As 2013 starts to wind down, it's time to think about goals. I made a lot of goals for myself for 2013 and the truth is life and my "real" job (and a bit of laziness) got in the way of my goals. I was also hit pretty hard by the Squidoo shake-up and having my account locked. That certainly hurt and set back my goals.
I also became enamored with some new sites like Bubblews. Which is a great way to earn money quickly and get paid consistently provided you work hard. I was working very hard at Bubblews last week and then some life got in the way and Friday night, I fell off the Bubblews wagon and haven't gotten back on my 10 posts a day and frequent commenting/liking on the site.
This week, I have focused on trying to meet some very short term goals that will effect how my 2013 ends up.
Hubpages Goal
First, my goals was to reach $50 in Ad Program earnings on Hubpages so that I will get paid out next month and have a Hubpages payout for 2013. I have been working hard promoting my Hubs and am about $1 away...$1.02 to be exact. With 4 days left in November (counting today as I don't know today's earnings), I think I'm on track to reach my goal. For the past two days I've earned $0.38 and $0.48 and according to Google Analytics, I have more views to my hubs today than each of the last two days, so even with the holiday tomorrow, I think I'm in good shape.
You can help me out by checking out my Hubs here.
Adsense Goal
My next goal was to reach a total of $100 in Adsense earnings so I could get paid my Adsense earnings in 2013. With a balance of $99.00 in Adsense earnings by the end of last month and an average Adsense earnings per month of about 10 cents now that Infobarrel no longer uses Adsense, I figured that goal was not even worth pursuing. However, someone I must have lucked out as someone must have liked one of the Adsense ads with my Adsense code as I received a click with earnings somewhere under $2 and between that and impression earnings, etc... have a current balance for the month of $2.01 so I should receive payment next month!
Yahoo! Voices Goal
I used to be guaranteed that I'd reach the $1.50 minimum from Yahoo! Voices monthly doing no work either promoting my articles or writing new ones, yet in the past few months my earnings have dropped and I have been getting paid every other month. Right now my balance is $1.08 and given that I seem guaranteed to reach my goal with Hubpages, I plan to spend the next three days promoting my Yahoo! Voices articles in hopes I will be paid my November earnings next month.
You can help me out by checking out my Yahoo! Voices earnings here.
Bubblews Goal
Once I have complete the above goals, I plan to get back on the Bubblews wagon and get back to actively reading, liking, and commenting on my connections posts while writing the 10 posts per day myself. Based upon how I was doing, I should reach payout every other day and hopefully daily by the end of 2013.
You can check out my Bubblews posts here.
Miscellaneous Goals
If I have time after completing the goals ahead, I will then focus on my Examiner writing and at a minimum do they 7 slideshows (guaranteed $1 each plus views) and 5 articles with videos (another guaranteed $1 each plus views) each week so I stop missing out on $12 per week, which adds up to $624.00 per year. Not to mention how much money I would earn from views if I would to back to writing that many articles per week. Last December I earned over $700 from Examiner, I really need to be more active on Examiner.
Additionally, I will focus more on my personal blogs and using affiliate marketing and promoting products with those sites. There's a lot of money out there and I am missing out on it, especially with Black Friday, I could have potentially made a lot of money promoting sales and products.
Oh, one more goal I forgot. Ebates is currently offering a promotion of $50 in referral fees for every 2 new referrals you sign up who make a purchase at one of Ebates cash back shopping sites of $25 by December 31st. So far I have one new referral, but he has not made a purchase. I will continue to promote Ebates in hopes of getting those referral fees.
If you are not an Ebates member, it's a great site where you earn cash back for shopping online at your favorite stores. Please sign up with my referral link here. If you do, you will get a $10 gift card to the store of your choice just for signing up!
So what are your goals for the end of 2013?
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
My 2012 Earnings
I have been horrible about updating this blog and don't have a ton of time right now, but I want to at least give a quick update on my earnings for 2012. In 2012, I made nearly five times what I made in 2011.
My Squidoo earnings were over ten times my 2011 Squidoo earnings and actually twice my total earnings for 2012. However, the big sleeper was Examiner. I got a new Examiner title towards the end of the year and made $705 alone in December! The combination of Squidoo and Examiner ensure that in 2013, my earnings will far exceed my earnings for 2012, with my current goal for the end of 2013 being $10,000!
Wizzley was my big disappointment. If you'll recall, I was inspired by initial results at the end of 2011 and inspired to make more Wizzes in 2012. Well, I really dropped the ball on that. I made one or two new Wizzes, although I'm not sure I even completed them both to the point of being published. Anyway, as a result, my earnings from Wizzley was a whopping goose egg!
