How to Earn Your First Love Dollar (Blog)

[Savage]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Steve Pavlina's blog:

How to Earn Your First Love Dollar

[Angela]

wait...just....a.....second......

Did you write this post because of what came up today, or was that just an absolutely incredible case of synchronicity?

What a wonderful article, Steve. As usual, it feels like it was written just for me (yes, as a matter of fact, I am a goddess. )

[ghfever]

First Post?
Great blog Steve. I ate up every word of it.

I've made about $2 total with my blog that I started a few weeks ago. Mostly from friends checking out my site and clicking around. But hey, $2 is $2. And $4 is $4. Etc, etc.

I LOVE 'love' money. It's free money. I know I had to work at building my blog and work on it daily to keep it updated. But I LOVE doing that, so I don't really consider it work.

One thing I found really interesting is you said you made $2 or so when you started with AM. I'm assuming it was thru AdSense. And now you make 500x that. That's over $1,000 a day. Is that all from AdSense clicks? Or from your book, adsense, donations, etcetc?

Thanks again Steve

[ghfever]

Lmao. Damn you Angela. You beat me by seconds :P

[ericabiz]

I closed my eyes and did the intention, and my primary spirit guide, Julia, took the opportunity to put up an image of my blog being redesigned.

I was in a meditation a few days ago and she started with the blog redesign stuff. AND of course, me being me, I was like "JULIA...I don't want to PAY someone to redesign my BLOG..."

She's even showing me exactly how it should be designed in order to garner ad revenue...

And she told me to Google "blog design" to find someone to do it.

Now I guess I actually have to go out there and take that step so I can start earning more money from my blog. A big :P to my spirit guides, and to you, too, Steve!

-Erica

[Savage]

For details on how I've made money from blogging, see:
How to Make Money From Your Blog

That article is a bit dated, but it will give you the general idea.

Today my income is a lot more diversified. Adsense is no longer the biggest contributor. Most of my income now comes from profit-splitting deals with publishers whose products I recommend.

This month Learning Strategies is re-running their 59% PhotoReading discount for StevePavlina.com visitors. I plan to make a blog post about it tomorrow. I learned PhotoReading two years ago and still apply it today, so it was a no-brainer for me to recommend it. Visitors who buy it get a hefty discount, Learning Strategies gains new customers, and I earn a commission, so it's a nice win-win-win arrangement. It's also a good way for me to keep my articles and podcasts free for everyone.

I evaluate TONS of personal development products and only recommend a small percentage of them because I'm incredibly picky. Publishers send me new items every week, so I always have a huge stock of materials to go through.

Currently I'm reviewing a new Learning Strategies program with Jack Canfield on the Law of Attraction -- 22 CDs plus an extensive workbook. I'm about halfway through it.

I love that I now have a way to generate income from studying personal development materials, which has been a passion of mine for more than 15 years. Before I ran this site, I read hundreds of books and went through dozens of audio programs that I paid a lot of money to buy... never realizing that I could actually earn money from reviewing and recommending the best products I encounter... simply by working out a profit-splitting deal with the publisher.

It's pretty funny how such great income-generating ideas will stare us in the face for years before we even notice them.

[Savage]

@Erica: That's funny because just in the past few days, I've been talking to blog designers about doing a makeover of StevePavlina.com. A redesign of my website is long overdue. So there's another synchronicity for ya!

[The Large Dude Scam]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

This month Learning Strategies is re-running their 59% PhotoReading discount for StevePavlina.com visitors. I plan to make a blog post about it tomorrow. I learned PhotoReading two years ago and still apply it today, so it was a no-brainer for me to recommend it.

Many years ago i downloaded his first two photoreading tapes. In those two he only talked about how good it worked.

I met a guy who tried photoreading. He told me that it indeed taught him to read faster, but that it in the end was nothing but speed reading. No 60 000 words/minute (that was the reading speed he advertised back then).

[Holistic Star]

Wow I can so relate to this post.

