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!
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March 5th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Yes…a post here!!! I’m glad that you are going to post your earnings here yet. I can also see by your earnings that carbon copy sounds like it is still producing for you. I just don’t know why you would stop doing it if you still made nearly $1k from it this past month. I’m glad to hear about your niche site and that they future is looking bright. Keep me updated here when it is up and going. (If you notice that there are views on this site yet….it’s usually me checking daily…LOL).
March 6th, 2008 at 12:02 am
I told you that I was going to keep posting earnings. Didn’t believe me?
I’m not going to be stopping Carbon Copy Pro, I just don’t do anything with it. So far, all of the income I’ve produced from it has been passive for me…I don’t have to do anything.
March 7th, 2008 at 2:37 am
Well than if Carbon Copy is going to be passive income…more the merrier! Are you going to be updating your carbon copy site?
I was just busting your balls about posting. I know that you are going to at least post here once a month. Keep it rolling.