Testing New Sources of Income - and an Update

Despite my ongoing research on how to make money online, I'm pretty confident there's still a lot I don't know.  I'm very curious what other sites and methods there are out there for earning that I:

• can do - no graphic design for me, thanks!
• don't know about.

I feel like I've been mentally cataloging all these places... "Oh, Odesk is a freelance site," "Xomba is a writing site," "Squidoo's what you use when you've got your niche all set up," etc..  It would take quite a while to get established on all of them, and who knows if it'd be worth the effort?

I plan to find out in the weeks to come.  I'm going to branch out a bit more in March - which will be my first full month trying to earn money online.  Since I've found out about all these other places to potentially earn a buck, I figure I owe it to myself to at least test them out.  It may turn out that I come right back to only using eHow and Mechanical Turk, but I find it difficult to believe that those will be the only places I like to earn money.  Whatever the results, I'm sure I'll have something to report here.

I'm very eager to get started paying off my debts.  The smallest one I have floating around is for just over $600.  I'm going to be going on vacation for nearly a week in late May, and I'd like to have earned enough to pay off that debt by then.  Since I wanted to wait to purchase a domain name and set up a niche site until after I'd earned at least $500, I think it will work out nicely.  Hopefully I'll be able to pay off this particular debt, have my vacation, and then come back and get started with the site.

Despite not having a full month of earnings for February, I've managed to earn about a quarter of my $600 mini-goal.  On Monday, I will post with my complete earnings listing for the month and make an earnings projection for March.