I Need Money!... Then Why Am I Wasting Whole Days...

Well, here again, and man is it great to be back. Actually it's not really great. More mediocre. Like Michael Cera in Juno.... Sorry, lame pop culture references sound way better in real life. I've got to add video to this blog one day... But on with the post!

So yesterday, Tuesday, I was originally going to start with the PPC stuff, and I did do some more research, following threads in the Wealthy Affiliate forums about one guy that become a master at PPC advertising. If you're a member and haven't seen the thread, or if you join later and want to check it out, the title is "From Start up to Profit: Blow by Blow" and he's got a part 2 where he's helping others become profitable as well. Anyway, I realized that I probably jumped WAY too far ahead of myself with my goal being a profitable campaign in 15 days (13 now). However, that being said, I'm still going to go for it! Suicidal as it may be, I'm so tired of going back on goals/rearranging them. And my mom's pretty anxious about this whole thing, so I couldn't have postponed it for much longer.

But this has little to do with the title of the post. The first part is (what I thought was) a witty reference to a new blog that I've started following called I Need Money Now. It's another great site; I always love sites where the owners share their thoughts and plans openly, hence why this one is modeled after such a method. Before I saw guys like Ben (Make Money online with SEO and Phil (the owner of I Need Money Now) I just always kind of thought internet marketing was this huge secret trade that no one could ever explain and you had to put the pieces together yourself. All of 3 weeks later I find it remarkably simple on the surface. Sure, some technicalities like how Google processes one way linking, a ton of links coming at once, etc. impede me momentarily, but in its entirety, internet marketing is very easy to understand... Making money online just requires you put in not only the time to learn how, but also the time to actually DO, as Phil's latest post points out. I particularly like this quote:
“Once you understand that you can actually get something done if you just do it, and it won’t be done without you doing it, you are going to earn some cash.”

-Phil of I Need Money Now

I'm not sure how I should have disclaimered... disclaimed? disclaimationed? that, but I hope that was right... Anyway, you get the point; Phil's site is great; check it out if you have time.

But the second part of the title is something that's really irked me three days in a row; to start, I spent Sunday night looking back at what I had done and feeling kind of discouraged because my links weren't really doing anything. I also realized that I wouldn't be able to work on internet marketing Monday because I needed to start making guaranteed money to pay for the next month at the place in case Tissa didn't keep me a Super Sponsor at the forum (too lazy to link to it, but check out my post on ACME People Search). So I spent all day working on ChaCha (but, of course this was a contest day so I only made about $11 in total for 8 hours work... it was sloooooow) and was discouraged then by my earnings. I managed to throw two or three more articles out there after I finished work (I'm proud to announce I can write 3 articles in an hour if I even slightly know the subject, now; w00t!)

So I figure "hey, I'll get a fresh start tomorrow" but lo and behold, Tuesday dawned bright and early and I did "get started" (I'm one of those frantic stat-checkers, even though I only have one thing to check usually) by checking my stats at free traffic system. And on Google. I found out that 6 of the sites I had submitted an article to for a backlink had properly backlinked to my site, and now I was sitting on page 1 on Google (position 8, so it's not that great) for a fairly competitive term. Yay free traffic! But naturally I realized that this minor success was all the more reason to work hard to stay in Wealthy Affiliate, and that to do that I'd need more money.

So I started work with KGB, which I'll do an entire post on one day (well, if I stay with them). I worked all of 6 hours with KGB, a ChaCha like company that charges $0.99 per question, and I was sad to find out that I had only made $4! To be fair, this was my first day working, and new questions weren't coming in like they were supposed to for some reason.

Either way, I'd only made $15 between ChaCha and KGB. But hey, what can you do? Well, you can quit school for one... I seriously felt like it on Tuesday night (when I barely got sleep, man my house never gets cool), since I had to get up early for my class on Wednesday.

Even after class Wednesday social engagements held me up until about 2 hours ago, when I finally decided to just call today a loss.

So to sum up: September 1st of 2009 is when I started my goal of "Be making a full time income of $3000 a month or more online by September 1st of 2010" and I've spent only 6 of the days since then actually moving forward. Looks like I've really got to hit the ground running; I'm glad I didn't end up wasting more time though; I know I'm going to have to work on ChaCha for a few hours tomorrow to get another $20 and have enough to pay for WA, just in case, but every other part of my day tomorrow will be working on getting more articles out. Oh, and speaking of articles...

While working ChaCha, I was feeling tired and frustrated with the thought of only making $.03 per query, and I started thinking "If only I could write articles and immediately get paid, instead of having to wait and hope that someone buys the product I'm promoting through them". Between questions (told you it was slow) I started browsing forums, and then it hit me: article writing/rewriting for money. I signed up for 2 jobs involving rewriting and writing at Wealthy Affiliate, and PM'd a guy at Digital Point for a position. I figure I could double load writing articles throughout the month and get some good dough while writing articles on my own. I might develope carpal tunnel before making money online, but hey, no pain no gain, right?

Actually, even if I flake out with everything else, I could probably hit $3k a month just writing for others. Charging $0.01 per word, then I would only need to write 300,000 words to make that. Sounds like a lot, but it's only about six hundred 500-word articles (man that was confusing) or about 20 per day written throughout the month. Like I said, I can write 3 500-word articles an hour, so I could conceivably finish 20 in 7 hours, and then I could throw up to 9 more hours in for my own articles (assuming I typed and ate ramen at the same time; a skill everyone should master, lol). The math probably wouldn't work out to be that precise, but I doubt I'd take longer than 10 hours to finish 20. Imagine once I become known enough to charge just 1 more penny per article- I would half the workload I would need and still be able to breeze by with $3k a month if I did that (I don't mean to sound conceited, but I write quite well... Everyone whose ever read my writing on anything has handed me a compliment, so I hope I'm at least mediocre enough to warrant 2 cents instead of the 3-5 that well known places would charge)....

Wow, I didn't even mean to get that mathy with everyone, sorry. But anyway, I'm going to get an early start tomorrow and do some real work with PPC advertising; probably spend most of the day learning about building a landing page with Site Rubix.

Keep making money online... God knows someone should be, lol!

Peace,

Broke

P.S. I need to repost the OnlyWire link to grab access to it. This site is part of the reason I've moved up in the rankings for one search term, so its' all good.


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