This blog is all about my work getting Gruups.com and DemocracyCalls.com online and making money.
And let me tell you… it’s hard work.
I started down this past while working for the company that created and runs the music section of CircuitCity.com
There I met my good friend Richard Carroll and he showed me some of the work he had done on making “Passive Income” and I felt it was time for me to use my skills as a web designer for the good of my family (not just all the people that pay me)
Simple enough. What makes money? Well Blogs were happening, but I didn’t feel I could make any money on it. I feel Blogs work as money makers if you’re already famous. There’s no examples out there of blogs of people that aren’t famous making lots of money. So I didn’t feel like just typing random thoughts would make money.
Then I realized there was something I could write about that people would be interested in: Cell Phone Internet.
I had internet on my Nokia and enjoyed the few websites that I could actually see properly. And of course the few websites built specifically for your phone like the ones for hotmail (mobile.hotmail.com)
I got new fancy phone thinking it would fix the issue with the limited websites issue, and then looked at my plan and realized that my provider had different rates for Internet on your phone, and internet on your laptop (or even Fancy pda phone)
So I started to look at what was the difference. What I had to do with my phone to get the cheaper “PHONE” internet, and if it was slower, worst or even worked.
Like most of the complicated things you think should be easy there’s no one website out there that shows you how.
One will tell you what to do but only with this one phone that no one has. The other seemed to have the phone you wanted, but seem to have conflicting information which made no sense. The other one showed you what to do with your phone, but it was for another carrier.
I put together a little (like 10 pages) article on “How to get Internet on your Phone” and then did the only thing I knew at the time to get traffic to it… I posted it on Digg.
It worked I got traffic and since I had already learned about Adsense I got a couple of cents for my work.
(Adsense is the Google service to place ADs on YOUR site and pay you 80% of what they make)
It worked and I said to myself “If I can just have it pay for it’s own domain name cost ($6), then I’m good.”
then “If I can pay for the hosting ($4/month) then I’ll be good”
Now I’d like to pay for my mortgage… 
Actually It’s at about $40-$50/month income.
It’s respectable but it’s not anything you would be impressed at while reading this blog…but heck. I already got you to finish the article