…to quote the Barbara Dickson song.
Well, to be honest, January was OK and February only brought a small dip in the TV sales, so can’t complain really. Total commission down to £68 from £73.
So, February was the first month of my self-imposed challenge to ramp up my Thirty Day Challenge-style web site production. How did I do? Well. Pretty well, actually. My target was 20 web sites in a month, and I did 19. So that’s 19 on top of the, erm, one successful microniche site I had at the start of the month (we won’t mention the eight failed ones). Of course, I also have the long-term project – the yet-to-rank-for-any-keyword, no-traffic travel niche site..
But I have more exciting things to report from February:
When I took my month-end look at sales and traffic, I found that of these 19 new sites, nine were already receiving some traffic. More than this – of these nine, no fewer than FOUR sites had produced a sale – and this within a month of going live in each case. On analysing the conversion ratios, all four sites have had around 50 unique visitors each, of which about 50% clicked on the affiliate link and one bought! So that’s 1 in 50 visitors buying – and on each of four different sites. I only hope that ratio continues!
So, I have to consider the first month of my “90 day project” as I’m calling it, pretty much a success. I’ve made a slow start in March, with just one more site added so far and it’s already 3rd March, but I am committed to adding another 15 sites this month.
There are also other pressures coming into play now. My other half has just come to the end of a temp job which was not even paying the bills as it was, but now there’s nothing coming in apart from the affiliate commission. Let’s hope for more than February’s £68 in March then..
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