Paula and I have met and read about some very successful people who rely on paid advertising for an income.  And a very nice income many of them enjoy.
However, with Google Adsense making it easy for anyone with a blog or website to put ads on a page has this led to ad blindness by […]

Those of you who read this blog regularly know that we are always looking for ways to generate income.
One way to make some money is to get paid to blog.  And this is where Smorty comes in.
We have been approved by Smorty to take up opportunities to write about various advertisers and receive payment for doing so.
Posts generally […]

The other day I met a young mother who is home schooling her two young boys.  
While we were talking I introduced her to the world of blogging and making money from home.  She had never heard of blogging and she is not alone in this.  Hardly anyone I meet, including family on my recent trip to NZ, know about blogging […]

As I am writing this I can hear a multitude of birds outside my window. My computer is set up in a postition whereby with just a slight turn of my head I can see the trees outside and hear the little sparrows chattering away to each other. It sounds like a party going on […]

Only just recently I realised that Wordpress places a ‘nofollow’ tag on Comments left in blog posts. Thinking that this was just a default and that I could override it, I went searching in my Wordpress admin panel for an option to do just that. Well to my surprise there was none. Not sure why […]

Article provided by Ishta Roth
My grandmother is an internet success, and spends her free time enjoying the pleasures of working to her own schedule. She loves the laid back attitude she can finally take advantage of after over 20 years in the public sector.
Being at home and starting her own internet business has improved her […]

When this blog started out as a Blogger blog, we had a page rank of 3.  Over time the blog evolved and we bought the domain name ‘Just Loving Life’ because we thought it more appropriately fitted the direction.  The blog was originally called 1st-in-unique-gifts and we were writing about so much more than just […]

Article provided by Nia Sowden, author of Survival Wytch and Cooking with Nia
Why I became a blogger, why I like blogging, why I don’t like blogging
I love blogging. I was introduced to blogging by my mother who is a seasoned writer, traveler and all-round consumer. Her blogs are about shopping and traveling and movie reviews […]

We love new and interesting articles on our blog and like to add at least one new article every day. In the past it has always been me or Wanda who has written up the articles but we have now opened it up to anyone with a flair for writing.
If you have a work from […]

Well I  have been dragged kicking and screaming, by Paula of course, to change the focus of this blog and give it some substance.  And now that we have decided to talk about things we have tried to make money at home - online, I am quite enjoying it.
Now if you have a blog there […]