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My most Epic Income Report Yet! Feb – March – April – Over $4500!

So it’s been a very LONG 3 months to say the least! Lot’s have been happening for me in 2014 so far in terms of online projects. If you have read my previous income reports you will see that I was working on a TON of stuff all at once and I think I’ve really narrowed my focus down quite a bit to just a few projects at once while I finish up some one time projects such as my Kindle book and Fiverr Product launch.

I have actually been so busy these past few months it’s actually going to be difficult to get an exact number of what I’ve spent and earned between everything I have going on. I’m going to do the best I can to lay it all out in this report though, this will also include some income from the start of May.

The small stuff first:

$209 from Fiverr Income: $268 Total Earned – $35 spent on gigs If you haven’t noticed I have been posting a ton of interviews on my blog, these all come through from a very successful Fiverr gig I setup.

Here are some view stats on this gig, from left to right – impressions, clicks, page views, sales and conversions. This is within the last 30 days! 13k impressions is pretty awesome!

 

I liked this gig so much I made a product out of it and launched it last month.

$228.15 from Fiverr Untapped: $527.86 Paid to affiliates – 109 sales

$56.62 from Fiverr Untapped One Time Offer – $138.00 paid to affiliates and Vinny Bock – 14 sales

This was really my first “major” product launch. I put some real work into this after going through a course called Six Figure Alliance. I hired someone for $150 to create the sales page, this took a ton of planning and time. I also made tons of modifications to my product before launch. The product basically showed people how to create the Fiverr gig that was doing so well for me.

Overall the experience was cool, I got around 50 new leads from this and hopefully helped some people by creating an informative product. I think the best part about the launch was I finally got to be featured on the Mike From Maine show and I was also invited to join James Knight and Kristie Chiles for their interview show as well.

I actually just about broke even on this launch due to the sales page costs, I think If I were to do another product launch I’d spend a lot more time working on getting affiliates on board with me and get myself on the JV Calenders sooner then I had.

$120.28 from Udemy Product Sales – This was for both my SEO course and Podcasting course. I didn’t promote these at all, this all came from natural Udemy organic traffic.

$50 for selling HeadrestDVDPlayer.org – I sold this site to the owner of OnFair.com, I just had no interest in working on it anymore.

$200 for building PaleoVillage.com – Someone found my Prosociate Amazon affiliate site – SkullClothing.net and asked if I could build them something similar. I spent several weeks building out this site which the owner has since changed. This was a nice commission for building out an easy site.

$11.06 on my Kindle bookBuilding Authority Relationships Through Online Marketing So I finally launched my book! I did basically 1 day of crazy promotion and got 447 free downloads combined from the 4 day promotion!

Although I have not had tons of reviews pouring in (Only 5 right now) I did make a little money and I had fun writing it. I think I’ll be referencing the book all the time in the future and the people who gave me feedback on it loved it so I know I’m certainly helping people. I obviously didn’t expect to get rich from launching a Kindle book.

Special thanks to Jamie Cheng and Michael Young for helping me edit and format the book.

$30.87 from Amazon Affiliate Income

This has mainly come from SkullClothing.net, my site is actually ranking #1 for the primary keyword ‘skull clothing’ but is not bringing in a ton of revenue. I feel as though Skull Clothing is limited for content beyond just a “Store”.

Writing articles about this stuff is well… boring and difficult. I may hire some folks to write more for the site but wanted to find a niche with more potential.

I decided to focus on another project I can also work on with my girlfriend that would have that potential. I purchased http://www.kittycoaching.com which I picked up for $275, I talked the guy down from $375 and really liked the domain and niche. We have 2 kittens so I thought this would be a great project for Brenda and I to work on together.

I’ve started doing keyword research and having articles written for the site, as the current content is full of PLR content used in various locations online already. I plan to either remove it or reference it somehow on the site. I saw potential to write tons of articles and monetize with both Amazon and a clickbank product for Cat Training so I’m going after it!

The BIG Income!

So here is the exciting part of this report, gotta save the best for last right?

Well last July I interviewed Jon Haver of AuthorityWebsiteIncome.com we spoke here and there over email over the past year but nothing substantial. I featured Jon in one of my epic guest posts about email lists over on Entrepreneur on Fire. Jon saw guest posts I was writing such as this one about guest blogging over on Navid’s blog.

