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Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with Medium Adsense Earnings

Monday, November 24th, 2008

In previous examples(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5), I walked you through the logic that shows that you can pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking in just over a half a day, with the extra earnings that you would receive if you write for textbroker.com. Dragon NaturallySpeaking can help you type so much faster, that you can earn a lot more money per hour.

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In this article I’m going to walk you through another scenario, focusing on how much more money you could earn if your blog earns money from Google’s Adsense program. Now with Adsense, the amount of money that you earn for your writing is not paid on a per word basis. It’s paid either based on the number of visitors that view your articles (CPM) or based on the people that click on ads on the same page where your article is published (PPC).

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Regardless, the more people and traffic you have, the better your chances for more conversions and earnings with Adsense.

Bad Fishing Analogy - More articles, basically equates to more hooks in the lake to catch earnings.

So what can faster typing speed capabilities do to help you earn more money from Adsense?

First, Let us list some assumptions for this scenario. We will assume that an Average Traffic Blog has the following characteristics.

· CPC earnings of $0.31 per click (this can depend on site topic)

· Each article written generates 1,000 page views during the first 60 days after publication

· Articles are on average 200 words long (long enough to be unique and be recognized by Google Search as unique)

· Articles will see a click through rate of .0041 or 0.41%

So if a person writes 5 articles totaling 1,000 words in length, those 5 articles should generate 5000 page views x a click through rate of .0041 = 20.5 clicks x $0.31 = $6.36 of earnings!

Wow! Stop the presses you are earning big bucks now. J Just kidding, that’s actually the wrong attitude. Google pays you to advertise on your site and pays you when your advertising is effective. If you are generating 1,000 page views per article, that is not bad but not super effective and so you can’t expect much for compensation. At these levels, you can probably expect to improve, because you certainly are not failing. J

However, if you write more articles, your site in general will bring in more total page views and some of that traffic will even look around your site, read more, and maybe subscribe. Your page views will grow and your Adsense earnings will grow as well. Not to mention your earnings from other forms of advertising will go up also!

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To make a good business decision, you have to determine how to get there from here.

You have to find a way to generate more articles -> more page views –> more earnings.

One component of the cost of those articles is the time you spend writing them. If you type at 35 words per minute for 50 minutes at a stretch taking a 10 minute break and then repeating that process for 4 hours, You will have written 35 articles of 200 words at the end of 4 hours.

Publishing those articles based on our assumptions will generate 35,000 page views. Those Page views will generate 144 clicks, and that will earn you $44.78.

That’s a little better than $11.20 per hour. Not internet famous or rich, but you can add that to your sites other earnings from companies like PayPerPost or PayU2Blog.

The key is that it took you 4 hours to write 35 articles at 35 words per minute.

If you use Dragon Naturally Speaking you could write 150 articles in 4 hours with 10 minute breaks.

That would generate 150,000 page views translating into 615 clicks and earnings of $191.91 or about $47.98 per hour, which again can be in addition to your other earnings from the same site off the same articles!

It also happens to be about 5 times more than you would earn if you only type 35 words per minute.

Now Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 costs between $99 and $199. (discount and promo accounts can save you $25 and $50 respectively if you buy before December 31)

So if you can earn an extra $36.78 per hour with Dragon through Adsense, Dragon will pay for itself after 2-3 hours if you buy the basic version without the discount code and 5-6 hours if you buy Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred without the discount code.

That’s pretty much a no brainer!

Consider also that during those 5-6 hours you spend writing to pay for Dragon Naturally Speaking, you will have brought in over 200,000 page views to your site, and many of those articles can earn a great deal from additional blog advertising and monetization options!

Now, for a reality check. Odds are you may not be able to sit down and write article after article for more than an hour at 150 words per minute. But the articles that you can write can be written much faster than you could before, and you CAN use that time to do many other things to grow your site and your earnings.

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Well if you could type at 150 words per minute with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and you currently type at 35 words per minute, then you could earn about $36.78 per hour more!

Reminder - This would assume that you could type articles nonstop at a hundred and fifty words per minute for fifty minutes. For most of us, that doesn’t mean a whole lot.

But to put this in better perspective, if you wrote 9 articles, and those articles were each 200 words long, then you would have written a total of 1800 words.

  • 1800 words can be typed in 50 minutes at 35 words per minute
  • 1800 words can be typed in 12 minutes at 150 words per minute

Dragon NaturallySpeaking can essentially save you 38 minutes when you write nine articles.

Now with those additional thirty-eight minutes, you can spend more time:

  • promoting your blog,
  • networking with people,
  • researching other projects,
  • taking on other work from other networks
  • Sell advertising on those very same articles for $5- $20 per ad in an article!
    • At just $5 per article that’s $45, and that will pay for the Preferred version of the software after 4 hours of work.

