Success!
Today I got my $6 payment from Blogsvertise! Woo hoo!
And I got about half of what I am owed from Smorty! No clue why they only sent half. After all this time they could at least not be total douches about it and send me the full amount.
I think it is safe to say that I am officially done with both Blogsvertise and Smorty.
Instead I am trying to get away from the work of doing the sites that pay you to blog about this or that. Instead I am working on getting some great content on my other sites. And I just bought three more domain names that I will need to work on. The goal is to get some true passive income working for me.
Blogsvertise and Smorty owe me money
It is hard to make some pesos when people are holding them hostage. Here I was last month looking for new ways to make money. I thought I had found some. Turns out I just found some places that end up owing me money instead of paying me.
Blogsvertise was supposed to pay me on 3/23/08. I have not yet been paid.
And Smorty still has not paid me the $125-ish that they owe me.
Is Smorty having cash flow problems?
Smorty owes me around $125. According to their blogger FAQ bloggers get paid on a weekly basis as stated below.
I have been waiting on my payment for about 3 weeks now. And it seems that I am not the only blogger in this not getting paid boat. There is an entire thread about it on the Smorty Forums.
So what gives? Is Smorty having some cash flow problems? Has Smorty turned into a scam? Now, I have gotten paid by them before. In fact, I got paid a little over $100 last month. Of course, nothing has come my way this month. And, well, I’d rather earn interest on it than let them!
Some people on the Smorty Forums report getting rude email replies when they have emailed to inquire about the payments. Maybe advertisers should be made aware of this payment issue with Smorty.
I can’t say that I will continue to use Smorty as a way to make money online. How about you?
Blogsvertise is a joke
I have been signed up with Blogsvertise for a little over a month now. Want to guess how many money making opps I have gotten from them?
One!
And it has a payout of $6.00! And I do not get paid for it until 30 days after submitting it, which will be Sunday.
So, 30 days and one measly $6.00 opportunity. Yeah, I do not think I will be using Blogsvertise here in the quest for one million pesos.
Cafe Press payment has arrived
Yesterday I got a check from CafePress in the mail. It was for a whopping $34.60. Most of that income came from Christmas sales. So, technically, that was before I began my journey to one million pesos.
You may be thinking that $34.60 is not a whole lot of money. And you would be right. However, this is totally passive income. Whenever I think of something funny, I open up Photoshop and put it down and then create a freebie Cafe Press shop with the design. So, all in all, the $34.60 is pretty sweet when you realize the lack of work that it took.
Is Google AdSense the best money maker on the internet?
You read a lot about people saying that Google AdSense is the best money maker on the internet. So, can you make money with AdSense? And more importantly, can you make a lot of money with AdSense?
Using examples like ProBlogger, John Chow and Shoemoney the overwhelming response would be yes, and lots of it. But there are a lot of people that are making pennies with AdSense.
So, what gives?
Well, according to a post on Blogger Unleashed, you can make some hella cash with AdSense if you know how to use it. Check out the video at the link for more info. After my crappy AdSense month last month I have definitely already watched this video.
Another Google smack
It is so nice to know that Google is still smacking people with a zero page rank. Another one of my sites showed up with a nice little zero on my page rank toolbar this morning.
Luckily it was just a blogspot site. But it will still reduce the cash potential from that site.
Progress update #2
Time for month #2 update in my quest for one million pesos by 12/31/08.
If you look at the image below you will notice that earnings went down a wee bit. Everything was down. AdSense was noticeably down. However for March it is already looking up in the ole AdSense earnings.
That brings my grand overall total to $3,513.17 USD (37,904.26 MXN) in the million peso piñata.
Only 962,095.74 MXN to go!
Google - hatin’ on the little guy again
I used to love Google. Really, I did. But that was before, when I was a naive little gringo that had little experience blogging and actually working with the Google Minions.
Now I know better.
Now I know that Google is a selfish little devil. A few months ago they went around smacking people that were getting paid to blog. And now, instead of doing regular page rank updates they just worry with looking for people that they can penalize.
That’s great, you Google Asswipes. But I have some blogs that need a pagerank and it would be swell if you could stop spanking people long enough to evaluate those. Seeing the little “n/a” on my toolbar is not cool.
And while we’re discussing you and your power trip, thanks for downgrading the page rank of one of my blogs today. I really appreciate it, no really. Thanks a lot. Maybe you would just like to come and raid my checking account, since what you did has pretty much the same effect.
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Current: 64,288.69 MXN
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I'm trying to get to one million pesos by 12/31/08.
As of March 31, I am at 64,288.69 MXN.
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The goal? 1,000,000 Mexican Pesos.
Current exchange rate as of 4/15/08 is 1.00 MXN = 0.10 USD.
So, 1,000,000 MXN = 95,350.23 USD.
Check out the Currency Converter at XE.com.
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