Earnings for July 2010

It’s early Sunday afternoon. I am relaxing with a coffee and writing my stats for the month of July. I have to say I am pretty happy with the way the month went. My word count is down as I had to get back into the swing of things but I am really happy with the quality of work that I have been producing. I am also proud to say that I have been invited to participate in a beta program for Bright Hub, I won’t talk to much about it because I am unsure how much they want public. What I will say is that the pieces I wrote are short and I will only be paid in revenue share, there is no upfront money for this project. This is why in my word count chart it shows that I have written 15 pieces but my word count is really low.

As I mentioned earlier this month, I am updating many of the resources on the Online Paycheck. This has also been going well, with many of them already done. This is also not reflected in my word count as it was already published work. I will be adding new markets soon, including Factoidz. I have already been accepted as a writer for them but I haven’t had a chance to submit anything yet. I am a little hesitant because I have read many articles about Factoidz, some very complimentary and others the polar opposite. I just don’t want to get burned like I did with Today.com. Regardless I hopefully get something written for them this month and I will be posting my experiences afterwards.

On to business, here is my word count for the month of July:

July was an excellent month for article views! The addition to Adsense to Triond has really helped boost my income from them. So much so that I am going to start writing for them with much more frequency! As I mentioned in my updated review of Triond they now pay both in view (as they always have) and share 50 percent of Google Adsense if the writer has an Adsense account and places ads into the body of their articles. This month I made 75 cents from views and $3.23 from Triond in Adsense revenue. It may only be 26.5 cents per article for the month but it is a significant improvement and something I would like to build on. All in all my revenue total for writing has remained almost the same as it was in January which is encouraging after so much time away.

Earnings from writing online for July:

Considering it is the middle of summer, the deadest time for photo sales in the microstock world, I am pretty damned pleased with my photo sales. Really, it’s not much but it is enough to make me really happy. My wife and I have also started uploading a little too. We used to have access to a lot of cats to take photos of. We were doing the photography for an animal rescue organization. We would give them quality photos to help them adopt out their rescues and in exchange we would have the rights to sell the photos in whatever manner we chose. It was a really good experience for us both emotionally and financially, and it was a great cause. Of those pictures we set some aside for stock and others were saved to submit to magazines or book publishers once we had enough. We no longer have access to so many wonderful furry models but the photos we uploaded to stock have been doing really well so, a couple of days ago. we decided to start upload the rest. We’ve been uploading them one photo per day and will continue doing so until we have no more.

Photography earnings:

I have a great plan for August and I am really excited to get it going. I suspect my hours are going to get cut at my day job for the month of August since business has been really slow. I don’t mind at all since I know that things are going to really explode once September hits. In the meantime I get to do lots of writing and outdoor photography!