I am still plugging away. Making some money online. I seem to stay in a place (income-wise) where I make a wonderful part-time income but have trouble stepping it up a notch where I can kick the day-job to the curb and work from home. I don't have it bad, though cause I'm a webmaster in my day job and I get to play on facebook and twitter and make blogs all day. But, man! I'd love to work in my pajamas and ditch all the office politics crap.
Anyway, for an update, I have been stalled BIG TIME!! I've been stuck since January...and there is no way I can lie or weasel out of this cause I have had a "business coach" for the last two years and I had to fire her recently cause it was embarassing to talk to her every 2 weeks and have very little to report on growing my business!! Eeeks ...no one to blame but myself (even though I want to blame my husband and my job and bla bla bla) Nevermind blaming anyone/anything, I am going to make some changes.
First change is that I am dumping Stompernet. It is expensive $800.00 a month ..I think it is worth it, but I really don't use it enough to justify $800.00 a month...besides, with $800.00 a month at my disposal, I can buy some other educational materials and shake things up!! Stompernet has had a big shakeup lately with one of the founders leaving ...I'm sure it will still be top-notch but I've paid $800.00 a month for 2 years and don't feel the need any longer!!
I get a lot of my online mojo these days from Wordpress Goldmine (that's an affiliate link!) The guy Mark who runs the site (it is a book, videos and a forum) is a cool guy and I first "met" him (he doesn't know I exist, I'm sure) in NicheRockets (which had some other name before which I can't remember) ...so I've been following him for 5 years or so?? and he has always been a straight shooter. I am pretty much a lurker in forums, so that is why I doubt he knows me.
Btw, just in case you didn't notice, I am recommending something that costs $67.00 one time fee vs something that costs $800.00 a month. I've followed LOTS of the gurus and if you are new, watch out, cause some of them are just plain junk. That is another thing about Wordpress Goldmine, Mark doesn't promote a lot of crap.
Anyway, other than that, I'm turning 50 in a couple of months...how could that be? Boy, it is really important for me to live my life to the fullest. I struggle with wanting to grow my business but not really wanting to be on the stupid computer ALL. THE. TIME!! You know?
Anyway, I'm going to start promoting a few new sites I made a few months ago and see what happens. I'll pop back with an update. In the meantime, if you want to make some money online, give it a try ...there is nothing like getting those checks from all over the place every month!!
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
What's going on with me?
LOTS!!
Income is down. I've tried to grown my inventory of sites by making a few new sites and I bought a couple of sites. One of the purchased sites was annoying because it ended up to be a bit of a "bait and switch". (luckily I didn't pay too much for it)
Now, I need to spend the time to promote these new sites a bit. (the fun part!)
I'm outsourcing a lot of the work, but I still have too much to do and the quality of outsourcing is not that great. I think site visitors can pick up the vibe when a site is loved and cared for (even if it isn't updated that often) vs the vibe where it is updated often, but it is by folks who are not really emotionally invested.
Not sure what/where I'm doing/going. I still work a full time job as a webmaster however I feel like I work too much and don't have enough time to stop and smell the roses. I'll give a few more details in the next post.
Income is down. I've tried to grown my inventory of sites by making a few new sites and I bought a couple of sites. One of the purchased sites was annoying because it ended up to be a bit of a "bait and switch". (luckily I didn't pay too much for it)
Now, I need to spend the time to promote these new sites a bit. (the fun part!)
I'm outsourcing a lot of the work, but I still have too much to do and the quality of outsourcing is not that great. I think site visitors can pick up the vibe when a site is loved and cared for (even if it isn't updated that often) vs the vibe where it is updated often, but it is by folks who are not really emotionally invested.
Not sure what/where I'm doing/going. I still work a full time job as a webmaster however I feel like I work too much and don't have enough time to stop and smell the roses. I'll give a few more details in the next post.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
I want to crank out the work!
Okay it is now 2:50pm. I am sitting down to work. I'll check back with a status update in a couple of hours.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Bored!!
I am trying to make a new blog every week. However I find it very boring. Want to know what would make it more exciting? If these new sites took off like wild fire and started making lots of money!! I got to get over being bored and start working!
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Well, well, well. I'm sure no one reads this blog anymore, but I find it helpful to track my progress. What is going on with me?
I've consistently kept my earnings at around $3500.00 since about May of this year and I have stalled there. I have made minor attempts at new sites but it still comes down to about the same 8 sites. ...I should probably say 6 sites since two are very neglected and don't make any money. I got a "day job" in May and that along with the freelance work I do (web design and programming) I found it hard to keep up with all my sites and have started outsourcing the content. You can say all you want about outsourcing, but outsourcers never ever will have the passion and interest that I do in the subject. I think that working with outsourcers will let me maintain the level of my sites but I doubt they will have the ability to grow them into great sites. I still keep up my main money site and do NOT outsource the content for that site. My second biggest money earner site is more of a website than a blog and it rarely gets updated and it brings in a good adsense and affiliate based income. It has a blog that I rarely post to ..and up until recently had a forum. But the spammers beat me down with the forum and I had no interest in spending my time deleting their stupid posts.
My goal now is to create some new sites and beef up my income. I figure if I can make $10,000.00 -$12,000.00 a month that will be enough to support myself and my husband. (I live in Southern California and it is NOT cheap!! ...and I am not interested in scaling down my lifestyle by much!!) I would like to ditch the day job, but I enjoy it (I'm lucky, I know) so there is no rush.
In a future post, I'll talk about some of the ways I've been experimenting lately to get traffic and go over some of the new sites I build.
