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A Quick Update – February 2010

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:24:13 +0000

I’ve decided that I will no longer place my monthly earnings totals on this blog. I don’t think most folks really enjoy reading about what other people are earning, I think they’d rather learn how to earn more money themselves.

Also, I know I’ve started to publish my grand article/money making guide but I’ve actually started working on a new project. Don’t worry, this guide is in fact part of this project.

I’ll be able to give more details about this in the coming weeks but rest assured It’s something that I hope will make more money online for everyone, without any of the BS that some sites seem to enjoy giving to their writers.

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December Earnings Updated

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:52:04 +0000

: Image by Newton Free Library via Flickr

I can’t believe I totally forgot to update my earnings for December!

Well, I bet most of us had an incredible month, I know I did.

eHow, Adsense and Amazon were all amazing, I finally broke $1000 for the month! And, I might ad, without adding any content at all for the last 5 months.

This is just more proof that writing articles online is a great way to make passive permanent income each and every month.

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My One Year Anniversary!

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:21:10 +0000

A few of you may have noticed that I just hit my one year anniversary of publishing articles online to make extra money.

Well, what a year it’s been. I’ve learned so much about what works, and I think more importantly, what doesn’t work.

Most especially I learned that publishing articles online isn’t a race, it’s a slow, never ending process of building up passive, permanent income streams, always looking to improve your income with the least amount of work.

This past year income wise has been great, through my article income I managed to not only pay off all my credit card debts, but buy a new Harley! The cool thing is my online earnings are covering my payments, so it’s like getting a new hog for free!

I’ve learned a while back not to set lofty goals for myself when it comes to publishing new content, I think doing that just sets onself up for burnout, and, just as bad, publishing low quality content. I think my peers will agree that to succeed at this you must publish articles that are not only useful and informative, but high quality. Don’t allow yourself to put out rushed, 1/2 hearted articles designed for the sole purpose of making money. Go the extra yard and put some polish on them and you will be rewarded.

My goals are simple, I’ll just publish one, two or maybe three articles a week over the course of the next year. If I do that I’ll double my published articles by the end of the year, and certainly at least double my income.

Over the course of the next few weeks I plan on publishing a series of posts designed to teach a person new to the exciting (and profitable) world of online article publishing. I’ll start at the very basics and continue to more advanced concepts as the series progresses.

My goal with this is simple, if I can teach just one person how to make some extra cash online I will have succeeded. Lot’s of folks out there would love to make some extra money to help pay the bills but just don’t know how, or even where to start. I’m going to help them through the difficult process of starting out and ‘getting your bearings’

As you can see from my earnings last month that the extra money just keeps going up and up. Soon, even my car payments will be covered by my online income!

I must say this, just 4 days into December and I’m just amazed! I broke the $150 mark yesterday, at this rate I just might break the $1000 mark by the end of the month.

If you would like to learn just how to do this just make sure to come back here every few days over the course of the next month or so. I guarantee you will learn something. Now, I can’t guarantee you’ll make money, but I’ll give you the tools and skill you need to make it easier for you.

Happy holidays everyone!

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I’m Back!

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:01:28 +0000

Hi Everyone!

I’m sure most of you are wondering what happened to me and why I seemed to have fallen off the face of the earth for the last few months.

Well, there isn’t any amazing story about tragedy or some other life wrenching episode. Simply put, I burnt out.

You see, I put way too much ‘work’ on my plate. Near the end I was logging into eHow at 7am to rate some articles and make some forum posts, I would then go into work and during lunch research keywords. When I got home I would check my earnings and then write articles and blog posts until 10 or 11pm every day.

I put way too much on my plate, and, when I finished a project I just added more things onto my to do list.

I blame nobody for this, not infobarrel (for those contests) or One week marketing. I can only blame myself for not accepting the fact that I’m human and just need a break once in a while.

I’m back and I’m not going to set unreasonable goals for myself. If I do one article a week, that’s fine. If I do two or three even better. The important thing to remember that online article writing isn’t a race and, to be honest, there is no ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ it’s an ongoing, neverending process.

Now, even though I haven’t written an article in over three months it’s interesting to see that not only did my earnings not drop, but they actually went up.

This is the beauty of permanent passive income. It’s always out there, and always making money for you.

It’s good to be back. It’ll take me a while to get up to speed again but I definetly will.

There’s much I need to talk about, including a new project that I thought of a few months ago.

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Online Earning Totals | May ‘09

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:37:21 +0000

Well May is over and once again it started off great but slowed down near the end. InfoBarrel and Xomba were the big winners this month as I haven’t touched eHow at all.

Let’s run through the numbers…

eHow: $151.12 – I only published one additional article this month. eHow earnings were almost identical to last month. Quite interesting. I’ve started an eHow experiment this morning. I’ll post it up tomorrow morning, it should be quite interesting…

InfoBarrel/Xomba: $129.97 – Very nice indeed! I love adsense now, in fact, I’m really fired up about it. I like to see exactly what article is earning what, no cryptic algorithms here at all.

Amazon: $72.44 – I’m happy about this, it actually would’ve been higher but my 32nd and 33rd sales of the month occured over the weekend and didn’t ship in time. That would’ve put me into the 6.5% bracket. Oh well, maybe I’ll get there this month.

Bukisa: $2.15 – No surprises, no activity there either…

Affiliate Marketing: $4.44 – A new category for me. I recently purchased the One Week Marketing course and started working a little bit on some campaigns. Hopefully this’ll be much higher next month.

Squidoo: $7.56 – Didn’t do anything there this month, one of my lenses is slowly increasing in rank though (probably the 15 or so ‘blurbs I have pointing at it)

Total is about $367.68 Not bad, but about $30 short of my goal. I’ll need to work harder next month.

