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I’ve been planning to flesh out one of my niche sites since this weekend, but my real job keeps wearing me out! I get home after a long day, and the last thing I want to do is sit down and do the fairly mundane task of setting up BANS menu categories. By the time I’ve played with my son and spent some time with my wife and finally feel refreshed enough to hit the bricks, it’s getting to be the time where my more creative mind really gets going, and I find myself in wild idea land.

So, I come to the only conclusion remaining: I’ve got to quit my job.

Well, maybe not quite yet. A bit more real current-wage-level-replacing IM income would probably be a good idea first!

But I can dream a little, can’t I?

Oops, I spoke to soon in my last post — I totally overlooked a site I had picked up the day after Christmas: Tankless Bargains, focused on the tankless water heater shopper. So, needless to say, I didn’t make it through the holidays without a fix.

For that matter, I didn’t make it to the weekend either: Fireplace Finds just jumped out at me, and my mind went, ‘Ah, what the hell…‘

More mashing with these two, as I’m waiting until the upcoming release of Build A Niche Store v3.0 until I get back into BANS building. Plus, I’m just having a lot of fun researching niches and keywords and domains right now. As long as I can get them to average 63 cents a month ($7.50 per registration divided by 12) per domain, these sites become technically profitable.

If I can’t even pull that off, well, I’m really not trying…

I made it through the holidays without needing another fix. But what can I say? A new year arrives, the domain acquisition bug strikes again, and a new mashup site appears: Aromatherapy Deals.

Luckily, my New Years resolutions had nothing to say about avoiding picking up more domains. As a matter of fact, I haven’t made any New Years Resolutions at all. And I don’t think I’ll be resolving to do - or, more conventionally, not do anything this year. Instead, I’ll be making a few SMART goals. My mind is still clouded by massive amounts of sugar along with the various customary overblown holiday meals, so it may take me a few days to put pen to paper on those goals. But I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that having fewer domains being monetized in some way or another is not going to be on that list…