I’m not in Kansas anymore!!
Wow…how the landscape has changed!
It’s been AGES since I last added a blog post, a victim to the pressure of blogging. I became another statistic.
Or did I?
When I started blogging back in 2007, I saw a lot of blogs, visited a ton of sites, and made a few blogging buddies along the way. We were all focused on making money, the glitz and glamor of leaving your day job and sitting at home in your PJ’s playing PlayStation all day. Sad to say, I didn’t quite reach that goal.
A recession hit, housing prices tanked, unemployment rose higher than Gary Coleman’s height. I kept a bunch of links to the sites I used to visit, and that landscape has changed immensely! It seems like a TON of people who used to be here have moved on to other things, and I’m guessing it’s mostly because of the pressure to write valuable posts and the time and expense involved in doing so. It’s much easier to just walk away versus trying to truly figure out a way to making a living with this thing.
Well, turns out the da hustler succumbed to the pressure as well. No $10k months, no expensive trips to Vegas, none of that. Just normal, everyday life where you work for the man and do what he wants you to do in exchange for not being homeless. And I have to say, I am quite content with not being homeless!
One thing I am very happy about though, is keeping the site here in cyberspace. Yes, I paid my hosting fees and preserved the space here over the years, but that was about it. I can’t tell you how much I really MISSED you guys and being able to really connect with the different people out there in the world, sharing common goals and providing great ideas to make some cash. Sometime in the last few months it occurred to me how much site like these were really needed, (uh oh, here it comes…) especially in times like these. (Yes, da hustler is sick and tired of hearing that phrase too!) if nothing more than to truly give hope to lots of people out there who need it.
So what does it mean to be “back?” Well, quite frankly after such a long hiatus, I feel like I have to get back into the swing of things. The years have brought changes in technology and the number of feasible ways to make money. For instance, I hear that Google AdSense & AdWords is either dead or dying, and Facebook is the new land of milk and honey. Sucks for da hustler, because he refuses to get a FB page, no matter what.
That just means more $$$ for you guys!
But before I end this post, I will say that I am so surprised that the site looks the way that it does! So there will be a change in that as well. Many of you may have just lucked upon this site somehow (I’m sorry to hurt your eyes like this), and some of you may have received a notice of a new post from a guy who was long thought to be dead & decaying. Not so! In any event, welcome if you are new, welcome back if you have been here before, and let’s get back to doing what we do best here…
Hustlin…
