How I Make Money Online: CGM Technologies

With 8 days to go, I’ve done very well this month and met all of my goals so far.

Adsense Goal:  Beat $20

Adsense Earnings: $23.12

Ebay Goal: Beat $12

Ebay Earnings: $12.26

Affiliate Goal: Anything

Affiliate Earnings: $ 142.91

Now, the Affiliate earnings had a little bit of help from yours truly.  I needed to get some more web hosting (a plan that allowed Cron Jobs), and felt that my best option would be to go with a different company for now, rather than my current host.  I didn’t want to lose the money that I had already paid in, so it just made sense.  Now, it also made sense to go through my affiliate link and purchase the plan.  I made $100 commission, and have a $9.95 hosting plan.  Not a bad deal, when you think about it.  Anyway, the rest of the Affiliate earnings was from Earn10cents.com, which I sold.

I’m going to let you in on a little secret if you’re into flipping websites.  Always, always, always put your Adsense code in every website that you sell.  You don’t know how many people are going to switch it right away, or ever, and you can still earn money from the site until that happens.  I have a few sites that still bring in a little bit here and there, and one that has still earned me about $5 since I sold it.

Not many people read this blog yet, so you privileged few who do, remember the above advice.

All successes so far, no failures.  That’s the way it should be, and this month is a wonderful start to the new year.  I was able to flip my site earn10cents.com, selling it for $150 on Namepros.  That site was live for about 2 - 3 weeks and earned me $50 from affiliates, plus about $5 through Adsense, and $150 on the sale.  That was a great earner, and really pumped me up for the year.  I’ve also earned about $8 from my ebay sites, and just have a few more bucks left to beat that goal.  My Adsense goal is well on the way to being met too.  I have averaged $1 per day through my whole network of sites, so I’m pretty sure that I’ll hit $30 for the month.

I’m also selling ProxyForSale.com, just because I don’t know how to get the traffic to it in order to make it successful.  I was hoping to get $50 - $75 for it, but it looks like I’m only going to make about $35 for it.  For the time involved to get it ready, it’s not quite worth it, but there’s nothing I can really do about it now.  I also created an automated wordpress site that sold very quickly for $25.  I’m thinking that may be the way to go, for a while. If I can create a few of those sites every few days then I can earn a fairly easy $300 - $400 per month.

I thought that now would be a good time to look at my earnings so far for the month, so here it is.

My Goals:

• Over $20 in Adsense
• Over $12 in Affiliate Earnings from Ebay
• Over $1 in other Affiliate Earnings

How am I doing so far?

My newest site, earn10cents.com has really been a great earner for me.  It takes about 20 - 30 minutes each day to run it and make payments.  I have earned $46 from affiliate sites, just from this one website.  I’m not sure how much I have paid out for it, though.  I will have to figure that out real quick, but I’m guessing it’s around $25.  That gives me a net total of around $20 from just one site.  I also earned $3.62 from an ebay sale the other day, but I’m not doing anything at the moment to actively promote those sites.  With the traffic to earn10cents.com and the traffic that I’m getting for ITxTU.info, my Adsense earnings are topping out at $8.47 at the moment.  If I can keep up these earnings, then I’m set to do about $25 - $30 this month in Adsense.  I’m considering selling my best performing site, however, because I’m not sure how much I want to be in the incentive site business.  The only difficulty, though, is that it does perform quite well, and I don’t know if anybody will actually want to pay me what the site is worth.  Oh well, if all else fails I can just ride it out for a couple months, earn some good money, then convert it to something else.  We’ll just have to see.

All in all, my earnings are on track and I’m extremely pleased with how things are going.

I’ve just finished a report explaining step by step how you can start out earning money online by writing articles and submitting them to Associated Content.  If this interests you, then all you have to do is register for this blog.  Once done, you will magically have access to the post that gives the link to this report.

