Success!

March 27, 2008 · Filed Under Gringo observations · Comment

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.

Tags: Blogsvertise, passive income, Smorty

The key to making money online success - passive income

February 21, 2008 · Filed Under peso makin' · Comment

I have previously identified that I need to average around $250 a day to meet my goal by the end of the year. I will be a peso millionaire!

So far this month my pitiful average per day is around $65. Disgraceful isn’t it? The good news is that I seem to be hitting my stride. That past few days I have made about $120 average per day. And I have been working hardcore!

So, what does this mean?

It means that I need to figure out how to get passive income working for me. And pronto!

Luckily I came across a list of over 20 passive income resources. If you are trying to work on your passive income you will want to check it out as well.

Tags: passive income

Passive income with Cafe Press

February 11, 2008 · Filed Under peso makin' · Comment

I think the real key to being a successful online money maker is creating a large stream of passive income. Unfortunately this is not the kind of thing that can be done over night. Yet it is something that I have been working on this past month.

One of the quickest and easiest ways to create some passive income is through Cafe Press. The bad part about using Cafe Press for passive income is that it is such a small stream that it is almost a trickle.

However, creating an image and uploading it to Cafe Press does not take much time at all. At least for me, but I am doing simple designs. Something a bit more complex would take longer but it would also probably sell better. So, go figure. For now though I am fine with simple designs and a trickle of passive income.

Take this design for example.

I threw this together in about a minute and uploaded it to Cafe Press last Thursday. By the weekend I had re-uploaded it because someone had flagged it as inappropriate and made $2.00 off of it. The whole “flagging things as inappropriate” is really the only problem with Cafe Press. Apparently some douchebag Republican took offense to it and flagged it which just meant that I had to rename the file and re-upload it. A pain but not a deal breaker. I made $2.00 for about 5 minutes worth of total work.

Whenever I hear a funny phrase on TV or in real life I make a design like this and throw it up on Cafe Press. That’s where this design came from. I heard someone say it and thought it might be something that would sell pretty well. Looks like I might have been right.

Tags: , Cafe Press, passive income