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February 2010 Online Earnings Report

Rosalyn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:33:29 +0000

Month two boasted a tripling of revenue. I veered again from the plan and wrote an article for Associated Content to see if that venue may be better than one of the others I’ve been using. I like Associated Content because it provides both active and passive income.

I was able to bring my Twitter followers up to 607. I also created 3 lenses and 5 eHow articles. Here are the links in case you’re interested:

Squidoo Lenses:

How to Lose Weight Fast With The Protein Power Diet

7 Places to Earn Passive Income

Home Remedies for Bedwetting

eHow Articles:

How to Seal A Criminal Record In Arkansas

How to Interview Expungement Lawyers

How to Settle A Recent Car Accident

How to Build Links to Your Squidoo Lenses

How to Tips for Small Businesses to Generate Maximum Profits

My Earnings for January came through three main channels:

Adsense: $4.21

Associated Content: $2.77

Earn Passive Income: Follow This Blueprint to Blogging Success

Rosalyn — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:01:14 +0000

When I first started looking to earn passive income online I quickly gravitated towards blogging because I love to write. I’m not sure how I wound up hearing about Yaro Starak but I did and I downloaded his free report, Blog Profits Blueprint which gave me a very realistic perspective of what blogging would be like. But when I read the report I didn’t really want to accept realistic, I wanted fast money. After all this was the world wide web, where millions are made in hours–right? Well, apparently not.

What the Blueprint teaches is how to methodically set up your blog so you can earn passive income perpetually. There are several ways that Yaro highlights for earning passive income blogging; but he notes recursive affiliate income as his favorite stream of passive income. Earning recursive affiliate income entails promoting affiliate programs that sell subscription services. Other blogging passive income streams include selling direct advertising, Adsense, Text Link Ads, and advertising brokers such as Chitika and BlogAds.

You can get your copy of Blog Profits Blueprint here and get started earning passive income.

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Passive Income Series: Xomba

Rosalyn — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:30:50 +0000

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Xomba.com is a revenue sharing site that shares 50% of its Adsense revenue with its users. Xomba users aree allowed to add two types of posts: Xombytes and Xomblubs.

Xombytes are ordinary articles that must contain at least 100 words. Xomblurbs, on the other hand, are social bookmarks. With these bookmarks you’re able to share your links with the Xomba community.

One great thing about Xomba is that it has a PR 5 and the links are DoFollow links. So you can use Xomblurbs as great backlinks for your other webpages (blogs, Squidoo lenses, Hubpages hubs, eZine Articles, etc.) while you earn money.

I’ve been using Xomba for about six weeks as a social bookmarking site; but I have also seen a little Adsense income from it. I don’t know that this site will generate a huge amount of passive income but I believe it has enough potential to make it worth continuing to use especially since it serves the dual purpose of creating backlinks.

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Passive Income Series

Rosalyn — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:34:45 +0000

I’ve been looking at various ways to generate passive income online. As I’ve been doing so I’ve noticed five prevailing categories of passive income that are worth exploring further:

Selling affiliate products through article marketing;
Writing for revenue sharing sites;
Product creation;
Blogging; and
Tier II affiliate referral.

Within each broad category there are many sites to use to generate your passive income. Since I’m looking as in-depth as I possibly can into passive income ideas, I’ve decided to do a series of posts highlighting each potential passive income stream I see. I don’t know how many posts will be in this series but it will probably be pretty extensive.

I hope these posts help and please let me know if you know of a passive income broad category that I’m overlooking.

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Your Life Purpose: Why It's Crucial That You Fulfill Your Purpose

Rosalyn — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:40:59 +0000

We were created to glorify God. “Each person is given something to do that shows who God is.” I Corinthians 12:11 (Message Translation) The reward for fulfilling your purpose is great; however, there are consequences for falling short of the mark.

