We’ve all seen the good advice from top bloggers around the world: write interesting stuff. This is supposed to be the holy grail to Blogging success, and ultimately also to some form of reward from your blogging. Whether that reward is personal satisfaction, or an income.

I’ve been thinking about writing on some good content networks for some time now, as part of keeping up my regular writing-for-fun habits. I’ve blogged about these plans in the past few days. One place where I am experimenting with getting both some more articles published, and experimenting with the potential monetary return, is on my Examiner.com Economy column.

Yesterday, I came across an article idea I particularly liked, and which worked well for the Examiner. I wrote a very brief article about Windows 7, and how it is probably not going to turn Mac enthusiasts back to PCs, just as it has done very little for the Microsoft stock. What I had never expected was to get 7 comments on the article right away! My attempt at some humor, and a stab at Windows, left a few PC-enthusiasts upset enough to comment.

I’m never out to make people angry with my writing, quite the contrary, but this does show that creating a spark with readers can be a good thing. As with all other things in life, writing a slightly more spicy, or controverial, article can really elicit a reaction, which brings in more readers, and in this case, also more revenue. My humble income from yesterday’s writing efforts (I wrote another article aside from the Mac vs. PC one) are in the screen shot below. Yes, it is just a Dollar…for now… but like Russel Peters said (in a Chinese accent) in one of his comedy shows:

“…and then you have a dollar, and then you go to the dollar store and buy yourself something nice…”

The whole idea with publishing venues like the Examiner is that you get residual income. So although in one day 122 page views translated to about a dollar in revenue for me, the hope – and general assumption – is that over time these same articles will still get page views and continue to bring in some revenue. Although everyone wants to be paid a lot at once, there is no harm in creating some residual income streams. After all, those come in even when other freelance work is low, or other aspects of life take over temporarily.

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