I’ve been sitting by and watching the ratings for this website slip over the past few months. It seems that ever since I’ve stopped updating my online earnings my readers are just not too interested with the rest of what I have to say…lol
I also need to admit that I am a lazy ass for not updating my blog often enough to keep an audience satisfied, so here is my 2009 Resolution - I will try to update my blog weekly from now on!
Here is what I made since my last earnings update for the months of Aug, Sept 2008. Further earnings updates will follow.
August 2008
USD - $227.65
GBP - £451.00
September 2008
USD - $232.82
GBP - £821.00
The earnings for Aug - Sept 2008 were STILL relatively good compared to the last quarter of 2008 as I had begun to spend a lot of time focusing on Ethan’s school work. You’ll see a significant drop in my online earnings from October onwards.
July was a hectic month for me offline but a very low month for me online in terms of sales even though I launched a new subscription service. The low subscription fee of only 10 pounds did not help with my earnings too.
So I ended July at with an all time low of
USD 271.51
GBP 548.98
making my total income USD$ 1284.11.
In July I also collected my first affiliate payment for promoting a 2 gambling products on my STP blog, this added almost 200 pounds to my earnings. Which means my own product sales was even less than 1k this month (july)…SHAME SHAME…
I have no excuses except to tell you that when I got past the 1.5k mark I started to get lazy and just sat around and did nothing while hoping that sales will continue to grow as it did in the past. Well reality has hit and set in, so I’ve started to work on more new stuff this month in August as you can see from my previous posts I’ve have decided to get my hands into Adsense and more affiliate products as I forsee that this is the way forward.
I am currently working on my very first VRE in hopes of generating at last $100 a month from it but lets see…I don’t have much experience in this field so I need to learn fast. Test , test, test… only keeping whatever that is proven to work and dumping the rest. Wish me luck!
When I started out trying to make an income online slightly over a year back, I used a very powerful tool (YouTube) to suck in traffic to my website and converted some of this traffic into paying customers. Back then I was really lost and just aiming my shots (strategy) blindly so my income grew steadily but rather slowly.
Using YouTube alone to promote my very first product resulted in more than 150 sales and motivated me to work harder but smarter in the online world. I created a gambling themed blog next and after I that released 2 other products and launched 2 subscription websites which has resulted in earnings in excess of $15,000 over the course of a year. I think many people would be happy to earn even an extra $1000. So read on…
All this while until just a month ago I was waiting to sell my products to new customers and had not realised that I owned a very important email list of 500+ past customers. I had read time and again that the money was in the list but had little idea of how to go about milking this list. If you remember a few posts back I told you about Clate Mask and his free report, after reading it I was all geared for action. I thought of how I would try to make money off my current list. This resulted in me launching another subscription website late last month and the free information website that I talked about in my Google Adsense post.
I am going to show you what I did and what I achieved from it – (cause and effect show!)
Since my very last post was about how I used a free info webpage to make some Google Adsense income, I’ll show you the effect of this email series and how much money I have made from it.
As you can see this is a brand new website/sub domain. Since I own 10 different website I can easily create as many sub domains as so that I can track my performance. Also a new domain only cost me $7.15 so I could easily move this to its own domain later if it works.
You can see from here that the sub domain was registered and had some traffic coming in from July followed by a spike in traffic in August. This spike in traffic is nothing more than me sending a few emails out to my email list of 500+ subscribers. Here is date specific view of the traffic that this sub domain received in August.
If you can remember from my last post where I wrote about my adsense income over the last 7 days, you can see from this chart exactly when the first email was sent out. It was 14th August.
I have sent out a total of 5 emails so far, the first email was to inform my list subscribers that I have some free information to share with them that they may find beneficial and the next 4 were just reminders that I had updated the page with new information.
Do remember that this sub domain does not get any new traffic whatsoever as I have not advertised it anywhere or even linked to it from my blog.
Here is what I have made so far from just 5 emails.
These Adsense earnings is the latest update after I wrote the earlier blog post, so I actually made $27.08 instead of the $24.05 that you see there as the 7th days earnings had not been added to the total when I took that screenshot.
Now for a quick look at my Clickbank Account.
Since the 14th of August I’ve made $36 and this is a direct result of the 5 emails that were sent to my mailing list. The $36 is actually just commissions from 2 sales that I referred.
There is one other product that I reviewed on the webpage and this one is pretty interesting.
I had posted an old review of a racing system that I wrote a while back at the bottom of the free info webpage and this resulted in 4 sales of this product providing me with an additional £30 commission per sale. So that is an extra £120 from a 200 word review that I added to the website.
