21.02.13 - Third Weekly Round Up of February

Another week has sped by and this time I had hardly anytime for online work at all, rather disappointingly! Although I did have one large private client job instead which made up for the lack of online work I think. Although obviously it's only a one off payment rather than something that will continue to earn like a hub or lens.

But here are this weeks figures anyway

Hubpages

I managed to get up one new hub this week. Easter Card Making for Kids, which is an exclusive title so I am hoping for some decent results closer to the date. But it is currently still sitting in pending and has been for about 36 hours, which is very annoying.

Image credit in link

My views of my valentines hubs went really well up until the day but have obviously plummeted off since, One reached 10,000 views in a month, which I am so happy about, just goes to show how good a seasonal hub can be to your views and earnings. So I am now working on similar posts for the easter season. And will make a few Mothers Day craft ones, if I have time to get them out this week.

Squidoo

I literally just finished a new lens last night so i has only just gone live really. 2013 Ombre Dip Dye CLothing Trend: Where to buy, How to DIY and outfit Inspiration. I had seen a few other posts similar to this doing well on Squidoo so I thought I would put together one myself, it's not the type of post I like to do as it is very sales heavy and mainly just full of images, but I replicated a layout of one that is doing very well, to see if it would work. Fingers crossed as only time will tell.

Image credit in link

Fiverr

I did very well the first 2 weeks so I didn't expect the luck to continue, and it didn't, lol! I had 2 gigs this week, both for providing strong back links. The first was for a site called Bore Me which uploads daily videos on all sorts of subjects, often topical news, interesting technology and funny stuff. The Second was actually for a Wizzley Article all on learning to dance the waltz from online step by step videos and tutorials. A pretty good article actually, check it out: Learn to Dance the Waltz. 

These 2 added another $8 to my Fiverr sales for this month (see monthly total below)

Want to order any of my Fiverr gigs just click here.

Adsense

It's told me I have now reached the threshold to decide how I want to be paid, so I am currently verifying my account. I am pretty sure I can't actually get any payment until I hit £60 though, which is miles and miles away! Be lucky if I hit it by the end of the year to be honest. Got a click on one of my blogs so made a little extra but it is still far too slow really.

Affiliate Sales

I actually made a sale on Amazon.co.uk after over a year!!! Yay!!! And it wasn't just a few pennies either! It was a rather impressive £4.60 off 4 fancy dress costumes through my Where's Wally Fancy Dress Outfits Squidoo Lens. No amazon.com sales this week though sadly

Blogging

Well I'm still working on my Daily Craft Inspiration Blog, this blog and my regular Daisy Dayz blog. But my other 2 The Filmaholic Review and Less Waist More Taste have been pushed to the way side a little as I just haven't had time to write anything for them, I'm hoping to get back to regularly posting on all of them soon though

Figures for the month so far:

• Hubpages $27.30 (up to the 20th, only cents off beating January's final earnings!!)
• Squidoo $0.31
• Fiverr $116
• Adsense £1.01
• Amazon.co.uk Affiliate Sales £4.60
• Amazon.com Affiliate Sales $2.24
• Blogging £5

After the currency conversion I've made about £104. Obviously quite a lot of that is tied up in different sites for now though, but I will get it all eventually I hope.

I also just discovered Pay To Click sites, which look interesting but again a bit slow to make decent money, but I will have a go at them for a little while and get back to you on how it goes.

14.02.13 - Second Weekly Round Up Of February

So thats a second week disappeared for Feb. I have a pretty busy week with my day job and some Fiverr gigs so haven't managed to do much other work online as this has taken up all my time. However I have been steadily making a nice amount of money which has made me pretty happy. Looks like I will easily beat January! So here is what I have been up to and how the figures are adding up.

Hubpages

I'm happy to say that thanks to a few Valentines Related hubs my earnings have been going really well.  I haven't actually written any hubs since last week, but the earnings have continued to climb.

My CPM is still a little on the low side, so I could have made more if my CPM was higher, but it is always up and down.

Fiverr

Well fiverr has been going seriously well! The first week I had 11 gigs and this second week I had another 16! 1 massive ebook proofreading job and 1 backlinking job. So this week is an awesome $64, not too shabby! 

You can see the book I edited on Amazon Kindle, it is called Frontline: A Soldier's Story by Alex Green

Affiliate Sales

Well I made another small sale this week, but they really aren't getting me anywhere fast sadly. I have to get to $100 before payout in the UK, I'm only at about $23, so a long way to go.

