Day 13.2: Investing Time

In my last post I talked about investing money into my projects, but now it's occurred to me that I should probably look into time investments as well. If there's one thing about working online that's caught me off guard, it's how much time everything takes. I easily spend over twelve hours a day working on all of my projects, publicizing, writing these blog posts, running through my PTC sites. Even though I've done all I can to use my time efficiently, there seems to be no end to the amount of work I need to put into it.

Twelve hours a day is a lot. Even though I'm doing work that I like and I'm finding this study very interesting, it's also getting exhausting at this point and harder to keep up. I'll try to keep going through the month, but at that point some things will need to change. I have a life. I have a family that I like to spend time with and a wedding coming up in eighty days. Even though I am currently on a hiatus from my usual job at Comic Booked (which is how I can ever possibly afford to spend so much time on something like this), I do have other things to do.

How much time is the ideal amount to put into projects like this? I don't know. Part of the reason for that is that "this" is much more than one project. It was supposed to be just this blog, at first, but then I got involved in so many other things that it takes me all day to do them all. Perhaps I should cut down on the things that aren't working and keep at the things that are. So what has been working? Amazon Turk. Clixsense. Protypers.com, a data entry job that doesn't pay much, but does pay. What hasn't been working? ...Actually, the thing that hasn't been working the most is this blog. I started this with the strict goal of three posts a day for thirty days, after reading something that said that if I followed all the right steps I'd be sure to be generating an income by the end of the month. Technically it was right--I started this blog, followed all the steps, and am now generating a growing income online. But the income is not coming from here at all. What makes matters worse is that this is also by far the most time-consuming of my projects. Not only do I have to write three articles a day, but I have to format them and post them in all the right places to get views. It takes a long time.

I'm hesitant to give up on this blog. I keep feeling that if I can just keep it up for a couple more weeks, something will sell. Someone will click on something; someone will interact with me here or something! But it's eating up all of my time, every day. Is it really something I can afford, knowing that I'm making money doing other things?

At any rate, being able to document my thoughts and experiments here has been far too valuable to stop altogether. Maybe I should just move it down to one or two posts a day instead. I don't know. Maybe I should just hold out until the thirty days are over.

That said, I still advise you to follow my Twitter feed (@onlineincome19) for updates and tips. I haven't posted it in a while on account of a lost password, but hopefully tonight or tomorrow it will be up and running!