Your average part-time blogger could easily pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the additional profits that they would earn from using Dragon NaturallySpeaking on a site monetized with Adsense in just 5 hours of work.

A half day of extra work gets you a pay raise of $36 / hour! :-)

Plus just think of all of the time, that you would now have to make yourself and your site even more successful!

Former related articles(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7)

Or download the full report in this pdf white paper

Download the Full white paper

Dragon Naturally Speaking Cost Benefit Analysis Across 4 Different Blog & Writing Monetization Platforms White Paper (871.4 KiB, 333 hits)

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Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with Average Adsense Earnings

Monday, November 24th, 2008

In previous examples(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), I walked you through the logic that shows that you can pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking in just over a half a day, with the extra earnings that you would receive if you write for textbroker.com. Dragon NaturallySpeaking can help you type so much faster, that you can earn a lot more money per hour.

Download the Full white paper

Dragon Naturally Speaking Cost Benefit Analysis Across 4 Different Blog & Writing Monetization Platforms White Paper (871.4 KiB, 333 hits)

In this article I’m going to walk you through another scenario, focusing on how much more money you could earn if your blog earns money from Google’s Adsense program. Now with Adsense, the amount of money that you earn for your writing is not paid on a per word basis. It’s paid either based on the number of visitors that view your articles (CPM) or based on the people that click on ads on the same page where your article is published (PPC).

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Regardless, the more people and traffic you have, the better your chances for more conversions and earnings with Adsense.

Bad Fishing Analogy - More articles, basically equates to more hooks in the lake to catch earnings.

So what can faster typing speeds do to help you earn more money from Adsense?

First, Let us list some assumptions for this scenario. We will assume that an Average Traffic Blog has the following characteristics.

· CPC earnings of $0.31 per click (this can depend on site topic)

· Each article written generates 150 page views during the first 60 days after publication

· Articles are on average 200 words long (long enough to be unique and be recognized by Google Search as unique)

· Articles will see a click through rate of .0041 or 0.41%

So if a person writes 5 articles totaling 1,000 words in length, those 5 articles should generate 750 page views x a click through rate of .0041 = 3.075 clicks x $0.31 = $0.95 of earnings!

Wow! Stop the presses you are earning big bucks now. J Just kidding, that’s actually the wrong attitude. Google pays you to advertise on your site and pays you when your advertising is effective. If you are only generating 150 page views per article, that is not super effective and so you can’t expect much for compensation.

However, if you write more articles, your site in general will bring in more total page views and some of that traffic will even look around your site, read more, and maybe subscribe. Your page views will grow and your Adsense earnings will grow as well. Not to mention your earnings from other forms of advertising will go up also!

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To make a good business decision, you have to determine how to get there from here.

You have to find a way to generate more articles -> more page views –> more earnings.

One component of the cost of those articles is the time you spend writing them. If you type at 35 words per minute for 50 minutes at a stretch taking a 10 minute break and then repeating that process for 4 hours, You will have written 35 articles of 200 words at the end of 4 hours.

Publishing those articles based on our assumptions will generate 5,250 page views. Those Page views will generate 22 clicks, and that will earn you $6.72.

That’s a little better than $1.50 per hour. Not a lot, but you can add that to your sites other earnings from companies like PayPerPost or PayU2Blog.

The key is that it took you 4 hours to write 35 articles at 35 words per minute.

If you use Dragon Naturally Speaking you could write 150 articles in 4 hours with 10 minute breaks.

That would generate 22,500 page views translating into 92 clicks and earnings of $28.79 or about $7.19 per hour, which again can be in addition to your other earnings from the same site off the same articles!

It also happens to be about 5 times more than you would earn if you only type 35 words per minute.

Now Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 costs between $99 and $199. (discount and promo accounts can save you $25 and $50 respectively if you buy before December 31)

So if you can earn an extra $5.69 per hour with Dragon through Adsense, Dragon will pay for itself after 17 hours if you buy the basic version without the discount code and 34 hours if you buy Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred without the discount code.

If you buy them with the discount coupon code for Dragon Naturally speaking then it will pay for itself in 13 to 26 hours respectively. For most part time bloggers that is about 3 – 7 days of effort.

But consider that during, 26 hours of writing with Dragon, you will have written 996 articles of 200 words in length. Those 996 articles will generate 149,512 page views to your site in our model!

Now, for a reality check. Odds are you may not be able to sit down and write article after article for more than an hour at 150 words per minute. But the articles that you can write can be written much faster than you could before, and you CAN use that time to do many other things to grow your site and your earnings.

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Well if you could type at 150 words per minute with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and you currently type at 35 words per minute, then you could earn about $5.52 per hour more!

Reminder - This would assume that you could type articles nonstop at a hundred and fifty words per minute for fifty minutes. For most of us, that doesn’t mean a whole lot.

