I earned $2145 in June with a big advertising deal at the last minute leading the charge. I did start doing some work this month albeit at a ridiculously slow pace. I’ve been in Durban for about 12 days now and I’m only really kicking things into gear with less than a week to go before I head off once again.
My focus is on promoting my ebook and building links to some sites I’ve had built for awhile but haven’t done SEO for. It’s not the creative stuff I love, but it needs to be done. I doubt there will be any results from the link building for awhile, but bit by bit I hope it’ll help in the long run. At the very least it’s nice, for once, to say that I’m actually doing some work!
Earnings Breakdown:
- Google Adsense – $392 – Another consistent month for Adsense which is all I can ask when I’m not doing much to push the earnings forward. At least they’re not going backwards! If things go to plan, the work I do now will eventually lead to a rise in Adsesne earnings, especially with my living in New York and London 2012 Olympics sites which are finally showing signs of life with Google.
- Affiliate Sales – $477 - For the first time, my main affiliate World Nomads was beaten out by a combination of other travel insurance affiliate programs from the Trade Doubler network. My Clixgalore affiliates also did well and it looks like my old staple, World Nomads, is on the out. There are things I could do to improve sales, I think, but it’ll take a lot of work.
- Advertising – $1157 - I had a bunch of renewals and one huge, last-minute deal that really turned June into a good month instead of the usual average month of around $1500.
- Ebook Sales – $119 – My ebook had another terrible month but it was expected after doing fairly badly the previous month. The key in making sales is promotion and I haven’t been able to do any for awhile. I’m working on guest posts and spreading the word but I will need to find some new avenues. I would like to someone get the message out to college and university students but I’m not totally sure how to tap that market.
The first half of June was spent watching football and hanging out with my friends. The second half has been spent doing bits of work and bits of time wasting. With more travels in my future, I really need to get a lot done over the next week from filing my tax return for last year to making some annoying phone calls to doing a lot of guest post and article writing to finishing up the final touches on some of my websites. I’m really happy with June and I have a couple of pending payments which should start me off really well going into July.
I wouldn’t be too dissapointed with the ebook sales. My own ebook took a while to lift off.
You just need some decent press coverage, which I am sure you’ll get eventually. Well done.
Hi Kirsty, it’s been a while since I’ve last commented on your blog, really glad to see that you are still earning really good money from your websites! Like I’ve always said, it really gives alot of inspiration to us who aren’t earning on your level
Till then,
Jean
Hi Kirsty,
Do you own and manage several websites other than this?
Hello Kristy!
Impressive figures above and congratulations for this achievement. This is my first comment to you…
Those are some truly impressive numbers. I guess you could simply start creating travel sites for most olympics and major worldwide sports events for the next few years and you will be set for life
Hi Kirsty,
Well done, yet again. There’s probably a whole other ebook waiting to be written about how you are getting all of those fantastic advertising deals.
Katie
You need to get some affiliates for your ebook. If I were you I would be setting it up with e-junkie then finding some travel sites with big email lists and offering them half of the profits. That’s how big sales are made with ebooks.
Glad to see the numbers are better. I bet you’ll see much improvement as the Olympics get closer. Your Olympics 2012 site is looking good. Can’t wait for tickets to go on sale!
Hi, its a real inspiration to see how well your doing each month. Its pretty amazing that you have build a sustainable income online. I am pretty new to affiliate marketing and although I do travel quite a bit, up until now I have always had to return home to find a job, work, and save up for the next trip.
I am now making consistent affiliate sales, and seeing my sites rise in the serps, but I do still feel like giving up sometimes. Its a lot of work for not much reward at the beginning. Blogs like yours keep me going in my darkest hours. Many congratulations on your continuing success.
Hi Kirsty, I second Katie’s proposal about the advertising deals ebook.
I make the same money on freelance but your results are very good if it’s passive income mostly.
Congrats on that last minute advertising deal. It must feel nice to have those show up when not doing much work. Good luck staying in the rhythm of consistently putting in more work. I’m sure all of that link building and ebook promotion will pay off in time.
Thanks for sharing your success stats with all. Really glad to see that you are still earning really good money from your websites. I am pretty much pleased with your good work.You put really very helpful information. Keep it up. Keep blogging. Looking to reading your next post.
Those are some truly impressive numbers.
Like everything on this site, this makes for very inspiring reading! I’m planning to do a round up of some of my favourite ‘working/digital nomad’ sties out there soon and I’ll definitely include yours. Glad I found it.
Happy trails
Jools
İt’s good to see the numbers are better. Your Olympics 2012 site is looking good.
Congrats on the great earnings report for June. I *know* your ebooks is going to take off. Once word gets out, sales are going to grow exponentially. I wish I was 20-something and free to travel solo to volunteer. Thanks for sharing.