The Party’s Over
Euro 2008 is over for another four years, and Glastonbury Festival has vanished beneath a mountain of trash and discarded sub-standard tents. It’s wonderful that this year’s patrons didn’t have to endure rain and mud, especially as my beloved sister — who’s a 60-year old grandmother — was there working hard, and partying even harder!
I was utterly horrified to realise that she and I did Glastonbury Festival together back in the Summer of 1977 — the weekend of 7th of the 7th ‘77 to be precise – 31 years ago…. Aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!!! Frackin’ freak out!
Of course, the great thing back then (before Glasto met corporate hospitality) was that you could get in for free by climbing over the barrier, or by strolling through any weakened areas in the fencing (weakened by kicking it wearing big boots and also pulling very hard).
I caught Joan Armatrading’s performance on the telly, and Joan’s classics just melt the heart, don’t they? Love and Affection, Willow, Tall in the Saddle…. they are all so exquisitely beautiful, and always make me feel all gooey and soft-centered.
So I’m now looking forward to this coming weekend, as it’s the British Formula One Racing Grand Prix at Silverstone, though sadly I’m too strapped for greenbacks to attend — but soon, I’ll be cheering at every GP of the entire season – all around the globe, oh yeah!
During my recent break from blogging, I got into watching some TV again, but Battlestar Galactica is taking a nap before engaging warp drive for the second half of the season, so what the frack am I supposed to do with myself in the meantime? Oh yeah…. work.
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Entrecard Russian Roulette
No doubt I’m shooting myself in the foot here, but during my absence from posting to Reward Rebel blog, I sporadically logged into Entrecard, and there was always a queue of advertisers waiting for approval to display their little promo box on my site.
Curiously, quite often the advertiser wouldn’t have dropped their card on my site on the day they submitted the request… or at all recently.
Firstly, I’d like to thank those advertisers for their loyalty.
Secondly, however, I have to express my concern about how many of the Entrecard community don’t appear to visit a website prior to submitting an advertising request.
In a sense, it is flattering to my blog that a repeat advertiser trusts the content-to-date to be enough, but if there hasn’t been any new content for weeks, why does anyone wish to advertise on a site that’s dormant?
Hey, I’m not biting the hand that feeds me…. er, I suppose I am, but that’s not the point. I’m inclined to infer from the lack of a card being dropped that the advertiser just couldn’t be assed!
Perhaps I’m going about this the wrong way…. “Hey, amigo, WAKE UP!”.
Why aren’t you checking out the websites where you advertise?
It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve advertised on a website, I check it out before submitting a further request. You shouldn’t take anything for granted.
This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed blogs that haven’t posted for months still continue to advertise on Entrecard… as though this is somehow the same thing as maintaining an online business.
Recently, I had to reject an ad request from a website that hadn’t posted fresh content since March! The disquieting aspect was that it was a website dealing with financial markets and their changeability. How can I justify displaying an ad encouraging my readership to visit a site that doesn’t offer anything new for three months… a quarter of a year!
Don’t be complacent, don’t be loyal for the sake of it. If you aren’t involved in internet marketing per se, and participate in Entrecard for the social aspects, you are fortunate that none of what I’ve said here really applies to you, because you have a different agenda.
But if you’re involved in internet marketing and/or blogging to be making money with an online business, it’s all the more important.
You need to constantly monitor where and with whom you advertise, because the internet changes so fast, you may get left behind!
I wish you enjoyable blogging and successful internet marketing!
Reward Rebel
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The Twerpy Lil Things That Niggle!
I have a lot of tasks to get done on this site – there have been problems with the form on the Contact Page, and I had to take it down, and other nuisance difficulties have plagued RR for too long.
The problems of blogging do wear me down… the niggly lil twerpy things that just won’t go right, and when you’ve exhausted your ‘call a friend’ options, it gets even more frustrating!
So be warned… watch your ‘Inbox’, as you may receive a communication from me asking for your assistance!
Reward Rebel
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Hey, I’m Back! How Y’All Doing?
My last post is dated 1st June and, incredibly, now the month is almost over. Where have I been? I wish I had a tale of excitement and adventure with which to regale you, but quite simply I had nothing new to say, and the more I pondered blogging, the more I realised that it was taking up much more of my life than I’d planned. And with less going on in my life, there was less to blog about!
Blogging was an ‘add on’, it was intended as a supplement to my internet marketing, and Reward Rebel blog was supposed to be the reflection of my work. Somehow it started to eat up so much of my time that there wasn’t enough left for me to maintain the projects I already had set up, never mind research new ones.
Well, I’ve had a break, and I’ve caught up on TV – I’m particularly enjoying Battlestar Galactica. In the UK we’ve just reached the midway point in the story, the Humans and Cylons have located and landed on Earth, only to find it dismal and desolate. Who is the final undisclosed Cylon? I think it might be Lee Adama, but most of my theories so far have been dashed, so I’m probably wrong! Ooh, it’s so exciting – have I ever mentioned I’m a massive sci-fi geek?
I’ve also been enjoying Euro 2008. Four years ago, I was in Crete when Greece won the 2004 championship, and it was a total trip! On the night of the match, there wasn’t a bar, restaurant, store, nowhere that didn’t have the match on the TV, and when they won, the entire island exploded into lunacy and revelling unlike anything I’d seen before. It was brilliant.
After watching the match, we went straight out to bedlam on the streets — along with the town’s entire population! There was a pick-up truck driving erratically into the centre of town, halting abruptly every 25 metres or so, to eject a passenger brandishing a shotgun he’d fire wildly into the night sky, jump back in and off they’d drive another 25 - 30 metres, stop and do it all over again!
Ah, Crete. If anything inspires me, it’s my plan to relocate to a waterfront villa on the Greek island of Crete. Nothing fancy mind, just as long as it has a private pool and extensive grounds, I’m not fussy.
Before I sign off, I’d like to thank my beautiful friends online who have enquired about my wellbeing and whereabouts… I felt rich.
I’ll be seeing you around.
Reward Rebel Returns
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Entrecard Link Love
Internet Marketing has featured in my life for about 14 months now, and it’s passed so quickly. I remember reading about people working for a year to make money online, and quitting when they still hadn’t generated their first sale! I couldn’t understand why anyone would dedicate twelve months to learning something new - especially something with such life-changing potential - and then chuck it in!
If anything, I’m now more determined than ever because I’ve invested a year of my life in studying internet marketing and acquiring the skills to shape my future and live the life I aspire to. OK, I’m not making a fortune online… yet. But I appreciate that it takes time to build an internet business, it takes time to build anything worthwhile.
As we bid farewell to May and warmly embrace June, it’s appropriate to shout out a big “thank you” to Reward Rebel’s current Top Entrecard Droppers.
I’m grateful to everyone who takes the time to drop their Entrecard on Reward Rebel, but to appear in this list, you know what you have to do, don’t you?
The Path To The Pegasus Letter
Chica & Pumuckl – Living With Cats
I’d also like to thank the sites that have advertised on Reward Rebel this past month. Unfortunately, I haven’t kept a record, so if you advertised during May and would like a link to your site to appear in the “advertisers link love post”, leave a comment below as soon as possible. I’ll be publishing the post in a few days’ time, so don’t delay.
Happy blogging and successful internet marketing to y’all.
