I earned $2145 in June with a big advertising deal at the last minute leading the charge. I did start doing some work this month albeit at a ridiculously slow pace. I’ve been in Durban for about 12 days now and I’m only really kicking things into gear with less than a week to go before I head off once again.
My focus is on promoting my ebook and building links to some sites I’ve had built for awhile but haven’t done SEO for. It’s not the creative stuff I love, but it needs to be done. I doubt there will be any results from the link building for awhile, but bit by bit I hope it’ll help in the long run. At the very least it’s nice, for once, to say that I’m actually doing some work!
Earnings Breakdown:
- Google Adsense – $392 – Another consistent month for Adsense which is all I can ask when I’m not doing much to push the earnings forward. At least they’re not going backwards! If things go to plan, the work I do now will eventually lead to a rise in Adsesne earnings, especially with my living in New York and London 2012 Olympics sites which are finally showing signs of life with Google.
- Affiliate Sales – $477 – For the first time, my main affiliate World Nomads was beaten out by a combination of other travel insurance affiliate programs from the Trade Doubler network. My Clixgalore affiliates also did well and it looks like my old staple, World Nomads, is on the out. There are things I could do to improve sales, I think, but it’ll take a lot of work.
- Advertising – $1157 – I had a bunch of renewals and one huge, last-minute deal that really turned June into a good month instead of the usual average month of around $1500.
- Ebook Sales – $119 – My ebook had another terrible month but it was expected after doing fairly badly the previous month. The key in making sales is promotion and I haven’t been able to do any for awhile. I’m working on guest posts and spreading the word but I will need to find some new avenues. I would like to someone get the message out to college and university students but I’m not totally sure how to tap that market.
The first half of June was spent watching football and hanging out with my friends. The second half has been spent doing bits of work and bits of time wasting. With more travels in my future, I really need to get a lot done over the next week from filing my tax return for last year to making some annoying phone calls to doing a lot of guest post and article writing to finishing up the final touches on some of my websites. I’m really happy with June and I have a couple of pending payments which should start me off really well going into July.
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