Delirium Propaganda

When I lost my job approximately 18 months ago, I was a complete disaster. No job meant there was high stress within my family even with a payout. A mortgage on hand and the payout was only going to last 3 months before we would have the bank knocking on our door asking for their repayments. Down and depressed and unable to foresee where the next paycheck was to come from, meant that there was uncertain times ahead.

Armed with only my laptop, I began searching for jobs but to no avail. Thousands of other people were in the same boat and were also applying for the limited number of opportunites available. The economy was down, consumer confidence was even lower and dragging the market along with it for this rollercoaster ride.

However whilst searching for jobs, I also had ample time on my hands and began searching for opportunities online to either make money or save money.

And that?s when a life revelation happened. I managed to stumble across a couple of sites that indicated that a living could be made from the Net. Of course I was a little sceptical, what with Nigerian scams and plenty of spam mail telling me I could make millions from doing basically nothing. But after reading some of these blogs, I realized that it was real and that I could participate in the burgeoning industry of online blogs.

But what was I excited about? What actually could I continually write about? Well given the current circumstances, anything that would help save me money was on top of the list. So whilst I was using the Internet to help save myself money, I then was able to share my experiences and thoughts on saving money through my own site. I stumbled across sites that specialized in freebies and considered that this would a niche market that I could excel in. Given that I had recently begun to take advantage of freebies, I felt that I could make a unique and solid contribution that would differentiate itself from other blogs.

Starting the website was easy but how was I to make money through it? Having done some research, Google AdSense was a product that continually was mentioned with some blogs making extraordinary daily amounts. So I signed up with Google AdSense and was on my way. Sticking within their guidelines and setting up their code within my website was not difficult. The big issue then was how to drive traffic to my blog. The more traffic, the greater chance of people clicking through and hence more money. I discovered that the most effective methods to do this was to advertise on other sites that were about freebies or saving money. So over the past 2 years I have managed to steadily build the site and have noticed that my Adsense income has also steadily increased.

Now I am able to make a side income that compliments my new office job and know with certainty that if I was to lose my job I would still have this site to keep things afloat.

So for you out there who are struggling, it is possible to make money to survive on. I am a living example!