Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Blogging, Getting Published, Writing on Sep 4th, 2008
After running through last month’s stats, it got me thinking about how much money is in writing. As most people know, there isn’t much unless you hit the big time. And it’s especially little when you’re starting out. According to the Department of Labor, the median writer/author makes around $48,000, but that includes copywriters and [...]
Posted in alternative income on Sep 4th, 2008
Here are my numbers for the alternative income I made in August. I’m happy to report that this beats my all time record of income for a month, despite not having any freelance income or any ING referrals. Why so much then? Well, I set a new high for my Adsense income, which is nice [...]
Posted in alternative income on Aug 16th, 2008
OK well I totally forgot about this earlier in the month, so here is what the blog did financially last month. As you’ll notice, the biggest change is that the freelance income is gone. The job was becoming a time suck for me and was paying me very little per hour, so after some wrangling [...]
Posted in alternative income on Jul 30th, 2008
I’ve been posting my alternative income for every month lately and while it’s nice to chart how well I do from one month to the next, I started to wonder how much alternative income I’ve made total since I started to monetize my blog and keep track of this stuff. So I decided to count [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on May 30th, 2008
Well, I’m back from getting married so it’s time for Day 9 of Building a Better Blog. This tip is essential for your blog if you have decided to run ads on it: Run an Ad Audit.
The idea here is to take a look at your existing ads and play with their placement, color, and [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on May 13th, 2008
Welcome to Day 2 of my quest to build a better blog by following ProBlogger’s Guide. Yesterday was Day 1 and I emailed a new commenter to say thank you.
Today’s tip is to Run a First Time Reader Audit. I have to be honest when I say I almost skipped this one (or faked [...]
Posted in alternative income on May 1st, 2008
Here’s what my situation looks like for April compared to March:
The increase data tells you I boosted my alternative income by $56 compared to yesterday, which is pretty good (a 70% increase over last month’s 36% increase), but there are some things to clarify before getting too giddy.
I didn’t get any ING referrals this month [...]
Posted in Finance, Freelancing, Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2008
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 [...]
Take a look at this USA Today article, it’s about seniors using the internet to make money.
I think it’s really interesting and great that older people are getting into computers and spending their time doing something they really enjoy. That they are making some money off it is also fantastic.
But the article is severely flawed. [...]
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