My Internet marketing journey needed an update, and I decided I’m going to have quarterly recaps as seperate posts to avoid one super-long post. So here it is..
The first 3 months of 2007 came and went rather quietly as I was either working or several projects at once, or merely updating my existing sites. Still, my income continued to increase, especially from promoting affiliate programs.
Some products I’ve promoted successfully:
- Auto Social Poster – I’ve made over $680 and still get about 2-3 sales / month. It’s a very unique software for WordPress blogs.
- RSS to Blog – The software itself is expensive, so needless to say although I make about 3-5 sales per month, it can come up to about $400 a month in affiliate commissions. My main promotion method is to create a Camtasia video on it, just allowing it to gather traffic and sales over time.
- HostGator Hosting – I recreated my sales page for HostGator, and increase my affiliate commissions to about $600 / month.
- MySpace Marketing – I did a quick interview with the product owner, and used that to drive affiliate sales. I think I made about 16 sales from my main promotion back in October 2006 and still make about 1-2 sales /month as I’m writing this. The interview transctip till date has been downloaded more than 1,500 times.
I discovered Jon Leger’s $7 scripts, which really opened up a new way of making money while building a big list. It’s a simple script that pays out 100% commissions to your affiliate’s Paypal account immediately. By selling a product for cheap (say $7.00), you’ll tend to get a flurry of affiliate interest which can help you build a bigger list. I’ve heard of people building lists of 10,000+ just using this technique.
I also started to really organize and track my email marketing promotions and affiliate links which were scattered all over my blog and websites. One of the software I invested in is GoTryThis(Black Hat Version) which has helped me understand affiliate marketing like never before.
By end of March 2007, I was making about $7,000+ monthly, or roughly about $35 / hour. The highest income was in March itself at $7,942, so that’s good news. Small increase, but at least I now have stability, which still eludes most internet marketers out there.
As far as blogging goes, I discovered MyBlogLog and Windows Live Writer, two tools that helped me connect better with my blog readers and also create new posts easily. I also added writers to my WordPress Tutorials blog, and the extra posts did bring in much more traffic than just me alone.
Let’s call it a slow start too 2007
The next quarter, however, my income maxed to the elusive $10k, but that’s really another story for another time.

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