Ed Earns

Guys, let me introduce to you my new bebe!

I used to envy bloggers who were able to buy something out of the blog money that they were able to earn. Come to think of it, I used to envy bloggers who were able to earn blog money. period. That’s why I’ve always wondered how it would be like to be part of those people who were able to get their laptop or something else out of the craft they made online.

Although this was paid using credit, I’m able to get this new baby using my blog money. I never thought this would happen to me but it did! It’s such a nice feeling to be able to reap your rewards after some hard work, perseverance and a lot of patience.

I hope I don’t sound too proud, but I just want to let other people know that it is indeed possible. Hope we all get something out of our blogs!

I was able to treat my colleagues at work to dinner!

I promised them that I’d treat them one of these days when I would get my payout. Once I did get my first Google Adsense Payout, I wasn’t really able to share my blessings right away. I used the money to pay off some old debts and rotate it in order to maximize time. Once I was able to get it back, I suddenly told them I was to treat them out.

All 12 of them, hehe. We went out to a restaurant near our place. This was my promise to them and although it got delayed, the important thing is I stayed true to my word. Now that everything’s settled, the next Google Payout that I’ll be receiving will be entirely for myself alone. hehe. But still, it’s going to be awhile once I receive it. It actually took me a year to get my first Adsense payout due to the minimal traffic that my sites get. But I’m still happy though.

I just realized that it’s already been a year since I started blogging back again to earn money and now that I found this out, I have to give a recap on the past year on how much in total I’ve earned through the different programs I’ve signed my website and then some other sites out.

These are my earnings during the year using soloflighted.com

These are my earnings in dollars for my site and then some.

In totality for the year, here’re my earnings.

I’m actually in a total shock that I’ve earned that much in a span of a year. But I’m equally in shock in locating where this amount has gone off. hehe. Of course, there are bills and other expenses. But I’m happy cause I didn’t expect this much to come to me.

I have 4 blogs to maintain, two have their own domain and two are free blogger accounts. I don’t earn as much in those blogger accounts but the domains are really vital.

For now, I’m planning to get another domain. hehe.

Through soloflighted.com, I earned my fourth payout! It’s nice cause again, I’ve been referring to this payouts my quarterly bonus. It’s great knowing that there’s some extra moolah that I can get out of blogging. People understand why I blog for money anyway.

Come to think of it, since this is already my fourth payout, I should write an entry collating all the earnings I’ve gained out of soloflighted.com. I would need to create one for my other blogs as well.

3rd payout! Yey! I got my 3rd payout which is comprised of paid reviews from last week of May to first two weeks of August 2008. Again, this isn’t much to professional bloggers but I do this as a sideline so it’s nice that almost every now and then, I get a bonus from earning online money.

These were earned under my personal/travel blog: Soloflighted.com plus some extra tasks from my admin for her site. I also have earned some money through another personal weblog I created but I’m not using the moolah any time soon.

I’ll be getting the money from my Admin later on tonight and I’m planning to just save this bunch so I can pay it off for school.

I’m on a high already.

Since my first pay out, I haven’t been earning as much. Nevertheless, I’m planning to save the money that I’ve earned until it would reach at least 10, 000 pesos. That’s what the admin and I agreed on so I could also put the extra cash to good use; since last pay out, I don’t know what I did with it anymore.

The reason why I started out earning money through blogging is that I wanted to pay off old debts and fulfill some ambitions that require moolah to do so. It turns out that I’m not earning as much with my day job, so I figured I’d find other means to earn extra cash. Hence, blogging came to place.

Anyway, like I said, I need to save up for schooling. I plan to go back so I can finally get a degree. I still have a lot of semesters to finish.

For the month of April, I just earned about half of my first pay out. It’s not much but I always think that this is extra income already which is good enough to pay for electricity and the internet connection itself.

So, I’m looking forward to the time I’ll be able to get the money in bulk. But for now, I try not to focus much on it so it’ll be a surprise by then.