Since I came back to this blog, I’ve been quiet, but not without good reason. I have been working on a plan! I always liked the phrase “I’m a man with a plan” but it doesn’t doesn’t sound the same as a Woman with a plan. But anyway…. the PPI website is going to be getting a MAJOR overhaul now through the end of the month. Alot of my focus has changed since I first started blogging here, I’m working on new ideas and changed a lot of my resources. Since I am making another go at this, I hate to have anything outdated, so it’s in the works. Here are a few things you can look forward to in the next coming weeks:

1. New look and feel
2. MAJOR new list of resources and tools I am using
3. New projects page, removing my old projects and specing out new projects
4. Weekly goal sheets to track my progress and keep me on track
5. Monthly income reports coming back
6. My goal list for 2011
7. I am also going to be contacting Pat over at SmartPassiveIncome.com about starting the Niche Site Duel. (totally intimidated, but very motivated).

Since I am making a giant plunge back into the passive income game, I am onto a new content niche project. I’m not going to go quite into what it is exactly quite yet because I think it may be a big one. I’ll divulge the details once I have the site created, some content made and showing up in the search engines. But I think this could be a good one. I’ve also got an e-product in my head for it as well.

I haven’t written on this blog in quite awhile. To be honest…I got frustrated…bored…tired…fed up…and just overly defeated. Sure…I made a few bucks here and there. I think I spent more on books to learn how to make money, than I actually did MAKING MONEY. I kept reading all these success stories and was feeling like I was failing. I know I’m not alone in this. Then life took hold and PPI has just sort of been put on the back burner. But regardless of my failed attempts…I miss it. And they weren’t all completely failures. Some where just getting going and the pennies were trickling in. In fact…every month or two, I still get a small amount PayPal’d to me for those articles I wrote way back when. So I guess you can say I am starting to pull in a slight amount of passive income.

Lately, it’s been creeping up on me again….what’s that creeping? The feeling of wanting to be financially free. Christmas is coming…you know the feeling I’m talking about. That feeling where you wish you could give your kids all the presents they want, but looking in your checking account you know that isn’t going to happen. So what’s a single mom to do? For starters…stop bitching about it and try to do something.

So I am back here at PPI ready to start over and try again. I think part of why I dropped off the planet as far as this blog goes is that I was doing too much. I trying to post every little detail about my venture, I was also attempting to post daily. This time around, you are going to see fewer posts from me. But when I do post, it will be useful information as well as still trying to relay the information about my successes and failures. But I feel that determination coming back and I’m ready to give it another go. So let’s see what happens!

The last couple of months have been a whirlwind. I rarely even have time to blog. For anyone who knows me, I get an idea and I don’t run with it….I sprint until I’ve dug myself into the ground. It’s just the way I roll. I like lots of things on my plate, but that doesn’t mean I do exceptionally well with keeping up with them.

I’ve started yet another project and I thought I would spill it. Have you ever heard of a “game” called Second Life? Well I’ve played it for a few years and I’ve seen people make quite a living for themselves on it. The concept is simple…Run any type of business in this Second “virtual” Life and you earn what are called Linden dollars. Those linden dollars can then be turned into real life dollars at a rate of 261 Linden per $1USD. There literally is ANY kind of business including night clubs, real estate, clothing designs, tattoos, furniture, food items, weapons and yes…even sex. Ok, I’ve decided to stay away from the sex stuff. Call me a prude, but I just can’t get into that in a game. But people are paying serious money for this. There was a recent article about one Second Life player (Anshe Chung)who just earned ONE MILLION real USD in this game from selling land. Read about it here.

As a programmer, I can see how creating items for people who are seriously into this game can be lucrative. Not everyone has the know how to program or design items for a game that look good.  I have even enlisted my boyfriend to “play” this game with me and we are building things together. We started off buying our own “land”. Buying the land isn’t cheap…and hey, someone else just made money off me. Then we built up this city we are calling “Krimzon Rain”. Inside this city, we have built all the regular things you would find in a city such as a night club, furniture shop, bakery, etc. And we themed it to be sort of a gothic dark side. There is a HUGE community for that in Second Life. The club we are using as a means to draw traffic to our land and we host a few night time events with music. But the bulk of the income is expected to come from the sales of the items we create in our shops. For example, I have a gothic looking bed with a skull on it. I sell it for 1500L, which is roughly $5.75USD. Keeping in line with my passive income ideas, I build this bed once and sell it over and over again. Just an FYI…I sold 3 of these beds yesterday and didn’t set foot in my “store”. And this is just one item. My boyfriend who is helping me has created a weapons shop where he builds weapons, armor and other items for those who wish to have combat in the game. We also built our very own tournament arena and will hold weekly tournaments with players for prizes. This helps build traffic which helps to bring in more people to buy from our shops.

I know this is probably one of the craziest ideas I have tried yet. But doing the math seems to work out on paper. It’s an expensive startup with having to buy the “land” so I expect to have a loss for the first couple of months or so until I can get our traffic built up. But I think overtime, it will pay off. I will definitely keep you posted.

I had to take a couple of weeks off from posting due to being sick and also taking care of some personal things. I had written a few posts to update automatically while I was away so I wouldn’t have to have an empty 2 weeks of nothingness on my blog. But as you can see, none of them made it on the blog. I’m not sure why, but nothing posted on the date that I set them to. But I really want you guys to see them, so I decided I’m going to go ahead and publish them as of the date they were supposed to be published. So don’t get confused if you see a couple of posts show up for the last couple of weeks that weren’t there previously. I’m sorry it’s out of order and I promise to learn about this pre-publishing thing before I take another break.

Once I get those corrected, I have yet another new venture to tell you about that I am working on. I think you will like it!

Thought I would pass this on for an idea for articles in case you are running dry already. One of the things I plan to start working on is finding content through PLR articles or through places such as ezinearticles.com. eZineArticles.com seems to be well written and are free to republish as content as long as you keep the footer (author info) intact.

Along these same lines I think trying to get a guest speaker to come post an article on your blog would be a terrific idea! I am doing research on the search engine industry as we speak and hope to get a guest blogger within the next couple of weeks.

On a side note…as you are writing article and after article for your new niche content website, have you noticed that many of the articles could possibly make up an even greater e-book? Woohoo! I’ve started a collection of my own posts in an organized format based on an outline I have already made up. This outlines gives me ideas on what to write about and it keeps me organized for a future e-book I may wish to write.

So keep the ideas rolling and the articles posting! If you aren’t writing regularly, try to get in at least one article every week, preferably 2-3.