Photo courtesy of Daniel Y. Go
Well, I’m now feeling the pinch to bring in this level of income more regularly since we have had to move up the van purchase to this November. If you’re thinking about bringing money in before the holidays, you may want to look back through my Bringing Money In posts over the year. Between gift card offers, pharmacy coupons, selling at Ebay & Craigslist, Swagbucks, and the blog, there are lots of strategies you can try to bring in a little extra income each month.
For the month of October, my extra income was $825.25 and came from the following:
- Gift Cards/Rebates: Only one this month, a $10 CVS Gift Card from a pharmacy coupon.
- Prizes: I’ve told you before–you really need to be entering contests on blogs! The odds are so good that you’ll win. I won a $15 iTunes Gift Card and a $75 credit to Jockey.com (on a Twitter contest). That’s a lot of free socks and underwear!
- Swagbucks: I redeemed $239.85 in Amazon GCs that I’ve earned through Swagbucks over the past few months. My goal is to use my credit on things that we would buy anyway, in order to impact my budget. So far, I’ve bought toilet tissue, Norton Internet Security, and some gifts.
- Blog Income: I received $485.80 in blog earnings. I still need to work on a plan to make this more consistent from month-to-month. It’s been on the to-do list forever…but the good news is that I’m almost at my year-end goal of earning $500/month from the blog.
That's great on your blog income! I need to read on your site as to how you do that! Great post!
How can I make money from my blog?
Christina, since you have a personal blog, I'm not sure how you would monetize it. You could be successful with Swagbucks, though, by sharing with your family and friends.
I earn money through direct ads, affiliate programs like Amazon, and networks that pay per impression (so the more people who come to the blog, the more pennies I get). After two years of building my audience and number of visits per day, it is paying off.
That is great news! Congrats on the income. My hubby has his vehicle forum/website and makes about $150 a month. Keep up the good work!
How do you earn so much money from Swagbucks? I usually get only one swagbuck per day. Jennifer
Anon–I just wrote a post about earning a lot with Swagbucks because I get that question a lot. It's going up tomorrow.
that's awesome! i'd love to be earning $500 per month on my blog.