Everyday when I awaken, I always ask myself how I can be a better person tomorrow. What value or inspiration that I can contribute for others or my company? I'm feeling bad that I didn't create much value on my blog post other than writing or rant to express my personal feeling to release stress in someway. Anyways, I would like to make a confess that my blogging intention is not really because of earning money at the first place. Seriously you might wonder how much income can blog generate in Malaysia? The truth is that it doesn't really generate much money if you’re just writing about your life. Today I would like to reveal my 7 years of part time income on how to earn USD currency as a blogger from Malaysia. Apparently I know that no one would really give a damn on this blog post as it might sounds useless in someway. Anyways, there are not much choice available and sometime people will say that you’re cheapskate for accepting such low income deals.
Apparently one of the reason I wrote this blog post is partly because today I saw a message from my real Facebook profile stated that
"Your Memories on Facebook, we care about you and the memories you share here, we thought you'd like to look back on this post from 5 years ago" as below.
I believe one of the interview question that employer will ask is "How do you see yourself in 5 years time?" and this question suddenly make me think a lot when I saw the Facebook message. Seriously I wonder is there any much changes as after so many years passed as a
e-commerce and marketing graduates? Where is the
e-commerce website that I plan to do since 18 year old? What about the
"Comeback Plan" (东山再起) plan that I said since 2009 and the
RM4,000,000 ringgit? In the end, talk is cheap and execution is the most important task as I just ended up dwelling on my
RM10 Malaysia story.
Anyways, lets back to the main topic that I would share about how to earn USD from Malaysia based on my past 8 years of blogging experience. But before that, I would like to show some payment proof that I received via Paypal since no body believe what I said. It's all started back in 2009 where I helped some people from US to play some online game. In return, I earn my first income via Paypal as below.
As time goes by, I try to find alternative way to earn USD currency and I just got to know those Pay Per Click website where you just need to register an ID and start making money by clicking those advertisement back in 2009~2012 as below.
During 2011~2012 I managed to earn some sponsored review blog post and full banner ads income as below.
As for the year 2013, I stopped around June since
I go to UK Sheffield to study and get my degree there as below.
Somehow I just get encounter a very serious incident that I would never forget, which is my
"January Incident" that happened back in 2014. Hence, you can see there is no earning at all for almost 2 years for the duration start from 1st July 2013 to April 2015 as stated above. During my
"recovery stage", I worked as admin starting from April 2014 to April 2015 before I go to study the
SAP field. No doubt that I do feel very happy when I get my
SAP certificate last week although I'm not sure whether want to venture this field as someone said it is overrated or useless in someway. Hence, I just work as a new role in the
digital marketing field since 1st July 2015 until today.
So here is the few method to earn some part time income although it is not really based on blogging.
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1) Pay Per Click -
NeobuxInstruction: Just register an account at the blue link above and start to click as each advertisement worth $0.001 USD.
True Story: Wahlau, now 2015 liao you still do this kind of click click stuff? Back in 2009 can lah since you're still student and they pay you $0.01 per click. The referral system is quite good back then as it is like MLM pyramid scheme. Basically it is just waste of your time to do this but the payment is fast and real.
2) Sponsored Review -
www.sponsoredreviews.comInstruction: Just register an account at the blue link above, then add your blog and wait for approval. Next, select Find Advertiser and click BID on the article that you want to write.
True Story: The payment is fast but one the thing that I don't like is they charge extremely ridiculous admin fee. For example, you BID for an article that the advertiser willing pay you $100, but they take away 50% of your earnings. Means if you get a $40 article job, the real amount you receive is just $20 based on my experience. So if the article is $5, means you only get $2.50 USD per article. You tell me how many article you need to write to just earn $100? Yes it is 40 article. By the time you finish write also not worth your time.
3) Offering tasks and services at online marketplace -
SEOclerksInstruction: Just register an account at the blue link above, then you can directly offer the service that you can provide at their platform. It is different from
Fiverr because you can offer any price that you want such as $20 per post since Fiverr just limit on $5 USD.
True Story: The payment is quite slow as they need 10 days of clearing day and minimum payout is $15. Another things that I don't like is they charge 20% admin fee. For example, you offer a service that cost for $18 and they will take away $3.60 from you. So you just earn $14.40 and need to earn another $0.60 to cash out to your Paypal account. In fact, I helped the founder to write
a review of his SEOclerks website back in 2012 and now he have a very success marketplace like fiverr starting from 2014.
4) Pay Per View -
http://adf.lyInstruction: Just register an account at the blue link above, then start install their apps like normal Google Adsense report.
