Derek Semmler dot com - money, motorcycles and cars (with a little bit of everything else)

When I first began my journey towards blogging for money, I was guilty of the “one trick pony” mentality and was only using Google AdSense.
As I began to learn more about monetizing a website, I quickly realized the need to diversify the tools being used to generate income with my blogs.
Today I added a new [...]

Over the last couple of weeks the Speedlinking series has focused on the basics of blogging and the 5 steps to blog success.
This edition of Speedlinking will continue along this theme of posts and focus on a few posts that discuss writing - whether it be how to continuously come up with ideas for blog [...]

Earlier this month, we were celebrating one year of blogging and as part of that celebration I announced a new contest.
The fine people over at BlueFur.com hosting offered to sponsor a prize and donated one year of free hosting on their Mini Unix package.
This is the package that Derek Semmler dot com is hosted on [...]

There have been a few days here and there where cranking up the old Harley has been feasible, although it still requires a fair amount of warm clothing to keep any chance of comfort within reach. But the days are beginning to get a little warmer here in the middle of the country and [...]

It isn’t what you know…it is who you know.
There is no doubt that you have heard that saying before, but do you believe it to be true?
While I do think that what you know is very important, there is a lot of truth in the idea that who you know - or your ability to [...]