Comments on: Alternative Income Streams – May 2008

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:06:10 +0000

Keep it up. These posts give us the inspiration for us all to look for alternative income streams. Is not easy but it is a lot more fulfilling than the 9 – 5

By: Lazy Man

Lazy Man — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:46:10 +0000

It changes every month. Some things go up and others go down. It usually averages out.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:58:21 +0000

Congrats. It looks like the majority of your income comes from reader opening account with Revolution Money Exchange. Then, do you expect that to change significantly for the current month?

By: Dividend Growth Investor

Dividend Growth Investor — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:54:55 +0000

That’s pretty respectable income Lazy Man. The decrease in adsense revenues could be due to smart pricing. Adsense believes that if your ctr rate is less than a certain percentage, they should pay you less per click than before (significanlty less).
Even though lending club is not working now, we still have Prosper ..And RME is limited to 50 referrals unfortunately.

By: appfunds

appfunds — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:52:48 +0000

Well done.
I wonder why you call yourself a lazy man :)

By: Pam Grundy

Pam Grundy — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:30:21 +0000

Wow, I’m impressed and inspired. I was just recently hired to blog and one of my main goals in taking the job is to learn how this works. The only real money I’ve made online is freelance contract work, which is going great, but ad income would be great too. AdSense is indeed an odd beast. I think a lot of it is just hitting on the one topic that is on peoples’ minds and doing it first. That’s not easy to do, but it does happen. Thanks for the inspiration!

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:42:26 +0000

I think you did great Lazy. You’re right, LC was a good source of income and I think it hurts many bloggers.

As for AdSense, it’s a funny beast. Did your search traffic drop over the past few months?

By: Enough Wealth

Enough Wealth — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:07:13 +0000

Ah, I just realised your income is from ALL your websites, but I was only comparing traffic from this blog. If you divide your $1611/mo income by total visits across all your income generating sites it would be easier to compare results.

By: Enough Wealth

Enough Wealth — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:00:27 +0000

Wish I could get similar result!

My blog gets
20% of your traffic (sitemeter)
3% of your subscribers (feedburner)
1% of your blog income

If my revenue per visitor was similar to yours I’d be getting $325/mo instead of a negligible $18/mo…

I suspect a lot of the difference is due to the fact that while 65%-75% of my readers are in the US, I’m based in Australia and can’t join some affiliate programs that offer services useful to US readers.

By: Llama Money

Llama Money — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:17:13 +0000

That’s pretty strong LM, especially when you consider that it is after taxes. Adsense can be a really fickle beast, that’s for sure. I have been using it for years and still can’t make heads or tails of my earnings, and the reasons behind them.

By: Experts on Credit

Experts on Credit — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:14:35 +0000

This is just the kind of post I needed. Desperately in search of new ways to make money.

By: Frugal Dad

Frugal Dad — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:26:51 +0000

$1500 is a very respectable amount! I do good to get half that, but then again you’ve been at this a good bit longer than I have. Like you, I can’t believe Revolution Money Exchange is still forking over $25 to new sign-ups. It is one of the better deals I’ve seen in a while. Here’s to even more profits next month!

By: Cos

Cos — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:15:48 +0000

Congrats and continued good luck in your ventures!