Month 1 of SAC, Month 3 at WA

byTamaSA

469 followers

6 years ago

Hi everyone! I'm working hard on the SAC tasks and happy to report my progress. My goal is to motivate and encourage anyone who might be struggling. I also want to document my progress and maybe get some advice and recommendations.

Month 1 of SAC, Month 3 at WA

I am in my 3rd month as a premium WA member and in month 1 of the SAC. I was very honored to be accepted into the challenge since I'm relatively new (I didn't even know what affiliate marketing was 3 months ago!)

This is the part that will be interesting to see how it compares in my update next month! In my first 3 months:

Website:

• I've started my blog (aimed at promoting WA)
• 17 published posts (6 still in draft - need to just finish those already)
• All published posts are indexed by Google
• 6 review posts
• 142 approved post comments (70 are my replies)
• Went through 3 themes and finally settled on one I really like - GeneratePress
• 18 active plugins… I love Plug-ins! So far my site speed is great, but think I should weed some of these out.

Training:

• I’ve completed most of the Bootcamp training except for some parts I’m not ready for - PPC, Youtube, etc.
• I’ve watched all of 2019 and most of 2018 recorded live events (highly recommend btw).

Social:

• Social - have a Facebook business page, Twitter profile, Instagram, YouTube channel and Pinterest. I’m most active in Pinterest and pin every day on my boards and group boards.
• I’ve made one YouTube video so I could embed it in a post. Definitely need to work on that skill before I do more lol!

Email:

• Testing out ConvertKit for email marketing. I have 3 subscribers :) Not amazing, but I just started.
• Happy with my landing page, but will be moving to a free service as I don’t want to pay for subscribers this early in the game.

And Finally - Revenue:

• I’ve had 7 referrals to WA, 1 completed their profile = $1.00
• I had another company give an incentive for writing their review = $25.00
• I’ve received click revenue from another company for clicks on my links = $0.03
• I had Adsense loaded on my site for awhile but I didn’t like it = $2.89
• GRAND TOTAL = $28.92 :)

Advertising: The only reason I had an ad running for awhile was because I had a $100 credit from Bing. I used up the $100 fairly quickly with one ad with focused keywords. This is the time last month when I earned the Adsense money and 6 of my WA referrals, so it makes my data a bit skewed.

Month 1 SAC Challenge

So those are my overall results. I can’t wait to see the improvements over the next month! So far for the SAC challenge:

• I had already had my site established, so I’ve completed many of the initial tasks.
• I’ve written 2 of 12 blog posts, need to finish those drafts off and I'd be going strong :)
• Found 50 low competition keywords
• I’m focusing on being on WA chat daily and reaching out to help others as I can.

So Far So Good! I'd love to hear how others are doing or if I can help you out in any way! Thanks for reading!