Yes, I finally finished writing the first in about eight ebooks that I have planned. I am sharing information I have learned in my 10 years of being online earning an income. Lots of people have asked for info from me over the years and with the increase in this, I have decided to digitally publish what I know to make it easier to reference it to others. I also had planned to write a book one day that would encourage my children and other people. This is the beginning of that journey.

During the end of last year I started outlining and sorting questions. The holidays kept me from writing too much. Then I got into a funk for a few months at the beginning of this year, but I still wrote more. I was determined as I usually get when I am passionate about something. I set aside time when I could, mostly on the weekends, or in the evening, and finished one. Then I sent it to be looked over by some family members and a couple of friends.

The beauty of a digital book is that changes, adjustments, and additions can be done as desired. This is version one… and so I have just begun. I will then publish these offline as well in the near future.

Here is the post I made on my business blog…

I have finished writing and released the first version of my new ebook (digital book).

This ebook is about one of the first ways I started earning income online while I was able to stay home with my children. It includes information for people who want to learn how to resell online. There are also sections that include answers to some of the questions my website readers asked.

There are two versions of the ebook. One with information only and the other has some step-by-step directions on how to sign up for ebay and paypal and comes with five bonus printables.

The first 100 orders of ‘Option 2′ get a special deal…

… Resale Mode

If you are looking to earn a few bucks on the side or looking to have a full blown business, start with this ebook to save time researching how to start with reselling and auctions.

What will you find in this ebook?
- Reselling and Auctions
- Yard Sale Hints and Tips
- Selling Online
- Reselling Online Overview
- Start Up Costs
- Accepting Payments
- Creating Crafts To Sell
- Types of items to sell
- Marketing
- Safety
- Resources
- Answers To 14 Questions
- And More!

Just think, you can spend money on dvds, cds, etc. Or buy an ebook to help you learn how to earn money online from your home. … www.resalemode.com

*** If you or someone you know has been successful at reselling items, have them drop me a line and let me know their story. If inspiring, I would like to add it to the ebook and include a link to their online store. I will accept a limited number of these.

Please forward to this to anyone you think would be interested. I really appreciate it.
Oh… and if you do forward it, let me know! I would like to thank you!

Last year I visited a website, which deposited adware / spyware on my computer. I didn’t remember which website. However, I was left with a terrible taste from its wrath.

It weaseled into my computer start up system. I tried the remover software out there, and none of it seemed to work. A huge nasty package was deposited on my computer and it went out of control. After I thought I had gotten it deleted, it would actually reinstall itself each time I restarted. I ended up having to reformat the computer and lost a bunch of emails, contacts, etc. Most of my stuff was backed up, but some was lost. I also switched to the Firefox browser since it was known to help prevent this type of thing from happening.

Now forward to today where I was researching some things for my first ebook in Google. I typed in ‘ celebrity resale ‘ and I happened to notice a new showing in the search results. Right below the title, there is a notice that says, “This site may harm your computer”.

If you click the link, it tells you… “Why do some of my search results say, “This site may harm your computer?”"

“We want our users to feel safe when they search the web, and we’re continuously working to identify dangerous sites and increase protection for our users. This warning message appears with search results that we’ve identified as sites that may install malicious software on your computer.”

If you click the title of the result, you’ll be shown the following warning rather than being taken immediately to the webpage in question.

How cool is that? Hopefully this helps prevent others from experiencing the issue I had to deal with.

I’m not worthy… well, I don’t feel totally worthy, but I do hope it helps inspire some people. I was interviewed last year, by a sweet author named Amy. The interview made it into a 6 page section of a book she wrote that just came out in January 2007. The book is called The Online Millionaire. I haven’t made a million dollars, not even near it, but my story is one that seems to inspire people. I am holding a giveaway on my website for one copy of the book - go here. or just go and buy the book here.

The topic of my beginnings online came up again today, so I thought I would go ahead and post a bit about it for you to read.

My husband and I both started online at the same time. We started online around 1997. We made webpages at free hosting sites including Geocities and AOL. My screen name used to be “snowyowl”. We learned everything from scratch.

I created my first website with a focus on different topics that I enjoyed. At the time it was about family, homeschooling my kids, household tips, and such. Over time I learned about programs that popped up which allows people to post a banner or text link on their website and get paid for each time a click came through. These programs are referred to as affiliate-programs. I joined and made a ‘little’ money. I decided to look further into making money with websites from that point on.

One main thing that I learned is that you aren’t taken seriously online unless you have your own domain. No self respecting business would make their site on a free hosting server. I decided to set up my first .com website and named it Tipz Time. You can see the official first page in the “Internet Wayback Machine Archives” (images are no longer active).

I’ve come a long way over the years earning online. I am thankful to many people who have made a difference in my life by offering advice, encouragement, and just believing in me. I have definitely shared with others in a sort of ‘pay it forward’ effect.

Thanks also to Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief of Revenue Magazine, for letting me share my experiences and encourage people through different medias. Just today I did my very first audio podcast with both of them through their online show “Affiliate Thing”. Go and take a listen and let me know what you think!

- Listen to the ‘Affiliate Thing’ Podcast

- Friend ‘Affiliate Thing’ on MySpace

- ‘Affiliate Thing’ main page with archived podcasts

I was talking with actor Mike Lutz today. He was having problems logging into the blog area of Cowboy Smoke. We went back and forth through email and couldn’t find the problem. He just couldn’t log in. However, I could log in under his account fine. We finally spoke by phone and I walked him through the process, only to find out we still couldn’t get him logged in. I then thought that perhaps the problem had to do with a browser cookie. I figured if we cleaned his “cache” it would help. I talked him through the process on the phone and once the old cookies were deleted, he was able to log in fine!

