October was the first month when I actually sat down and decided to rinse multiple sources of income. I decided to push myself in the one area I am best at – writing content – while also keeping up with other ways of making money.

By changing my focus from becoming an online entrepreneur to being primarily a content writer, my earnings this month have been reasonable. In previous months, most of my income has been from link sales, but I’ve moved onto exploiting other sources.

I didn’t just make money blogging this month, I made money from a number of different places on the internet. Here’s a screenshot from my Paypal this month.

As you can see (kind of), for this one-month period, I was paid a little over $650 to my Paypal. Add onto that the Adsense check I lost, which was for a bit over $100, and $200 paid into my bank account, and it’s not been a bad month.

I think what this demonstrates is that focus is essential. I spent too long wasting my time with dead blogs and $5 reviews. I also had a LOT of work offered this month from people expecting me to write for ridiculously small sums of money. I won’t sell myself short and, as I say to these people, if I offer my services for so little in return, I end up wasting my time.

What I’ve learned this month is that we can’t all be Internet entrepreneurs. Some of us are just better and other things, and without that drive to be an online guru, it’s really a waste of time and effort.

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This week, I decided to take a step back from blogging like a maniac and get my priorities straight. I was trying to blog on eight blogs at the same time. Obviously this was never going to work. So I’m selling the blogs that I started and have no time to keep updating.

I’m already starting to see some profit because there is clearly a market for setting up start-up blogs. People are often too lazy to start their own blogs. Even for low-traffic, low-income blogs, you can still make a profit.

I decided to concentrate all of my efforts on two or three blogs because by wasting my time on other blogs, I was taking time away from writing for guaranteed payments. I was in the ridiculous position of writing content for myself for nothing and putting off writing content for other people for money.

As of this week, I’m not going to waste my time starting multiple blogs. I was fooling myself into believing that the more blogs I started, the more money I was going to make. It doesn’t work like that unless you can 100% commit to blogging, which I can’t.

The lessons here are obvious: don’t take on more than you can handle and get your priorities in order or you will actually lose money.

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We talk about making money blogging and making money online every day, but there are opportunities out there just waiting to be snapped up – and people are missing them. I’ll give you an example: Large websites need content, and even the most efficient Internet companies often put the content side of their projects on hold while everything else is put into place.

For several months, I worked for a large, International, online travel company. Without wanting to knock my former employer, the content system had a lot of loose ends that needed tidying up.

My former employer actually contacted me recently to write content for them on a freelance basis. The pay is good and could potentially triple the salary I receive from the newspaper I work for. What it comes down to is this: I asked myself, “What’s the difference between writing content for a website and making money blogging?” Ultimately, the difference is that you get paid without having to do any of the real ground work in building a website up.

While this is perhaps not a long-term plan, for steady, regular income, if you can channel it from a number of sources, you don’t need to go through the headaches of setting up blogs, getting link backs, and going through the whole process of taking your blog from something to nothing.

It can be just a matter of finding a website and inquiring about writing content for it. Forget the $4 tasks you see advertised on forums or various “freelance-writing” services for now. If you’re going to get paid to write, you want to be paid well. You’re time is worth more than the cost of a Happy Meal.

There are lots of ways to make money online, and sometimes it pays (literally) to get out of the mindset that the only way to do it is to set up a blog and put hundreds of hours into getting it up to PR5 or PR6.

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