Zeeba Ville

I am trying something new, new to me anyways. For the first time I have purchased a ready-made blog. All the blogs I've had in the past I have made from scratch. I was looking for a time saver and thought that it would be fun to try.

It's all about dogs. I've had a few dogs in the past so at least it's not a foreign topic. Supplying the world with free doggie recipes, health tips and some cool dog products seems like fun. If I make a buck or two it will be a nice bonus.

So if you have a dog why not check it out The Family Dog Blog

Labels: dog blog, doggie recipes, family dog

Zeeba Ville has a new raison d’être.
I have made a goal of retiring from the rat race by 10/10/10. I made an attempt at doing just that back in 2005 with the wild idea of opening a used book store in Montreal. This site was first opened as a way to talk with my patrons from that shop. Here we are in 2009, the shop closed last year, I lost a small fortune but learned a lot. One of the main things that I picked up is that passive income is way better than very active income. The shop was very labour intensive and my family suffered from it. So my new goal involves keeping my 9 to 5 job while building passive income through a variety of websites. I’ll use this platform to keep you all abreast of my activities, see if what I’m trying to do is do-able and provide links to my other projects (both for you to follow the progress of and to help a bit with SEO). I haven’t decided if I should include dollar amounts. Perhaps I will if only to use as personal encouragement. 17 months to replace about $3000 a month in Salary – do-able ?

Here is my list of activities – it will surely evolve.

Zeeba Books – books on or about Montreal & Hockey

The Big Desk – personal blog on all that interests me

The Bookshop Blog – news and opinion on the bookselling world

The Hockey Writers

Hub Pages – short articles on just about anything

Yahoo Store – to be determined, perhaps maritime art ?

And this site Zeeba Ville – to follow all the rest.

Labels: Hockey Writers, maritime art, rat race, retirement

It's been a while hasn't it. I won't go on about why I haven't been posting much, I hate when I see this on other blogs. The fact is that I've posted tons, just not much here. In the post 4 months we've posted about 800 articles on The Hockey Writers, one of the best hockey blogs around. Everything from Pittsburgh's Sydney Crosby to Ovechkin's stick. It's a joy running that site and if you love hockey be sure to check it out.

I've also revamped The Bookshop Blog and have tons of info on Opening a Bookstore. In fact we just had about 6 new writers join us.

And there is The Big Desk, my personal think tank, more like a gold fish bowl but fun none the less. I just posted a comparison of top blog's sidebars.

So there you have it. Tons of posts - just not here.

Labels: Blog Sidebars, Bookstore Mailers, Opening a Bookstore, Ovechkin, Sydney Crosby

Here I go again, bouncing from project to project. Well The Big Desk has been on the back burner since January. I may restart it this week. I've spent the past month starting up a new hockey blog called The Hockey Writers. We have 30 writers posting fresh original content every day on the goings on of the NHL. Wether you want to hear about Sydney Crosby or all about the Colorado Avalanche The Hockey Writers are worth a visit. I'm proud of the site we built and I think you'll like it.

Labels: blogging, Hockey, Hockey Writers, NHL, Sidney Crosby

Just a quick note to let you know that I've just started up a new blog called The Big Desk. It is a combination personal blog and Men's Magazine. I hope to pack the pages with travel tips, great recipes, great interviews and websites along with a decent dose of opinion. Hope you enjoy it.

I've spent the last couple of days redesigned (and changing host providers, db and all) the Greenfield Park Gazette blog. It's been a lot of fun and I'm pretty pleased with the results. In fact I enjoyed working with Wordpress so much that I'd like to offer my services to anybody in the Montreal area that needs a blog set up. It can be for business or personal use. I use some very flexible tools so that whatever your needs might be I can find a great solution. If you've been thinking about it now may be the time. Rates are low as I need to build a portfolio. Give me a call at 450-672-2662. If you want to see some other work I've done then check out my blog on running a bookstore.

Labels: Blog Building, Greenfield Park Gazette

A lot has happened over the past 6 months. None of it mentioned here as I've kind of let this site slide a bit. Zeebabooks is still the best place for books in Montreal but only for the next few months. We will be closing down the shop and moving to mainly online booksales, with some by-appointment visits. I've been working a lot on a few blogs as well as some ebay sites like Antique Ice Cream Scoops. Have a stable of about 100 sites now. There aren't making me rich but I hope they will provide a better income than the shop, well the websites combined with online sales and maybe some Blog Consulting. We'll see how than all pans out this summer.

Labels: Antique Ice Cream Scoops, Books Montreal, Online Bookstores