January Earnings, February Goals
I apologize for not updating consistently for the last couple of days, things have been pretty much out of order for me since the month only started which means I have to pay & collect some cash. Anyway, in the menu tonight:
Earnings for January
February goals
Notable posts & plans for AlleNation
Earnings for January
Income:
- Google Adsense: $1,310 ( $1,966 in December, 33% decline)
- Direct link sales: $0 ($30 in in December)
- BlogAds: $220 ($80 in December, 275% growth)
- Text-Link-Ads: $48 ($20 in December)
- Website sales: $0 ($1400 in December)
- FeedBurner Ad Network: $62 ($69 in December)
- Paid posting: $92
Total income: $1732
Expenses:
- Domain name purchases: $9 ($27 in December)
- Link Purchases: $15
- Paid posting: $35
Total expenses: $59
Net profit for January: $1673 ($3459 in December, 190% decline)
(December’s earnings)
Analyzing my statistics superficially, you may think that my ship is sinking with %190 decline in earnings. That is, if you count the website sale in December’s earnings, which is naturally isn’t going to happen every month. If we exclude that sale from the statistics, we get a milder decline of 19%.
While I’m happy with the increasing diversification of income streams, the 33% decline in Adsense is something I need to take care of and ensure that there is an increase in this month’s Adsense earnings, I know January is usually the least profitable month since advertisers are taking a break after Christmas, but - the decrease was also as a result of less page impressions served in January.
February goals
Notable posts & plans for AlleNation
This month was a very busy one, 19 posts were published and a whopping 100 new comments were added, an average of 5.25 comments for every post published! and since most of them are of some value at the least, I’m enjoying this blog.
I’m also quite overwhelmed with the amount of emails I started receiving since adding the “Contact” page, I’ve met several new business enthusiasts and was glad to give a hand for a few starting bloggers.
As for the goals I’ve set earlier in this post, I’m planning to reach them by trying to provide even more value to my readers, I’ve got linked by Problogger last month, but the real promotion was done by you through word-of-mouth which is still the most effective method with web-biz blogs in my opinion. Here are the editor’s picks for this month:
“Limited Budgets, Unlimited Minds” series
1. Why You Should Always Strive For Perfection
2. The Myth We Need to Dispel
3. The Best Tool to Leverage Your Business
“5 Blog Aspects to Revise in 2007″ series
1. 5 Blog Aspects to Revise in 2007 (Part I)
2. 5 Blog Aspects to Revise in 2007 (Part II)
Allen, it sounds like you are doing great and have nice plans for February. I recently sold my first AdVolcano ad and that is my first income outside of Adsense.
Look forward to the next update to see how you did against February goals.