Comments on: My eHow Experiment…Am I Going About It All Wrong? I Need Your Help!

By: Alrady

Alrady — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:21:47 +0000

Pat saw an email come through with update. I have to say it would be nice to see new numbers as I have not kept up… One thing that concerns me is that it seems the writers that are most adept at ehow have not really increased earnings all that much.. they went up then down…. mine have stayed staable and climbed. BUT I am not good at making money on blogs so Examiner is my other alternative writing site of choice. Time intensive though.

I think you can build users that support you in other ways rather than just ehow. Twitter, Twitter groups, other sites that offer social, Groups etc. Just a thought.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:23:30 +0000

Hey Pat, great early post here. I’m going one post at a time to catch up to where you are. I figure it’ll make for good reading and perspective to go one chapter at a time as opposed to starting from the later part of the “book” and not have a basis for the characters in it!

I’ve been at this point a number of times already and one of things that I’ve been able to tell myself is “If it worked for Pat, then it can work for me!” I can only imagine what you had to go through as you were developing your path. Again, thanks for being there, teach!

By: Corletia

Corletia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:29:57 +0000

Pat, I haven’t read all the responses, so I might be repeating something that has already been said…but I feel that you would make more money on your own website. You mentioned that you could write several posts about the engagement & wedding stuff you all went through..well I think you could create another income stream from this & have it tie into your blog. Write a “how to” ebook called “How My Passive Income Paid for My Dream Wedding” and base it on your wedding posts. And if some of the wedding services you used have an affiliate program…you get the picture, more cash. Even branching out with a series of ebooks such as Smart Passive Income Streams for Beginners, Smart Passive Income for Kids, (because kids have been known to have Squidoo pages), etc. You could start out with posts for these too. P.S. I like your random mood swings, it makes people “think”.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:18:45 +0000

Well, I do have varying prices for different products, so those numbers you mention are not totally exact, but at the peak of my website just a few months ago, those numbers sound just about right. Mind you, I was a total newbie when this happened to, so never say it isn’t possible. With determination, hard work (and yes, some luck), it can happen. All the best to you Julia!

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:01:09 +0000

Pat, thank you for being so willing to share details, it’s really helpful for someone just starting out. As you can see, I’m trying to sort of deconstruct the numbers of your success to see what is possible when it comes to traffic and SEO.

So from what I can figure, you are really driving huge amounts of traffic to Greem Exam Academy. For a $10,000 month, you’d need about 125,000 visitors to your home page, of which about 11,000 would go to your sales letter, of which about 285 would actually convert to buyers.

Does that sound about right? Seems like a daunting number of visitors to recreate for a newibe like myself.

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By: Jeremy Miller

Jeremy Miller — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:45:59 +0000

I recently started my own eHow experiment and I am completely shocked at the results. I earned $190 in the month of June and I am over $350 for this month. I started on May 28th of this year so definitely not too bad after 2 months! Your website has some great information on it. I have started my own blog at http://makemoneyonehow.com. I’d love to know what you think about it!
Thanks for the motivation, tips and excellent blog!
Jeremy

By: passive income

passive income — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:56:57 +0000

What I do, and I think you’d really make more money with it, is to post your articles FIRST on one of your sites (you can have many sites, of course), and then, after google has found it, go and post it on eHow and other sites that share their revenues.

I know a few ways to “repurpose” articles, and if you go to that effort, and put original work on the various sites, you’ll get the best of both worlds.

By: Cyn

Cyn — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:36:30 +0000

@Cory I don’t think there was a question about whether or not either would earn income… it was a question of which would earn more, in the span of a year. Yes, he could write similar articles for his blog and for eHow, but –unless all of his eHow articles were about one specific niche– the blog would be a willy-nilly compilation of unrelated posts. Such blogs are usually not as successful as niche blogs.