Income Stats – June 2010

Hello!

Until July, I really thought I hardly made 2000$ in June, however after spending half a day calculating all my incomes and expenses, I see that situation is a bit better and worse at the same time.

OK, down to the earnings:

June 2010 – 3407,38$

I managed to jump over my current income goal again… However, not really )

Time For Honesty

Since I’m pretty open about my successes and failures, I have to admit that I’ve spent a huge money in June playing with paid traffic sources and buying more courses and soft.

This is what happens if you’re unfocused – don’t make this huge mistakes mates – staying focused on several most important aspects of your business is probably 80% of success. If I stayed focused, I could pocket around 1600$ after spend on paid memberships and backlinks etc.

OK, to be exact, in June I spent 2621,17$ (!) so my net profit is only 786,21$.

Paid Traffic Experiments

I just wanted to make some money fast. That’s the reason why I ventured into this stuff. Sometimes we work hard as hell but see that our efforts produce outcome that is way below our expectations. Next, we start to lose focus, persistence and start to “jump” around thinking that it’s that easy to get what we expected, just need to look at someone who’s already having it and try to pretend we’re at the same level.

I know that many affiliates don’t spend time on SEO and make a killing with CPA offers and paid traffic. If some campaigns turn success, it’s pretty fast to scale from XXX$ a month to XXXXX$ a month and so on… We just need to test and find this gold. That’s what I did.

I tested several PPV networks, as well as 2-tier PPC like Looksmart, Jemamedia, 7search and so on.

I found that some offers do convert even on 2-tier PPC, however due to tracking issues I lost a lot of money before identifying keywords that converted into leads. In total, I spent 1232,79$ on paid traffic.

This equals to buying 4800 profile backlinks on Backlinks Phillipines. I worked with 2 offers, 1 from EWA Private network and 1 Azoogle offer. EWA offer was low payout and I only made 28,80$ in leads (5 or 6) while leaving 149,78$ for PPV traffic. Looks like only 1/3 of all leads were tracked so I could identify some converting URLs, but it wastoo late before I managed to get the tracking to work properly. I used my self-made landing page for this offer, which I’m proud of because I still can hardly work with Photoshop )

Same with Azoogle offer – I made 31 lead and 372$ in income, but due to tracking issues I spent 863,46$ on 2-tier PPC networks. This was a simple direct link, but eventually CPC was higher than EPC so I needed to convert the offer much better to turn this into profits.

Let’s see how much I’d make without paid traffic experiments: without my CPA incomes I’d make 3006$ from SEO, and my total spend would only equal to 1389$, so the net profit would be 1617$! SEO has positive ROI for me even with high spendings. But what are they?

Where I Spent Other 1389$ ???

Can you imagine that in June my other spendings beated even paid traffic spendings? After all calculation, I was a bit shocked. I spent 501,97$ buying new soft and courses. I spent 421,39$ on various paid memeberships.

Do I really need to spend that much to be successful? While I was “busy” buying new courses and signing up to new paid memberships, I barely had time to get the most out of my existing memberships (like UAW, SENuke and the like).

Again, this is what lost focus does. This is what impatience does. You see, instead of making more, I actually lost more. Remember my mistakes and think about it.

I also spent 200$ on content, and most of this content rests on my hard drive, except for the new site that I’ve created recently.

Of 2621$ I only spent 260$ on backlink creation projects – only 10% of my spend was for the SEO fuel, where SEO affiliates should concentrate their 80% efforts! This is what eventually makes us money, backlinks that push our sites to the top.

I hope my June mistakes that I uncovered here in details will help you to get a better vision of your business and what you’re doing right and wrong.

Plans for Future

It’s all simple – I will conentrate on backlinking of my many sites, adsense, CPA, and physical products. I’ll cut the memberships that I don;t really need now, stop playing with paid traffic (I still need to spend 200$ on Media Traffic account ) and really focus on what ‘s needed to push sites to the top. I’ll also try to tweak some sites for better conversion rates.

How Some Sites Performed in June

1 Clickbank sniper made only 1 sale of 38$. Last month it were 3 sales and 114$ in income.

1st product sniper – out of google top 3 and probably 200 to 400$ in leads. Last month income – 600$.

2nd product sniper – 47 clickthroughs and 4 sales – 194,90$ in income. Last month – 150$.

CPA sniper (started in mid-May) – 150 clickthroughs, 6 leads and 175$ in June (+ 1 lead today ). Offer popularity died, the offer is gone from all CPA networks except Azoogle. The competition is pretty hard, and I’m between #7-10 in google now.

Authority site (see my case study) – 2 sales (1/23 conversion rate) and 81,56$ in income so far.

Positive End of Post

Let every month start like that

Related posts:

1. Income Stats – June 2009
2. Income Stats – May 2010
3. Income Stats – February 2010
4. Income Stats – January 2010
5. Income Stats – March 2010