Posted November 3rd, 2008
It’s been a bit quiet round here for the last couple of weeks, my New York trip just seems to have knocked the get-go out of me, but I plan on changing that this week 
As a consequence, I only really worked on my sites for the first couple of weeks of October, so I’m a bit disappointed with myself. However, I didn’t actually do too badly compared with September. I also won $100 in Tyler Cruz’s cash giveaway which provided a welcome boost to earnings .
October also saw my first attempt at domain flipping. This didn’t work out as well as I had hoped, in fact the domain only sold for £1.39 ($2.26), and seeing as I paid £5.66 ($9.19) for it + eBay and Paypal fees I made a bit of a loss there, the cost of experience I guess! I’ll be posting more about how I went about this, what I’ve learned and what I plan to do differently next time so keep an eye out for that post this week.
- Affiliates - £14.80 ($23.97)
I managed to get a couple of “big” eBay sales last month which meant the earnings from there was just over £10. I also referred one person to Pepperjam, so that’s $7 (about £4.30) to me for that.
- AdSense - £2.97 ($4.81)
A nice increase on last month, but still not an earth-shattering amount. Still, if I can keep it on the increase then I’m happy with that.
- In-Text Advertising - £0.06 ($0.11)
Hardly worth mentioning, but there it is!
- Domain Sales - £1.39 ($2.26)
My first domain sale, and that didn’t work out too well seeing as I made a £4.72 loss. But seeing as it was my first time I think I’ve learned a little bit and will definitely try some more this month, fingers crossed with better results!
- Competition Winnings - £61.64 ($100.00)
As mentioned already, I won $100 on Tyler Cruz’s cash giveaway. Probably not repeatable for next month but still online income.
Total = £80.86 ($131.15)
Expenses = £8.70 ($14.13) - domain and eBay/Paypal fees
Total Profit = £72.16 ($117.02)
I really need to get my butt into gear and get into a proper routine for my online work and once I can do that I’m sure my earnings will increase much faster. For now though I can’t be too unhappy with last months income .
Posted October 1st, 2008
I know, this is the post you’ve been waiting for all month, the c-online earnings report. Well, the wait is over, it’s October 1st so that means it’s time for my September Online Earnings!
Seriously now… I have only really got stuck in properly to the stuff I want to be doing in the last week or so, so I haven’t really seen much progress in terms of earnings just yet. However, a little trickle of passive cash is coming in… I just need to turn that into a flood.
- Greasy Palm (cashback / GPT site) - £10.00 ($17.78)
Not really done much on this site as I think the number of offers I can actually do are drying up, and I really don’t want to be buying new home insurance, car insurance, 10 credit cards and taking out loans just to get some cashback! I think this is probably the last time I’ll include this kind of site in my online earnings as it’s not really what I’m after.
- Affiliates - £1.93 ($3.43)
Again, the only affiliate income I’ve made is from eBay. OK I guess since I haven’t touched the site that uses it in about 2 months.
- AdSense - £1.46 ($2.60)
A bit less than last month, I was hoping for at least a little bit of an increase but I guess that will come when I start getting visitors to my sites!
- In-Text Advertising - £2.23 ($3.98)
I’m pleasantly surprised at this figure as it’s alot more than last month, and hopefully will keep on increasing as I build up traffic.
Total = £15.62 ($27.80)
Expenses = £0.00 ($0.00)
Total Profit = £15.62 ($27.80)
Again, nothing to shout about, but I am pleased that my passive streams of income have increased a little on last month, and hopefully they will continue to increase as I keep working at this. I am aiming for October to be the first full month that I work on my online projects without any major interruptions and fingers crossed the earnings will reflect that.
How did you do last month?
Posted September 4th, 2008
Today I got my first cheque through the post for my online earnings! Woohoo!
The cheque was from Pepperjam and is for my July earnings ($37.00 - about £20). I know this isn’t exactly a huge sum but it’s quite exciting to see that figure on screen turn into some real cash.
Just to give anyone reading who’s thinking about joining Pepperjam some motivation, here’s some proof that they do pay…
So there you have it, a real cheque for real money!
If you haven’t joined Pepperjam yet then I would definitely encourage you to do so straight away! They currently offer a $10 bonus just for signing up, and they will pay $7 for anyone you refer to them. As if that wasn’t good enough, they also run their excellent bloggers incentive program, so if you have a blog all you have to do is post about their services and they’ll pay you $10 per post!
Posted September 3rd, 2008
Here we are again folks… my online earnings report for August.
I actually did briefly consider not posting one this month since I’ve barely had time to do anything and the numbers are a bit dismal. But, for the sake of consistency, and since I should really be posting about the lows as well as the highs, here it is.
- Greasy Palm (cashback / GPT site) - £12.38 ($22.11)
As I’ve mentioned a couple of times, unless you get alot of referrals to these types of sites (as long as they pay for referrals of course) then I don’t think there is any way of sustaining a very high income from them. However, just by referring one person and completing a couple of quick offers I managed to make a little bit.
