Traffic/Audience

14,953 (-286  from March)  page views in April

3,889 (-487) iTunes downloads

7,171   (+2,065 ) Youtube channel views

53,606 (+12,071) minutes watched

Aweber subscribers:  3,992 (-50 subscribers)

Twitter followers:  4,372 (+725 followers)

Facebook Fans: 448 (+14)

Expenses

Facebook Advertising: $10.51 (interview promotion)

Aweber: $49 – This is my list building software that allows me to email everyone when there’s a new interview

Host Gator hosting: $40 – I host all my niche sites and this site on multiple hosting accounts

Libsyn: $75 – I host my podcast with this so I can put it on iTunes

SafeSwaps.com: $29.99 – This is the membership fee I pay to be able to buy solo ads from people who have been rated by previous buyers

Vagex: $30  – SEO views for Youtube videos that helps them rank

Warrior Forum Ads: $60 - These are fees for advertising my websites for sale in the Warrior Forum

Hello Bar: $5

Free Jing and ScreenCast Subscription for easily explaining things to workers : $10

Kindle Editing: $10  I have a great editor that I’ll be happy to share with anyone who’s interested

Kindle eBook writing: $55.56  I outsourced my eBooks on oDesk

Optimize Press: $97 The theme I’ll be using for my membership sites

Podcast Transcription: $33.33

eBook Covers: $10

Kinstant Publisher: $27

Skype: $20

Total expenses:  $562.39 (-$160.77 compared to March)

Revenue

The Money Tree: $314.85 from interview with Russ Ruffino

IntelliTheme: $212.91 from interview with Joe Magnotti from the Empire Flippers

List Frenzy: $198 from interview with Anton Nadilo and Andre Stoelinga

Mini Affiliate Sites course: $152.75 from interview with David McGimpsey

Project X Tube: $107.52  from interview with Cliff Carrigan

SE Prince (CLOSED): $93.83 from interview with Dontrell Lyons

Video Conversion Cash Machine: $82.56 from interview with Mike Thomas Marin

30 Minute Web Commercials: $78.86 from interview with Peter Beattie

Smart Web Formula: $67.01 from interview with Jon Shawcross

Love Claw: $61.40 from interview with Chris Munch

Inner Circle Solo Ads: $38.80 from interview with Rob Stafford

WP Connect: $38.15 from interview with Kevin Docherty

Kindle Day Job Killer: $35.08 from interview with Martin Kerrigan

PLR Video Smackdown: $31.05 from interview with Peter Beattie

eCommerce Mastery: $30.84 from interview with Sam England and Sean Colman

The Money Trigger: $29.85 from interview with Alex Jeffreys

Penny Stock Conspiracy: $27.75 from interview with Tim Sykes

Auto Webinar Press: $27 from interview with Mohammed Ali

Long Tail Pro: $22.20 from interview with Spencer Haws

Kindle Marketing Reloaded: $22.11 from interview with Andreas Quintana

Free The Boss: $19.45 from interview with Bill Guthrie

List Building in a Box: $18.94 from interview with Barry Rodgers

The Wise Old Email Gorilla: $17 from interview with Jimmy Wrex

From Bust to Business: $9.81 from interview with Fergal Downes

Membership Marketing Machine: $9 from interview with Gary Clucas

58,000 Visitors: $8.69 from interview with Ron Rule

How To Create a Squidoo Lens in Under an Hour: $8.07 from interview with Trevor Dumbleton

Secret Social Images: $5.90 from interview with Alessandro Zamboni

Total revenue from interviews: $1,769.38 (+197.88 from March)

Text link ads: $31.66– I make this income from an old website of mine.

SocialAdr: $5.60 – A hands-off way of getting more likes on tweets for your posts

Ezarticle link: $34 – This is reoccurring income from a video tutorial

Whoosh Traffic: $20 – A keyword tracker for monitoring multiple keyword rankings

SafeSwaps.com: $15

Income Igniter: $9.23

Popup Domination: $119.98 from this post

Website sales: $967.50

Total from OTHER streams of income: $1,202.97 (+$836.13 from March)

Total Revenue: $2,972.35 (+$1,034.01 from March)

Total Profit: $2,409.96 (+$1,194.78 from March)

April was a GREAT month!

