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YouTube Channel Mini-Game Update (2 of 10)
A complementary “mini-game” for your main game (main goal) can help you to stay on track.
My primary goal through August 2024 is to earn $100 through the Medium Partner Program in a single month. To complement this, I'm also working toward monetizing my YouTube channel.
(This YouTube channel is focused on currency collecting, and is an offshoot of my Facebook Group.)
My work over there gives me material to bring here, which works directly toward my primary goal.
This will be a short-ish series, once a week, through the end of July.
Two videos uploaded since 6/23/2024
Over the past seven days, I've added one regular video and one short.
The regular video talks about a bill that's both awesome and sad. Awesome because the serial number is very rare, and sad because the bill is torn in two:
How to get a discount through benign neglect
And then, how to do it deliberately
I love beefy discounts. The beefier, the better.
Many discounts require some effort to find, even it's simply going to a coupon site to look for a code, or installing Honey to do it for you.
Once in a while, though, one drops in my lap, and I'd like to tell you about it.
I had subscribed to someone's email list
If you're an online creator, you can't help but love your email list. Where social media wants to charge you for extended reach to your followers, and search engines update their algorithms often not in your favor, email is one of the few remaining digital assets that remains mostly in your control.
YouTube Channel Mini-Game Update (1 of 10)
Keeping score on my side quest
Having a mini-game for your main goals helps to keep focus.
Though my primary goal for the next couple of months is to earn $100 through the Medium Partner Program in a single month, I'm also building up my YouTube channel.
(This YouTube channel is focused on currency collecting, and is an offshoot of my Facebook Group.)
As I work over there, it provides material to bring here, to work toward my primary goal.
This will be a short-ish series, once a week, through the end of July.
Four videos uploaded since 6/16/2024
Over the past eight days, I've uploaded two regular videos and two shorts.
One of the regular videos has me testing out combining a bill hunt (going through dollar bills looking for cool serial numbers) with me talking briefly about a single question. I have another one scripted for the coming week.
Side Hustle Income May 2024
This year I'm publishing reports of my side income each month for accountability.
My goal is to keep things moving forward by keeping it real. Reporting on the good and the bad allows for reflection on lessons learned.
Which sources I'm reporting and which I'm not
Since I'm not posting these anonymously, my primary and part-time jobs and my main investments won't be reported.
Everything else is on the table!
Some income will be reported when I cash out, and others when I earn it.
Also, for the moment I'm reporting income, not profit. I'm in the red overall, and still will be for a while.
With that, let's go!
Google AdSense income: $26.54 (+$7.84)
This past month showed an uptick in my Google AdSense income. Things were looking to be on-par with April until the very end, where I got activity from the Netherlands, of all places!
Make Money with Free Benable Lists
Also drive traffic to your other online assets
I no longer am convinced that a website is the key to online riches.
In fact, it's pretty much the hard way now.
What worked in 2005 was to
- register a domain
- set up WordPress,
- join some affiliate programs
- write blog posts with some of those affiliate links
- do a modicum of networking
- profit
That's far harder to pull off in 2024.
This month my Medium income will outstrip the AdSense and affiliate income from my nearly 20-year-old blog.
A ground-floor affiliate opportunity with Benable
If Medium is the new version of the blog community, then Benable may be the new version of Commission Junction meets Amazon Store. No website needed!
How I Enhanced my YouTube Channel with End Screens
I was halfway there already and it took about 20 minutes
Sometimes solutions present themselves and they're easy because of the work you've already done.
Over the past few years I've built a small YouTube channel dealing with (mostly) cool and fancy serial numbers. I haven't been at all consistent with putting up new videos, so it's not surprising that I'm well away from monetizing it. I stand today at 565 subscribers and about 600 hours of view time during the last year. (The thresholds are 1000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of view time.)
My near-term stretch goal is to make $100 in the Medium Partner Program in one calendar month before the end of August. That's my #1 priority, but I'm going to try to work with my YouTube channel some and write about it on Medium to move both forward.
That almost sounds like I could do a challenge of some kind. Hmmmm …
Side Hustle Income April 2024
An uptick overall but my Medium income was scary …
This year I'm publishing side income reports each month for accountability.
Public accountability keeps things moving forward by keeping it real. Reporting on the good / bad / ugly allows for reflection on lessons learned.
Which sources I'm reporting and which I'm not
Since I'm not posting anonymously, my primary and part-time jobs and my main investments won't be reported here.
Everything else is fair game. Some income will be reported when I cash out, and others when I earn it.
Also, I'm reporting income, not profit. I'm in the red overall and still will be for a while.
With that, let's get a move-on!
Google AdSense income: $18.70 (-$2.79)
This past month showed a modest downtick in my Google AdSense income.
Ohmigosh, another writer going public with his income goal
Joe Forrest, the veteran writer behind Niche Of One, got me thinking.
(As he often does.)
This time, he got me thinking about my online income streams.
Aside from being excited over the first money I made on Medium, they're … not life-changing.
Ten bucks from this source. Fifteen from that source.
Oh, hey, there's fifty from playing poker. Wow.
My side income is mere spare change from as many old couches.
Joe pinpointed the problem.
I read this gem from one of his articles on monetization:
Cashing my last $11.37 out of one GPT site
GPT stands for Get Paid To.
Get paid to watch videos.
Get paid to fill out surveys.
Get paid to search the web.
What GPT really means
In the end, GPT means “possibly get paid a very tiny amount of money to do something that takes no special skill but makes someone else slightly more money for having gone through it.”
Here's an example. I'm making the numbers up.
A marketing company is asked to conduct a study for a potential advertising campaign. They approach a site like Pollfish to create an online survey and pay them $2 per valid response for 10,000 representative responses.
Pollfish then farms this study out to sites like Swagbucks and offer Swagbucks $1.50 per valid response from their users.
Gourmia Air Fryer: Home Dinner Revitalized
Kinda the same food, but just as easy to prepare and tasted way better
After our daughter left for college, our motivation to cook dinner took a nosedive. I won't say that we ever really enjoyed cooking overall, but we certainly enjoyed it less when it was just the two of us.
We had been getting by, but with a decided lack of flair. Throwing something in the oven or microwave, or occasionally boiling some water for pasta, was about what we could muster most of the time.
We'd been thinking about getting an air fryer.
We considered getting one for a long time before we purchased one. The last thing we wanted was another cooking appliance that we didn't use. I feel a bit guilty that we don't use our Instant Pot more than we do.
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