eHow Experience: Day 14 - Learning Curve

Another day... another eHow disappointment.

It's remarkable how my attitude raises and lowers with my eHow statistics.

Since my record earnings only two days ago (see Day 12 post) I've published an additional 32 articles and today my earnings were a miserable 8 cents. I made more than three times that amount in only my second day (see Day 2 post).

It's interesting to note that as I read other people's eHow testimonials about the rate of their earnings they all seem to follow a pretty similar schedule in terms of the pace dollars are earned (at least for the first month).

Perhaps this is just a function of how the eHow system and its learning curve works.

A more cynical view would suggest that eHow manipulates the earnings reports to control expectations and to keep writers motivated.

eHow seems to have a legitimate sustainable business plan that doesn't necessitate this type of action, but at the same time increased transparency on the part of eHow would go a long way towards dispelling any such thoughts.
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Even though I expected my older eHow articles to at least maintain their earnings pace maybe I should evaluate my eHow habits to see if there's something I should change. Like the old adage says, if you want different results then you need to do something differently.

My eHow strategy for writing articles lately has revolved around choosing a subject that I think might be successful (i.e. BlackBerry phones) and then researching the subject and writing articles based on the what I've learned. Once I have six similar articles about a particular subject I link them all together with the related articles option. For more details on linking related articles together take a look at the Day 7 post.

In an effort to break out of my eHow earnings funk I'll experiment with some different subject types (e.g. recipes, technology, making money online, health, etc.) and let you know which ones (if any) stand out.

(See the Day 24 post for an update on how this experiment turned out, or as always you can just proceed to the Day 15 post.)