Payday

 Gisela Giardino via Compfight

As most of you know, I've been trying to commercialize my sleep blog (BuildBetterSleep.com) over the last several months.

I started the blog in November 2011, with the expressed intent that I wanted to

• have a forum to write about everything I learn about insomnia
• journal my own experiences from sleeplessness to sleeping well again 
• see if I could turn this experiment into a stream of income ... if I could, I'd replicate it with some other interests I have (Minimalist Travel is one of them)

An overall theme here is to create work for me that's location and time independent. This means I could do the work from anywhere, at any time. I've been very lucky to have a couple of friends in tech (Dave K and Mark N) who've also offered up some part-time consulting work.

Years ago, Dave K was the one who said "my ideal job would be a whole bunch of part-time jobs" - and that's what I'm aiming for... with a twist. 

All of this is neither here nor there! The point of this post is that the commerciality of BuildBetterSleep.com is starting to pay off. I've received my first cheque from Amazon.com, with another small one from SleepTracks.com in the hopper. They're both very small at this point, but it's a start.

Maybe this whole internet thing isn't just a fad???