Archive for the ‘Earnings’ Category:
What happened with my missing payments?
Few weeks ago, I talked about this network which owed me approximately $2800 and my own going struggle for getting that money. To recap and make the story short, basically, I generated about $2800 worth of leads for this offer when suddenly, the advertiser refused to pay the network for the leads I generated. The network refused to pay me until the advertiser pays the them. Everyday, I would ask my affiliate manager when I will be paid, and my AM would reply back to me saying the advertiser is not responding their calls or emails and they have no idea when I will be paid for the leads.
It was such a huge headache running after them and not knowing what the status was, why exactly the story was and when I will be paid. Finally, the network came forward and paid me last week the money they owed. According to my AM, they still can’t get hold of the advertiser and they paid me out their pocket. I will never know what real the story is but I’m happy to be paid.
Most of you guys guessed the network. It is Hydra. I am very happy that Hydra came forward and listened to me and paid me. I did harass my AM everyday about it and I gave them proof of how I was generating the leads. They know I was following all the rules and probably figured it’s better to pay since the payments were only 2.8k. Had it been $25,000 or something in that range, I don’t if they had paid me. But I like to thank my Affiliate Manager Nicole Webb from Hydra for getting the payments to me.
June Results:
Revenue: $14013.38
Expenses: $9303.85
Profit: $4709.53
ROI: 50% approximately
Last month was like a roller coaster. In the first week alone I had done close to $8k already. I was pulling in little over $1k a day in revenue when I was told that I have to pause my traffic due to lead quality issue and will be not be paid for previous leads until further investigation. I didn’t start any new offers either because I was concerned about the money I was owed and just wasn’t in the mood to start anything new.
This month I’m not doing much either. I’m in the in the process of looking for a new home and probably will be busy with that.
I’m however reading up a little and trying find out other forms of advertising other than search and content. I want to become less depend on Google and get into display advertising. I’m currently looking into starting off with Yahoo display advertising network. If anyone have any experiencing with it, I would like to hear.
-G
Hey folks, sorry about such a late post. I know you must be thinking, does this guy even care about his visitors? Trust me I do. I care a lot about my marketing business, this blog and its readers. Some of you emailed me and asked me to post April’s earnings because seeing other make money motivates you to work hard and I absolutely agree. When I first started, reading other people’s blog and knowing how much they made motivated me. I hope my post inspires you to do the same. Never give up. Success is just around the corner.
So with further adieu, here are my numbers for April
Revenue: 15,331.44
Expenses: 9117.92
Profits: 6214.32
ROI: 62.16%
Summary:
This month I saw my first $1000 a day. It came after I found this one offer that worked wonders with the traffic I had. After the Google slap last month I was only doing $100-$150 a day with Yahoo traffic. Few days after the slap, I joined Hydra network and got a AM whom I explained what niche I was in and what kind of offer I was looking for. She found a offer that worked right off the bat and I was quickly back to $600-$700 a day and a week later I hit $1000 a day. I was running only Yahoo traffic.
Unfortunately, the offer went offline and I have no other offer to replace it with. So, I’m back to $100-$150 a day with my old niche. I’m no longer doing google search traffic either since Google slaps are becoming more frequent. Before a campaign use to last me good 2 to 3 months before getting slapped. Now, I would be luck if it lasts a week. I will change my marketing strategy just to please Google.
So far for the month of May, results are not looking so good. I may take this month off and relax. I’ve had a busy April taking care of some personal stuff and of course with day job. I think by next month, I will be more relaxed and have more time.
Tip of the month:
I will leave you guys with a tip that may help you start new offers and get your revenue up.
Tip: It’s very important to engage with you affiliate manager. You affiliate manager has access to stats like which offers are doing well, how much the top guy is making and so on. You can use this info to set your own goals. But if you don’t ask, you will never find out this info. So, it is very important to talk to your manager and don’t be afraid to ask them questions. Call them or hit them up on AIM.
Moreover, if you explain to affiliate manager, what kind of traffic you run and what kind of offer you want to run, they will help find it. They may even suggest new offer in new niches and give your tips. These guys are there to make you money so use them.
