Monday, November 9, 2009

Progress and my new signature!

We're a week into November and I'm chugging along to the best of my ability. Here's a summary of my non monetary goal progress (or lack of in the case of one of them):

1. Create (and consistently utilize) a daily schedule. I'm still trying to figure out a good way to schedule things for myself - but because so many of my eggs require random attention through out the day it's made it difficult to actually create a normal hour to hour schedule.

Instead I've decide to schedule a certain number of tasks per site to accomplish with those sorts of eggs and I'm working that out. My goal is to have a solid number for several sites set up by the time my head hits the pillow tonight.

2. Sign up with a freelance writing site and write at least 4 articles during the month to start getting my feet wet. Like I said when I posted this goal, I'm signed up with TextBroker which technically takes care of one part of it... so far I've written two articles with them totaling up to $6.60. I could do more, but I'm still trying to warm up to it all. It can be a lot of research for each topic, but it really can be a decent earning project if you put the work into it.

3. Find a new private contract freelance gig. I think I may have this one taken care of which is exciting. I miss counted earlier I'm actually up to 4 or 5 private contracts right now, not
  • One ongoing forum oriented ($40-50 a week earning potential).
  • One week to week VA position (earning potential kept private).
  • One ongoing ad posting job ($15 a week earning potential).
  • One trial content writer job... this one is a lot more work than the others and a low per word rate, but it has a higher overall earning potential which makes up for it. I'll be doing the trial this week to see if I can continue on. If so it will last 1-2 months minimum with $100+ weekly earning potential.
  • I also need to touch base with a prior client that I never collected payment from because it was a very loose spare time job, it's similar to the first job on this list with the same earning potential.
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In other news, I've finally found a program that will let me tinker around with graphics, and so I used it to create a signature for my posts! I know, it's nothing major or amazing, but I'm really happy.

What's crazy to me is that there are people out there who charge $15-25 for a tiny little image like that they probably spend less than 5 minutes on - talk about overkill! I'll admit that it took me a little while to figure out how to get it to work, but that was because the program was brand new to me hehe

I'm considering offering a service like that as I figure things out, only I'd offer it at an affordable rate... Like $3 for a signature or something like that.