I’m still kicking myself over the fact that I wrote a huge 1000+ word post about how to make money with info barrel and it somehow got deleted. It honestly makes me feel sick to my stomach. Merry Christmas to me. Lesson learned, I guess. Back up, back up, back up everything! Damn, but I’m still upset that I lost my awesome post. I don’t feel like rewriting it yet, maybe soon, but if you are thinking about building links and want to earn money at the same time, go sign up for Info Barrel.

But it happens that you make mistakes.  You might feel like you aren’t making any progress.  That’s how I was feeling yesterday about my attempts to earn an income online.  I felt like giving up and getting a real job.   I wanted to just throw in the towel, because after six months of half assing it and kind of trying to make real money from my online actitivites, I’ve barely cracked the 100 dollars a month mark.

But then I thought about it.  I have cracked the 100 dollar a month mark.  I have made it a lot farther than a lot of other bloggers.  I’m not supporting myself from my income yet, but I think I can do it.  I think if I do this full time for a while and devote all my energy/effort to making my blogs and article writing better, then I could definitely make a living wage online.  Without much work to maintain it.  And that will be freaking fantastic.

I’ve still been reading a lot about and from people who are already making a decent living online.  I consider anyone above 2k a month decent, and don’t ever imagine myself being one of the internet marketers making 10,000 dollars a month online.  That’s not my goal.   But my ultimate goal is to make $3,000 a month online from writing and blogging.

That’s it.  $3,000 a month.

And for 2010 my goal is less than that.  I just want to get up to $2,000 a month. With the amount of time I put into it and the effort it takes to maintain and the way I live cheaply, that is plenty of money for me in the next year.  Since I’m starting the year out at about 100 dollars a month, I have a long way to go to make 20 times what I am currently making.  But I can do it.  I might not have been thinking that yesterday, but today I am.  I can do it.  By the end of 2010 I will be making my living online.  And that is that.

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