A complementary “mini-game” for your main game (main goal) can help you to stay on track. My primary goal through August 2024 is to earn $100 through the Medium Partner Program in a single month. To complement this, I’m also working toward monetizing my YouTube channel. (This YouTube channel is focused on currency collecting, and … Read more
Keeping score on my side quest Having a mini-game for your main goals helps to keep focus. Though my primary goal for the next couple of months is to earn $100 through the Medium Partner Program in a single month, I’m also building up my YouTube channel. (This YouTube channel is focused on currency collecting, … Read more
This year I’m publishing reports of my side income each month for accountability. My goal is to keep things moving forward by keeping it real. Reporting on the good and the bad allows for reflection on lessons learned. Which sources I’m reporting and which I’m not Since I’m not posting these anonymously, my primary and … Read more
Also drive traffic to your other online assets I no longer am convinced that a website is the key to online riches. In fact, it’s pretty much the hard way now. What worked in 2005 was to That’s far harder to pull off in 2024. This month my Medium income will outstrip the AdSense and … Read more
I was halfway there already and it took about 20 minutes Sometimes solutions present themselves and they’re easy because of the work you’ve already done. Over the past few years I’ve built a small YouTube channel dealing with (mostly) cool and fancy serial numbers. I haven’t been at all consistent with putting up new videos, … Read more
An uptick overall but my Medium income was scary … This year I’m publishing side income reports each month for accountability. Public accountability keeps things moving forward by keeping it real. Reporting on the good / bad / ugly allows for reflection on lessons learned. Which sources I’m reporting and which I’m not Since I’m … Read more
Joe Forrest, the veteran writer behind Niche Of One, got me thinking. (As he often does.) This time, he got me thinking about my online income streams. Aside from being excited over the first money I made on Medium, they’re … not life-changing. Ten bucks from this source. Fifteen from that source. Oh, hey, there’s … Read more
A decent portion of my income from my online adventures over the past nearly 20 years has been from referral income. Referral income, as the name implies, happens from people you refer to a service. There could be a one-time bounty, a recurring commission based on their activity with they service, or both. A referral … Read more