How did it go? A summary of my goals for December 2010

As you might remember, I set some goals for myself for December 2010, and now I thought I would tell you how it went.

The goals were:
- Write at least 20 articles for Bukisa.
- Make some more friends on Bukisa (it helps you earn more since those friends will hopefully read your articles)
- Join Clickbank
- Make one minisite (Google the term if you do not know what it is)
- Finish 2 lenses I have reserved at Squidoo, and make 1 new one
- Submit all my blogs to several directories
- Come up with 2 new ideas regarding how I can make money in ways I have not tried yet

Bukisa changed their payment rules, so I have decided to focus less on Bukisa and trying to earn there. This made the first two goals unnecessary. I did join Clickbank, however, but did not like it. So that was kind of useless.

I did make a minisite however, but did not finish the Squidoo lenses, I am afraid.

I did do some directory submitting though, and I did think of 2 new earning ideas.

So I am pretty satisfied with my results, and will set a goal for January 2011 too. I do think it helped me achieve more.

Happy 2011 to all my readers by the way! May you have an extremely profitable 2011!

A bit dissapointed with Bukisa

Bukisa, a site that I was previously pretty happy with, emailed me yesterday to tell me that they have switched over to Adsense revenue share as their payment model. This is a bit dissapointing to me, since I actually preferred the old model, where you got paid based on how many people viewed your article.

The reason I'm dissapointed is that I prefer to diversify my online income, and I already have some Adsense income. Also, it is nicer to get paid directly to your Paypal account and not through checks (Adsense pays through checks they send you in the mail only), especially considering that the banks where I live charge money when you cash in foreign checks. But oh well, I guess there isn't really much to do.

I am just kind of bummed that these sites change their rules so often. I still haven't decided if I should continue writing for Bukisa or not. I guess I should wait and see how much my Adsense earnings are first...

Are any of my readers active on Bukisa? If so, what do you think of the change?

My goals that will help me make (more) money online for December 2010

Sorry for not blogging much, but I have had so much work for my private clients (content writing, translations) that I simply have not had the time to look into other ways to make money online. (But hey, I still manage to make money online by having these clients, so that's actually a good thing!)

But in order not to forget to learn new things as well, I have decided that I need to start making "to do"-lists regarding my online earning projects every month.

So I present to you... my first "to do" list, this is what I want to achieve during December 2010:
- Write at least 20 articles for Bukisa.
- Make some more friends on Bukisa (it helps you earn more since those friends will hopefully read your articles)
- Join Clickbank
- Make one minisite (Google the term if you do not know what it is)
- Finish 2 lenses I have reserved at Squidoo, and make 1 new one
- Submit all my blogs to several directories
- Come up with 2 new ideas regarding how I can make money in ways I have not tried yet

We will see how it goes! I will share my success or my failure with you guys of course!
(And if I really do not well, at least I will be motivated to get 2011 off to a great start!)

I wish all my readers the best of luck with their online earning projects!

A great read

If you hate your job and would rather be working online or for yourself, you really need to read Tyler Tervooren's e-book Take This Job and Shove It. The e-book is completely free to get (do it here) and I am currently reading AND LOVING it!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! I do not plan to earn a single cent online this weekend (I already wrote three articles for Bukisa though and did some MyLotting), I am just going to relax. I hope you guys have the time to do the same! (maybe even with Take This Job and Shove it?)

What sites am I still active on?

So, as some of you know, I have been trying out quite a few things lately, and I thought I would summarize them before I start telling you about new methods.

The methods that I am still using are:
MyLot (which I love! Highly recommended!)
Squidoo (not huge earnings so far, but I think the site has a lot of potential)
The Amazon Affiliate program (see above)
Google Adsense (going well for now, you can check out some of my blogs which can be found through the footer of this blog for examples of ads being shown)
Bukisa (very happy with it! Highly recommended!)

Sites I am not using anymore:
Triond (turned out to be quite the scam, planning on writing about that later, so if you are interested in knowing why I think Triond is a scam, look out for this post soon!)
Linkstoxx. (It seemed great and I even got a payment from them but the whole site is in French so it was a bit hard for me to use)
Kooday (I know people love it, but I never pay to earn, so I never really got started even)
PickyDomains (I still have no idea if this is a scam or not, but it did not give me any results, so I am staying away)

A productive week: Making money with Bukisa

So, like I mentioned before, I have been trying out quite a few different projects lately. Since I have been so happy with Triond I decided to try another similar site: Bukisa, that is supposed to pay better than Triond. So far I am not making much, but having two passive incomes could be really great in the long run, so I will stick with this.

So if any of you readers like writing articles, I seriously recommend trying Triond for sure, and maybe Bukisa as well. I will keep you updated on how the Bukisa stuff goes, of course, but so far it looks promising!

PS: As you can see, a new Triond-widget has also been added to the blog, so you readers can see my latest articles easily.