Having just started this blog, I find it hard to find people to come to click on my site. As I am writing this, I am only hoping to merely get 100 views on my page. Many of you may be wondering, "Why blog"? I remember when first heard the term, blog. I thought to myself, "this going to be another one of those internet terms that will bug you to death. Little did I know that i would eventually be blogging. The question still stands: Why blog?
As a college student, money tends to bleed out of your pockets faster than the information that you gain from going to college (although many would beg to differ). I myself have struggled to pay for schooling, let alone food. I go to a rather expensive school, filled with rich kids that have parents who can really pay for them to go to school and practically everything else that they need. So attending school is often a pain because everything at school is super expensive because they cater mainly to the rich kids.
I lived on campus for a good two years and found that I spent well over fifteen thousand dollars just to live on campus. In terms of rent per month, the price came out to be around 850 dollars a month--with no meal plan. And if anyone knows anything about rent in Minneapolis/St. Paul, that is REALLY expensive. Because I spent so much money to live on campus, I often found myself refraining from buying anything and everything--even food. Of course it was my choice to live on campus. It was quite sad trying to nourish myself with ramen and the occasional piece of meat. My parents own a restaurant, which I tried to frequent so that I could get some free food, but I often didn't have the time due to lack of time and transportation and I didn't really want to rely on my folks.
I was fortunate to have a good roommate my second year on campus, which definitely made it much better to live on campus. He would often buy me food, which was quite nice (you know who you are), although it felt like I was leeching from him.
Anyway, I'm veering off topic.
So because I was always strapped for cash, I have been forever trying to make money. I tried to apply for jobs on campus, but to no avail. I tried working at my parents place, but that was just too time consuming (and you smelled like food all the time). I have recently, however, acquired several jobs on campus, which has allowed me to rake in some money, but as any college student, that often isn't enough. We need money to pay for outrageous prices for books and tuition!
To search for additional income, or ways to alleviate the money that always leaves my pocket, I have come up with a number of things to help me, which I will discuss further in a different blog. I have learned to make good use of freebie sites and sites that post good deals to help me buy things for cheap, especially books. I have also found sites that pay you money to do surveys. However, none of them have really been substantial in helping me make/save money. If anything, they have made me spend more (more on this is a later blog). You may be wondering, if you have made it this far in my rambling, how does this ties in with blogging. Well, the answer is advertisements.
I've always heard of making money by allowing ads to be placed on your site, but I never got around to actually find out how--that is until now. And it's quite simple. The idea is to get traffic to your site (i.e. youtube, webpage, etc.) and then, when someone clicks on an ad featured on your page, you get a monetary reward for clicks.
So in short, my drive to make money has brought me to this point in my search for the easy way out. And there are success stories. Youtubers, for example, make lots of money from doing videos and allowing ads to be played on their channel. If you ever go on youtube and wonder why you have to go through long ads before you actually see their video, it's because that's the youtubers way of making some money.
This is why I'm blogging, and hopefully it'll work.
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