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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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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Now since I’m starting with $0 the fist thing that comes to mind for most people is to probably say find a job where you will trade your time and expertise for money. While I won’t rule out the possibility of doing some simple small stuff in the future for the sake of this test, I usually prefer to find ways on how one can generate an income even if they are not there.

For myself, the first thing I thought about is web publishing since it is one of the things that I am very familiar with. In general, people make money by either selling advertisements on their website or through what is known as affiliate marketing where a site owner can get a referral bonus by helping a company to sell its products or services. Due to the subject matter of this blog, I get requests all the time from people who are interested in purchasing some kind of an ad space for their credit card offers or debt reduction programs as an example. Just try to picture how much money making spam comments I get all the time too.

If you have been one of my readers for awhile I guess you have noticed that there are small advertisements at the end of each post which are provided by Google. I personally display it as a way to offset any costs in maintaining this blog as oppose to focusing on trying to make a lot of money from it since that wasn’t my intent. Come to think of it, this is probably going to be the first form of income that I will receive for this journey.

There are a lot of things that I can do, but at the same time I don’t want it to be too intrusive with the content. Maybe I’ll try experimenting a bit with certain web publishing programs or even start to take some offers more seriously (That’s not an invitation for get rich quick offers either). Hopefully I can find other ways that require little or no capital as this route feels a bit too safe for me personally since I am comfortable with it. You have to start somewhere I suppose and you may as well do something that you know a lot about.

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