aristophanes

Still trying to drum up business now that my usual mode of advertisement is gone. So far Google Ads are proving useless - I'd have to raise my rates to keep using them, I think.

People say to let business spread by word of mouth but that's not too easy when most of your clients are embarrassed to admit they ever used your services.

Good news: people are clicking my ads on Google.
Bad news: they are not buying stuff from my site after doing so.

Bought the books "The Love Spell Book" by Gillian Kemp and the "Well Fed Self Publisher" book that I wanted. I figured the love spells book was a good investment since that's what I'm getting asked to do the most lately.

And now I have a sore throat from singing Martern Aller Arten. The real trouble with that song is singing closing the run -at...
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A few months ago I came on one of those Law of Attraction type books, though this one didn't seem as stupid as a lot of them. It was called "Wells of Abundance." I ended buying a copy, and have read it here and there. One of the things it advises doing is tithing -- and it suggests that if you don't really go to...
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Goddamn Yahoo Answers suspended my account because I was "promoting [my] own blog" by linking to a relevant post that, frankly, I don't know how anyone would know if it was mine or not (yes it happened to be mine. Still, I would hardly consider it "promoting" the blog given that it was an actual answer to the question.) It's not like the answer was...
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I've been having a really good week on the tarot site! I've sold at least one reading every day since I think Thursday or Friday -- in any case, that's never happened before! I'm usually doing well if I get that many in a whole month.

I would attribute it to my having bought some ads on Google, except that no one's been clicking them.

I'd forgotten what it was like to read a book that's actually enjoyable! It has been, oh, years since I came on such a thing. But I recently decided to reread "Gracie" by George Burns and it's very entertaining.

Hmmm... I kind of want to post about whatever interesting things I've lately done, but presently I seem to only exist in mega-stressed-negative-complainy mode or else shutdown-happy-zombie mode so there's lite to report.

I had gotten the $300 Acer computer, but after seeing it seemed to be doing nothing but freaking me the hell out, my dad took me to return it today. I think I might just see if my sister will give me her old Mac, it's a 5 year old model but really would probably be more than adequate for my needs. She's had a...
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Since we're "moving" in a couple weeks, I need to buy a new computer because I might not be able to stay wherever my parents are, and my main income is via online tarot readings so this is an essential work thing. I found an Acer on sale for $300, but the sale is only through today. It's not my ideal computer, but I have...
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