Affiliate Musketeer

So, it’s approaching that time of month where I look back over the past few weeks and tally up all my earnings.  I don’t normally publish them here but this month I’m turning over a new affiliate leaf and giving it a go.  I’m sure it’ll motivate me to do better next month.  Already in January I’ve started a new site with a domain I registered waaay back in 2008.  I don’t actually know what happened but the domain gets a few thousand exact searches a month and a couple of weeks ago, a light switched on in my head that made me think ‘ah, yeah, I’ll just set up an affiliate site on that domain’.  The original plan, you see, was to set up a full ecommerce site but as cash is tight at the moment and I don’t have the money to buy in stock, I thought I’d try and run an affiliate site instead.Sooo, anyway, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, here’s my earnings for January and where the money is coming from. (stats to 28th January)

eBay Partner Network: £132
USFreeAds: £25
AffiliateWindow: £40
Total Income: £197

PPC Spend: £27
Hosting: £20
Total Expenses: £47

Gross Profit: £150

Not so good, huh?  nope.  Well, there is a reason and I mentioned that in a post about being more cautious with your affiliate earnings over here.  I haven’t really recovered since then but I’ve got my game face on now and am back in the swing.  I’ve turned on my PPC campaigns again and launched one new site so far.  I would say that February’s earnings should more than double.

So the challenge for February then:

Double January’s earnings.