Pretending it's still yesterday!

Since I was so busy taking that IQ test during that Test the Nation show last night, and then had to watch The Amazing Race, which I had to tape since it was on at the same time, I didn't get my weekly earnings report posted last night. I know, excuses, excuses! So let's just pretend that today is still Sunday, and here's my update!

Last weeks post, I had a total of $400.12. This past week, I managed to bump that up another $184.14, for a grand total of $584.26. Nice! Very nice! However, it really could have been better. I know I shouldn't be balking at what I made, since it was money I hadn't made when the week started, but things are really slowing down for me at PayPerPost, and it's becoming quite disheartening. I only managed to bring in about $25.00 with them last week, and that's very low, since I've done close to that or more in one day before. I love doing the posts for them, but with so many opportunities coming up now that my blog doesn't qualify for due to page rank, there are less and less chances for me to make much money there anymore. I really need to get people to link to this blog, and help boost my page rank. I've been doing all I can to hopefully get some linking from others, such as joining different blog communities, and leaving comments on other people's blogs, but my rank is still sitting at that big fat zero. Things also seemed to slow down at Blogitive for me too. I only managed to do one post with them last week, so hopefully there will be more chances this coming week. Nothing new at either Blogsvertise or Loudlaunch last week, but I do have a post with Loudlaunch coming up after this. My Helium seemed to slow down quite a bit this past week too, but I'm happy to say I requested another payout tonight for month end! :-) Sales at my Funky Olive Shop did good again last week, being the top money maker for the week again, Sales of still more St. Patrick's Day items helped, but things have slowed back down there as well. I've already made about $75.00 more there this month so far than last month. Growth is good!

So all in all, things are looking good for the month, but seeming to slow down. I can't really complain since this month started with a bang, and that was real nice! Here's to further earnings growth for you and for me! :-)

Olivia

I can't believe it!

Today is the 13th of March, and my St. Patrick's Day items are still selling like hotcakes at my Funky Olive Shop! I wonder if people are buying them now while they are thinking of it for next year. I don't know what their reasoning is, but I'm happy to be making the sales! :-)

I only wish I would have put them into my shop earlier than I did. They've only been there since the beginning of the month, and sales have been great! I really have to get going on getting my Easter designs ready too. Before I know it, we'll be hunting for eggs!

Olivia

It's Sunday... how much have you made?

First of all, allow me to apologize for not posting an update last Sunday. I completely forgot about it until later in the week. However, I did do a monthly recap, so I can tell you that I finished off the month by earning a total of $496.75, which is $86.90 more than what I made in the month of January. That's not bad, considering there were three less days in the month, and there were those issues with the Blogitive site for a couple of weeks or more.

Now, onto what I've made so far this month. I have to say the past 11 days have been pretty darn good! I'm currently sitting at $400.12 so far! That's sweet! My daily average is currently at $36.38! I can't wait until I can get that up to $50 a day, but I'll take what I can get at this point!

Now I have to confess one thing here about this months earnings... I did a post from PayPerPost that paid $100.00, so that definitely helped boost my total. And my shop, The Funky Olive sold quite a few St. Patrick's Day products, which was a nice boost as well. In fact, my sales there have already made tier this month, so I'm in for an additional 7% of all my sales for the rest of the month. I would love to be able to reach the next tier for an additional 15%, but I think the major bulk of the sales for the month is over, since St. Paddy's day is next Saturday, so any more sales from those products are pretty much unlikely until next year. I have to get going on Easter designs. Sales for that holiday will be starting real soon, if they haven't already. Helium is clipping along, and I'll be requesting my payment next weekend. I've also started doing some blogging for LoudLaunch this month as well, which is great to add a little more opportunity. And I'm very pleased that Blogitive is back up and running again. I sure did miss them while they were out of commission.

So until next week's update, let's hope we can all make as much as we possibly can!

Olivia

More new products!

I'm happy to report that this past week there has been an addition to the product line at my shop, The Funky Olive at Cafepress. We finally have some shirts for the fuller figured woman! Plus sized ladies short sleeved shirts in either a scoop neck, or a v-neck style. Here's a couple of pictures with two of my St. Paddy's Day designs on them for you to see.

As well, more colors have been added to the kids line too! This is great, because how many kids do you know that can keep a white shirt white? While they may still get their shirts dirty, at least with the darker colors it won't be as noticeable like it would on a white shirt!

I don't have the new products added to all my designs yet, so I'll be adding them as time permits. I've got a lot of work ahead of me in adding them to all my designs. In the meantime, if there is a particular design you want on a product that isn't there yet, there is an email link at the shop where you can request that product and I'll be sure to get that done for you. :-)

Olivia

Drum Roll Please...

It's Sunday, and that means it's time for another weekly earnings update! Woohoo! I love Sundays!

