Best month ever! Yep, again! January has come through with $9785 for the month. I’m pretty amazed at this. I haven’t really done anything different, I guess the world is just in the market for online ads and I’m reaping the rewards for now. Had several folks come through with content for guest posts I would have cleared $10,000 easily, but I guess I’ll wait around and add them to February’s totals which is off to a much slower start.
Earnings Breakdown:
- Adsense — $582 – Adsense always jumps up for me in January. One of my sites that usually performs well only in the summer had a mysteriously good month. Plus I had a very strange $60+ day that I have no explanation for. Hopefully this continues!
- Affiliate sales — $562 – My Clickbank and Trade Doubler affiliates came back with a couple of sales but still only earned around $40 each. World Nomads is the same as always. I’m waiting to get numbers for another affiliate but not expecting much.
- Advertising — $8515 – So my earnings are well and truly one-sided. I had one major deal of over $2000 but most of my ad sales were smaller with a lot of renewals and several more monthly subscription payments added. I love the monthly payments. Set it, forget it and I can count on the money coming in each month for work I’ve already done. No need to chase to renew.
- Ebook Sales — $126 – I made 18 sales without doing anything different.
Spending Breakdown:
I didn’t $918 spent on the usual things plus some outsourcing through Elance. I love that site!
- Domain Renewals — $177 – Go Daddy renewals – lots of them! I also registered three new domain names.
- Link Building Services — $206 – These are the monthly fees for two link building sites I’m using: Linkvana (14 day trial for $5 affiliate link/50 free outsourcing credits affiliate link) and Build My Rank.
- Article Outsourcing — $200 – Paid to have some articles outsourced with Linkvana.
- Elance – $330 – I’ve put $330 into Elance’s system for work that is being worked on now. I paid $130 to have some hacks removed and my WordPress security beefed up (and instructions on what to do for my other WordPress sites) and paid $200 or $600 for a custom plugin. Both of these jobs are awaiting my approval but I haven’t had the time to test things out. I think I need to do that tomorrow.
- Ebook — $5 – Monthly cost to sell my ebook.
January has been a really relaxed month for me with most of my time spent catching up on some things I didn’t do over Xmas and lounging by the pool. I’m in Manila now and heading down to Cagayan De Oro tomorrow afternoon to spend 5 weeks working with All Hands there. I’m looking really forward to getting dirty! Plus it’ll be great to see a bunch of friends I haven’t seen in awhile.
I never know what the situation will be, work-wise. There’s usually a lot of downtime but on some projects power and internet issues make working really annoying. Plus the people are really cool usually and it’s hard to get motivated to do work after a long, hard day of mud-slinging. We’ll see!
I’ll be in touch soon with an update from the typhoon zone.
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