There are many reasons that I love working online. Lately one of my favorite reasons for loving that I make money blogging is the “surprise” money that comes in every now and again.
I expect that when I post a hot topic I will get traffic for that topic and maybe make a little money off of the links that I put in the posts. But once a topic is old, I figure that I won’t make anything off of it–especially if it was a “news” type topic.
The other day I was checking my statistics for Ticketmaster and discovered a credit tagged with the subid “billyjoel.” The crazy thing is that I posted about the Billy Joel concert almost a year ago when he and Elton John were scheduled to play in Ohio and Indiana. I never would have suspected that I would still be making money off of that post!
Granted, I only made $4. But imagine if you kept at it over years and continued to add content that was worth reading year after year? Your revenue would start to multiply as you increased the number of posts you put out and the number of clicks you were getting. Definitely good motivation to keep writing!
