Sunday, July 02, 2006

Payments for June 2006

Nothing earth-shattering to report this month. Just steady sailing and fairly typical earnings.

DestinysDollars $3.99
PolarPTR $1.80
ShareAdSpace $10.13
Neonlights-Advertising $2.11
eBay $119.62

Total $137.65
Yearly Total $619.47



The payment from DestinysDollars has taken ages to earn. Everything was pretty good up until the start of the year, and then it's taken me nearly 6 months to earn the last dollar (yes one measly dollar!) I needed to get paid.

The payment from PolarPTR was actually two payments this month. That's because I've been earning by promoting their PTP (paid to promote) page at MillionHitsLotto, as well as reading emails.

I had to wait for the payment from ShareAdSpace for well over a month, but it eventually arrive, with interest, so I've got no complaints. Most of it was money I 'earned' by putting my SAS credits in the bank and letting them earn interest, back before that 'feature' was removed, so it is, essentially, unearned 'bonus' money. I've still got another $20 sitting in my SAS account, so I think I might request another payment this month as well.

The payment from Neonlights was actually 9 "daily" payments for reading emails, plus another 2 "daily" payments that included PTP earnings, again from promoting them at MillionHitsLotto with credits I've won (I've hit 4 out of 5 numbers twice, for a total of 10,000 free credits, plus a lot of smaller wins).

That's my big strategy with PTR at the moment. Read a few paid emails a day (usually between 10 and 30 minutes a day), and promote Neon and Polar PTP pages at MHL. So a little effort brings in a little money.

Luckily the eBay sales have been pretty good again this month. Not that we'll be quitting our day jobs any time soon, but this month we made a profit of $119.62 from $417.00 in total sales. And once again that's will no jewelry for sale, and running only one auction this month. And the sales were a good mix of new and returning customers.

For my part, dealing with eBay involves anywhere from 2 minutes to 30 minutes a day, plus however long it takes to drop a few items in the letterbox. Normally the bulk of the time and effort is spent designing and making the jewelry, which is my wife's department, but it's been a while since she's done any of that. On that basis, the eBay thing is paying about $16 an hour. Not bad, all things considered.