Tuesday’s post talked about the 6 reviews that I wrote and sent in to AC. Now, my food product reviews never get high offers (generally around $3 each), and the cafe review was non-exclusive so I expected about the same from that. However, my food product reviews tend to garner the most hits outside of a few guides I wrote for Walt Disney World, and a How To on making tarot cards. Therefore, they totally count for me.
So, I wrote those 6 reviews and knew that I’d get offers on them, no matter how low. And I did (For a grand total of $19 for 6 reviews. Anyone surprised? Not me.). The thing is, when I work up Sunday morning, I had an offer in my email for $5 for a little link on my chatting blog. That post is archived so far back that it will only ever be discovered by search engine, and for that I don’t care. Easy money? Totally.
I also have a load of Squidoo lenses. Way more than I need, though I plan to build a few more. The thing is, there were quite a few that I just didn’t want to mess with any more. So I built another lens to sell the lenses that I know longer want. None of them made me any money other than their share of the revenue share. So I listed two of them at $5, one at $10, and three as free to good homes. Seriously, I just wanted them out of my listing so that I could concentrate on the others.
Tuesday I got an email from someone interested in purchasing one of the lenses. Sweet. I sent him the details, then gave him the link to the sale page in case he was interested in the others. He was. I sold the two at $5 each, and he wanted the free ones as well (Seriously, they were free!). The only lens he didn’t take was the $10 lens, and I had actually said on the page that I didn’t really want to sell it. So maybe he was just being polite?
Either way, that $15 was almost like out of no where. Yes, I did a lot of work. But it was all long in the past and without the intention of making money (post link) or selling (lenses). Once I decided to sell, it wasn’t with the intention of making a lot of money. Just of getting something out of it.
On top of this, my BANS sites have started pulling in a bit of cash. Nothing to write home about, but every day I seem to be getting closer to my goal of paying off the laptop with my writing/site building. Once that’s managed, I’ll be working towards making a viable income from it.
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