I bet some people are laughing — Some people just don’t get it. When you make your first dollar, or British pound in this case, all they want to do is laugh. Well, go ahead and have a good old chuckle. I remember when my travel blog earned its first $1 from someone booking a cheap hostel…

It took a bit of prompting to get it to commit to an answer though — Before I begin, I should mention that I only did this for a bit of fun. Don't take it too seriously. Bitcoin is notoriously volatile, so predicting what the price will be at some future date is a fool's game. Having said that, I'm confident that over the next 5-10…

The new lows of my Medium stats — It was only last month that three of my newest stories got the most views I’ve had on any story since October last year. My story published on 13 February about already reaching my target of earning $8,000 a month has had 3,500 views so far. My next story, published…

I have deliberately set a bold target — It’s time to set some new income goals for next year. I had a choice of setting either a bold target or a more realistic one. My concern with setting a realistic target is that I may reach it. It’s better to think BIG. …

This happens regularly for stories with thousands of views — If you have a story that has under one minute of reading time, you'll generally only earn one or two cents. Even if a story has an hour of reading time, you can still only expect to earn maybe $2. As you're probably aware, we don't earn a fixed amount…

You can save a small fortune by making smarter buying decisions — During the current economic crisis, I hear many people complain that they don’t have enough money to survive. Every day, I read that millions are having to use their credit cards to pay for essentials like food and heating. It seems that everywhere I look, people are suffering. But when…

Medium doesn’t care about them — At the end of February, I had 208 stories published on Medium. I wrote 8 of those during February. The other 200 were written from November 2021 to January 2022. That’s not all the stories I’ve written though. I’ve already deleted hundreds that weren’t earning anything. I am using them…

This month I had one of those articles — As you may already know, my monthly earnings here have been steadily dwindling from a peak of $1,695 in April to $80 last month. I'd more or less given up hope of my earnings ever going up again. By the 10th of February, I'd written one article for the month…

I copied across 453 stories in under an hour — Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. With an increasingly large number of articles on Medium that are earning next to nothing, I decided I needed to do something about it. Those stories could be earning extra cash on a dedicated website. I started Side Hustle Monkey at the end of…