Hi there, and welcome to the Cheap Bastid.  As some of you may notice this blog has a new look, and a new direction.

Yesterday I hit my two month anniversary of (trying) to make money online.

I’ve tried all the popular routes; surveys, pay per click, InboxDollars, ChaCha and so on. 

My total income in two months in all those endeavors was exactly $31.16  Considering the number of hours I put in this is about .25 cents an hour, which, as i’m sure you’ll agree, is pathetic and not worth the time.

There was one shining star out there though, eHow, which is a site where you write articles, and make money off the ad revenue that those articles generate.  In two months I wrote a total of 77 articles and my total earnings from eHow was an amazing $75, the great part about eHow is the income is passive and permanent. 

Simply put this means that those articles are out there earning me money till the end of time, or the eHow site shuts down (whichever comes first).  If I stop writing today I will continue earning money from eHow from those 77 articles.

Starting today I will no longer waste my time doing any surveys or whatever, I will write articles and get paid to do it.

At the beginning of January I had 50 articles published and had made $33.05 in the month of December.  I had set my goal for January to have 75 articles published and an income of $100.  I made my article publishing goal quite quickly, and considering where my earnings are so far for the month I think I have a good chance of making my income goal as well.

There are many ‘power users’ on eHow making over $500 a month,  there’s even a handful making over $1500 a month.  Income like this would honestly change my life as I would pay off my debt quickly and finally start saving money.

My goal for this year is get my monthly income to $1000 on eHow and my other means, which i’ll explain in greater detail in coming posts.

I’ll update my earnings window in the sidebar daily so you can track my progress.

I’ll also post up tips and guides so you too can join in on this and make some serious cash online writing articles.

If you have any tips of suggestions I would love to hear them!

P.S.  If anyone knows of a WordPress widget that allows formatted text let me know.  I tried adding my eHow income into a text widget and it looks terrible..

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