Everyone needs a bit for inspiration for their home based business. So over the next few posts I have asked some successful online business owners to share their experience.

In this post, Leslie Truex [AKA The Pajama Mama] kindly accepted my invitation to write a little about her work at home journey.

Please make a point of visiting her site and having a look around.

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If you have any interest in starting or expanding your own empire, have a read of a couple of posts by Brian Lee over at Genius Types about how he started and then expanded his bulk candy vending business.

This is a business any-one can get in to. Through the two posts Brian lays the essentials for success both from a financial and from an organizational perspective. Read the rest of this entry

This post is about John Chows’ money making blog.

John is a well known and successful internet marketer who began a blog back in December 2005.

Prior to that, John was partner in a print shop before taking a change of direction. In April 1999 he started a technology site call The TechZone. Techzone had over 10,000 pages and got over 200,000 page views per day by 2005.

John recently provided an update on progress with his blog. The results give some insight as to what can be achieved and what the potential is for this type of home business.

In summary the blog made just under $3,500 in January. Revenue broken down as follows:
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There are a couple of noteworthy posts at Problogger.net and Repliqa about a young blogger called David Wilkinson.

David and two friends teamed up to start a blog called Techzie. Nothing unusual in that except David is only twelve and his friends are of a similar age.

He also guest authors for a number of other online publications.

I started in July of 2006, just as a hobby, a way of expressing my views and making them known. The idea came to me while I was weeding my back garden funnily enough. I thought that as a kid, people might want to see technology, gadgets, and the interview from my perspective.

Seems the blog has gone through a number of refinements to the point where after six months when asked:

Are you making any money blogging?

Yes, quite a bit actually. I could definitely live off $500 a month until I turn 14, by which time I aim to be earning more, by experimenting in Internet Marketing.

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