Ed Earns

Well actually, she bought the laptop herself due to the hassles of shipping overseas and other complications that arise in sending out a device to the Philippines. But that’s beside the point already; she got a laptop as a bonus for the services she’s been doing for an employer of hers.

I haven’t been very successful with odesk (when you compare my credentials with hers) because my freelance jobs are more blog-related and I’m not as active as I thought I would be.

Anyhow, her employer whom she met at odesk seemed satisfied in hiring her as a VA (Virtual Assistant) that he (employer) decided to give her a laptop as a bonus. Now why am I the one blogging the information out for her as if I’m the one received the laptop? Simply because I’m just so happy for her, who wouldn’t be right?

Well, because I was the one who sent the money to her. She doesn’t have paypal account and had to use mine in order to transact the cash. After all the currency conversions and waiting for them to reflect at the bank, I sent the money happily and proud that somebody was able to get her bonus early this year.

It’s really nice to help out people and spread the good news on being able to share how I’ve earned online in blogging. It’s sometimes hard especially when the steps that you’ve done doesn’t work for them. Because in the end, sometimes I am just lucky to be at the right place and at the right time. That’s why I always put a disclaimer to always love blogging and not focus on the money as it will just follow. If you concentrate on the latter too much, you might get frustrated for not earning enough.

I withdrew my other earnings from Social Spark which is 314.50  dollars. I think this has got to be the biggest cash out that I have made in this money making website. I am really glad as this is probably the only marketplace that I am getting some good earning. I don’t think I could reach this high with all the other places that I am earning some income.

I still have about a hundred dollars left that is still pending for payout. I’ll be waiting for other opportunities so I can blog and earn again.

It’s nice that I’m going to get some cash out of this blogging sideline. At least I would have some extra Salaries out of this passion. I just wish there’s this stable income so I wouldn’t have to worry too much about anticipating when the next payout would be as I would have something to look forward to on a regular basis. We all know that this sideline isn’t very assuring, or probably because I am not dedicating myself full time on this career since I’m also relying on my current job for security reasons. Blogging has served as a back up for me which works fine in a sense.

However, if given the chance, I would like to pursue photography as a hobby and also something that I can also live on. I want to be a Photographer as it’s also one of my passions that I would like to get more involved into.

It’s a good thing I was able to finish some oDesk tasks right away. I couldn’t believe I was able to create 10 articles in 3 hours or so. While I was dropping entrecard credits of about 1500 sites, I was able to utilize the time of loading each page and then coming up with blog entries with some key words inserted as it’s the task that my employer assigned.

I’m trying to find another template for this site as it seems that there are a couple of bugs that I want to fix but got frustrated in doing because of how many attempts failed attempts that I wanted to give up. I don’t have that much CSS and code skills but I do my best on what I can handle. But for this, I guess I’m just stressed out that’s why I need to take a break.

Anyway, I got a couple of emails from fellow bloggers who are also interested in making money online. I’m happy that somehow, I got to share my insights with them with the experience I’ve had. Although I don’t earn as much as professional bloggers, it’s good enough for me to sustain travel allowances and buying some extra gadgets on top of paying the bills and old debts.

So I better get to sleep, it’s the weekend and I will need to regain some strength and energy I lost out of working my ass off.

I’m loving SocialSpark because of the many opportunities that I’ve been getting at the start of June of this year. The tasks aren’t only many, the payouts are also big; bigger than PayPerPost. At least SocialSpark relies on RealRank which is another form of ranking that is totally different from Google’s PageRank. It’s more reliable for me as it is updated on mostly a daily basis which is pretty good since you get to expect your traffic everyday if it’s going up or down.

Going back to SocialSpark, this has been the only marketplace that I’ve been getting some constant income the past few months. If it weren’t for this, I wouldn’t have any other cash flowing in. I’m so grateful that somehow, my opportunities are getting accepted and my blogs are being qualified to take in posts every now and then. I really wish this wouldn’t stop because I don’t have any other venue to earn.

I’ve never really thought about the importance of a network when it comes to blogging. There are a number of sites out there that deal with creating your own online community where you can share your blogs with. Doing so actually increases your scope since more and more people get to know the person behind the blog. Of course, when you expose yourself to the world wide web and even in real life, you get to be more vulnerable; making anonymity useless. This is especially the case when you don’t want people to know the identity behind your blog for personal reasons like safety since your blog must be really controversial because of the content you put in (you talking trash about other people and those other people notice).