Adsense

Gosh this is very slow to accumulate. I have it on Hubpages and my few blogs but they just aren't getting enough views to be making anything major at the moment.

Squidoo

I'm still not exactly keen on the whole tier system, but today is pay day and I think 1 or 2 of my lenses may actually be eligible but I'm not 100% sure! Plus not even 100% sure they will make anything anyway, but we shall wait and see. I am ahead being in the UK and assume it goes on US time so no idea when payments would go in anyway.

I did write 1 new lens this month though Great Pancake Moulds for Fun Pancakes, if you want to check it out, leave a comment and hit the like button, that would really help!

Figures for the month so far:

• Hubpages $22.62
• Fiverr $108
• Affiliate Sales $2.24
• Adsense £0.92
• Squidoo $0.31

As you can see I have already succeeded in surpassing my £62.67 earnings for January, thanks to the rather awesome $108 on Fiverr, and that's after only 2 weeks! So pleased! Looking at around £85 after currency conversion so far.

Also still managing a few private client jobs as well, so this months earnings should be really good.

07.02.13 - First Weekly Round Up of February

Well the first week of Feb has disappeared in a blur of work in my day job. I am working a long stretch of overtime shifts so my online work has had to sit on the back burner for a while. But that doesn't mean I have stopped completely. Here is what I have been up to this first week of February.

Hubpages

Hubpages has been doing really well this first week of Feb, thanks to a few Valentines Themed Lenses that I have. I know they say evergreen all year round hubs are the best to have, but the seasonal ones have been doing me so proud recently that I really think I will be spending some more time on targetting the holiday seasons throughout the year. Earnings up to the 7th have cleared so far, and they sit at (what I feel is a decently impressive $11.20 - which is the most I have made in 1 week since Christmas week. I'm still a little peeved though as the earnings could have been so much better if my CPM rate hadn't been so low. Decembers CPM average was $4.40, January's was only $2.95 and this months isn't looking any better, I am getting more views than last year but earning less because of the CPM rate. Highly annoying! Ah well, I suppose there is little I can do about than keep working and building my hubs. I have one new hub up - Great Pancake Recipes which i only just posted, so waiting to see how long it will take to get featured, then hope I'm in time to catch some of the Pancake Day rush.

I decided to have a bit of a clear out this week, and unpublish my idle hubs until I either have more time to work on them, to improve them or decide if I want to let them go. They had gone idle due to lack of views so I am not losing any earnings from losing their impressions luckily.

Adsense

This is the same as always, slow! Just the off few pennies dripping in every day. At about £0.33 for the week so far, which is a little rubbish really, need the odd click to make it worth while. As Adsense won't actually pay out until you reach about £60 I think, there is a long way to go - currently at about £5, lol! So I don't really expect to be making any substantial money off adsense and I just might make a payout by the end of the year.

Fiverr

I have had a fairly decent week on Fiverr with 11 gigs being ordered across my different gig options for this first week of January. A few were backlinking, others were proofing and re-writing jobs. So that equals $44 before paypal fees.

Affiliate Sales

I have had 2 Amazon.com sales (not including the one on Squidoo) bringing me a total of $1.90 so far for the month. I haven't made any other Affiliate Sales this month yet.

Squidoo

I think I actually made an amazon sale on Squidoo this week - a little $0.31 appeared next to my Where's Wally Costumes lens, so that is my first bit of money to be made on Squidoo. I'm still not 100% on the workings of Squidoo so I'm not sure if I will be seeing any royalties added this month on the 15th or next month, but hopefully as a few of my lenses have stayed below the 80,000 ranking I should make something from the ad revenue tier system. I don't think it will be a lot by it will be a few cent I'm hoping! I still rather the Hubpages system but so many people seem to say once you have a decent amoun of lenses up on Squidoo it is easier to make more money than on Hubpages, but I am still waiting to see that.

I am working on a new lens about pancake molds which shuuld be ready in a few days so I will post the link when it is sorted.

Blogging

I sold a side bar ad for March already and have been paid for it. So that is another £5 from the blogging. I have 2 more lined up but they have yet to confirm and pay. My Daily Craft Inspiration blog is going decently, although I haven't made a penny off it yet and no followers, it does get a handful of views everyday and I've only been doing it 1 week.