I’m really happy with my results for April. I think that I’ve been able to show that the interview method is a proven way to create both value AND profits. I’ve also been able to create tons of relationships that are INVALUABLE in themselves. I know that you’re following me so that you too can learn how to make money online, so as promised in my previous Income updates, I’ve got an interview course in the works so that you too can learn how to make a living doing interviews.

Adsense sites almost all sold

As mentioned last month, I’ve decided to move on from creating Adsense niche sites for the time being. That’s not to say that I won’t create them again in the future, but for the time being I’m going to focus on interviewing and creating products. I was able to sell almost $1,000 in niche sites in April, and I still have a few left for those interested HERE.

Kindle course almost complete

Last month I mentioned that I was working on a Kindle book creation course with Thomas Strock from MobileAppTycoon.com. Well, Thomas put together a FANTASTIC video course for me in a couple of days on EXACTLY how he’s able to get Kindle eBooks created and ranking in Amazon so that they consistently make him money every month. I followed his course carefully and recorded my progress and steps as I did what he said in the course. I’m really happy to announce that the first book that I’ve had written is already ranking #1 for it’s keyword in Amazon and has made over $50 this month already. It’s also ranking in the top 30,000 eBooks on Kindle!

Of course I’ll be sharing all this with you soon enough, but I want to make sure the whole product is READY and fine-tuned before we release it to the public. I want to make sure that you too can follow along and get the same results that I did.

Product launching course underway

I’ve been wanting to launch a product for the longest time, but I keep getting caught up on the little things. I wanted to launch my products the RIGHT WAY…meaning that I don’t want to make a big mistake that’s going to sabotage my success. So I got an idea. Why not interview ten product launching experts about their product launching process? I’ve already got a lot of connections from interviewing over 100 successful entrepreneurs, so why not leverage those connections and really find out what it takes to launch a product?

Well, I’ve taken action and I’ve interviewed five EXPERT product creators so far in order to create an AMAZING resource to help both me and YOU launch products. I’m planning on using the knowledge that I take from the interviews to create a step by step guide to launching a product in the best way possible. I’ll also be documenting the launch of THAT product through screen capture videos so you can watch over my shoulder as I go through the whole launching process. I really think that this is going to help a lot of people who have been on the fence about launching a product because they weren’t sure just how to do it.

I’ll be announcing more about this course as I work towards its completion.

And that’s it, folks. I’m writing this income report halfway through May, and I don’t expect May’s income report to be as impressive as April’s, but I’m really excited about the future of The Mike From Maine Show. I’m looking forward to learning more and helping you all overcome the boundaries that we all face when building a business.

Thanks for watching!

Sincerely,

Mike Thomas
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Traffic/Audience

13,934  (-6,291 from January) MikeFromMaine.com page views in February. Decreased since I didn’t send solo ad traffic to the site.

4,926 (+417)  iTunes downloads

3,644  (-82) Youtube channel views

13,264 (-29497) minutes watched (Youtube channel was deleted so I had to upload everything again)

Aweber subscribers: 2,001 (-85)

Twitter followers: 3,015 (+309)

Facebook Fans: 407 (+16)

Expenses

Facebook Advertising: $191 (interview promotion and advertising)

Aweber: $29 – This is my list building software that allows me to email everyone when there’s a new interview

Host Gator hosting: $40 – I host all my niche sites and this site on multiple hosting accounts

Warrior Forum Ads: $40 – These are fees for advertising my websites for sale in the Warrior Forum

Libsyn: $75 – I host my podcast with this so I can put it on iTunes

SafeSwaps.com: $29.99 – This is the membership fee I pay to be able to buy solo ads from people who have been rated by previous buyers

Hello Bar: $5

Free Jing and ScreenCast Subscription for
easily explaining things to workers : $10

Lead Pages: $197

Virtual Assistants: $168.58

Solo Ads: $2,880 You can find out more about solo ads HERE

Total expenses:  $3,665.58 (-$3,351.58 compared to January)

Revenue

Project X Tube: $304.64 from interview with Cliff Carrigan

Business Turnkey Exponential Xpress (CLOSED): $186.20 from interview with Sarkis Yambestian

