Here is the monthly activity for February:
1) Google Adsense:
Bigger Indeed! As I said, last month a friend and I really started to hit the Adsense angle a bit harder. i ended up registering about 30 new domains for us to start putting content on, and working to drive traffic. It HAS been a bit of an effort, but hopefully will pay off soon. Actually, of the new sites we have started to work on, just one has brought any income, and that was only $1.78. However, it’s a start, and I expect it will continue to grow each month, without much more ongoing work. The BIG news, is that another website I started in November or December has REALLY started to catch on this last month, and it alone has $21 this month, where it only did $9 in January. Along with a few other minor increases, the Feb. total is $64.82, which is up over 29% from last month.
2) PayPal Money Market:
PayPal has raised their annual rate back to 5.04% (annual). Also, I moved a substantial amount of cash from my checking account (no interest) over to my PayPal account, so I should be looking at about $8/mo from that, but since it’s less than 1/2% per month gains, I’m fighting with what I should really do with that.
3) Stocks (three portfolios):
Personal picks: -4.65%, -0.09% (change during last month)
TurnerTrends ETF-10: -3.14% (change during last month)
WOW! What a crazy day Tuesday! I’ve heard they are calling it “Red Tuesday”. It’s suppose to be the 7th worst 1-day market drop ever and THE worst day since the attacks on 9/11/2001. Actually, it a little funny that it would happen 2 days before the end of the month. I was looking forward to some great gains this month in all three portfolios! Oh well, it should be fairly easy to pick up the pieces. I made some pretty good up/down plays on Google (GOOG) right after this, to try and take advantage of the chaos, and managed to already make back $700 of the $2000 lost.
4) Second Life:
This is the first month the daily rate has dropped to 0.09%. Which means about 2.735% monthly (down from 3%), and 38.8% annual (down from 43%). I did not do much camping this month, as I felt my time would be better spent on some of the other projects. I think for March I will again make a stronger effort for camping. It’s fairly easy money, but the biggest reason is to take better advantage of the investment return rates.
5) BrownBagLaunch:
The website is STILL not done (waiting on my friend to do that), but we do have biz cards… I can’t really hold it against her…. she’s been busy quiting her job, getting married and selling her house this month. Now with the extra time, she DOES plan on working the biz more. we already have two clients, and there is talk about getting more referrals, so things should be picking up in March!