But to put this in better perspective, if you wrote 9 articles, and those articles were each 200 words long, then you would have written a total of 1800 words.

  • 1800 words can be typed in 50 minutes at 35 words per minute
  • 1800 words can be typed in 12 minutes at 150 words per minute

Dragon NaturallySpeaking can essentially save you 38 minutes when you write nine articles.

Now with those additional thirty-eight minutes, you can spend more time:

  • promoting your blog,
  • networking with people,
  • researching other projects,
  • taking on other work from other networks
  • Sell advertising on those very same articles for $5- $20 per ad in an article!
    • At just $5 per article that’s $45, and that will pay for the Preferred version of the software after 4 hours of work.

Your average part-time blogger can easily pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the additional profits that they would earn from using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. :-)

Plus just think of all of the time, that you would now have to make yourself and your site even more successful!

Former related articles(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7)

Or download the full report in this pdf white paper

Download the Full white paper

Dragon Naturally Speaking Cost Benefit Analysis Across 4 Different Blog & Writing Monetization Platforms White Paper (871.4 KiB, 333 hits)

25% Discount Coupon CODE Exclusive for Dragon Naturally Speaking, but you must click the image below and use this code (DNSMSBG) Together

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That’s a good savings on this particular software program (cheaper than what I paid for it when I bought it 2 years ago!). Buy it and you will save time, use the savings and have a cleaner come in during the month of December and you can save even more time and enjoy the holidays more too. Check out Ladybug steam cleaners, as a possible option to get your house ready for guests this holiday season.

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Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with High PayPerPost Earnings

Monday, November 24th, 2008

In previous examples(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), I walked you through the logic that shows that you can pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking in just over a half a day, with the extra earnings that you would receive if you write for textbroker.com. Dragon NaturallySpeaking can help you type so much faster, that you can earn a lot more money per hour.

Download the Full white paper

Dragon Naturally Speaking Cost Benefit Analysis Across 4 Different Blog & Writing Monetization Platforms White Paper (871.4 KiB, 333 hits)

In this article I’m going to walk you through another scenario focusing on how much extra you could earn if you wrote for PayPerPost.com. Now at PayPerPost.com, the amount of money that you earn for your writing is not paid on a per word basis.

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PayPerPost.com offers up opportunities, they call them opportunities, but you can also think of them as piecework or a job, and these "opportunities" typically have a minimum word count. The minimum word count is typically 200 words for your average article. In general the average article at PayPerPost on a high earning blog pays about $28. Sometimes they pay a little less, and sometimes they pay a little bit more.

Now if you are paid $28.00 to write a 200 word article, which breaks down to about 14 cents per word. That is about 200 times more than what you can make at textbroker.com. I mentioned that only for comparison purposes, because PayPerPost.com limits you to writing three articles per blog per day. That means that you can’t write there all day long for your single blog. (If you have additional blogs, you might be able to write additional articles on those other blogs.)

But if we assume, just to have a comparison to our textbroker.com example, if we assume that you could type articles at PayPerPost for fifty minutes straight, earning 14 cents per word, and you could type 35 words per minute, and then you could earn a $245 dollars per hour at PayPerPost. Now obviously, there’s not that much work there, but this does point to the rate at which you can earn things with the work that is available. That $245 would be the earnings you could make from about 8.8 Opportunities at $28 per Opportunity.

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So bear with me with this example. :-)

So what can faster typing skills do to help you earn more money and PayPerPost?

Well if you could type at 150 words per minute with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and you currently type at 35 words per minute, then you could earn about $805 per hour more!

Reminder - This would assume that you could type articles nonstop at a hundred and fifty words per minute for fifty minutes. For most of us, that doesn’t mean a whole lot.

But to put this in better perspective, if you earned $245 from writing about nine articles, and those articles were each 200 words long, then you would have written a total of 1800 words.

  • 1800 words can be typed and 50 minutes at 35 words per minute
  • 1800 words can be typed in 12 minutes at 150 words per minute

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking can essentially save you 38 minutes when you write nine articles.

Now with those additional thirty-eight minutes, you can spend more time:

  • promoting your blog,
  • networking with people,
  • researching other projects,
  • taking on other work from other networks
  • building up a new blog to command $28 per article!

You can pocket your $245 from twelve minutes worth of work. You can then spend the rest of that hour, working to ensure that the blog you publish those on performs very well. But the point is this, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can save you so much time, that it will pay for itself very quickly.

Your average part-time blogger may easily afford to pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the additional profits that they would earn from using Dragon NaturallySpeaking in less than 30 minutes worth of blogging.

:-)

Plus just think of all of the time, that you would now have to make yourself and your site even more successful!