Curation Soft : $102.74 from interview with Peter Lenkefi

Long Tail Pro: $102.30  from interview with Spencer Haws

Video Profit Powerhouse: $90.72 from interview with Ben Sayer

WP4FB 2.0: $76.20 from interview with Wilco de Kreij

58,000 Visitors: $34.76 from interview with Ron Rule

Youtube External Link: $34.44 from interview with Jimmy Mancini

Launch Sniping on Crack: $23.22 from interview with Lenin Govea

Mass Buyer Recruitment Method: $17.22 from interview with Jake Corcoran and Gavin Abeyratne

Inner Circle Solo Ads: $16.85 from interview with Rob Stafford

CPA Cash Vault: $15 from Interview with Jonathan Smith

Operation Solo: $13.50 from interview with Anthony Tilley

PingFresh: $13.50 from interview with Sean Donahoe

Page One Profits: $13.06  from Interview with Rachel Rofe

Live CPA Blueprint: $12.38 from interview with Paul Nagel

The Four Hour System: $11.92 from interview with Anton Kraly

Retro Reppin: $10.41 from Interview with Mike Shreeve

Video Marketing Debunked: $10.20  from Interview with Mark Thompson

How To Create a Squidoo Lens in Under an Hour: $7.91 from interview with Trevor Dumbleton

Total from interviews: $1,062.73 (-$28.53 from January)

Revenue from Project X Tube Method: $10.96

FB Graph Search: $14.34 from advertising on Facebook

Text link ads: $30 – I make this income from an old website of mine.

SocialAdr: $37.80 – A hands-off way of getting more likes on tweets for your posts

Ezarticle link: $34 – This is reoccurring income from a video tutorial I did about Ezarticlelink HERE

Whoosh Traffic: $20 – A keyword tracker for monitoring multiple keyword rankings

SafeSwaps.com: $15

Adsense: $95.73

Website sales: $120

Total from OTHER streams of income: $377.83 (-$218.57 from January)

Total Revenue: $1,440.56 (-$247.10 from January)

Total Profit: -$2,225.02 (-$3,609.68) from January)

Oh no, negative profits!!! It’s ok, I actually expected February to be a bad month. Instead of just accepting mediocre earnings, I decided to really double-down on bad earnings and spend spend spend. I invested almost $3,000 in buying solo ad traffic to build up my email subscriber list. I ordered these clicks towards the end of February, so none of the benefits of building up my lists were felt in February.

Interview Income Still Going Strong

My spending was much higher this month, but the good thing is that I still brought in over $1,000 from doing interviews. I published 20 interviews, so I made an average of $50 per interview. Not bad. Of course, I’d like to be making a lot more than that, but these things happen over time. If I can be making $100 per interview by September 2013 then I’ll be super pleased with my results.

I’m going to keep this income update pretty short, as I was late getting it out since I was pretty busy in March (I got married!). Stay tuned to my March Income Update in about a week. And don’t worry…my income in March is much better

Traffic/Audience

15,739 (-9,448 from December) MikeFromMaine.com page views in December. Decreased since I didn’t buy solo ads this month.

4,509 (+835)  iTunes downloads

3,726 (+362) Youtube views

42,761 (+5,439) minutes watched

Aweber subscribers: 2,086 (-128) I removed people that hadn’t opened an email in 3 months.

Twitter followers: 2,706 (+706)

Facebook Fans: 391 (+91)

Expenses

Bing Advertising: $1.09 Some advertising fees

Facebook Advertising: $40 to promote interview posts

Aweber: $29 – This is my list building software that allows me to email everyone when there’s a new interview

Host Gator hosting: $40 – I host all my niche sites and this site on multiple hosting accounts

Warrior Forum Ads: $80 – These are fees for advertising my websites for sale in the Warrior Forum

Libsyn: $75 – I host my podcast with this so I can put it on iTunes

SafeSwaps.com: $29.99 – This is the membership fee I pay to be able to buy solo ads from people who have been rated by previous buyers

Hello Bar: $4.95

Total expenses:  $303 (-$1,360.81 compared to December)

