Still Learning

It was another week of education for what I hope will be a part-time(or better) sales gig. The niche I was looking at wasn't as profitable as I thought, so I've had to pivot a bit into a different niche in the same industry. They're similar enough that it's not starting over. It's adapting to a related skill set. As I've mentioned before, it's commission not salary. I was hoping to have started this week, but it looks like next week at the earliest. The product is complicated.

I'm having internet connection problems sending this. If this sales job works out, I'm going to look at Starlink.

Have a great weekend.

The Goal is in Sight

It was another week of training for the part-time sales gig I'm about to start. I'm still not finished with the book learning part of it, but I did try a sample sale this week and made 93 cents. It wasn't spectacular, but I learned more from it than just reading or watching training videos. Speaking of training videos, I'm still going through the 20+ hours I mentioned before. It's like trying to cram more than a full college semester into a few weeks.

Nevertheless, I believe I've nailed down a niche in which I can start selling, hopefully, in a few more days. I need to learn more about the fundamentals of the sales trends for it first. It's taking time away from writing, but if it works out, it'll give me more time in the long run. If I didn't need the money, I wouldn't be doing it.

Have a great weekend.

More Course Work

My internet connection is flaky this afternoon. To recap, I'm on 4G LTE. For the past 20+ months, Verizon, I assume, has been working on the network for 5G. I've had outages every Saturday, sometimes Sunday, occasionally on a holiday Monday and rarely on Friday. This is one of those Fridays. I don't mean spotty coverage. I mean 8 or 9 hours with no internet and spotty phone service. If you're reading this, it means I've gotten enough of a data window for Blogger to work. A speed test a few minute ago was about 0.5 Mbps up and 0 Mbps down.

So. This was another week of no writing, as I work on training videos and reading material for a part-time online gig. Progress has been too slow. I've spent hours reading through legal agreements for web sites I want to use. The one that took the most time is the one I ended up not using because of this one fee. As I said last week, it's commission not salary. If it works, I'll be  happy to talk about it. If it doesn't, I'll quietly let the subject drop.

I'm guessing it's going to take another couple of weeks to get through this initial training material. I've almost narrowed down the web sites I can use, so at least I won't be reading through much more legalese for that.

Have a great weekend.

Part-time Gig

It turned into a no writing week. I need more money, so I spent hours and hours researching an online gig. It's commission not salary. If I can make money with it like I hope, I'll be happy to share more about it. If it doesn't, I'll probably never mention it again, and we could pretend like it never happened. I have 24.5 hours of training videos to go through. I started last night and got just under an hour watched. I have relatives in town this weekend. Maybe I'll get a little more watched tomorrow night. I'm hoping Sunday night is more productive.

Have a great weekend.

Nothing to See

I need to run.There's not enough time to do much with the blog today. And that's okay. There's not much to report on the book front. In other news I switched email programs to Thunderbird. I bought a small SSD drive for my most-used programs. So far so good. I need to build a new computer, but prices are up because of the supply chain problems. I have some side projects I hope to be able to report on in the long term.

Have a great weekend.