A Problogger Mom

I last posted my online earnings on June 21st. Now that August is here, I decided it is time to update you all. At the last report, my total online earnings via blogging, advertising, affiliates, pay to click type sites, etc was $128.90 for the month of May and the first 3 weeks of June.

As of today, my total is $409.15, which means in the last 5 weeks or so I have made an additional $280.25. This does NOT include an addtional $75 I have earned for referrals to Payperpost. I will only receive this money when each of those referrals follows through with writing a paid post and gets paid for it 30 days later. But if you would like to include it, that would make my total online earnings since May $484.15, or just $355.25 for the last 5 weeks or so.

Whoo hoo! A new fun thing to play with! I signed up for Sponsored Reviews last week before leaving on our camping trip, and just found an approval notice in my inbox! I’m looking forward to figuring out how that site works as I have only heard good things about it and that you can earn a bit more from them than you can with other paid posting type sites.

I also just signed this blog up with Payperpost, as I have finally reached the point of having over 10 approved posts on my old blog.

Please check out my new post on my old blog here My Earnings are Up!

 I posted several times on my old blog how I signed up for Payperpost many months ago, but never acutally started doing posts for them until recently. Apparantly, you cannot add a new blog to your account, until you have the 10 approved posts on the old blog, so I have spent the last week or so trying to meet the minimum quota on the old site. I am almost there and hope to be done with that activity this week. Meanwhile, I am having to intersperse sponsored posts, with non-sponsored posts, and I have been neglecting this blog in the process! Hopefully I will have this whole mess behind me very soon!

I always love to see earning reports posted from others who are trying to make money online via blogging and or other methods. They always inspire me when I get into that place where I think maybe I am crazy for trying to do this. So here are some I gathered up that I have come across recently.

The grand master of them all, John Chow reports June income of $12,569.61. Read his breakdown here. I can only wish!

I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned Paula Neal Mooney’s Blogger Salary list for June, which I am on!! Where’s my brain? Of course my earnings are measely compared to many, but hey, it’s a start! Check it out here.

I was just surfing around, and stumbled upon this very helpful site for women and mom entrepreneurs. It is Ponn M. Sabra’s site Empower Women Now. If you are like me, and new to the blogging scene, and also trying to turn blogging into a money making venue for yourself, you must check out her site. She has many useful tips for those of us starting out, and well as a Link Directory for sharing the link love among those of us with similar entrepreneurial spirt. She also offers a Free “Special eReport: Make Money Online: How You Can Too!”. I just signed up and am anxiously checking my inbox. I will be checking out her site often, and hope you all find it as useful as I have.

I just read a great post on the Get Rich Slowly blog titled You are Your Own Worst Enemy. It was like a glimpse into my past, right before I had my “lightbulb” moment. I was Gillian in that post, so dead tired of always being broke all the time, but looking for a quick fix instead of truly working on the problem, because it does require work, and lots of it.

Apparantly, Paula Neal Mooney is again tackling her list of blogger salaries and should be posting an update soon. That is one brave woman as that job seems monumental! She was kind enough to ask me if I’d like her to post my earnings, so I just shot off a quick note to her with my totals. Hopefully, I’ll make her list, but if not, I figured I would go ahead and share my earnings so far with you all.

The New York Times recently ran this article: Can Blogs Become a Big Source of Jobs?

The article points out, that as blogs are becoming more and more popular, there is more demand for employees who can write or support them, from CEO’s on down.

“There’s almost an ecosystem of jobs that have emerged around blogs,” said Paul Forster, chief executive at Indeed.com, a job search engine with postings from more than 5,000 sources. “It’s an emerging area where there are many more opportunities related to the blog rather than being a dedicated blog writer.”

When I discovered at the beginning of this year, that blogging was actually a viable income earning opportunity, I first came across the Problogger himself Darren Rowse. Next I came across John Chow. In searching online for other women who called themselves Probloggers, this information seemed harder to come by. Since then, I have found several popular female bloggers who attempt to earn an income via blogging, and I have many of them listed in my blog roll. Recently, a couple of them have posted their earnings, and in my eyes, they are DEFINITELY successful female Probloggers who are my inspiration! I hope they will inspire you too.

If you are an avid user of the internet, and spend even a mere 5 hrs a month surfing the web, blogging, checking email, shopping, playing games online, etc, then you need to sign up for Agloco and get paid for your time on the web.Agloco stands for A GLObal COmmunity, and it is an economic network that will pay you for simply surfing the web. Once you sign up, you are a member of the Agloco network. As described on their site, this is how you earn money: