Online Earnings: December 2011 and 2011 Total...

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Hey, peoplez :-)

How are yee? How's your year been so far?


I was looking back on my earnings post for 2010 and one of the things I said was:

"This year, for me, is all about TAKING ACTION and CONQUERING FEARS. Life is shy; I need to stop waiting around for it to make the first move."

Well, I don't think I quite managed that, not as much as I should have - I don't think I explored anywhere near my potential, online and offline - not even 40% of it, and that's me being generous. Fear continues to play a HUGE part in the decisions I don't make, in the actions I don't take. It's something I've struggled with for some time, year on year. I almost don't want to think about what I want to achieve this year for fear of disappointing myself. You see? The fear thing again.


Anyhoo, on a better note, I made more money online in 2011 than I did in 2010 :-)


...but first, DECEMBER 2011'S EARNINGS:
(any figures in pounds means it's how I was initially paid.)


- Blog writing: $203.51

- GPTs: $47.11 (Swagbucks: $20.00; UniqueRewards: $20.00; Cashle: $6.51; QuickRewards Network: $0.54; FreeUKpounds: $0.06 (£0.04))

- Surveys: $45.20 (£29.00) (MyVoice: $31.19 (£20.00); Pinecone Research UK: $14.01 (£9.00))

- JackpotJoy (playing slots): $31.13 (£20.02)

- Blog commenting: $21.21

- Amazon.com Associates: $13.11 (this is Amazon's affiliate program. I decided to request a gift card instead of waiting to reach the $100 minimum required to request payment by bank transfer)

- Forum posting: $11.23

- Article writing: $7.31

- Squidoo: $1.20 (Create single pages of info. Range of topics. Each single page is called a lens. I only have one lens there for now.)

- CloudCrowd: $0.33 (well and truly is over for me & CloudCrowd. Was cool while it lasted though.)


TOTAL --- $381.34


My earnings were a bit more varied in December which I was quite happy about: the new blog commenting gig, couple more survey and GPT payouts, Squidoo, article writing. Plus my main blogging client gave me a $50 bonus for the holidays - was super surprised and chuffed with that. :)



Aaaaaaand Total 2011 Earnings...


- Writing: $1,548.42 (blog writing - $1176.93; web content - $207.09; forum posting - $97.46; article writing - $33.31; blog commenting - $21.21; other, incl squidoo - $12.42)

- Playing bingo/slots: $1,496.75 (£925.70) (JackpotJoy, Paddy Power, Ladbrokes, Tombola, Costa Bingo, Sky Vegas, Victor Chandler)

- CloudCrowd: $336.84

- Surveys: $141.32 (£89.16) (Pinecone Research - $57.47 (£36.00); Consumer Intel - $33.12 (£21.00); MyVoice - $31.19 (£20.00); GfK - $8.03 (£5.00); Crowdology - $6.69 (£4.16); MySurvey UK $4.82 (£3.00))

- GPTs: $111.33 (Swagbucks - $60.00; UniqueRewards - $20.00; Cashle - $18.78; QuickRewards N'wrk - $10.22; FreeUKPounds - $2.33 (£1.47))

- Adsense: $97.52 (£60.83)

- Affiliate programs: $83.36 (Amazon.com, Freelancer.com, Lucky Pacific, Affiliate Future)

- Appenscribe (transcription): $80.36

- SEO (of some sort): $38.34

- Kooday: $28.29 (site no longer exists)

- PTCs: $15.97 (Clixsense - $11.91; Neobux - $4.06)

- Amazon UK: $11.64 (sold some of my used books. Diff from the affiliate program.)

- Toneaday: $8.72 (paid for rating words. Pay structure has completely changed, so I don't use it anymore.)

- MyLikes: $1.54 (paid to advertise on your twitter account)


TOTAL --- $4,000.40



So that's my 2011 :-)



Ebele.

UniqueRewards Pays: Proof of Payment...

UniqueRewards is a GPT site I joined in early September. Now I'm not a huge GPT fan, but I thought since I hadn't tried this one before, ah what the hell.

(**for anyone that doesn't know, GPT means 'get paid to'. You complete a number of tasks such as doing a survey, joining a site, reading an email, and get paid for it.)

I hardly completed offers at UniqueRewards. Most of what I did was read emails and do the daily cash clicks (both pay a cent a pop). Daily cash clicks earned me an average of 8-9 cents a day. I didn't get that many emails to read, about one every couple of days.

