My Online Income

Well for the last 10 months, I have managed to have at least one sale through Amazon. It looks like that streak is about to end since today is the 29th of November and I don't have any sales yet. I am actually a little surprised given that this is the shopping season. Maybe all the people that link through my Amazon links are procrastinating like me. Despite that, I am not too worried. Both AdSense income and HubPages Ad Program income are up compared to last month and traffic continues to...

Last week on April 1st, I launched my newest blog project. It is a personal finance site that has many personal finance bloggers contributing a few articles per month to offer a wide array of topics and viewpoints. I have also instituted a fairly unique compensation scheme for the contributors based upon views with a profit sharing component as well. Ultimately, should the blog ever be sold, the contributors will also share in at least half the proceeds.I doubt any business typically gives up...

Making money online is a marathon and not a sprint. This is what I had planned when I first started with $30 monthly income in July 2010 and figured that I would try to grow that figure by 5% monthly. In so doing, I figured that I could get to $1000 per month by 2016. Little did I realize that I would surpass that figure for 3 months in a row. However, there has been some fluctuations and income for February and March will be down but well above the $96 figure that I would need to earn by...

It has been a busy month. I am working hard to bring another blog to life and will share more details once it is up and running. The other two blogs are doing well at this point. I have been able to make some money and get some debt paid off. I had hoped to add more Hubs to my arsenal and get to 400 by the end of the year. I really don't think that will be happening since life is so busy. However, I am publishing more content and have some goals for the HubPages Ad Program. I would like to at...

I am actually somewhat surprised, but February 2012 has been the best month for AdSense for me yet in the almost 3 years that I have been writing online. I really hadn't been thinking about it or was expecting it. It has just been a consistent month. There have been a few great days and one really awesome day, but the thing that I noticed was consistent traffic and activity. Now the total is still not enough to get monthly payments from Google, but it does mean that I am closer than I have...

Dang it! I have writer's block and have no clue what to write about for Friday's post tomorrow on Cash Flow Mantra. It is almost 11:30 at night, I am tired, and I just can't get motivated to really write anything. It needs to be a financial topic, but I am totally stumped. I really don't have any strategy for dealing with writer's block. I suppose it would be a good idea if I did. It would be nice to have a couple posts all ready to go and scheduled out. I have tried every once in a while to...

Well, January has been a pretty good month to me and there are still a few days left. The month saw the launch of my newest blog which has gotten over 1800 visitors in the last 30 days. I will probably end up January between 1800 and 2000 which seems like a decent launch considering I am not a professional and only do this part-time. I also completed the give away for my other blog, Cash Flow Mantra. I will be announcing the winners tomorrow, but they have all received their money. Plus I...

I also like it because it provides me a good comparison from year to year on the amount of passive income that I can earn while away on vacation.Looking back at 2011 during the 7 days while we were away, I earned a total of $6.98 with AdSense or not quite $1 per day. This year I am pleased to report that I earned $14.15 or more than double with AdSense during those same 7 days away while playing golf.I am also especially pleased to report that I received an additional $82.47 while away due to...

The main criteria for winning is that you must have a PayPal account so that I can get the money to you. I am using money that I have earned from the blog itself to pay out the prizes keeping with my trend of not investing any of my own money into my online ventures, but only my time.It has been wonderful to be able to attract advertisers and make money since I have been able to expand using some of that revenue and start a second blog hiring some writers to help with the content since my...

Grand Per Month, is coming up very soon so I have been working very hard to get all the content together for the first month. I have all four posts from the hired authors and have three of them scheduled in WordPress. I have written one post of my own, but still have four of my own to write. The first one isn't due to be posted until January 9th, but I am wanting to stay one month ahead and have all articles ready to go by the first of each month. This means that I also have to put together...

However, since I try to be true to my word and said Monday would be the announcement, I waited til Monday. But before I reveal the URL, I would like to offer a little background. I wrote a post at Cash Flow Mantra wondering aloud if there were part-time bloggers who could make $1000 per month. I figured that it was quite possible for a full-time blogger to do this. After all, writing for 40-50 hours per week should be able to generate about $2 per hour. A free-lancing article or two per day plu…

Sunday night I was able to get WordPress loaded onto the new domain with only a little help from the online live chat at HostGator. It simply gets a little bit easier each time. I then found a theme that I will be starting with and spent the last few days working with it. I now have a Welcome post and the Policies page complete.I have also placed my own picture across the top. I am not exactly computer savvy when it comes to CSS and HTML coding, but I managed to piece together enough informatio…

The best part is that I am now making enough with my blog, Cash Flow Mantra, that I can afford to partner with a few fellow bloggers and pay for 4 articles per month with some of the money that I have been making. Right now, I have enough money in my PayPal account to pay for about 4 months worth of articles.My plan all along has been to spend my time to develop an online income stream rather than any money. I have successfully done that and haven't spent one dime of my own money. Rather b

I just happened to be on the Yakezie forums on Sunday morning and joined a team that is looking to help each other with generating traffic and commenting on one another's blogs. There are 15 members so it will definitely be noticeable in my statistics since my traffic isn't all that great to begin with. We just started this yesterday and should the numbers remain consistent through the end of the year, I think this will help me succeed in the Yakezie Challenge of getting the Alexa Rank for...

Well, it has been a fairly productive weekend and I managed to get 2 posts written for my blog at CFM for the upcoming week. That means the next post will be for Friday so I am 4 days ahead on my posting schedule. It has been quite some time since I have been in this position. My goal was to get 3 done, but I will take what I can get. I also wrote a link post this morning and got it published so I guess you could say that I really did get 3 posts written.It seems that having a regular posting schedule is an asset for a blog so that readers can know what to expect. I also think that more publishing ...