We all play a different role in fulfilling the purpose for which the human race was created. Since the body is to be fitly joined together, we were all created for each other. Our true purpose cannot be found apart from serving people and serving with other people. Living outside of your purpose either creates a void or a deformity. “Now matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn't be a body, but a monster.” I Corinthians 12:19 (Message Translation)

I Corinthians 12:25-26 best describes the consequences of failing or refusing to serve our purpose. “The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don't, the parts we see and the parts we don't. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance.” (Message Translation) What this passage teaches us is that if we're out of place, we affect everyone else in the body of Christ.

Another consequence of falling short of your purpose is reflected in eternity. “The lines of purpose in your lives never grow slack, tightly tied as they are to your future in heaven, kept taut by hope.” Colossians 1:5 (Message Translation) In this passage Paul is commending the Colossians for their steady faith in Christ and their act of love that he'd been hearing about. What stood out for me was the clear indication that living your purpose has eternal significance. So let's look a little deeper.

The Bible states in I Corinthians 3:13-15 that our works will be judged at the judgment seat of Christ. “…the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.” (NIV) In other words, if what you did here on earth doesn't withstand Christ's judgment, you will barely slide into heaven. Everything you did while you were on earth will mean nothing.

Here's what's so important about living your purpose, you will not be judged according to what you did, but by what you were called to do (your purpose). So even if you're doing something “good” if it's not what God created you to do, it will be burned up at the judgment seat.

So, how about you, are you living your purpose?

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» Uncategorized - Living the rest of your life for the glory of God will require a change in your priorities, your schedule, your relationships, and everything else. It will sometimes mean choosing a difficult path instead of an easy one. Knowing he was about to crusified, he cried out: My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say,'Father, save Me from this hour'? but for this purpose I came to this hour.
if you don't have passion and purpose, greater productivity won't … - if what you do with the best hours of your day is not also the thing you're passionate about, stop right now! stop right now and confront the cold hard facts for what they are: no amount of effectiveness training, time management skills …
Three Sticks Moses on Life My Ministry Part 1 Origin - My ministry has been a long time in coming. I have only recently begun to understand what it truly means for me and my life. I believe that as I move forward more of it will come into focus.

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Is Blogging Income Passive or Active?~Why Some Bloggers Quit Blogging

Rosalyn — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:33:43 +0000

I’ve been blogging off and on for a couple of years and it just hit me…I’ve had the wrong mindset about blogging. There is more than one form of income that I break down in my mind into four categories: active (sometimes called linear), passive, active/passive combo, and windfall.

Active Income

Active income is exchanging time for money like working at a job or freelancing. Of course there are advantages to having that set amount of money coming in; but there are also disadvantages. For example, your time is not really your own when you’re working for money. Active income takes a short-term outlook to meet current needs.

Passive Income

Passive income is generated by working once to create a stream of income then collect income perpetually (or until the stream dries up). Think long term here.

The Active/Passive Combo

The active/passive combo is doing a job that will pay you when you do the work and will continue paying afterward. For example, when an actor receives a salary for their role and receives royalties afterward. Now that is the best of both worlds.

Windfall Income

You may think about an inheritance or winning the lottery when you hear the term windfall, but I’m talking about actual income. My old law firm did this in the form of working certain types of cases–those taken on a contingency basis. It’s all or nothing but well worth it for the right cases.

Now back to blogging…I was treating my blogging experiences as active income. When I wasn’t seeing immediate results, I became discouraged and backed off blogging. But this epiphany hit me, blogging is for passive and windfall income. Blogging is a long-term project that will generate passive income if you persistently pursue this path.

If you’re on the brink of giving up on blogging, don’t. (At least not yet). First read The Blog Profits Blueprint. It’s a free ebook written by six-figure blogger, Yaro Starak. This book shows how to do blogging right and it’s free so what do you have to lose?

