Feb
This is probably the most enjoyable part of affiliate marketing, reviewing your earnings! This month turned out to be pretty good for me. Although I fell extremely short of reaching my $1000/month goal for January, I really can’t complain. There was both hard work, and a bunch of luck involved in these earnings. Here we go.
Profit:
| Adsense | $22.99 |
| Never Blue Ads | $18.25 |
| Amazon | $0.96 |
| Ebay/BANS | $185.09 |
| HID Lighting kits | $14.12 |
| HID Lighting kits | $14.12 |
| BANS Refferals | $88.72 |
| TopHostingCenter.com | $14.25 |
| Total: | $344.38 |
Expense:
| Adwords: | $27.83 |
| Domains: | $10.00 |
| Total: | $37.83 |
Total: $306.55
Overall not to bad! Just a little explanation of some of the profits:
Adsense is pretty straight forward, those earnings are from the traffic that flows through www.DigMyHonda.com and www.Hondoogle.com. This is a new record.
The earnings from NeverBlueAds are from my superbowl campaign, and a few misc trial and errors I through up over the past month.
Amazon earnings actually come from you guys! There were a couple people who decided to change their outlook on life and purchased the “Four Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss.
Ebay/BANS was the biggest earner. 90% of these earnings actually came from new ebay signup referrals which are $25.00 a pop. I got 6 of them this month. About 1 in 200 people who click through to ebay were new signups. This was all through www.DigMyHonda.com/store
TopHostingCenter.com is the company who hosts this blog, and all of my other sites. I switched to them in late December and have been very happy with them so far! The hosting plan I got was a $98.00 flat hosting fee for life. I never have to pay again! (assuming I stay within 250GB storage/3000GBÂ transfer). Im not sure where the sale came from to be honest, I don’t even have a link to them anywhere!
The biggest thing that made a difference this month as opposed to December is that I REALLY cut down on expenses. I spent over $120 in expense last month, and cut that to just under $40 for January. This makes a world of difference, and ill actually be making a post soon about this, and my new outlook on affiliate marketing. Stay tunned!
17 Responses so far to "Earnings Report: January 2008"
February 1st, 2008 at 11:22 am
Congratulations on a profitable month.
I’m still having challenges with setting up my BANS store for thesaltedreef.com. Tons of errors.
Rich
February 1st, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Hi Rich, I’m sorry to hear that.
If you want, I can try and help you out. Just send me an IM on AIM @ LostSh00tingStar over the weekend and ill try and help you out.
-Eric
February 1st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Great work. Most of my revenue this month also came from the eBay affiliate program and through a decent amount of new eBay signups. I hope the trend continues for both of us.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Great post! As someone interested in your post and adsense I have 3 questions:
How much traffic neted that cash?
How much do you pay on google and how many clicks did you get?
February 1st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Nice work man. Keep it up.. As much as I want to earn from ebay but our country is not allowed to become an affiliate.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Congrats on the successful month.
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:48 am
they can’t survive with that kind of hosting plan. I bet you have to switch companies next year
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 am
If im getting enough traffic to need to upgrade my hosting plan next year, that will be just fine with me! Especially since I only used about 1% of my bandwidth this month.
February 2nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Eric,
Awesome work buddy!
Thats very impressive for only doing this for three months! Wow!
Keep up the phenominal work, and please be sure to update us on your success and tests!
Kunal
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Eric,
Quick question, your expenses were just from Adwords? so is your experiment purely on PPC with Adwords?
I ask this because there are many ways to aff market via free/creative methods (I’m sure you’ve read of people using Youtube or Facebook to get free traffic)
Or is your way the classic, hard work, pay money to make money, method of using adwords, proper keyword research, a/b tests, etc.
Thanks Eric
Kunal
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Kunal,
I actually did very little PPC in the month of January. The only think I used PPc for was my superbowl campaign, which failed miserably.
I have been focusing mostly on free, organic traffic. I have yet to get the hang of adwords, and everytime I try it I just lose a boat load of money. Im still not giving up on it though!
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Interesting!
Adwords does take a little time to figure out, but the rewards are substantial.
For example: here is a good mistake, and success based off the mistake-
Mistake: when I first started with Adwords, I made the error of using content network AND search for the same campaign. You should ALWAYS differentiate the two (two seperate campaigns)
Success: After seperating the two, I used my content network for just list building, I was finding based on my landing page that I was converting about 33% of the people to subscribe to my email.
The only thing was that I made the preliminary mistake of jumping too quick into my process because now I have a bunch of people on my mailing list, BUT NO substantial call to action emails, because I’ve been spending more time on optimizing my adwords campaign, rather than spend time on WHAT I’m going to do with the signups!
But I would think that the email list would be easier to work with.
Kunal
February 5th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Eric,
I just wanted to drop by and say hello, I came across your blog randomly yesterday and wanted to tell you that I am doing something similar to you over at Newbaffiliate.com. It seems you are doing pretty well, I will start checking your blog on a daily basis and also shoot you and email. Nice post.
-Andrew
February 5th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Thanks Andrew, ill have to go check out your blog!
February 5th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
HI Eric,
Thanks for the offer of help in setting up my BANS store. I actually was able to fix all the errors over the weekend. Now I can focus on customizing the store so i can take it live.
Rich
February 6th, 2008 at 7:56 am
I suggest that you post more eric. I visit this site for 4 days in a row and haven’t see any post. I am very interested in this experiment.
February 6th, 2008 at 7:59 am
I try to post as often as possible. Between being a full time student and a full time software engineer, my time is VERY limited. im giong to try and get a post up later tonight, so check back