Today did not go as planned. After I posted this morning, I took a shower and by the time I got out, my parents came home. My mom wanted to go to town to go grocery shopping and she wanted me to come with so I did. I didn't realize that it would take so long to get home. We ended up getting home after 3 PM. I wrote one article and then it was time to make supper. We didn't get done eating supper until around 7. I started to write another article while watching the Olympic games but couldn't concentrate on what I was doing. So I wrote a total of 1 1/2 articles today. Not good at all. I'll have to really step it up tomorrow if I want to get these articles done by the end of the month. Oh, I did something today that I shouldn't have. I started an account on Squidoo. I'm not going to post anything but I just wanted an account so I can comment on lenses and start collecting points.
The plan for tomorrow (hopefully I can stick to it) is to get up around 10 am, get dressed and eat breakfast and then write for two hours until the NASCAR race starts. I'm going to watch the race and try to write some stuff during commercials. Not sure if I'll be able to do it. After the race, I will write for a couple more hours in my office. I hope to get at least 10 articles written tomorrow.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Daily Update 07/27
When I woke up this morning, I realized that I forgot to post an update yesterday so I'm doing it now. I had a lot more motivation to write articles yesterday. Taking the night off really helped. I still only wrote 2 1/2 articles but I got the intros and conclusions written for 8 more articles. The intro/conclusions are the hardest part of the article so I should be able to fly through those 8 articles today. I am going to try to write the intro/conclusions for the other 17 articles today. I'll write half of those tomorrow and the other half on Monday. I'm going to publish all of them on Tuesday and hope that I have enough points to win the contest.
As far as the contest goes, I don't know what's going on. Dj deleted all of the articles he posted in the past two weeks and then posted in the forum asking where is most recent articles were. Later, he thanked Admin for figuring out the situation out but I still don't see his articles on the site and he has dropped to 4th in the contest. I'm not sure if he is planning on re-publishing those articles or what. Right now, the leader of the contest has 175 points. I should have 260 points after I post all of my articles. I'm hoping the leader doesn't have that many articles saved up. I guess I'll have to wait and see. I'm definitely going to win the contest next month, especially if I can hit my goal of 400 articles a month.
Squidoo still calls to me but I'm going to hold off until I have reached my monthly goal next month. I'm itching to put something on there to see how much I can make. There's a woman on the InfoBarrel forum who only has 200 lenses and says she made $2,000 last month and that was sharing her earnings with Squidoo. Her lenses are almost exactly like my InfoBarrel articles. I always have an intro, write about five different products found on Amazon and then have a conclusion. Her Squidoo articles have an intro, she highlights a few different Amazon products, has a conclusion and then has an Amazon search box. She says she gets a lot of her sales from the search box. I think my InfoBarrel articles would transfer well to the Squidoo format and I think they would make more money there than on InfoBarrel. I promised myself that I would make $1,000 a month from InfoBarrel so that is what I am going to do before getting into Squidoo. It's hard to hold myself back from posting on there though.
Alright, I have a few small chores to do and then I'm off to write 8 articles and 17 intro/conclusions. I'll post an update tonight.
As far as the contest goes, I don't know what's going on. Dj deleted all of the articles he posted in the past two weeks and then posted in the forum asking where is most recent articles were. Later, he thanked Admin for figuring out the situation out but I still don't see his articles on the site and he has dropped to 4th in the contest. I'm not sure if he is planning on re-publishing those articles or what. Right now, the leader of the contest has 175 points. I should have 260 points after I post all of my articles. I'm hoping the leader doesn't have that many articles saved up. I guess I'll have to wait and see. I'm definitely going to win the contest next month, especially if I can hit my goal of 400 articles a month.
Squidoo still calls to me but I'm going to hold off until I have reached my monthly goal next month. I'm itching to put something on there to see how much I can make. There's a woman on the InfoBarrel forum who only has 200 lenses and says she made $2,000 last month and that was sharing her earnings with Squidoo. Her lenses are almost exactly like my InfoBarrel articles. I always have an intro, write about five different products found on Amazon and then have a conclusion. Her Squidoo articles have an intro, she highlights a few different Amazon products, has a conclusion and then has an Amazon search box. She says she gets a lot of her sales from the search box. I think my InfoBarrel articles would transfer well to the Squidoo format and I think they would make more money there than on InfoBarrel. I promised myself that I would make $1,000 a month from InfoBarrel so that is what I am going to do before getting into Squidoo. It's hard to hold myself back from posting on there though.
