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.

myLot Payment Threshold Passed

I've passed the $10 myLot payment threshold. This means a payment can be expected by the 15th of August.

Passing the threshold took longer than it has for some time, mostly due to less activity from my referrals.

MochiAds Earnings for May

Total MochiAds earnings for May were $1.42 as a developer and $0.09 as a publisher.

Publisher earnings were up from last month, as were total impressions, although total earned is still low.

Developer earnings were substantially down, as no new games were released. Easter Egg Match is still the largest earner.

Kongregate May Earnings

Total earnings from Kongregate in May were $0.13. Nothing spectacular, as no new games had been added, so any earnings were purely residual from previously submitted games.

myLot May Earnings

Total myLot earnings for May were $2.62. Together with the previous months' balance, this brings the total owed to $5.47, still below the $10 payment threshold.