Ed Earns

My phone was cracking up whenever I would receive a message from one of my contacts that I knew I had to buy a new phone. So I bought a new T700 which I liked since I wanted my new phone to be from Sony Ericcson. I chose this one as this was the cheapest among the items on promo, anyway I’m not that big on cellphones. At least I’d have something to listen to whenever I’d like to play some music and such.

Again, it’s all because of blogging that I was able to buy this new phone. Hope to keep these gadgets coming!

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.

I got my second payout from Adsense!

About $103, and I earned it in a span of 3-4 months I believe which is just a quarter of the time I was able to spend in order to come up with this amount compared to my first adsense payout.

Still, this is already big enough an amount considering that I only have personal blogs to help me out that doesn’t have that much high traffic. I’m still glad that I was able to withdraw some money through Western Union because of this.

To find out how I was able to withdraw it, you can check out my first adsense withrawal by clicking on this link.

Adsense Withdrawal Thru Western Union

I had to cash out. I needed the money to pay off certain debt so I wouldn’t have to worry about monthly expenses that’s why  I cashed out the moolah that I earned for the past 3 months. I withdrew  around 475 bucks. I wanted to wait for it to reach 500 but since I was a little desperate, I had to get it ASAP.

But I’m very much glad. I won’t have to worry about anything else since this is extra money for me and knowing that I’m able to spend it to something useful is good enough already.

It still amazes me at times when I’d see that I’m really able to earn extra out of this hobby. But what I’m planning to focus more now is how to build my profile in order to establish a better network. Odesk doesn’t seem so far from my mind. Thanks to Faith for the encouragement, I need to get my ass working if ever I want to earn fast.

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.

Last 23 of October, I checked my adsense account to see if I could withdraw my money already. Fortunately, there was a difference when I went to the My Accounts>Payment History. I clicked on ‘details” and it tells me that I can now get my payment!

Yey! hehe. After almost a year, I’m finally going to get my First Google Adsense Payout! I know I know, one year for $115 is not that big of a money compared to other people who earn a lot more in just a month. But still, for a personal blogger like me, and with the inflation rate fluctuating rapidly, I’m glad enough to be getting this amount. I just need to convert the money to my country’s currency and then voila! Quarterly bonus! hehe.

So now as I was looking for some information online on how to get this money, I was able to find out that it’s pretty much easy to get my payout using the Western Union Quick Cash option.

They have a note saying.

Your payment is available for pick-up the day after the payment date above

Remember to bring the following when you pick up your payment at a local Western Union agent:

* The amount of your payment
* The Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN) for this payment
* Your government issued ID (Passport, Driver’s License, National ID, etc)
* Sender’s information:
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

So what I need to do is just follow these rules and then I’ll be getting my 115 bucks. I promised some people that I’ll be treating them once this payout arrives. I’ll blog about what happened next.

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.

I just got my second pay out and I’m happy! Yipee!!! Sorry, even I haven’t been able to earn as much as my first payout, I’m still glad I was able to reach this much.

The earnings were a total of two month’s worth of paid posts. At least I’m able to use the money for something worthwhile; that is, I’m going to save this to pay for my tuition so I can get back to school.

I just got my first payout for the month of April from the admin. $110, not bad for somebody who’s just starting out. Not some mba programs could give me this money in such a short span.

I received the fruits of my labor 5 days ago and it feels so good knowing that I earned something this big for a craft which is already a part of me.

I even created an Excel format (just basic computations) to keep track of what I’ve posted and which tasks I’ve published.

I’m just so high right now, knowing that I finally generated some income out of blogging. I’m not one of those skeptical people who thinks that earning online is such a big joke, but neither did I really believe I could earn some dough out of it, until now.