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July Income Report and a Day in my “Glamorous” Life.

Larry C. — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:57:00 +0000

7:15am, Ughh, can’t she at least sleep in till 8:00am?

7:20 am, Get up and change the little ladies diaper, Sarah my daughter(2), stumble out to the kitchen and get her some juice to keep her occupied, while I start the diapers.

7:30am, get the bag of washable, re-usable cloth diapers, by Bum Genius, start the wash cycle. Wash hands, and heat a cup of water for my morning green tea.

7:35am cut up some organic strawberries, to get Sarah started with breakfast. We try to eat ONLY organic food in this household, especially fruits and vegetables.

7:45am, cut up a cantaloupe and give it to Sarah. start checking emails, affiliate sales, AdSense income, Amazon income, check comments.

8:00am, start replying to comments, read other posts by fellow bloggers who are trying to make a living, making a living or are in my crowd or tribe.

8:30-9:00am, make oatmeal with cockroaches and dirt for Sarah. (Raisins and Cinnamon) Feed Sarah.

9:15am, start the second (hot) wash cycle for the diapers, put on Elmo or some other educational program for Sarah, and *try* to get something done, more commenting, reading, emailing and start thinking about what posts I am going to do today. I have over 10 sites I post to weekly, not including this one, as it’s been the one I have neglected most. Not so much anymore.

10:00am, start final rinse cycle for the diapers, continue to work on sites or approving profiles on my main dating site. Start Mary Poppins or Lion King because Sarah likes to sing and dance. So do I.

10:30am, Hang diapers to dry in the back yard.

11:00am, Put Sarah down for a nap, get ready for gym.

11:30am, Hit the gym for an hour and a half, listen to podcasts, let Lisa sleep and get rest.

1:00pm home again, home again, jiggity jig. Feed Sarah lunch. Spend some time with Sarah as she wants daddy time.

2:00pm, put on Lion King or Muppet Show, get diaper shells so they don’t heat rot.

2:10pm, start working again, or at least try.

3:00-6:00pm, try to get as much done as possible as after about 7pm I am toast.

6:00pm, dinner for Sarah.

6:30pm-7:30pm, Daddy time for Sarah, then off to bed at 7:30.

Where’s Lisa in all this? She’s tending to our 3 week old Hannah June. She’s pretty much attached to her for about 1-2 hours, every 3 hours. This will go on for another 4 or so weeks when Lisa’s C-section incision is healed, at which time I might get more time to go work on things at a coffee shop. Until then I am stuck at home doing A LOT. But I like it, this is part of the reason I am doing the whole Internet thing.

8:00pm start dinner for Mommy and Daddy. That’s Me and Lisa.

Dinner is usually at about10pm most days, while making dinner I try to get more done, but sometimes it causes me to burn dinner if I am making it, if Lisa makes dinner it’s a little more time to work on my sites and the dating site.

So yeah, MY life isn’t so glamorous right now. Eventually it will be better and we will be traveling. For now we have a new one to nurture and a business to grow.

In my last post about Quitting The Day Job, I spoke of my IT consulting business that WAS my day job. I also talked about how I am making 2k+ a month now, from stuff online, online referrals, or referrals from people who have used my hosting services and WordPress installs. What I forgot to mention is that even though I am making that nice chunk of change, it is still not enough to support my family completely. What I forgot to say was that we have to pull a little bit each month from our retirement fund, to make ends meet. This does not make me happy, but I am having to pull less and less as this business venture grows.

I do still have 2 very small IT consulting clients that call me occasionally for some small amount of work, but it’s only about $450 a month on average, and that’s not included in my monthly income reports. So small in fact I don’t consider it a day job anymore as I do almost all the work remotely, and only on the 5Th day, of the 3rd week, of the 1st blue moon. Most often this work is done at anywhere from $80-$120 an hour, so you see I am used to making WAY MORE, thank these little trickles of money coming in from all over. However one thing is true: Little streams turn into bigger streams, like the Mighty Mississippi

In case you are wondering what an IT consultant does, in my case I am a Network Engineer. I go to small and medium to larger medium sized companies who can’t or don’t want to afford a full time IT guy. I set up their computer network, or fix their existing one(hired gun sorta stuff), and then get it all running just right so it doesn’t break too much, install backup procedures, and then remote access stuff so I can monitor and fix any problems from this desk I am at right now.

I set up Mail Servers, File Servers, I do hosting and some website design or WordPress installs. I mainly just make sure that companies can come in, in the mornings and go right to work. Most of the companies I deal with depend on their computers to earn money. Companies like Interiors Designers, Architects, Lawyers, Doctors and other creative types.

