Week Two of My Online Passive Income Journey

This is week 2.  It's still all pretty new to me.  So if there is anyone out there reading this that would like to help me, be my guest.  Please leave some words of wisdom or sage advice in the comments so I can gleam.

So a recap of last week, is that I'm getting Denied articles for Infobarrel.  Frankly, I still am getting rejected articles for other reasons. One of them as that I wasn't allowed to have more than one affiliate link per 200 words.  I guess I need to start reading the FAQ and go to the forums, but I guess now I know and I can remember to not incur that mistake again.

The next article I wrote was this:
Top 5 Happy Movies (you most likely haven't heard of)

For some reason, I found it really difficult to finish this one.

Anyhow, the method I've tried to use methods that I've seen other people use.  Use the keyword, Top 5 or 10 or 3 or 7 or some number I guess.  I even see these headlines on BuzzFeed.  I suppose that's one way of attracting traffic and so I did just that.

Week 1: Revenue Sharing Online Article writing

The first week was kind of a mess.  At first I couldn't come up with any ideas and then the more I started to write and the more I read, the more I came up with more ideas.  I wanted to write about movies, about door knobs, anything really.  And my articles so far have landed on things about health and are usually about individual items that have made an improvement in my life.

My very first post: Single Most Important Tip to Get a Good Night's Sleep was alright.

The article was approved in less than 2 hours!  And I was feeling feal good.  So I decided to write another article, eek out one more during a weeknight.  This was the article: Travelling to Machu Picchu - Dont Miss This!

So I was feeling good about myself at this point, but when that rejection email came, I must be honest that I was a little devastated.  I didn't expect that that would've been the response.  The response was this the denial was this:

"Article was less than 325 words which is a little shorter than what we prefer. Elaborate a little bit and bring your article up to 325 words before resubmitting ---"

So I had to then wait for another day, got home and beefed up my article.  The next day, Infobarrel staff approved it!

This is the view-count so far:

Single Most Important Tip to Get a Good Night's Sleep: 47 views
Travelling to Machu Picchu - Dont Miss This!: 19 views

Any tips on how to beef up readership?

Revenue Sharing Article Writing

One way to make online passive income is to write articles (and generate income from ads and referrals).


This was my very first published article on Infobarrel:
Single Most Important Tip to Get a Better Night's Sleep

Maybe I should backtrack a little. What is Infobarrel anyway?
"InfoBarrel is a social writing platform where writers from around the world come together to create high quality media rich content. Writers are encouraged to create high quality media content in exchange for viewership and a large percentage of the revenue share generated by their content. Currently, the revenue share model is based upon three programs. These programs include Good Adsense, and Amazon Associates. 75% of the time the publishers affiliate codes will be displayed and the other 25% the InfoBarrel codes are displayed."
The other one I've experimented on is Hubpages.  I'll take more about these in depth later, but suffice to say that if you are interested, you can click on the links in the article to make your own account and start what I've started a couple weeks ago.  By clicking on these links, you'll be referred to the service by me and I'll be getting a small commission fee for it.
In later posts I'll put more details as to how I write my articles, the articles I've written so far.  My goal is to provide details of my entire journey.  






There are many sites of this type of out there.  They are essentially all revenue-sharing generating sites.  There's other that are pretty popular out there on the world wide web.

Everything has a Beginning...

Indeed, this is the beginning.

Before I begin talking about how I began my journey into creating my online passive income, I'm going to give you folks a synopsis about me.  My pen name is Ben Latham and I'm a pretty average person.  I went to school, was a nerd, got relatively good grades and went to college/university.  I applied to a professional program, got in, survived the college years, with the hopes of graduating and eventually live on a decent salary.  It wasn't such an easy time for me to get that job and even after I got the job, it wasn't such a easy time trying to fit into the 9 to 5 job.  Now, it may seem like I sound like a brat, because there are plenty of unemployed young people out there without work.  You may be one of them.  But I guess what I'm trying to do here, as a result of this journey into this is to prove to myself that I can achieve something on my own.  And I secretly hope that in the process, I can maybe help inspire others like me (especially young people who are unemployed) to venture out on their own by starting their own passive income business or online business.

The fact is that I truly believe that to be rich is glorious.  And being able to generate a passive income is to be able to enjoy the "richness" of life, by becoming more autonomous, being able to dictate your time to when you are most productive and even have time for the most important people in your life.  There is no greater achievement!

So, to summarize, I'm not looking to get rich beyond my wildest dreams.  I'm simply looking for a way to experience being creative again and maybe some of this creativity will rub off on some of you and the meme will spread far and wide.

See you all...OUT THERE!