I haven’t posted much lately due to an illness (bronchitus) that simply refuses to go away.

For this month I’ll continue to add Xomba content from eHow and start working on some One Week Marketing campaigns.

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The Cheap Bastid Finally Crosses the Alexa 200K Mark!!

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:07:22 +0000

It took a while but this blog finally crossed the 200k mark in it’s Alexa rank.

Thanks everyone for visiting and helping to make this an online money making community that concentrates on HELPING people, not getting their money.

Next up is the 150k mark…

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Affiliate Marketing | Passive income tips

admin — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:06:00 +0000

I just read a great post by Dusty over at Chasing the Bull on affiliate marketing. He has some good thoughts and tips.

I suggest, if you’re interested in making money online, that you head over there and check it out.

Affiliate marketing tips

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April ‘09 Online Earnings Report

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:09:53 +0000

Well April is over. It began with such high hopes, but simply didn’t pan out. Lots of things happened this month, most noteworthy of course was the eHow article purge.

Let’s go through the numbers..

eHow: $156 (est) I averaged a bit over $5 a day, not bad, but last month I was averaging over $7 a day. The problem is views, last month I was getting about 800 views a day, this month about 400. I need to figure out why this has happened.

Bukisa: $1.44 No surprises here. I had another signup, but alas, no articles produced. Perhaps I should revisit this as one of the articles I published in February is actually making money…

Squidoo: $2.56 Big surprise here, I did absolutely nothing at all on Squidoo this month yet I made three sales from one of my lenses. It might payoff to pursue this further.

InfoBarrel/Xomba: $48.88 This is great, I went from practically no adsense revenue to almost 50 bucks in one month. The amazing thing is almost all the content I produced on both sites (90 articles) has not been promoted yet and they haven’t fully aged either. I expect big things to happen next month.

Kontera: $1.33 A slight increase mainly due to this blog moving up in traffic ranking. I expect this to greatly increase next month.

Niche Blogs: About $5 (adsense) I finally converted two of my domains into niche blogs which are starting to make some revenue. Like my IB/XB content, these haven’t been promoted yet either.

Amazon: $50.10 About what I expected, this should increase next month as the number of links I have out there increases three fold on my IB/XB articles.

Affiliate programs: $0 I haven’t started this yet but I will this weekend. I have a feeling this will be a big part of my income in the coming months..

Unfortunately I have NOT made adsense payout this month, I’m about $20 short. I’m going to go out on a limb here and guesstimate my May adsense income at $150 (maybe more).

Why?? Three reasons..

My articles will have aged a bit more which should result in more traffic (and clicks)
I will have finished promoting them on sites like Digg, Mixx and Folkd
Every one of my articles will have at LEAST three ‘blurbs pointing at it

For those of you who don’t think ‘blurbs do anything check the traffic on my Squidoo lens…

6 'blurbs, 15 hits. Not bad at all...

All in all not the best month but I did learn some things. Like I always say..If you’re not earnin’ , you better be learnin’

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Looking Forward to May ‘09

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:43:18 +0000

As April draws to a close I’m starting to think about what I should do next to increase my online earnings.

Like most of you out there I have no shortage of ideas and things I’d like to try, but, I need to have some focus and pick my projects and see them through, not try to ’shotgun’ 3 or even 4 different things at one time.

I’ve decided to try the One Week Marketing course, it’s $47 dollars but I’m sure, if what people say are true, I’ll make that back in a few months.

So, starting in May I’ll be devoting most of my time to that, hopefully it’ll start to pay off by June.

In the meantime I’m still converting my eHow content over to Xomba as I’ve already finished my first pass moving content over to InfoBarrel.

I’m also starting to do some serious promotion on my IB articles using Xomblurbs (perhaps the greatest passive income tool in my arsenal!)

For the rest of the month both IB and XB will get my total attention, I’ve actually accumulated about 25 article ideas that I’ll be publishing as well.

Now, with all that being said, let’s talk about eHow….

Is anyone else seriously dissapointed with their eHow earnings this month?? I was cruising along nicely and as soon as this whole purge thing started earnings just fell off to pitiful levels.

You know, when I choose to publish an article, like most of you, one website comes to mind automatically, sort of your home base as it were.

Well, eHow used to be that place but I just can’t trust it anymore. So now, InfoBarrel will be my main publishing site.

With IB I don’t have to worry about purges and cryptic earning algorithms or any of that nonesense.

Publish my article, get some views, make some money

That’s all I want and I’m sure that’s all you want too.

Does that mean I won’t publish on eHow anymore?

Of course not. One can’t ignore it’s popularity and pagerank. BUT, I just can’t rely on it right now.

Anyway, that’s all for this update/rant

Let me know how y’all are doing this month so far!

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First pass complete over at IB

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:41:55 +0000

As most of you know I spent the last couple of weeks moving my articles over to InfoBarrel and Xomba.

I’ve actually just completed my first pass through my article library, moving a total of 75 articles.

I avoided moving any winter or holiday articles as well as any poor performers, I concentrated on those that are seasonally relevant and doing well at eHow. That was a mistake actually, as I indicated on my previous post. What does well (or bad) on eHow really is determined by the keyword that you’re using.

Anyway, I’ve now started doing the same at Xomba, moving over the most relevant articles. Once thats done, which I estimate will be in mid May, I can start making new content again.

My new content will be split between article sites and my own niche sites. I see Dusty, Cookie and Scarlett making niche sites and I certainly can’t let them have all the fun

My strategy going forward will be any new article I write will have three versions, one for eHow, one at InfoBarrel and one at Xomba.

3 for the price of 1, can’t beat that with a stick!

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