Revenue

Long Tail Pro: $404.20 from interview with Spencer Haws

Squidoo Cash Tsunami (CLOSED): $156 from interview with Troy Nantais

Traffic Jeet (CLOSED): $121.79 from interview with Jovana Sumar

The Four Hour System: $103.11 from interview with Anton Kraly

How To Create a Squidoo Lens in Under an Hour: $101.32 from interview with Trevor Dumbleton

SEO Resurrection (CLOSED): $36 from interview with Chris Cantell

Wiki Word Plugin: $32 from interview with Walt Bayliss

Azon Classroom 3.0: $30.35 from interview with Jeff Carson

Spy Bar: $22.92 from interview with Rob Cornish

WP Social Zon Multi Site (CLOSED): $17.84 from interview with Ricky Mataka

PLR Package – Lifestyle Diet Makeover: $17.09 from interview with Tom Ness

Flippin’ Gold Membership: $13.50 from Interview with Mark Santiago

PLR Special: $10.68 from Interview with Justin Popovic

Retro Reppin: $10.56 from Interview with Mike Shreeve

Going Viral on Facebook: $8.95 from interview with Yoel Cohen

Web Cash Stream: $4.95 from interview with Yaros Pacheco

Total from interviews: $1,091.26 (+$211.73 from December)

Text link ads: $50 – I make this income from an old website of mine.

SocialAdr: $40.80 – A hands-off way of getting more likes on tweets for your posts

Ezarticle link: $34 – This is reoccurring income from a video tutorial I did about Ezarticlelink HERE

Whoosh Traffic: $20 – A keyword tracker for monitoring multiple keyword rankings

SafeSwaps.com: $15

Adsense: $200

Website sales: $236.60

Total from OTHER streams of income: $596.40 (+$78.10 from December)

Total Revenue: $1,687.66 (+$289.63 from December)

Total Profit: $1,384.66 (+$1,650.44 from December)

Every month I release a revenue report to show my audience that I’m also spending money and trying out some of the methods that my guests and I chat about. Of course I can’t try out them all, but I’m always open to new ways of diversifying my online income. In the future I plan on investing more of my profits back into testing out different ways to make a living online, so hopefully the more I make each month the more I’ll be able to risk in experimentation.

This was my best month of interviewing so far with over $1,000 of income stemming directly from interviews. It goes to show that you can provide tons of value AND make money from affiliate commissions at the same time. No need to take advantage of people, steal, or cheat. Just give people what they want and they’ll reward you by buying through your affiliate links.

I had some amazing guests on the show in January, including some big names like Chris Ducker, Brad Gosse, and Spencer Haws. I’m personally learning so much week after week from my guests that I can’t imagine how educated we’ll all be after a whole YEAR of doing interviews. That time will come, but for now I’m focused on getting up to my 100th episode next week!

You can also start your own interview show!

In the coming weeks I’m planning on releasing a product teaching you all how to build a business by doing interviews. Interviewing experts in your field is an amazing way to establish yourself as an authority in any field of business. Whether you want to generate traffic, build a list, get more sales, or simply network with amazing people, interviewing is an excellent way of getting your name out there. If you’re interested in starting your own show then please fill out this super-short form HERE.

I’m also planing on doing some case studies with different paid traffic methods. The goal is to release these upon completion every weekend. If you’re on my email list you’ll be sure to get an announcement letting you know when they’re up.

That’s it for January. Stay tuned as I’ll continue to release a new episode of the Mike From Maine Show every weekday. As always, feel free to contact me if you need anything or have suggestions for future guests.

Traffic

25,187 MikeFromMaine.com page views in December

3,674 iTunes downloads

3,364 Youtube views

37,322 minutes watched

List size

Aweber: 2,214

Social Followers

Twitter: 2,000

Facebook Fans: 300

Expenses

Bing Advertising: $17.34 – Some advertising fees for some CPA ads I was testing out…fail

Aweber: $29 – This is my list building software that allows me to email everyone when there’s a new interview

Host Gator hosting: $50 – I host all my niche sites and this site on multiple hosting accounts

Warrior Forum Ads: $20 – These are fees for advertising my websites for sale in the Warrior Forum

Contest Domination Pro: $30 – I used this to hold the contest in December

Libsyn: $75 – I host my podcast with this so I can put it on iTunes

Theme music: $29.95 – I still haven’t used it yet, but I will

Splasheo Intro: $47 – This is what I do the intro to my show with…great quality for a reasonable price

