Michelle Khang Dot Com

The internet is such an amazing invention as it gives anyone regardless of race/religion or nationality the ability to start an online business with literally no money down.

When I started out one year ago, little did I expect to be earning this much a year later. Although I am not making megabucks only small bucks, I have hope that one day I will hit the ultimate dream of making a 5 figure pay cheque.

On this special day as I turn one year older, I’ve received some surprises from Google and Clickbank.

Starting last year around this time, I began experimenting with Google Adsense in hopes of making some…I figured that even if it took me a whole year to reach my first payout it would be worth it. And I have just made it to payout (minimum $100) BUT you should note that it was so blardy difficult to even make $20 let alone $100.

After several months my Adsense balance was going no where and hovering around a few bucks..I really gave up then and forgot about Google Adsense for a long time till very recently. I am sure most of you remember my Google Adsense Experiment which started on the 14th of August which is exactly 43 days ago.

Before the whole experiment began I had roughly 20 bucks in my adsense account. I managed to qualify for my very first payout yesterday when my account surpassed $100, in the past 43 days since I began my adsense experiment I’ve made $63.68 from the very same free info webpage.

My account balance stands at $102.45 as of this morning, this means that Google is paying for dinner tonight at Michelangelo’s Kitchen.

Here is a screenshot of my adsense account.

To make my birthday even sweeter I received my second cheque from Clickbank just 2 days ago for only $146.12, it’s not a lot but enough to pay for a nice birthday present for Aaron who turns 2 a week from now and pay for his birthday party too.

Here is the screenshot of the cheque, (I forgot to take a picture of the first cheque a month ago before I banked it in)

Thank you to whoever invented the internet,

Thank you Google for the best CPC ad service in the world.

Thank you Clickbank for allowing me to sell other people’s digital stuff to earn huge commissions.

Thank God for another wonderful year, a wonderful family and good health to enjoy more wonderful years to come.

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?

People use a variety of methods to generate income online and Google Adsense is one very popular method. Although I’ve been reading about how to do it over the last year I have never really bother to try to make much from it… until last week.

Previously I had already been making a little loose change from Google Adsense but I have never looked at it as a potential source of income as I thought that it would be too difficult to generate big enough checks to make it worth my while (time pursuing it).

As I am in the midst of a test and review, I decided to allow mypast customers the opportunity to view what I was doing. I always test all products that I intend to review before I actually write the review, this enables me to give my honest opinion about the product. I test each racing system out either by placing actual bets or just paper trading, sometimes even back testing. To do this, I use the product’s recommended selection method to identify the bets, then either place a small bet or just paper trade.

Since I had been doing this for a while already, I decided to invite all my past 500+ customers to join me in testing. I created a webpage to allow my customers to view the picks so that they could follow the betting if they liked. Since the service was free (for now) I thought of how I could make money from the influx of traffic to this webpage and decided that I could make money using a 2 pronged strategy.

First I would make some money from placing “discreet” google ads in strategic places and the other money making technique would be to promote other people’s products otherwise known as affiliate marketing (which is also relatively new to me).

As it turns out I have made quite a nice amount over the last 7 days. Since this post is about Google Adsense, so it shall not share the spotlight with my affiliate sales. Just Google Adsense alone has made me a grand $24.05, which is pretty good considering that it is sort of like free money or passive income. Since the information was going to be uploaded on this webpage anyway and just by adding a single adsense code I made myself $24.05 richer. On one of the 7 days I made $8, simply amazing. But let me warn you it is not as easy as I make it sound. Just by putting an adsense code isn’t going to make you any money, it is the whole “strategy” or plan that needs to be put in motion that will bring about a good amount of adsense income that can be worthwhile… ie enough to buy something with…not just a few cents..(many people manage to make a few cents..)

First the screenshot, then we’ll talk about the whole Grand Plan.

From this screenshot of my Google Adsense account you can see that I had XX (censored) clicks on my google ads at this website http://horseselections.systemsthatprofit.com/todayslays.html

The beauty about google ads is that they give you the ability to change the colours to match that of your website and this really make a lot of difference with click through rates. Getting XX clicks over a week is no easy feat I tell you.

Now see this screenshot of where the clicks came from and I’ll explain why I put the ads there in the first place.

You need to place your ads in strategic locations so as to help the click through rates. As you can see HLP Daily Lays has XX clicks. (more clicks compared to the rest) This is my main top banner ad for all the pages that are linked to this webpage. Here is a screenshot of the ad.

You can see that ad 1 is placed on top right below some of my own links, the best is to place them as close together as possible. Once people have read what they need to read on this webspage they are very likely to look for something else to proceed to.

Since Google has the technology to place ads that are relevant to your site’s content their is a high likelihood that they will find an ad that interests them. This is why google is the leading ad provider and why some people can make a fortune with Google adsense. All they do is keep churning out websites that provide people with good quality information and place google ads strategically.

My ad 2 is placed right next to the information that they are looking for, just incase they might have scrolled down and ad 1 is  no longer in view. So this is why ad 2 has the second highest click through rate. You can see in the expanded google ads screenshot above, it is Daily Lays Box Ads with XX clicks. (less than for ad 1)

Now for the Grand Plan that would bring people to my website and inadvertently click on my ads…

You see I have a mailing list of over 500 people who are my past customers so I decided to email all of them to tell them about this new product that I would be testing and invited them to test it out alongside with me.

This resulted in 200+ people going to my website (the first day) to check it out and they did exactly as I expected and clicked on some ads. The traffic also resulted in one affiliate sale on the first day (more on affiliate sales in another post).

From this exercise I have added an additional income stream of $24 in 7 days, this is now worth my while… don’t you think?

Well, as the saying goes “free things are the best” and better still if you can monetize free stuff then you have potentially a money making formula that can last a pretty long time.

Wait till you hear about how this website made me $100 pounds from affiliate sales….in a later post!