Since some of you may have no idea what I am talking about, read on…

Browser cookies, images, and webpage files are stored on people’s computers by websites they visit in their “temporary internet files” or “cache.” If someone surfs the internet a lot and visits many websites they may notice their computer getting “slower.” This is due to the “temporary internet files” getting too full and taking up valuable space on the hard drive. Sometimes browser cookie files can be corrupted or not updated correctly, which will cause problems logging into membership sites. Periodically, everyone needs to clean out these files to improve their internet browsing.

Here are the steps for you to clear your “temporary internet files” …

* In the Internet Explorer Browser

Step 1 - See the top of the browser window where it says FILE | EDIT | VIEW | FAVORITES | TOOLS | HELP ? Click on TOOLS

Step 2 - On the drop down menu in the TOOLS area, click on INTERNET OPTIONS

Step 3 - Delete Cookies Button. NOTE: When you delete the cookies, you will have to type in your membership username and password again for any membership sites that you have joined. This button deletes all cookies that remembered that information for you.

Step 4 - Delete Files Button. NOTE: When you empty these files, you delete images and files from websites you have visited in the past. Those files will be reloaded on your computer when you visit the website again. This isn’t a bad thing unless you get too many of these types of files. Having the files on your computer helps reduce your load time for frequently visited sites.

Step 5 - Settings Button and then the “View Files” Button. NOTE: If you only want to delete CERTAIN files from your “temporary internet files” folder, you can click this button to find them and delete them individually.

In this settings area, you can also set the amount of disk space you want these types of files to use by moving the bar and changing the disk space megabytes.

There may be different ways to clean your “cache” through other internet browsers which you can search Google to find the directions for. There is another way to get access to your “temporary internet files” through your C drive folders as well, but I don’t want to go into that right now and possibly confuse anyone.

-Article Copyright © Wendy Shepherd - http://www.wendyshepherd.com
**May be reprinted with permission, credit, and link

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Comments:    1.

Thanks again Wendy for yet another cool computer tip.
This is why your sights ROCK!!!!!!!!!!
They are so helpful in every day life.
Stephanie

Comment by Stephanie — 6/4/2006 @ 2:55 pm
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Thank you for the information. I will have to do this on my computer. I had no idea about this as I have learned by myself on what I know on the computer or what others have sent me. And I will be sure to let others know. Thanks ever so much.

Comment by Martha — 6/5/2006 @ 8:40 am
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Wendy, this little trick has often kept my PC humming nicely.
Cleaning the temp files also helps as I have been told by my cable company, when calling them regarding slow connection, that, often times, its one cookie not coping well with the other. So on their suggestion, as they knew service in the area was running fine, I cleaned my temp files and they were right, my slow connection went back to being super fast.

Comment by Barbara (Xerraire) — 6/6/2006 @ 7:10 am
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Another usefull cleaning up would be to hit the start button, put curser over find, click files or folders.
type:”*.TMP” in the named field (without the quotation marks) then type on the location line: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
Delete all except for the current date.

Comment by Heather Howie — 6/6/2006 @ 8:14 pm

The smell of smoke brings questions and urgency in a computer room. It happened to us before. The last time it was the power supply on my husband’s computer. This time it turned out to be a light that hangs under the desk area.

The first thing I noticed was the UPS under my husband’s computer doing a click sound. I figured the battery was expiring, so I turned off the UPS and computer. When we tried to turn it on again later, it still did the click sound. Then my computer started with a beep. I looked and the UPS showed that it was running on battery supply. Well, then we thought something happened to a fuse in the breaker box. Nothing was amiss in there. We flipped the fuses and all seemed fine. However, the smell of smoke soon arose in the computer room.

We started pulling everything out from around the computer and frantically smelled to see where the smoke odor was coming from. We thought it was my husband’s monitor, but it was the light under his computer desk shelf area. We removed it and it was HOT and the shelf was warm! It had started burning a slight mark on the wood under the shelf. The light had a burning electrical smell and so it was removed! I used a cold washcloth with ice on both sides of the shelf to cool it off.

Seems what happened was a chain reaction in the room through the wall outlets. The light was overheating and pulling electricity from the outlets it shared with my husband’s UPS. The UPS tried to compensate and pulled its energy from its battery. When my husband’s UPS was turned off, the electricity was drawing from my outlet, which caused my UPS to react and go on its battery power as well.

Now I just found out that my Subwoofer/speakers aren’t working. They seem to also have been affected by the chain reaction. *sigh.

It could have been much worse if we were sleeping or away from home. We just have to shut down these things when we are away from the computer room for too long.

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Comments:    1.

What a story!

Comment by Ken — 5/23/2006 @ 4:29 am
2.

I am glad you guys were home there is nothing scarier than
thinking that your house or something in it is on fire.
I have been through a fire and it is a nightmare. I always
uplug everything I can just to be on the safe side.
And right now here in FL with all the wild fires our house has been smelling like smoke for a couple of weeks so we are always checking something here lately. Have a great day :>)

Comment by Stephanie — 5/23/2006 @ 8:26 am
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Wendy,
Even when you are physically there, I have personally seen you at work!
You go at such a BLAZING speed, that I think you could burn up a whole computer room!
:)

Barb

Comment by Barbara (Xerraire) — 5/23/2006 @ 9:18 am