Posted on January 26, 2010 by Jim Fitzsimmons

I never thought that writing in this thing would be the best part of my day. Creative writing, no less – but it is.

Oh, before we get ahead of ourselves: It’s day 70 of my debt freedom plan for those that are keeping score.

I can be 100% myself with this thing because nobody, and I mean nobody reads this thing. I know  - I’ve installed stats, and can tell where you all come from.

I’ve spent a good part of the day writing about digital cameras in hopes to make my millions, and I dunno,  but I think I’ve picked a pretty competitive niche to start with. There’s a couple things wrong with this niche to begin with that wants me to rethink things.  Because it’s a competive niche it’s hard get placed on the search engines as other more established sites have more links to them, thus they rank higher in the search engines for the competitive terms. I’m getting a smattering of traffic but nothing really to write home about. It’s increasing slowly but I have no idea whether today’s efforts are all for nothing and I should just go  and make more money at McDonald’s. I read something the other day – and it’s true to a point. Anybody can make a little money online by lucking out, but it takes a lot of work and knowledge to make an income online consistently and successfully. There’s no easy way, at least that I’ve found.

So. I’m thinking maybe a less competitive niche? Memory is/was a good one, but I’ve done it. Apparently that’s the hardest part of selling online – trying to determine what sells, what could sell, and to whom… They say follow your passion, but if your passsion is teeth whitening or dating or weight loss, you’d better have pretty deep pockets to compete. I’d be better off selling I dunno, little booties for dogs so their little toes don’t get cold. (which, I have seen on  dogs here, BTW – such a thing exists – which means there’s a market for them).

So….. we’re doing our best here. It’s cold and grey here and I’ll be honest it’s real hard to stay motivated with weather like this.But I’ve got a new post up at on the best selling digital cameras (which, is already in google, btw) on photo daily, and I’m doing an experiment  on where you post an article on another article site, which issn’t your own  - but it get’s in google faster  and ranks higher, so it’s a trade off. We’ll see. I can bang out an article in about 15 minutes or so and don’t have the need to make a mini site based around each article. The downside is your content is on somebody else’s computer and they’re profiting from your work to a point.

Oh, and I registered a domain name today: Camera Price. For the time being, it’s pointed at photo daily.

On the debt front, there’s not much to tell. I haven’t made any new income today but save for a latte, I haven’t really spent anything today either too, so it’s a wash and I guess I’m going to have to call today an effort made if nothing else at this point. Tomorrow’s a new day and all that.

I’ve actually been surfing workopolis looking for a j-j-job and I’ve found one I could do, but it’s in missisauga and would need the purchase of a car – and then there’s parking and gas and the it’s just about the same as I’m making now, which is nothing.  I don’t want to be in a position where I have a job so that I can pay for a car so that I can get to the job, so I can pay for the car….

I have no problem with the job idea to knock down the debt, and get on my feet again but I don’t  ever want the job to own me. I don’t want to have the job just so I can pay for my crap. There has to be more to life than that. I don’t want to be the person that lives for the weekend and the 2 weeks holidays so they can go to the mall and buy more crap they don’t need. I’ve done that. The next chapter involves travel when this debt is gone.

So, that’s enough navel gazing for one day, no?

If you’ve come here thinking you would actually find advice on how to get out of debt, aren’t you disappointed?

‘Till tomorrow. Be Good.

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