Work Online from Home

If your like me you try various new revenue sources when they open or when you qualify for them, and probably like me, some of them work for you and some don’t.

So after a while the ones that aren’t working get dropped from your sites, or perhaps pushed down the site so that you forget your running them, or because they don’t perform you stop checking them for anything earned.

Today might just be a good day to go over every advertising site/program you have ever used and check your account balances, I did that this morning and found several hundred dollars in various programs that is due to be paid (but lacking payment information), or is very close to hitting the minimum payment threshold.

I came across this today, and no I’m not one of the 50, that is something I will never be.

While reading through the list I noticed that I read very few of the blogs done by these people, and had heard of a few more. Perhaps I just don’t move in the same circles I thought, but then when you look at the list a lot of them are tech/earn money from the net kind of people.

I will have to go through the list and check them all out and see what worth reading, if you haven’t seen the list then head on over and have a read (http://northxeast.com/blogging/nxes-fifty-most-influential-bloggers/)

So August is over, the reports are in, the numbers crunched, and there has been some improvement in my daily earnings.

My Average daily earnings for August 2007 was a little over $9.00 a day, still not enough but at least things are improving!

I should mention that this is not just AdSense, it is the total earnings from all advertising run on my sites and then divided by 31.

I can’t afford to treat myself to a latte, but at least I will be able to eat this week (I think).

I recently caught up with an old friend and found out that he has created a service that is a great help to anyone who exchanges links.

His site will automatically check your link exchanges to make sure they are still valid, saving you a heap of time doing it manually.

Well worth the $15 lifetime fee it costs you.

I’d recommend checking it out  http://www.textlinkhq.com/

(Disclaimer: No money or beer changed hands for me to post this, I just think its a great idea at a great price!)

For sometime now I have been an offline online worker.

Sounds like a contradiction I know, but essentially I have no Internet access from where I am living, so I have to do everything offline and then when I get near somewhere that has net access upload it all.

It’s difficult at times, I can’t just go and google something, but in other respects its great.

I am sure everyone has suffered from Internet wandering syndrome. Just wandering around reading sites, checking out the latest and greatest. I know I used to do it a lot, its a great way to waste your time.

July is over, the reports for AdSense are done and I managed to get my sites back up to averaging about $5.75 a day.

Considering that most of the sites only came online again at the start of the month, and then all the database driven sites were down for over a week in the mid month period I am reasonably happy with that level of earnings.

The end of July and so far the start of August are doing much better than $5.75, and I am feeling somewhat energised to getting back on track, so I’ll keep my sites, work on them and get where I need to be.

So most of my sites have been up and stable for a month or so, well at least the ones that don’t require a database.

The hard disk drive in my server that holds the databases has developed a problem and with me not having good access to the net it was sometime before I discovered that all my database run sites were down again.

I have fixed them all except for the one that was living on the bad sectors of the drive, I’ll have to reimport that one.

So for the last few days I’ve been working on turning things around. Part of doing that is working out what exactly I have coming in, with the hope that there is enough to perhaps afford some advertising or similar to help get things moving.

The numbers have been crunched, and its not looking that good. After the basic expenses I have $106 dollars a week left to cover food, petrol, the credit card bill ($7,000) and any non regular bill like registration, car insurance etc.

Looking back on the last 6 or 7 months it definately hasn’t been a good time. Yes my wife stopped working, she loves it, unfortunately what she didnt love was just how much time I spent working.

Our relationship spiraled downwards, I spent less and less time working, and more and more time playing a MMORPG. (Escaping the bad situation at home). Unfortunately it only made things worse, and I, at the time, didn’t care.

The less I worked, the less I made, the less I made the harder it became to pay the bills. The money was flowing out faster than I was making it, our savings got eaten, the credit card got maxed.

Well if your a regular visitor to any of my sites, or perhaps a reader of my blog you’ll have noticed the lack of posts, sites going up and down like yoyo’s, and many other weird things for a while now.

Some of my sites are backup, and should now stay up. Others well, they are down and will probably not return in the form that they were.

Over the next few days/week I will be posting a series of entries here that will explain what has been going on, and it will have a few important lessons in it so make sure you drop in and read it all.