December 29, 2006
True Windfall
Unlike that faux windfall, of which I am still OMG ROFLOL WTF?-ing about, I did manage to net some serious coinage during the month of December, and in almost all cases, all I did was ask.
Back in late November, I said to check yo' mail. After I checked my own mail yo', I asked for another ad campaign, I got $1200!
In December I was approached about running ads on two of my sites, getting a seperate email request to each account. I wrote back from my main account and didn't hear anything. Usually I take rejection badly and go off to lick my wounds. This time, figuring I have nothing else to lose, I emailed them back to see if they were still interested. We negotiated a bit and I got $500!
Two final ad buys netted me $50 and $150. In these two, I either asked for more and got it, $150 or in the case of the $50 I contacted someone with an expired ad and they hopped on board again. Which doesn't always work, b/c I contacted someone else w/an expired ad and no reply.
To be honest, I was on such a roll, I didn't realize they never wrote back and oh well right?
It also gave me the confidence to boost up my rates a bit in the new year. Tomorrow I'll tell y'all where all the money is going. Oh and as of this writing, an unexpected $65 came in. Why? An ad service I used moved to a new platform and are clearing out all payments from the prior version. Normally I'd have to wait for the payment threshold of $100 to be met before payment is issued.
Huzzah!
10:32 AM in Bonus Monies, Daily Jabber, Facing Fears
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