A Web Entrepreneur's Journal

Income April 2012 – $447.78

Mike — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:10:20 +0000

The income for April was 447.78 dollars, down $54 compared with last month. Kindle sales and hard copy sales were about the same as last month, but reported Smashwords sales fell greatly. Ad and affiliate income were up significantly, but not enough to compensate for the shortfall in Smashwords revenue.

1. Product income

A total of 44 books were sold in April. Amazon sold 19 hard copy books ($109.54) and 24 Kindle ebooks ($154.44). Smashwords on the other hand reported only a single ebook sale ($4.77), compared with last month’s 23 books.

The reason for the perceived reduction in Smashword sales has to do with the way Smashwords reports sales. In Smashwords, individual sales are not reported. Instead each store sends in their sales reports to Smashwords every 4 to 5 weeks. It just so happened that no sales reports were sent in for April. This will probably mean that next month’s numbers will be inflated, but I will have to let this be since Smashwords won’t let me determine exactly which book sales belong to which month.

2. Advertisement income

YouTube ads paid 111.60 dollars and site ads another 28.78 dollars. Add $17.90 from private ad deals and the total ad revenue is at 158.28 dollars, up 31 dollars from last month.

3. Affiliate income

Amazon Associates paid out $20.75 from the sale of 14 items. This I believe is the most I have ever earned in a month from Amazon Associates. Out of the 14 sales 9 of them were for books, 4 for ebooks and 1 for software. Out of the books 5 of them were my own.

Summary

April income was: $109.54 + $154.44 + $4.77 + $158.28 + $20.75 = 447.78 U.S. dollars. Still pretty good.

TPS Articles – Comfort & Connection

Mike — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:46:56 +0000

Two new chapters this week – Comfort and C1 Connection. Enjoy!

The Jumping Locations chapter has been renamed to C2 Trust, since they are basically one and the same. I also added a new sub chapter there on how specifically to build trust with the girl and why you need it.

TPS Articles – Intimacy & Foreplay

Mike — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:06:52 +0000

This week features two new TPS chapters – C3 Intimacy and S1 Foreplay. As the titles suggest, these chapters are getting closer towards the end of the game plan. Around 9 chapters still remain, along with some minor additions, which may take me about 2 more months to write.

TPS Article – Attraction

Mike — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:32:06 +0000

The last of the attraction chapters has now been released, conveniently titled Attraction. It gives an answer to the age old question, what do women want?

TPS Article – Opening

Mike — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:49:07 +0000

This week’s TPS chapter is on the first step of the game plan, A1 – Opening. With this I’m done with half the chapters for the site.

500 Dollar Goal Achieved

Mike — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:41:49 +0000

My goal to reach 500 dollars in passive income has now been achieved in March 2012. This goal was made back in August 2011 when I had just reached my last income goal of 200€. Since then the income has grown consistently almost every month as can be seen in the graph below:

About 70% of the income comes from book sales which I have compiled into a graph as well:

Assuming the growth in sales were to continue as they have, I may be looking at over 100 books per month before the end of the year.

My next goal will be to reach 750 dollars. A realistic deadline for this goal would be at the end of 2012, but to make things more exciting I will give my best to reach this goal before the end of September. Before getting back to work I will take some time off to celebrate. There will be cake.

TPS Article – Dating Places and Ideas

Mike — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:25:18 +0000

This week’s article – Dating Places and Ideas – talks about the dating game and how to structure an interesting dating life.

PVT Celebration – 50 000 Views

Mike — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:51:32 +0000

PVT has reached 50 000 page views this month. A significant number, and one I at one point thought I would never reach. I still recall struggling to break 1000 views per month some three years ago when I was just starting out. Since then the traffic count has grown steadily and has more than doubled in the last 12 months.

PVT is by far the largest of my sites, mainly because it has the most content and because it is the oldest one. It is also marketed well by its YouTube channel and its authority as a programming reference site gives it a lot of return visitors. Compared with PVT’s traffic levels the view counts for my other sites can still be considered rounding errors, however all of them are growing.

Here are the current page view statistics for my sites. The parentheses show the traffic growth compared with 12 months ago.

PVT 50 200 views (+105%)
HOS 1600 views (+80%)
PWM 600 views (+100%)
WEJ 400 views (+100%)
Siforia 90 views (+50%)
REA 70 views (new)

Income March 2012 – $501.87

Mike — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:36:22 +0000

The income for March was 501.87 dollars, up $21.5 compared with last month. Kindle sales doubled while Smashwords sales were down by a third. The hard copy sales are holding steady. Ad and affiliate income were up slightly.

1. Product income

Amazon managed to sell 9 hard copy books this month. Another 10 were sold through other online stores for a total of 19 hard copy books ($107.74). Amazon also sold a remarkable 25 Kindle copies ($151.60) and Smashwords another 23 books ($107.49). This brings the number of books sold up to 67 (+3).

2. Advertisement income

Ad revenue for March was 127.31 USD. A bit more than last month, though mainly because March has more days than February. $79.17 from YouTube, $30.42 from the sites and $17.90 from private ad deals.

3. Affiliate income

Amazon Associates paid out $7.73 from the sale of 6 items (1184 clicks). It’s nice to see a few affiliate sales once more. Although it isn’t much every little bit adds to the total.

Summary

March has brought in a total of: $107.74 + $151.60 + $107.49 + $127.31 + $7.73 = 501.87 U.S. dollars. This means my 500 dollar goal has been achieved at last. Awesome!

TPS Article – M2F Attract

Mike — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:57:49 +0000

This week’s chapter is on step three of the TPS game plan: Male to Female Attraction.