New Product Site Launched

After a gap of quite a few months, I've just launched a new product site, "The Rational Memory." The affiliate program pays 50% and can be found here and is as usual being run through PayDotCom.

I had taken such a long time to launch this site because it seemed like the others weren't going anywhere. Finally, there has been some progress and sales made, so it looks like they just took longer to get going than I originally planned.

MochiCoins Launched

MochiAds have launched their Mochi-Coins micro-transactions system. Here are the highlights as posted in the MochiLand Blog:

60% revenue share for the developer on all transactions.

Universal wallet and login system, so gamers can spend across all games in the network, across any website they are playing on.

Universal saved games and user data, through server side persistence and storage of game data tied to user accounts.

Distribution through Mochi’s publisher network of over 30,000+ sites. Publishers will earn revenue by collecting affiliate fees based on sales from games played on their site.

Multiple payment methods through credit card, PayPal and incentivized offers so that your gamers can easily and safely fund their wallets.

Test and update your games, even if they are already distributed across the Internet. Use Mochi Live Updates and our Coins reporting tools to dynamically test pricing, game upgrades and other changes to optimize your revenues.

Global monetization for your international gamers coming soon. We will be rolling out additional payment methods such as mobile and gamer cards in the near future.

Easy to use and implement, like all of our products and services!

Fortunately, I think, you have to apply to join the system, otherwise you'd get a lot of games using it in such a way that it didn't add anything to the game. These sort of payments need to be only for extras to make the game better. You shouldn't have to pay just to play or complete the game.

Product Sites Update

At the beginning of the year, I launched a number of product sites. Although these have not yet been as successful as I would like, I have made sales from two of them so far.

How to Grow Beautiful Roses has made one sale. This was a personal sale, and resulted from organic traffic. I know this because I haven't as yet tried any other advertising for this product, so it was from the earlier web directory and article marketing efforts done on the initial launch.

Self Development: A Handbook for the Ambitious has made more sales. Three have been from affiliates, four from personal sales. I have been advertising this on Google AdSense. The profits from this just cover the expenses. Hopefully, as the emails of the people purchasing the book have been captured, money can also be made from them in the future.

Now, both ebooks have a fairly substantial number of affiliates. How to Grow Beautiful Roses has 137, Self Development: A Handbook for the Ambitious has 58. Affiliate performance is pretty poor though. Two of the three Self Development book sales were by the same affiliate. On checking some affiliate sites, the promotion is merely the provided banner.

I have been watching Mike Filsaime's Butterfly Marketing 2.0 and one thing he's stated is the amount of affiliate promotion tools he provides, emails, tell-a-friend, banners, forum signatures. Basically, any way of promoting something of his has a tool made to help you do it. No, my products currently only have banners and forum signatures. It appears assuming that people will be more active in promoting a product without providing the tools to do so doesn't work. I'm therefore going to look into adding more affiliate tools.

Adverbux Currently Down

The Adverbux site is currently down, giving a Page Load Error, and has been for several days. Before that, the site was just showing as a blank page, which has happened several times recently.

myLot Payment Received

I have received a payment of $10.12 from myLot for earnings from April, May and June.

Kongregate June Earnings

Total earnings from Kongregate were $0.19. Not particularly high, but I didn't upload any new games, and my games aren't really good enough to get large numbers of impressions after their initial release.

I've added two new games so far this month, which will create a larger amount of revenue next month.

myLot June Earnings

Total earnings for myLot for June were $4.65, again mostly from referrals. Combined with the outstanding earnings from previous months, this is enough to get paid this month.

MochiAds June Earnings

MochiAds earnings for June are now in. Total earned as a developer was $1.13, with Easter Egg Match still performing the best. Picture Find is also doing comparatively well. This is despite the fact that neither game is the among the better written ones.

Total earned as a publisher was $0.10, slightly up from last month, although impressions were slightly down.