How do you maintain a positive attitude and not give up on writing at HubPages?
No they don't
- AMBASSADOR BUTLERposted 12 years ago
0 Can I add an inspirational quote here? Success happens not by chance, but by choice! Don't give up!!! Seriously.
If you are feeling really down, you may want to read the book - Bounce: how champions are made. The main thesis of the book is that is takes 10000 hours of applied practice which will allow one to become an "expert" in that area.
Continue working hard! That's the formula to success.I take the alerts, snubs, and neglect personally, let it form a deep seathing ball of hatred down in the pit of me, and decide I'm going to succeed come hell or high water just to spite ever single on of these mother ----ing ----ing ---ed ----rs in the ----ing so ----ole so hard they need pliers to pull it out.
Hi FaithDream, you know, while I understand what you're saying, why don't you maybe try looking at it as just a creative outlet for things you feel! Rather than giving up because you don't make tons of money. Use it as your personal blog with friends. So what if people don't keep following you, do you follow them and respond to them? Maybe try that too. I hope you don't give up and just write about things you feel passionate about, and interact with the people who do have a follow on you! Try not to focus on the negativity and focus on what YOU DO have to say, forget about the money aspect!
I hope you keep your faith in writing, who knows, someone might not comment on that one thing that kept them going! Some people don't! Good luck & best wishes to you!With respect, I was on hubpages in 2010 and wrote here for a while when it was at its height. In three months, I had hit $600 per month. I left because of the harassment.
And, of course, it's the official ranking. I am not in the habit of giving unvarified opinion.
Hubpages has long lost its glory days. I was here when it was buzzing. It hasn't buzzed for years.
Payoneer doesn't work. I tried it while living in South Africa. Eventually, my sister paid for me for a trip in London, and while I was there, I bought a London Sim card, changed my British bank to my sister's boyfriend's address, and fixed up Stripe using those addresses. The money would be paid into my British bank account.
And, yes, there are people on Medium who have 10,000 followers who aren't earning what I am, and who have fewer subscribers than I do. One needs readers - not followers. I have a lot of readers.
That's how I started using Medium in South Africa. However, I still didn't eawrn a lot as sites are so arranged that writers from the third world don't get a lot of traffic from first world sites.
I'm assuming that is becaue they think people in the first world won't have anything of value to say that people in the first world would want to read.
I also noted the other day that while living in South Africa, I got completely the wrong information about moving to Ireland because Irish sites (the ones I needed) were not available in South Africa. I only found out a few months ago that I didn't need a massive amount of money to move there (moving in 9 days). (I'm in Portugal now.)Nope. Doesn't work that way. My readership is entirely American, and I've earned so well during the past year that I can now afford to live in Ireland.
Of course, I'm fully aware that my income can drop in a moment (I have no illusions).
But did you know that artists (writers included) are exempt from tax in Ireland?
So I intend to find myself a nice cheap little cottage and live happily ever after. Portuguese people don't read English articles.
I have the advantage of having a European passport, being half South African, half German. So I can live in any country in the European Union and the EEC (about 36 countries in total).
It depends on how you want to move to another country. When I moved from South Africa to Germany, my sister gave me $6000 to tidy me over. By the time I moved to Portugal 10 weeks later, I was already earning welll enough to live in Portugal. I only need $1000 a month to live reaonably well.
I'm taking an enormous risk now by moving to Ireland, but I need to be in an English speaking country.
I checked the figures for one popular niche site. It was 1.5 million reads in total. So I just did it for Dengarden, supposedly one of Hubpages best niche sites, Its total number of reads for its entire existence is 2.1 million. That is very, very little. And its page rank is still 49,294. Medium's global rank is 366.
With respect, I'm not downplaying Hubpages. As many have mentioned, they don't work for money. I do. I'm also a professional writer with 60 years of published experience.
That's what the site ranker I said used. So either the site is inaccurate, or hubpages is measuring something else.
I need to investimate further. Here's the snapshot where it says the total visits are 2.1 million
Well, that should teach me a lesson. All theses measurements of traffic are different!
I lived in Spain for three months and it was hotter than Houston. Somewhere between 42 degrees and 45 degrees. Put me off heat forever.
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