- Affiliate Earnings - £0.48 ($0.85)
As with last month, because I haven’t really setup much in the way of affiliate sites yet, the only income was from the eBay program, and it was only one lead.
- AdSense - £1.95 ($3.50)
Seeing as I’ve done nothing this month, this isn’t a bad increase on last month’s £0.60 ($1.19).
- In-Text Advertising - £0.58 ($1.03)
In-Text ads were new to this site and a couple of others I have last month. Only a few clicks though so nothing great here at the moment, but I am pleased it made anything. Hopefully this can be a good income stream once I get traffic numbers up for my sites.
Total = £15.39 ($27.49)
Expenses = £0.00 ($0.00)
Total Profit = £15.39 ($27.49)
Considering that most of August was a complete write off I can’t really be that unhappy with this. Again, the bulk of this income was from Greasy Palm, so I’d really like to start getting the other income streams up.
In July I also made a good amount from the Pepperjam Network, but again as my time has been so limited lately I didn’t have time in August to take advantage of their bloggers incentive program, or to promote them or their affiliate programs in any other way.
Another income stream that was lost during August was direct advertising. I can’t really blame Market Leverage for not renewing, and thank them again for buying those slots during July! Once I get traffic and RSS numbers up then I will look at direct advertising again.
I’ll post my goals for September in the next couple of days, and also reveal my plan for how I am going to try and get more time to work on my online projects.
Posted August 2nd, 2008
I’m quite pleased that I can already do a post like this, I didn’t really think I’d make much money online (if any) by this time so it’s quite nice to have made a little bit.
There’s not really much adsense/affiliate earnings just yet as I don’t yet have any one site that I can say is 100% complete, although I do have a bunch of site which I’ve been working on and have started getting traffic and the odd AdSense click or eBay lead.
It’s been a good month for PepperJam earnings mainly because of their blogger incentive bonus, but I’ve also managed one referral (woohoo!).
As you will probably notice I also added some ads to the sidebar and header of this blog. This was mainly a response to being approached about advertising, but I had been considering doing it anyway. I’d like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Market Leverage for being the first advertisers on this blog! So… thanks Market Leverage!
Apart from the above, I’ve also found Get-Paid-To (GPT) or “cashback” type websites can be an easy and fun way to earn a bit of cash online. I was contemplating not including this in my earnings post as it’s not the sort of thing I was thinking about when I started my “make money online” journey, but then I thought “well it IS money earned online, so why not?”. I know that I probably couldn’t earn a massive amount from this income stream, and it may not be possible to sustain a decent level of earnings every month (I’ll let you know how I do as time goes on…), but I do think it can be something that you can spend a couple of spare hours on during the month and make a little additional cash with. The site I signed up with and have used so far is Greasy Palm. This is a UK site, so is perfect for me, but I know there are plenty of these types of sites out there and plan to check some more out in August!
I didn’t have much in the way of expenses. I already have a hosting account which I can host unlimited domains on so no expense there. I bought 10 .info domains as GoDaddy had a sale on those, and this is what I’ve been building some of my sites on.
So, here’s the rundown of my online earnings this month. Drum roll please….
- Greasy Palm (cashback / GPT site) - £44.47 ($87.78)
This has been quite a fun way to earn some quick cash. Once you’ve signed up for the site you can find tons of (free in many cases) offers you can sign up for and get cashback. There is actually £59.47 in my Greasy Palm account but I did have to deposit £15 total in a couple of gaming sites to get some of the cashback (those sites gave a combined cashback of £32.50 - so I made £17.50 and got to have a bit of fun playing some games for money!).
- PepperJam Network - £18.74 ($37.00)
This great affiliate network not only has some really good affiliate programs available but also has some great ways to earn extra cash that I took advantage of last month. Apart from a $10 signup bonus I got just for joining them, I also got $20 in bonuses for blogging about their services. I also managed to get one referral through this site which I’m pretty pleased about.
- Direct Advertising - £10.13 ($20.00)
As you can no doubt tell I added some ads to the sidebar and site header, this was because I had an enquiry regarding advertising here. I didn’t think I’d get any advertising on this blog just yet so I’m happy about this as well.
- Affiliate Earnings - £0.65 ($1.28)
The only affiliate program that earned me anything last month was the eBay one. I’ve started setting up a few sites using my own mashup script (still in development… hopefully I can release something here in August), and one site in particular has been getting some clicks through to ebay items and a few people have gone on to make an eBay purchase. It’s only been low value items so far hence the low earnings, but hopefully this can get better this month.
- AdSense - £0.60 ($1.19)
Again, not really much to shout about but it’s still more than nothing . The Adsense earnings this month were from a few clicks on a couple of sites.
“Grand” Total = £74.59 ($147.25)
Expenses = £7.50 ($14.80)
Total Profit = £67.09 ($132.45)
Well, I don’t think that’s too bad at this early stage. If I could make at least this amount every month until the end of the year I think I would still class that as a relatively successful 6 months.
Next post… my make money online and blog goals! Keep an eye out for that one in the next day or so.
