Comments on: Will blogging make you enough money ?

By: Robert MacEwan

Robert MacEwan — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:11:31 +0000

OK, I hit my goal Thursday night with $2,000 only from PayPerPost.com. I did a goofy ass video right after hitting $2000.

http://www.dailymotion.com/macewan/video/x32v5s_pay-per-post-rocks_ads

By: Shypy

Shypy — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:34:34 +0000

It sure helps if you have a PR6 homepage Robert :p

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:31:45 +0000

nice work MacEwan, difficulty with using PPP is that if you don’t have a high page rank then its difficult to get the work.

By: Robert MacEwan

Robert MacEwan — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:18:24 +0000

yes

By: Robert MacEwan

Robert MacEwan — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:04:56 +0000

@Marc,

Yup and I’m only counting one of my sources of income at the blog.

You can see from visiting http://www.payperpost.com the amount I’ve made so far this month. There are other souces I’m just too damn lazy to add them up right now.

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:55:18 +0000

yes is this income through your blog only though ?

By: Robert MacEwan

Robert MacEwan — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:16:59 +0000

So I’m half way through the last month in a three month experiment to see if I could generate $2000 through online efforts. First month was around $650, second month was around $850′ish and in the first two weeks of the third month I’ve shot pass $1,000.

In my eyes it’s quite possible to make these goals happen. I’m living proof. When I started I had pretty zero idea of how to accomplish the goal. The $2,000 was an amount I pulled out of my ass.

By: Shypy

Shypy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:51:54 +0000

I completely agree. It took me 3 months to realize that blogging is not the way to make money on the internet, unless you have something really valuable to say(improbable if you’re 18). Thankfully I learnt my lesson(s) soon enough, started making real websites, and make decent income for a college student

By: Marc Eilbeck

Marc Eilbeck — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:02:34 +0000

I think its true what you are saying about saving when working at home not paying out for lunches transport and work clothes. Thanks for your comment Naomi.

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:19:23 +0000

I live in a large city in Ontario, and $2000 was the target I set for myself before I could quit my full time job. $2000 a month is basically $30,000 a year, based on the exorbitant tax we pay in Canada. In the city in which I live, I’d say that was pretty close to an average salary.

When I first started out freelancing, my father told me that I shouldn’t try and replace my income, I should try and replace my lifestyle. He said that certain expenses (work clothes, transportation, eating lunch out) would shoot down and other expenses (tech related stuff, business expenses) would go up. I found that a nice way to think about it so it didn’t seem like a failure if I didn’t replace my salary to the penny within the first 12 months.