Former related articles(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7)

Or download the full report in this pdf white paper

Download the Full white paper

Dragon Naturally Speaking Cost Benefit Analysis Across 4 Different Blog & Writing Monetization Platforms White Paper (871.4 KiB, 333 hits)

25% Discount Coupon CODE Exclusive for Dragon Naturally Speaking, but you must click the image below and use this code (DNSMSBG) Together

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Save money on something that can make you money, and save some for a rainy day or maybe invest it in a tune up for your car for new or rebuilt coilovers. Regardless don’t pass up a good offer!

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Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with Average PayPerPost Earnings

Monday, November 24th, 2008

In previous examples(Part 1, Part 2) , I walked you through the logic showing that you can pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking in just over a half a day, with the extra earnings that you would receive if you write for textbroker.com. I also showed that you can pay for Dragon in about 12 minutes to an hour with PayU2Blog.

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Basically, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can help you type so much faster, that you can earn a lot more money per hour.

In this article I’m going to walk you through another scenario focusing on how much extra you could earn if you wrote for PayPerPost.com and you had a single average blog. Now at PayPerPost.com, the amount of money that you earn for your writing is not paid on a per word basis.

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PayPerPost.com offers up opportunities, they call them opportunities, but you can also think of them as piecework or a job, and these "opportunities" typically have a minimum word count. The minimum word count is typically 200 words for your average article. In general the average article at PayPerPost on a high earning blog pays about $8.3. Sometimes they pay a little less, and sometimes they pay a little bit more, and a few go to extremes on the positive side.

Now if you are paid $8.3 to write a 200 word article, then that breaks down to about 4.2 cents per word. That is about 6 times more than what you can make at textbroker.com. I mentioned that only for comparison purposes, because PayPerPost.com limits you to writing three articles per blog per day.

That means that you cannot write at PayPerPost all day long for your single blog. (If you have additional blogs, you might be able to write additional articles on those other blogs.)

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Tip! – You can write your three articles at PayPerPost, write some additional articles without any sponsors in between those articles (as is required), and then write some articles at PayU2Blog, and when the work is exhausted there, you can write some articles at TextBroker.com! The trick is working for the company that pays you the most first, then moving on to the next highest margin provider, over and over again.

You will see in the case studies with Adsense that writing MORE articles is actually good for building traffic to your blog!

But if we assume, just to have a comparison to our textbroker.com example, if we assume that you could type articles at PayPerPost for fifty minutes straight, earning 4.2 cents per word, and you could type 35 words per minute, you could earn $72.88 dollars per hour at PayPerPost. Now obviously, you cannot take 9 articles on a single blog in a single day, but this does point to the rate at which you can earn things with the work that is available. That $72.88 would be the earnings you could make from about 8.8 Opportunities at $8.3 per Opportunity.

So bear with me again with this example. :-)

So what can faster typing skills do to help you earn more money at PayPerPost?

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Well if you could type at 150 words per minute with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and you currently type at 35 words per minute, then you could earn about $239 per hour more! (Dragon only costs between $99 and $199 remember!)

Reminder - This would assume that you could type articles nonstop at a hundred and fifty words per minute for fifty minutes. For most of us, that doesn’t mean a whole lot.

But to put this in better perspective, if you earned $72.88 from writing about nine articles, and those articles were each 200 words long, then you would have written a total of 1800 words.

  • 1800 words can be typed and 50 minutes at 35 words per minute
  • 1800 words can be typed in 12 minutes at 150 words per minute

Dragon NaturallySpeaking can essentially save you 38 minutes when you write nine articles.

Now with those additional thirty-eight minutes, you can spend more time:

  • promoting your blog,
  • networking with people,
  • researching other projects,
  • taking on other work from other networks
  • build up a new blog to command $8.3 per article!
  • Go write some articles for PayU2Blog
  • Go write some articles for TextBroker
  • Go write some articles to bring in more traffic and earn more money through Adsense!

You can pocket your $72.88 from twelve minutes worth of work. You can then spend the rest of that hour, working to ensure that the blog you publish those on performs very well. But the point is this, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can save you so much time, that it will pay for itself very quickly.

Your average part-time blogger will easily pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the additional profits that they would earn from using Dragon NaturallySpeaking in less than 1 hour worth of blogging through PayPerPost alone. :-)

Plus just think of all of the time, that you would now have to make yourself and your site even more successful!

Former related articles(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7)

Or download the full report in this pdf white paper

Download the Full white paper

Dragon Naturally Speaking Cost Benefit Analysis Across 4 Different Blog & Writing Monetization Platforms White Paper (871.4 KiB, 333 hits)

25% Discount Coupon CODE Exclusive for Dragon Naturally Speaking, but you must click the image below and use this code (DNSMSBG) Together

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Personally, I find that a better small business option than digging into franchise opportunitys, but each to their own. :)

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Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with PayU2Blog Earnings

Monday, November 24th, 2008

In a previous example, I walked you through the logic that shows that you can pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking in just over a half a day, with the extra earnings that you would receive if you write for textbroker.com. Dragon NaturallySpeaking can help you type so much faster, that you can earn a lot more money per hour.

