The last couple of months have been a whirlwind. I rarely even have time to blog. For anyone who knows me, I get an idea and I don’t run with it….I sprint until I’ve dug myself into the ground. It’s just the way I roll. I like lots of things on my plate, but that doesn’t mean I do exceptionally well with keeping up with them.

I’ve started yet another project and I thought I would spill it. Have you ever heard of a “game” called Second Life? Well I’ve played it for a few years and I’ve seen people make quite a living for themselves on it. The concept is simple…Run any type of business in this Second “virtual” Life and you earn what are called Linden dollars. Those linden dollars can then be turned into real life dollars at a rate of 261 Linden per $1USD. There literally is ANY kind of business including night clubs, real estate, clothing designs, tattoos, furniture, food items, weapons and yes…even sex. Ok, I’ve decided to stay away from the sex stuff. Call me a prude, but I just can’t get into that in a game. But people are paying serious money for this. There was a recent article about one Second Life player (Anshe Chung)who just earned ONE MILLION real USD in this game from selling land. Read about it here.

As a programmer, I can see how creating items for people who are seriously into this game can be lucrative. Not everyone has the know how to program or design items for a game that look good.  I have even enlisted my boyfriend to “play” this game with me and we are building things together. We started off buying our own “land”. Buying the land isn’t cheap…and hey, someone else just made money off me. Then we built up this city we are calling “Krimzon Rain”. Inside this city, we have built all the regular things you would find in a city such as a night club, furniture shop, bakery, etc. And we themed it to be sort of a gothic dark side. There is a HUGE community for that in Second Life. The club we are using as a means to draw traffic to our land and we host a few night time events with music. But the bulk of the income is expected to come from the sales of the items we create in our shops. For example, I have a gothic looking bed with a skull on it. I sell it for 1500L, which is roughly $5.75USD. Keeping in line with my passive income ideas, I build this bed once and sell it over and over again. Just an FYI…I sold 3 of these beds yesterday and didn’t set foot in my “store”. And this is just one item. My boyfriend who is helping me has created a weapons shop where he builds weapons, armor and other items for those who wish to have combat in the game. We also built our very own tournament arena and will hold weekly tournaments with players for prizes. This helps build traffic which helps to bring in more people to buy from our shops.

I know this is probably one of the craziest ideas I have tried yet. But doing the math seems to work out on paper. It’s an expensive startup with having to buy the “land” so I expect to have a loss for the first couple of months or so until I can get our traffic built up. But I think overtime, it will pay off. I will definitely keep you posted.

I had to take a couple of weeks off from posting due to being sick and also taking care of some personal things. I had written a few posts to update automatically while I was away so I wouldn’t have to have an empty 2 weeks of nothingness on my blog. But as you can see, none of them made it on the blog. I’m not sure why, but nothing posted on the date that I set them to. But I really want you guys to see them, so I decided I’m going to go ahead and publish them as of the date they were supposed to be published. So don’t get confused if you see a couple of posts show up for the last couple of weeks that weren’t there previously. I’m sorry it’s out of order and I promise to learn about this pre-publishing thing before I take another break.

Once I get those corrected, I have yet another new venture to tell you about that I am working on. I think you will like it!

Thought I would pass this on for an idea for articles in case you are running dry already. One of the things I plan to start working on is finding content through PLR articles or through places such as ezinearticles.com. eZineArticles.com seems to be well written and are free to republish as content as long as you keep the footer (author info) intact.

Along these same lines I think trying to get a guest speaker to come post an article on your blog would be a terrific idea! I am doing research on the search engine industry as we speak and hope to get a guest blogger within the next couple of weeks.

On a side note…as you are writing article and after article for your new niche content website, have you noticed that many of the articles could possibly make up an even greater e-book? Woohoo! I’ve started a collection of my own posts in an organized format based on an outline I have already made up. This outlines gives me ideas on what to write about and it keeps me organized for a future e-book I may wish to write.

So keep the ideas rolling and the articles posting! If you aren’t writing regularly, try to get in at least one article every week, preferably 2-3.

February was a crazy month for me…actually January was too. I have a ton of stuff going on with work, PurelyPassiveIncome, writing my e-book (which still isn’t finished) and dealing with a lot of personal life decisions. Life is hard! And yet this all leads to the reason why I am trying to build myself a passive income…to have the freedom to deal with all of this stuff and not stress about working or money while I am doing it.

Ok so what’s the tally for February?

As you can see, this is the first time my income went down from a previous month but there is a reason behind it. The month of February (and January to be truthful) have been planning months for me. Yes I am still working on my e-book but I am also evaluating many other different avenues of passive income to check out. One of them which I am hoping to tell you about in the next week or two is taking up quite a bit of my time at the get go, but eventually should slow down to where my involvement is minimal.

My plan for March includes writing more for E-how, working more on my niche content websites, writing more of my e-book and of course this NEW project that I haven’t told you all about yet. But it’s coming, I promise.

Remember when we wrote that first article? Well, I certainly hope you didn’t think that would be your only writing assignment! To really make your content niche website interesting for your readers, you need to keep adding content. You might decide to write every day or maybe you just post once or twice a week. Whatever it is, try to be consistent and post often if you can.

Let’s jump right back into our websites and write another article today. If you need ideas, try to think of solutions you can solve for your readers. Head on over to Google.com and do keyword searches on your topic and see what others are talking about that relate to your topic. Remember to try and keep your article information rich, but also keyword rich (without being excessive about it).

Need more tips?

• Stay focused and on topic. You don’t want to confuse or lose your readers in your post.
• Be helpful and informative. Remember, you are trying to become an authority on the subject. Make sure you KNOW what you are talking about and not just guessing.
• Make sure to use your keyword in your post title. This will help identify the subject to your readers and help your rankings in search engines.
• Be sure to proof read what you write. Check for spelling and grammatical errors.

Adding a Google adsense block on your website is a great way to add a little bit of extra residual income to your revenue pool. How does it work? It’s about as easy as anything else out there. You simply place a snippet of code into your website (very similar to how we added affiliate banners) and you earn a certain amount of money for every click through on your website. Pretty simple huh?

If you haven’t already done so, go ahead and create your Google Adsense account on google.com and use their easy to follow prompts for creating a “Adsense of Content” adsense code. Depending on the layout of your website, you can display banners or text and in any number of size formats.  Because my website is a 3 column layout, I am going to go with a skyscraper style Adsense to create a long skinny block of ads. Be sure to customize the colors of your Adsense code to match the colors of your website. You can check out my Google Adsense setup on my working project Ultimate Website Traffic Secrets.

If your ad doesn’t show up immediately on your website, give it about 10 minutes. Google tends to have a delay on these things and often won’t show up immediately.

Easy enough for ya?