We initially discussed the idea of working on a site where we would write articles about the top email autoresponders, which turned into a bigger conversation of working together of something really big. Jon came up with the idea to partner up on building out a Private Blog Network, an SEO service we could sell to help people rank their sites. You can see the results Jon and our clients had in this post.

We spent over a month planning and discussing all of the details, looking at any obstacles that would get in the way of the project. We ended up basically splitting all profits 50/50. Jon would build the network itself and I’d handle all of the work for the customers. This would include handling emails from customers, having articles written for the sites and making sure everything was going smoothly.

I worked diligently over a month to build LightningRank.com, I’m not going to go into huge detail about the service itself in this post since there is plenty of information on the site itself. In a nutshell we place 100% unique high quality articles on the home page of really high authority sites. Receiving a backlink from sites like these provides a HUGE boost in search engine rankings, it’s great for people looking to rank niche sites monetized with Amazon products or any niche really.

When we opened the doors around March 8th to our beta group I was all over the place, I was scrambling to hire people on oDesk to write articles, I was having problems with non-native English speaking writers and just moving data back and forth within spreadsheets. I stayed up some nights until 1am with my girlfriend writing article titles and publishing blog posts, it sucked!

I looked around for several weeks to find an automated solution finally deciding on WP Project Manager for WordPress. This plugin allows me to manage data for each client easily without the headache of a massive spreadsheet full of data. Despite doing this I still struggled and found myself needing to hire a Virtual Assistant. I ended up hiring 3 people from the Philippines, perfect timing for reading Chris Ducker’s book Virtual Freedom!

I ended up creating in depth training guide for the VA’s which worked great, one VA made some serious linking errors so I was hesitant to continue having her work. Another VA did everything as asked within a timely fashion and the last VA was utilizing what’s called “manual time” on oDesk racking up the max amount of available hours. They basically used about 80 hours of time for maybe 20 hours of work, I ended up challenging about 40 of those hours and getting my money back.

I then went back to oDesk looking at other options and found a girl who manages a team of VA’s and writers, this stream lined my process for Lightning Rank substantially. I simply send her the information for each client and her writers will create content for each blog from scratch and her VA will publish the articles.

This setup makes the entire business flow almost entirely outsourced, for Jon he simply builds the sites and profits while I outsource writing and blog publishing. Of course the investment of the network is a whole other story, Jon has spent thousands just to build the network to where it is today.

Since we offer 2 packages and it’s recurring, the profits have been amazing! $75 for 1 and $300 for 5.

Here are the numbers so far as of today, this is the total counts from March 8th to May 7th (3 months):

$1,072.53 for the 1 Post Package – Gross $1,875.02 – $802.49 Paid to Jon with a total of 27 Sales

$4,929.40 for the 5 Post Package – Gross $9,383.02 – $4,053.62 Paid to Jon with a total of 35 sales.

Other Awesome Things That Have Happened For Me

-I got a new full time job and left my 6 year job at Omtool doing tech support. I am now working full time for a company that sells mostly Winter and Summer kids clothing. They have an item that is selling like crazy on Amazon, it made them just over 300k in profits from Amazon over the winter time. It basically is dominating the kids winter glove niche.

I make $19 an hour with them but don’t get health insurance or any benefits, but I was also recently promoted with a “bonus” of earning 5% of all online sales based on a growth percentage. My boss suspects this will equal out to around $5000 per year and will be split into 2 payments. I could potentially scale this if I can help the company sell a hit item on Amazon. I basically spend my days on eBay, Amazon and working with a new Magento based store. I enjoy this job a lot more then my last because it’s very laid back, only around 6-7 employees and I’m learning eCommerce all day. It’s kind of like I go into “work” to do online marketing. Really awesome!

-I got to interview the lead singer of one of my favorite bands of all time! I posted this on my blog Metalcore Kingdom since it does not really fit the niche here.

-I got invited to join Andrew Warner’s TrueMind course for free as an original beta tester. I haven’t dived into the course yet but would like to tackle it within the coming months. To buy the course I believe the cost is over $500! So this was pretty awesome.

-Free SheerSEO basic account for writing this review post.

-Free 1 year subscription for the medium package at ClickMeter.com for publishing this interview – Valued at $396!

