In order to get started on my online empire, I’ve decided to sit down and list some of my strengths and work towards them.

• I can design
  For the last ten years I’ve been an art director. Granted, I’ve been an art director for print, but I’ve also worked on the web (which is another strength). I have a good understanding of what a good design should consist of. I understand that on the web, design means more than just picking a nice color scheme, it must also consider usability. It’s an interactive, not a passive, experience.
• I can write
  Along as being an art director, I also found myself in the unique position of being able to write advertising and marketing copy. This was a great introduction to finding my own voice, and experiment with what worked and what didn’t. Also, when I was in the fifth grade I won the Young Author award for my region for the story ‘The Com 2000 Team’. It was a story about a computer virus that attacked and then defeated by the heroic ‘Com 2000 Team’. Considering that when I was in the fifth grade it was 1985, and that the internet was not a household concept, I was obviously ahead of my time and bordering on genius. My claim at genius status is only supported by the fact that the virus in ‘The Com 2000 Team’ was not what we know as a computer virus today. Today, we know a computer virus as something that will infect your computer with adware and steal your banking information. No, my virus would materialize from the computer screen in the shape of a light bulb with tentacles and a mouth full of sharp, monstrous teeth. And instead of infecting your computer with adware, my virus would bite your fucking head off! Genius.
• I’ve already begun
  While this blog will be documenting many of my tactics that I implement to make money online, I already have a bit of a head start. I have a few content sites up that are being monetized by Adsense, but the income level is paltry. However, while the income from those sites is low the search rankings of each site is pretty high. By running smaller content based sites I have learned a ton about what many new to web design struggle over. So, I have a great base knowledge of websites and what makes them rank in the search engines. Now, I need to apply that knowledge to monetization.

While, not all of my strengths, I believe that those three will be the most important to my success online.

Next, *sigh* my weaknesses.