Download the Full white paper

Dragon Naturally Speaking Cost Benefit Analysis Across 4 Different Blog & Writing Monetization Platforms White Paper (871.4 KiB, 333 hits)

In this article I’m going to walk you through another scenario focusing on how much extra you could earn if you wrote for PayU2Blog.com, then I’ll cover PayPerPost and Google Adsense.

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Now at PayU2Blog.com, the amount of money that you earn for your writing is not paid on a per word basis.

PayU2Blog.com offers up assignments, they call them assignments, but you can think of them as piecework or a job, and these "assignments" typically have a minimum word count. The minimum word count is typically 60 words for your average article. In general the average article at PayU2Blog on a high earning blog pays about $5. Sometimes they pay a little less, and sometimes they pay a little bit more.

Now if you are paid $5.00 to write a 60 word article, then that breaks down to about 8.3 cents per word(It is also 2.5 cents if it’s a 200 word article, they pay a flat $5 no matter the length, but they keep other requirements simple and minimalistic.) At 2.5 cents per word that is about 3.5 times more than what you can make at textbroker.com, but you have to have your own website at PayU2Blog.

I mentioned this only for comparison purposes.

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But if we assume, just to have a comparison to our textbroker.com example, that you could type articles at PayU2Blog for fifty minutes straight, earning 8.3 cents per word, AND you could type 35 words per minute, then you could earn $145 dollars per hour at PayU2Blog.

Now, there’s not, that much work there such that you could get 29+ assignments per hour on a single blog, but this does point to the rate at which you can earn things with the work that is available. However, it is definitely possible to get 29+ assignments spread across multiple sites.

So bear with me with this example. :-)

So what can faster typing capabilities do to help you earn more money and PayU2Blog?

Well if you could type at 150 words per minute with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and you currently type at 35 words per minute, then you could earn about $479 per hour more!

Reminder - This would assume that you could type articles nonstop with an unlimited number of available assignments. For most of us, that doesn’t mean a whole lot.

But to put this in better perspective, if you earned $145 from writing about 29 articles, and those articles were each 60 words long, then you would have written a total of about 1800 words.

  • 1800 words can be typed and 50 minutes at 35 words per minute
  • 1800 words can be typed in 12 minutes at 150 words per minute

· Double Reality Check, this example is really just to give you a sense of the rate. Odds are you will not stop at just 60 words per minute, but will write more words. You will see with the Adsense examples that this is good for business in many other ways including building up more traffic and earning money on top of this revenue stream!

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking can essentially save you 38 minutes when you write nine articles.

Now with those additional thirty-eight minutes, you can spend more time:

  • promoting your blog,
  • networking with people,
  • researching other projects,
  • taking on other work from other networks
  • build up a new blog to command $5 per article and qualify for more assignments!

You can pocket your $145 from twelve minutes worth of work. You can then spend the rest of that hour, working to ensure that the blog you publish those on performs very well. But the point is this, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can save you so much time, that it will pay for itself very quickly.

Your average part-time blogger could easily pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the additional profits that they would earn from using Dragon NaturallySpeaking in less than 30 minutes worth of blogging. :-)

Plus just think of all of the time, that you would now have to make yourself and your site even more successful!

Former related articles(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7)

Or download the full report in this pdf white paper

Download the Full white paper

Dragon Naturally Speaking Cost Benefit Analysis Across 4 Different Blog & Writing Monetization Platforms White Paper (871.4 KiB, 333 hits)

25% Discount Coupon CODE Exclusive for Dragon Naturally Speaking, but you must click the image below and use this code (DNSMSBG) Together

Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Basic with Discount Coupon Code

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Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with TextBroker.com Earnings

Monday, November 24th, 2008

I would like to walk you through several different scenarios to help all of us understand better what our words are worth.

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I would like to start first by talking about a company that pays people to write. They pay them to write based on the number of words that are written. The company is called text broker.com and they are out of Germany and relatively new. I’m starting with TextBroker.com because the business model is very simple. The models will get more complex as I go through some of the other popular blog revenue sources.

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Text broker.com will pay a person approximately 7/10 of a cent for a single word. They charge their customers approximately 1 penny per word. And they sell this service at increments starting at 100 words and go up from there.

That’s what they do; now let’s see how Dragon Naturally Speaking can pay for itself!

So, I’d really like to talk about how much you can earn from them based on how fast you type.

If you type 35 words per minute, and you typed for 50 minutes straight, you could theoretically type 1750 words.

Now at seven tenths of a penny per word, that work would be $12.25 per hour assuming that you take a ten minute break every hour. If you work four hours a day doing this, that would be forty-nine dollars per day.

If you could type 105 words per minute, that would be 5250 words in a fifty minute period of time. At that rate, you would earn $36.75 per hour assuming the same ten minute breaks every hour.