The $20 minimum payout was the highest I'd seen for a GPT site, so it was just as well they offer $5 upon signing up.

I also had a referral which helped me a quarter of the way.


I can now officially say that, yup, UniqueRewards pays!

Took about 3 months to reach payout. However, if I'd completed more offers, my ass probably would have reached it sooner. I hate doing offers though, so I just stuck to clicks and emails.

Proof of Payment...
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Feel free to read my more detailed write-up of UniqueRewards OVER HERE, aight?



Peace outty,

Ebele.

November 2011: Online Earnings...

My aim for November was to make more than I did in October ($187.95) and I did just that, not by a huuuuuge amount, but an improvement by about $45 is a good thing, no?

I made $232.81 in November. On the last day, I thought it’d be just under $200. But then my client came through at the last minute and paid me, pushing it over $200.

I’m happier with these earnings than the previous month’s --- actually, going all the way back to August when I made a pitiful $75.64. I know there are people out there who’d be happy to make that amount a month, but with the amount of time I’ve been making money online, and with the experience I’ve gained, and the opportunities out there, I know I can do better. I’ve just gotta find something that fits ‘cos I hate doing things I don’t enjoy.

Anyhoo, here’s November’s breakdown...
(any figures in pounds means it's how I was initially paid.)

- Blog writing: $156.42

- Forum posting: $47.62

- Swagbucks: $10.00 (get paid to search, do surveys, complete tasks, etc.)

- Consumer Intelligence: $9.39 (£6.00) (survey site – this was from referral earnings)

- Cashle: $7.77 (similar to Swagbucks, but with its own flavour)

- FreeUKpounds: $1.58 (£1.00) (paid to complete offers – very new site)

- CloudCrowd: $0.03 (get paid to write, edit, review, translate, searching, data categorising, etc) (more about CloudCrowd)


Forum posting: I’ve gone back to forum posting, one of the things I used to do when I first started freelance writing. I have a private client I’ve been posting for. He’s cool. Great to work with. He also gave me a $30 bonus to say thank you. Was super chuffed with that.

The other forum posting work I do is for a site called PaidForumPosting.com. Worth joining if anyone’s interested. Pays 20 cents a post. I think it’s open to just about anybody with a PayPal account. I’ll do a little write-up about it soon, but if you wanna join in the meantime, go here.

Swagbucks/Cashle: I’m happy with the way these two sites have been going for me lately. I usually don’t make $10/month on Swagbucks and I don’t earn that frequently on Cashle either. That’s because I don’t like doing offers. But thanks to the tasks I discovered there, I’ve been earning more than I ever have with them. It’s the first time I’ve earned $10 in one month on Swagbucks this year. And it’s the first time I’ve earned anywhere near $5/mth on Cashle.

FreeUKPounds: Though I earned more on this site than I did in October (£0.43), the site’s somewhat dead. Admin doesn’t communicate to questions in chat apart from putting a new offer up. Not impressed. I’ll continue to earn my few pennies there as long as the site’s functional or as long as I can be enthused to, but yeah, my impression of it has gone down somewhat. /// (UPDATE - 30th Dec: not much happening on this site apart from offers being posted up. Very low chat activity. Admin unresponsive. Plus some offers aren't resolving. Really not using the site that much at all anymore.)

CloudCrowd: CloudCrowd, CloudCrowd. Me and CloudCrowd used to have a blast in the past. I earned about $335 from it this year. Last year I earned double that. However, round June/July, I’d been thinking I was becoming too dependent on the site so decided to loosen my grip a bit. It’s just as well because come July or so, I made a boo-boo on one of the tasks and lost a sizable chunk of my point credibility, which meant there were a whole lot of tasks I was exempt from doing. I wasn’t in the mood to claw my way back up to a higher point level, plus I’d partly moved on anyway before the point cut, so I well and truly moved on after that.

Recently, I’ve been looking at CloudCrowd again, attempting the odd task, massaging my points level up slowly. So that’s where that cute lil 3 cents came from. /// (UPDATE: Ah well, my re-acquaintance with CloudCrowd didn't last very long. Lost my credibility again. I think I'm well and truly done now.)


Anyway, that’s me for November. :-)


Last month of the year. Make it a good one, y’all.

Aight?


Ebele.