True Story: By the time you finish display 1,000 views in your website, all your loyal visitor already run away from your website forever. It looks like a virus or some scam stuff as a user who view the ads before going to your website. I earn by refer people to spend money on their website. Minimum payout is $5 and is fast via Paypal.
5) Personal Sponsored Blog Post
Instruction: You need to have good traffic before advertiser will approach you to do personal sponsored post.
True Story: The price is quite good based on your negotiation skills with your advertiser. You can charge from $20 ~ $200 per single blog post as most of the time is from oversea offers.
6) Personal Display Banner Ads
Instruction: You need to have good traffic before advertiser will approach you to do personal display ads
True Story: The price based on your negotiation skills with your advertiser. You can charge from $20 ~ $200 per displayed ads. The downside is you can't be choosy as you need to accept various type of ads that might spoil your reputation.
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Basically it is all about having good website traffic if you want to get good advertising price. You might ask me how to generate traffic right? Hereby I would like to share with you one of the method that 100% generate traffic for your site which is
Stumble Upon as below.
This website is how I get my oversea website traffic in order to earn my advertising fee for point number 5 and 6 which is the personal sponsored blog post and banner ads. You can't imagine how much effort I have done in order to have 2,342 likes up to date as you can see my profile by clicking the blue link above. Imagine 1 likes = 1 post and you use 3 years of time to posting daily after you finish write a blog post.
Hence, this is all my experience on my so call "Business Model" for blogger ads and how the ecosystem works is shown below.
The value that I can contribute back when I earn some income is by doing some charity as you can see I
allocate RM30 for online donation every month. If you had read until this moment, I would like to thank you for reading although you might think I am sharing some useless information. This is just a reply for my question as I asked
"Anyone interested to know the how much money can earn as a part time blogger that I gathered for the past 7 years?" on social media.
The truth is I earned about $1,300+ USD via Paypal but it took me a total of 7 years to achieve this. Imagine 7 years X 12 months = 84 months as my monthly income is just $15 USD on average. If you wish to earn $$ from blogging through Malaysian style. It is different story since I'm just a blogger without a true identity. Due to this, I had lost a lot of opportunity such as attending events like Air Asia, Petronas or Tai Thong and others big brands. I'm not sure how much those big company pay for bloggers. Maybe at least RM1,000+ per blog post? What I know is if you're a celebrity bloggers or leng lui (beautiful girl), you might get as high as RM5,000 per blog post. Imagine 1 month get 30 sponsored post = RM5,000 x 30 days = RM150,000 income monthly as claim by Nuffnang where they mentioned the income of famous blogger can goes up to RM150K per month. It does make people jelly and butthurt in someway.
As for a small peanut bloggers like me, I charge RM200 per blog post depend on advertiser (of course you want to offer high right?) and the maximum earning is just RM200 x 30 days = RM6,000 extra income per month. Seriously I couldn't do really much since I'm just a one man show from the beginning. Moreover, I do faced a lot of difficulties as you don't know how many people wish that I close my blog as soon as possible. Frankly speaking, I know that this is still not my time yet with my current level of English although I had blogged about 8 years up to this date with consistent of 365 blog post per year. I just haven create a viral blog post yet and it really take time to write that single viral blog post. Some blogger took about 5 years just to have that one single post that gone viral while some blogger even took as long as 10 years to get that one single damn viral blog post.
Honestly, I hope I can be successful in e-commerce as content marketing is dying in someway. Could you imagine that you need to spend 20 hour awake everyday and sleep only 4 hour if you have a full time job while working part time on blogging at night? Actually my final plan is to redirect all my traffic to my e-commerce website but I had failed. Apparently I do know that the things that can earn money online is through e-commerce which involves transaction via
payment gateway. How could I fight those big marketplace company with deep pocket just by myself? By the way, any bloggers are going to 1 Utama's #MakanMakan Food Hunt Bloggers Campaign event at this coming Friday, 21 August 2015, 11am - 4pm? You are required to visit ALL TEN of the participating F&B outlets within the 5 hours duration. I didn't apply leave for this event I don't feel like telling my boss saying that I don't want to work this Friday because I go eat FREE food at 1 Utama shopping mall.
On the other hand, maybe I shall leave all this blogging stuff and focus on a new investment plan to make money online. I do research a bit about Ms
Kathlyn Toh background and she also have the SAP knowledge as I saw her Linkedin profile. To be frank, I just felt a bit sadness when finish write this post as I spend too much time on unproductive stuff other than my passion on blogging. The truth is no one really pay for your kindness for sharing as we lived in a cruel world in someway although I try to be positive. The reality is sometime scary and we just can face it with a positive thoughts. Anyways, I just feel that it is true where at the end of the day, you will still face many rejections no matter how good you are, keep your chin up and move on, tomorrow will always be better. Stay positive!
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