Adf.ly advertising: $16 I didn’t have good results with this

SafeSwaps.com: $29.99 – This is the membership fee I pay to be able to buy solo ads from people who have been rated by previous buyers

Solo Ads: $1,319.53

Total expenses: $1,663.81

Revenue

Squidoo Cash Tsunami (CLOSED): $241 from interview with Troy Nantais

Adsense Firestorm (CLOSED): $198.55 from interview with Sean Donahoe

The Four Hour System: $107.80 from interview with Anton Kraly

Going Viral on Facebook: $50.68 from interview with Yoel Cohen

GFT Connect: $37 from interview with Bryan McConnahea

Business Turnkey Exponential: $32 from interview with Sarkis Yambestian

Azon Classroom 3.0: $30.10 from interview with Jeff Carson

Wiki Word Plugin: $29.55 from interview with Walt Bayliss

Instant Instagram Profits (CLOSED): $29.41 from Interview with Komsat Keo

Customer Retention Formula: $28.66 from Interview with Chris Reck

Viral Video Course: $26.67 from interview with Barak Hullman

Live CPA Blueprint: $24.60 from interview with Paul Nagel

Photo Traffic Power (CLOSED): $19.98 from interview with Pat Flanagan

Christmas Come Early Deal: $18.02 from interview with Chris Reck

Rebel Mouse Infestation: $5.71 from interview with Jimmy Mancini

Total from interviews: $879.73

Text link ads: $59.50 – I make this income from an old website of mine. It’s pretty consistently around $50/month

SocialAdr: $44.20 – A hands-off way of getting more likes on tweets for your posts

Ezarticle link: $85 – This is reoccurring income from a video tutorial I did about Ezarticlelink HERE

CTR Theme: $30.49 – I suggest both this theme and the Intelli theme for Adsense sites

Whoosh Traffic: $20 – A keyword tracker for monitoring multiple keyword rankings

Contest Domination: $8.92 – A way to easily hold contests

Adsense: $125.19 – I used to make a lot more with Adsense…now it’s just a small amount of my income…good thing I’m diversified

Website sales: $80 – I didn’t sell too many sites this month.

Bluehost: $65 – I had a deal where if you sign up for hosting through my link I would give you a free Adsense niche site from HERE. I’ll still honor that if anyone is interested.

Total from OTHER streams of income: $518.30

Total Revenue: $1,398.03

Total Profit: $-265.78

Negative profit? What happened?

Not to worry, my friends. I’ve been experimenting with solo ads. If you don’t know what solo ads are you can learn about them in my interview with Jayson Benoit. I spent a total of $1,319.53 on building a bigger audience for the show. What kind of results did I get? I increased my email list from about 800 subscribers to over 2000. It cost a little more than $1 per new subscriber, but for me it was worth it to expand my audience. Will I continue spending like this? Probably not until I have a product that I can sell directly to new email subscribers, as I need a way of recouping the costs.

What can you expect from The Mike From Maine Show?

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about the way my show has been going. I’ve received tons of positive feedback from many of you in emails, tweets, and Facebook messages…thank you so much for your support!  That being said I still am striving to make my show even more useful for my audience. I was chatting with Joe Magnotti the other day from AdsenseFlippers.com and he advised me to make the interviews LESS about the guest’s story and MORE about actionable content. This advice really resonated with me as I love their podcast because there’s usually something ACTIONABLE that I take out of each one. For example, I watched this interview on BrightIdeas.co with Andrew Warner the other day, and I asked myself “why did I watch it?” What made me watch THIS ONE and not others? The reason was that there was a skill inside the interview that I wanted to learn about so I could implement it on my own site. Did I want to sit down and watch Trent Dyrsmid and Andrew Warner chat? Nope, I don’t have time for that. I wanted some meat! If I feel this way then most likely others do too.

So expect the general interview format to change a bit in the coming weeks after I’ve published the episodes that I’ve previously recorded. Of course we’ll touch a bit on the guest’s “story” but I’m going to try to use the interviews as a chance to get more actionable content from my guests. I think the result of this transition will be best for everyone as it will narrow down and give an obvious topic for each show.

