End of the month and time for another MyBlogEarnings report. As previously promised, I will keep producing these reports as judging by the feedback on previous reports, a lot of readers have found them useful. Writing the reports has also proven useful for me, as the comments left have given me a lot of new ideas and things to try out.
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So, how did May go? Well, I did a very poor job of delivering against the tasks I set myself last month. Here’s a quick recap of last months actions:
- Implement direct sales plan
For the second month running this didn’t get off the ground. I think one of the problems of being your own boss, is there is no-one to chase you on tasks. I’m determined to do implement this plan in July. I think what I’m going to do is get someone to nag me everyday until I do.
- Concentrate on building traffic and improving Alexa Rank
After slacking off a bit in March and April on my posts, I had a lot of fun posting in May. I also had some additional motivation to try and grow the blog audience, as I ordered a new car in May, which arrives in September. As I mentioned last month I’d already hit my budgeted target of $6k/pm last month, so I set myself a new target of increasing my income enough by September to cover the lease cost of the new car.
The Connected Internet team also added a few new members, and I’ve really enjoyed reading the teams’ posts and work. Working as a team has been a lot of fun, and I’ve also enjoyed coaching the guys and hopefully it will help them improve their personal sites.
- Directory Moved From PR0 To PR5 – Sell Links?
I had no joy selling links via Text Link Ads in the directory in May. This might however change in June as there is now a fee to get a non-reciprocal link, although reciprocal links are still free.
- Chase Intellitxt
My two blogging partners, Martin and Mikael, finally got their contracts and Martin is live and doing quite well, but Mikael isn’t quite there yet.
- Evaluating new ad scheme – approached directly
I tried out Tumri, which is similar to Chitika, for a few days after they approached me directly. I had a lot of problems getting the store live, and even when I did I was only making a few cents per day. Their code was also loading really slowly so I pulled them.
- Continue to optimise TLA sales
Went reasonably well, although I did something very stupid which I think led to some advertisers leaving – see more later.
