Shoemoney System Review & Overview

Wednesday 17th February, 2010

Even though I spend a lot of time researching, writing articles, programming and designing my micro-niche websites I’m not always able to spend huge amounts of time on the internet. This is both good and bad, of course. Good, because I get to spend time on my REAL life (ie. offline) and interact with friends and family and concentrate on the other things in life. Bad, because it means that my progress might not be as fast as I would like it.

But that’s OK as well. As long as there IS some progress then I don’t mind. I was on the internet for years creating my own websites before I ever made a dollar doing so — and, like many people, I started with AdSense. Once I started making money though I was hooked! My wife didn’t quite understand the possibilities with it though, which I always found disappointing. I tried to explain the benefits of compounding our earnings by building up my sites and adding new ones, but she felt that it was just too much hard work for too little return. She didn’t fully agree with my desire to buy certain eBooks and thought that they were a waste of money. Many were, but then I didn’t spend that much on those ones.

Some eBooks, although useful, just didn’t agree with me once I finally bought and read them (even though they showed promise beforehand), so I never bothered to implement them. There were a few eBooks, however, that were REALLY informative — and I made some good (and fast) money using their tactics. I won’t name them here though — mainly because the methods no longer work well any more.

It sounds a bit strange I suppose, but one of the benefits of my wife leaving me is that I no longer have those negative and regressive influences in my life. I’ve muddled through in the past couple of years and never got around to actually concentrate on making money online because I just felt so depressed, but I still believed that there was good money to be made on the internet and I no longer had someone in my daily life filling me with doubt that it couldn’t be done. My wife told me on a couple of occasions that “Yeah, you can make money online if you already have money to begin with, but we won’t really get anywhere”. I’m glad that I didn’t really believe her on that score.

I think I was just trying to create enough income to give us more choices and more control with our lives and, in a way, I was doing it to make her happier. When she became sick and left me I no longer cared about making money, so I just kinda stagnated — almost.

I say “almost” because I did change a few things. For a start I changed my main income model. I began to remove the Google AdSense ads from some of my sites and replace them with eBay products. This made a lot of sense because the AdSense ads on these sites were just plain stupid and annoying because they just didn’t show the items relevant to my micro-niches. With a bit of effort I could get VERY relevant results with eBay and this, in turn, increased my earnings quite dramatically. Just by changing a few things here and there! Within a month or two my online income had doubled without even really trying.

However, I think the MAIN reason why I did change my income model from AdSense to eBay was because I had to update my eBay code anyway. Commission Junction no longer had the eBay account because eBay decided to bring everything “in-house” and ditch CJ. The code HAD to be changed and this is what forced my rethink on the situation. And I’m glad of it too, I might add.

I guess, in a way, I’m more open to try out things that I wouldn’t have tried out before. Switch things around a bit. This is, in part, why I’m now doing the Shoemoney System. Even though I still have periods of depression I am working myself out of it and generally feeling good again. I’m excited about what the future holds. I’m eager to try out new things. Take on new challenges!

Anyhow, I think I’ll leave it there for now. Until tomorrow….