The Writer’s Coin

I’ve talked and thought about alternative income and diversifying my income for a long time but I’ve never really counted up all the pennies to see how much I’ve been making. It was just such an “insignificant” amount that I never gave it much thought.

Then last month I saw some actual amounts of money in Adsense—a very modest spike. I’m talking from 2 cents to a whole dollar here. So I got all excited and then this month I saw someone actually bought some stuff from Amazon via one of my links. So I got a whole dollar for that too.

No I’m joining the countless other bloggers out there about to put their alternative income on their blog. Trust me, the only reason I’m doing it is because it’s low. But if it ever gets any higher than, say, $100, I don’t think I would keep posting it. That would be a little weird.

Anyway, here’s how I’ve done since November of last year:

	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB
ING	15.73	15.8	17.84	26.08
Adsense	0.01	0	1.34	2.94
Freelance	30	30	30	30
Amazon	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	45.74	45.8	49.18	59.02
Increase		0.05	3.38	9.84

So that’s my income. I count ING interest (and customer referrals, which are $10 each), Adsense, some freelance writing/editing/proofing/translating that I do on a monthly basis, and Amazon. The freelance work goes up to $50/month in March and Amazon so far has about a dollar or so in it, so that’ll be nice to see next month. I just couldn’t wait to get it all in spreadsheet form and see what it looked like. I know some people count dividends and stuff but I’m going to keep that out of this discussion.

The goal for Adsense since I started this was to make $60 in a year, since that’s what the hosting and domain cost me for the same amount of time. We’ll see if we reach that goal, though.

Tags: , adsense, alternative income, amazon, diversifying income, Freelancing, ING