*Yawn* 

Can’t believe I woke up at one today.  12 hours of sleep and I’m still tired, and on top of that I had to wake up with a neck cramp too.    Now I can’t turn all the way to the left without pain shooting into my eyeballs and screaming like a wild animal.

Ah well, at least I finished my latest blogging errands, including signing up for the Pepperjam network, which will probably mark my last attempt to see if I can garner any kind of success with an affiliate network.  Yeah yeah I know I said I’ll never be an affiliate marketer, but like I also said, I’m willing to make exceptions for products I actually use myself or are of high quality.  And since a lot people have reported great success with Pepperjam, I decided to give it a try as well and signed up for a few programs.  Right now I have them rotating in a 125×125 banner on the top left sidebar, so feel free to check them out.  A few of them are for sites offering camping, military and law enforcement gear as well.  Things like backpacks, pepper spray, Kevlar vests, scopes for snipe rifles, etc.  You know, fuzzy wuzzy stuff. 

I’ll probably wean out these programs over time if I don’t see any results with them, but I suspect the best performing one may turn out to be Whitesmoke, an All-in-One Writing Solution that might be the perfect complement for blogging.  It will correct grammar, spelling and even suggest better adjectives to help enrich your writing experience.  If I wasn’t such a superb writer already, I might actually spring for the software myself. 

I also signed up for two new advertising networks to fill my ad vacancies, since Project Wonderful has done a really poor job of filling my spots lately, and most of the requests I’ve gotten were always for craptastic webcomics that only start making sense to you after you’ve had about 5 beers.

As soon as I set up my site to receive the new ads, WOW what a difference.  I was now getting my ad spots filled from major, high quality advertisers, most of whose products I was already using too.  It was perfect.  Not only that, I could set the rates at whatever prices I wanted, though obviously I can’t set it too high or my spots would never get filled.  Still, where before I was only making 15 to 20 cents a day with Project Wonderful, I’m now making around $1 a day with these networks. 

Probably won’t last though. I know my luck.