Earnings Breakdown

AdSense: $2.80
Commission Junction: $2.71
NeverBlueAds: $4.20
Project Wonderful: $6.87
Network Marketing: $995

TOTAL: $1,011.58

Again, all numbers reported here are net figures (after expenses).

The AdSense came from John Chow Graphs, the NeverBlueAds came from the Pure Play Poker ads on Awesomeology, and both the Project Wonderful income and the Commission Junction income came from Power Dropping. The network marketing income, as usual, is from Carbon Copy Pro.

I’m not exactly thrilled with how February turned out, but I guess any month that you make 4 figures online is something to be happy about, right?

At this point, when 99% of my income comes from two sales, I really can’t say that I’m making money online. If just a few things went differently, I could easily be sitting here reporting about $10 worth of income. That’s not acceptable, and here’s what I’m doing to change it…

I mentioned in my last post that I was quitting regular posting on this (and some other of my sites) to focus on The Coolest Gifts. For the past two weeks, I’ve been having a custom theme designed, and it’s about two days away from being released. I’m extremely excited about it. It’s pretty much exactly as I had pictured it. I really think you’re going to love it. It’s going to look like an ecommerce site, but it’s powered by WordPress. So cool.

Anyway, while I’ve been waiting for the new theme to be finished, I haven’t done much with the site. I haven’t promoted it at all. I have been publishing two posts per day, but I’ve been writing a bunch of other posts to try to determine what kind of posting schedule I’ll be able to consistently keep. I think I’m going to start at 2 posts per weekday (M-F), and gradually work up to 4 or 5 posts per weekday. With the new site, it’s going to be very important to me to stick with a posting schedule.

That’s enough about the new theme for now. When it goes live (some time on Friday) I’ll post about it here along with all of the little details that only you, my fellow bloggers, will appreciate

Because I’m essentially starting from scratch (The Coolest Gifts only has 10 RSS subscribers!), and because I’ll be focusing all my time and effort there, I really wouldn’t be surprised if my income drops below $100 for March. But I’m focused on the bigger picture. I love the niche that I’ll be blogging about. I know that the niche is profitable (this gadget blog made over $50k in December 2007). I have a great URL. I’ll have a cool and unique look to my site. And I’m determined.

60 of my 365 days may have already passed, but I’m feeling better than ever about my chances of meeting my goal.

Check back in a few days for the details of my new theme!

Even though my income went up, I wasn’t all that happy with where it came from…

Earnings Breakdown

AdSense: $4.03
NeverBlueAds: $72
Project Wonderful: $2.39
Pay Pop Up: $3.05
Network Marketing: $1,830
TOTAL: $1,911.47

(By the way, the numbers I’m reporting here are my net earnings…that is, after any expenses.)

Sure, I made almost $500 more than last month, but the thing that I’m not happy about is that it’s all coming from the network marketing that I’m doing with Carbon Copy Pro.

There are some negligible numbers there from AdSense and PayPopUp, those came from Awesomeology.com, from which I recently removed advertising except for a few affiliate banners which generated nothing. Since I moved the site to Wordpress.com, it’s almost impossible to put any advertising on it.

I’m making some decent money with Carbon Copy Pro, which is great, but I’m not sure that it’s sustainable so what I’d really like to start learning is affiliate marketing.

In the last few days of January I began some campaigns with NeverBlueAds, and netted $72. I’d really like to get that up to about $500 for February so we’ll see how that goes.

Hopefully I can continue the trend and set another new record for myself in February!

Okay, my second month of attempting to make money online has now ended. I actually wasn’t sure if I would beat my November income of $120.56, and it turns out that I made over 10x as much…

Earnings Breakdown

AdSense: $19.72
Kontera: $11.40
Affiliate Sales: $117.59
Network Marketing: $1,350.00
TOTAL: $1,498.71

To break down the affiliate sales even further, $40 was from Double Your Dating, $44.36 was from BANS, $1.05 was from Think Geek, $9.80 was from Solostream, $2.70 was from Santa Speaking, $14.68 was from Wear Your Beer, and $5 was from Snorg Tees.

All of those affiliate sales came from affiliate links on Awesomeology except for Solostream. That, surprisingly, came from a small link at the bottom of Coolest Gifts (it says Get This Theme). I say surprisingly because I haven’t really had any traffic to that site yet…in fact the only place I’ve even mentioned it is here at 365 To Freedom!

As for the Network Marketing, that came from a program (Carbon Copy Pro) that I joined in November. I made 2 sales with them in December (my first two), resulting in $1,350 net to me. The best part is that it didn’t really cost me anything to generate the sales. I started a Carbon Copy Pro blog which has managed to get some high organic search engine rankings and driven traffic to my opt-in-page. I haven’t spent anything promoting it. Frankly, I haven’t even really spent any time on the content. Seeing as how the program is actually working, I should probably focus more on it in 2008.

Goals for January

It should be an interesting month. I plan on making some one-time income from eBay (more on that in my next post), I’d like to try my hand with some PPC affiliate marketing, I’m experimenting with some pop-under ads on Awesomeology (which I would never do on this site), and I’m going to continue to develop Coolest Gifts which I expect to really pay off at the end of 2008 during the holiday shopping season.