Set it and forget it? I was chuckling at this a bit as I haven’t been paying too much attention to this in awhile. To brush off the cobwebs a bit, I have been trying to find different ways to generate an income as an example of how there are so many things to do out there where the main error that people do is just not doing anything at all I say. Web publishing was obviously one method I have been using and Google Adsense was a program I used.

I haven’t been really paying too much attention to it and low and behold the account generated over one thousand dollars. More specifically, $1031.27 as you can see here:

That isn’t exactly a rags to riches type of thing at all as I know you can make more if you actually dedicated yourself to it. But that sure gives you a clear example on how just doing something can generate the return in the long run. In this case it was pretty nice too as I didn’t really need to do anything different as I found a way to adapt it into what I enjoy doing.

Looking back at what I have accumulated so far, it just dawned on me that I still haven’t thought of what to do with these funds yet. Again, the purpose is to explore other ways to generate an income as well that can fit various lifestyles.

Here is the tally so far:

Stock Investment: $800
Web Publishing: $2130.13
Million Dollar Term: $100
Affiliate Sales: $91.01
Free Money and Credits: $100
Loose Change Savings: $209.23
Selling Items: $55.64

Total: $3486.01

Twice this month I have received over $100 in free advertising credit for certain sites as way back I created an advertiser account with them to test out how well the service was. With some of them, they seemed good but not worth the cost from what I saw. In an attempt to get you back in using the service they literally give you free credit to get you to use it again.

Who am I to say no to a free $100 credit in these cases? Sure enough, I do plan to use it up to see how well the service preforms this time around. Makes me wonder how many more freebies like this I can get from other companies as well. It’s not unusual too to get say free products and services from restaurants and stores as well in an attempt to get you back into the store. Most common are coupons that give you a large discount on your purchases.

I guess that is one reason to try out as many places as possible even if you end up with only one favorite place.

Okay, this was kind of strange. I was registering a domain for a person as they didn’t know how to setup a site. Apparently, now some companies are offering visitors the ability to monetize parked domains by paying them a fee. Essentially, you would pay them like $10/month where your domain would display all these ads. When people click on them you get paid.

On the surface level I can see why it would make sense for some people as many purchase domains without doing anything with them. But for like $10/month? May as well just buy a web hosting package and make a one page site I’d say. I wouldn’t be surprised if you got undercut too with plans like those where you have no idea how much they are making off your domain.

I received another cheque payment today from Google for $125.55 as you can see here:

Looking at the total too thus far, I still consider this as the lazy/safe way of earning money. Not too much risk as I don’t go out of my way to really try to earn more and as a result the return is not exactly mind shattering. Though, I know there are a lot of people that struggle to even generate say $10.

Someone was telling me that for the heck of it since I never really do anything crazy with money that I should just use this Adsense cheque and put it towards like a bunch of lottery tickets and see what happens. In some ways I thought it would be kind of interesting since a lot of people normally do gamble away their money with small things like the lottery that add up over time.

I was even joking that since watching this recent season of celebrity apprentice I thought it would be interesting just to see how much money people lose and win in playing online poker and maybe I should use some of the funds from this cheque to see that first hand.

Basically though, looking for something new while at the same time being a good and educational thing to document that others will find useful.

Stock Investment: $800
Web Publishing: $886.55
Million Dollar Term: $100
Affiliate Sales: $91.01
Free Money and Credits: $100
Loose Change Savings: $209.23
Selling Items: $55.64

Total: $2242.43

So it hasn’t been too long since I started that niche site idea as this was the month where I anticipated that people would be actively looking for information about the topic in question. Now I did not create it for the purpose of making money but as you all know I figured I would just do some simple things to see what happens.

Well, it is about half way through the month and I am extremely surprised at how well it is doing in terms of generating an income. In fact, this is going to be the highest for the web publishing income for a single payment as a result of it. What I really love about this though is that it kind of revolved around some basic principles of generating an income through online means. Example, don’t focus on making money but rather making a good site.

At the same time, hopefully this will further solidify that there are so many things you can do to make a side income. Hopefully the momentum continues then I will have even better data to share. Not only that, but with this scenario I didn’t waste anytime at all thinking if I should do it but rather I just did it. Sometimes you just have to start doing things as well without thinking too much until you find a winner.