October was an awesome month coming in at $2230, and just at the right time! My time in Canada should have been pretty cheap, given that I have been living rent-free. The reality is that I had to renew my Canadian passport and driver’s license, get a bunch of jabs for my Africa travels, pay off my creditcard that was loaded with World Cup tickets, buy another round of travel insurance, buy a flight to Asia, pick up a bunch of supplies for my volunteering stint, drink beer with friends and lots of little things. So, in short, I arrived back home with creditcard debt and still needing to pay for a lot of things. Now that October has been so good, I’m back to saving money again instead of spending it. It feels great!
Earnings Breakdown:
- Google Adsense – $400 – After a dip in earnings in September I’m back up above the $400 mark and I’m hoping to stay here. Once again my good month was more due to them paying out more per click than with me getting more site traffic and clicks. The encouraging thing is that the site that’s doing well this month is different from the one that did so well in August. If I can get paid well for both sites at once I should have a huge month. I’ve also just launched my living in New York website and I expect it to eventually do as well as my London site that earns about $200 on a good month. It’ll take awhile to get to that point but I’m actively working at it.
- Affiliate Sales – $610 – I discovered early this month that I had been earning quite well for about six months with affiliate programs I had on Tradedoubler without knowing it. I was looking forward to another good month with these programs but I only had a single sale with them in October. Go figure. My other two affiliates are still pumping along though and had another decent month. If I can get the Tradedoubler and Clixgalore programs working for me I will be in good shape. I’ve launched four new super niche, affiliate websites with that goal in mind.
- Advertising – $1220 – This is where things really picked up for me. I had a big yearly ad sale for almost $600 which was a huge boost. The thing I’m most excited about though is that I now have $370 worth of monthly Paypal subscription payments coming in which takes a bit of the guesswork out of how much I will earn in advertising each month and takes some of the pressure off. I’m just hoping nobody cancels anytime soon so I can bump this up to $500 per month.
I’m excited about this month’s earnings, mostly because my three main revenue streams all seem to be earning around a steady $400 a month. I want to be able to count on $1500 per month and I want it to come from $500 in Adsense, $500 in affiliate sales and $500 in advertising. I’m not quite there yet but I feel like I’ve put in enough work since I’ve been home to point me in the right direction.
The problem now is that I could be offline for awhile so I won’t be able to do the SEO stuff I need to do for awhile. Either way I’m happy with where my earnings are and I’m really happy with the stuff I got done while I’ve been home and I’m curios to see whether taking a break from the net will cause everything to crash and burn or not.
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