Passive Income eHow Updates – April (2009)

Writing How To articles on eHow has been one of my top passive income earning streams over the last several months. I continue to see double digit earnings increases month over month, while keeping my output of articles fairly constant. At some point as I scale back on the number of articles written each month, I expect to see my earnings continue to grow.

Over the last several months, I have written an average of 20 – 25 articles on eHow every month. Each of those articles takes me around 20 minutes to write. That means for the month of April I spent around 7.3 hours writing, proof reading, and submitting articles. Calculating my dollars per hour in earnings for this work equates to about $7.90 per hour. Last month I reported making about $4.00 per hour. You can obviously see the significant increase in my pay. Now if I could just get my boss at work to commit to that kind of increase!

The numbers above were merely a tool to display the power of writing articles on eHow (or any other outlet) to generate income. Overtime, my dollars per hour should continue to increase at a decent rate. What does this tell us? Passive income requires up front effort and hard work. If I charted out my earnings per hour for the past 8 months, you would see a gradual increase each month. That is because I have put in a lot of hard work upfront and am starting to see nice gains several months down the road.

Are you interested in enhancing your eHow skills and increasing your income? Check out this great eHow writing resource – How to Earn Passive Income on eHow.com: Maximize Your Online Earnings. It helped my eHow earnings shoot up over the last several months!

April Updates
During April I saw another significant increase in my passive income earnings from eHow. My earnings increased by 39% compared with last month which shows how effective eHow can be as a passive income source! Here is the breakdown of my eHow earnings from the past 8 months –

• April
  • Earnings – $57.82
  • Articles Published – 22
• March
  • Earnings – $41.64
  • Articles Published – 26
• February
  • Earnings – $27.85
  • Articles Published – 20
• January
  • Earnings – $14.02
  • Articles Published – 21
• December
  • Earnings – $8.54
  • Articles Published – 4
• November
  • Earnings – $8.16
  • Articles Published – 9
• October
  • Earnings – $7.82
  • Articles Published – 3
• September
  • Earnings – $1.46
  • Articles Published – 7

GRAND TOTAL

• Earnings – $167.31
• Articles Published – 112

Top Five Money Earners for April
I have been highlighting my top earning articles each month to help identify any trends or topics that seem to be in favor. I believe this helps to uncover new opportunities for growth on eHow as well as PFI and other streams of income that I am working to build. Here are my top five money earners from April -

1. How to Sell Covered Call Options – $6.53
2. How to Find Monthly Dividend Stocks – $5.09
3. How to Start a Vegetable Garden Planting at Home – $4.07
4. How to Find the Highest Paying Dividend Stocks – $3.78
5. How to be Successful Day Trading Options – $2.88

After reviewing my list of top performing articles for April based on earnings, I have identified an existing trend as well as a few interesting items detailed below.

• Investing Articles – As you can tell, 4 of my top 5 articles are around trading stocks and options which has been a trend for several months now. My top earner for the month (How to Sell Covered Calls) continues to be my all-time money earner as well as the first article I have ever written on eHow. It seems that articles around the stock market, insurance, and mortgage topics tend to earn the most for me.
• Gardening – The other non-investing related article was around gardening which I attribute to the season. Everyone is busy putting in gardens this year so it was not a surprise to see this article in the top 5.
• New Articles – This is where I am a little puzzled to be honest. With the exception of my top earning article, the other 4 articles were written in April (3) and March (1). In fact, overall my April articles made up 25% of my earnings for the month and March accounted for 26% of the earnings. That is over 50% of my earnings from the most recent two months. I am not sure if I am doing a better job including SEO techniques into my articles (doubt it), sending updates to Twitter (maybe), or something else that is going on (probably). I have read several other eHow writers are reporting significant decrease during the month of April in earnings.

Have you noticed any new trends with your eHow articles? How did your earnings fare for the month of April?

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