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

After a taking a few steps forward the last few months, June was a disappointing step backwards in terms of blogging for money.
There were two primary reasons for the drop in income this past month.
The first reason was that one of my blogs was victim to a WordPress hack that was stealing the search traffic [...]

You’ll recall that last month I had record earnings from my blogs as I surpassed the $700 per month mark for the first time.
Unfortunately I lost out on a few Amazon affiliate commissions that I had been hoping to receive. After setting an earnings record, I continued to set the bar a little higher [...]

Last month the challenge was made to push through my previous all-time record in terms of earnings and surpass the $700 per month mark. The tallies are in and the numbers have been calculated.
Even though the Amazon affiliate program is not properly crediting my account for the commission on the sales that were made [...]

The beautiful thing with blogging - or even just online business in general - is the relatively low startup costs. With the purchase of a domain and a hosting account you can have a business up and running in a matter of hours.
Not too long ago, we talked about how to save money with [...]

After posting about the fact that I was going to return my MacBook in order to save $200 through Amazon , I planned to stop by the Apple Store on my way home from work tonight.
When I arrived at work this morning, I was greeted with an office complex lacking any hint of power as [...]