Passive Income

October is going to be a great month as far as my passive income earnings are concerned. I am going to absolutely kill it!

I spent the better part of last night outlining my plan, fine tuning my sites, and securing a few additional domain names. The goal is to pump out as much content as I possibly can, without sacrificing the quality of the content I produce. What I really need to do is take a few hours and train my Dragon to recognize my mumbling! Seriously, that program is cool.

Regardless, I did manage to create 7 new articles for eHow (all within the last couple of days of the month), 40 articles on ezinearticles and around 10 posts on various niche blogs that I have set up. What I plan on doing differently in October is to simply focus on 3 niches, and not the 20 that I thought would be good, and create 3 to 5 articles per niche every other day. It is a ton easier since I purchased Micro Niche Finder. That piece of software really helps find ‘buying’ keywords and saves me a ton of time.

So! How were the numbers?

Affiliate Sales: $176 – I did OK this month with regards to affiliate marketing. I only spent 4 hours working on these campaigns so I feel like I did well. The 40 articles I wrote for EZA were all promoting new CPA campaigns, which have not produced a single sale….YET. I hear they convert better than clickbank or paydotcom but I have not had that experience so far.

eHow: $75 – Pretty decent numbers since I only added 7 new articles and did no article promotion. I hope to write one article a day on eHow and see if I can get my earnings over the $100 mark in October!

Amazon: $136 – Yeah baby. Every now and then I hit a few good sales. Someone clicked on a link for a book and ending up buying a fire proof safe, netting me a cool $100. You never can tell, can you?

Swagbucks: $25 - This site still makes me money month in and month out. I love it!

CPC: $2 – I suck at Sniper sites. I just cannot figure them out. I will though. It will just take some more effort!

Total Passive Income Earnings – $412

While $412 is not much to speak of, it is 82% of my goal for December 2009. I honestly believe that I will reach my goal of $500 in October. So much so, that I have challenged my brother to a little online competition. He actually thinks this stuff is easy…that makes me laugh! He is smart though, so he may be able to figure it out! You can check out his little blog at Almost Passive Income.

For 31 days, starting today, we are going to see who can generate more NEW income. By new, it means that everything must be created, started and earned in October. This is fair since I have a few One Week Marketing campaigns that drop a few sales each month into my bank account! Almost any form of passive income can be used. Things like yard sales and eBay do not count, as that would make it way to easy on him. He has more junk that I do!

How did you do in September? Are you still working towards your goals?

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