My 2012 Squidoo Earnings: $1,383.41
My 2011 Examiner Earnings: $801.50
My 2012 Infobarrel Earnings: $82.21
My 2012 Triond Earnings: $34.75
My 2011 Hubpages Earnings: $22.05
My 2012 Bukisa Earnings: $15.07
My 2012 Yahoo! Voices Earnings: $10.01
My 2011 Wizzley Earnings: $0
Total: $2,349
I have some goals for 2013, which I will share at a later date, but for now I wanted to at least provide this update which is about 2 months overdue!
My Squidoo earnings were over ten times my 2011 Squidoo earnings and actually twice my total earnings for 2012. However, the big sleeper was Examiner. I got a new Examiner title towards the end of the year and made $705 alone in December! The combination of Squidoo and Examiner ensure that in 2013, my earnings will far exceed my earnings for 2012, with my current goal for the end of 2013 being $10,000!
Wizzley was my big disappointment. If you'll recall, I was inspired by initial results at the end of 2011 and inspired to make more Wizzes in 2012. Well, I really dropped the ball on that. I made one or two new Wizzes, although I'm not sure I even completed them both to the point of being published. Anyway, as a result, my earnings from Wizzley was a whopping goose egg!
My 2012 Squidoo Earnings: $1,383.41
My 2011 Examiner Earnings: $801.50
My 2012 Infobarrel Earnings: $82.21
My 2012 Triond Earnings: $34.75
My 2011 Hubpages Earnings: $22.05
My 2012 Bukisa Earnings: $15.07
My 2012 Yahoo! Voices Earnings: $10.01
My 2011 Wizzley Earnings: $0
Total: $2,349
I have some goals for 2013, which I will share at a later date, but for now I wanted to at least provide this update which is about 2 months overdue!
Friday, June 1, 2012
May, 2012 Earnings
After a long delay, I have a some free time, so I thought I'd give an update on my earnings from May, 2009. I took a major vacation from writing and have barely written in months. In December, I set myself some goals for what to earn by July 1 so my plan for June is to write, write, write in hopes of meeting the goals I meant to spend 7 months working on.
Squidoo Earnings: $79.84
Infobarrel Earnings: $2.01
Hubpages Earnings: $1.16
Triond Earnings:$0.93
Yahoo! Voices Earnings: $0.80
Bukisa Earnings: $1.03
Wizzley Earnings: $0
Total May, 2012 Earnings: $85.77
Squidoo Earnings: $79.84
Infobarrel Earnings: $2.01
Hubpages Earnings: $1.16
Triond Earnings:$0.93
Yahoo! Voices Earnings: $0.80
Bukisa Earnings: $1.03
Wizzley Earnings: $0
Total May, 2012 Earnings: $85.77
Sunday, January 1, 2012
My 2011 Earnings from Writing Online & 2012 Writing Goals
Happy New Year! 2011 has come to a close and 2012 has started. I have updated all of my making money earnings and made a total of $585.48 this year by writing online. I made $554.32 from writing articles and $31.16 from affiliate sales. A more detailed break-down of my earnings per program is below.
My goal for 2012 is by the end of the year to be making $500 per month. A huge goal! I hope to become more diligent about promoting all of my articles and creating backlinks for them. I also plan to write, write, write. I hope to have at least 100 articles/pages for each site that I write for by the end of the year and will greatly increase the number of articles I write for Infobarrel. (I haven't written for Infobarrel in almost 2 months!) This year I received my first tier 1 lens for Squidoo: Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon. I plan to promote this lens so that it remains tier 1 all year and create at least 1 new lens that becomes tier 1. (Ideally, I would like to end 2012 with 5 tier 1 lenses). I also plan to create more pages at Wizzley, where although I have 2 very simple pages, I am pulling in strong Adsense earnings per page.
My 2011 Squidoo Earnings: $100.99
My 2011 Infobarrel Earnings: $20.38
My 2011 Bukisa Earnings: $11.81
My 2011 Triond Earnings: $2.14
My 2011 Associated Content Earnings: $94.62
My 2011 Hubpages Earnings: $2.61
My 2011 Wizzley Earnings: $1.76
My 2011 Examiner Earnings: $9.71
My 2011 eHow Earnings: $310.30
How did you do in 2011? What are your writing goals for 2012?
My goal for 2012 is by the end of the year to be making $500 per month. A huge goal! I hope to become more diligent about promoting all of my articles and creating backlinks for them. I also plan to write, write, write. I hope to have at least 100 articles/pages for each site that I write for by the end of the year and will greatly increase the number of articles I write for Infobarrel. (I haven't written for Infobarrel in almost 2 months!) This year I received my first tier 1 lens for Squidoo: Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon. I plan to promote this lens so that it remains tier 1 all year and create at least 1 new lens that becomes tier 1. (Ideally, I would like to end 2012 with 5 tier 1 lenses). I also plan to create more pages at Wizzley, where although I have 2 very simple pages, I am pulling in strong Adsense earnings per page.
