Sunday, July 22, 2012
Daily Update 07/22
I didn't get much done today. I hope this isn't TMI but AF (short for aunt flow - you ladies know what I'm taking about) came today and I felt horrible. I slept until noon but was still wiped out all day. I got one rough draft posted - I just need to add links before I publish it. I got pictures collected for another 7 articles. So much for getting pictures and intros done for all 30 articles. My goal for tomorrow (if I have time - I promised a friend I would help them with something) is to write 14 articles and get a start on the intros for the other 15 articles. I hope I feel better tomorrow.
Daily Update 07/21
I'm going to make this a quick update because I'm really tired and need to go to bed. I got all 18 articles posted today. This gives me a total of 20 articles posted since I started this experiment and I moved into 4th place in the contest - 1 point out of 3rd place. I am 30 articles behind my goal. I made folders for all 30 articles and saved a Word template into each folder. I would like to write 15 of those articles tomorrow but I don't think that's going to happen. I think I will focus on writing the intros and conclusions for all 30 articles and add an outline to the body of the articles. I may also try to find pictures to go with each of the articles. I would like to have all 30 articles written and posted by Wednesday. We'll see if I can do it. Here's an outline of this week's plan:
Sunday:
Total Articles Posted: 20
Articles I Will Post: 0
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 60
Articles I'm Behind: -40
Tuesday:
Total Articles Posted: 20
Articles I Will Post: 0
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 70
Articles I'm Behind: -50
Wednesday:
Total Articles Posted: 20
Articles I Will Post: 30
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 80
Articles I'm Behind: -60
Thursday:
Total Articles Posted: 50
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 90
Articles I'm Behind: -40
Friday:
Total Articles Posted: 65
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 100 (yeah!)
Articles I'm Behind: -35
Saturday:
Total Articles Posted: 80
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 110
Articles I'm Behind: -30
Sunday:
Total Articles Posted:95
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 120
Articles I'm Behind: -25
Monday:
Total Articles Posted: 110
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 130
Articles I'm Behind: -20
Tuesday:
Total Articles Posted: 125
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 140
Articles I'm Behind: -15
Wednesday:
Total Articles Posted: 140
Articles I Will Post:15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 150
Articles I'm Behind: -10
Thursday:
Total Articles Posted: 155
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 160
Articles I'm Behind: -5
Friday:
Total Articles Posted: 170
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 170
Articles I'm Behind: 0
Okay, so that 'outline' was actually for two weeks. I just wanted to see how long it's going to take me to get caught back up. It's seems like it is going to take a while. It'll be nice to get caught up though. Maybe I can get this next 30 done before Wednesday.
Sunday:
Total Articles Posted: 20
Articles I Will Post: 0
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 60
Articles I'm Behind: -40
Tuesday:
Total Articles Posted: 20
Articles I Will Post: 0
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 70
Articles I'm Behind: -50
Wednesday:
Total Articles Posted: 20
Articles I Will Post: 30
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 80
Articles I'm Behind: -60
Thursday:
Total Articles Posted: 50
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 90
Articles I'm Behind: -40
Friday:
Total Articles Posted: 65
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 100 (yeah!)
Articles I'm Behind: -35
Saturday:
Total Articles Posted: 80
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 110
Articles I'm Behind: -30
Sunday:
Total Articles Posted:95
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 120
Articles I'm Behind: -25
Monday:
Total Articles Posted: 110
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 130
Articles I'm Behind: -20
Tuesday:
Total Articles Posted: 125
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 140
Articles I'm Behind: -15
Wednesday:
Total Articles Posted: 140
Articles I Will Post:15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 150
Articles I'm Behind: -10
Thursday:
Total Articles Posted: 155
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 160
Articles I'm Behind: -5
Friday:
Total Articles Posted: 170
Articles I Will Post: 15
Total Articles I Should Have Posted: 170
Articles I'm Behind: 0
Okay, so that 'outline' was actually for two weeks. I just wanted to see how long it's going to take me to get caught back up. It's seems like it is going to take a while. It'll be nice to get caught up though. Maybe I can get this next 30 done before Wednesday.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Daily Update 07/20
I had a very busy day today and only got 5 articles written. I now have 17 articles that I need to post to InfoBarrel. I have 1 article that is almost done. After tomorrow, I should be at 50 articles posted. When I post those 18 articles, I will be at 20 articles total so I will be 30 articles short. The plan for tomorrow is to make 30 folders, find pictures for all of the articles, gather Amazon referral links for the articles and save the product pages. I am going to try to write all 30 intros and all 30 conclusions. On Sunday, I can get to work on writing the articles. Hopefully I can get 15 articles written on Sunday and 15 articles written on Monday. Then I will post them Monday evening. I will do the same thing on Tuesday and Wednesday with 30 more articles. I should be caught back up by that point. Then I will try to get ahead with my articles so I can take a day or two off at the beginning of August. I really don't want to burn myself out. I'm already sick of writing articles. I just need to keep up this pace until the end of October or beginning of November. It seems like a long ways away but the time will go by quickly and before I know it, it will be October.
Another thing I need to start thinking about is how to pay my bills next month. I have a car payment due August 5, a student loan payment due August 7 and my favorite band is coming to town on August 21 and I would like to buy tickets to see them. I need to come up with a total of $600 and quickly. I'll be getting around $110 from Adsense and $25 from Amazon at the end of this month. Where am I going to get the other $500? I suppose I should be working Mturk but I hate doing those boring hits. I could also write articles for iWriter or Textbroker but after writing all of these articles for InfoBarrel I'm not going to feel like writing. I could probably come up with something to sell on eBay. I'll have to see what I can scrounge up. In less than 6 months, I shouldn't have this problem anymore. I'll be making at least $800 a month from InfoBarrel - hopefully more. I'll have money to pay all my bills and maybe I'll even have enough money to save. This is my motivation and I have to keep reminding myself this to keep me going.
Another thing I need to start thinking about is how to pay my bills next month. I have a car payment due August 5, a student loan payment due August 7 and my favorite band is coming to town on August 21 and I would like to buy tickets to see them. I need to come up with a total of $600 and quickly. I'll be getting around $110 from Adsense and $25 from Amazon at the end of this month. Where am I going to get the other $500? I suppose I should be working Mturk but I hate doing those boring hits. I could also write articles for iWriter or Textbroker but after writing all of these articles for InfoBarrel I'm not going to feel like writing. I could probably come up with something to sell on eBay. I'll have to see what I can scrounge up. In less than 6 months, I shouldn't have this problem anymore. I'll be making at least $800 a month from InfoBarrel - hopefully more. I'll have money to pay all my bills and maybe I'll even have enough money to save. This is my motivation and I have to keep reminding myself this to keep me going.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Keeping Up
I am having a hard time figuring out how many article I should have written and posted by now. I started this new experiment on Tuesday, July 17. This means that I have been doing my experiment for the past 3 days. Here is what I should have done and what I really have done:
Articles I Should Have Posted: 30
Articles I Have Actually Posted: 2
Articles I Have Written But Not Posted: 10
Articles That Are Almost Done: 8
With that being said, I need to have 40 articles done by tomorrow night. I should get the 18 articles written and posted by lunchtime tomorrow. Then I will be behind by 20 articles. I think I will write and post 12 articles a day for the next 5 days instead of struggling to do the 10 extra articles all at once tomorrow. I think 12 articles a day is doable. I've written 10 and a half articles already today and am planning on writing another one and a half articles before I go to bed.
Now, back to work!
Articles I Should Have Posted: 30
Articles I Have Actually Posted: 2
Articles I Have Written But Not Posted: 10
Articles That Are Almost Done: 8
With that being said, I need to have 40 articles done by tomorrow night. I should get the 18 articles written and posted by lunchtime tomorrow. Then I will be behind by 20 articles. I think I will write and post 12 articles a day for the next 5 days instead of struggling to do the 10 extra articles all at once tomorrow. I think 12 articles a day is doable. I've written 10 and a half articles already today and am planning on writing another one and a half articles before I go to bed.
Now, back to work!
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Pushing Through
Well, this is hard. I got 1 article fully written today but I didn't get it posted. I have 17 articles that have the intros done and some of the articles have pictures. I am going to write my butt off tomorrow. I have to get caught back up. I am going to write 4 more articles before I go to bed. Even if I have to stay up until 5 in the morning. This is like life or death here. If I don't make money, I'm going to be stuck in my parent's basement for the rest of my life. It would be a slow and horrible death. I need to get some money so I can move out and get a life. That's why I need to write these articles. I need to get all 17 articles written and posted by supper time tomorrow and then I will immediately get started on the next 10. I CAN DO THIS!!!
Two.
Two. That's how many articles I got written today. This 1,000 article challenge going to be harder than I thought. For the other 8 articles I was planning on writing today, I got the intros and conclusions written and I found pictures for all the articles. I also have all of the affiliate links gathered. All I need to do is fill in the middle of the articles which shouldn't take too long. Then I have to post the articles which is what takes the most time. InfoBarrel was very buggy today and I kept having to log out and log back in again, just so I could get my article published.