-Free listing at Flippa.com for replying to a promotional email.

This post featuring my interview with John Lee Dumas went live on the Blueprint Entrepreneur blog!

What I spent money on these past few months:

-$40 on Fiverr Untapped sales thread for the Warrior Forum

-$20 for Thread Bump on Warrior Forum

-$150 on sales page for Fiverr Untapped

-$275 on KittyCoaching.com

-$59 on WP Project Manager Pro

-$97 Long Tail Pro

-$45 for 3 months of GetResponse

-$111 for 3 months of LeadPages Subscription

-$47 on Thrive Content Builder with multiple site license (Used to build Lightning Rank)

-$100 on Keyword Research Package from Matt Allen

-$29 Wonder All My Share Software – This let’s me rip videos from YouTube for podcasts

 Content for Lightning Rank:

-$183.63 on Virtual Assistants & Article Writing through oDesk

-$862 To Previous Article Writer

-$260 To New Article Writer

Total Earned: $6907.91

Total Spent: $2278.63

Total Income: $4629.28

So granted this is 3 months of income, the majority of it has come from Lightning Rank and it’s growing REALLY fast! I tend to go to sleep and wake up finding Paypal notifications on my phone due to new subscribers of the service. At this point I plan to slow down partially with my Podcast and focus most of my effort on bringing in new clients with Lightning Rank. I’ve officially passed my full time job income with the profits being earned from the SEO service.

Special thanks to Jon Haver for partnering up with me on such a lucrative business opportunity, at the rate we are going in 6 more months the profits will be insane!

 

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My January Income Report – Small Amounts Of Easy Income

Today I’m posting my income report for January, this has not been a mind blowing month in terms of income by any means but I’m starting to see traction with a lot of projects I’ve worked on over the past several months. Being inspired by Pat Flynn’s motto of “work hard now, reap the benefits later”. That is exactly what is starting to happen with me.

In my last income report I mentioned a TON of projects I had going on, most of which were one time ordeals so this month I’ve tried to minimized the amount of things I’ve been doing and tried to stay more focused. Mostly on product creation and my interview show.

So let’s dive right into the income shall we?

$80 for assisting in the sale of a website – See my interview with Tom E. for more details on this. I originally was told I’d be making 8% of a website sale of $8000, the person who purchased the site has been paying in increments of $80 so this month I received another $80 and was told this will continue for the next few months till the customer pays off the site.

$22 for writing a testimonial for the Prosociate plugin. I picked up an Amazon niche site plugin called Prosociate earlier last year for building out sites like http://www.skullclothing.net the owner of the plugin was looking for success stories and I happened to make $22 in commissions with the plugin so he agreed to pay me an additional $22 for a testimonial and review.

$2.26 for Amazon income from SkullClothing.net I realized this month If I’m going to continue with my niche site I need to make major changes, I already found some major SEO flaws that I could easily fix I will be working on in February.

$44 from Fiverr Gig Income – I’ve been having a lot of success with a Fiverr gig, so much so I actually spent a weekend and created a whole course for how I setup and profit with the gig. I plan on launching this on the WarriorForum at some point in February.

$45.45 from Simple Novice Profits. (I split 50% commissions with Vinny Bock)

$44.25 From My Podcasting course on UdemyLearn Podcasting From Expert Online Marketing Entrepreneurs. I decided to essentially re-purpose a lot of content I already had and create a simple Udemy Podcasting course. It’s full of current interviews I’ve done with multiple podcast show hosts sharing all kinds of great information. It’s got over 7+ hours of interview content and additional videos from me on using Google Hangouts and Auphonic to setup your podcast.

I also priced my course lower than all other podcast courses on Udemy at only $10. I used some free coupon incentives to drive a TON of new members into my course, I was able to bring in over 1000 free members in 24 hours which is also more than any other podcast course available.

This worked very well because Udemy has been driving sales for me organically. Randomly throughout the month I’ll get 50% commissions from people who find the course in the Udemy marketplace. Since there are so many people enrolled I give off a great “social proof” status with 13 reviews and 1000+ students. Special thanks to Borja and Darrin for willingly picking up my course for the full price just to support my show!

$100 for doing an interview for the Blueprint Entrepreneur Magazine – I did an interview with John Lee Dumas which I will be posting in February, I agreed to let another magazine contributor write an article based on an interview I did with John about webinars. I haven’t been paid for this yet but I completed it in January so I suspect I’ll get this at some point in early-mid February.

