I didn’t do too much to advance the exposure of Driftless Ramblings. I did a little bit with adding to my microstock photography portfolios but not really consistently like I had hoped. My portfolios have been earning slowly but making payouts are still pretty elusive. I got two in 2009, one from Fotolia and one from Shutterstock. Like to get my portfolio built up to the point where I can be getting a payout about every month or so. All the different sites combined earn me about $10 per month, it’s just a matter of getting them to the payout threshhold.
My venture into writing for ehow.com has been going pretty good. I’ve been earning as much there as from my microstock sites. The ehow.com writing also gives me some backlinks to some various sites as I’m trying to get some affiliate marketing going. As a matter of fact I have just received my first payout from ehow.com, $12.27, not much but hopefully I can keep it growing.
Besides my microstock portfolios I’m always experimenting with other options to make money on the Internet. A very likely candidate to assist in this writing for eHow. And they only have a $10 payout as opposed to the $50 – $100 for the microstock sites. My current goal is to get 30 articles up by the end of November. Hopefully that goes better than my previous Microstock goal.
Things have been a little slow here lately on getting any blog posts written. I have been reading a bunch of different blogs on blog marketing and internet marketing, among other things, and came across this post, The Weekly Winner Contest on Mixed Market Arts.I figured I would go ahead and enter my first blog contest. Collin writes a blog about a lot of topics I am just getting started at learning:
Blog Marketing
Blog Marketing Blog
Increase Website Traffic
LinkBuilding
LinkBuilding Blog
Internet Marketing
Internet Marketing Blog
I wish I had started learning internet marketing and making money from the web years ago.I started using the internet before the web even existed, using command line ftp and thinking gopher was a great user interface.
To enter the contest all you have to do is write a 250 word blog post on your blog with a couple links back to his site. The real wild thing is, you only need to enter once and have chance to win the $25 weekly prize as long as the contest runs, you can win as often as possible as long as the contest runs, the only limit being once per month. He will give at least four weeks notice when he plans to end the contest.
He is giving away as much in a month in this contest that is as much as my current goal to be making from the internet.The link back could do lots for my traffic count as well.
As much as I liked the previous theme I was using with the parchment look, I have decided to switch themes to the current one. The new theme is much cleaner looking as well as having Google Adsense already incorporated as well as an icon for the RSS feed subscription.