Alright, I have a few small chores to do and then I'm off to write 8 articles and 17 intro/conclusions. I'll post an update tonight.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Daily Update 07/26
Today went better than yesterday but not by much. I wrote 3 and 1/2 articles. I woke up nice and early and was planning to write 3 articles, take a break, write 3 more articles, take a lunch break, write 3 articles, take a break, write 3 articles, take a super break and write 3 more articles for a total of 15 articles. I wrote 3 articles and then got really tired so I took a nap. After my nap, I just felt blah. These articles are really boring and I'm starting to find it hard to come up with new things to say about the same type of products. How many different ways can you describe a dry erase board? Ugh. I tried to write another article but, combined with my sleepiness and how boring the topic was, I just couldn't do it. Tonight I have the house to myself so I am going to take a relaxing bubble bath. Watch a good movie (this movie about the Nazi's that I'm watching right now is kind of depressing) and then read a book. Tomorrow I will, hopefully, wake up refreshed and ready to write. I'll have the house to myself all day so I can turn up some good music, such as Bob Dylan, and get to writing.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Daily Update 07/25
Today was all about motivation and distractions. Those are the two main reasons for failure in the internet world and I battled both of them today.
Distraction
Distraction isn't just about real world distractions like phone calls, television or taking a nap instead of working. Distraction is also about other ways to make money online. Some people call it shiny object syndrome. I have been battling that since I started. In fact, this isn't the first experiment I started this month. I have another blog and I started an experiment related to my niche website. I got bored after a week, gave up and started this experiment. I'm not bored of this experiment or am planning on quitting but I've found other places to make money that I'm itching to try. For example, last week, I read an article about how Squidoo is a good place to get backlinks to your niche sites. I then remembered that I have two lenses on Squidoo that I made a year ago so I decided to check them out. They were both WIP (work in progress) and weren't published but it got me thinking about how much money you could make on Squidoo. I found the SquidU forum and started reading and got really into it. I found some people making thousands of dollars a month on Squidoo with less than 500 lenses. I would love to try to make some money with Squidoo as it looks like a lot of fun to make lenses and the lenses work better for the type of articles I'm doing on InfoBarrel. Today, someone on the InfoBarrel forum was asking about Squidoo and it made me want to completely abandon this experiment and switch over to Squidoo. I'm not going to do that because this experiment is specifically aimed at InfoBarrel (even the name of the blog has InfoBarrel in it). I am not going to give up on this experiment. I will write 1,000 articles and I will make $1,000 a month. After I reach $1,000 a month, I will switch over to Squidoo.
Motivation
The second thing I had to deal with today was motivation. I woke up pretty late this morning - actually it was after noon. I did a bunch of chores around the house that I was neglecting, ate some lunch, put some stuff on eBay and when I sat down to write my InfoBarrel articles for today, I just had no motivation. I ended up writing one article and giving up. I hope I have more motivation tomorrow. I need to get these articles written. My parents are going to be out of town tomorrow night and all day Friday so I will have peace and quiet. I will get all of these articles written by Friday because I need to get them earning money. I want my own house and the only way I'm going to get that is by being successful online. I put a deferment (I think that's what it's called) on my student loans and if it's approved, I won't have to pay my student loans until December 7, which means I need to get these articles earning money by then. That's my motivation and I need to constantly tell myself what will happen if I don't write these articles. I also need to think about life would be like making $1,000 a month. It doesn't sound like a lot but that's enough to pay off my car, pay my student loans each month, pay back my parents and have something leftover each month to save. I can live on my own when I'm making $2500 a month which is my ultimate goal.
So that was my day today, battling motivation and distraction. I wrote 1 article. I didn't even post the draft on InfoBarrel. Tomorrow I will write 15 articles no matter what. All I will do tomorrow is write. I will set my alarm and get up early. I'm going to go to bed shortly and, hopefully, I can fall asleep right away so I won't be tired tomorrow. I will get the other 15 articles written on Friday.
