Okay, first things first, I think I am probably the slowest web content writer on the planet. Actually, it's likely the active toddler that needs wrangling that is capping my income. The reason I say this is I've seen some income reporting threads on forums with people posting income in the thousands of dollars. By comparison, I'm making pennies.
So, income so far... drumroll please...
Demand Studios: $415 total to date (started late April).
Ehow: $18.08 to date with 35 articles. Plus I won the Home & Garden contest which should garner $50 in prize money. So official ehow total is $68.08 and growing.
Private Clients: $100
Infobarrel: I wrote 1 article and haven't checked back to see if I've made any money. Nor have I posted any other articles, which I should do something about that soon.
Suite 101: Nothing, I'm having some editor troubles there, which is disappointing.
Started 2 niche blogs with zero earnings (although I haven't actually checked my adsense accounts to see if I've made any money).
Currently I am not making the $100 a week target I had set for myself. Partly because there was almost no work on Demand Studios for several weeks in May and the editors forgot to take their Xanax or smoke their weed (something!) and went off the deep end. (If you google you'll find some entertaining message board threads where writers vent some steam re: DS editors.) So I stayed away for a while and focused on creating ad revenue content.
I looked at other upfront pay opportunities, but didn't find anything that was a good fit with my very limited schedule. Many upfront pay companies have high production quotas and/or tight article deadlines, which is difficult for me as I'm at the mercy of the toddler--I never know how much time I'll have to write or how much sleep I will get.
Just to disavow anyone of the idea that this online writing stuff is easy peasy, please note that, for the last 6 weeks or so, I have literally been writing every spare minute and staying up way too late trying to get things done. I'm exhausted, but I do feel like I'm seeing some results for my hard work. Now the question is can I take it to the next level?
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