Blog From Scratch

My Make Money Online Chronicles

Why you should start with a single blog

Let me tell you why you should start with a single blog only. Unexperienced bloggers that wants to have multiple blogs right at the beginning is just screaming for failure. People who have no clue about blogging should not jump right onto the make money online bandwagon. Do not forget that the way on top of the stairs is through the single steps.

Time management

If you’ve watched the movie Evan Almighty, the main character Evan wants to change the world. God taught him a lesson that if he wants to change the world, he should start with once act of random kindness. Just like in blogging, don’t get too excited on how much money other people have earned online. There is no such thing as easy money. If you have multiple blogs right from the start, there is a huge possibility that one blog might take more of your time that you tend to neglect the other blogs. Worst, if you are not a full time blogger, you are in deeper trouble.

Content management

You are the Jack of all trades, master of none. Writing multiple contents at on different topics is exhausting. Keep in mind that blogging is not all about writing content; you still need to work on your marketing and discover ideas on how to make money from it. Writing is not a routinary work that you can do anytime, anywhere. It’s not as if you’ll not loose ideas to write on.

Besides, multiple blogs can make you too stressful to think. You will suck in your writing that you’ll find it a hard to write quality and creative contents. You will lack focus because you are thinking way too much. One blog might take away more of time than the other. Or you may favour one blog over another and in the end, neglect some of your blogs.

It could eat up you up financially

Make sure your blogs are paying the bills for you, not the other way around. You need money for the domain, web hosting, blog design and advertising. If all works well for you, it’s good then, but it’s not, that’s a huge amount money and time to loose.

Progress would be slow

You are an unexperienced blogger, even though you have money to spend for advertising, it would not guarantee success. You have to build readership. Promoting a single blog is difficult, what more if you have multiple blogs under your wing.

So concentrate on one single blog first. But if you are a risk taker and still want to work on multiple blogs, work on it!

Contest winners and some announcements!

First, I would like to thank all the bloggers and subscribers who have joined my first blog contest. My blog’s feed by e-mail subscribers jumped from 0 to 51! So thank you all for making this contest a success. Without further ado, here are the winners.

Winners are:

Prize #1: Ultimate advertising package 1 (8 banner ads) nhc.hcmuns@gmail.com

Prize #2: Ultimate advertising package2 (1 banner ad / 5 text link ad) experimentalblogging@gmail.com

Prize #3: Ultimate advertising package2 (Mix prizes) imincontest@gmail.com

Prize #4: Revolution wordpress theme of your choice http://www.revolutiontheme.com contestsu@gmail.com

Prize #5: Mimbo Pro Theme http://prothemedesign.com/ grudgelle@gmail.com
Prize #6: News Friendly Theme from Motion Theme www.motiontheme.com ceisvador@live.com
Prize #7: Audio package of “Blogs and RSS Revealed” worth $27 from http://www.netstrife.com
dgpags@gmail.com
Prize #8: 1 domain name registration at godaddy from http://www.wpthemedesigner.com owenkno23@gmail.com
Prize #9: 1 copy of http://www.blogadrenaline.com worth $47 from http://www.dnxpert.com/ deskterz@gmail.com
Prize #10 - #14: 5 free acct to a traffic exchange and it’ll be loaded with 10,000 from http://platinumpicks.blogspot.com

indocontest@gmail.com
efayans@gmail.com
utopianwd@msn.com
bicomms@gmail.com
entrecard.central@gmail.com
Prize #15:shawnsbidness@yahoo.com


Prize #16: owenkno23@gmail.com

Prize #17: carmieshin@gmail.com

Special Prize Winners

barb@stx.rr.com
kranjcarz@yahoo.com

Announcements

Because of the success of my first contest, I am making my comment/subscribe give-away this September to a contest. Full details would be published soon. And the release of the first wordpress theme would be delayed. Once again, congratulations to the winners!

I could have been a Zillionaire by now

<sarcasm>If only I have all the time to answer all the emails telling me that I’ve won a jackpot or something, I could have been a millionaire billionaire zillionaire by now. And they kept on pouring in. I must have been the luckiest person in the world</sarcasm> I could have also even beat Warren Buffett who top Forbes.com list of The World’s Billionaires. Too bad I’ve deleted some of the emails for more proof.

Anyway, these emails remind me of the Francswiss fiasco two years ago. Francswiss is an exposed online investment Ponzi scheme. Initially, you’ll invest $1,000 in their site francswiss.biz and it will have a return of 3-5%(not sure) daily. It could even reach as high as 1o% if the investors recruited two more people. Upon hearing this, I had a gut feeling that this is a scam. Why would your money gain as much as that everyday? Where the heck did they get it from?

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August Income Report and September Reader Rewards!

I know its too early to place an August Income Report, but I have to tally contest entries in the following four days and I may not have time to make this report. I was considering to sell my ad space in my other blog permanently but haven’t had the time to do so. I want to finalize things before I finally go for it.

August Income Report

Income

Private ad sales - $206.88

Article writing - $95

Adsense - $25.36

Kontera - $13.39

Expenses

OIO Publisher - $37

I have withdrawn all my money from Paypal to my bank account. My first attempt and second attempt did just fine. I have brought my OIO publisher on my own. I was supposed to win this from one of the contest that I’ve joined but it was not delivered to me. I contacted the blog owner then eventually got tired of it because he start on ignoring my PMs.

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Make money online without owning a blog

Making money online without ever owning a blog is possible. Because owning a blog is not an assurance that you are going to earn from it. Getting a blog is simple and fast, but monetizing it is a different thing. Only a handful earns from their blog with a 5-digit or 6-digit income. I’m sure almost every blogger dreams of becoming to be one. Also, having a talent in writing is not an assurance that your blog will succeed. There are a lot of factors to be considered. Or you just do not have yet have the time of setting up one. Good thing, there are a lot of online opportunities wherein you could earn some money online.

1. Paid to surf

A user is asks by the paid to surf company to download their software program in their personal computers. The software program places the paid to surf own advertisements on the user’s browser while he or she surfs the internet. A user is typical paid $0.50 per hour of online browsing. A single user can only browse a maximum of 20 hours per day.

Risks – There are a lot of paid to surf companies that neglects to pay their users or just disappear. When you are signing up for this, choose wisely. Also, read their Terms and Conditions thoroughly as you may not know what other information they are extracting from you through their software. Be cautious.

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