Kirsty
Wed 6 Jun 2007
I had a fantastic month in May and my earnings totally exceeding my expectations. I never thought I’b be able to earn this much this early but I’m pretty sure this great month is more of a blip than something that can be sustained yet.
Here’s the rough breakdown:
Adsense - $180
Linkworth - $40
Text Link Ads - $10
Affiliate Sales - $400
Direct Ad Sale - £200
One of my Linkworth advertisers pulled out for June but I gained 3 Text Link Ads to replace it. I’m a bit disappointed though with the TLA price. At $15/month per ad it’s hardly going to break the bank. Plus I thought that the $15 was what would be paid to me and it turns out that’s the price before TLA gets their cut. But it’s a start.
I’m happy to see my Adsense steadily creeping up. It seems from what other people say (WN included) that the money is in affilaite sales, but at the moment those fluxuate far too much so I like having Adsense and Linkworth as my steady base to grow on. I always have this fear that affiliate sales will drop to $0 so I guess it’ll take a few months of steady(ish) income before I trust that revenue stream a bit more. I probably said the same thing about Adsense when I first started with it.
For my affiliate sales, World Nomads came through again. One afiliate sale was a van rental which is an arrangement I’ve come to myself with a company. It earned me £50 and it’s not tracked by an affiliate program though so here’s hoping the company is honest! Hostelworld earned some lowly sum yet again and I had a few other van and travel insurance sales here and there.
June is off to a great start Adsense-wise but has been terrible so far for affiliate sales. If I can clear $500 I’ll be very happy. My hope is to be steadily earning at least $500/month by the end of the year. $1000 months will be more than appreciated but I’m not counting on them just yet.
That’s it I guess! Here’s hoping for a good June for us all! How’d you do in May?
June 6th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Nice work! Congrats - It’s nice to see you making steady progress.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
nice one kirsty! onwards and upwards…
June 7th, 2007 at 1:22 am
Great news. The hard work is starting to pay off.
June 7th, 2007 at 9:46 am
I knew you would get there Kirsty. Now focus on that $2000 barrier!
June 7th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
well done kirsty - keep on plugging away, and this time next year, we’ll be millionaires!
June 7th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
If I’m a millionaire next year, I’m throwing a party for us all - somewhere warm and exotic.
June 8th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
kirsty good job its fun to watch your progression this last year
June 12th, 2007 at 12:53 am
If you can get to $1000 - you can get to $10,000 - go get ‘em!
June 12th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Weren’t you the person who couldn’t get past the $100 barrier with adsense? If so, it looks as if that happened while you were busy working on affiliates. Good work!
June 13th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Hi from Australia, just killing some time before heading off to Brisbane. Thanks guys… I’m happy to see some progress finally too. Yep, it was me who couldn’t break $100 with Adsense and that seems to have taken off completely by accident.. although I have been adding more content so I guess I’m seeing it pay off. Not too concerned about making a million but I’d be happy if I can keep this $1000 thing going strong. I’ll keep you all posted.
July 1st, 2007 at 3:53 am
Hello Kirsty,
Great job! I’ve been following your “up and coming” progress since discovering this site. Watching you grow from the $100 goal to the $1000 goal has been fun.
I have a request! Could you include the amount of time you spend working on the sites each month (roughly) when you report your monthly income? That would be a great help to put things into perspective.
If one month you make $750 for 80 hours of work and the next month you make $1000 for 160 hours of work, then we can see if the extra $250 is worth double the work. Alternatively, if the $1000 comes from the same 80 hours of work, then that’s a real improvement. (Cus it leaves all that free time for travel!)
Thanks!