Twenty-Second Month of WA - The Money Is Coming

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Hi everyone, welcome to my monthly report for my twenty-second month of Wealthy Affiliate. It has been a very exciting month. The money is starting to come! I still haven't reached my first goal of $1,000 per month - I'm actually quite far from it - but the baby steps have been taken pushing me closer and closer.

Before we jump into everything that has been going on behind the scenes, check out my last month's post: Twenty-First Month of WA - My First $100

The $100 Is Recurring

As long as I continue to provide value to my clients, I'll get paid $100 every month. This is pretty good for a 17-year-old whose main expenses are his businesses and courses.

$100 every month covers my entire Wealthy Affiliate subscription and around half of the domains I own. It's pretty amazing making a jump from ~$5/month in income to $100/month working online.

But the more important part is the value I offer.

It started out as a forum and live chat website where I will help out students during the COVID-19 situation as my clients couldn't hold classes. As our city begins reopening again, the website will slowly lose its functionality as a Kumon student helper. If my website doesn't do much for my clients, why would they continue paying for it?

That's where local marketing comes in. I will be turning the website I made for my clients into a local marketing website that will help them get sales.

Over time, if I find success doing local marketing for my first clients, I will try to get new clients for higher prices.

But Wait... There's More

The $100/month was last month's news. I've been finding little bits of success on one of my dropshipping stores.

Print-on-demand from last month made me want to try the dropshipping business model again. Let me give you a little history behind dropshipping and me.

Dropshipping was the first online business model that I stumbled upon. It was almost an entire year before I found WA.

I got started with a really basic dropshipping course. I built a store, found a few wireless earphones, and tried running Facebook ads. And it worked... kind of.

I got a few sales but then I realized I never fulfilled the orders. I never actually ordered the products from Aliexpress and instead I was just clicking the fulfill orders thinking it was done.

So I started fulfilling orders two weeks later only to get my Aliexpress account banned. I had made a sale in Nigeria and got my account banned for fraud due to my Canadian card.

And thus I refunded every customer and closed my store. I tried dropshipping a few times again but I never found success. Each store, I tested about two or three products and gave up when I had no money left.

I failed with six different stores.

But I decided to try again. I had bought a domain two years ago and I didn't want to waste it. So I built a Woocommerce (instead of Shopify) dropshipping store on that domain. I decided to do what I did with my very first dropshipping store. Focus on tech products.

And it turned out well. I got sales on the first ad I ran and a few more on the other ones.

Granted, I'm in the red.

I ran about 10 ads and only one of them made a profit. And it was a very small profit of about $10 after product, shipping, and ad costs.

All the other ads generated losses and I cut them.

Although this dropshipping store also seems like a failure, my approach is very different this time compared to all my stores before. I'm playing the long term game this time and my experience at WA is what allows me to do so.

I will go into a bit more detail with my dropshipping store later on in this post.

May Stats - $44.70 In Affiliate Commissions

More money is coming in, but not from my original website. In addition to my dropshipping store and the monthly recurring $100 from my local marketing business, I made an extra $44.70 in affiliate commissions this month.

It was quite a surprise really as I got the sale from writing on Medium. Additionally, I still have Medium Partnership, Google Adsense, and Amazon Associate earnings to top it off. Although those numbers are quite small.

For this month's post, I'm going to adjust the order in which I list my stats to reflect the change in focus of my online activities. I am also adding in new things to the list that I have been working on.

Writing On Medium:

Stats:

  • Number of Posts Written: 8
  • Views: 528
  • Reads: 306
  • Followers: 342
  • Partnership Earnings: $7.81
  • Affiliate Commissions: $44.70
  • Total Earnings: $52.51

Even though I wrote less posts than I did last month, my improvement in earnings and views came mainly from the efforts of one blog post.

I wrote my most successful Medium blog post to date in May and that's where a significant portion of my earnings came from.