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Obviously you can earn more if you can type faster.

If you could type 150 words per minute, then under this formula you could earn $52.50 per hour. That’s almost 5 times more than you can earn if you type thirty-five words per hour.

So in this example there is definitely a value in typing faster!

There is a cost associated with being able to type as fast as well. You could go and take a typing class and learn how to type 150 words per minute. That might take you many months of school, and many years of practice.

It’s also possible, that you may never be able to achieve that speed with your fingers.

Alternatively, you could buy Dragon NaturallySpeaking and be able to do it before the night was out. Dragon NaturallySpeaking costs $99 for the basic version and $199 for the preferred version.

As I write this, there are coupon code or discount code offers that you can use to save more money off that price. The coupon codes vary from $25-$50 off the price. Typically a bigger discount is offered for the preferred version, which I use myself.

Now in our example, if you bought Dragon NaturallySpeaking for ninety-nine dollars, and you did not use the coupon code to save twenty-five dollars, you would be able type 150 words per minute, and if you could previously type 35 words per minute, then based on the extra money that you could earn by typing faster, you would be able to pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking in less than three hours of work using textbroker.com.

It kind of seems like a no-brainer. In many ways, it is a no-brainer with one exception. Not everybody writes for textbroker.com.

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If you consider how much additional money you might earn by using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and consider how much more work you could do by being able to type at 150 words per minute, then you might be able to figure out how long it will take you to pay off the software with your earnings.

I will cover a number of other situations, which will highlight this using other examples where people that typically write a great deal, could benefit from using Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

If you have an example that you would like to share, please let me know, and I will be more than happy to share it with everyone. :-)

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Tip of the Day from Dragon Naturally Speaking – Easy Correction

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Dragon-Naturally-Speaking-10-Tip-of-the-day-Easy-correction From time to time, I include a ‘Tip of the Day’ from Dragon Naturally Speaking 10.  I usually do this as a bit of a reminder for people and to give people a little better feel as to what you can do with the program.

Today’s Tip of the Day however actually show’s an example of just how much better Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 (emphasis version 10) is.  You can quickly edit your last phrases and words.  Maybe you said something wrong, maybe you said something that doesn’t look as good in print, maybe you even said something very Well, and you want to emphasize it in Caps and Bold.

Well with the new version of Dragon Naturally Speaking you no longer have to say “select…” followed by the most recent phrase, you just finish the phrase and say “bold that” or “correct that”.

It is the little intuitive items like that which make it possible not only to ‘dictate’ with Dragon Naturally Speaking, but to compose with Dragon Naturally Speaking 10!

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Using a New Wind Screen on a Windy Day with Dragon Naturally Speaking 10

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

As some of you may recall, I attempted to create a home made wind screen for my noise cancellation headset.  I plug that into my Sony Voice Recorder and then I can walk around outside composing and dictating as I like.

Testing Home Made Windscreen, DNS 10 & Windy Day

Well, until yesterday, I had not yet had the opportunity to really test the windscreen out on a very windy day.  Yesterday, was not only windy, but it was also noisy and so I got some video of one of my sessions where I’m writing a chapter for a novel in the NaNoWrimi contest (national novel writing month).

image This particular chapter was not one of my best as this multi tasking thing of trying to shoot a video at the same time I’m trying to compose a chapter was a little much even for my UBER multi-tasking brain.  I got the chapter out, but it was not terribly good, and I will have to go back and seriously beef up the dialogue later.

You will not below the video also that the transcription that I ran when I was NOT running screen capture was a great deal more accurate than the transcription used in the actual video.  Multi tasking with Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 and the screen capture software that comes with FastStone Capture is not a good combination for accuracy(great programs running alone, but together a bit much even for a new laptop with a fast processor).  That screen capture program created a 500 mb video file and with Dragon compiling typically about 300 mb at a time while its running that’s almost 1 gigabyte of data in RAM.  Now, I do have 3 gb on the machine that was running this, but doing video and voice recognition is a little much.  :)

In general, the lessons that I learned here are as follows:

  1. Don’t video yourself while writing a book
  2. Focus on your words more when you are transcribing to a pocket recorder, try and envision what you are doing and what you are saying, you can enjoy the surroundings, but focus on your words (see point 1 as a bad distraction)
  3. If you are walking for exercise, consider going a long distance as opposed to back and forth.  Mindless physical exercise can be good for writing, but if your brain needs to make decisions while you are writing it can distract you from your words
  4. The equipment will do a great job, focus on your own thoughts and your speech quality.
  5. Note. the sound quality in the video is from the microphone on the camera and not the actual microphone with the windscreen

Here’s the more accurate transcription results of the chapter without the video

Case of this quick test C. Dragon NaturallySpeaking is working

Falsely maligned

Jeremy had found his father and is now looking for the medicine man. He was heading in the direction of where the medicine man’s most be, when he encountered his sister else.

