Julie Anne Bonner

Balance. It’s something you’ll see me write about a lot on here. It’s something you’ll hear me talk about a lot. I have found that since I started working from home and working online, finding that balance has been hard.

I realized at one point, that I was spending all of my free time online. I stopped reading, stopped having people over for dinner, stopped getting involved in activities outside of my online world and felt like I stopped being human. When I started feeling like I didn’t want to ever leave the house, I knew something needed to change.

Like I said, you’ll see me write about balance a lot. I have a series of articles planned on the topic, but for now, let me ask you one question: Do you have a life outside of your online world?

I found this list of “20 Signs You’re Online Too Much” on a forum a couple of years ago. Check it out and see if you can relate:

It has been almost a week since I purchased The Number 1 Way to Make Money Online and I wanted to let you know about my progress.

Now, please remember, I have been at this online thing for 6 years. I first started out building content sites online, so I know a thing or two. Well, at least I think I do. HA!

The creators of the ebook suggest you take one week to read through it first and soak it all in. I completely agree with them if you are a newbie. I did read through it all before I got started. It just didn’t take me a week.

I spent a few hours doing some keyword research (which is my least favorite thing to do!) and found my topic. I already had a broad idea of what my first site would be, but with their helpful step by step instructions, I narrowed it down to a niche.

After I had my topic nailed down, I bought my domain name! Read the rest of this entry »

I signed up with Twitter Follower today and chose this twitter following tool over the others for one reason – John Chow is the brains behind it. I trust the guy when it comes to online tools and thought I would give this one a go. A lot of the other twitter following tools out there are not to be trusted.

John Chow says that Twitter Follower is one of the best methods to get more twitter followers and of course, make money online.

I signed up this morning and have, as of now, 168 more followers. Not bad. It’s fun to watch your numbers grow. I plan on keeping track of the results since signing up with Twitter Follower and seeing if the people I am following from the list, are even worth following.

There are 2 things I would change to Twitter Follower:

1. Pull their latest tweet

When I choose to follow someone, I like to look at their latest tweet. When you click on who’s following you on your twitter profile, you can see what their last tweet was. If their tweet was, for example, “Take a look at my naughty pictures”, I say “No thank you” and do not follow them back. Twitter porn is not my thing.  Which leads me to my next point.

2. Have a filter for the porn

When I say “have a filter for the porn” I mean there should be a separation between the people who want you to look at their naughty pictures, and those of us who don’t want to have anything to do with it. If triple x Heather follows me, I have to follow her back right? No thank you.

I suggest that when you register, you have to click if you are an adult twitter stream and if you want those shown in “the list”.

That’s just my two cents.

Have you signed up with Twitter Follower? Are you checking it out? Now it’s time for you to share your two cents with me.

Oh, and speaking of twitter, are you following me?

I have started a new adventure that I am completely excited about!

I was reading JohnChow.com at the beginning of this week because I hadn’t been there in awhile and something jumped out at me.

It’s called The Number 1 Way to Make Money Online. At first I thought “Oh, great…another make money online scheme”, but I decided to take a look at it anyway. I am glad I did.

I am not going to go into detail regarding what the Number 1 Way to Make Money Online is, because I want you to go read about it. It’s basically taking me back to where I started this online adventure in the first place. It’s funny to look back on how successful I was at this and ask myself “Why in the world did I ever stop?”

I bought the ebook on Monday and already have 5 articles written. My goal is to be ready to start the building phase in about 2 weeks. I am not messing around with this! I’ll keep you updated on my new adventure and let you know how it’s going.

Let me know if you take a look at the ebook and what you think. Now, I have some writing to do!!

I have changed the topic of this site that holds my name about half a dozen times. Well, maybe not that much, but it sure feels like it.

When I first bought the domain name - Julie Anne Bonner - I turned it into a making money online blog. I made some good connections, did some blogger profiles (meaning breaking down how they were making their online money) and over all, just told you what and how I was doing it.

Then, that all changed. I can’t even tell you why I decided to remove all of those posts I did, but I can tell you it was one very, very stupid move on my part. I now look back and remember some of the things I wrote and it just makes me mad that they are gone Yes, I know I didn’t have to erase them to remove them from here. Don’t get me started. I think I decided to start fresh in a moment of insanity.

Then, I decided to turn it into a personal blog. You know, the kind were I upload pictures of my kids and tell you “We went to the pool today”. That lasted about a week, because really, Facebook is what I use to upload pictures and let people know what I am about to. Having a blog dedicated to that just wasn’t working out for me. Some people do it brilliantly and it’s interesting. Not so much for me. Read the rest of this entry »

This is one way I juggle working from home!

I love to cook. There are days when I want to just shut off my computer and spend some quality time in the kitchen whipping up a 7 course meal.

I was raised by very good cooks, so I know my way around the kitchen. But, I have had major and I mean major problems with meal planning since I started working full-time from home.

When taking care of the home was my only job, I would sit down for hours and scour through recipe books, make out my menu for the week, clip coupons and then head to the store. I loved planning meals!

Well, times have changed. I now hate planning meals simply because I do not have the time, the patience or even the desire to spend hours on end looking through cookbooks and making out a grocery list. I want to spend my free time either actually cooking the meal or hanging out with family and friends.

Mealtime around my house has not been pretty lately. I’ll be honest. It has been a major stress for all of us. We started going to fast food places a lot more, or I was relying on frozen foods that I could pop into the oven. For someone who loves to cook, that just wasn’t cutting it for me. I have three growing kids and a wonderful husband who deserve and need a good meal.

I have now found a solution to my meal planning woes and I couldn’t be happier. It’s called Menu for the Week. Here’s a little excerpt from the website: Read the rest of this entry »