Total affiliate type revenue for June was $2,875.64 ($95.85 a day).

Pretty much the same revenue this month as last, (just $5 less) my Clickbank sales are WAY DOWN recently which is hitting revenue overall. I only promote a small number of Clickbank products and think the problem is the main ones increased their prices just before Christmas when there was a big update (for those products). This with the credit crunch/recession has pushed sales down (similar traffic, much less sales).

Put it this way, for June I’ve had 2,623 hops (over every product promoted) and my hops per order is 163.94 which is awful (used to be much better, well under 100). Worst of all is a product I used to do great with 592 hops in June, 1 order which was refunded!! Used to get up to 10 orders with that number of hops! Another similar product (same niche), also put prices up: 296 hops no orders, used to get 4 or 5 orders from that number of hops.

Basically they have increased their prices WAY TOO MUCH, guess I’ll have to look for alternatives in that niche that have cheaper products as it’s a waste of good traffic and remember if I’m sending a product 500 hops I probably had to gain ten times that (5,000 visitors) to result in 500 click thrus.

Put some effort this month into private ad sales and next month I expect to make a few hundred dollars more in that area, maybe more, would be good to break $2,000 a month.

Not feeling like creating lots of content so my AdSense income, which pretty much relies on the creation of new content is not growing. Might have to buy a few content rich sites to increase it as don’t feel like making new content (been feeling lazy on the content creation front for over 6 months now :) ).

As always this revenue does not include the money I make through my SEO business, themes sold at SEO/AdSense Themes or any investments, so ONLY affiliate and advertising (AdSense type programs) revenue.

Affiliate Revenue for June 2009

May 2009 revenue is listed in italics to the right

Google AdSense Revenue : $1,023.09 ($34.10 a day) $1,074.06 ($34.65 a day)
ClickBank : $320.80 ($10.69 a day) $402.30 ($12.98 a day)
Amazon : $39.93 ($1.33 a day) $43.59 ($1.41 a day)
Private Ads : $1,484.49 ($49.48 a day) $1,362.83 ($43.96 a day)

New revenue sources as of July 2008.

Shareasale : $7.33 ($9.89)

Still not doing much in new affiliate terms.

June Affiliate Revenue = $2,875.64 ($95.85 a day) $2,892.67 ($93.31 a day)
Extrapolation = $34,986.95 a year $34,058.86 a year a year

If I save every penny from 1st June 2009 and make this amount of money every month from now on it will take just under 29 years to become a millionaire (really would be less time since compound interest on the saved amount).

Money I would accumulate assuming I kept every penny (not including bank interest) from June 1st 2008-

Date Added Total #days
June 1st 2008 : $0 $0 0
Affiliate Report June 30th 2008 : $2,068.12 $2,068.12 30 ($68.94 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report July 31st 2008 : $3,296.30 $5,364.42 61 ($87.94 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Aug 31st 2008 : $3,575.47 $8,939.89 92 ($97.17 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Sept 30th 2008 : $4,790.33 $13,730.22 122 ($112.54 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Oct 30th 2008 : $4,885.30 $18,615.52 152 ($122.47 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Nov 30th 2008 : $5,802.50 $24,418.02 182 ($134.16 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Dec 31st 2008 : $3,985.55 $28,403.57 213 ($133.35 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Jan 31st 2009 : $3,911.28 $32,314.85 244 ($132.44 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Feb 28th 2009 : $3,589.41 $35,904.26 272 ($132.00 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report March 31st 2009 : $3,453.37 $39,357.63 303 ($129.89 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report April 30th 2009 : $3,109.16 $42,466.79 333 ($127.53 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report May 31st 2009 : $2,892.67 $45,359.46 365 ($124.61 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report June 30th 2009 : $2,875.64 $48,235.1 395 ($122.11 average earnings per day)

Since June 1st 2008 to June 31st 2009 I’ve made $48,235.1 from affiliate revenue sources.

Since revenue per month can fluctuate, better to average my earnings over the entire period (June 1st 2008 to June 31st 2009) and then extrapolate with that average.

Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 395 days) : $122.11 a day, at this rate will take just over 22 years from June 1st 2008 to reach 1 million dollars : I’ll be a millionaire 2030 when I’m 60 years old. Still no where near my millionaire at 45 years old goal, but at least before I retire.

Good news on my back problems, went to an ice show a couple of weeks back. Wife bought the tickets before my back operation in anticipation of me being much better by now. The show was Cirque de Glace at the Embassy Theatre Skegness, a two hour show which meant I was on my feet or sitting for over 3 hours. I took an extra 100mgs of morphine a few hours before and unlike before the operation on my spine I managed to sit relatively still during the show: helped a lot that it was a great show (really enjoyed it).

Prior to the back operation (spinal fusion) I would sit for 5 mins and have to move, few mins later have to move again and so on, within 15 minutes I couldn’t get comfortable at all sitting! Felt like I had bone touching bone in my lower back, wasn’t actually touching, but it’s what it felt like and nothing I did while sat helped (would have to move and preferably lay down).

At the ice show I sat for 2 hours with a 15 minute break in the middle and didn’t experience the ‘normal’ back pain (had this pain for well over a decade so was normal to me). My back was sore after, but it was a tired pain which is completely understandable considering how little activity I’d been getting prior to the operation and the operation required cutting the muscles in my back to get to the discs, so the strength in my muscles is very poor!

Also came away with a really sore bum! Not used to sitting any length of time my bum isn’t used to it, similar to saddle sore when you’ve not rode a bike for a while :)

So looks like the operation was successful, now have to build up my fitness and work through the muscle spasms in my back. I find the physiotherapy exercises hell (think they are slowing my recovery), so have put up a punch bag and punching that: used to keep fit by weight training, bit of boxing when I was in my teens and far more enjoyable than doing some weird stretches that I probably couldn’t have done well 20 years ago!

Since having the operation I’ve strained various muscles about 50 times! From a simple yawn resulting in a strained muscle deep in my neck to pulling a leg muscle running away from my wife: I was teasing her and she chased me and I got a painful leg muscle for ten minutes for my trouble :)

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