So that would be roughly $240 (betexprofits) + $36 (clickbank) + Google Adsense ($27.08), making a grand total of $303.08 in 7 days without incurring any cost whatsoever.
All I need to do is keep posting new product reviews and provide quality information for my past customers to devour.
Also keep in mind that I have not opened up the website to the general public yet and the current traffic is coming solely from my email list of 500+ subscribers (which is considered tiny compared to other internet marketers who have lists with 10k – 20k subscribers).
At this point I should remind you that I am a complete novice at using email lists to generate income just as I am also an amateur at using google adsense to make extra money but they both look like they will become a permanent part of my online efforts.
So have I convinced you that the money is in the email list?
Since I was so busy last month I never got round to writing this post. June was a very average month but my earnings was boosted by some “new” income generated through the art of affiliate marketing which is pretty much unchartered territory for me until June.
I made an extra 200 pounds through selling other peoples’ products and was absolutely pleased with my achievement so this month I am putting more effort into affiliate marketing.
This is the summary of my earnings for the month of June according to my Paypal statement.
USD 207.31
GBP 668.80
My total income for the month of June was USD 1517.33 . AVERAGE… I really need to keep it above 2k…
July is no better I think , the Paypal statement should be out in a day or two.
I’ve also just logged into my Google Adsense account and found that this blog has finally generated almost enough money to pay for its domain renewal next year HAHAHA… MichelleKhang.Com has generated a grand total of $6.42, this domain cost me $7.15 so I think by the end of the year this blog would at least have paid for itself.
I should really start thinking of how I am going to make this “real estate” (this blog) make a little more money. But at the moment all my efforts are concentrated elsewhere.
Can you imagine, I totally forgot to write this post. I waited for Paypal to issue the monthly statement, did all the conversions and saved it to my desktop on 10th June. 17 days later I realise that I never wrote that post..haha…it is a good thing that I don’t have a boss otherwise…there goes my bonus for the year.
May was actually a quiet month and I only made under 1.5k from product sales but I made a nice 400 Euros from my managed account service which have not been going well this month, so for June there has not been any revenue from the managed accounts.
The earnings for May are as follows;
264.16 usd
626.86 pounds
400.00 euros
The total income generated for May 2008 as per my Paypal statement is USD 2103.96. So far June is not looking too good with only 3 days to go but it is the weekend and I do get more sales on weekends, hopefully I’ll have a few more sales before the month is up.
This post was a bit delayed because I decided to wait for Payapl to issue the April statement and use it instead of manually calculating my earnings.
First I must say that April was a rather though month for me because both my subscription websites were not doing well in terms of number of subscribers.
I did open up a new source of income in April which is from my account management services but the income from that was not substantial. However I foresee a significant increase of income from that avenue.
Here are the rather disappointing figures for the month of April 2008 as per my Paypal statement.
USD balance - 260.31
GBP balance - 556.31
Euro balance - 107.00
Total income from my online activities for the month of April in USD was $1521.94 ONLY. A bit disapointing don’t you think?
Oh well, it is more than enough to pay my bills so I am not complaining. Also I already knew that maintaining the 2k mark was going to be a bit difficult. Luckily for me my lower range seems to be at 1.5k :) and that is good enough for me.
Well then, this means that I need to kick myself in the butt later and start working harder.
I was totally worried when I wrote my last post as I was soo far behind and only had 5 days to make more than $500. Well, guess what? I not only made much more than the $500 to reach 2k, I surpassed last months $2204, my new record…..(drumroll…….) is $2386.94 !!!
Never say die…. So far since I’ve jumped into the online world in search of an income, I’ve tried to keep my head up and work hard by continuosly moving forward and never looking back. It seems like this momentum has carried me forward month after month from $7 in Aug to 2.3k , 8 months later.
I thought that I really would not be able to make it this month as one of my subscription sites suffered quite a rough streak last month and most of the loyal members had jumped ship .
I went ahead with plans for the launch of one new subscription website and the results are not too impressive in terms of revenue. Strangely enough I’ve also “launched” a new private service by accident. One of my members who works a full time job asked me to manage his betting account as he found it too troublesome and did not have time to do it, so I agreed and my “NEW” private account management service was born this march!!
Since I had been testing an auto profit system now for the last 6 months and finally prefected it, I then offered the system as a package with the new account management service. So far it has been taken up by 3 people and things are looking up. If the winning trend continues, we might see a new record for April
In life we need lady lucks touch, as when she is by your side… everything that we touch has the potential to be something great!
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