As my film reviews nearly all got idled on Hubpages I decided to move them all to their own blog - so The Filmaholic Review was born. This is more a project of love than an actually online money making idea as I have set myself the task of reviewing every single DVD we (me and the husband) own, standing at around 650 DVD's it could take me years, and that list is always growing. I love films so much and reviewing them has always been a bit of a passion (and a dream idea!) so I started doing the odd one, but have decided to focus on it a little more now with the dedicated blog. I mean I may make a little from adsense or affiliate sale, as I have linked to Amazon at the end of each of them, but I am not expecting to make much from it really.

So that is everything I have managed to get done.

Figures are sitting at:

• Hubpages $7.92
• Adsense £0.33
• Squidoo $0.31
• Fiverr $44
• Blogging £5
• Affiliate Sales $1.90

I'm hoping to improve on last months earnings online this month (not including my private client work) so I need to make around £62.67. Which after seeing the first weeks worth of earning I think is easily do-able! After conversions my first weeks income is around £39.79 - so over half way towards last months entire earnings, that is mainly due to a nice batch of Fiverr gigs in my first week. Sadly I can't rely on Fiverr gigs as they are sporadic in coming in and you never know how many you will get. But if I get some more I will be able to pass my January income easily - which means more money in our savings account!

Round up of January Earnings

So that is January over and done with. And I think I have had a fairly productive month, earnings are ok, steadily increasing in comparison to last years, so all is goning well in my books.

Well here are the finally tally's from each of my Online Income sources for the month of January.

Hubpages

I have posted 4 new articles over the month. All with a Valentines Craft theme to them. The latest one is Handmade Card Ideas for Valentines Day, which I only posted 2 days ago. They are already doing really well, after some backlinking they have been picked up by search engines, so that is helping to send traffic my way. Obviously this will only last until Valentines Day but in the mean time, they are making me some nice earnings.

(see link for source)

The final earnings sit at around $27.74

Gigbucks

I had just 1 gig this month. I don't get a lot of work on Gigbucks really, most my mini-job work comes from Fiverr, but I did one re-write job from there. So that is $4 in earnings

FiveSquids

Very much the same as Gigbucks, I don't get many sales on FiveSquids but I got one this month for a re-write job, so that gained me another £4

Fiverr

Fiverr has been quite productive again this week. Actually been a quite productive month in total. I had 3 gigs up to last week and this final week in January I had 2 more backlinking ones (which are complete) and 2 proofreading ones (which I'm working on) one of which was actually worth 6 gigs. So in total that has earned me $48 this month. Not too shabby!

Adsense

From my hubpages views and blog views Adsense earnings have reached £2.39 this month. But I have just added another blog to my adsense which I hope will help boost those pennies even more through February. Daily Craft Inspiration - will be daily pictures and links to all sorts of craft tutorials, inspirations and materials. I am hoping as craft and DIY are currently so popular I will be able to get a lot of hits from google, which will add to my adsense earnings.

Affiliate Sales

Well I'm actually a little disappointed with these. I only made $1.26 all month with Amazon.com and not a penny with Amazon.co.uk but sales there have always been few and far between 

Blogging

I have been able to join a few more Affiliate programmes this week so I am hoping that may occassionally turn into a sale in the coming months, but nothing yet, always seem to get lots of click throughs, but no one actually buying anything. I have on the other-hand managed to sell 1 side bar ad for Feb (and a few lined up for march) So that was £5. Plus I have an ebuzzing campaign video running (I won't include this figure yet as it is ongoing. But it is up to £1 from the first day)

(See link for source)

Etsy

Sadly my store has had to go on stand still for a while as I have been too busy with the day job and all my online writing work to actually make anything to sell.

Zazzle

The same goes for our Zazzle Store. There are a few items up, but not as many as we plan and we haven't been able to promote much yet.

Squidoo

My squidoo accounts are both to new to earn me any mony for this month, and as far as I can work out I wont actually see any earnings until March - so it's just a bit of a waiting game. But if you want to see what I have written so far you can find them here: Fancy That UK - all about party, seasonal and fancy dress items for the UK market. Fancy That USA - all about Fancy Fress Costumes and Props and Fun Party Supplies Avaliable in the USA

Overall Figures For January

• Hubpages $27.74
• Gigbucks $4
• FiveSquids £4
• Fiverr $48
• Adsense £2.39
• Affiliate Sales $1.26
• Blogging £5

Total for January earnings across all sources = $80.94 (£51.28 approx) & £11.39 = £62.67

I will also say the internet has allowed me to find 2 private clients, which has earned me an extra £55 this month as well.