Total Earned $337.96

Other projects and updates – Stuff in the works!

Re-branding on Udemy – As I’ve mentioned in prior posts, back in September I helped Vinny Bock re-create his membership site for Simple Novice Profits. We decided this month to re-brand our course with some small modifications and launch it on Udemy. This went live late January and we are working on getting it into the public listings on Udemy (They are complaining about video quality currently).

I put a good amount of time into this and discussing it with Vinny quite a bit to drive more organic traffic within the Udemy marketplace. The re-branded course is called “How To Outsource SEO on Fiverr To Generate Profit” It can be purchased right now for $40, but for my readers you can get a 50% off coupon and purchase it for only $20 here.

My Upcoming Kindle Book – I finished up a 25,000 word Kindle book with the help of Jamie Cheng and Michael Young (Thanks guys). Michael Is currently helping me with formatting so I’m hoping to launch this in February finally.

I moved to a new web host called Axcelx – I have had some past dilemmas with web hosting, my site Metalcore Kingdom is hosted by my buddy Armin. The past issues I’ve run into were having changes made last minute such as hitting bandwidth caps and him not being able to fix the problem right away.

I decided when I was going to build out Voices Of Marketing among other sites I’d get a Bluehost account after seeing pretty much everyone and their mother promote it. I had my websites go down not 1 or 2 times but either “lag out” or be completely unreachable probably 5 or 6 times that I knew about so overall I have not been very happy with them, both in terms of speed and down time.

Now thankfully I have good friends and a great connection, James Thomas is the owner of a Boston Colocation web hosting company Axcelx. James graciously has allowed me to host all of my sites for free, the speed in load times literally increased by 10x the amount after moving my sites over to him, even better is I was paying Bluehost around $75 a year for hosting and James is a good friend so I’m no longer paying for my web hosting.

Truemind Course – I was in a beta training group with Andrew Warner of Mixergy several months ago, I was given an opportunity this month to be part of the final course for free so I’m excited about this as well.

Six Figure Alliance – I’m 4 weeks into a course all about product creation, my plan is to learn some tactics to promote Simple Novice Profits and launch a new Fiverr WSO in February. So far the course has been very helpful and well worth it.

Here is what I spent money on this month:

-$5 on a Kindle eBook Cover on Fiverr

-$5 on a logo for my Udemy Podcasting course

-$2 for a logo for my “How To Outsource SEO On Fiverr” Udemy Course (This was split with Vinny Bock)

-$5 on having a new intro done for my show, I was able to get a voice over from Jeff Brown for free.

-$5 for a Fiverr gig to get myself interviewed on another blog

-$15 on GetResponse email autoresponder

-$37 on LeadPages.net membership (I’m thinking of cancelling as my use for this has been limited lately)

-$37 on Linkclaw – This is an SEO application that basically creates backlinks for your backlinks using an RSS feed and automation through apps like Hootsuite. Very interesting stuff, I was intrigued by what It could do so I picked it up. It’s basically running on auto-pilot for me now.

I’m probably missing a couple small things here, but off hand can’t think of them.

Spent $111

Total Profit $226.96

So not as great as the last couple of months, but I know with some of these other projects in the works I should start seeing more income through the start of the new year.

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November & December Income Report – Shiny Object Syndrome

*Edited 1/2/2014* I made some more money, I suppose I should have waited to post this!

I’ve decided to create a combined income report for November and December. Even though it’s currently the 20th I don’t know how much more income will be coming in with the holidays coming up and me most likely being away from the computer.

I have a lot to update you with as I’ve been working on a lot. Probably far too much in fact for someone who still has a full time job. I had a total of 2 and 1/2 weeks off from my full time job in December so this gave me a lot of time to work on these projects.

I thought I’d list each of my current happenings out as projects and talk about each and what I’m currently doing with them. These months have not particularly been the best for me but I’m still moving forward with my business ventures and not giving up by any means.

*Please note I do include various affiliate links in this post, if you decide to purchase any of the products mentioned I’d really appreciate you going through my link!

