Part of what makes this blog so fun for me is that it gives me the opportunity to share with all of you what’s really been going on. My updates will be sporadic, but I’ll try to do it at least once a week.

What isn’t fun is stress. And I am currently feeling heaps of it. Well, that’s a bit of an over-reaction but I am moving in the summer and starting to feel the crunch. I had a project all lined up - 100 articles for a client. I need to drop that. It’s due June 4th. I got the project about three days ago and haven’t started working on it. It just doesn’t seem fair to keep it going.

In terms of writing, the only two projects I have right now are ongoing - I have a blog at Today.com called This Girl Cooks and I am the Herbal Medicine Expert at eHow. I do freelance projects right now only. I’ve pretty much stopped taking on work for clients. I am focusing my writing efforts on all of my own projects.

I consider my first month as a marketer to be April - even though I have been doing it for a little longer than that. In the past year or so, I haven’t even broken $1000 in affiliate income so I am just going to start from scratch. I am probably somewhere just about $500 or so in earnings. Not bad for the first year. The difference between then and now is that it was an afterthought. A year ago my main source of income was my writing. I am actively working to replace that.

Right now, my only source of revenue is from Adsense. I have money coming in from some other projects too so my earnings aren’t bleak. I would just like a large percentage of my income to be on auto-pilot.

So for the purposes of keeping track, April 08 is my official beginning as a serious internet marketer. My earnings so far are $35.48.

Not yet at my goal to make a full time income from marketing. But I’m getting there! My Adsense earnings are already up.