Distraction
Distraction isn't just about real world distractions like phone calls, television or taking a nap instead of working. Distraction is also about other ways to make money online. Some people call it shiny object syndrome. I have been battling that since I started. In fact, this isn't the first experiment I started this month. I have another blog and I started an experiment related to my niche website. I got bored after a week, gave up and started this experiment. I'm not bored of this experiment or am planning on quitting but I've found other places to make money that I'm itching to try. For example, last week, I read an article about how Squidoo is a good place to get backlinks to your niche sites. I then remembered that I have two lenses on Squidoo that I made a year ago so I decided to check them out. They were both WIP (work in progress) and weren't published but it got me thinking about how much money you could make on Squidoo. I found the SquidU forum and started reading and got really into it. I found some people making thousands of dollars a month on Squidoo with less than 500 lenses. I would love to try to make some money with Squidoo as it looks like a lot of fun to make lenses and the lenses work better for the type of articles I'm doing on InfoBarrel. Today, someone on the InfoBarrel forum was asking about Squidoo and it made me want to completely abandon this experiment and switch over to Squidoo. I'm not going to do that because this experiment is specifically aimed at InfoBarrel (even the name of the blog has InfoBarrel in it). I am not going to give up on this experiment. I will write 1,000 articles and I will make $1,000 a month. After I reach $1,000 a month, I will switch over to Squidoo.
Motivation
The second thing I had to deal with today was motivation. I woke up pretty late this morning - actually it was after noon. I did a bunch of chores around the house that I was neglecting, ate some lunch, put some stuff on eBay and when I sat down to write my InfoBarrel articles for today, I just had no motivation. I ended up writing one article and giving up. I hope I have more motivation tomorrow. I need to get these articles written. My parents are going to be out of town tomorrow night and all day Friday so I will have peace and quiet. I will get all of these articles written by Friday because I need to get them earning money. I want my own house and the only way I'm going to get that is by being successful online. I put a deferment (I think that's what it's called) on my student loans and if it's approved, I won't have to pay my student loans until December 7, which means I need to get these articles earning money by then. That's my motivation and I need to constantly tell myself what will happen if I don't write these articles. I also need to think about life would be like making $1,000 a month. It doesn't sound like a lot but that's enough to pay off my car, pay my student loans each month, pay back my parents and have something leftover each month to save. I can live on my own when I'm making $2500 a month which is my ultimate goal.
So that was my day today, battling motivation and distraction. I wrote 1 article. I didn't even post the draft on InfoBarrel. Tomorrow I will write 15 articles no matter what. All I will do tomorrow is write. I will set my alarm and get up early. I'm going to go to bed shortly and, hopefully, I can fall asleep right away so I won't be tired tomorrow. I will get the other 15 articles written on Friday.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Daily Update 07/24
I wasn't feeling very well today. I have a headache and I'm very tired. Other members of my family were sick last week. I hope I'm not coming down with anything. I was able to find pictures and Amazon links for all 30 articles. I wrote 1 article and posted the rough draft on InfoBarrel. All I need to do is hit publish and I will be done with it. I'm going to wait until I have a couple more articles saved up and publish them all at once. I don't think I'm going to hit my Wednesday deadline for getting all of these articles done. I should have them all completed by Thursday. I'm going to take the rest of the month off so I can come up with some money for my car and student loan payments. I'm hoping that I'll have enough articles written to win the contest.
I think I'm going to change up the experiment a little bit. I'm still going to have a goal of 1,000 articles by November but instead of writing 10 articles a day, I'm going to write 100 articles a week. That's 400 articles a month. It will take me two and a half months, or mid-October, to get to 1,000 articles. I think I would have better luck doing a batch of 100 articles in a week than I would trying to do 10 articles a day. I can get the folders ready to go on Sunday, find the pictures and Amazon links on Monday and Tuesday, get the intros written on Wednesday, get the article bodies written on Thursday and Friday and publish them on Saturday. I think that's a good time frame for getting those tasks done. If I get a little bit behind, there's still a couple extra days at the beginning or end of the month to get caught back up.
I think I'm going to change up the experiment a little bit. I'm still going to have a goal of 1,000 articles by November but instead of writing 10 articles a day, I'm going to write 100 articles a week. That's 400 articles a month. It will take me two and a half months, or mid-October, to get to 1,000 articles. I think I would have better luck doing a batch of 100 articles in a week than I would trying to do 10 articles a day. I can get the folders ready to go on Sunday, find the pictures and Amazon links on Monday and Tuesday, get the intros written on Wednesday, get the article bodies written on Thursday and Friday and publish them on Saturday. I think that's a good time frame for getting those tasks done. If I get a little bit behind, there's still a couple extra days at the beginning or end of the month to get caught back up.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Daily Update 07/23
Things are chugging along - maybe a bit slower than I would like but it's going. I got an Adsense click on one of the articles I posted on Saturday and made $1.30! I didn't expect those articles to make money so quickly. I hope that's a good sign of what's to come.