When I started interviewing back in late September 2012 I never claimed to be an expert. I actually started out with a low-quality webcam which made the videos look pretty bad. I had never done ANY interviews before, so I just attacked the venture with the attitude that I would learn as I go. Well, I’m still learning and striving to give you all the best interviews I can provide while at the same time earning an income through affiliate commissions and sponsorships. I’ve learned a lot in the last four months and in the near future I’m planning on sharing a “How To” for doing interviews with you all. Stay tuned.

Thank you everyone for watching/listening/reading! I couldn’t do it without you!

Thanks!

Mike Thomas

PS Who would you like to see on the show in the future AND what would you SPECIFICALLY like to learn from them? Please let me know in the comments below.

Expenses

Bing Advertising: $50.04

Aweber: $29

Host Gator hosting: $50

Warrior Forum Ads: $60

Contest Domination Pro: $30

Screenflow update: $29

Get Response: $65

Get Subscribers: $90

Email service: $34

Libsyn: $55

Total expenses: $492.04

Revenue

Instant Instagram Profits (CLOSED): $138.38 from Interview with Komsat Keo

Page One Profits: $81.72 from Interview with Rachel Rofe

Epic Kindle Promotion (CLOSED): $69.38 from interview with Derek Madden

Business Turnkey Exponential: $64 from interview with Sarkis Yambestian

Azon Classroom 3.0: $59.15 from interview with Jeff Carson

Mobile Tester Profits (CLOSED): $52.10 from interview with Jonathan Oshevire

Spy Bar: $48.80 from interview with Rob Cornish

WP Speed Formula: $32.01 from interview with Josh Fulfer

Customer Retention Formula: $28.66 from Interview with Chris Reck

Live CPA Blueprint: $24.28 from interview with Paul Nagel

Offline Bullet Cash: $23.42 from interview with Paul Nicholls

Offline Walkons: $22.56 from Interview with James Tudsbury

Dangers of Social Media: $19.28 from interview with Kornel Kathi

PLR Special: $16.54 from Interview with Justin Popovic

Web Cash Stream: $14.85 from interview with Yaros Pacheco

Rebel Mouse Infestation: $5.64 from interview with Jimmy Mancini

Geo Cash (CLOSED): $15.34

Automated LI Profits (CLOSED): $8.99

Simple Affiliate Domination (CLOSED): $7.12

Peerfly: $90.40

Text link ads: $62

SocialAdr: $47.60

WP Goldmine: $9.22

Ezarticle link: $119

CTR Theme: $30.14

Whoosh Traffic: $18

Contest Domination: $8.82

Adsense: $141

Website sales: $287.69

Total Revenue: $1,562.38

Total Profit: $1,070.44

I’m going to keep this revenue update short because it’s for November and not December. One thing that November showed me is that doing interviews can definitely be profitable. It’s also great for creating connections with people that might not normally be accessible.

My most notable interviews in November were with Derek Halpern from SocialTriggers.com and Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com. These interviews didn’t make me any money in affiliate commissions, but they added a lot of value and credibility to my website and show. I had a lot of great feedback from both of these.

My biggest expenses involved a service that I tried out called Get Subscribers. It is provided by the autoresponder company GetResponse.com as a way to get opted-in subscribers on autopilot. I paid $90 plus some other fees for using the service, but I found that the leads they provided were not very responsive when I emailed them out. Instead of continuing on with them I just cancelled. I didn’t have great luck with them, but that doesn’t mean that others won’t. I’d love to hear about your experience with them in the comments below.

I also did some advertising with Bing to send traffic to some CPA offers with Peerfly. I had some success with that, but I just haven’t had time yet to pursue it. I’m in the process of working together with Jonathan Smith from Lead Smack  to learn how to make money with CPA offers. When that happens I’ll be sure to share with you all.

To sum up November, it gave me some proof that I could create value and make money at the same time by doing interviews with successful online marketers. It gave me the extra push to keep publishing five interviews a week and building my audience. I want to thank you all for watching, reading, and listening.

Sincerely,

Another month gone by, another income report…but this one is for October. I’ll be putting out the November income report in a couple of weeks.

Why do I put out these reports?