Project 1 – Blueprint Entrepreneur

In November I worked a TON on a guest blog post and magazine article for the Blueprint Entrepreneur magazine. I spent probably over 15+ hours between creating an outline of questions, doing my interview with Ramsay Taplin and creating a monster guest post I got published:

How To Guest Blog The Right Way With Ramsay Taplin

Navid loved this post so much we spent about 3 hours on a Skype call last week brainstorming names and e-mailing people to create a follow up round-up post:

32 Experts Share Their Best Guest Blogging Tips

Navid did most of this post himself but I did connect him with a few of the folks on the list.

Writing for the magazine has been my biggest source of income online but also in my opinion the most frustrating, I’ve always thought my writing was pretty good but now that I’m writing for a magazine on iTunes I’m realizing how many revisions I need to make to the content I create. This has taken up MANY hours of my time and sometimes I’d spend entire nights after work just re-editing an entire article to make more changes.

Despite being able to get it done, it’s killing my time to work on my show and some of these other projects that won’t necessarily require more time. Thankfully in the future I’m now going to be doing JUST the interviews and working on the outline with questions for each interview. The outlines usually take me 30-45 minutes. The content for each interview will be written by someone else who writes for Blueprint Entrepreneur.

I’m just not sure how much I’ll be getting paid now since most of my time was devoted to the actual articles, either way I’d rather focus on other things with this time.

Project 2 – Guest Blogging Kindle Book with Navid Moazzez

Navid thought it would be a good idea to potentially go 50/50 by combining the content from my guest post / magazine article and his round up post to create an epic eBook we could have published on the Kindle platform. This has not really “started” but the content is there and it would be simple once we figure out how to get content published on Kindle. This is new to me and I’m not sure how or when we will go about this.

Project 3 – The Ultimate Guide To Reaching Out To Online Entrepreneurs – WSO To Kindle Book

A couple months ago I released an eBook as a product on the Warrior Forum, spending $40 and only making 1 sale at $7 this was pretty much an epic failure. I thought about taking the content and publishing it as a Kindle eBook for $3 on the Amazon store. Michael Young, one of my fans and followers of my show has gladly offered to help me by giving me tips for improving the book and even suggested having a few of my interviews transcribed and added as content within the book. Currently I’m doing this with my Pat Flynn’s interview and Andrew Warner’s through a gig on oDesk and I hope to have most of this done by the end of January if not sooner.

Project 4 – Arbitrage Logo Design Using Arbitrage Underdog, Craigslist & Fiverr

I used the Arbitrage Underdog software to find a logo design gig on Craigslist a couple months ago, I probably WILL NOT be doing this form of arbitrage again because of the hassles that have come from just this one logo I’ve been working on.

Initially I had a logo done for a company that stated if they picked my logo from many others who were working on logos for them they would pay me for it so I took a risk paying for a $5 gig not knowing if they would pick me.

They ended up picking me but I had to go back in forth with a somewhat slow to respond Fiverr seller to finally get the logo revised how the client wanted it. Other problem questions come up such as “What font did you use?” that I couldn’t answer without waiting maybe 2-3 days for a response. Finally the company asked for a PSD editable version of the logo so they could make some revisions, I had to pay the Fiverr seller $40 for this totaling $45 invested without seeing any payment. As of writing this the customer promised a payment of $75 on the 19th and today is the 20th. For a ton of hassle and a mere $20 profit doing “logo creation arbitrage” I most likely will never attempt this again through Craigslist & Fiverr.

*Edit 1/2/2014* I got paid for this gig, I was paid $75 and it cost me $45 so I made $30 but overall I probably wouldn’t bother with this again.

Project 5 – Assistance With Selling A Website using Arbitrage Underdog

Several months ago I used Arbitrage Underdog to find a gig and work with someone to help them sell a website for $8000. You can read more about this in my interview with Tom E. here. I originally thought I’d be profiting $640 for this, as I was promised 8% of the $8000 sale price. The customer who paid for the site only gave the client I worked with $2000 as an initial deposit which yielded me $160.

Currently the customer is stating he is not getting many leads from the site and cannot currently pay for the remaining $6000 all at once. Last week I received a call from the client I worked with to sell the site telling me this and that our customer may potentially continue to pay in small amounts.

Luckily the owner of the site has been very good about communication with me and has been very fair about holding up my end of the profit. I’m not betting on earning anymore from this but all in all I still made out pretty good without putting a ton of work into this.

