I know you have missed me (those 2-3 people who visited the blog here), so I have decided to start writing in here again, especially since I bothered register the domain name. The thing that triggered my need to write to you would be for instance the fact Adi, my good friend, has also started her own English blog.

What can I tell you now: I am working a lot on  my small web design firm. I have my first advertising campaigns and the first people to really tick me off. Can’t understand for the life of me the need some people have to haggle when it comes even to this. I am selling advertising on a webmaster forum I have created in Romanian and I got a nice “offer” from a guy who’s willing to pay HALF my price and thinks that having 1 year of advertising would sweeten the blow. Yeah sure, I really want to use a valid advertising spot (with increased price in the next month due to the nice development of the project) for 1 entire year at with half my asking price. Oh my.

The next thing that made me really angry, besides the flu I am still battling these days, would be another awesome offer. They wanted the footer part of 4 sites (the site mentioned before included) for 30 links they would put there and the offer was 25 Euros/month, again with a contract for 1 year.

I might be slightly dunce, but a link only on that Romanian webmaster forums would be something like 10 USD/month (according to dnscoop.com for instance, since Text-Link-Ads.com don’t have the free price link calculator in place anymore). So .. I can sell 30 links with 300 USD (only on that site) for 1 month’s time. Let’s even say 5 dollars and we are still WAY ahead of the wonderful offer.

I just didn’t know what to say: feel mad for being taken for a fool or be amused with their candor?

Aside my small advertising problems I can also brag with spending way too much on some vBulletin licenses for some of my forums, getting another small Adsense check and most importantly working my ..tt off for web design clients, since they are the ones who pay the best.

The small business is looking pretty dandy right now, as I look more and more like Casper the friendly ghost due to severe exhaustion. If I am not dying these months, I’ll be the next Bill Gates

Hugs to you all. I really promise I’ll check back daily with new articles worth reading

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