Still Earnings a Home Income

I am still working hard with my home income, I just have neglected my blogs. By the time I put in a couple of hours working on my writing and miscellaneous income sites, I am ready to call it a night. I am still focused on making a real income from home, I just have to make time to do it in addition to working full time and being a full time single mom. I am also starting school in August. I am hoping that I can be able to work from home by then, instead of working full time away from my son.

One of my biggest earners would have to be Mturk. On Mturk it is not a residual income, but it is one of my biggest incomes when I have time to do the HITs. There are a few things in the site that seem like they are not worth the time, but I have learned that making a few cents during my down time makes a big difference.

I had hit a writers block during the Holidays, and did not write much. Even though I did not submit a lot of new articles to any site I still made a decent residual income from Holiday articles that I had published the past few years. My writing motivation is back, and I will be submitting a lot of articles soon.

Motivation and determination is the key to anyone wanting to make an income from home. If you have both of these you will be able to succeed. Keep your focus on what you are wanting in life and go for it. No one said it would be easy to reach your goals in life, but it will be worth it when you reach your goals.

October is going Great

Octobers online earnings have actually been going great, I just have overlooked my blogs for the last month. I am still writing a few articles a week and working on a few other online income sources. The last few weeks I have struggled a bit, but I have still been working as much as I can to reach my personal online earning goals. My most profitable online income source would have to be Mturk and Yahoo Contributor Network. These two sites are giving me a little extra income each month, and all of the other things together is helping me pay a few bills.

Progress Report for September

I have not reached all of my goals that I was trying too with my Home Income, but life can get in the way sometimes. I have been doing pretty well though. I have updated two of my blogs a few times this month, I submitted quite a few articles on a variety of sites, Squidoo has been doing great, and I have been committing at least an hour 5 days a week to doing other activities that make money online. I know that I did not reach all of the home income goals, but I am happy with what I am accomplishing. I am trying to get a schedule down, but with a 4 month old baby and working full time, I am having a hard time adjusting.

I am proud of one of my Squidoo Lenses, Your AVON Business. This lens has been doing great on the site, and I have been earning a little money off of it each month. I am not making a killing or anything, but if I can copy the earnings onto a few more of my Squidoo lenses I would actually make a decent monthly earning on the site. I am working on adjusting a few of my older lenses and see if I can replicate the earnings.


Other Earning Squidoo Lenses:

 Making Money from Home Writing Articles

Organizing Your Home Business

Direct Sales Tax Deductions


Direct Sales Business and Advice

I submitted a few articles to Yahoo, and made a few dollars in upfront payments. I submitted one article a few days ago that received more than 20 hits within a few hours of it being submitted. It has continued to get a lot of views each day and I am hoping it will get even better. The article is Work at Home Mistakes to Avoid. I have gotten views on the other articles as well, but the views on Work at Home Mistakes to Avoid continues to grow. I am happy with articles that people enjoy reading, and hopefully they find it helpful.

There was one other article that I recently submitted that is doing well, and I really enjoyed writing it. The article, Single Mom Living on a Single Income, is personal to me. The things that I share in the article is things that I personally do to survive as a single mom on a single income.

I just wanted to share an update with my progress on my home income. It is a work in progress. I wish I could go back to working online and making a few hundred a month. I am still making money, but since I have slacked off on doing my work I have not been making near as much. This definitely shows that the more work you submit online, the more money you will earn on a regular basis. I hope everyone is doing well with there home income, I wish everyone the ability to earn even more. Good Luck!

Meeting My Weekly Online Goals

I have been doing pretty good with meeting my online goals. I wrote a few articles, worked on other projects and feel like i am moving in a good direction. I have been adjusting to working outside the home as well, so it has been a little difficult to get everything accomplished until I get used to my schedule. The pressure that I have to make enough money to pay for everything is overwhelming at times. Not only am I taking care of my son, but I also have my mom, sister, and her three kids. I know I can do this, but I have to get everything on a set schedule and push myself to make sure everything online and around my home is taken care of. God has blessed me with the ability to take care of my family, all I have to do is get it all together!

New Life, New Goals

It has been a little while since I have updated my blog, but I have been busy. My family and I made the big move to Colorado on the 15th of August. It took weeks to get everything together, and hard work to get it all moved with three women and 4 kids. I have to say that I am proud of us, because we did it. This is a new life for us and I am making real goals in my life that I am sticking to.

To start I have found a job, and it is a decent job for the area that we live in. It will be full time and I will be able to get benefits after six months. The only problem is that the income will not cover everything in the house and my mom and sister are both disabled. I have a couple of options; find a second job or work even more online. I am choosing working even more online. In the last few months my work has suffered because I have not made myself stick to a schedule or focus on goals. Well that is going to change. This is my new life and I am going to make goals in all aspects of my life.

My Online Goals for September: (Starting small to adjust to the schedule)

-Write 10 articles a week
-Update blogs at lease once a week
-Put together 5 Squidoo Lenses
-Work at lease an hour a day on my other projects

I am a new MOMMY

I am officially a new single mommy as of the 10th of June. I have been recovering since then, so I have not been able to update my blogs in the last few weeks. I am doing great, and feel like a new woman. I am tired as can be, but I know what my purpose in life is now. It is to raise my son the best I can and give him the life that I want him to have. In order to give him a better life I have to work my behind off. I can't go back to work for another few weeks, so my online income is my top priority. I know I am not going to have time to work online constantly, but I can work when he is sleeping.

In addition to being a new mommy, I am in the process of trying to move to Colorado Springs, CO by the end of June. It is my mom, sister, her three kids, my son, and myself trying to pack up a house and move to a complete other state. This is the biggest move I have ever done in my life, and i am a little worried, but I know God has it under control. If we stayed in Texas there would be nothing good coming from it, so it is time for all of us to start over.

Update on Mturk

I signed up for Amazons Mechanical Turk (Mturk) a few weeks ago. I have to say that in the beginning I was a little skeptical about the site, but I trust Amazon. It took me a few days to get comfortable with Mturk, but I have been able to learn a little bit every day.

The first week on the site I made a little more than $7. This was the week I took time to look around and try to figure out exactly what I was doing. i spent approximately an hour a day on Mturk for the first week. I was taking low paying tasks that I knew would be paid that day.

The second week i did do a little better, almost $9. I spent about the same amount of time on the site, but I was experimenting with different tasks. I learned that you really need to watch the time you put into a task. Some pay very little, but take more time than it is worth.

The third week was much better, I made more than $32. During the third week on Mturk I missed a few days, but I found a few great tasks that I could do in a fair amount of time. I figured out the time I put into tasks averaged to be about $5-$6 an hour. I wouldn't say it could be a full time income for me, but it is a great addition for me. Mturk is also helping a lot with my recent maternity leave.


My Opinion of Mturk:

I have been working on Mturk tasks for a little more than three weeks now, and I have learned that you can make a decent amount of money in your spare time. The best ways to make money is to try different tasks and see exactly which ones you can do timely enough that the pay is worth it. I do not recommend taking something that pays you .01 and takes 3-5 minutes to finish.

Now if you have a few minutes to work on Mturk and there is not a large amount of tasks that pay more you can take a few of those just to give you a little extra income. I will take some tasks that average lower than others, just to work the time that I have open. It gives me a few extra cents going to my personal income, and I was not doing much else with my time anyway.