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
GPT stands for Get Paid To. Get paid to watch videos. Get paid to fill out surveys. Get paid to search the web. What GPT really means In the end, GPT means “possibly get paid a very tiny amount of money to do something that takes no special skill but makes someone else slightly more … Read more
Kinda the same food, but just as easy to prepare and tasted way better After our daughter left for college, our motivation to cook dinner took a nosedive. I won’t say that we ever really enjoyed cooking overall, but we certainly enjoyed it less when it was just the two of us. We had been … 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
(This post was originally published 12 September 2015, and has been updated.) A great way to save more money is to make it harder to spend it. Here are seven ways to do just that. Jim over at Wallet Hacks some time ago posted on five money-saving hacks backed by science. Each of the five … Read more