Affiliate marketing 1st month totals

Posted by dangerbrown in May 1st 2009

Report at the end of month 1 of affiliate marketing:

OK, here is where I stand. Unemployed and gotta feed my wife and 4 kids. Lost all income about 35 days ago, took a little while to get organized. Started my first campaign about 2 weeks ago.

Money spent:
Adwords $2329.82
Yahoo $58.35
Total money spent $2388.17

Money earned:
Hydra Network $2948.00
Neverblue $224.00
Adsense $79.70
Gross money earned $3251.70

Net earnings$863.53

I feel pretty good about this. I started a big campaign about 16 days ago, and another one about 8 days ago. I know I’ve made improvements to these campaigns, and expect their profitability to increase over the next 30 days. I have another campaign I’ll be starting in about 5-6 days. Things are looking pretty good.

I’ve pretty much already hit my initial goal to survive without getting a job. If I don’t do anything, these two campaigns provide enough for us to scrape by. We can scrape by on $1700/mo but need about $2500/mo to feel comfortable.

One more moderately successful campaign will do the trick and I think I’m on to it. Wish me luck.

Mid range goal is to make $10K/mo profit by end of August. I’m pretty confident I can do it. Follow my micro-updates @dangerbrown on Twitter.

See what happened during my 2nd month.

12 Comments

John_B_Denver Said,

May 1st, 2009 @5:44 pm

Very cool. Thanks for following me on Twitter. I wasn’t aware of your blog ’til now. I’m looking forward to following your progress. Congrats on your early success.

dangerbrown Said,

May 1st, 2009 @9:32 pm

Thanks for stopping by. I’m hoping to become an inspiration and mentor to others. I am a jack of all trades with this internet marketing stuff (and master of none yet). I don’t outsource anything, unless you count my wife helping sometimes. She’s better at photo editing than I am.
Have a good one John.
Danger

Vik357 Said,

May 2nd, 2009 @1:03 pm

Congratulations!! Do you create a site or do simply landing pages for your campigns? What type of site/landing page do you create (wordpress type or code it ground up)?

- Vik

May 2nd, 2009 @1:49 pm

Hi Vik,
I’ll make a site with a domain, privacy page, terms of service page, and contact page. I’m embarrassed to admit I still use Frontpage. But I don’t use the frontpage templates. Basically, I build it from scratch or use a template I like. I’ve got one template with a little flash on it that I’ve used for 3-4 different sites. Please don’t judge my design skills by this blog. I plan to apply a theme and advertising, but it isn’t a priority. My wife had been telling me to blog for months, and I didn’t want to procrastinate any more. Same thing with the websites, I can envision things prettier than I know how to build, but if I let that stop me nothing would ever get done.

I think of these as landing pages. They only have privacy, TOS, and contact because it helps to improve my landing page quality score for adwords, which in turn may allow me to pay less per click. I place their navigation at the bottom and hope nobody notices them. My affiliate links are the only way out of the site. I’m planning a series of how-to posts and maybe videos to cover some of these kinds of questions.
Thanks for the input,
Danger

krishna Said,

May 6th, 2009 @6:16 am

Your earnings or not that bad. But i’m impressed with your targeting mark 10k which is quite an impressive stat:). Will look back again on how your earnings are moving up month on month.

Cheers and All the Best to you !

Rauhbautz Said,

May 8th, 2009 @11:50 am

Hi! Really glad for you! You don’t see such honest confession like this one! Danger, I’ve also got some materials about landing pages.

PS. I also remember I owe you that seminar PPC tactics video. Still can’t figure how do I send it to you.

Jonathan Volk Said,

May 15th, 2009 @12:04 pm

Congrats on your success thus far.

Keep it up – it DOES get easier, trust me.

~Jonathan Volk

Joe Helewa Said,

May 17th, 2009 @12:04 pm

You have to start off somehow – That is a really good ROI – I wish you best of luck in the future!

Affiliate marketing rules !

Prisqua Said,

May 27th, 2009 @6:33 am

wow, that’s not bad!

Derek Said,

July 21st, 2009 @12:13 pm

Wow, thats pretty cool how far you have come. I just looked at your 3rd month income from Affiliate Marketing. Its really good to see someone new at this actually making money. I haven’t started myself, but plan to after the summer. I am self-employed right now but have always had an interest in Affiliate Marketing. Im going to bookmark your site.. keep it going!

Derek