Hello again, folks.

It’s great to be back from holiday. I feel relaxed and refreshed after almost 2 weeks away in the (unusually) sunny Scottish Highlands.

Before I went away, I was a little wary about how well my AIS (Automated Income Streams) would perform without me there to check on them and respond to anything that came up. As it turned out, I needn’t have worried.

The whole point of an AIS is that it’s automatic. Once it’s setup, it should be as “hands-free” as possible. Maybe tweak your ads every so often, or other minor maintenance (such as adding a new article to a site). However spending hours every day checking stats and figures is not required.

This was my biggest fear - I thought that if I wasn’t checking visitor numbers, referrals and click-throughs at least once a day, I’d end up not earning anything.

Wrong wrong wrong!

I came back from holiday expecting to have earned nothing but I had actually made few bob. Nothing amazing, but it’s something… and I was lying on a sun-lounger at the time.

It doesn’t get much better than that, really. Now I just have to start making enough money so I can lay on a sun-lounger all year round!

I suspect many others, particularly newcomers to Online Entrepreneurship, will have similar hang-ups. After all, we’re pre-conditioned to think we have to work for our money. The important thing is to setup a site that will take care of itself once it’s launched. There are a number of ways this could be done. In the case of article sites, making use of a CMS like Wordpress, along with technologies like RSS will greatly improve your site’s ability to look after itself.