I've consistently kept my earnings at around $3500.00 since about May of this year and I have stalled there. I have made minor attempts at new sites but it still comes down to about the same 8 sites. ...I should probably say 6 sites since two are very neglected and don't make any money. I got a "day job" in May and that along with the freelance work I do (web design and programming) I found it hard to keep up with all my sites and have started outsourcing the content. You can say all you want about outsourcing, but outsourcers never ever will have the passion and interest that I do in the subject. I think that working with outsourcers will let me maintain the level of my sites but I doubt they will have the ability to grow them into great sites. I still keep up my main money site and do NOT outsource the content for that site. My second biggest money earner site is more of a website than a blog and it rarely gets updated and it brings in a good adsense and affiliate based income. It has a blog that I rarely post to ..and up until recently had a forum. But the spammers beat me down with the forum and I had no interest in spending my time deleting their stupid posts.
My goal now is to create some new sites and beef up my income. I figure if I can make $10,000.00 -$12,000.00 a month that will be enough to support myself and my husband. (I live in Southern California and it is NOT cheap!! ...and I am not interested in scaling down my lifestyle by much!!) I would like to ditch the day job, but I enjoy it (I'm lucky, I know) so there is no rush.
In a future post, I'll talk about some of the ways I've been experimenting lately to get traffic and go over some of the new sites I build.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
May Earnings
May Earnings
Google 1730.67
TLA 633.99
Linkshare 81.90
CJ 545.10
Shareasale 50.54
Blogads 326.32
misc affiliate 11.80
total 3383.32
more later....
Google 1730.67
TLA 633.99
Linkshare 81.90
CJ 545.10
Shareasale 50.54
Blogads 326.32
misc affiliate 11.80
total 3383.32
more later....
Sunday, January 27, 2008
update
Well, adsense income is still about 50% higher than pre holiday traffic. I was stuck at aprox. $30.00 a day average for about 5 months and after a banner month last month, it has now settled back to aprox. $47.00 a day. I always worry about relying so heavily on adsense.
My traffic building strategies are working. I've found a few good places to advertise the contests that I am running on my one blog (only 2 more weeks to go with the contests!) which brings in quite a bit of traffic. I also offer additional entries if a blogger links to my site and I would say that I am getting about 5 new links a week from that. I will be happy when the contests are over, however, because I find it disruptive to the flow of my posting ...but we'll see.
On my wedding site, I am working on optimizing my SEO efforts. I think it is helping and traffic seems to be increasing ...or is this the natural time for increase in the wedding industry? Not sure. I am pushing an affiliate product on this site quite heavily. I make between 10.00 and 20.00 for each sale. This month I've had four sales so far; last month, I had 2 sales; and two months ago I had 1 sale.
Goal: I'm going to try to get 10 sales of this product in February. What I've done so far is: I tried the product and I wrote a review article about the product on my site. Before this month is out, I'm going to do a little video on the product and see if that will help. I also hired a writer and got 15 articles written for this site. The articles ($4.75 each) aren't really all that great and I *may* create a feeder site with them rather than put them on this site.
Other stuff: I still haven't done diddley with my travel site ...why do I have such a block on this site???? I bought a few books off of amazon in the subject hoping to motivate me ...so far, the books sit on my desk and mock me.
I also need to pay attention to my main money site ...I have neglected it a bit lately and haven't been posting as much. One thing that I've seen over and over in my network of blogs is that posting frequently and regularly helps on every level!! It is hard to be steady and consistent and it is so easy to come up with excuses to blow off posting ...but I know deep down in my heart that that is one of the main tenets of success in this crazy online world.
I've had quite a bit of web dev freelance work lately, but I've also been looking for a full time job with benefits. In the meantime, I am trying to make this time of working from home as productive as possible!
My traffic building strategies are working. I've found a few good places to advertise the contests that I am running on my one blog (only 2 more weeks to go with the contests!) which brings in quite a bit of traffic. I also offer additional entries if a blogger links to my site and I would say that I am getting about 5 new links a week from that. I will be happy when the contests are over, however, because I find it disruptive to the flow of my posting ...but we'll see.
On my wedding site, I am working on optimizing my SEO efforts. I think it is helping and traffic seems to be increasing ...or is this the natural time for increase in the wedding industry? Not sure. I am pushing an affiliate product on this site quite heavily. I make between 10.00 and 20.00 for each sale. This month I've had four sales so far; last month, I had 2 sales; and two months ago I had 1 sale.
Goal: I'm going to try to get 10 sales of this product in February. What I've done so far is: I tried the product and I wrote a review article about the product on my site. Before this month is out, I'm going to do a little video on the product and see if that will help. I also hired a writer and got 15 articles written for this site. The articles ($4.75 each) aren't really all that great and I *may* create a feeder site with them rather than put them on this site.
Other stuff: I still haven't done diddley with my travel site ...why do I have such a block on this site???? I bought a few books off of amazon in the subject hoping to motivate me ...so far, the books sit on my desk and mock me.
I also need to pay attention to my main money site ...I have neglected it a bit lately and haven't been posting as much. One thing that I've seen over and over in my network of blogs is that posting frequently and regularly helps on every level!! It is hard to be steady and consistent and it is so easy to come up with excuses to blow off posting ...but I know deep down in my heart that that is one of the main tenets of success in this crazy online world.
I've had quite a bit of web dev freelance work lately, but I've also been looking for a full time job with benefits. In the meantime, I am trying to make this time of working from home as productive as possible!
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