Bukisa Passive Writing Income Payment Update: Payment Number Two

I have just received a payment from Bukisa for $12.10.

While I haven't been aggressively working on making money with Bukisa since my first month, they are demonstrating to me that they are a good source of passive income because I've done very little since my last payment two months ago to earn this money.

Bukisa Payment

Bukisa paid me $12.10 USD yesterday, bringing my total earnings so far up to $38.40. For the most part, the last $12.10 earned in 2 months was done without much effort. I do have 47 articles on there that have been there for nearly six months so I can say that this is mostly passive income that hasn't required much (if any) action from me after the initial posting.

If I were to put some regular effort into my Bukisa account, I'd probably see more results but what's also great is that because I have a large network, a bit of my income comes from the network instead of just my own content. Many of the people in my network have created accounts and never published anything but a few people in that network have a fair bit of articles in their profile.

If I take time to post more articles and do some linking, I'm sure I could bring more income in through this passive income source. Maybe I'll soon do another 30 day experiment in being aggressive with daily posting and regular linking strategies. I'll let you know!

Bukisa Improvements

What I do like is that the Bukisa folks have listened to members and are updating the site regularly with new features and improvements that they've been asked for. They're also very receptive to feedback when you contact them on social media channels. They've recently added a new Bukisa widget (see below) to help you get more traffic by displaying your articles in your sidebar on your blogs and Web 2.0 pages. They seem to be anxious to make their members happy. Case in point: their original payment amount threshold was $50.00. They've updated it to $10.

Bukisa's Payment Model

If you're interested in trying out Bukisa, here's a link into my network: here. You can post how-to articles and videos and earn for page impressions. For April 2009, the Bukisa index is 3.42 which means you'll earn $3.42 for every 1000 page impressions. That applies to your page impressions but you earn a fraction of the index for page impressions within your network down several tiers.

I should say that beyond getting page impression earnings I'm also seeing traffic come to various blogs through those links and that could mean Adsense earnings, writing jobs, and affiliate marketing sales for me.

I'll post another Bukisa update when I receive another payment.

Gotta love passive income!

Bukisa Update: First Payment Surprise

I haven't spent much time on Bukisa since I initially started The Bukisa Experiment and earlier today was alerted that the Bukisa index was lowered to 3.65 for February.

Dropping Bukisa Index?


First it was 4.0 (I believe), then 3.95 and now 3.65. Is this a problem? This doesn't really concern me because I know a new site has to attract members at first and then may need to scale back their payout levels awaiting their own payments through revenue sources. I'm hopeful that as the site continues to grow, the index will climb up OR that there will be enough traffic that the existing index payment rates will be worthwhile. I'd also love it if they incented further based on actual revenue. Hopefully that is going to eventually be the case.

I didn't think I'd hit payout this month and heard that the person that signed me up has just hit her first payout so I decided that in February I'd kick my efforts up a notch. But, this morning I got an e-mail from Bukisa support who wanted to pay me early if I was interested because I was already close to the payout level. Talk about a nice surprise!

An early payout is pretty rare and this further demonstrates the great personalized service I've been raving about regarding this site so of course I agreed. This is a good call by this company to keep people interested and hype up people like myself who started out strong but have let Bukisa slide to the back burner. If site members feel it's nearly impossible to reach payout, they won't bother and if they only move along slowly, they'll quickly lose interest. When people reach payout sooner than anticipated, they'll most often get right back at their efforts so they can reach payout again so this was a very good call by Bukisa.

If you haven't yet joined, I'd be pleased to have you as part of my network. Click here to join. It doesn't cost you any of your earnings to join under someone. My % comes out of Bukisa's end, not yours. And then the more people you recruit, the more money you make.

P.S.: I regularly browse through articles in my network and give them social bookmarking love :)


Bukisa: More than spare change...

This site is bringing me some cash with my articles, yes, but it's also bringing me a good deal of page views on my various blogs according to my site statistics so those page views are bringing me Bukisa earnings, and when they click one of my links and get onto my own sites they bring me potential earnings through Google Adsense on my other sites as well as my other affiliate programs. There's also the backlink value from an SEO perspective and as the author of more than a dozen blogs, I LOVE backlinks.

Are you making money on Bukisa yet? Beyond the eHow writer compensation program and Bukisa, what other pay per page view writing programs have you found lucrative?