*Edit 1/2/2014* I am told the seller of the site is going to be receiving more funds for this so I should make some more money from this in January

Project 6 – Simple Novice Profits Course

I have talked about this briefly in past posts but wanted to explain this in more detail in today’s report. Back in September I watched an interview on the Mike From Maine show about an interesting course where you can profit using a form of arbitrage with SEO services. I liked the idea behind the course so much I connected with the owner and purchased the product for $10. We then began a 50/50 partnership to re-create his course and turn it into a huge membership site with tons of videos, PDF’s and great content all for arbitrage tactics surrounding SEO services.

We launched the product finally in November, with neither of us really having any JV partners or knowledge of ways to get eyes on the product beyond the Warrior Forum Special Offer Section. This turned into a lot of time and money on my part with currently little return. Because Vinny created the course and all of the content we agreed to have me front the initial $100 in ad costs while we split all additional profits 50/50. This yielded me $26 in profit but between my Facebook ad spend and the thread creation costs I’ve lost over $80.

It’s a bit depressing all in all as I’ve spent well over 50-60+ hours if not more on Skype calls with Vinny and designing the membership site and I have actually currently lost both my time and around $80+ from advertising the membership site. I recently re-designed the home page with Vinny’s original sales page and turned it into a sales page using Leadpages. I then went through a course called Facebook Dynamo to learn all about Facebook ads. I am still learning how to do them properly without blowing all of my money. So far I have learned a TON, but am being cautious.

Today I received a promo to try Yahoo ads with a $25 free credit so I am attempting this before going back to Facebook ads, we have done some testing by sending users to a free report landing page. The Free report explains the product and encourages them to pay for the full product by just providing the tip of the iceberg for what we have to offer in the membership area.

I’m by no means giving up on this product as I know there is a TON of value in it’s contents, it’s a matter of getting more traffic to it.

Project 7 – Six Figure Alliance Training

This was my big expense the past couple of months. Since I had some success with Arbitrage Underdog and have now been following Tom E for over a year he is one of the few marketers I REALLY pay attention to when I see his email land in my inbox. He learned how to create and promote AU by going through a coaching program called Six Figure Alliance, run by a big name internet marketer named Kenster. Tom sent out in email in November mentioning that anyone who signed up with him for SFA through his affiliate link would get access to this course that only opens up twice a year. They would also get access to Tom’s next product Piggyback Payday that he was working on which he spoke very highly of during our interview.

I thought to myself that everyone and their mom is creating products these days to profit online, why not jump in and learn for myself?

I knew I was missing something big after attempting to profit with Simple Novice Profits. I’ve currently gone through about 2 weeks of the total 6 week training. So far the course is one of the best I’ve ever paid for, it’s very straight forward and is full of useful information. My problem has been dedicating time to it. My goal is to spend a lot more time with the course in the next few months doing as much as possible and then using what I learn to possibly re-launch Simple Novice Profits.

Project 8 – PiggyBack Payday and the creation of RecentGamingNews.com – Auto-pilot Income?

As a follow up to joining SFA, last week I received a beta copy from Tom to try out his new plugin for WordPress. It’s quite literally different from any other IM product out there today as it could potentially bring in auto-pilot income.

While dabbling around earlier this year I read up on CPA marketing, basically signing up for a few affiliate networks that involve using ads to earn profits. An example might be using a landing page to win a free iPhone or Ipad, maybe a Dunkin Donuts gift card. If someone enters an e-mail on my landing page using my link I’d earn anywhere in the range of say $0.75 cents to a couple dollars. I easily got accepted months ago into a network called Affiliaxe. I made some money months ago using a forum tactic I tested (I won’t be sharing this tactic today) but never continued doing much with CPA and decided I was already doing WAY too many other things.

This plugin basically allows you to pull content from other sites RSS feeds and automatically publish it to your blog, what’s even more crazy about this is the content published also can be auto syndicated to multiple other social sites like Twitter, Livejournal, Friendfeed, Facebook, Blogger, Tumblr etc. The content is published on your blog as a “spun” article. This basically is taking the content and replacing synonyms with other words to make the content appear unique to the search engines, slightly Black Hat but even big name SEO guys like Rob Fore do this.

