My blog has been taking off, so I haven't been in here much. But I found a cool site to build widgets with. Just request a beta invite and you are in. If you are tired of premade widgets and want to create your own, than this is the site for you:

http://sproutbuilder.com/

For more software like this, check my blog post:

http://www.stephanmiller.com/flash-where-it-should-be-used/

Thought this software would be great for creating widgets for the Buzz. See you around.

I'm not in here as much as I used to be, but I still drop in every now and then. Lot of things going on right now. Just letting everyone know I haven't abandoned my page.

Are you tired of free Wordpress themes that link to everyone and his brother? Well my new theme doesn't. Only two links to my sites on the index page, so you can save some of your link juice.

Are you tired of using a theme only to find out that everyone and his brother is using the same theme? Well, mine is customizable through the Presentation menu of Wordpress, both colors and fonts, so you can have the same theme as someone else but make it totally yours.

Do you like the themes like John Chow has where you can put menus and ads in the header and footer? Well, mine has widget areas in both the header and footer. In fact it has six areas you can drop widgets in. And that means no editing the theme.

What about plugins? Are you tired of editing your themes to add plugins that all the guru's mention. Well, mine has the tags for some popular plugins that require theme editing built in.

Enough of the sales pitch. Check out my multiple widgets theme.

http://www.wp23.com

Sometimes you have to put one foot in front of the other. That’s it. Just focus on that and things will happen. Choose only the amount of daily projects you can get done and do them every day. Ignore everything else. Don’t let the latest greatest thing distract you from what you have chosen to do.

I have been wishy washy with many things in the past, but affiliate marketing taught me something by accident right after I started making money. The first paragraph sums it up. Of course it’s not all I needed to know. I also needed to know when to step back, take a overview of the whole situation, and change my priorities.

I had built a site to market some affiliate products. When I was done with it, it was not making any money. So I moved on to another method. Up to this point, I had made less than $200 from affiliate marketing in total and less than $5000 from any type of internet business. I had jumped around from method to method. I learned a lot, but didn’t make a lot.

Well, as I was off finding another way to make some money, the site I had built starting getting traffic. I had followed everything I had learned to get traffic to the site, step by step and added my own twists. I just figured the results would be instant. When nothing happened, I just thought I had wasted more time. I was wrong.

This site went on to make me close to $20,000 over the period of 5 months. It worked. My timing was just off.

Now I am more patient. No, I lie. Now I know how to tell myself to shut up and just do it. No matter what you are learning or new way to building traffic or making sales that you are trying, you have to give your work a chance to build some steam. I have found no better metaphor.

Days and days of beating your head against the wall. Then the boiler explodes.

It is much better to understand after the first time it has happened to you. You know to have patience, because you actually experienced it paying off. You know to follow your new method with the devotion of addict, at least until you have given it a fair shot. And a fair shot is about 3 times the amount of time you believe it is. You know that "I’ll do that tomorrow" is a tiny hole that will grow in mass until it sucks every motivation out of you.

And post like this, I think, are like preaching to the choir. If you know this, you know this. If you don’t, you won’t really get the full effect until you experience it.

I'd advise anyone with a blog to sign up for the MyBlogLog contest. I doubt I have a chance in winning, but it seems the higher I rise in the standings, the more traffic I get to my blog.
It's a great way to get some traffic to your blog.
You can see the standings at the following link:
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/contest/standings/
The numbers are the amount of new members you have signed up since November 1st. The contest ends at the end of the month. I am really not sure what the prizes are, but like I said, the traffic is good.
If you want to help me jump a little higher I will return the favor, just message me and I'll join your community also.
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/stephan-miller/