"Jeremy I cannot believe that you hurt Shiloh. Even after everyone in the tribe warned you not to act so stupid around. How could you do that, how could you hurt your own little brother. You’re supposed to be looking out for not shooting arrows at them" also said. "I told you I would make you pay for this, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do." She said all she turned and ran in the other direction.

Jeremy didn’t even have an moment to try to explain himself or defend what happened or explained that it had been him at all. Also was as old as

It also was his older sister, and despite the fact that he was now taller and stronger than she was, he still felt intimidated by her. Plus you can really fool around with someone that was the medicine man’s apprentice. The last thing the germinated was the spirit world after.

He kept on walking down the trail and pursuit of the location where the medicine man supposed to be. This took an up-and-down small hill, washed out goalie basically that it filled in with sand over time and when he came to the top of the hill, he could see the medicine man standing near a tree looking at some plants further up the rich. He walked towards the medicine man, and walked with a step it was a little bit louder than normal as he did not want to surprise the man. He definitely felt intimidated by the medicine man, and for some reason this to

And for some reason didn’t want to call out to the older man in jail and area

So instead he chose a course where he would walk relatively loudly up behind the man so that he could hear them coming. "Jeremy, is that you? The medicine man asked

"Yes, it is I. My little brother Shyla’s been hurt in a terrible accident. We were in the clearing hunting for rabbits, when a large bird attacked him. The bird was almost as large as the clearing, swoop down and picked up Shilo in his clutches with this giant feet. Ice shot an arrow at the bird, instructed but it did very little damage and barely slowed down. If it hadn’t been for the fact that the bird got tangled slightly in a tree, I don’t know what would’ve happened to Shiloh."

The medicine man took all of us in without the slightest bit surprised. Jeremy didn’t think that anything in the world could surprise the medicine and, not even the tale of a giant bird that no one ever seen or heard of before swooping down on attacking someone in the tribe.

"Well, let’s go see her brother, and along the way we will stop my hunt and pick up my pack of medicines." The medicine man said. "Described to me, tell your brother was injured, where he was injured in what type of injuries he received." The medicine man continued.

Jeremy said, "he was picked up by the feet of the bird, which seem to puncture his shoulders with the giant closet the bird had, when the bird got tangled in the tree the bird dropped germ

The bird drop Shiloh, and he fell close to 25 feet. He hit the ground in a relatively soft area, but he did break a leg and lost consciousness. I carried them back to our hut which took Olson our to do. He’s there with my mother now in my father’s on his way." Jeremy said.

The medicine man did not say anymore after that, as they walked very quickly to medicine man’s hut which was a few minutes away. Jerry waited outside while the medicine man went into the hut, and came out with a large deerskin bag full of a number of different things that Jeremy could not make out through the boldest. There were some roots and plants picking up sides, but even these he couldn’t recognize, and Jeremy felt that he knew most of the plants in the forest.

The rapidly left the medicine man’s hut, and crossed the tribal common area heading towards Jeremy’s a. When they arrived son already started to set it was getting dark, they inserted into the hut, which was now lit up with a large fire. The fire was lit more for light than it was for warmth. This was apparent because an opening in the ceiling was open wider than normal to let the heat of the fire escape the hut so as not to roast those inside.

The medicine man went over and converse with Jeremy’s mother, and they spoke together for about five minutes. Jeremy couldn’t quite tell what they were saying, but they did glance at him on several occasions. His father wasn’t in the hut, and Jeremy wasn’t certain what he should do next.

Just as he was thinking this, his mother said, "Jeremy go outside and catch up with her father. He searching the woods to find materials and make an appropriate splint for your brother’s leg. When he gets back, it will take the three of you said the little boy’s leg." She said

Happy to have a new mission, and the opportunity to leave the hut with his mother in the medicine man there, Jeremy quickly left in search of his father."

Here’s the transcription results as shown in the video

Case of this quick test C. Dragon NaturallySpeaking is working

Falsely maligned

Jeremy had found his father was now looking for the medicine man. He was heading in the direction of where the medicine man’s ghost be, when he encountered his sister else.

"Jeremy I cannot believe that you hurt Shiloh. Even after everyone in the drive board you not to act so stupid around. How could you do that, how could you hurt your own little brother. You were supposed to be looking out for not shooting arrows at them" also said. "I told you I would make you pay for this, that’s exactly what I’m going to do." She said all she turned and ran in the other direction.

Jeremy didn’t even have a moment to try to explain himself or defend what happened or explained that it had been him at all. Also was as old as

Also was his older sister, and despite the fact that he was now taller and stronger than she was, he still felt intimidated by her. Plus you can really fool around with someone that was the medicine man’s apprentice. The last thing the germinated was the spirit world after.

