March was a little better than the month before:

Total Spent:  $8,555.97
Gross Profit: $14,638.15
Net Profit:       $6,082.18
ROI:                        71%

So it’s not the bigtime, but I’m happy to have done better than the month before. On top of that, I basically took the month off.  I did do a little work here and there, but mostly I’ve been on sabbatical. I’ve been working on hobbies like brewing (honey mead, merlot wine, apple cider, dark beer), and fixing up an old RV I bought to take the family camping this summer. I’m really enjoying the intellectual challenges of fixing up the RV. This thing has been sitting for several years and has a lot of complicated systems that need to be brought back online. Maybe I’ll shoot some pics/video of it.

Anyway, I expect the next few months to be okay, but I’m planning on taking a lot of time off this summer to take the family to some camping events.

To your success!

Danger Brown

February has been the worst month yet for me in a long time. First some numbers:

Total Spent:  $6,580.07
Gross Profit: $10,242.92
Net Profit:       $3,662.85
ROI:                        55.7%

I really hate posting numbers like this. It’s embarrassing. But I made a commitment to share my results on this blog.

The 3 main reasons my income sucks right now:

1. I’ve been lazy

2. When I did work, I neglected my active campaigns to work on upcoming projects.

3. I have 5 kids and our 11 month old and my wife haven’t been sleeping well at night. So I wind up babysitting until 1 or 2 pm while my wife gets some shuteye. After that, I have trouble getting motivated feeling like the day is shot already.

I spent several days looking into and studying new niches and new traffic sources. Basically, it’s like I’ve been going back to school.

I spent about 7-10 days side-tracked working on developing a board game. Probably sounds silly to some people…. I’m a born entrepreneur and have always been easily side-tracked by whatever new idea infatuates me at the time. I’d put this as the #1 reason I’m not rich yet. A person really needs to focus on one thing to achieve great success in life. Learn from my experience. Focus on only 1 or 2 traffic sources and 1 or 2 niches.

To your success!

Danger Brown

January has been crap for me. It’s the worst month I’ve had since about 8 or 9 months ago.

Here are the totals for my January 2011 Affiliate marketing efforts.

Total Spent:  $6662.13
Gross Profit: $12,837.00
Net Profit:       $6,174.87
ROI:                        92.6%

Though I can make the excuse that my niche (financial) tends to crap out in the winter, I’d expected to scale things up to compensate for that. My MSN campaigns have suffered from several slaps and I’ve been trying to adjust my landing pages to keep MSN happy. Just about 7 days ago I implemented a change that has slightly hurt my ROI but has so far kept the slaps away.

I’m getting sick of these slaps and unpredictable volume. I’m getting real interested in moving into other traffic sources.

OK folks. Here’s the big 2010 earnings update you’ve been waiting on the edge of your seat for. I spent about $114K and turned it into $229K. This is the most money I’ve ever made in 1 year and the first time I’ve had a 6 figure income. I’m pretty pleased with it, but not satisfied at all. I need to do much better in 2011.

4. Took my wife to tour England and Paris.

11. $2,000 extra applied to the principal owed on my mortgage. Plus $1k in supplies to put in a new drain field for the house.

In December vs November I’ve reduced my spending significantly and improved ROI from 65% to 98%. But due to having some campaigns slapped, I made a little less money overall. We’ll see how the slaps go over the next few months.

OK, so here are the totals for my December 2010 Affiliate marketing efforts.

Total Spent:  $8,205.50
Gross Profit: $16,297.00
Net Profit:       $8,091.50
ROI:                        98.6%

I suffered some slaps on my largest campaigns, so January is starting out slowly making only about $150/day net. Gotta hustle if I want to get back above $10K monthly.

Get ready! My total earnings for 2010 are in. Be watching for a new blog post with some decent numbers.

Well, I’m not pleased at all with November. Over the last few months, my income has dropped for a number of reasons. I suppose I should still be happy because up until 6 weeks ago I was making 90% of my money from Yahoo search traffic. They have been taken over by MSN Adcenter and I’ve been working fairly diligently to get campaigns running on MSN.
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What you can’t really see from these totals is that the second half of the month was better than the first. I spent thousands of dollars in November on building data on new campaigns. What I mean by that is overbidding and trying out lots of new keywords that turned out to be losers in order to find some that will be winners. That’s why my ROI has dropped so much.
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OK, so here are the totals for my November 2010 Affiliate marketing efforts.
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Total Spent:  $13,577.71
Gross Profit: $22,424.00
Net Profit:       $8,846.29
ROI:                        65%
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I do expect December to be a little better. Then we’ll get to see the totals for the year! That should be exciting.