I decided to go after the gaming niche and create RecentGamingNews.com, I chose this based on a possibly easier to rank term “Recent Gaming News” with enough content. I pull content from 10 different gaming RSS feeds, twice a day 10 articles are published totaling up to 20 articles per day!

When a user clicks on a news story they actually stay on my site but the link re-directs them to the full story, say on IGN or Gamespot. After about 20 seconds I can have a pop up appear with one of these offers of my choice. I am using an offer from the game World Of Tanks which is very targeted and appealing to people who might be reading gaming news. If someone signs up I earn a couple bucks. I also use 3 gaming offers as side bar ads on my site through widgets. It took me about 5-6 hours to setup the site with WordPress, Analytics, Social Accounts etc. but it is now running on total autopilot.

As time goes on Google will index my content and I suspect I will see all sorts of traffic randomly coming in from the social networks and Google Organic traffic. I will provide an update in 5-6 weeks. They are also planning to add Social ADR support giving them the capability to syndicate with over 40 social networking sites!

Project 9 – HeadrestDVDPlayer.org Amazon Niche Site

This was the first site I started under my Bluehost account, it has made me a very small amount of Amazon commissions but I am no longer currently working on it. It won’t be included in this report but between time, spent and attempting to sell it on Flippa I have lost a lot of money on this site.

*Edit 1/2/2014* I actually made a $500 sale from this site last week yielding me a $20 commission! I might re-consider having articles written for it.

Project 10 – SkullClothing.net Amazon Niche Site

This was a project to help me sort of work with my girlfriend on a fun project together while we bring in some side income.

In October Matt Allen from DumbPassiveIncome.com went ahead and did keyword research on my niche site without me even asking (Thanks Matt) he then offered me the research for a huge discount of $37. Matt offered me the last “discount” price now charging $100 for this service. Based on the information he provided I followed his outsourcing guide and hired someone he recommended on oDesk to write 10 articles for the site.

They wrote them more or less exceeding my expectations for only $20, each article averages about 600 words and required mostly only minor editing. I am currently in the process of publishing them.

I asked for help on the Warrior Forum and got TONS of suggestions on how to improve this site.

I also paid for a Fiverr gig that promised organic traffic from a specific keyword, according to Google Analytics it’s actually working and sending me as many as 50 visitors per day from the term ‘skull clothing’! I just can’t say I’ve made any sales from the traffic or not.

Click here to learn more about Matt’s Keyword Research Service.

Project 11 – MetalcoreKingdom.com and the creation of a Podcast.

This is a heavy metal music video site I’ve been running now for over a year, it’s basically a site built out of passion for music with no real intent of making an income. I do try to spend a few minutes on it once a week though adding music videos. Many pages do have an Amazon affiliate widget with a music player but I don’t see enough traffic to earn with this.

I previously wrote about a joint venture partnership I had using a Facebook fan page but the owner has hardly helped me the past 6+ months so I decided to take away the their fan page promotion from the site and just promote my own fan page. I also added a pop up incentive to get more fans.

A few weeks back I thought it would be cool to create a podcast featuring my own thoughts and take on current bands while also playing music during a podcast episode. I spent a Saturday working on this and ended up getting it approved on Stitcher but not iTunes due to Copyright issues. I love the idea of the podcast for this site but I realized with all these things I have going on I just don’t have the time and most likely won’t see much if any profit from doing this even though music is a huge passion of mine.

This project will be on the back burner for a while as I just add music videos and let traffic come organically through Google as it has for the last year or so.

Project 12 – Interview with HubSpot about how I use WordPress

Using Arbitrage Underdog I found a company looking for info on how companies use their WordPress sites, it happened to lead to an interview with Hubspot. They basically showed me an Alpha plugin called Leadin that captures data about where visitors go on your site after they submit an inquiry through a contact form. They sent me a $30 Amazon gift card for helping them and spending an hour of time with them and gave me FREE access to the Alpha plugin for testing!

Project 13 – Selling Woman’s purses on eBay

In September I invested $500 with a lifelong friend who has been having a lot of success buying woman’s purses in bulk and then selling them on eBay. After several months Anthony was able to return $613 to me yielding me $113 in profit based on the $500 he was able to use towards the bulk purchase of these purses. Pretty easy money with a high return on investment.