This is a diary energy from 2 years ago when I really wanted to be a healer and I was bashed over the head with an invitation to help someone for money but ran away! I love your analogy of being in your pajamas. That's how I felt!

"Aug 2006. I keep replaying in my mind the conversation I had with someone at a supermarket till yesterday. As I was packing my shopping I started chatting with the till operator and then he told me, completly unrelated to what we were chatting about, that he had ulcer and asked what I thought caused them. I replied I thought it might be a lack of B vitamins or possibly stress. He said he took a multivitamin and then said that his back and neck hurt from working at the till. I just offered sympathy, but I wanted to offer more. My first thought was to give him the phone number of the healer that I see but somehow that seemed wrong. I also thought that I could help him by offering him some Quantum Touch energy or some EFT but for some reason I hesitated. I felt embarrased offering someone my services when I hadn't completed the qualification.

This is the weird bit: He looked at me with a really intense stare and said, “I thought you were about to say you were an aromatherapist or something. You could book me in for an appointment.” So I just said, “No sorry I’m not, hope your back gets better soon,” then walked away.

As I walked away, I looked back and he was still staring at me with intense curiosity. He smiled and I smiled back. It was the intensity of the look and the direct invitation to book him in for a session that has made me replay it over and over. It was so out of the ordinary.

I think this is a message that I need to listen to. I have used intention setting before and a couple of days later something happened that synchronised with my intention (not the whole intention, but a nudge that things are moving in the direction I want them to). The direct invitation from the guy practically bashed me over the head with the message that I can help others by raising their energy but yet I turned tail and ran away from it.

I need to work on my self belief about my ability to help others. I’m going to keep on noticing and observing my interactions with other people especially where there are direct invitations. Next time I won’t run away (I promise)."

[Gnosis]

Is Adsense still your major source of income from your blog?

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

For details on how I've made money from blogging, see:
How to Make Money From Your Blog

That article is a bit dated, but it will give you the general idea.

Today my income is a lot more diversified. Adsense is no longer the biggest contributor. Most of my income now comes from profit-splitting deals with publishers whose products I recommend.

This month Learning Strategies is re-running their 59% PhotoReading discount for StevePavlina.com visitors. I plan to make a blog post about it tomorrow. I learned PhotoReading two years ago and still apply it today, so it was a no-brainer for me to recommend it. Visitors who buy it get a hefty discount, Learning Strategies gains new customers, and I earn a commission, so it's a nice win-win-win arrangement. It's also a good way for me to keep my articles and podcasts free for everyone.

I evaluate TONS of personal development products and only recommend a small percentage of them because I'm incredibly picky. Publishers send me new items every week, so I always have a huge stock of materials to go through.

Currently I'm reviewing a new Learning Strategies program with Jack Canfield on the Law of Attraction -- 22 CDs plus an extensive workbook. I'm about halfway through it.

I love that I now have a way to generate income from studying personal development materials, which has been a passion of mine for more than 15 years. Before I ran this site, I read hundreds of books and went through dozens of audio programs that I paid a lot of money to buy... never realizing that I could actually earn money from reviewing and recommending the best products I encounter... simply by working out a profit-splitting deal with the publisher.

It's pretty funny how such great income-generating ideas will stare us in the face for years before we even notice them.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Gnosis

Is Adsense still your major source of income from your blog?

Nope, not for the past two years.

[Manifesto]

I love this article Steve! It's very practical and it really shows you that following your heart and what you love doing always pays out.

Cheers

Thomas Herold
CEO Dream Manifesto
Dream Manifesto - The Quantum Method for Manifesting Your Life Dreams

[lasti]

Wow, I must have intended this article
It's exactly about what I think at the moment.

Thank you, Steve!

[Dave Kaminski]

Steve,

I bet if you sent an email every time you went to exercise to someone else who was trying to exercise regularly, they would give you at least a dollar a day! You could set this up pretty easily to be a one click thing from your phone or computer before you hit the gym!