This is pretty late for an earnings update. My wife and I went to England and Paris from the 3rd to the 13th of November. At the beginning of November, I was too busy getting ready to be gone to blog much.
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October was about what I expected. I had been making most of my money from Yahoo Search Marketing paid search. As they were taken over by MSN Adcenter I saw a decline in profit.
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October 2010 internet marketing earnings totals:
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Total Spent:  $11,206.51
Gross Profit: $22,975.72
Net Profit:     $11,769.21
ROI:                105%
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We’ll see what happens in November. Right now, I’m expecting it to be similar to October. Being gone for half the month isn’t helping much. I’m now working hard though to boost earnings.

I didn’t achieve my goal of $30k net in September unfortunately. I had a couple campaigns/offers go down and other things that hamstrung a couple hopeful projects. I really hate posting a decline from one month to the next. I’m only satisfied if the numbers get bigger. I made a commitment to myself to post my income on this blog though. I figured it would be a good motivator. Even if nobody were to read this, I think it does help me to stay oriented.
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September 2010 internet marketing earnings totals:
Total Spent:  $11,544.68
Gross Profit: $29,250.03
Net Profit:     $17,705.35
ROI:                153%
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So, things are OK. I’m disappointed that I didn’t make my $30K net profit goal. But of course, big goals are needed to have any hope of attaining anything worthwhile. I’m maintaining my goal to make $500K net profit from Sept 1 2010 to Sept 1 2011.
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Hold onto your hats. It’ll get a little worse before it gets better. I’ve focused my energies on paid search and have been using Yahoo for about 90% of my traffic. In the next 2 weeks Bing is absorbing Yahoo search advertising and I expect it to be a setback that will take me a month or two to recover from. So be warned that I expect October and November to be weak. We’ll see though. I’m busting my tail to recover my income as quickly as possible.
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To hit my $500K goal, I’ll need to hit $60K net or more per month within a few months. I’ve also got several offline obligations that will eat up time that could be used to increase profits.
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Want more? Subscribe to my newsletter, or check out my affiliate marketing earnings from August 2010.

August was my best month ever! In terms of my previous income, I kicked some ass! Here are the numbers in US Dollars.
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Total spent:  $13,360.41
Gross Profit: $32,528.97
Net Profit:     $19,168.56
ROI:                   143%
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I’m pretty pleased overall. Most of the increase was due to improving ROI through systematically improving/split testing my existing campaigns.  These numbers are the grand total of everything and I included hosting, domain, etc. fees in the ‘total spent’ number.
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Mostly, I’m just building my business capital. I expect to make a shift at some point to media buying. But I feel like I need to be prepared to lose $20K to $40K in the learning process that will entail. It might be smart to do that this year so I can reduce my tax liability a bit.
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I do need to confess that I’m enjoying having a little extra cash. Though I normally tend to be a cheap bastard, I’m taking my wife to England, Scotland, and France for 12 days in early November. She saw a 1 day thing in London that she wanted to attend, and I said “Let’s do it.” then we decided to extend it out a bit and see some things.
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P.S. Please forgive that my blog’s theme is a little wonky. I plan to customize a theme at some point in the near future, but for now I’m using one off the discount rack.
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Wanna check out July’s earnings?

That’s my goal anyway. $30K USD net profit. I think stating it like a fact makes it more likely to happen. And by telling you about it, it forces me to be accountable. On October 1st I’ll have to confess to you how much I made (or didn’t make).

Also, speaking of confessions. When I tell you how much money I make, I’ve left something out. For about a year I’ve been running a set of accounts I set up for my retired mother. I figured I probably owed her about $30K from all the times she’s helped me out over the years and I wanted to pay her back.  I generally just duplicate some of my successful campaigns that are of the auto pilot sort. Since December 2009 I’ve earned about $15K for her.

So for example, when I said I made $11K+ last month what actually happened is that I made $9318 for myself and about $2000 for mom. This month, I’m on track to make $15K for myself and $3000 for mom.

The biggest factor that affect my September goal is the merger between Yahoo and Bing search. I’m making nearly 100% of my money from paid search traffic from Yahoo and Bing. As Microsoft takes over Yahoo search it will affect the traffic volume and quality for both. I’ve got plans for how to deal with that, but I do expect it to affect my bottom line. We’ll see what happens.

I’m expecting to spend about $20K with a 150% ROI = $50K gross or $30K net.

Heck, I might as well also mention that my medium term goal is to make $500K net profit from September 1, 2010 to September 1, 2011.