Project 14 – HostMyDot WebHosting Partnership

I’m not going to include numbers in this report, I explained this in my last income report so you can learn more about this in that post. Basically I have been given the “run around” on this for now 3 months and have not been paid a dime after investing $2000. The owner of HostMyDot claims he is having issues with Paypal and needs to switch to another payment processor. He has not completely cut off communication with me or anything so I’m not entirely sure where this is going at this point.

If it does not pan out I’m out $2000, the only “good” thing is I do have a written contract regarding this agreement.

*Edit 1/2/2014* I received an e-mail from the owner stating that he will have payments sent out to his investors this month as he is still getting a payment processor setup other than Paypal. I am really hoping this works out otherwise I’m out a lot of money.

Project 15 – Fiverr Gigs For Profit

I saw Mike Thomas made almost $500 extra last month from doing Fiverr Gigs so he made a course about how he did it and sold it for $5. I picked it up and spent some time last week creating gigs but Fiverr has been a pain about accepting my images so this is something I’m going to re-visit in the next week or so.

*Edit 1/2/2014* I am seeing thousands of impressions on a couple gigs I created, hoping to make some profit this month with them.

Project 16 – Voices Of Marketing – My Primary focus

I’ve actually been doing a ton with posting new interviews the past couple weeks. Most of my guests have been from the HARO platform and I still have a lot of people to reach out to at the time of writing this. My initial goal was to maintain 1 interview per week and I’ve not officially hit 50 episodes!

I have 5 new episodes to post I’ve yet work on but will be posting through out the next couple weeks.

I’ve been spending some time in the Podcasters Paradise forums and I’ve even now been interviewed by a couple other podcast show hosts.

I also spent several hours last week trying to get more reviews and rating on iTunes. I’m now up to 36 which looks pretty good compared to a lot of other podcasts I’ve seen out there struggling to break even 10.

The Numbers

Income:

$400 for the magazine article / guest post I did for the Blueprint Entrepreneur Magazine

$160 for assisting with the sale of a website using Arbitrage Underdog (potential to be paid more for this but still up in the air)

$2.50 from Amazon affiliates both through either Headrestdvdplayer.org or skullclothing.net

$13 from Arbitrage Underdog affiliate profits 50/50 split with Vinny Bock

$26 from Simple Novice Profits

$30 Amazon Gift Card for WordPress Interview with HubSpot

$113 from my woman’s purse eBay investment with Anthony

*Edit 1/2/2014*

$30 for logo arbitrage

$20 Amazon commissions

$27 from Arbitrage Underdog Sales

Total $821.50

Spent:

$397 on Six Figure Alliance membership with Kenster

$74 on Leadpages ($37 monthly)

$30 on GetResponse ($15 monthly)

$13 FB Dynamo Membership Course – Learning How To Use Facebook Newsfeed Ads

$100 on Warrior Forum promotion – Sales Thread & Free Report Thread were $40 each, one thread “bump” was split 50/50 with Vinny and this cost me another $20 totaling $100.

$13 for refunding a copy of Simple Novice Profits

$12 on Facebook Ads for Simple Novice Profits

$5 for Fiverr Course from Mike From Maine

$37 for keyword research from Matt Allen for SkullClothing.net – This was a discount price, Matt will now be charging $97 for this service.

$22 on having 10 articles written for SkullClothing.net

$5 Fiverr gig for attempting to get organic traffic on SkullClothing.net

$45 for having a logo done using a Fiverr Gig using Arbitrage (I have not been paid yet, won’t be doing this again)

Total Spent $753

Profit $68.50

Lessons Learned

I actually didn’t realize HOW MUCH I’m doing until I typed this whole report out today. Most of these were ‘one time’ projects. Through out the start of the new year I’ll be getting more focused with my Six Figure Alliance training and promoting Voices Of Marketing more.

I’m not investing into anything major as I already have been scammed numerous times in the past and may currently be dealing with a new one with this HostMyDot agreement.

I’m also not going to be buying any more training courses for a while as I don’t need the distractions, I have so much on my plate as is for someone who already works full time 40 hours a week and has a girlfriend. On top of all this can you believe I’ve watched all of season 1 through 6 of Dexter in about a month with my girlfriend?

It’s all come down to dedicating my time in the right places, these next few months are going to allow me to focus on what’s working and what’s not now that I’ve learned a thing or two.