My 2011 Squidoo Earnings: $100.99
My 2011 Infobarrel Earnings: $20.38
My 2011 Bukisa Earnings: $11.81
My 2011 Triond Earnings: $2.14
My 2011 Associated Content Earnings: $94.62
My 2011 Hubpages Earnings: $2.61
My 2011 Wizzley Earnings: $1.76
My 2011 Examiner Earnings: $9.71
My 2011 eHow Earnings: $310.30
How did you do in 2011? What are your writing goals for 2012?
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Yahoo! Voices Changes
As I previously mentioned, Associated Content is now Yahoo! Voices. As part of the change, Yahoo! Voices has apparently decided to go through and purge several of the articles on the site. (Apparently 75,000 to start and more as times goes by.) The strange thing is how they are going about it. I have two articles that were published over one year ago that I received e-mails regarding stating that they were rejected for publication. The e-mails were written as if I had just submitted the content for review so the wording was weird given they had been published for over one year.
With the first article, it was "rejected" but in reality de-published for taking content from other sources. It was a list of the 2011 Oscar winners, so obviously that is content that is published numerous locations and there really aren't a variety of ways to write it a different way. Annoying, especially given it had gotten a lot of traffic in the past few months with talk of the 2012 Oscars, but no big deal.
The second article was "rejected" for upfront payment because it was too short. The ridiculous part about that is that I have already received an upfront payment for that article. In fact, I received upfront payment for that article in January, 2011! So again, what are they going to do? Take the money back?
The only frustrating thing is that when the articles are "rejected" they are not only un-published (just because the 2nd article wasn't good enough for an upfront payment doesn't mean it's not good enough to be published) but you don't have the option of going back & editing the articles to resubmit. The only options are to view the article or delete it. At least you can view it which gives the option of cutting & pasting the article and either rewriting it for Yahoo! Voices or submitting it to another paid to write site. I haven't decided which I'm going to do. The 2nd article is a local article and considering I am the local writer for my neighborhood on Examiner, I will likely edit the article to make it more timely and relevant and fleshed out and submit it to Examiner. The Oscar article isn't really worth much, but I may try to publish it some place like Bukisa or Triond to get the occasional view. If I were patient I could also create a Hub, Lens, or Page on Hubpages, Squidoo, and Wizzley respectively regarding the 2011 Oscar winners and use it to promote the DVDs of the movies nominated on Amazon to try to gain affiliate sales. I already have a lens like that ready to go for the 2012 Oscars.
Has the change to Yahoo! Voices affected you? What are your thoughts on the change?
With the first article, it was "rejected" but in reality de-published for taking content from other sources. It was a list of the 2011 Oscar winners, so obviously that is content that is published numerous locations and there really aren't a variety of ways to write it a different way. Annoying, especially given it had gotten a lot of traffic in the past few months with talk of the 2012 Oscars, but no big deal.
The second article was "rejected" for upfront payment because it was too short. The ridiculous part about that is that I have already received an upfront payment for that article. In fact, I received upfront payment for that article in January, 2011! So again, what are they going to do? Take the money back?
The only frustrating thing is that when the articles are "rejected" they are not only un-published (just because the 2nd article wasn't good enough for an upfront payment doesn't mean it's not good enough to be published) but you don't have the option of going back & editing the articles to resubmit. The only options are to view the article or delete it. At least you can view it which gives the option of cutting & pasting the article and either rewriting it for Yahoo! Voices or submitting it to another paid to write site. I haven't decided which I'm going to do. The 2nd article is a local article and considering I am the local writer for my neighborhood on Examiner, I will likely edit the article to make it more timely and relevant and fleshed out and submit it to Examiner. The Oscar article isn't really worth much, but I may try to publish it some place like Bukisa or Triond to get the occasional view. If I were patient I could also create a Hub, Lens, or Page on Hubpages, Squidoo, and Wizzley respectively regarding the 2011 Oscar winners and use it to promote the DVDs of the movies nominated on Amazon to try to gain affiliate sales. I already have a lens like that ready to go for the 2012 Oscars.
Has the change to Yahoo! Voices affected you? What are your thoughts on the change?
Monday, December 5, 2011
Associated Content now Yahoo! Voices
On December 2, 2011, Associated Content was changed to Yahoo! Voices. All prior blog posts and references to Associated Content will be kept on this blog, but going forward the site will be referred to as Yahoo! Voices. Further, I recently created a page dedicated to chronicling my Associated Content earnings on Hubpages, that hub will only include my earnings from 2010 & 2011. Going forward my earnings from 2012 and in the future, will be chronicled in the new Squidoo lens I created on my Yahoo! Voices earnings.
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