But if you just want to belong to a group since you’re still a noob and you want others to notice you as well as you get to relate with other bloggers, it’s good that you join a society or mingle with one. You get a number of tips to discuss best practices as well as share what you have that has worked.

Facebook, Yahoo! Groups, Twitter, Multiply, Friendster, to name a few. Social networking sites are very useful especially when you want to promote your site and let your friends or just other people know that your site exists. You can just put it on top of your ‘Updates’ or ‘Shout Outs’ to tell everyone what’s new in your blog and when you have good followers, it adds to the traffic.

So right now, I’m glad that I’m able to meet new people since I was able to join an event with a blogging community in this region. Getting to know them a little better behind their blogs makes the situation more personalized knowing that you get to interact with these real people. In turn, you get to share best practices and learn from each other. I hope to have more opportunities wherein I get to travel and NOT have to pay for it!

So start building that network!

Like I said before, I’m posting all of my sites here just for reference and so I have something to blog about. hehe. I have 5 personal blogs in total and I don’t know what’s wrong with me if I have soe sort of multiple-personality disorder or something because all of them are personal blogs. haha. Usually, there’s a slight difference that’s why I post whatever I can in each one. I try to develop my own niche in each but sometimes my ,mind is too scattered that I just write whatever I want to write in each.

Have you found a common denominator? Obviously it has the first initial of my name on every domain. Can’t I be any vainer?

Soloflighted.com

This is my first site. All of the entries in my old blog (ed.blog-city.com) are transferred here and since I started blogging to earn some extra income, I was able to utilize this venue. This is also the blog where I showcase my travels and food trips so it’s also a thing to distinguish on.

Edcel.net

This blog is where I get a bit more personal. The things I don’t write in soloflighted.com are what’s usually written here. I like the domain because it’s me. And this site was created set up by yours truly which makes it more special. Since I wanted to try to understand what FTP, host names, DNS, etc. are, I had to start from scratch so I’d learn the art of seting up my own site in my own host.

Edearns.com

This blog is more of a personal accounting book where I blog about the things that gave me extra income online. This is where I notate the tasks and opportunities and my cash flow when it comes to earning money through the net.

Edstudyante.com

Because of the drive needed to release thoughts pertaining to my life as a student, employee and blogger, I created this site to get those random emotions that keep me busy. This is where I talk about school, office and again, blogging. This is a personal space for professional rants. hehe

Edsnaps.com

Lastly, the site that doesn’t get updated as much. hehe. This site is supposed to be where I put random snapshots since I also love to take pictures and share them with the rest of the bloggin community.

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Wonder why I keep these 5 sites? Of course, more sites equals more money but more sites also means more tasks. People might also wonder why I don’t consolidate all my pages into one single domain. The reason is the same one I just stated. I’m just waiting for the right time to fully blast my sites to their full potential. But then, with my busy life outside blogging, I have difficulty finding time. Oh well, I just wanted to share these to you.

Walking on bricks right now, trying to know where I’m headed to. I’m still doing my best to earn some extra income online but it’s a bit of a chore considering the many activities that I’m lined up to do that I’ve set for myself. I will be blogging more later on, I just have to sort things out properly so that I won’t be way out of focus.

Yes, those are mine.

I was able to withdraw about a hundred bucks from SocialSpark some time last month. I used the money up for my Manila trip considering that I didn’t bring enough cash. The hundred dollars was actually around 5 months worth of waiting for opportunities in this marketplace. I’m just glad to be able to get some available tasks especially that I’m not really that lucky with PayPerPost or other forms of blogger-advertise networking sites.

What I like about Social Spark is that despite having to wait around 30 days for the payent to arrive, you still have the option to cash out your money. Meaning, it will still be under your account until you wish to cash them out before you can put it to your paypal address. That means more transactions and then you can save more because you have to really take a bit of your time to get your money. Sometimes when it’s a bit of a hassle for you, you just want to put the money in one corner until it all piles up until it becomes big. I wouldn’t have enjoyed the hundred dollars if it weren’t for this feature. Don’t get me wrong, once you cash out your money in Social Spark, it will automatically go in your paypal account; and no, there are NO CHARGES for cashing out. I just like the fact that I have an excuse not to get the money right away. hehe.