Triond February

In February, Triond is offering a special.  If you publish 5 articles, you get an additional 10% on your monthly earnings.  If you publish 10 articles, you get an additional 20% and if you publish 20 articles, you get an additional 30% on your monthly earnings!  There is some fine print involved in that the articles need to be published on qualifying sites, so need to be on certain topics.  This is a very broad range though including Domestic (anything parenting, housekeeping, etc.), Sports, News, Humour, Health, Business, Science, Computers, and a few others.

I was planning to write very few articles in February and just see what the residual earnings would be, but this special is too good to pass up.  I have written 9 articles towards the bonus so far, so I already qualify for the additional 10% and am one article away from the additional 20%.  I am planning obviously to try to write 20 qualifying articles to get the 30% bonus.

If you are interested in signing up with Triond, it is free to join and I really enjoy the writing community over there.  I have learnt a lot already.  They only accept new work, so you cannot re-publish a blog post or already published article of yours.  You can however, publish something new at Triond and then turn it into a blog post or repost it elsewhere.

My writing has been really slow this month.  I don't have a babysitter as often anymore, the kids have been sick, and I have had birthday parties to plan (3) and other projects on the go.  I still have big plans for working on my book this month, but haven't so far.  I'll keep you posted!

My Actual Online Earnings for January 2011

January 2011 was my first month writing articles on Triond and I have to say that I loved the experience!  What I liked best was the writing community at Triond.  There are some extremely talented people writing over there and it was great to get feedback on some of my pieces and to read the ideas, writing tips, and information of others.  I was also impressed with the earning potential.  My first month writing articles over on another site, I made a whopping 25 cents, but I was able to count my first month’s Triond earnings in DOLLARS, not cents, which was really exciting.

As for my writing goals, I had set myself a high target of writing 100 articles in January.  I wanted to do this to establish a large enough portfolio to be able to test the earning potential at Triond compared to other places and because I knew that in February, I would be working more on my book and would not be able to devote as much time to article writing.  I was short of the goal by 8 articles, but I will admit that I could have actually reached the total I had set, but backed off the last day on purpose when I heard that Triond had announced a February Special.  By saving some of these intended articles to publish in February, I will be able to increase my February earnings by 30%.

I did not do any work over at RedGage or Bukisa in January and my earnings at those places reflect that.  Here are my online earning totals for the month of January, 2011:

Bukisa               $1.97

RedGage       $0.66

Triond (including *dsense)      $8.60

Surveylion       $8.00

CanadaTalksNow ***       $10.00

***CanadaTalksNow surveys were done over the past four months, but I only reached the minimum payment threshold now and am counting it all as this month.

Total online earnings for the month of January, 2011 = $29.23