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Online Earning Report–January 2010

Rosalyn — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:55:32 +0000

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This was my first month of concentrated effort in online marketing; but I must confess I allowed myself to get sidetracked a few times looking a various tools to help in my effort. One good tool I picked up was the One Week Marketing Plan that I think will add a beneficial component to my plan. I’ll gauge it and let you know its effect on my earnings. Overall it was a pretty good month. I was able to bring my Twitter followers up to 401. I also created 7 lenses, 2 eHow articles, and 1 hub. Here are the links in case you’re interested:

Squidoo Lenses:

BBQ Cookoff

Rib Festival

BBQ Contest

Home Remedies for Bed Wetting

Powerscore LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible

Road Map to Become a Super Affiliate

George Foreman Red Grill

eHow Articles:

How to Cook Waffles With The George Foreman Grill

How to Write An Executive Summary

Hubs:

7 Pitfalls to Avoid On Your Way to Becoming A Super Affiliate

My Earnings for January came through three main channels:

Adsense: $2.60–of particular note is that over half this income came from links from Hubpages

Commission Junction: $2.50

Is Earning Passive Income Just a Good Thing or a God Thing?

Rosalyn — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:37:23 +0000

When I think about generating passive income, two passages of scripture come to mind: I Kings 17 and 2 Kings 4. Of course when these events took place the dollar bill was not the medium of exchange but the premise is the same.

In I Kings 17 there was a widow who was down to the last of her mill and the last of her oil. She had just enough to make one more meal. But following the instructions of the prophet Elijah she stepped out in faith and gave him an offering of “a little cake”. That one act of obedience opened the door to a year’s worth of passive “income”. In a time of famine, the widow had enough to feed herself, her son, and Elijah without doing anything more. One act=passive income for one year.

The next example is found in II Kings 4 where another widow found herself in extreme debt and in desperate need of income to pay off that debt. This widow’s one act was to collect all the vessels she could find. Her one act gave her enough oil to sell and not only pay off her debt but for her and her two sons to live on.

Generating passive income is definitely a good thing–it frees you to be in a position to obey God in your giving and your living. If God said quit your job tomorrow an you’ve got enough passive income coming in to pay your bills, guess what? You’ll quit your job without hesitation. But if you’re depending on your job to pay your bills you’ve got a mental battle to go through to follow that instruction.

Based on the scriptures I just discussed, it seems that passive income is not just a good thing but also a God thing. What do you think? Please leave a comment I’d love to hear your input.

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Preview of My Articles, Lenses and Hubs Previously Created

Rosalyn — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

In the post Making Plans for the New Year I talked about my passive income goals for 2010. I wanted to do a quick post to show what I already have in place so January won’t appear skewed. Here are the lenses, hubs and eHow articles I have already created:

Lenses:

Rosetta Stone Version 3: French

Send Online Faxes

TomTom One 330 GPS

Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

My Set It & Forget It Passive Income Strategy

Rosalyn — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:11:04 +0000

A few years ago there was an informercial for a Ronco rotisserie machine that emphasized the simplicity of the machine by repeating the slogan, “just set it and forget it”. The host would set the timer (”set it”) press the starter (”and”) then walk away (”forget it!”). After a few times the audience chimed in with him each time he did it. That’s obviously been locked in the recesses of my brain for years because as I worked on a system to create passive income the slogan kept replaying in my mind. Just set it and forget, Roz.

Because it’s really easy to get distracted on the internet with all the big launches of “must have” products, I decided to follow a simple set it and forget it strategy. This strategy also fits my personality because I get bored and am prone to switch projects quickly. So here’s the strategy:

Set It

Prayer & Confession
Select a product or service I use and recommend it
Keyword research on the benefits of the product or service
Create a lens
Ping the lens, submit to search engines and social book marking sites
Submit the lens to RSS feeds
Create a Hub about the topic with a link back to the lens
Create an eHow article about the topic with a link back to the lens
Create an eZine article about the topic with a link back to the lens

Forget it:

Start the next lens
Check stats weekly
Check earnings monthly

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