He kept on walking down the trail and pursuit of the location where the medicine man supposed to be. This took an up-and-down small hill, washed out goalie basically that it filled in with sand over time and when he came to the top of the hill, he could see the medicine man standing near three looking at some plants further up the rich. He walked towards the medicine man, and walked with a step it was a little bit louder than normal as he did not want to surprise the man. He definitely felt intimidated by the medicine and, and for some reason this to

And for some reason didn’t want to call out to the older man in jail and area

So instead he chose a course where he would walk relatively loudly up behind the man so that he could hear them coming. "Germany, is that you? Medicine Anas

"Yes, it is I. My little brother Shiloh’s been hurt in a terrible accident. We were in the clearing hundred for rabbits, when a large bird attacked him. The bird was almost as large as the clearing, slid down and picked up Shilo in his clutches with this giant feet. Ice shot an arrow at the bird, instructed but it did very little damage and barely slowed down. If it hadn’t been for the fact that the bird got tangled slightly in a tree, I don’t know what would’ve happened to Shiloh."

The medicine man took all of us in without the slightest bit surprised. Jeremy didn’t think that anything in the world could surprise the medicine and, not even the tale of a giant bird that no one ever seen or heard of before swooping down on attacking someone in the drive.

"Well, let’s go see her brother, and along the way we will stop my constant pick up my pack of medicines." The medicine man said. "Described to me, tell your brother was injured, where he was injured in what type of injuries he received." The medicine man continued.

Jeremy said, "he was picked up by the feet of the bird, which seem to puncture his shoulders with the giant closet the bird had, when the bird got tangled in the tree the bird dropped germ

The bird drop Shiloh, and he fell close to 25 feet. He hit the ground in a relatively soft area, but he did break a leg and lost consciousness. I carried him back to our hut which took Olson our to do. He’s there with my mother now in my father’s on his way." Jeremy said.

The medicine man did not say anymore after that, as they walked very quickly to medicine man’s hut which was a few minutes away. Jerry waited outside while the medicine man went into that, and came out with a large deerskin bag full of a number of different things that Jeremy could not make out through the boldest. There were some roots and plants picking up sides, but even these he couldn’t recognize, and Jeremy felt that he knew most of the plants in the forest.

The rapidly left the medicine man’s hut, and crossed the tribal common area heading towards Jeremy Scott. When they arrived the sun already started to set it was getting dark, they inserted into the hut, which was now lit up with a large fire. The fire was lit more for light than it was for warmth. This was apparent because an opening in the ceiling was open wider than normal to let the heat of the fire escape the hut so as not to roast those inside.

The medicine man went over and converse with Jeremy’s mother, and they spoke together for about five minutes. Jeremy couldn’t quite tell what they were saying, but they did glanced at him on several occasions. His father wasn’t in the hut, and Jeremy wasn’t certain what he should do next.

Just as he was thinking this, his mother said, "Jeremy go outside and catch up with her father. He searching the woods to find materials and make appropriate splint for your brothers leg. When he gets back, it will take the three of you said the little boy’s leg." She said

Have you have a new mission, and the opportunity to leave the hut with his mother in the medicine man there, Jeremy quickly left in search of his father."

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Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 with no Training and a Bit of an Accent

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

I just came across an interesting video example Dragon NaturallySpeaking.  People often wonder just how well Dragon NaturallySpeaking might work if they have an accent.  They also have concerns that they might have to excessively train Dragon NaturallySpeaking in order to get a decent result.

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Just click on Tools in the Dragon Naturally Speaking menu and select, Accuracy Center for all sorts of options and tools to further improve your accuracy with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It works great out of the box with just 7 minutes of training, but is flat out amazing with a little more tuning!

This video shows a user that has a bit of an accent, more so with some words than with others, and they are using Dragon NaturallySpeaking without having trained it at all.  This is a type situation that you would want to use the software for, you would want to use it after you a trained it.  You can actually get very good training results with only seven minutes of training time, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking will continue to improve as you use it more.

Plus, if you go into the tools menu, you can select the accuracy center and gauge and many more activities that will train the software to run even faster and more accurately than it does out-of-the-box.  So as you watch this video, consider that this is definitely not an ideal situation, but even in this less than ideal situation the program still does fairly well.

You will definitely see it makes the mistakes in this particular video, because it has not been trained at all in the user does have an accent.  Dragon NaturallySpeaking does support many different accents with version 10.  So you can imagine just how well the software is going to work after this user trains the software, and after they set up the software to work with their particular accent.

Now this particular speaker is probably speaking a little too slowly for optimal results. The slow speech could be a result of being brand new to using the program or it could be the result of slow English speaking in general. We do not all have to speak super fast like we have Ferrari parts for vocal chords, but if you speak relatively slowly in general, then you may want to reconsider this product, or at least test drive it first. :)

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