My passive income that I make online is great, but it is driving me nuts lately because my earnings are not consistent. One day I will make 20 dollars, and the next day I will make 2 dollars. Seriously. The spread is that much.
And it feels like a roller coaster. My hope is that one day it will just be a steady, upward trend where the numbers never go back down again, but this has not happened yet.
Oh sure, there is an overall upward trend, if you back up and look at the big picture. But I would like to see it where I am making at least 10 bucks per day minimum. But this has not happened yet and I can still dip down towards only 1 or 2 dollars for a whole day. This is depressing.
If you want to make money online with a blog then obviously you have to get past this part that Seth Godin would refer to as “the dip.” You are making a bit of money but it isn’t enough to really quit your day job, frankly it is not even half of what you would need to quit your day job, but it is enough to make you realize that the dream is achievable. And you want to push and push and get to that point of freedom but it takes hard work. And it takes time.
It takes time to build up a passive income stream that is big enough to retire on (or at least go full time online with it). And the roller coaster effect can be very frustrating. I’ve been trying to Make Money Online now for about 3 years and I am just now getting to this point where the dip is something real that I have to push through. I feel like I am coasting and not increasing my income much but I know by the long term trend and my traffic levels that I am definitely making progress. Within another year or two I will probably be a at a full time level if I can push through this dip and ultimately scale up my income from the search engines.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining about making this money online. Just pointing out that it is frustrating because I get teased with these 20 dollar Adsense days here and there but a whole lot of the days are only 2 or 3 dollar days. Yes this creates a healthy average and a decent little part time income but I am dying….dying to have a more full time, stable income from my websites.
I will let you know when I get there……