Happy January 2025! My month looking back
So this month I jettisoned all but my mini pc blog. Why? Because a) no time b) no clear path to monetization in anything else right now.
I barely have time for the one niche because of other issues (family health, HOA projects).
OK so what do we have?
Traffic:
First lets look at Bing. 864 clicks this month vs 564 the month before
Google: 364 vs 117 the month before
Clarity: 2900 sessions vs 1600 the month before
Pinterest: Up by 150%. 36 clicks, 17K impressions
OK so what happened?
1. I added a new subniche
2. I am posting twice a day
3. 2 pins a day
4. I converted all of my pay pages to use AAWP
What didn't work? I lost traffic on YouTube. It was around 10-15 hours a day, it's now around 7. So I pulled back from trying to do 3 videos a week to 1-2 a week.
I also haven't been posting to medium much. That only accounts for about 1% of my traffic and it takes a bit more effort than I have time for right now.
OK you want to know about the money, right? OK.
So I sold 27 items last month for about $54 in commissions. Plus a $50 bonus for selling over $1500 in merchandise from Amazon for a total of $104 this month. That compared to $27 last month which was just a little less than my average for last year.
What am I going to do to make this better?
- I just started a new social media campaign in the subniche with 3 posts a day on each of Pinterest, LinkedIn, Facebook, and BlueSky. Extends out to early march, I have 500 more posts waiting.
Why didn't I push them all? Because I was afraid it would break, and it did. The automated tool didn't catch that BlueSky only allows 300 characters, so every pin was rejected. I am in the process of updating the queued posts (only 3 were rejected before I caught it), and then I will update the next 500 before I submit it. (FYI I am using a tool called Sociamonials from AppSumo)
- I am updating my home page. It's not pretty. And it accounts for 3% of my traffic right now.
- I really need to get better at making videos, and maybe this is an opportunity to do this, go through some more training
Onward!
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Very analytical... Great job. Like they say, do more of what works and less of what doesn't, which is what it looks like you are doing. Well done!
One of the things about being here is that we need to play to our strengths. I have always been a numbers person. The marketing side is a challenge and someday I will offload some of it
Awesome Michael, thanks for sharing your progress report with us. Nice work on your progress thus far, keep at it! :)
Your progress is going well. Keep up the good work, your updates are great for those just getting started.
John
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Great Job, I see you have been very productive.
Keep pushing forward, like you I am working on making better videos.
Onward!
Larry
it is a slow process, but I believe I'm heading towards the right direction. Thanks for the encouragement.