Working on my commitment I made to grow this blog through commenting on other blogs everyday I ran across an interesting post over at MsDanielle.com. The post discusses Associated Content and some concerns Ms. Danielle has with said company, she also discusses what they pay one particular writer, Chris Bibey. Chris caught Ms. Danielle eye because he is nice enough to share with all of us his Associate Content Recent Results. It turns out that Chris receives an average of $6.47 for each post he provided. Chris joined the comment conversation and provided more insight on the fact that he usually published in batches of 5 that take 1 hour to put together. So he is making ~32/hour. He says that kind of money is not bad, if you are able to do it full time. This is what caught my eye and leads me to this post.
I agree that $32/hour is good money, but it is not a guaranteed wage. It is sporadic, besides I feel that you build your blog so it works for you while you are off playing or enjoying Groove Armada at the Hollywood Bowl.
Having your blog make money for you around the clock is what all bloggers determined to make money struggle to develop. But, just how much money per hour should you hope to achieve? This is where goal setting comes into play. And after some thought, I hope that my blog achieves minimum wage someday [5.15\hr]. Now that might not sound like a lot of money, but remember there are 24 hours in a day – so your daily income would be $123.60. Giving you a total of $3708 a month, so if you worked on your blog 2 hours a day that would be ~$61.80/hour. Not to shabby.
I believe that it will take more than 2 hours a day in the beginning phases of building your blog and community around it, but I believe there is a critical mass that you achieve then2 hours a day should suffice. In creating milestones to get to my $5.15\hour goal, my first milestone is $.25\hour, or roughly $180 a month. Last month I was able to amass $72, primarily through referrals to godaddy.com.
What do you think? How many hours a day do you spend creating posts, trying to generate traffic, and networking with other bloggers?
Did you ever think you would hear someone’s goal was to achieve minimum wage?
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great post!
although i just want to clarify that technically, writing for AC isn’t blogging, but i’m just being nit-picky 
i haven’t spent any time monetizing my blog yet, but i have spent a lot of time taking care of it and trying to create a quality site. i hope to one day make minimum wage blogging. and hopefully pass that stage up quick style and mogul it up…
I agree that writing for AC is not blogging, but I think you got the jest of my post. I am more focused on what an activity brings you in dollars per hour along with residual income.
If you are not creating something that can bring you money while you are not working then you are just doing a job. Not that their is anything wrong with that.
I am going to follow up this post with specific ‘traps’ that those looking to ‘make money online’ tend to fall into.
keep on keepin on…..
Minimum wage no longer sounds too bad. I never thought about it like this before. I write for Associated Content. I try to submit at least 7 articles a day. My average is between $6-$8 an article. I am usually toward $7. It takes me about 15 minutes a piece. You have to keep in mind that this might sound like a lot but you get burned out real quick and you only make this in one day. So that much an hour, sounds like a lot but, take that and multiply it by five days a week, no longer sounds like a full paycheck does it? That is only around $245 a week. I am high maitenance and could not live off of this amount.