I decided that I really want to win the contest this month. I think my best bet to win is a sneak attack. The current leader is dj who won the contest last month. Whenever anyone gets close to him in points, he posts 10 or so more articles to get ahead. The articles he posts are "reviews" but they are all quotes from other people. I don't know where he's getting these quotes from as they don't show up in the search engines so either he's making them up, which is just plain wrong, or he has a survey on a private message board where he asks people what they think of these products. His articles aren't very helpful - they are mostly quotes like "I would never buy that laptop computer. I hate the color. I would spend my money on a laptop that looks good." Anyways, I'm not here to flame dj but I'm just saying that anyone can crank out hundreds of those type of articles a day - which is what he is doing. That's why the sneak attack will work best. I will save all of my articles as drafts and then post them an hour or two before the contest ends. He won't expect it and won't have enough time to get more articles posted (I hope). Last month, he won the contest with 311 points. If I can get to around 350 points, that should be enough to beat him - as long as he doesn't expect it. If he realizes what I'm doing, he might post 50 of those bad review articles to try to counteract me. I think I'm going to post just enough articles this week to get me into third place and then save the rest of the articles for July 31 at 11 PDT. Some people on InfoBarrel get mad when people use the sneak attack to win the contest. Yes, it is sneaky but dj won the contest last month. He should give others a chance to win. I probably wouldn't do the sneak attack if dj's articles weren't so, uh, thin. When the entire article is quotes and he hasn't written a word in the article that is his, it seems like he is cheating even though I don't think he's breaking any rules. So, yeah, that's my plan for winning the contest. Shhh...don't tell anyone!
As far as my progress for the experiment, I didn't write any new articles today but I spent all day finding pictures and Amazon links for the articles. I'm almost done with this task and then I can write the articles. I'm hoping to have all pictures and Amazon links saved before I go to bed tonight. Tomorrow I will try to get as many articles as possible written. I wanted to get all 30 articles saved as drafts on Infobarrel by Wednesday but I don't think that will happen. Maybe by Thursday.
I think I've covered everything. I'm off to Amazon to find some pictures.
I decided that I really want to win the contest this month. I think my best bet to win is a sneak attack. The current leader is dj who won the contest last month. Whenever anyone gets close to him in points, he posts 10 or so more articles to get ahead. The articles he posts are "reviews" but they are all quotes from other people. I don't know where he's getting these quotes from as they don't show up in the search engines so either he's making them up, which is just plain wrong, or he has a survey on a private message board where he asks people what they think of these products. His articles aren't very helpful - they are mostly quotes like "I would never buy that laptop computer. I hate the color. I would spend my money on a laptop that looks good." Anyways, I'm not here to flame dj but I'm just saying that anyone can crank out hundreds of those type of articles a day - which is what he is doing. That's why the sneak attack will work best. I will save all of my articles as drafts and then post them an hour or two before the contest ends. He won't expect it and won't have enough time to get more articles posted (I hope). Last month, he won the contest with 311 points. If I can get to around 350 points, that should be enough to beat him - as long as he doesn't expect it. If he realizes what I'm doing, he might post 50 of those bad review articles to try to counteract me. I think I'm going to post just enough articles this week to get me into third place and then save the rest of the articles for July 31 at 11 PDT. Some people on InfoBarrel get mad when people use the sneak attack to win the contest. Yes, it is sneaky but dj won the contest last month. He should give others a chance to win. I probably wouldn't do the sneak attack if dj's articles weren't so, uh, thin. When the entire article is quotes and he hasn't written a word in the article that is his, it seems like he is cheating even though I don't think he's breaking any rules. So, yeah, that's my plan for winning the contest. Shhh...don't tell anyone!
As far as my progress for the experiment, I didn't write any new articles today but I spent all day finding pictures and Amazon links for the articles. I'm almost done with this task and then I can write the articles. I'm hoping to have all pictures and Amazon links saved before I go to bed tonight. Tomorrow I will try to get as many articles as possible written. I wanted to get all 30 articles saved as drafts on Infobarrel by Wednesday but I don't think that will happen. Maybe by Thursday.
I think I've covered everything. I'm off to Amazon to find some pictures.
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.
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