eHow Experience: Day 8 - Six Figure Expectations

After making 74 cents on eHow yesterday and tempering my six-figure expectations (see Day 7 post) I was very much brought back to Earth today when I saw my earnings for the day come in at a mere 7 cents (I'm at a total of $2.02).

This is definitely an eHow step in the wrong direction.

One thought on why views (and consequently money) might spike after posting several new articles is that whenever you post a new article it pops up in the feed on the bottom of each of your eHow friends' homepages. As a result this extra exposure instantly gets your article in front of people.

Having your new articles pop up in your friends' feeds is a good reason to have lots of eHow friends (I have 149 right now). The more friends you have the more people will notice when you publish a new article. At this point pretty much all of my friends are people that have added me and not the other way around.

I'm actually waiting to add more friends until I have more substance on my both eHow home page and on this webpage (I'm referring to the eHow Experience website).

It's requiring a fair amount of patience and self-restraint, but I'm optimistic that I'll be better off by proactively adding a lot of new friends only after I have a quality body of eHow work to show off.

Adding a new friend on eHow is sort of the acceptable version of saying, "hey look at my eHow articles if you want."

With a friend request you can do this without sending annoying spam. It's an opportunity that you only get once with each eHow member so I want to make the most of it; like they say - you only get one chance to make a first impression.