“Err…where did this come from?” I thought to myself as I received my mail today. It appeared to be another payment from the widget bucks program as it had the exact same envelope and appearance from the first payment. Now the reason I was shocked is because as my regular readers know I decided to remove it from my blog for the time being since it was making the site load extremely slow. Upon opening the envelope, the check amount this time around was for $52.21 as seen here:

Not bad. I guess I can classify this as passive income since I didn’t really do anything active with it to generate money. The more the merrier and here is the updated results so far:

Stock Investment: $800
Blog Web Publishing: $338
Million Dollar Term: $100

Total: $1238.00

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I’ve been wanting to do this for the journey and will slowly do so as I am currently tinkering with different tools and vendors that I think will be perfect. As you may have noticed, I currently have contextual advertising in place mainly from Google at this point, which will be replaced with the Forbes ads, where income is generated from displaying advertisements.

Affiliate sales marketing revolves around generating a purchase or subscription for a particular vendor who then provides you with a commission for doing so. Usually when a site becomes more popular, affiliate sales are often a better source of revenue. Of course, a key factor is to find programs and offers that your audience would find beneficial.

As a result, I will also label income derived from this as “Affiliate Sales” during my progress updates which should provide some interesting analysis.

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I received a check today from Mpire Corporation which is the company that runs the Widget Bucks program that I ran on this blog as a test. Here is a picture of the envelope that it came in:

Of course, here is a photo of the check itself for a payment of $63.60:

At first I was a little confused about the currency that the check was written in as from my experience most companies label it on the check. However, since the company is based in the US I naturally assumed it was in US currency and sure enough it is.

That’s not too bad of a performance I thought in terms of generating an income with the fact that I just kind of stuck the widget on the blog without too much planning. However, I’ve decided to remove the widget at the moment as I noticed it was taking a very long time to load up which created an enormous load time on the blog. Hopefully they will fix that up though as for me the performance hit was a bit too much.

That’s not to discourage anyone else from trying it if you think it will work for your site. As I mentioned before, I thought the Widget Bucks program would work best on a more tech oriented site. I’m currently experimenting with another program that should be launching soon, so we’ll see how that works out. Journey scorecard is as follows thus far:

Stock Investment: $800
Blog Web Publishing: $285.79
Million Dollar Term: $100

Total: $1185.79

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This really has been a very casual section so far which I guess suits the original intent. Didn’t really get to do what I wanted though due to some circumstances that has been eating up a lot of my spare time, but that didn’t stop the blog from generating some more income. Today I received another payment from Google for $116.65.

I was thinking that‘s not too bad considering I don’t really focus too much on monetizing the blog as I simply write like normal. This made me curious as to how well that widget bucks program was doing. To my surprise, I am due for a payment as apparently last month I passed the minimum payment point. Ironically, I thought it wouldn’t do well at all since it seems like it is more fitting for a tech site.

The breakdown looks like this so far:

Stock Investment: $800
Blog Web Publishing: $222.19
Million Dollar Term: $100

Total: $1122.19

I guess Google adsense won’t really be an income source once that Forbes network kicks in as all the ads will be converted to advertisements supplied by them. Not bad for a casual start so far I’d say. Almost feels like passive income in many ways.

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I was just reading about this fairly new advertising program called widget bucks. By the looks of it, the concept seems similar to other online advertising platforms where you stick a code on your site which then generates ads to be displayed. I didn’t dive too in-depth with it yet, but the thing that caught my attention is that they are currently crediting new accounts with $25 and so I figured it wouldn’t hurt to try it. Although, it does mention that you need to make at least $50 to be able to cash it out.

While at this point it seems something like this would be more suited for a tech related site, I guess this shows that there are a lot of things out there to try in an attempt to generate an income.

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