I know you're hurting for love dollars

[ghfever]

Originally Posted by Dave Kaminski

Steve,

I bet if you sent an email every time you went to exercise to someone else who was trying to exercise regularly, they would give you at least a dollar a day! You could set this up pretty easily to be a one click thing from your phone or computer before you hit the gym!

I know you're hurting for love dollars

Lmao. LOVE MONEY

[dbstraight]

I love the article (and how quickly it was posted after the last one).

My real problem is that I'm not earning any money right now, love or otherwise. I keep thinking about all the things I need money for (like a car to get a job... a place to live... an engagement ring and the expenses which are expected to follow). It seems hopeless. Focusing on just earning one dollar, though, I think I can do that.

Did I mention I'm an aspiring web designer?

[impaul99]

YES! I finally hit a milestone in my Personal Development Blogging career today. I actually beat Steve to a post by about 2 months and 14 days. Woot!

I pretty much wrote a post about this exact idea on my blog a few months ago. ( How to Make Money Doing What You Love - Your First Dollar | How to Make Money Doing What You Love )

You have no idea how many times I've had an idea for a post, and then I'd write it down in my journal and flesh it out a bit, getting ready to write it only to find Steve write the exact idea on his Blog the next day and beat me to it. It's like "doh!", he beat me to it.

It's so cool for me to read Steve's post because I know he didn't read mine before writing his, yet when I read both of them side by side, I totally see the same "channel" being tuned in and interpreted slightly differently by our different personalities.

ie. Here's a quote from mine:

Do you love writing? Write a one-page report on something and sell it for a dollar to someone you know. Or sell it for 25 cents to 4 people, or a dime to 10.

Here's a quote from Steve's:

Write a poem, an article, or a song. Share it with as many people as you can, and ask if they’ll pay you a quarter for the value they received from it. Get four people to say yes, and you’ve earned your dollar. If no one agrees to pay you, ask them what you could create that would be worth at least a quarter to them.

Here's a quote from my article:

If you’re not making money by doing what you love, why not?

Are you waiting until you have figured out the perfect plan to be able to quit your job and do what you love before you start?

If so, let me offer a suggestion for a goal you may want to set for yourself. It may be one of the most important goals you will EVER go after in your life. Are you ready?

Your goal is to find a way to make $1 by doing what you love.

And from Steve's:

They won’t consider it unless they’re convinced such work will bring in some serious money… more than enough to cover all their expenses. A few dollars is just too trivial and pointless.

That mindset is a huge, huge mistake.

If you want to make a living (a great living), doing work you truly love, then a necessary first step is to earn that first dollar.

Sorry, I'm just excited... finally found that channel Steve's been listening to.

[kpollock]

spot on article yet again! I am finding it very difficult to think/feel/remember what I love doing. Beyond the animal joys of food/sleep/sex/comfort that is... I have always found getting what i want easy - now i just dont know what that is longterm. tricky...

[Permafrost]

I'm in the same boat - I'm a generalist. I have lots of shallow interests, but NOT ONE I love where I'd do it full time, for free if necessary. The overriding interest is reading, but I can't even fathom where you'd find work that pays you to read without a journalism/writing degree (if you have no desire to review books to boot...)

Anyone else still not know exactly where their passions lie?

[Monergy]

It's a great concept to make money from doing the things you love. Without being aware of it, i think that all of us gravitate to that mindset. But thanks, Steve, for explicitly pointing this out.

[JulietduPreez]

Hi Steve

Synchronicity!
We have just read your article titled "How to Earn your First Love Dollar". Immediately we thought, well, let's check our AdSense account. Wow! US$1.08 - our first $1 for doing what we love!

Not that it should surprise us, because that, in part, is what our website is all about; to be more precise, "affirmations". We have developed a (free) application for the use of affirmations and manifestation. This can make an incredible difference in people's lives and we want to spread it was widely as possible.

Perhaps you would like to take a look? Our website is CodeFlow. We would really appreciate feedback from you as you have been such an inspiration to our work. Our website has been live for only a few weeks and we continuously want to (and are) improving and developing both the site and the application.

This is the most exciting time of our lives!

Regards
Juliet