The End is Near

Wow, this is pretty crazy. Its only been 50 days since I started this and now I'm just $60 away from the goal. I really didn't expect to get that much money that quickly. Of course, when I started I was figuring I'd be doing surveys for money and writing for Associated Content to raise it all.

Of course, since then I discovered that there are far better, more fund and much more efficient ways of making money online. I suppose I've been lax in talking about them, since that is half the stated purpose of this blog. I spent nearly all of my posts talking about video games, because I figured that what people found the most interesting.

So, to explain it very simply, I've got a few sites set up that have some articles about different topics. Kind of like blogs, but not updated nearly so often, if at all. I make sure to write something I think is interesting to the person who found the site and I also make sure that the articles I write have something of value in them. What I don't want is for someone to find my site and think it is there just for selling something, because I hate that when it happens to me. If I'm searching for information and a site claims to have that information, I'm not amused if they'll only give me the info after I pay them.

That having been said, the sites are most certainly set up to sell something. But more in a "Hey, I hope that article helped you out, and if it did then you might want to check out this book, too." kind of way. Like I said, I make sure to address the reason the reader came to my site in the first place.

I've never really been the type to click on a lot of ads or buy things online. I'm more of an instant gratification guy. But it turns out, lots of people do click ads, and a lot of those people buy stuff after they click. So by following the concept of writing informative articles and then directing people to products they're already interested in, you can make pretty decent cash. So far it doesn't look like I'll be retiring on this, but it has paid for more than half of a PS3 in less than a month's time, so that's not too shabby.