I don’t do income reports to brag…there’s not that much to brag about anyway I do them to keep accountable to myself and to you. I want you to know that I am also actively seeking out ways of creating multiple streams of income, not only by interviewing my guests, but by occasionally trying out their methods fully or partially on my own. My goal is that if we all work together then we can all create multiple streams of income together.

Expenses

Bing Advertising: $111

Stumbleupon: $100

oDesk: $11

Aweber: $29

Host Gator hosting: $66

Warrior Forum Ads: $40

iGlasses: $20

Libsyn: $12.50

Total expenses: $389.50

Revenue

Retro Reppin: $175.95 from Interview with Mike Shreeve

Create Awesome Interviews: $137.06 from Interview with David Siteman Garland

CPA Cash Vault: $105 from Interview with Jonathan Smith

Customer Retention Formula: $93.08 from Interview with Chris Reck

.EDU Backlinks: $93.39 from Interview with Veit Schenk

Flippin Crusher 3.0: $61.69 from Interview with Mark Santiago

Email Income Secrets: $29.91 from Interview with Ken James

AutoZonBot: $33.75 from Interview with Lina Trivedi

Video Traffic Giant: $14.01 from Interview with Fergal Downes

Generation Plugin: $50.50 from Interview with Sam Zadworny

Syndication Rockstar: $27 from Interview with Sean Donahoe

Peerfly: $47.50

EZarticlelink refund credits: $240

Text link ads: $63.99

Article Marketing Robot: $35.11

SocialAdr: $44.40

WP Goldmine: $9.22

Ezarticle link: $204

CTR Theme: $30.49

Website sales: $1,106

Whoosh Traffic: $18

Adsense: $250

Total Revenue: $2,870.05

Total Profit: $2,480.55

How can I thank you?

I’ve reached to my past guests to create an AWESOME contest! Starting TODAY you can enter a contest to win ONE of 32 amazing prizes worth over $1,000! There will be 32 winners this month each winning ONE of the prizes on the list.

Enter the contest now by clicking this link: Mike From Maine Contest.
If you don’t have Facebook you can also enter HERE

With 32 prizes being given away there’s a good chance that you’ll win, especially if you share your special link (you’ll get it after signing up) with friends. For every person that joins the contest through your link, you get 10 extra chances to win.

Again, thank you all for watching and best of luck in the contest! It ends December 31st at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified via email the first week of January, 2013. The 32 winners will claim ONE prize from the prize list on a first-to-email-me-back basis. I’ll be using Contest Domination to run a professional, fair contest. I reserve the right to disqualify anyone suspected of foul play.

I’m writing this revenue report as a way to let people know what’s really feasible when making money online. Anyone who says it’s easy is either a liar or really lucky. It can get “easier” over time, but it takes a lot of hard work and money spent. At the same time I include both income and expenses so that you can see what the real profits amount to in total.

I apologize for putting this out quite late this month, but if any of you have been paying attention to my website lately you’ll notice that the last month and a half have been quite busy. I’ve been producing a new show episode every day since the end of September, so it’s been a bit hectic on my end learning the ropes.

Enough with the excuses…here are the numbers:

Expenses

Bing Advertising: $51.13

7Search Advertising: $25

ManageWP: $91

Pingler: $5.38

Aweber: $29

Social Adr: $94

Ezarticle link subscription: $29

Whoosh rank tracking subscription: $99

Wufoo: $15

EZarticle spin credits: $240

Odesk writing, research, and outsourcing: $517.28

Go Daddy domains and Host Gator hosting: $921.15

website creation outsourcing: $40

Flippa: $265

Warrior Forum Ads: $20

Lead Player: $147

Total expenses: $2,071.66

Revenue

Peerfly: $42.90

Text link ads: $67.82

Video Traffic Giant: $88.33 from Interview with Fergal Downes

Street Smart Selling: $8.65 from Interview with Jerry Roberts

Video Marketing Debunked: $5.97 from Interview with Mark Thompson

Article Marketing Robot: $44.36

SocialAdr: $59.17

WP Goldmine: $9.95

Ezarticle link: $238

CTR Theme: $60.98

Website sales: $3,501.17

Whoosh Traffic: $18

Adsense: $529.76

Total Revenue: $4,675.06

Total Profit: $2,603.40

I’m very pleased with my profit for this month considering that my Adsense was super low with all the sites I’ve sold off and the fact that the Google EMD update hit at the end of the month. Most of my income came through selling a lot of my cheaper sites in the $50 range to an audience looking to build smaller sites into authority sites.

