While most Blog Income Reports are from bloggers who started 6+ years ago, here’s one for my blog that launched 11 months ago in May 2019. Here is how I make money with a blog.
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Let’s dive into my blog income report.
1. BLOG INCOME IN MARCH 2020: $5,850
We are in unprecedented times.
The Coronavirus is leading to lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders across the United States and 136+ million jobs in the service economy are at risk.
At first, I didn’t want to post my Blog Income Report.
But then I realized I needed to share the importance of owning a digital business in a time when physical businesses are literally being taken away by a government shutdown.
Plus, I consider myself a nice person.
The idea of closing down a successful business for months (like my cousin just had to do with his highly-successful commercial cleaning business) is something hard to stomach.
However, I completely understand (and agree with) the reasoning and want to stop the spread of the Coronavirus as much as anyone else.
What does this mean?
It’s simple.
Physical, in-person businesses are more at risk than online ones for disruption.
Just look at the stock prices for online platforms like Zoom, Slack, and Cloudflare – they’re rising while we hit record unemployment. And these corporations survive while local restaurants and small businesses are in real trouble.
It’s not fair.
But it’s the new reality, and might be so for a very long time.
You have to ask yourself: Is your business pandemic-proof?
Can you survive a government shutdown?
Are you running a business that requires people in close proximity?
If so, you might want to read my guides and start an online business as a back-up plan.
Ready? Let’s move on to my blog’s income streams.
AFFILIATE MARKETING PROGRAMS:
Affiliate revenue was the biggest increase for my blog in March. Overall, I brought in $5,850 from 2 different affiliate programs for an average of $195 per day in March.
This was an increase from $975 in February to $5,850 in March for an insane 74.2% increase in one month – my biggest increase ever.
Overall, the main driver was the rise of the stay-at-home economy clicking on promoted posts to “website hosting” and “auto responder” services. Luckily I put together some free bonuses that go together with those services then started paying for traffic.
The increase in traffic for those services brought in an extra $4,875 in March compared to February. The image below is just from two days of paid ads:
Additionally, I saw huge increase in traffic to older blog posts when I started sending traffic.
Overall, web hosting revenue increased by 207% and email marketing revenue increased by 322%. I saw an increase by focusing on those services because websites are going to become the new real estate.
Finally, I saw more traffic to my other affiliate programs, with 13 programs on this website 5 of them are bringing in at least $100/month.
Some of the clicks I received directly from my Ultimate Resource page which was an awesome surprise. I honestly did not think I could get any commissions from this page. I actually got the idea to add this page from a mentors website.
WHY I FOCUSED ON JUST 2 SERVICES TO MAKE MONEY WITH A BLOG
The reason? Speed.
To speed up the income this blog makes I decided to use paid traffic.
I also needed to increase conversions. To do that I created bonuses that pair perfectly with the services I’m marketing.
Another thing that a lot of marketers don’t talk about is the power of advertising a service your personally using. As you can see were using these services.
- The Ultimate List Of 130 Lifetime Recurring Affiliate Programs
- 12 Affiliate Programs Every Online Marketer Should Promote
- 30 Second Free Paid Traffic Hack
- 7k+ Per Day Affiliate Marketing Tactics video presented by a Million Dollar Online Marketer
- WordPress Website Workout is a video course where you will learn how to create a website from beginning to end
- Virtual Assistant Rolodex
- Presell Page Template
- White Label Rights To All The Bonuses
FACEBOOK TRAFFIC
I also got a trickle of traffic from my Facebook groups and they continue to grow ever so slowly but steadily. There are currently 8 of them.
I’m going to try to maintain those assets because I got plans in the future for them.
My biggest group has 500 members and growing. The smallest group has 76 members…..I know, pretty small. As I said growing.
I also get a little traffic from my Facebook account which I turned into a massive funnel. Even though it’s a small amount, it’s free and it’s basically on autopilot.
TOTAL SAVED TO DATE
$10,998.31
I’ve created an account just for affiliate commissions so I don’t mix income from other sources. Hopefully this will make it easier for documentation.
It’s not an massive amount of money but it’s a great change as far as my affiliate income is concerned. It would be awesome if I can raise my recurring enough monthly so I can pull back on my web agency, which is a lot more work and requires more time.
EXPENSES IN MARCH 2020: $234.94
Google Display Ads – $155
Getresponse – $15
Constant Contact – $20
Hosting Reseller Account – $25
Sideline – $9.99
Freedom Voice – $9.95
EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS FOR MARCH 2020:
+305
As of March 2020, I have over 900 subscribers on my email list. I plan to launch a small free coaching group in May to get some more testimonials and increase conversions. I plan on launching it to my list and choosing from people who actually invested thru my Bluehost and Getresponse links.
But for now, just know that I’m starting to add 10 email subscribers/day and my list is over 900.
TASKS COMPLETED IN MARCH
- Created some bonuses for some targeted affiliate marketing
- Added 10 new posts
- Created new presell/opt-in page
- Hired 2 Virtual Assistants to assist with some simple websites
GOALS
- Double down with paid ads
- Launch an original track
- Add the exact targeting I use to average .10 tp .07 cent per click to the affiliate marketing make money with a blog Bonus Pack with Google ads.
- Start reading off testimonials of people who follow the path of affiliate marketing on the Youtube channel to give them some free traffic
- Choose 12 interns off my list to help with some things
- Help the interns get to at least $300+ Monthly there first month
- Since round trip flights are inexpensive, looking to fly in a few people for interviews and one on one training’s
All around I wan’t to find ways to lean into these hard times and make the most out of it.
The people that we fly in for interviews we will post on our Youtube channel and put $5 per day to grow the Youtube channel.
THAT’S IT FOR MY MAKE MONEY WITH A BLOG INCOME REPORT FOR MARCH 2020
The purpose of these new blog income reports is to showcase that with the right strategies, you can make significant income quickly.
Thank you so much for reading – I’m very grateful you found your way here to see how I make money with a blog.
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