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Recently, several personal finance bloggers I read have taken the plunge and quit their jobs. They include The Silicon Valley Blogger at , Trent at , and my fellow peninsula resident . Today my friend asked me how much income I need from blogging to quit my job, and I told him I’d probably be willing to take a gross pay cut of $30000 per year. He then said, “you are willing to take that big of a paycut?” I then sort of explained that it isn’t as a big of a cut as it seems. Here are my reasons why.

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generic viagra prices- Out of convenience we still go out to eat a lot these days. We come home between 7 to 8pm and just don’t have the time or will to cook. Sometimes we cook some simple salads and pasta, but the other times we go out to eat. If I do stay home I will be able to cook more and save a lot of money on food. I will have time to coupon clip and be even cheaper. The savings there could add up to another $2000 to $3000 a year. (We spend around $200 to $400 a month eating out right now)

generic viagra prices- These days I blog on my lunch hour or when I get home. It takes a lot of time to write anything coherent and informative. If I could concentrate on writing more I could grow my income stream better. Then the paycut would become smaller every day.

Unfortunately, I am nowhere near the income I would get if I took a $30000 paycut and if I quit my job now it would be pretty devastating. Another thing is that I would probably have to pay some money for health insurance if I were to get on my husband’s plan. The good news is that February is the best month year in terms of income and exposure for my blogging. I have already gotten $250 through various sources and I hope March is just as good or even better. Write on bloggers! Maybe one day you can quit your job like these brave souls I mentioned at the beginning of the post!

Yup, I finally got picked to host by Flexo! The current carnival is going on at and includes my article on sweepstaking. The two carnivals I have hosted in the past are and . However, The Carnival of Personal Finance would be the largest carnival I will ever host! I hope I don’t disappoint all of you. Anyway, if you want to be included, . I will be reading the new posts soon enough.

In other blog related news, my article about on Wise Bread was picked up by Lifehacker! I actually really liked this article so I am glad a lot of others liked it too. Additionally, my article about has 95 diggs right now! Though, I’m not sure if it will make it to the front page. Digg is pretty weird these days because I saw a lame picture with 44 diggs making it to the front page while a good article about foods took 260+ diggs. It’s pretty unjust in many cases.

Hope you are having a nice Monday, I am thinking of translating more of later.

Since I have been writing for Wise Bread I have found that my idea of a good blog post is sometimes very different from what is a popular blog post. I have pretty much figured out what makes an article popular, and I shall list my observations here.

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So what can you do to make your blog articles popular? First, you need a good amount of traffic, then you need to write a mixture of controversial and well written posts, and hopefully submit it to the right people. It really takes patience, luck, and a lot of writing.

I have been blogging for more than six months now, and it has been fun and educational. One thing that is clear to me is that it is very hard to actually make a living by blogging. Perhaps I am not trying very hard, but here is a summary of the things I am doing to make money by blogging and my results.

Google AdSense – This is the first thing I put onto this blog. I think most of the clicks come from people who find this site through Google. Basically, the random visitors give me my clicks. My regular visitors read this site with a feed and don’t see much of these ads. So far, Google AdSense makes up about 40% to 50% of my blog income.

BlogHerAds – These ads appear at the top of my page and on the right side. They are banner ads and I am paid for the ads from commercial companies. The ads you see for Kiva or Habitat for Humanity are free ads for charity. BlogHerAds takes 50% of the ad revenue so I have been getting $25 to $70 from them each month depending on how many visits I receive. Once again, feed readers don’t see these ads.

Kontera – I started to put Kontera links on this site since September. These are inline context links that aren’t on the feed. The payout is very small and I’m considering removing it all together, but they aren’t extremely annoying so they are still here. Once again, feed readers do not see these.

AdBrite – I took the ads off because they were clearly not recording the visits my site received. So now my account has $2.00 in it which I can’t withdraw. I don’t recommend AdBrite unless they fixed their system to accurately record visits.

Direct sales – So far I made one direct sale to Prosper.com. They contacted me and asked me if I would be interested in adding a referral button, and I said sure and they gave me a flat fee of $50.

– This is a relatively new venture and I just started blogging for them three weeks ago. Wise Bread is a FairBlog(tm), which means that they share 100% of the ad revenues an article receives with the article’s writer. This means that the Google adblocks on my articles have my AdSense code. So far, blogging for Wise Bread has been rewarding in that my articles are viewed by thousands of people a day sometimes and my Google AdSense revenues definitely went up. I’m not sure how much I would be paid from Wise Bread yet, but it is fun just to write for them.

Associated Content – I just started to submit some old blog posts to for upfront payment. So far Associated Content has been paying about $4.00 per article. This is not much at all, but the articles are non-exclusive since they’ve already been published here. I don’t lose anything by submitting the articles. One annoying thing about Associated Content is that it doesn’t seem to update very promptly. Even though I have four articles published it still says 2 items published, and it has been like that for days.

Amazon Associates – I have had the account for a very long time and I have had success with it in the past, but right now it’s more like a list of the games I own and doesn’t really generate revenue.

So what am I earning now? The grand total for January 2008 is $161. This is pretty laughable considering how much time I spend on blogging and works out to an hourly wage of about $1.50. However, this is a great improvement from July 2007, when I had absolutely nothing. My goal is really to just have enough blog income to cover rent, and hopefully I can achieve the goal this year. I know there are many things I can improve on this blog to monetize better, and I will just have to research all of my options. I will still have to continue writing quality articles that attract readers, and that is the most important thing.