So, this week wasn't quite as profitable as last week, but it wasn't hard to take either. I try to remember that it's money I didn't have a week ago, and it all adds up in the end. There still seems to be issues with Blogitive, although I think it may actually be fixed now. I logged in to my account earlier today and there was a posting there, but when I clicked on it to accept it, something happened and it seemed to poof away on me! I think though that perhaps I hesitated and someone else beat me to the punch, as it was only showing one available post left. Gotta be quicker on the trigger I guess! I got a little lax with PayPerPost this past week and only ended up doing seven opps for the whole week. I think I started getting a little discouraged with seeing all these great opps there, but not being able to act on so many of them with my zero page rank. I know I shouldn't do that, and I don't even know if that was the reason behind it since I haven't really been feeling up to snuff lately. I feel like I'm fighting off a cold, and have just felt a little drained after work lately. I'm happy to say I got another entry offer from Blogsvertise this past week, so I did that one. I hope to get more of them on a more regular basis, since I've only had one per month since I signed up with them. Again, I think my zero page rank has something to do with that as well. My Helium account has been steadily growing this past week. I'm still not at that minimum payout again yet. I'm now just a titch over $3.00 away, so it's safe to say that I will be able to request payment next month. Cool! My Funky Olive Shop has seen steady sales this past week as well, and I have reached tier for this month, which means I now earn an additional 7% on each sale until the end of the month. That's always nice, because it helps the profits grow more rapidly, and I love it when that happens!

Now for the dollar update... To date, for this month so far, I'm sitting at $445.12, which means earnings from this past week rang in at $143.93. Like I said, not as much as last week, but not hard to take either, and I'll take it with a smile on my face!

I'm really hoping for a snow day tomorrow, since we're in the midst of another nasty blizzard. I figure if I end up with the day off, I'm hoping to get my second shop up and operational, which in turn I hope will generate more earnings. In the meantime, here's to more earnings this coming week! :-)

Olivia

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It's Sunday night!

Live from The Funky Olive Blogspot... it's Sunday night!! And you all know what that means. Yessiree, Bob, it's time for the weekly update on earnings so far for the month.

This past week I'm pleased to say was a little more profitable than the past few weeks. Although blogging opportunities were down to like zero with Blogitive (apparently they are having some technical problems at the moment, but are working on updates and fixing the glitches), PayPerPost has bumped up our daily limit from two posts per day to three. I'm still having a little trouble qualifying for opportunities, based on my blog ranking, but it's nice to know the limits are raised. I did manage to cash in on the three per day a couple days, and I had a few that paid nicely this week too -- like two at $10.00 each and even one that paid $15.00, which was a bonus. Helium earnings continued to grow, and I'm getting closer to another minimum payout. Just over $6.00 will get me there. Hopefully that will happen within the next week and a half, based on the growth pattern that has been happening lately. Sales at my Funky Olive Shop this past week were higher than they've been since the holidays, so that has been really nice.

So my earnings update for the week are this. For the month to date I'm sitting at $301.19. This puts me up a total of $175.40 from last week, which is not hard to take at all. I'd be a happy camper if I could make that or more on a regular basis, but I'll take whatever comes my way, and do so with a smile. I'm not out to get rich quick, which there really is no sure fire way of doing that without first being rich and having the capital to cash in on a sure thing, in my opinion anyway. I'm not afraid of rolling up my sleeves and working for any extra dollars I can make. It all helps to pay the bills, and pay them a little quicker than if I did nothing. So it's all good in the end.

With that said, here's to this week being another profitable one! :-)

Olivia

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Sunday night earnings update

Well, here we are with another Sunday night, and it's time to let you all know how I made out this week with my online earnings. Last week, I was sitting at $64.40 for the month so far. This week is a little less than that. To date for February, I've made a total of $125.79, so I'm up $61.39 from last week.

This past week there were a couple hiccups with my blogging for PayPerPost. They did a major upgrade to the site last Monday, which in turn spazzed out a few things, making it impossible to take any opportunities all day on Tuesday. But then, segmentation has been introduced, which basically means the advertisers that bring us bloggers the opps that we can blog about can now more narrowly define who they want to blog for them. They can choose which type of blog, for instance, only blogs about games, television or design, etc. can specifically be picked. So an all around general blog such as mine may not have those categories checked, as we are only allowed to pick a total of five categories for our blogs. They can also specify what sort of page rank they want their advertisements blogged on. My blog is still sitting at zero unfortunately, which means I don't get a lot of opportunities to accept when page rank is important. That really does suck, because I think I'm a pretty good writer, and do my posts quite well. So I really have to work on getting some linky love from people to help boost my page rank. And we also have a ranking system there, whereby the advertisers can vote on our posts we have done for them. Sadly, out of my 36 posts I've done through PPP, I've had five advertisers vote, and one of those advertisers has banned my blog. Harumphf! The worst part of that, is we never get to know which post, which advertiser or why they banned us. So we never get to see what the problem is, or have a chance to be able to fix it. As well, the advertisers can choose to exclude all blogs from different blog sites. So if they don't want a blogger blog, I'm SOL on that issue too. Needless to say, it's getting harder to make a little extra money with PayPerPost for me, but I refuse to give up!

Blogitive offers have been down this past week as well, so I'm hoping those will pick up more this week. I haven't had any more offers from Blogsvertise. My one and only posting for them was approved, so hopefully something new will come from them soon.

Helium has been clipping along nicely. I'm up $5. there from last week. If I can manage to get that a little higher, I just might be able to make the minimum payout of $25. a month, which would be nice!

My Funky Olive Shop has still been on the slow side for sales this past week. I guess people are still stinging from their Christmas shopping sprees. My new shop is getting nearer to opening, and fingers are crossed that sales will start ringing in again to a more frequent pace to warrant having two shops.

At any rate, I'm still another sixty odd dollars closer to getting my bills paid off after this week, so it's all good. Here's to this week being a profitable one! :-)

Olivia