$100 Dollar Day – Hip Hip Hooray!

Mark told me I should post this story here and since he makes a lot more money than me and was nice enough to mention me on his blog answer all of my questions over at Word Press Goldmine I thought I would do what he suggests .

On Friday morning I woke up and checked my commission numbers from Thursday 2-18-2010 (and actually I just had to check the date because I couldn’t remember), and realized I had just made over a hundred dollars net commissions on Thursday.  This was super duper exciting to me, even though it is not a normal occurrence yet.  Here is how it broke down.

$80 in Commission Junction
$22 at Amazon
$10.47 in adsense.

I happened to get pretty darn lucky with that commission junction order, and by luck I mean that the site it came from I have had up for a while and have promoted a lot and produces regularly for me, just not usually $80 in one day.

So after Thursday it looks like I may have my best month online ever this month.   I will let you know if that happens.

One of the things that constantly amazes me about internet marketing with SEO (search engine optimization) and article marketing is how much things build.  I have sites that I started a year ago (like the $80 commission site) that after some effort and some time seem to take on a life of there own, and just chug away making sales.  I find that this often happens between 4 and 5 months of age on many sites, and sometimes it takes a year.  That is not to say that you can’t make money right away, because you can, but it sure is nice when all the work you put into a site pays off and it starts making money with little to no babysitting simply from traffic from the search engines and from the articles you have written.

So I guess what I’m saying is this…. A little bit of effort every day over a long period of time goes a long way to creating a sustainable income.  I used to think I had to write 20 articles a day (and was never, ever able to do that), because that was what other people say they did.  Now I know that if I start 1 new site a week with outsourced content and do some initial promotion and then focus on  building and promoting my older sites my income will grow steadily and surely.  I no longer stress about an individual site.  I just get up every day and get my five things done to move my business forward.    Then I get to spend time with my kids and my husband.  Life is GOOD!