Come on, admit it; this was the post that all of y’all were waiting for. Here’s my earnings for November 2007; I’m a long way off the $2,500 I was aiming for in the $15,000 challenge, but considering most of my ‘competitors’ have buzzed off, meh. My aim will be to improve on the previous month; as I said, if I have any chance of wanting to do this full time, I will a) have to earn more, and b) diversify those earnings. A large part of my income has been in the buying and selling of eBooks, although Adsense did make up a decent chunk; while say 99.9% of those Adsense earnings from proxies, I do not have any now and will have to start up a few- as well as other Adsense websites that I will hope to earn off.

Paypal balance - $982.97

All business deals I’ve conducted I’ve been paid for by Paypal - copywriting, buying/selling domains and websites and whatnot. The lazy person that I am, I do not have detailed statistics for what % of income came from where. I have not conducted any big deals for domains this month, so I can safely assume that around 85% of that came from activities related to writing (either articles for clients or selling eBooks).

Google Adsense - $290.88

These Adsense earnings are actually since around October 18th, but as I hadn’t broken the $100 mark till around November 5th here they are. The majority of that ($231.83) was from one website (CloakUs.com) which I’ve now been scammed out of (more on that below) so earnings for Adsense have died; I hope to raise it for this month.

Affiliate Programs - $70.00

Now I suck ass at affiliate marketing, so only $70.00 was generated from this; I was lucky enough to be around on Digital Point when someone wanted hosting, and he signed up using my affiliate link. I have no problem promoting HostICan, as their package is relatively decent; it’s actually what TUK is hosted on. If any of you want to signup with them, let me know and I’ll give you my affiliate link and a coupon code you can use

These earnings would have been more, if not for a scammer; I sold CloakUs.com yesterday for $650.00 but the guy paid with a phished account and thus I have now lost both the domain name and the funds. I have submitted a claim with GoDaddy, but they claim they can’t do anything, and I have already spoken to the other party who’s account was hacked and obviously he cannot do anything either. He has actually set up the website with his own Adsense Pub ID, and is probably making good money off it; sadly it seems like there is nothing I can do. In the future, I will look at a different way of carrying out dealings with people I don’t know; the guy had 45+ iTraders though so I’m not sure what can be done.

Total earnings for the month - $1343.85

An improvement of around $600 from last month, which I’m pretty happy with considering I only started all this two months ago; it would have been close to $2000 though if the sale of CloakUs had gone through properly and the f**kin’ designer had prepared the eBook website. My proxy server finally got put up so I’ll be learning how to use it in the next few days; hopefully I can raise some money with selling hosting through that. As for how much I’ve spent, I added it up a while back and it was close to $1100; I’ve spent a bit more since then so I’d estimate it comes to around $1500. Hopefully all of you will see increases in your earnings and are closer to reaching your goals; Good Luck!

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