Well I am kind of glad that August is over with. Even though the last week I started into Media Buying, which I will post more on regularly, it still was a killer slow month and the first time I ran into a decrease in income that was out of my control.

The last week of August I did notice and increase in traffic, so it looks like things are going to get back to normal this month, or very close to it.

Affiliate Marketing Income for August 2009

Regular Earnings

  • Neverblue Ads – $1702.28
  • Media Trust – $1177.70
  • Unique Leads – $1196.06
  • Azoogle Ads – $603.33
  • Pepperjam Network – $64.71
  • Lead Expose – $46.22
  • Karaktr Media – $48.53
  • Hydra Network -$43.91

Affiliate Marketing Regular Earnings Total = $4882.74

Recurring Affiliate Commissions

  • Inlinks – $67.02
  • PPC Coach – $150.00

Recurring Affiliate Income Total =$217.02

Monthly Sub Total = $5099.74

Expenses For Regular Earnings in August

  • Dedicated Server – $154.00
  • Unique Article Wizard – $70.00
  • PPC Coach – $49.00

Total Expenses = $273.00

Media Buying Affiliate Income

  • Media Trust -$584.73

Media Buying Costs – $200.00

Total Media Buying Profit = $384.73

Total Monthly Net Income = $5211.43

As you can see, there was one hell of a drop from the month before. Here are a few things I can contribute to my decrease in earnings that was and is completely out of my control. (nature of the beast type of thing)

  1. Holiday season in full effect = less traffic
  2. One of my major advertisers did a complete re-brand of all his offers which meant I had to redo all of my biggest earning sites.
  3. Oprah Law Suit regarding health offers and people using her name and Dr. Oz’s name – that really shook things up this past few weeks.

So with that said, I am pushing for a way better month this month and should have no problem (I Hope) getting back to where I was. The nice thing is, once you do something once, it’s easy to do it a second time!

How was your month for earnings in August?


from Feed Flare Affiliate Marketing Blog