March Statistics; A Dichotomy Of Success
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Apr 1, 2009
A new month, some new statistics, and, as I said, a dichotomy of success to talk about.
First, here are the actual numbers, only talking about what made me money:
Adsense – $101.63
Paid Advertising – $25.20
Kontera – .84
LinkXL – $2.50
Chitika – .06
Infolinks – .32
Commission Junction – $0, with qualifications
Grand Total – $130.55
Let’s look at a couple of things above. This was my first month making at least $100.00 with Adsense, and I’m proud of that. Almost all of it came from my Medical Billing Answers site, and as long as that one stays prominent, it gives me something to build on. The Commission Junction thing, well, if you remember yesterday’s post about the affiliate who hasn’t paid me, you see that I actually made sales that I didn’t get credit for, and if I’d gotten credit I’d have made at least $60 this month, which would have prompted my receiving a check in April; that’s irksome, but I’m doing what I can there. Overall, February was still my best month ever, but this month easily could have been.
I still have my gripes about Chitika and Kontera, with the low sales, but I’m going to make a change. I’m going to remove Kontera from this blog, which has been somewhat irritating for some visitors anyway, and I’m going to use it on alternate pages on my Reviews Of Everything site instead, as I already have Infolinks on that site. I haven’t even had Infolinks a month yet, but that’s not the issue here. I’m thinking that type of site is more geared towards this type of text marketing, so that’s where I’m taking it.
Also, though I don’t want to do it, I’m thinking that I may move my leadership book and my leadership CDs lower onto the page, while still keeping my one internet marketing book up there at the top, and moving some other things around. We’ll see about that one, though; after all, traditional wisdom still says it’s always better to market your own products first, but talking about leadership and motivation may not work as well with this kind of blog, although it should! Yeah, I said that!
And there we are. Not so bad, a slight step back, but with qualifications, and it’s on to April.
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Too bad about CJ. I hope they come to the party soon.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Congrats buddy… I had a so-so month without much improvement. The income stood at something like $150 and consolidated income for the last quarter was ~$410
I need to really put a strategy together for AdSense, private ads and paid reviews. I am not going for affiliate prods as my niche wouldn’t attract much.
Your medical billing answers seem to be the right niche for AdSense and the Finance blog can be used for great paid reviews. Those two alone should take your income above $200 in the next two months, I guess.
Good luck and thanks for the update.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:10 AM
http://thekeywordacademy.com/
http://makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com
(not sure how you stand on putting links in comments, but I assure you I have nothing to do with either site, just that these are run by extremely knowledgable people who really want to help people making money. )
Don´t be fooled by the design of that second blog, it is making hundreds daily through adsense
If you scroll down a bit, you will find some adsense lessons that could help you increase the income
and some interesting study cases
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:15 AM
ps, thanks for pointing out I´m not a “he” ROFL
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Congratulations on your good income for March. Well done especially your adsense. BTW thanks so much for helping me with my plugin problem the other night (your morning). You’re quite the plugin savvy pro that I could never be.
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Mitch Reply:
April 5th, 2009 at 10:11 AM
As for the income, it was a pretty good month, considering where I’ve been, but nowhere near where I want to be yet. But I have time. lol