Time to Wake This Place Up!

Hey all,

I've been pretty absent for awhile lately but I think I am going to take a stab at reviving this site a bit.  Part of the reason I'm doing that is because I'm going to start looking into other ways to make money online besides just writing. I will be still writing and talking about residual income sites where you can write but I'll be adding things like survey sites and email sites, too. Why?

Well, my mom is in her 60s and she's living on her senior's income now (in Canada that's about $1400 a month) and she's finding it pretty tough to make ends meet sometimes. Especially if she ever wants to do things like buy an ebook to read or whatever.  So, I'm going to try and help her get going on making a bit of money online doing things that are pretty easy.

I figure this is a good place to maybe talk about those things.

I know there are a lot of people that want to learn how to do these things so I'm going to try to help here.

If there's something in particular that you want me to look into please leave me a comment!

Income Report - October 2013

Seriously - where did October go?  I must be getting old or something because time seems to just fly by these days.  I mean,  really - my kids are growing up - one of them moved out with a child of her own (ya, I'm a grandma!) and the other is going to be 18 in two years!  I've been working from home for more than 3 years now.  And 2013 is almost over!  Crazy.

Before I get onto the income report, check out the picture that I had made for me on Fiverr ----->
I don't think it really looks like me but it makes me laugh. :)

Ok - let's talk money...

1. Bubblews

I made a whopping 50 posts on Bubblews this month. You'd think that would make a huge increase - or at least noticeable - over last month since I only did 19 in September right?  Nope. It stayed almost exactly the same!  Off by just pennies!  Bizarre hey?  I guess I know now that the majority of my income from Bubblews is coming from older stuff, not the new stuff that I put up.  I'm not sure what that means for future writing. Will I post more?  Or less?  I don't know.  I'll have to think about that.  As long as I keep getting paid!  Oh, how much did I make? $153.48

Oh!  Before I forget, if you're newish to Bubblews, I actually released an ebook about it!  Yes, there's a Bubblews guidebook/FAQ now! It's totally unofficial but I've been there a year and I'm still there so I guess I must know a thing or two right? If you'd like to check it out you can find The Lost (& Unofficial) Bubblews FAQ on Amazon.

Earnings: $153.48

2. Adsense

Well, here's a shocker - Adsense STILL sucks!  Even more than it did last month! I don't even know if I want to bother with it anymore.  Except for the YouTube stuff.  But here's my Adsense earnings:

Earnings: $3.09!!!

3. YouTube

Again, YouTube is an estimate because the amount that is in the dashboard of Adsense and the amounts that are on YouTube analytics are usually a little different and what I actually end up getting is somewhere in between the two.  But this estimate is pretty close.

Earnings (estimated): $9.09

4.  InfoBarrel

Do I really have to report this?  I mean really, it's just so pathetic.  But I guess I will...

Earnings: $0.40

5. Ebooks

Great month on Ebooks this month!  Love it when a new book does well.  I released a new ebook and it got NINE 5 star reviews!  And I swear to goodness, not one of them was solicited, traded for, bought, or anything sneaky like that. All genuine!  Oh, that's not money though is it?  Ok...$17? I have to estimate because a handful of books aren't showing on my report yet.  Should be able to see them tomorrow I think.  I'll update then.

Earnings: $20.96

6. Amazon

Wow - another site that is almost exactly the same (last month was $2.47)!  LOL - odd.  Nothing overly exciting here this month...

Earnings $2.57

7. Squidoo

Again!  Almost the same as last month ($4.79) - nothing exciting. I haven't really been doing too much at Squidoo.  I did make a couple of new lenses earlier in the month and one of them has made a sale.  Will I do more? Hmmm - maybe.

Earnings: $4.26

8. LOLSpots/MyLikes

Slow month over at the FB pages this month.  Facebook has been really messing with the algorithms and I just don't care enough to think about it too much.  So, still earning but minimal

Earnings: $0.57 

9. My Writing Site

Advertising was good this month on my writing site.  I got paid for two ads this month.  And I have been posting more.  I'm actually considering moving THIS site's content over there because I can't keep up to all of my sites!

Earnings (not counting Adsense): $80

My Own Residual Earning Site

Don't forget to check out my revenue share sites:  Writedge and My Two Cents.

Grand Total:

$279.42 (an increase from $ 240.30 last month)

Future Stuff

I plan on putting a lot more effort into ebook writing in the future.  For October I'm participating in Nanowrimo and I'm hoping to put out TWO 30,000 word ebooks.  Plus, I bought new covers for 9 of my ebooks in October and I'm impatiently waiting for them to start being visible on Kindle but a friend that has been advising me SWEARS that the new covers are going to increase my sales.  I've completely revamped my author site and I finally got my first email subscriber!

I also launched a new blog but I have no idea if I have the time to keep up with it or not.  I might try to figure out a way to get someone else to add content!

Income Report - September 2013

I haven't done an income report since June!  Wow - I really should keep up with this because it helps me figure out how well I am doing.

Before I get on to the income report, I'll tell you a little bit about what I've been doing.