In that post, I put an affiliate link to a Medium blogging course I was taking and someone bought through that link. The course is either an one-time payment of $397 or three monthly payments of $149 and I earn 30% commissions. My referral opted for the three monthly payments and thus, I will earn $44.70 next month and the month after that.

Absolutely amazing!

Additionally that single blog post generated $4.65 of the $7.81 earnings from the Medium Partner Program.

I will definitely write more on Medium this month and see how things go. If things go really well, I might create a WA training on using Medium either this month or next month. Let me know if you would be interested!

KAZSTech, My Dropshipping Store:

Stats:

  • Sales: $553.80
  • Ad Spend: $716.46
  • Product Costs: $397.14
  • Profit/Loss: -$559.80

For now, I'm not going to go into more detail regarding daily visitors, keyword rankings, and anything regarding social media presence. The store is fairly new and I haven't done much.

I actually lost quite a bit of money doing this. We are currently in testing phase and looking for winning products, so the loss in the beginning is fine.

Plus, I'm playing the long-term game. As long as we're getting a bit of sales to cover the ad costs, things only get easier.

My email list will grow, my social followings will grow, and the Facebook pixel data on my site will get stronger as well. However, for June, my goal is to turn a profit.

Get Good At Badminton Blog:

Blog Stats:

  • Number of Posts Written: 1
  • Average Daily Traffic: 108
  • 30 Days Users: 3.4k
  • Bounce Rate: 83.98%
  • Average Session Duration: 1:14
  • Clicks (Web): 3.11k
  • Impressions (Web): 79.8k

Earnings:

  • Google Adsense: $2.69
  • Amazon Associates Sales: 2
  • Amazon Associates Earnings: $3.26
  • Total Earnings: $5.95

Social Media:

  • YouTube
    • New Videos: 0
    • Subscribers: 242
    • New Subscribers: 8
    • Views: 1,343
    • Watch Time: 73.5 hours
  • Instagram
    • Followers: 1,925
    • Following: 361
    • Posts: 262
  • Facebook
    • Followers: 125
    • Page Likes: 113
  • Pinterest
    • Monthly Viewers: 11.1k
    • Followers: 170
  • Twitter
    • Followers: 31
    • Link Clicks: 0
    • Likes: 0
    • Impressions: 620

This blog has been slumping. I haven't been motivated to create content and thus, my site has been taking hits. I probably won't do as much on this website this month because of my other projects.

New Projects Coming

Honestly, I shouldn't be starting all these new projects when I already have so much on my platter. However, many of these things coincide with my other projects and already in motion.

Local Marketing

The first project is related to local marketing. Currently, I already have a client from unexpected circumstances. I will "experiment" with local marketing techniques I learn on their website and if it's successful, I will reach out to other businesses and attempt to grow my client base.

Gaming Blog

I've been a passionate gamer since I was a kid. And my brother even more so. This is a collaboration between my brother and I. This is something I want to start to make more use out of our time that we spend gaming.

Learning Programming + Potential Software Companies?

One of the things I'm doing right now is learning programming. Additionally, a strategy I use to learn programming is to write about what I learn and then publish it. I'm doing that on a website I named The Marketing Programmer.

I have lots of ideas for apps and software. As I get better with programming, I will hopefully build out these ideas and potentially monetize them.

KAZSMoney

My website in the MMO niche. I'm starting to see more success and I'm figuring out what I need to do to push me closer to my dreams. KAZSMoney is the place I will share what I learn and grow my income even further by referring people to the MMO programs that helped me succeed.

Biting More Than I Can Chew?

I'm definitely doing a lot and figuring out how to balance and get everything done will certainly be a challenge. But if I learn how to manage everything, I would be able to get so much done. That's why I gave myself so much to do.

And with so much to do, I better get started. Thank you for reading!

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You're doing very well, Kevin! Keep it up!

Jeff

Thank you!

You're welcome, Kevin!

Jeff

You are on the right track. Well done!

Thank you!

You are well on your way to becoming a very successful businessman. Keep up the good work, well done.
Shane.

Thanks!

Wow...that's alot of data and great results!!! Congrats!

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