If you happen upon this post, though, then check out blackbookproject.net.  It’s a great site.

What am I doing instead of this stuff?  Well, I’m getting into VOIP and Wifi Hotspots.  I think that there is a lot more potential right now to make a great business in these areas, and plan to pursue this.  I will still do my programming and work on affiliate marketing, but at a much smaller scale than before.  I’m not sure that anyone really sees this site anyway, but I’m going to set up a real business site at the root of this domain.  The blog will still stay up, so check back occasionally and I’ll report on my progress from time to time.

Last month ended up being a decent month overall.  I sold my proxy network, as well as a few other sites that I had started building over the last month.  I realized that I didn’t have much time to work on them, and also that I probably wouldn’t be able to maximize their potential, so I decided to sell them off.  All those sales brought in about $325 for the month. 

I also built a couple ebay sites, earning me another $80.

My affiliate earnings were entirely from Commission Junction, which did quite well for the first 2 weeks of the month.  I didn’t earn anything after that for some reason, but I did pull in just over $30, meeting my goal to beat last month’s earnings.  I also received my check from January, which was a nice gift.

My adsense earnings for the month were pretty good too, since my proxy network started to really perform right before I sold it.  I even had one day that earned over $3, which completely surprised me.  The month ended with about $32 in my Adsense account, so I also succeeded in beating last month’s earnings as well.  On another note, I got my first Adsense check yesterday.

 With those results for February, it’s going to be tough to top it in March.  I’ve trimmed off all of my extra sites, so I’ll need to come up with some more ideas for sites to flip.  Those are now averaging $50 per site, which is pretty nice.  I also built up a new proxy site and did some promotion on it.  The major promotion went out today, so I’m hoping it will start earning me up to $1 per day, but we’ll have to see.  I’m going to give it a week before trying out another promotion tactic or two.  In the next couple weeks, I should know exactly how each promotion has affected the site, and be able to just use the most beneficial ones for new sites.  In the end, I want to be able to build a proxy site and promote it to $1 per day earnings in less than a month for under $15 - $20.  I don’t see this as being too difficult, and if I can do this 2 - 3 times per month then I will be able to earn an extra $60 - $100 in Adsense each month.  Just 3 months of this and then that’s my car payment, so it’s something I’m really hoping to see happen.

I also have my ebay sites running still, and plan on starting to try making them better with a few articles on each site, and even working on a press release or two for each one.  This will work to make the sites more relevant to Google, and should help them rank higher to bring in more organic traffic.

I’ve also been looking more at affiliate marketing, using PPC to drive the traffic.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough money to start up accounts in Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft, but I did find a $75 Microsoft Adcenter voucher here, and it only costs $5 to create your account.  I have learned that the traffic from Adcenter tends to convert really well, so I’m hoping that it should be a great way to start out.  I’ve recently earned some money from a programming job, so I also plan on starting up an Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing account soon, after I find some good vouchers for them too.

As always, my goals for the next month are to earn more than the previous month.  I don’t consider website sales and programming in these goals, only income that is earned without my work, from Adsense and Affiliate Marketing.  My other goal is to make at least 2 conversions from Adcenter.  I am currently promoting an offer that earns $40 per sale, so if I can get 2 sales this month without spending more than my $75, then it’s going to be considered successful.

I set up these proxy sites with a very, very, basic format in order to try and maximize my click-through rate.  After that, I also did some promotion on 3 of the 4 sites by having them sent out in newsletters to proxy groups.  One cost $2.50 and the other cost $5 for 2 sites.  Since that point, my Adsense earnings have grown to an average of $2.50 per day on just those 4 sites.  This month, I’ve made $12 in Adsense from those sites, so I’ve definitely made my money back.

Something came up, though, that is causing me to slightly regret a decision.  One day I was suddenly unable to access any of my sites, or even the main site of the host.  I got frustrated and posted the 4 sites for sale as a network on DigitalPoint.com.  Those sites look like they’re going to earn an average of $75 - $90 per month, and the bid is only up to $70, so somebody’s getting a hell of a deal right now.  I have a BIN of $125 on them, so I’m hoping that it keeps going up and hits that amount before it sells.  Yes, I could hold onto them and earn the money myself, but since I posted it I’m hoping to make the most from them now.

