eHow 100 Article Challenge – Week 4

The month of August is quickly winding down as is my 100 Article eHow Challenge. Unfortunately, I realized early on last week that publishing 100 articles this month on eHow was going to be a problem. My job, or active income source, has been taking up way too much of my time (65+ hours per week) and something had to give. Trying to balance a career, spend time with my family, build passive income, and even cut my grass has become a challenge for me the past several weeks.

While the amount of time that I have available to devote to growing passive income opportunities (such as eHow) is limited, I am even more motivated to keep pushing on. I really don’t want to be required to work 50, 60, 70, or more hours per week for a company in order to earn a salary. Instead, I am working to phase out my active income sources and replace them with passive income. Having just a few hours each week available to grow these new sources forces me to be as efficient as I possible can.

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Week #4 Updates

This past week saw a huge drop in the amount of articles I published but a major increase in my earnings (which is always really cool to see). This is yet another example of how passive income typically works. You first must devote your time and effort on building the foundation for a new income stream. Then, overtime your hard work pays off and grows into a nice source of income.

Here are my results from August 1, 2009 – August 28, 2009 -

Articles Published

• Week #1 – 25
• Week #2 – 20
• Week #3 – 17
• Week #4 – 10
• Total – 72

Total Views & Earnings

• Article Views – 3,453
• Income Earned – $103.34

Crossing the $100 Mark!

As you can tell from the Week #4 results above, I have pushed over $100 in earnings just from the 72 new articles I have written this month! Considering that I just passed the $100 mark back in July with my older articles, I would say that this challenge has been a huge success. I have now built a very strong article library that has the potential to bring in over $200 in passive income earnings each month.

Updating September’s Challenge

Learning a lesson from my 100 article eHow challenge, I have decided to scale back September’s challenge. I originally planned to write 50 HubPages and 20 eHow articles during the next month but will reduce that goal down to 30 HubPages and 20 eHow articles. Goal’s are great to have and can help guide you and keep you on track – just as long as they are manageable.

I have written about 10 HubPages so far and have not gotten the hang of it yet. Instead of setting an unrealistic expectation, I want to set a goal that I know is reachable. Because of my inexperience using this new passive income tool, I will need additional time to learn how to become efficient writing these articles, just as I have with eHow.

How will you be challenging yourself for September?

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