about ten categories on this blog related to their names/brands, and emailed them that it was way too much work to keep their credit cards listed. But I’ve complied. Sigh.

How’s your Friday been?

The good news, is I’m making very, very, small headway with my little online ads project. I spent $10 again yesterday and actually sold a $100 item from photodailynews.com which results in a $4 commission. Total income today: $4.

I’ll do the math for you: I spent $10, and made $4. That’s a LOSS of six bucks. But, I learned a few tricks and fool that I am, I’m trying again today. If nothing else I’m determined. I’ve spent $20 today but I don’t get to see how much if anything, I’ve earned until tomorrow.

The good news is I sold about $100 of stuff this week on eBay so at least selling my crap will cover my losses. So for the first week back since the holidays: I’m at about even, except I’ve learned a bit so that’s good news. I’m also pleased with my $4 earnings for the week because they came from 3 clicks. Maybe I just got lucky, or maybe I can grow the traffic and sell more and more stuff over time.

We’ll see.

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I’m a big fan of the saying “you make your own luck”, and today’s just a good as any day to start.

In the make more money department I have decided to resurrect photodailynews.com. When I started this site in the fall of 2008 I thought I’d scan the websites related to photography and link to news/stories and deals.All started OK, and by the end of 2008 I made over $1000 through affiliate commissions. But I got distracted with a few other projects and before you know it I haven’t updated the site. I tried some get rich quick stuff with it, and failed miserably.

The big reason for my failure with photodailynews was I tried to do it all. I tried to be a news site, and review site, and deals site. I found that I hated doing reviews as I don’t use half of the feature set on most cameras and could care less about a lot of the stuff available on today’s cameras. And, the shipping it back and forth was something I didnt’ enjoy either.

But I found I was pretty good at finding deals on camera gear, and I’m real good at comparing prices on memory, so for 2010 I’m taking the skills I have with comparing memory prices and applying it to phographic equipment. Why. I’m interested and passionate about photo gear. I’m sure I like the ‘gear’ part of photography just as much as the actual shooting part and I have the skills and tools to compare prices. The camera resellers pay about four percent on the camera gear. A point and shoot priced at $200, which earn me an $8 commission through Amazon and other resellers. A dslr or fancy lens can even earn a greater commission.

I’ve just changed the domain name over photodailynews.com and I have started to compare prices on a few digital cameras just to get started. It will take the search engines about a month to realize that photodailynews.com is all about photography and prices anyway, so this will give me time to work on comparing more prices. Amazon offers over 7000 different digital camera products on their site, and the prices change over time. New hot cameras are usually at list price, but the duds or discontinued cameras get priced at hefty discount.

It’s worth a shot. I’ll write about my failures with photodailynews here. I’ll share the good and the bad and the ugly, just as I have done with my ebay sales. The plan is take any earnings from commissions and put it back into the site by advertising. It’s a competitive niche, but it’s one I’m interested in and am compassionate about.The photo gear available and what it can do is quite amazing. Worse Case: it’s a story to tell. Best case, it’s a success, and a year from now I’m at my magical $100/day by working at home in my underwear. Probably the best part is that there’s always new products being released. If this is even remotely successful I can work on expanding and taking the profits and re-investing in the site. It really is just a numbers game. If I can figure out that I make, I dunno ten cents per visitor. I can pay up to nine cents to get that visitor and still be ahead of the game.

Another benefit of doing this is this will allow me to shop for photo gear, but not actually buy it. I get to scratch my shopping itch and I just might make a buck to boot. To me, more than half the fun is getting the deal in the first place. Anybody can pay MSRP, and with the internet there’s not much reason you should.

So for the first day of the new year, that’s the plan. Shop for camera gear, in the hopes of making a buck or two from commissions on sales. We’ll See..

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