My Journey January to March 2007 - $7,942
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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Way to go! I am impressed at your income levels. How much do you spend on advertising or is this all natural search results?
BeachBum
I do spend about $400 / month on AdWords. Some occasional advertising here and there, especially submitting a press release, and also via Pay Per Post.
Congrats Bala!
What is your goal after $10k?
Shud be 20k ……
Would you think Gobala is the top 5 internet marketer in Malaysia?
Erm, 20k? Even that looks achievable this month, or maybe closer to 18k I dunno I have to see there’s 24 hours left
Gobala
Congrats! Also thanks for sharing this information online. Not many IM revealed how much they earn online. You are one of the rare few. Courageous!
I opt to go offline now with Wordpress Blogging Seminars using online strategies and its kind of bearing fruits now, after about a month into it.
I look forward to your next post when you make your $10K, ok? And thanks for backing us at WPAM.
May Ong
Founder of WPAM
for “Wordpress Blogging Seminar”
ohh you are very smart n intelligence
great to see ur income keep increasing year by year
very inspired after reading ur post Internet marketing journey , gives hopes to all the internet marketer out there .. keep up the good work, hope to follow ur footsteps soon 