I have been selling my digital book for a couple months now, and I have been contemplating writing an expanded print edition. If I do decide to complete a new book, I will cover “creative financing for everyday life” in more detail.

My book is about making 1 million dollars working from home. I wrote it so that stay at home moms can follow it and succeed with it’s teachings. It emphasized the work at home business with no start-up costs.

I think I would like to expand my other chapters heavily. For example, stock investing, and real estate investment. Does anyone have any requests?

Incoming search terms:

• making one million from blogging
• start up cost for a blogging business

I have been doing some research, and I truly believe I can monetize this blog greatly by opening up myself to paid vacationing. Basically, I will have companies pay for my vacation including travel, and pay me to blog about the whole experience.

I can blog about everything from the airline/bus trip, food, activities, accommodations, and everything in between. To start this off, I will need to be paid $350 per day and have all expenses taken care of. I have excellent traffic on this blog that is growing every single day.

When I blog about the company that hires me, I will provide them with an ad space within that blog post as well. I would prefer to take vacations with a 3-day minimum. If interested in advertising your company this way, email me at brandon@brandonconnell.com

NOTE: I can provide myself, and occasionally my family depending on where, and the time of year.

I want to publish more articles on this blog regularly. At the same time, I want to offer different viewpoints and topics. Therefore, I am offering $1 per 500 word article and $2 per 1,000 word article. This is approximately what AC pays for upfront articles. I will pay via Paypal for articles that I accept.

Interested? If so, your articles must be original and exclusive (meaning that they cannot be published elsewhere). Email me at brandon@brandonconnell.com if you want to write for my blog.

UPDATE: No longer paying

This post was published a long time ago, but I have since grown accustomed to writing my own articles. I do accept guest posts however.

Incoming search terms:

• ac pays

Buying a house is really not that hard. Even if you are broke. A few years back, I was in a situation with my family and we were behind on our rent. We had a toddler and a newborn, and had less than 2 weeks to get out. This was right before Christmas. I had to do something drastic, or we would have been homeless. I decided to buy a house…

With $400 to my name, I wrote an offer on a 5,000 square foot mansion in a town 200 miles away. The sellers were asking $30,000 and I offered them $40,000. No I wasn’t nuts. I was using a creative financing technique that allowed me to make it worth the sellers interest, and I would not have to pay anything down.

The offer looked like this:

$40,000 @ 10% interest with a 15 year amortization. This means the sellers would finance the property for 15 years with a monthly payment of around $400.

The offer was initially rejected. A week later, I had a feeling in my gut that said to resubmit the offer unedited. Guess what? the offer was accepted the same day! I knew that if I was a seller in a situation where I was out of state, and the property sat there, I would take an offer on that property rather than continue paying taxes and upkeep on it.

Our realtor paid for our moving truck, and we paid our first mortgage payment right away even though we had a month before it was due.

In our current economy, it is a buyers market. Deals like this can happen on a daily basis. All you have to do is look for the right property where it may have a motivated seller, and submit the offer on paper. That’s all it takes to buy real estate. The hardest step is getting off your butt and signing your name on the offer.

I have thought long and hard about this, and I am considering removing the Google Adsense from this blog as I feel it is not performing as well as other options may. I currently make around $5 per day or less from the adsense ads, and I plan on getting that to a minimum of $50 per day. If this means changing the revenue source, then so be it.

Adsense seems to have lost it’s luster due to it being a little ugly and not very customizable. In addition, people tend to ignore adsense because of it’s saturation on the internet, and it being on MFA (made-for-adsense) sites.

I applied for Chitika, and a couple others as backup sources. When it happens, it will be sudden and without notice.

I was reading through some articles on AC today, and I ran across one on paid blogging. The writer seemed to push their negative experience in making money on the reader. She wrote about how hard it is, and how you may be blogging for an entire year and never see a dime. But I know for a FACT that you CAN make much more than a dime within a year. You can make money without taking paid posting gigs. Your entire paying source can be Google Adsense if you place it right and keep your blog updated and informative.

Being a paid blogger means you have to be dedicated to writing. You can’t just post for a couple of days and give up because you havn’t made anything. You have to post daily until you have over a thousand posts, then continue posting on a regular basis. The more posts you have, the more opportunities you have to receive top 10 Google rankings for any given keyword or keyphrase. You also increase your readership by expanding the amount of posts you have on your blog.

Blogging isn’t a get rich quick deal, unless you have a massive amount of press to aid you. It takes work and determination to establish a blog to the point of steadily increased traffic.

You can start blogging fairly cheap also. WordPress is completely free, and so are multitudes of WordPress themes and plugins. Your only cost to get started is hosting (which you can probably find for free by searching Google), and a domain name which costs approximately $10 per year. When all is said and done, you can have a decent income with little expense. Once you establish your blog and have an advertiser revenue, you can reinvest your revenue into additional traffic sources such as Google Adwords, or Facebook ads. The possibilities are truly endless.

Now I am not sure why an author would go and try to dissuade someone from blogging for a living. At the very worst, you can find the time to get the days activities off of your chest. Occasionally throw in a good size article about a niche topic and you have a recipe for success.

Your biggest obstacle for achieving success is getting your blog out there. You have to dedicate a large portion of your time to internet marketing. This can be done in many ways, but one that I suggest is to take part in the conversations on other already established blogs. They usually allow you to post your name and url with your comment which helps drive traffic. Some blogs allow follow-links which also help your Google PageRank.

If you are searching for information on paid blogging, I hope you find this article on my blog. Understand that your success is entirely in your hands. Please post your success as a comment here when it happens to inspire others.

Being an author is something of a feeling of great achievement. But the fact is that you can be an author with absolutely no training. You don’t even need your own computer. You can write your articles, books, and anything else at the library. There are even free online resources for you such as Blogger, and other free platforms.

Authors can make some immediate money by writing articles for “content paid” publishers. An example would be Associated Content. You can write exclusive articles for them and make decent money if you write a lot. You can average at least $2 per article published, and earn residuals for page views. Once you build up your article count, your page view count goes way up due to many top 10 Google rankings. Average 30 articles per day for 5 days a week and you have a $1,200 per month income before residuals. Larger articles are offered higher up-front pay.

Another great way to earn money as an author is to create your own blog, post adsense ads, and write daily. The same top 10 ranking effect will happen, and you will earn from ad clicks and page views. With your own blog, you can even solicit direct business ad space.

You can earn money using the above tactics all while working on your book. If you write a good book, and find a publisher, you can get some additional exposure for your articles on top of earning book sales royalties.

As an author, the possibilities are virtually endless. 1-2-3-begin writing!