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Second Quarter Earnings Report

At midnight last night, the year was officially at it's half-way point. Yep, we can now start calling it 2008.5...ok, that's a dumb joke. What isn't dumb is this: making money online is a fun thing. That's part of the reason I started blogging semi-seriously. Of course, a recent commenter made me think about something: do people realize why I blog the way I do? Probably not, based on the comment.

As some of my long-term readers may know, I set a goal this year. That goal was to make $500 dollars online. I think that some people are surprised by such a low number. In fact, I'm pretty certain it makes them question the validity of this whole thing. I get a lot of responses like 'wow, that's not much', or 'that's a hard goal?' I'm not sure if these folks have any idea why I set such a 'low' goal.

For starters, $500 (at least to me) is a pretty big chunk of change. Especially when you look at it in the context of 'spending money'. I figured $500 would be a decent goal for a couple of reasons. First, and I will admit this, it isn't a HUGE achievement to make $500 bucks. At my job, I can do that in a few days. The deal was, however, that I had to make this online. I had a starting budget of literally $0, so the trick was to find a way to make money with ZERO INVESTMENT to start.

Second, I work full time. When I come home, usually the only thing I really feel like doing is falling asleep leaning against the outside of the front door. So I needed something I could do with relatively little time or effort...hence the one year part of the goal. I needed to make sure I had enough time to reach my goal, otherwise I would feel let down, get depressed about the venture, and just give up altogether.

So what kind of progress have I made? Well, since you asked...

First Quarter Earnings: $140.36
Second Quarter: $224.45

Part of the reason for the higher rate has been the addition of some freelance writing to my list of moneymakers. Here's a more detailed breakdown of where the money comes from:

ReviewMe: $30.00
PayPerPost: $25.00
Bloggerwave: $10.00
EWF Media: $21.45
Blog to Profit: $12.00
SponsoredReviews: $6.50
BloggingAds: $15.00
Private Reviews/Freelance: $104.50

Yep, that's right. Writing for other people has earned almost HALF of what my PPP and GPT stuff made for the quarter combined.

If you haven't checked out Digital Point forums, you really should go have a look. Not only can you find jobs on there (even ones that pay 2 or 3 bucks add up over time and generally don't take long to complete), but when you have a minimum number of posts you can add your AdSense code to the site to get your ads served!

That pretty much wraps up this quarterly earnings report. I did not include pending payments, only what I have been paid. Also, I won some stuff...so stick around for a post on that coming in the near future!