Comments on: Net Worth Update: June 2009

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:45:24 +0000

Hi Sara – interesting ideas there. I occasionally write articles for other sites, but I like to focus on the things I am most passionate about, for which I have my own blogs!

I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean by selling articles on my blog? (Also, you don’t need to guess at how many visitors I get a day – the link to my sitemeter statistics is in the right sidebar!) What’s an article pack? That’s not a term I’m familiar with, and I’m curious about such a thing that 1-2 people who read my site each day would want to pay $50 for!

By: sara@ Get Paid To Write- $500/Daily

sara@ Get Paid To Write- $500/Daily — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:15:27 +0000

Wow, okay, I’m thinking the same thing nicole is thinking, HOw do you make a profit knitting? Maybe I need to do what you do! LOL but I encourage you to keep going. With the economic status we are all in, everyone is hustling. Have you thought about working for Associated Content as a writer. The pay isn’t that much, but you can make an easy $30-$40 a day. This is how I started out making money a day. You just have to be disciplined to write the articles everyday.

Or, maybe you could write some short articles and sell them on your blog? It seems your blog gets a nice amount of traffic, why not write some short articles, and put a sales page in your direct blog post? I’m guessing you get at least 200 visitors a day. THat is 1-2 sales right there! If you write an article pack for $50, that is $50-$100 a day! Hey, you never know unless you try.

By: brooklynchick

brooklynchick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:57:52 +0000

Slow and steady will get you there – good for you for not dipping into savings!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:09:47 +0000

It varies, quite a bit. A few months ago, I pulled in more in one month than I had working 20+ hours per week at my on-campus jobs. June? Pocket change. It’s cool though – I roll with the punches

By: Hiro

Hiro — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:52:56 +0000

How’s this blog treating you as far as income Stephanie?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:54:37 +0000

Nicole, that depends on how to define profit! On a basis of (amount earned) – (amount paid for materials) = Profit!, I do pretty well, making about twice what I put into it. I make hats for the Southern California Browncoats (Browncats are fans of the canceled television show “Firefly”) to sell at San Diego Comic-Con every year. I pay about $7-7.50 for a materials to make one hat and the SoCal Browncoats sell them for $25 for me. I also have to pay to ship the hats out to California, which costs me about $1-2 per hat.

But, if you calculate my hourly wage, it’s pitiful. I’ve never bothered to calculate it out, though, because I knit these hats while I watch TV or do something else where I wouldn’t ordinarily be making money. If I streamlined the process, I could probably make a hat a week and sell 52 each year. As it is, I go through waves where I’ll knit like a fiend for a month or two, and then I won’t make any hats at all for a few months. Normally I wouldn’t have mentioned it at all in my side hustles, but Comic-Con is at the end of this month and I need to ship soon, so it’s on my mind…

All in all, I don’t recommend knitting as a side hustle, unless you’re super speedy at it, you like it A LOT, and/or you have a knitting machine to make the work much faster!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:46:41 +0000

Side hustles including knitting? That’s interesting. Can you elaborate on how you are able to make a profit off of knitting?