I earned $8044 in November which is completely crazy to me! Again, it was mostly through ad deals and paid articles but, unlike in October when I had a huge $2600 deal, November was one biggie for $1200 then a whole bunch of smaller deals.
Earnings Breakdown:
- Adsense — $370 – Same old stuff here. I’m going to finally add Adsense to my new Blighty Traveller site so which might up things a little bit.
- Affiliate sales — $790 – Affiliate sales are up a bit this month but I won’t really be happy until it’s hovering around $1000 consistently. I’m not really doing much to achieve that though. I guess I should also add affiliates to Blighty Traveller. Maybe I’ll make tweaking that site my project for the month.
- Advertising — $6821 – So ya… a pretty big month with advertising. I had about half of my ads that expired in November renewed (including one that I’d forgotten to charge for several months) but a lot of smaller ($200-300) deals, as I mentioned. I like the smaller deals since it means I’m dealing with new SEO companies and individuals and the more contacts I have in the SEO world, the better. It’s probably a lot easier for them to contact existing partners when new advertisers come to them than it is to look for new sites and I think this is another reason I’ve done well here – I get links up fast with no hassle and I see a lot of repeat business from SEO people.
- Ebook Sales — $63 – Nine sales.
Spending Breakdown:
Wow I really didn’t spend much at all last month, only $517 which makes November a pretty profitable month for me! I did fork over about $550 in All Hands and Movember donations and also had to pay for my plane ticket back to Canada for Xmas, so funds were spent, just not on my business. I really dropped the ball on article marketing this month but will get back into it in December.
- Domain Renewals — $240 – Go Daddy renewals.
- Stock Photos — $66 – I bought a bunch of credits for stock photos. I use iStock Photo in case anyone was wondering. I like them.
- 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.
- Ebook — $5 – Monthly cost to sell my ebook.
Thinking back on November I don’t think I did a lot of work. The star ratings plugin I’m using on my Kigali site has finally been finished after a lot of back and forth with my programmer guy. But I’m really happy with it. I almost had a sale go through for a moving to Hawaii website but the guy realised at the last minute that he’d be crazy to sell for the price I was offering ($2300) and, to be honest, he’s probably right. I didn’t ask him to name a higher price but I might at some point soon.
December has started slow. I might have a deal in the works for $500/month but other than that I haven’t had any advertisers get in touch. I guess it was the weekend so we’ll see what the week holds. I find that most deals I do are during the first couple of weeks of the month and then things drop off considerably. But I do have about $3000 in renewals due this month so fingers crossed on those.I think this month I’ll work on adding Adsense and affiliates to The Blighty Traveller and trying to get my map to a point where I can have something to print before I leave. While I’d like to print the map in Rwanda, I’d also like to know what the quality/price difference would be. I’ll also be trolling the net in search of a website or two to spend my money on.
I’m heading home to Canada on December 9th and staying until January 2nd. I live about an hour from Toronto and love going up there so if there’s anyone nearby who feels like meeting up, let me know!
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