Ed Earns

It’s payday and I used up all my money and deposited them in my savings account. It feels good knowing that I have place to keep my money instead of spending it for unnecessary things. The past years I’ve always asked myself why I wasn’t able to save as much when I was earning more. Even if it would be just 500 bucks a month every pay day. After every year, I’d get depressed because I had nothing at the end of each year.

Now I promised myself that I’d open up an account for me to allot some money for savings. Even if I’m going to use the money some time at this year, at least I would be able to come up with a certain amount for use.

Currently, I feel like I can restrain myself from spending which is pretty good knowing that I have some limits and I can control the cash that I get. After going to different banks and ATMs to withdraw, I went to another one to consolidate all and save.

Now I’m broke again.

I’m supposed to create an entry to help out EJ start with odesk but I apologize I’m not able to update as often as I can. But I promise I’ll create an entry out of it.

I’m just upset in a way that money comes and goes so easily. Although it’s good that I know where it’s going, I just wish that it would stay in my hands for a longer period of time before it’s taken away from me for loans and bills.

I withdrew about 500 dollars from Paypal the other day and now it’s all gone. It’s hard to keep it in your hand for awhile. Now I feel like a real adult with families and kids. I’m trying to invest in something and I hope everything will push through. I’m crossing my fingers so give me 2 weeks.

Image by Steve Wampler via Flickr

The last post I made was really something, it’s like me announcing to the world that I’m a money-making machine. However, I don’t see where my money has been going. It makes me wonder what I could do if I were to save all of that and just focus on How to Make Money From Passions.

It’s hard to influence people that something you like doing, whether it be photography and the arts or the internet marketing business,  can really earn you some cash. Sure, it may not be stable; but in the long run, what matters is how you are able to plan carefully in achieving the things that you want to achieve.

I’m glad that I am able to earn some extra money through blogging and through some sideline jobs on the net. I never thought I would become this online nomad that can just go anywhere and bring my laptop with me and actually work. But then, I’m still owned by my time considering that I have a full time day job. I know someday I would have to let go of one so I can focus and really establish and go all out on the passion.

It is hard to get the desire to do something you want to do and I’m glad that I’m getting there, I think. I would have to work on the double since I need to pay a lot of debt accumulated through the years. Debt Consolidation has So Many Benefits Why Wait for the chance to pay for so much. I’m turning things around now and I need to keep the passion burning.

I’m glad to be blogging about a lot of things: traveling and just being online. The internet is a crazy world.

I finally finished one of my two loans and I can now breathe a little easier as I already got my ATM card back. It was taken by a loan shark so we could use the funds for a business. However the business didn’t really do well as expected and I had been paying for it for about 3 months and it was keeping me down for a minimal amount of time since all my salary would be used up to pay off those amount.

It’s really a good thing that I got blogging as a sideline plus some jobs at odesk to keep me full and have some small rewards for myself. If it weren’t for these online businesses, I wouldn’t know how I would feel when it came to seeing things outside the box. It helped me open my mind that somehow I am able to look for money and really find some in the process.

I got my ATM card back and I plan to set aside the money that I usually paid in order to save more.

I need to save up, I know I should. Somehow money has been flowing fast out than it should come in. I have been pretty careless but I know that I can earn more and it’s just a matter of discipline.

I’ll be working on a new project that I hope I can succeed in. I need to learn new skills in order to maximize my time to get the lifestyle that I want. I’ll be on leave next week to undergo training and I hope I’ll be successful in this type of field as I believe I am good and I love what I’m doing here.

For now, I need to tighten my belt.

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’ve been trying to revolve the money that I’ve earned so that I could maximize my expenses and allocate them to the proper budget at the most convenient time possible so in the end I would not get tied up with deadlines and such. But it would be nicer if I were to save all the money that I’ve earned through blogging, especially the extra ones. At least I can always have something to use as a back up for worrisome rainy days.

Been pretty busy, busy, busy. I haven’t updated my blogs at all! Darn it. I’m being swamped with more tasks but I’m not complaining. I’ve been also trying to juggle the money that I earn (salary plus extra income from blogging). Hopefully, I’ll be able to meet them all (the deadlines I mean). Somehow, I feel like I’m tiring myself too much but the revenue isn’t as rewarding as it should.

I’m now at the day shift and I know that my money wouldn’t be as rewarding since I’ll be stripped off from the night differential pay as an addendum for staying up at night to work.

I’ll be going to school by Monday so hopefully I’ll be able to juggle everything properly. I need time management.

I’m still waiting for my money to reach a certain amount but it’s almost time for another cashout and I’m glad that somehow I’m able to come up with another payout. I wasn’t expecting that I’d be getting it sooner than I thought. Right now, here are the major sites that send me some extra money.

• SocialSpark.com – This is where I’ve been getting bulk of the cash these days. It started some time in June.
• PayPerPost.com – Not really that much as my PageRank (which is their main basis for giving out opportunities) is not high.
• ODesk.com – I get a couple of article rewriting tasks from 2 employers on a weekly basis. Although, the rate that I receive is far from the amount that I achieve in blogging since my input is also big, I’m glad to have something to look forward to at the end of the week.
• Others – I have Blogsvertise.com and some link building opportunities wherein Advertisers contacted me to place their site links on my homepage for a fee every month.

I think that’s about it for now. It’s not that much, the bulk really comes from SocialSpark. Probably by November, I’ll be creating another Excel sheet that will provide information on where I got the cash and earn online.

Hopefully, my savings will help me out.

PayPerPost and SocialSpark, both are under the same umbrella (IZEA) but both have different ranking categories.

PayPerPost is the first blogger-advertiser marketplace that provided me some good opportunities to earn extra income. It’s one of the more known marketplace that everybody (well, every blogger who wants to earn money while blogging) knows. But it largely depends on the PageRank for its requirements for bloggers to be able to bid for tasks or opportunities. The problem with me is that I rarely have any website that has at least have a PR of 1. Want to know more about PageRank? Visit my blog entry about it.

SocialSpark is also part of IZEA wherein it is more of a networking site that also has blog opportunities for you to write tasks for advertisers. However, you can also add friends to your network, leave comments and build your profile (hence, social). The tasks here are wider and has a bigger scope considering that you can take opportunities that require you to post links of advertisers, sponsor reviews etc. The great thing about this is that it relies on RealRank as its basis which defies Google’s standards.

Now what’s the difference between RealRank and PageRank? I don’t know yet. hehe. All I know is that RealRank is more on the traffic while PageRank is more on Google’s way of looking the value of your site. I’ll probably research more about it so I can blog it next time. I’ll probably include the Alexa Rank with the entry next time.

Anyway, of PayPerPost and SocialSpark, I’ve been getting more tasks the past month of the latter since the PR of my sites really dropped to zero, that’s why I seldom have opporunities in the former. Nevertheless I’m happy that I’m getting some tasks to keep paying the bills.