-G
Hey folks, I’m few days late in posting my monthly results this time. My time is been pretty much occupied with day job and other personal things.
I had planed to get into a new niche last month but had to delay the project because of some personal commitments. I did pay $1200 to get a new landing page done including content and copy writing but didn’t launch the campaign. I decided to wait until after May when I’m somewhat free.
For now, I’m just re-launching all my existing campaigns again from scratch. Google slapped my campaigns again at the end of March. Speaking of google slaps, Google tends to slap you much faster when you put a sign-up form on your landing pages.
After May, I’m going to be more active in my affiliate business, launching new campaigns, testing, increasing my earnings and updating and monetizing this blog. I need to start preparing my self to quit my job in next year or so. Not sure if I will quit when I get up to 100k a month. Reading blogs of other people who are quitting their day jobs, I’m seeing quitting your job brings other challenges like your health suffers because you work more hours, you tend to slack off at times then your business suffers. I guess it’s part of living and learning. But definitely, I would quit in coming years and will see how I handle it and the great thing about day job is, you can apply for one again any time 
So here are the March stats.
Revenue: $14,504.98
Expenses: $7821.65
Profit: $6683.33
ROI: 85%
Reason for high ROI?
You must be wondering how did I get such a big jump in my ROI from last month? Well, previously my stats were not entirely accurate. I use to report my expenses in Canadian dollars and revenue is USD. My stats were reflection of my expenses (in Canadian dollars) subtracted from my revenue (in US dollars). This month I got a new US credit card and opened a new US adwords account. So, both revenues and expenses are in US dollars and stats are accurate.
-G
Oh man, what a month. I had so much going on and no time to myself in February. I saw a Google slap across my entire account, had a bad a experience e with outsourcing of this new blog template (as you can see its not 100% still), had an interview for PPC coach position for PPC Classroom 2.0 and my full time job pretty much kept me busy.
This months numbers
First and for most, let me update with you with my numbers. Again, in February I did approximately the same numbers as last month. I was hitting 75% ROI until middle of the month when my campaign got slapped. I saw one my strong offers go. Now my campaign is literally hanging off this one offer which has history of disappearing and coming back. It’s very unstable.
Revenue: $14,9238.08
Cost: $8980.30
Profit: $5942.78
ROI: 66.18%
The only majaor difference I saw this month was my ROI was higher than previous month. Just Look at the difference higher ROI makes in you overall profits. To me higher ROI means lower cost (which is always good) and higher profits (this is one number everyone cares about).
In next post I’ll discuss how raised my ROI last month. I applied a new technique to promotional method and as a result I saw an increase in my ROI.
-G
I saw a few people posting their results for the month of January and I though I should do it too.
I know some affiliate marketers don’t like to post their numbers and some people might think of this as bragging.
Motivation: Seeing others make money makes you want to make money
Actually, when I think about it, this can actually serves as an influence post for the readers. This serves as a reminder to me and is motivational to people reading that making 5 figures a month while doing this part-time is possible.
My first notable month with revenue over 1k was April 2008. In July, I was doing 17k in revenues. My results for January are pretty much the same it has been since August-September of 2008. I’m still doing 15k to 17k in revenue and my profits have been in between 5k to 7k with one exception a in July 2008 when I had 10k profits that month. That was nice
My January results:
Revenue: $15,230
Expenses: $9595
profits: $5635
ROI: 58.7%
No, I’m not pulling this out my ass. These numbers are genuine. For those who might thinking they are fake, just save your breath.
Revenue postings by other affiliate marketers
I saw two affiliate marketers update their numbers this month. I’m subscribed to their blogs.
The first post I saw about monthly earnings is by Richard Bonner. I found his blog yesterday. I’m impressed with his blog design (Hey Richard, where did you get your template?)
His Jan. results were little over $30k. Check out his post.
http://www.richardbonner.net/affiliate-marketing-results-january-2009/
Another person, who posted their January numbers were Jonathan Volk. He is one of the bigger affiliates. He is reporting his biggest month at $300k. Check out his post.
http://www.jonathanvolk.com/how-to-make-money-online/record-breaking-month-over-300000.html
