Well, since eHow finally started posting earnings again after the calendar switch over, we can now wrap-up the Great Decemeber eHow Experiment! And what an experiment it was…
Here are the month end stats:
Revenue earned for the month of December: $17.82 (a $4 improvement from November’s revenue)
Total articles written in December: 49
Articles total: 70
Per day rate: $.57
Ok, so it isn’t $10 a day…yet….
AC Gaughenmade the excellent suggestion on her blog yesterday that we keep the experiment alive until we do reach $10 a day, or something noteworthy like that. I’m game. Even just an extra $18 a month is something – that pays for dinner at a chain restaurant, most of my electricity bill, or a few indulgences like nice nail polish, a few movie tickets, or good moisturizer. I’m not complaining – but I know we can make that number higher!
In fact, I am sure that January is going to be a banner month now that some of those fifty articles I wrote in December have had time to marinate. My daily earnings for January so far is already $1.37 – yesterday it was only $.33, so let’s keep this exponentially increasing daily amount going!
Going forward, I will only update everyone about the eHow experiment at the end of the month - we need to get busy talking about some more Uncommon topics, like authenticity, lifestyle design techniques, and the fundamentals of self- discovery.
Let me leave you with a great quote I heard this morning:
“We must not share our dreams with negative people, nor feed them negative thoughts.” Unknown
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Hi Nacie, great blog! Can I ask what subjects you wrote the articles on and what you do to promote them? I write eHow articles for Demand Studios and get $15 upfront for each article. We get new residual earnings though. I’m wondering if it would be better to do it your way- but only if I don’t have to promote them
Hey Yo – I’ve written 70 articles for eHow ranging from personal care to home care to personal finance! It really runs a range of topics, basically whatever floats into my head that fits into a how-to format! I don’t do much to promote them (yet), they kind of attract traffic pretty well on their own. Funny you mention Demand Studios, because I also write for them as well and love it, but I am addicted to the “About” articles. Hope some new ones appear in the available queue soon!
Loved your site, btw!
Well, I didn’t exactly do what I intended to with this…
I’m on Buksia and at the start of the month wrote 8 articles that made me 0.40 by the first week in December. I didn’t get chance to do any more, but my articles have kept earning money (a tiny amount of money) and they’re now up to $2.00.
I think I’ll do a few more, but I’m a long, long way off my target…
Hold your breath for these numbers from Bukisa, folks:
Number of Articles: still holding at 6
Earnings: $0.64
I’ve just got too many projects on the go at the moment, with my new website live and two new major projects going live this month, it will be difficult to get back to Bukisa just because as a passive income stream to me it’s difficult to justify it (especially when it’s in dollars, although watch the exchange rate
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