Where Does Your Income Come From? Thursday’s Thought
This “Thursday’s Thought” is a little late because yesterday I took the kids out of town to visit my grandma. My grandma is in her late 80′s and still bakes the best buns I’ve ever tasted. My daughter Cassidy and I decided it was high time we learned her secret to making such delicious buns… and we did. I’ll tell you what it is, at the end of this post. 
Of course, baking buns takes several hours, so we had plenty of time to chat with Grandma. I told her I was keeping busy with my virtual business.
My grandma finally said, “Denise, I don’t understand how your business works. How do you make your money?”
My grandma has asked me this question many times before, and I’ve tried to explain about affiliate marketing, Google adsense, and article marketing, but obviously my explanations haven’t been clear enough.
This time, I put it as simply as I could, but still as accurately as possible: “I write articles, and people pay me.”
Which is absolutely true – my income comes from writing, whether it’s ghostwriting for a client, writing an article to promote an affiliate product, or writing content for one of my adsense sites.
For my online business, no writing = no income.
This is also true for my business: More writing = more income.
Now I want to ask you the same question: Where does your income come from?
If you want more income, what do YOU need to do more of? Unless your business model looks like mine, the answer is probably not “write more articles.”
Whatever it is you do that makes money, that’s your core business.
Any activities you do outside of your core business – whether it be marketing, article writing, maintaining your website – are essentially administrative tasks that take valuable time away from your core business activity – that thing you do that makes you money.
If writing and submitting articles is taking time away from your core business activity, consider outsourcing it, as you would any routine but necessary task that keeps you from doing what you do best. Even if you enjoy writing and submitting articles, I would think you enjoy making money a whole lot more.
If you want to try outsourcing your content with as little risk as possible, WA Blog subscribers still can get 50% off their first original article from WAHM Articles until the end of March 31, 2008. Email me for more information.
Oh, and the secret to my grandma’s buns?
Not surprisingly, it’s same secret ingredient that makes our Original WAHM Articles so good:
Experience.
