Actual Earnings for January

This is money that was actually received during January, not just theoretical future earnings.

Affiliate Earnings:

myLot: $10.68
Google AdSense : £97.00

eBay Earnings:

Profit: £20.61

These are after deducting PayPal fees, eBay fees, post & packing fees and stock cost.

On the plus side, I reached Bronze PowerSeller status in January. On the minus side, this doesn't show up anywhere, and you can't use the logo or mention it at all on eBay. So the only thing it's good for currently is the discount.

Flash Earnings:

MochiAds: $101.31

Web Directory Advertising:

This is after deducting PayPal fees.

DirectoryGold.com: $135.50

Total Earnings for January:

£117.61 and $261.53

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.

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.

Two New eBook Sites

Just realized that I'd forgotten to post the latest two ebook sites, "From Poverty to Power" and "Self Development: A Handbook for the Ambitious." In addition, an instructional video site, "PLR Brainstorm." The affiliate programs are available here: From Poverty to Power Affiliate Program, Self Development: A Handbook for the Ambitious Affiliate Program and PLR Brainstorm Affiliate Program.

Valentine's Day Recipes

I've started promoting the Valentine's Day Recipes ebook using the free classified ad sites list. I thought of doing this some time ago, but kept forgetting. I'm going to promote the other ebooks the same way, I started with this one due to the fact that Valentine's Day is pretty close. I also removed a couple of sites from the list that no longer existed.

How to Study Birds

I've set up yet another ebook site, "How to Study Birds", which is designed to sell an ebook of the same name, plus a free bonus ebook. There's also an affiliate program, run by PayDotCom, which pays affiliates 50% on each $14.97 sale made.

This is my third site so far this year, and my aim is to make one a week.

Valentines Day Recipes

I've set up another ebook site, "Valentines Day Recipes", which is designed to sell an ebook of the same name, plus a free bonus ebook. There's also an affiliate program, run by PayDotCom, which pays affiliates 50% on each $14.97 sale made.

"How to Grow Beautiful Roses" Update

It's a bit over a week since I launched the "How to Grow Beautiful Roses" site. Although no sales have been made yet - and I really didn't expect to have made any - here's what I've done so far.

PayDotCom: Affiliate program has been added there.
Affiliate Directories: Submitted site to directories from that list.

3 affiliates signed up so far.

Article Marketing: Made one article,"Preparing to Grow Roses, or Laying the Foundation" , using material extracted from the book. Submitted it to Article Marketer.

Link Promotion: Submitted the site to General Free list from the Vilesilencer site.

The site is already in Google. According to Google Webmaster Tools, it currently ranks at 9 for the search term how to grow beautiful roses. Not bad going in about a week.

Promotion has gone fairly well, now to see how well the site does.

How to Grow Roses

I've just set up a site called "How to Grow Beautiful Roses". This is designed to sell an ebook with the same name (plus two bonus ebooks). There is also an affiliate program, set up with PayDotCom which pays out 50% to affiliates for all sales made.