Affiliate Revenue Report $3,832 for August 2009

Total affiliate type revenue for August was $3,832.89 ($123.64 a day).

Another good month, up almost $400 on last month, (almost $1,000 compared to 2 months ago), still no improvement in Clickbank and just lost all my Amazon stores as Amazon updated it’s API and the Amazon script I’m using broke (need to find a new one)! That’s 2 months in a row increasing revenue after a 7 month stretch of revenue falling: best month was November 2008 with $5,802.50 earned, so still $2,000 down from that high (high was due to a Clickbank product updating).

Private sales have again increased, August made almost $2,300 and looks like I’m already at $2,600 for September. Going to keep working on private ad sales as this is nice growth.

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 August 2009

July 2009 revenue is listed in italics to the right

Google AdSense Revenue : $1,144.25 ($36.91 a day) $1,188.22 ($38.33 a day)
ClickBank : $331.36 ($10.69 a day) $367.93 ($11.87 a day)
Amazon + Shareasale : $63.97 ($2.06 a day) $89.47 ($2.89 a day)
Private Ads : $2,293.31 ($73.978 a day) $1,807.5 ($58.31 a day)

Still not doing much in new affiliate terms.

August Affiliate Revenue = $3,832.89 ($123.64 a day) $3,453.12 ($111.39 a day)
Extrapolation = $45,129.19 a year $40,657.70 a year a year

If I save every penny from 1st August 2009 and make this amount of money every month from now on it will take just over 22 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
August 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)
Affiliate Report July 31st 2009 : $3,453.12 $51,688.22 426 ($121.37 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report August 31st 2009 : $3,832.89 $55,521.11 457 ($121.37 average earnings per day)

Since June 1st 2008 to August 31st 2009 I’ve made $55,521.11 from affiliate revenue sources.

Average monthly revenue (15 months) $3,701.41 $3,692.02

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

Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 457 days) : $121.37 a day, at this rate will take just over 22 1/2 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.

I seem to have hit a small hill with regards my back/fitness improving (had two vertebrate fused in February). The good news is I’m finally fit/well enough to walk to the beach and back (we live in a small seaside town). Takes just under an hour for me to walk (wife comes with me every time which is great) from our home to the beach, along one section of beach and back home again. Currently managing one walk like this a day, finding it’s taking almost an entire day to recover from the walk, so have tended to go later and later (9pm-10pm some nights!) as I feel better in the evening. Unfortunately, if I take even a single day off from the walk it puts my progress back about a week (I feel awful), so HAVE to walk everyday no matter what! OK now (end of summer), but it’s going to be real difficult to do this over winter when it’s freezing cold and I haven’t thought of an alternative yet! Have put the punch bag up, so might do some boxing (I enjoy boxing, but with my back it hurts after) and a smaller walk (don’t fancy walking on a beach in December!).

I let our car pretty much die on us this year (less than 20,000 miles on a X reg: 10 years old, we’ve had it 9 years and done about 12,000 miles in total), tax ran out, MOT ran out and I know the alternator is shot (replacing it costs more than the car is worth). Been wanting to buy a new car, but don’t want to spend £5,000+ on a car I might not be able to use a reasonable amount because of my back (12K miles in 9 years isn’t much use, current car has moss growing on it)! So we’ve gone without a car for a few months waiting to see how my back goes, if it improved significantly I’d buy a decent car, if not…. I’m at the stage where a car would be helpful. Just to make things more fun our car fell outside the government scrappage scheme by a year! It’s 10 years old now, so that sucks as could have got it through it’s MOT for £50 (already gone through an MOT with a broken alternator!), paid 6 months tax and got at least £2,000 of a brand new car. Could have got a brand new car from £4,000 I think, which would have been great as current car can’t be worth more than a few hundred pounds now.

I just broke 3,000 Twitter followers, well 2,999 but hoping I get one more before I post this Still no idea what to do with Twitter, seems such a waste of time so far as not making any money from it. Admittedly I’m not post regularly and suspect 99.99% of people following me aren’t the type to buy a theme or anything, just looking to SPAM other Twitter uses.