The plan for tomorrow morning is to create folders for 10 more articles, write the intros and conclusions for each of the articles, find pictures and affiliate links and then, in the afternoon, I will write all 18 articles. I won't post them tomorrow but I want to get them all written. I will post them on Thursday morning. I would like to say all the articles I'm writing are good quality but they are not. They are pretty bad articles (a lot of repetition and fluff) but I want to get them written and posted. After I reach my goal of $2,000 a month, I will go back and redo the articles and make them better. For now, I have what I have. It's all about quantity right now and less about quality.
I guess I have a lot to do tomorrow. I'll post another update tomorrow night (or Thursday morning :) ).
The plan for tomorrow morning is to create folders for 10 more articles, write the intros and conclusions for each of the articles, find pictures and affiliate links and then, in the afternoon, I will write all 18 articles. I won't post them tomorrow but I want to get them all written. I will post them on Thursday morning. I would like to say all the articles I'm writing are good quality but they are not. They are pretty bad articles (a lot of repetition and fluff) but I want to get them written and posted. After I reach my goal of $2,000 a month, I will go back and redo the articles and make them better. For now, I have what I have. It's all about quantity right now and less about quality.
I guess I have a lot to do tomorrow. I'll post another update tomorrow night (or Thursday morning :) ).
Monday, July 16, 2012
I'm Baaaaaaack!!!
I haven't posted in a long time - over a year - but my InfoBarrel income remains steady. I've tried to make money with niche sites but it's not consistent each month like my InfoBarrel income. This is why I've decided to once again turn my attention to InfoBarrel. If I had completed the experiment like I should have, I would be making $2,000 a month right now without having to do anything at all.
I am starting a new experiment. It will be 1,000 articles at 1,000 words each before the holiday season. I will make it to $2,000 a month but I need to focus on producing articles. I want to write as many articles as I can and hope that the money comes eventually. If I write 10 articles a day, I will have 1,070 articles on October 31.
If I were to focus on $2,000 a month, let's break it down. Last month, I made $38 from Adsense, $25 from Amazon and $1.17 from Chikita for a grand total of $64.17. I have 91 articles but 3 of those are earnings reports and about 10-15 articles were just posted to promote my niche websites. Minus those non-earning articles, I have a total of 71 articles that are well-researched. This means that I earned $0.90 per article. I would need 2,222 articles to make $2,000 a month. If I work hard enough, I can have that many articles posted by the end of the year. That means I would need to write 14 articles per day. While it's possible, I would most likely get burnt out. I'm pretty worried about getting burnt out during the 1,000 articles experiment.
I'm really sick of being poor and that is my main motivation. I'm tired of missing my favorite bands in concert because I don't have money for a ticket or skipping a family vacation because of a lack of funds. I want my own house and I want to be able to go out and have fun without worrying about paying for it. I am going to try my hardest to stick to this plan. I have to because I need the money and I just can't get a job working outside the home. The gap on my resume is too big and I'm not used to someone bossing me around. Okay, enough rambling. I've got to get some sleep so I can get up early in the morning and start cranking out those articles.
I am starting a new experiment. It will be 1,000 articles at 1,000 words each before the holiday season. I will make it to $2,000 a month but I need to focus on producing articles. I want to write as many articles as I can and hope that the money comes eventually. If I write 10 articles a day, I will have 1,070 articles on October 31.
If I were to focus on $2,000 a month, let's break it down. Last month, I made $38 from Adsense, $25 from Amazon and $1.17 from Chikita for a grand total of $64.17. I have 91 articles but 3 of those are earnings reports and about 10-15 articles were just posted to promote my niche websites. Minus those non-earning articles, I have a total of 71 articles that are well-researched. This means that I earned $0.90 per article. I would need 2,222 articles to make $2,000 a month. If I work hard enough, I can have that many articles posted by the end of the year. That means I would need to write 14 articles per day. While it's possible, I would most likely get burnt out. I'm pretty worried about getting burnt out during the 1,000 articles experiment.
I'm really sick of being poor and that is my main motivation. I'm tired of missing my favorite bands in concert because I don't have money for a ticket or skipping a family vacation because of a lack of funds. I want my own house and I want to be able to go out and have fun without worrying about paying for it. I am going to try my hardest to stick to this plan. I have to because I need the money and I just can't get a job working outside the home. The gap on my resume is too big and I'm not used to someone bossing me around. Okay, enough rambling. I've got to get some sleep so I can get up early in the morning and start cranking out those articles.
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