Well, December was pretty good overall for me.  My Adsense earnings came in at $20.62, which is $.62 over the adjusted $20 goal that I set mid-month.  About half of that was from ITxTu.info, and the majority of the rest was from my 6 proxy sites.  I did end up with a few dollars from the ads that are on my sites in the Shopping Network, too.  A surprise commission from my Coach site brought in an extra $9 on 12/28, which pulled my affiliate account balance up to almost $17.  It’s not enough to cash out, but it IS enough to tell me that I’m on the right track with the sites.  I’m trying to not set up any more sites right now, and focus instead of the sites that I have.  I have worked on optimizing the GucciGallery site in order to pull in more visitors from the search engines.  I won’t know how my efforts pay off for a couple more weeks, though, so I have to keep track of everything that I do in order to duplicate on the other sites if needed.  I also need to do some promotion on my proxy sites.  They are proven earners, but need to get more than my average of 3 or 4 visitors per day in order to really make it.

I also did some programming work in December, which brought in a couple hundred dollars, but that money went for some Christmas gifts, as well as more things to build my business.

My goals for January, 2008?  Well, my standing goal is to beat my Adsense earnings from the previous month.  This carries over to my affiliate earnings as well.  Therefore, I need to earn more than $21 from Adsense, and more than $12 from Affiliate Sites.  My affiliate earnings primarily come from Ebay right now, so I’ll break up that goal even further.  I want to earn more than $12 from my ebay affiliate sites, and then earn basically anything from the other affiliates.  I also plan to do more programming work, but I won’t figure that into my goals.  These goals will be an effort to build ongoing income, so my business can keep growing each month.

How do I plan to achieve these?  As mentioned before, I’m going to work on optimizing my sites that I currently have.  It’s going to be easier and much cheaper to double the amount of visitors that I have now, instead of building more sites.  I’ll go through each site and mention my plans.

-http://itxtu.info : I recently converted this to a wordpress site, in order to take advantage of the SEO benefits.  I’m going to create a list of long tail keywords and make individual posts targetting every single one.  This should bring in more visitors from the search engines.  I also plan to add an address book to the sidebar, so it’s easy to send text messages to your friends.  This functionality is expected to bring in more repeat visitors.

-http://webportinc.com : I’m just using this site in pretty much the same way as the site that you’re currently on.  There isn’t any advertising, it’s mainly there to have an authority site with some pagerank.  I don’t know what I’m going to do in order to get it to bring in some money.

-http://proxyforsale.com : I built this as an auction site for buying/selling proxy sites.  I need to figure out how to market it effectively, though.  It’s built on PHPBB Forum, so I’m thinking about starting the forum up instead, and showcasing the auction part of it after the forum is up and running.

-http://earn10cents.com : This site was built to give me an easy to use Incentive site.  It takes a little longer than I had thought it would to make the payments and stuff, but I may be able to program something in there to make things easier.  It’s built on Wordpress, and I can customize the hell out of it, so I’m not worried.  I’ve already started earning some decent money from here, by paying $.10 for something that earns me $.25.  It’s a win-win-win, so we’re all happy.  I also have a decent amount of backlinks being placed, as another $.10 incentive, so the traffic should start increasing exponentially soon.  I don’t care about getting PR or anything from the backlinks, I’m just after the exposure.  My biggest problem with this site is going to be keeping my paypal account funded so I can make the payouts.  This isn’t a problem yet, though, and my first payment will be coming in after a couple weeks, so I’m not worried.

-Proxy sites : I’m going to work on promoting my proxies now.  I don’t know how, yet, but I’m going to go through some ebooks that I have and see what is recommended.  There are people making $150+ per month from a small proxy network, and there’s no reason I can’t get up to that point.

-Ebay Affiliate Sites : These sites are the ones in my sidebar that say “Shopping Sites”.  Some of them aren’t going to earn much, but some of them are going to earn a ton.  My goal is to get them all to their maximum potential.  Through SEO and other various promotions I’m going to start increasing traffic to them.  I will focus more on the exact details at webportinc.com .

-http://todays-info-site.com : This site has been a few different things throughout it’s life, and is currently a video site.  My tasks with this site are to consistently add GOOD videos to it, which should help the traffic increase on its own.  These sites can be great earners, if the care is put into the sites.

I think that pretty much sums up the sites that I have.  There may be a couple that I forgot about, but those above are the primary sites in my portfolio.  They are very diversified, which is good, but almost present a little too much work for me at times.  Anyway, good luck with your own businesses and Happy New Year.