My Monthly Update for June 2007
Google Adsense: $32.31
TLA: $121.54 - Paid
Buy Me a Coffee: $0.00
Auction Ads: $0.44
NeverBlueAds: $0.00
CJ: $0.75
Amazon: $4.35
Linkworth: $40.00 - Paid
 $161.54 - total paid out. That’s all I’ve been counting for the past few months. I mean, some of those numbers look pretty darn impressive right? But I don’t see most of it due to the payout ratio on the affiliate programs/ad networks. Which is a bit of a bummer.
June has been pretty stellar in terms of revenue from Adsense. I double what I’d made in May - mostly due to the push of my fan site. I would have to say that 80% of that income for June was due to my fan site making it’s debut onto the Internet. I’m happy for that and I’m hoping in a month’s time that fan site #2 will starting earning around the same. That means this is getting BETTER, and not worse… which was the case a few months ago.
Now, seriously… where did June go? It seemed to fly by in my online life as well as offline. It’s just weird. I think it might have something to do with me getting older 
Yikes.
But anyhoo. This weekend was meant for a little cleanup around Building My Empire… and nothing was accomplished - but my backyard doesn’t have quite so many weeds in it. So I was doing SOMETHING this weekend… just not so much online. So now here I am, thinking of maybe having to look into other avenues of income - since some of these have pretty much flatlined.
I have a question for you. For Fan Site #1 I had someone make some really good looking MySpace templates. Now I’m having a bit of a dilemma - do I post them for free and give my site some link love action that way. Do I ask for a donation… or do I charge a sum… like $5 a download? I would like to make some money from this - but I’m not sure how to go about it.
Suggestions?
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July 3rd, 2007 at 9:23 am
personally i’d
Leave my link on the template and allow people to download them for free, try to encourage fans to use this template and get a couple, if they are really good the viral effect will be very good.
You may also try to make templates for other social networks as alot of the myspace ones have been overdone
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:51 am
Thanks Mary for the feedback
Eventually I will start making templates for other networks - any suggestions? I just knew that MySpace was a biggie and I’d heard/see a lot of chit-chat on them about my fan site topic, so I thought I’d throw my hat in and see what happens.
My first thought was the whole viral links back to the site - see how it goes and work from there. I’ve got ads on the site, and maybe (hopefully) with the traffic increase - there will be more clicks to make the templates well worth the investment.
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:10 am
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July 4th, 2007 at 2:26 am
I think you can make skins for Bebo too, not sure how popular they are though
July 4th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Thanks Adam, I’ve got an account with them as well. It looks like Bebo is very popular with the people down under. Australia and New Zealand seem to have taken Bebo and run with it. Might be another avenue to explore for templates
July 4th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Bebo is very popular in the UK too, however you may struggle to get a skin with your url on it unless its amazingly good~
July 4th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Hmmm… something to definitly think about Mary. Thanks
July 9th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
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