My point in this, though…  It appears that my proxy sites are barely using any of my bandwith of the server.  Therefore, I have an idea.  I know 2 methods of promotion that really help a site.  I also have another newsletter that I can send it out to for $6.  So, I can send it out in 3 newsletters for a total of $11.50.  The price of a new domain is $7 now through GoDaddy.com, using the code CJC695DOM.  I bought a new domain GymClassHelper.com, and set it up just like my other proxies.  This should be really easy to remember, and should cause it to be passed around quite easily.  I’m positive that after sending it out to the newsletters, I’m going to be able to start earning $1 per day easily.  All it takes is 20 days of $1 per day in order to make all my money back.  I would like to be able to start up at least one new proxy per week, using these steps.  If I can manage that, then by the end of March I should be able to pull in $5 - $6 per day, and receive a check from Google each month.  Once I get to a better point, maybe 2 - 5 new proxies a week would be in order.  If I can get up to 100 proxy sites, each averaging $1 per day, then that’s $3000 per month.  Even if they average $.50 per day, then I would still be earning $1500 every single month, on top of my regular job.  I’m going to try this for a couple weeks, and then I’ll let you know the results.

$30.35 - Adsense Earnings

$21.21 - Ebay Sites (GucciGallery, etc…)

$100 - Affiliate Earnings (Web Hosting Sale)

$42.90 - Affiliate Earnings (Earn10Cents.com - One Aff Site)

$14.2 - Affiliate Earnings (Earn10Cents.com - Won’t get this money until the account gets to $50)

$14.75 - Affiliate Earnings (Earn10cents.com - Another Aff Site)

$185 - Sale of 2 Websites

$45 - Building Ebay Sites For People

$30 - PHP Repair Work For People

$75 - Freelance Web Programming

$10 - Moola.com

As you can see, I’ve had a really good month. Granted, I haven’t actually received all the money yet, but if I can keep the earnings consistent then the money will be too. My biggest bonus was the Adsense earnings. I’ve finally pushed over the $100 mark to be able to receive my check. I’m expecting that in the next couple months. Do you guys who actually read this blog like seeing the pictures of checks? Even the small checks? Leave a comment and let me know if they help motivate you, and I’ll make sure to take some as they come in. Anyway, my Ebay Sites are really taking off too. The last day of the month brought in a surprise $5.40 commission from one of them, which shot the total up by 30%. I have some work to do to the sites, because I changed a few things around on one of them and it has really helped it gain traffic and sales. I’m going to make the same changes on the others and watch the earnings just grow. Earn10Cents.com was an experiment for me in building and running an incentive site without shelling out the $150+ for a script. I built it on Wordpress and wrote a plugin that allowed me to track the leads through Commission Junction. I paid out approximately $30 in incentives, but at least $10 of that was for link building. That meant that about $20 in payments brought about $60 in earnings. The sites also brought in some really good Adsense earnings as well, helping me out by about $10 this month. I then sold the site for the most I’ve ever earned so far for a site. All together, this one site that I built earned me over $200 this month. I also get asked to do some PHP work for people that I have dealt with in the past. I’m slowly charging a little more for my services, and they’re gladly paying, so I’m realizing that I’m worth a lot more than I think. I don’t plan on raising my prices any more, though, as I think $15 for fixing a simple issue is a great balance. I do some contract work as well, which comes closer to paying me what I’m worth, but still pays well.

That’s it for the month of January. As always, my goals for this month are to exceed the previous month’s earnings. For affiliate commissions, I’m not planning on trying to beat that because I don’t have the power of an incentive site to help me, so my goal is to earn anything again. I have placed a few affiliate links nicely in my ebay sites, which means that if people click through them and make a purchase, I’ll actually earn more than if they buy through ebay. I’m expecting them to really help out with the earnings. I also built 6 new Ebay Sites, with 2 more left to create. 3 of them are real tight niches, africastamps.info, buyaustraliastamps.info, and buychinastamps.info. Another nice site that I built is buydinaronline.info. I’m hoping to start showing in the search engines real soon (2 already are after less than a week), to start ranking well, and to start getting some sales. Along with those sites, I threw up a couple anime related sites, because they seem to be extremely popular right now, and I’ll be more than happy to join the others making money from it. Animeauctions.info and buyanimedvd.info should really start bringing in some decent money by the end of the month.

I never know how to end these posts, so I’ll just leave you by wishing you the same success that I’m experiencing in my online business.

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.

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.