Bringing my online earnings (in £ after conversion rates) to approx £117.67



21.01.13 - My Third Weekly Round Up of January

Week 3 has gone by in the blink of an eye, and I have actually been away all week so have done very little work online, not even much networking and backlinking. So here is all I have done:

Gigbucks

This is another of the micro job sites I am a member of, just like Fiverr. To be honest I have been on here just as long as I have on Fiverr and have only done 3 jobs in total! I had a rewrite job on Gigbucks this week so that is $4 in the kitty for January.

Hubpages

I haven't added any new Hubs since last week yet, but I will say that my Valentines ones are doing pretty well on views this week and have thankfully given me a few days with a decent earning compare to my $0.50 a day of last week. Here are the 3 Valentines Hubs I have running currently:

Recipes for Valentines Day

Valentines Day Crafts for the Home

Valentines Day Crafts for Children

Squidoo

Again no time to write any new lenses, but I have been working on a new Children's Colouring page one, which I will hopefully finish and get out this week coming, seeing as Valentines Day is fast approaching.

Blogging

I haven't done any blogging on my Less Waist More Taste blog as the diet was off whilst we were away. But I'm always posting on my Daisy Dayz Lifestyle Blog and I am now on the look out for official sponsors. I have had a bit of interest so far so hopefully will be able to sell a few spaces by next month!

Affiliate Sales

Nothing extra on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk this week sadly, but I have been accepted to a few new Affiliate Sales Programmes on Affiliate Window, so I will be adding some posts linking to them on my blog over the next few weeks. All are fashion based - sadly I have had absolutely no sales in the past with Affiliate Window but I haven't pushed them at all, I intend this year to be a little different!

Zazzle

We have added a few more items and designs to our Zazzle Store though so I would love it if you checked us out Cross-Jones Photo Zazzle Store. Only had 1 little postcard sale at the end of last year, but are now looking at building a bigger shop and actually trying to promote it.

This is our Reed Flute Caves iPad Sleeve from a photo we took in China.

So there you have all of this 3rd week of Januarys work, not hugely active but here are the figures so far for the month:

• $16.90 on Hubpages (up to the 20th)- this is only an estimate  but it is pretty decent I think
• $12 on Fiverr
• £4 on Fivesquids
• $1.26 on Amazon.com
• $4 on Gigbucks
• $1.75 on Adsense for the month so far!

The figures are all looking pretty decent to be honest - I have actually been contacted for a few private freelance jobs too although for now I will not be including these as I don't really class them as Online Income, more just a job.

So how is everyone else doing on the Online Income front? Anyone got any tips they would like to share on where to earn money online, or increase current figures?

14.01.13 - The Second Weekly round up of January

Ok so this is a bit late being posted, but I am currently away so thought it would be easier to do a weekly round up than try to post all the things I have been up to. Even though I am away it hasn't stopped me getting some work done. 

Squidoo

I finally finished the epic 50 Fancy Dress Costumes Beginning with A lens that I had been working on all of last week. And over the last few days it has slowly been working it's way up the lens rank, it's currently sitting at 76,954. Sadly the other 2 of my lenses on my FancyThatUSA account have slipped down the ranks - keeping lenses well ranked is going to be the biggest challenge I think. Having them slip out of the top 80,000 before the end of the month means it will be harder to get them in to a paying tier ranking for January.

On my FancyThatUK account I have started work on a new lens about Free Downloadable Colouring Pages for Valentines Day Fun. My Where's Wally Costume Lens is still doing pretty well here, unlike my US version of it, but my New Years Eve Decorations Lens has slipped out of the ranking, which is only expected now that New Year has passed.

I don't like not being able to see my earnings for a minimum of 60 days on Squidoo, I much rather Hubpages system of seeing my earnings after 24 hours. It's hard to keep motivated when your not seeing any financial gains up front - none at all, even the pennies on Hubpages in the start was fun to see.

Hubpages

I have only had time to get one Hub sorted this week, although I have about 6 all in different stages of completion. I am aiming to get up a few more Valentines Day based hubs this week though, as the date is just a few weeks away and the 2 I already have up are doing pretty well already. So the hub I managed to finish this week was Great Valentines Day DIY Craft Ideas for your Home. Seasonal hubs may not get hits all year round but they get a huge boost around their season which is great for getting you some new readers. 

