The Online Paycheck

Fall is in full swing around my home and winter is coming fast. My wife and I are getting ready to move on December 1^st. Yes, I know moving in winter is not the most practical thing to do but we promised ourselves we would move back to British Columbia as soon as we could. For us, that is December.

October went as expected. I kept up with posting the daily lists of writing job ads throughout the month but wrote little else. I finished a long overdue quest guide for Bright Hub’s MMO channel and wrote a book review for a delightful zombie book written by the husband of a friend/co-writers at Canadian Invader. If you like zombie books you should check it out, it was a great read. It’s called Lies at the End of the World by Phil Wolters.

Here is my word count:

Location	Number of Articles	Word Count
blog	21	7645
Triond/Bukisa/Red Gage	0	0
Xomba	0	0
Bright Hub	2	2587
	Total:	10232

In some respects I am pretty pleased with my earnings from writing this month, in other aspects not so much. I am pleased with the Triond earnings. Thirty-nine cents isn’t much, in fact it’s a piddly amount, but it is an improvement and that’s what I was aiming for. Bukisa is still averaging the same amount every month and I have yet to upload the additional pieces I wrote for Triond last month so this isn’t all bad. This tells me that the articles I have on Bukisa, although making very, very little every month, at least have staying power. I can count on the amount I make there to be constant, at least to a degree. My Red Gage earnings are up despite my lack of uploads and my Bright Hub earnings are also up even though the improvement is marginal. The one big disappointment is my Adsense earnings. A lot of effort was put into the Online Paycheck this month with very little monetary gain. At the same time it’s not overly surprising, it takes time to bring money into a blog. Earnings or no earnings I am happy with the Online Paycheck as I have almost doubled my readership again this month.

Earnings from writing online:

Location	Total Amount of Articles	Monthly Income
Triond	23	$0.39
Bukisa	13	$0.11
Red Gage	95 (writing and photography)	$0.46
Adsense (Blog,Xomba, etc)		$1.18
Bright Hub	64	$35.03
Schvoong	1	$0.00
	Total:	$37.17

Tis the season for stock photography and it shows in my earnings. I must admit that it still surprises me that I still sell as many photos as I do considering the size and age of my portfolio. I am not getting rich off of photography, of that there is no doubt, but my portfolio is now three years old, I have barely added to it in that time, and I still make money from it every month without fail. Earnings are much lower in summer but I do always make something. This month is only a little less than the last but I didn’t get an EL this month. This means sales are up even though I have earned a little less. I am also glad to see that the earnings are spread out a little. Instead of making most of my earnings off of one or two agencies I made decent amounts with some and a little almost everwhere else. This bring each payout just a little closer and that is always good.

Photography earnings:

Agency	Number of Photos	New photos added	In Queue	Earnings
Shutterstock	147	0	0	$4.13
Dreamstime	199	0	0	$11.29
iStock	67	0	0	$8.10
StockXpert	144	0	0	$0.00
fotolia	210	0	0	$6.63
BigStockPhoto	205	0	0	$2.50
Feature Pics	254	0	0	$0.00
StockPhotoMedia	262	0	0	€0.34
123rf	196	0	0	$0.47
Canstock Photo	235	0	0	$4.30
YaY Micro	163	0	0	€0.00
CutCaster	136	0	0	$0.00
Scandinavian Stock	156	0	0	€0.00
			Total:	$37.42 €0.34

And that is pretty much it for this month. I plan on writing as much as I can over the next month but since I am preparing for a move into another province on December 1^st I have idea idea how much that will actually be. Only time will tell. I am looking forward to getting settled in a new home so I can get back to writing more often and setting up a photography space. These two changes in my life will help me really start working on my online paycheck.