ScoobySnacks' Big Blog Of Stuffs

We’re Gone!!!

scoobysnacks — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:57:15 +0000

attention shoppers!

visit us at our new location!… www.ScoobysWorld.com

excuse the dust while we shiny up for you

We’re moving!

scoobysnacks — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:27:39 +0000

everybody pack your bags and update your bookmarks!
scoobysnacks.wordpress.com will not be around much longer.
thats because i’ve purchased www.scoobysworld.com

see you on the other side!

FTP woes

scoobysnacks — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:17:13 +0000

as it turns out, i have no idea how to use an FTP client. now before i decide on purchasing a domain to dedicate for blogging, i figured i should test out WordPress v2.6.3 on a subdomain first. so i made a subdomain through my unnamed websites Admin CP, set up a MySQL database, an FTP account and then downloaded and ran FileZilla as suggested by WordPress.org. But this step, How to Upload Files and Folders, seems to be outdated as their screenshot doesn’t look like the current version of FileZilla that i’m using. hmmm….

well my host is 1and1.com, so if anyone knows how to upload the contents of the wordpress-2.6.3.zip file to blog.mytestsite.com, then please drop me a line. i’ve already changed the necessary details of the wp-config.php file, so all i need to know is how to get FileZilla to move the WordPress files over to my webspace.

i was pretty excited about getting this all set up to get the blog rolling, but it looks like this FTP stuff is a little bit outside my realm of knowledge. i’m sure i’ll figure it out, but it looks like its going to take more time than anticipated. so if anyone out there is following this episode, then stay tuned, we’ll be back shortly after these commerical messages…

freakin cyber squatters

scoobysnacks — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:47:14 +0000

i been domain hunting for the last couple nights. just thought i’d go check on the availability of random domain names to set up a proper blog. the amount of taken domains with the word “blog” in it is ridiculous. and they’re not even being used. i guess when the blog boom hit, somebody bought them all up thinking they’d get rich selling them to the people who really wanted them. fail. nobodys gonna pay 100x the retail value for a domain. they’ll just think of something else. but the problem is, i’ve thought up of tons of potential domains for my blog, and at least 80% of them were just being sat on. now i only have a handful of domains that i might end up using. but none are ones that i really would like. blargh.

anyways, when i started this blogging quest, it hit me that i shall begin the ScoobySnacks empire! :w00t:
of course i figure Warner Brothers must already have it.
but no they dont!… instead, its just some freaking Google portal.

http://www.scoobysnacks.com

lame <_<

An open letter to John Chow

scoobysnacks — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:43:04 +0000

so i went over to John Chow dot com and clicked his contact button thinking i could send him an email. instead he had a message form, so in it i pasted a letter i had already written with the intent of asking him a few questions. much to my dismay, though i soon realized its a good deterrent to newbie fanboys like me, i got an error returned saying that the message limit is 1000 characters. so checked the length of my message and it turns out its over 800 words long. LOL, so much for a quick introduction.

anyways, i shall post the letter here and send the link to Mr. Chow in the hopes that he will one day reply. i know hes a busy man, but with a little luck, maybe he’ll stop by here for a quick minute to say hello. and if he comes by within a week, i shall call this a major success in my newly found world of blogging!

and now on to the show…

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Hey John!

So how do I get started?!

Yes, I know thats a very vague question (sorry!), but I really have no idea what I’m doing here. Recently I’ve been looking into how to make some extra money, and since I spend most of my free time on the internet anyways, then why not try to do it online? A few days ago I started reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss and I began to see the light. From there I discovered Elance.com which looks like a good outlet to sell my services for small graphic design projects. But I also got to thinking that there must be a way for the internet to work for me with an even less amount of effort. So I did some Googling and eventually found myself watching a video at MomsCashBlog.com. In it she mentioned your site and spoke very highly of your blogging accomplishments. And thats how I ended up here.

I saw your Blog Income Report for September and was amazed to say the least! Then when I watched Brian Campbell’s video about how you helped him earn $10k on Facebook in 16 days, I nearly fell off my seat! Surely you must understand that stories like these are nearly incomprehensible to people like me who aren’t part of the blogging community. And because of I am aware that blogging for income is a big game in which I do not know the rules, I’m also very doubtful that I would be capable to earn any amount of money at all. So my question is, would it be possible for me, as someone who is completely oblivious to the blogosphere, be able to create a blog that generates $500 in its first month?

I know my way around a computer, and can learn most softwares relatively quickly. A few years ago I even taught myself the basics of Adobe GoLive and built a website from scratch. But I made very very little money from it. Probably because I have no idea how to promote it. It only gets a few hits a month and most of the contact I get is from spammers. I even went through the trouble of building a MySpace page for it, but that didn’t help at all, so I practically abandoned that marketing venue.

What should I build my blog with? WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, Xanga? Perhaps some other service I have yet to learn about? Which is better for the blogger? Which is better for the reader? Or does it even matter? I dont even know what Joomla is. And what should I blog about? Do I need to stick to a specific topic, or have multible blog sites on different topics, or is it possible to have a profitable gereral all-purpose random ramblings type of blog that covers many different topics that I am interested in?

And how do I go about promoting it without coming off as a spammer? I don’t have the spare time to go searching out and commenting on other people’s blogs all day long, so it might be hard to become part of the inner circle. I’d hate to feel like guerilla commenter, advertising myself then disappearing off into the interweb.

Will I need to sign up to Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, and all the other big networking sites? And more importantly, do I need to become active in each of their communities? How does one find all the time do so?

I’ve just now signed up for your Make Money Online ebook, so hopefully hopefully I’ll find some answers there, and maybe a few answers to questions that I wouldn’t have even known to ask. I’ve also subscribed to your RSS feed, so I’ll be picking up more tips along the way.

Wow this unexpectedly turned out to be quite a long letter. My apologies for all of the questions and taking up so much of your time. If I don’t stop now, I might go on forever. I just feel like I’m jumping into the deep end of the pool here, but maybe all I need is a point in the right direction to get me started and staying afloat. I’ve clicked link after link on blog after blog, and John Chow is the name that keeps coming up. So if there is anything at all in which you can help me out with, it would be greatly appreciated and I would be forever in your debt!

Many congratulations on your blogging accomplishments
-ScoobySnacks

(Pssst… my name is really Tim. but, shhhhh, don’t tell nobody!)
(Pssst x2… before I finished composing this message, I managed to sign up to WordPress. http://scoobysnacks.wordpress.com )

Welcome to the Mystery Machine!

scoobysnacks — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:42:20 +0000

my very first blog! w00t!
now… what should i blog about? :hmmm:
doh, i’m more of a forum person. i wonder if i can embed smilies here.
oooh this is exciting. i wonder if i can get random people to read this.

hey! if you’re a random person, leave a coment!