Finally, here’s July’s income report:

Amazon – 54.96 (lower still this month, but coming up fast in August)

Dating Sites – 690.38

eBook Sales(Mine) – 77.76

Affiliate eBook Sales – 49.70

Clickbank Sales – 12.35

Dating Site Affiliate – 147.00

Text Link Ads – 48.57

Google – 280.04

Side Jobs (Hosting, WordPress Installs) – 880.00

Total July – $2240.76

Last month (June) – $1694.87

Difference of $545.89

July 2010 Income Report

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May Income Report

Larry C. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:10:56 +0000

May’s income report was a slight increase from April, for a total of 1002.88. May was the month to start reorganization of my thoughts, my workflow and my direction in Internet marketing and making money online. I started the focus on writing my own product. I’m doing 2 to start with, a photography book on my style of photography, Hollywood Glamour Photography, and the second on my new way of monetizing websites, the fastest way I have found to do it so far.

While all the marketing and money making programs I have done have been good in their own way, for one reason or another, they do not monetize fast enough to help pay the bills.

Like I said This month saw a slight increase from last month, and I am forecasting a gradual but steady increase from here on out. I have a few new sites I’d like to talk about, one being a Kindle Forum. http://www.thekindleboard.com.

I am hoping to make a community of people chatting away about their Amazon Kindles, Apple iPads, and Barnes & Noble NOOKs. If you are one of my readers and wish to help me out, I could use more people signing up and posting on that board. As we all know, no one posts to an empty board. Eventually it will be monetized so if you all stick around maybe you will watch it grow?

I have also decided I have a Domain Addiction. I buy domains with the intentino of monetizing them, but I have way too much on my plate to really do anything about it. So I have decided to start a 12 step program called domain buyers anonymous. For those of us afflicted with Domain Buying Addiction. I almost bought 2 domains today but decided not too, I have tons of domains I can monetize, but just need to sit down and do it.

Do you, or someone you know, suffer from Domain Buying Addiction? We can help…hahaha…

BTW I own over 350 domains, is that sick or what? I ‘d like to know.

Anyway on to the report for this month:

Amazon – 48.43

Dating Sites – 465.17

Affiliate eBook Sales – 47.50

Text Link Ads – 57.67

Google – 284.11

Advertising – 100.00

Total – $1002.88

last month (April) – 977.53

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April Monthly Income Report

Larry C. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:54:38 +0000

It’s been almost 2 months since I posted to this blog, only because I am busy with my other sites and niches, that I have a hard time writing to this blog at times. I’m so busy at times that I forget to post to this blog. My apologies, I will try to post at least twice a week from now on.

So the last income report I gave was totaled at $1,356.91 for the month of March, and I posted this on April 1st. The previous income report was for December 2009 and that amount was for $1,294.78. This months income was about $350 less than the last income report coming in at $977.53. Depressing? Not really, I’ve only been doing this for almost a year now and my income before this was pretty much maybe $100 per month, if I was lucky, from Adsense.

The main difference from the last report to this one is the lump sum from Clickbank of $348.35 for affiliate products I sold. This months income report lacks the sales of clickbank as I am not using it that much at all now. Some here and there but I am working on new ways of monetizing my sites and it’s actually been pulling in a steadier stream in my opinion, than pushing and hyping clickbank products. Next month we will see a new column for Amazon.com and showing a growth in income from there, again it’s part of my system I have been working on.

What I have done with my clickbank stuff is added them to the end of the autoresponders for all my dating sites. I’ve added ebooks for dating tips for men and women, from clickbank so it’s pretty much on autopilot if they sell or not.

Aprils income breaks down like this:

Amazon – 18.00

Dating Sites – 542.16

eHow – 16.18

Pixelated Image – 15.00

Text Link Ads – 60.32

Contextual Links Ads – 325.87

Total – $977.53

Like I said before, it’s missing a chunk from clickbank sales, but I am ok with that for now. I’ve been working on a system of monetizing sites that give good content, information to people and are fast to monetize.This project came about because while many of the programs I joined to learn their strategy were good, they were effectively too slow for making money. I say this because while my day job was going down the drain because of the current state of the economy, I needed something to supplement my income so I could continue to pay the bills and feed my family.

I am putting together my own information eBook product detailing this system. I will be revealing it soon. May’s income will show an improvement due to this new system I’m doing. I just need to Lather-Rinse-Repeat, to increase income exponentially. Members of my email list will get a copy for free, and the members of Blog Mastermind will also get a copy for free.

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