For some reason I have been getting lots of new followers this week, going from 256 to 326 in just a few days! Hopefully this will help get my hubs viewed and shared a bit more.

For both the Hubpages Hubs and Squidoo Lenses I have done my usual back links on twitter, facebook and pintrest - but a little bit of an interesting thing I noticed was that my Valentines Day Crafts for Kids  has actually been re pinned over 400 time!! Mental! So hopefully this will get me more views over the next few weeks, when we get closer to Valentines Day itself and people need to start making things.

Fiverr

I have only done 1 Fiverr gig this week, a bit of backlinking for a PPI Reclaims company called Allegiant Financial Services

Fivesquids

I also did a Fivesquids gig this week though. Fivesquids is a british version of Fiverr, so instead of being $5 it is £5 per gig. I rewrote the landing/about me page for a reflexologist in the Marlow Area of the UK. Clare Cogan Reflexologist and Maternity Reflexologist.

Blogging

Obviously I have this blogging which is slowly ticking over with the views but I haven't really had a lot of time to promote it yet. My Alternate Day Diet Blog - Less Waist More Taste is also going well, actually better than this one so far.

I have also just sorted a Sponsorship page for my Fashion and Lifestyle Blog - Daisy Dayz. Which will hopefully start to bring me in a few official sponsors, and some more money!

Affiliate Sales

I have managed to sell 4 small items via Amazon.com in the last week, not sure if it was via, hubpages, squidoo or my blog but they have made me $1.26 commission. Not a lot I know but as I have to reach $100 before a payout in the UK, every little helps! I know have $21.71 in there so I am getting there slowly.

So there you have the wrap up of my second week of the year.

Figures so far this month are sitting at 

• £1.48 for adsense - a big increase on last week thanks to 1 little click!
• $10.30 on Hubpages - this is only an estimate. I'm not too happy as my earnings dropped below the $0.50 a day mark for a few days when they really shouldn't have.
• $12 on Fiverr
• £4 on Fivesquids
• $1.26 from Amazon.com

So week 2 was pretty similar to week 1 lets hope week 3 will keep on the same thread and I should make a decent amount by the end of January.

If weekly round ups work better I may just do it this way every week as I don't always have time to post daily.

09.01.13 - An Epic Squidoo Lens

We were busy for the majority of today, I was out collecting supplies for my little online craft shop, and 'spring' cleaning our bedroom. But I got straight to work as soon as we got home. 

Squidoo

Image Credit: DomDeen via FreeDigitalPhotos.net

 I thought I would dedicate my evening to finishing off the Squidoo Lens I have been working at for a few days now. Decided I really shouldn't be spending any more time on it, and I just needed to focus and get it finished! So it could at least start getting views and hopefully start earning me money. And I am happy to say that after a few more hours it is all done! Hooray! So you can check it out here - 50 Fancy Dress Costume Ideas Beginning with the Letter A. Please take a look and let me know your think!

Hubpages

I am a little annoyed that my hubpages earnings have plummeted quite so badly since the festive season, as it is currently lower then it was in November! And I have still got the hubs that were up before that date plus a few I have posted since then too. But I just can't seem to get my hits up to a reasonable amount to make a good daily pay from the Hubpages programme. I had calculated that if I was running at the same figures as November I would be able to make payout every 3 months, not great but at least it was a payout, at the moment it's looking like at least 4 months, not a happy bunny! Ah well all I can do it keep posting Hubs and hope the views pick up a little. Maybe it's another Google update that's hitting me and it will recover at some point.

Photography

Apart from our days jobs, and our effort to make money online we (my hubby and I) also have a small photography business. I know this isn't money we earned online but I thought I would share it with you anyway. We were out this week on a shoot with a local band called Smoking Aces. You can check out the whole set on our webpage Cross Jones Photography. We have thought about trying to make more money online selling stock images but we have yet to find the right website for us. Any tips in this field will be greatly appreciated. We are already on Zazzle and just taking some time to build our shop up. I will add updates on the Zazzle store when we start working on it some more.

Blogs

So another post up on the Less Waist More Taste Diet blog I have. It is another daily 'What We Ate Post' featuring pictures of my Sausage Apple Pot for the Slow Cooker. I will be adding the recipe for it to Hubpages then linking it into the blog, to create a solid back link for it.

So that is all for today. Back in the day job tomorrow so probably will get very little online work done at all.