First, I haven't been writing at Bubblews nearly as much as I was in June.  I'm just frustrated because in July payments went missing and I've been having a hard time getting them. And one of my friends had her account closed and they won't tell her why.  And it really drives me crazy.  I think that it is a really unethical way of doing business.  But, that being said, you'll notice there are still earnings there from September.  I have no backbone. :(

Second, I have decided to give the whole blog thing another try.  A new blog with new content.  And I really want to try to do it right. I'm not sure why I'm doing this.  I have let a couple of blogs go to make room for this new one.  I just started it and my goal is to update it twice a week and focus on good content and social media. I mean really, there's not much more that you can do these days since everything else we used to do is breaking rules!  I'll see what happens with it though.

What else? Not much.  I got a few more ebooks out and I really want to do more but I have this problem.  I can't focus on anything these days! I don't know what is the matter with me. LOL

Anway, on to the reports!

1. Bubblews

I  made 19 posts in September.  Most of them were at the beginning of the month and then a handful at the end so I could get payout once more before the month was out.  I didn't post for almost 3 weeks straight.  And then I caved. I wanted that one more payout before the month was over. LOL.

Earnings: $153.42

2. Adsense

Ohmigod my Adsense sucks!  One of the reasons that I decided to start a new blog. I'm hoping this new blog will get more click throughs or something.

Earnings: $4.56

3. YouTube

It's hard to be exact because the number YouTube gives me and the numbers Adsense gives me and what I actually get are usually a bit different.  I still have 3 channels but only 2 of them are making money. I'm hoping this is close to right because it should be enough to get a check this month!

Earnings (estimated): $5.96

4.  InfoBarrel

IB is not my site.  I mean, it doesn't do well for me.  I know people who do very well at IB but I'm not one of them.  I actually removed some of my content, waited for it to de-index, and put it on my own revenue share site to see if it might do a little bit better.  But, I did get a couple of nice little clicks on IB last month so...

Earnings: $1.93

5. Ebooks

I really need to get my butt in gear and write some more books.  Considering that I could likely write a short book of about 10,000 words in about 3 days I should have loads of them up  here!  I don't know why I don't.  Lack of motivation?  You'd think money would be enough motivation wouldn't you?  Well, as of the end of September I now have 12 ebooks - two under my own name and 10 under a pseudonym.

Earnings: $13.17

6. Amazon

The majority of my Amazon sales come from Squidoo lenses that have  my own links in them. But in August I saw my first (and only) sale from my Amazon store site.  That was nice.  I'd like to see more of that though.  I'm mostly using Pinterest for traffic for that site and a little bit of twitter.  September was not my best month.

Earnings $2.47

7. Squidoo

I'm not earning LOADS with Squidoo but considering how much work and effort I put into it these days, I'm amazed to earn anything.  Every month I seem to get a couple sales and have a handful of lenses in Tier 3 so I make a bit.  September was not my best month, but not my worst.  I've been luckier than most in that I've only had a few lenses locked. And it's better than most other sites I've worked on with a total of $88 and change earned to date.  It was a year ago that I started getting serious about making money on Squidoo.

Earnings: $4.79

8. LOLSpots/MyLikes

My Facebook Page. I have to say that although this is not my biggest earner, it does earn more than other (like IB) and I do almost nothing on this little egg.  I have my Facebook Page set up so everything autoposts.  I use a combination of LOLSpots and MyLikes.  MyLikes takes a bit more work because I need to load up links to BufferApp but I do it when I remember.  LOLSpots is easier because they pretty much do all the work for me. Consider the effort that I put into it I'm ok with what it is earnings.  I have made enough on LOLSpots to get paid out this month - just over $10 and I've been paid out twice (have to have more than $2) in earnings from MyLikes with a total of about $5.  I need to keep better track of these two sites.

Earnings: $4 (estimated because I didn't write down the exact amount for LOLSpots in September and their stats aren't the best)

9. My Writing Site

I'm trying to post on my writing site more often and have been playing around with advertising.  I even tried Chikita and didn't like the ads that showed up.  Now I have Adsense back on there and I'm only using text links.  I find that they are a lot more relevant.  I'll know better next month if it is making a difference.  I do like the new text ad formats.

Oh, and on top of that I made $50 in the form of a text link for Grammarly.  The $50 came in the form of an Amazon gift card, which is fine with me because it will go towards buying presents for my grandbaby for Christmas.  So, I'm counting this. ;)

Earnings (not counting Adsense): $50

My Own Residual Earning Site

I actually have two of them now.  Writedge is the site I run with my friend Michelle.  As I said before, I'm not going to talk about the money on this site but what I will tell you is that the amount of content has seriously increase.  And, some of MY earnings from Adsense is from clicks on my own links to the site.  The other is My Two Cents.  I've basically set this site up so that if I decide not to write at Bubblews at all, I have somewhere to do these short posts.  I'm not heavily promoting it as a rev share site but if you want to come and post you're welcome to be there.  It is adsense based and you can use links to your own Amazon or other affiliate programs.  One link per post.

Grand Total:

$ 240.30