Every now and then it’s good to take a little time and really think about what’s important. I decided to take a week away from blogging on knupNET over Thanksgiving and the few days following. This was a great way to release and really spend time doing the important things. 1) spend time with my wife. 2) spend time with my kids. 3) catch up on my portfolio of sites and do some of the “dirty work” per say.

With blogging a lot of times family life suffers. You get in that blogger zone where you only focus on your site. Taking some time to just relax with the family is healthy. My kids could tell that I was giving them more attention and I’m sure my wife could as well.

As I spent time working on what I like to call, “the dirty work”. I found that this was refreshing. Without this type of work – there is no making money online for me. Keeping up with my sites is a huge task and when I blog I sometimes am not motivated to do the development and upkeep of the other sites.

A few things in the works that I have updates for:

• I’m revitalizing one of my deal sites. I’ll release this a bit later. This was an old site that I kinda let die. I’m going to focus on getting it going again.
• I am really researching and studying affiliate marketing and PPC. This is one area that I am just NOT GOOD at. Never been able to make a dime with affiliates. It frustrates me to know end and it’s time to learn. I can make it happen.
• Hiring writers to keep up with a lot of my blogs/sites. Especially in the Celebrity Club Network.
• Partnering with friends and colleagues on sites. As I always say, “half of something is better than all of nothing”.
• Working on some link building strategies for some of my new sites.
• Goal to grow the RSS readership of knupNET to 100+

So that is that. I am here. I had a great Thanksgiving. And I’m rejuvenated and ready to continue on helping you and I “Learn to Earn”.