A new way of making money?

I’ve really been getting into CPA ads and PPC advertising lately. I’ve started seeing some results, but I’m still spending more than I’m making. Stay tuned to see some results in October or November. If you’re interested in learning more check out Jonathan Smith’s interview about making money with CPA.

$50 Authority Starter Sites

For those of you who watch the show you should know about my Authority Starter Sites for sale. I’ve decided to sell my portfolio of over 600 websites as a way to fund my new Internet marketing ventures. I’ve offered them at super-cheap prices and I’ve gotten a great initial response.

A new direction for MikeFromMaine.com

September will be my last month of building niche websites on a mass scale for a while now. I’ve decided to mostly focus on learning new ways of making money online, thus the impetus for starting The Mike From Maine Show in late September. Even before the latest Google update hit I felt the need to start diversifying my income, and I’m really glad I did. It just goes to show you that the rug can be pulled out from under you at any time…and it’s happened to me before.

What is The Mike From Maine Show? 

How am I going to make money in the future?

My plan for the future is to keep bringing on great guests and earn money with the occasional affiliate sale that I include in the video and in the show notes. I’m also hoping to get some sponsors in the future so that I can keep providing quality shows, but at the same time I need to earn some money to keep food on the table. I figure that if I stick with my main goal of providing quality content for my readers that the money will eventually come in. If any of your are interested in sponsoring my show please let me know

That’s all for now…I’ll be putting out another income report for October in the next couple weeks so I don’t want to give EVERYTHING away now. Thank you all for your support, and don’t forget to follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and sign up for updates every time there’s a new show!

Expenses

ManageWP: $273

Pingler: $5

Aweber: $29

Social Adr: $94

Ezarticle link subscription: $30

Free Jing and ScreenCast Subscription for
easily explaining things to workers : $10

Whoosh rank tracking subscription: $99

EZarticle spin credits: $480

Copyscape: $25

Article Marketing Robot and Unique Article Wizard outsourcing: $480

Odesk writing, research, and outsourcing: $1,523.59

Go Daddy domains and Host Gator hosting: $821.11

website creation outsourcing: $40

Headers: $10

Flippa: $0

Warrior Forum Ads: $40

CPA Reborn Course: $27

99 Designs Header: $499

Demon Tracking (for CPA offers)+ Domain and hosting: $57

Ecamm Call Recorder: $17.95

Studio Press Theme: $79.95

Wistia: $29

Total expenses: $4,669.60

Revenue

Text link ads: $70.36

CPA Reborn: $40.50

WP Twin: $98

SocialAdr: $48

WP Goldmine: $18.44

Ezarticle link: $187

CTR Theme: $274.41

Long Tail Pro: $79.04

Website sales: $2,539.47

Whoosh Traffic: $67.60

Adsense: $2,010.50

One-on-one consulting: $300

Total Revenue: $5,733.32

Total Profit: $1,063.72

Total finished niche websites: 568

Niche sites currently being built: 125

Total niche websites: 683

So what’s new for September?

I’m going to be focusing on selling a lot of sites this month. I’ve added a ton of new sites to my Sites For Sale page. I’ve even added some sites in the lower price ranges to attract buyers who want to build niche sites but don’t have a huge budget. I expect these sites to sell quite quickly this month.

I also have two awesome sites up on Flippa right now. One of them made $51.43 in the last 30 days, and the other made $169.50. If you’re interested in checking them out or bidding on them you can at:

https://flippa.com/2813220-169-50-last-30-days-2-153-unique-visitors-no-work-required-rank-1-in-google

https://flippa.com/2812124-51-43-last-30-days-306-unique-visitors-no-work-required-1-no-reserve 

An interesting thing about these two sites is that both of them only have one page on them. Anyone trying to tell you that you need a lot of content to rank in Google is full of poo. These two sites are living proof.

Well that’s it for this month. If you’d like to add a new site to your portfolio you can check out all my niche sites for sale HERE.

Thanks for all your support!

Expenses

ManageWP: $147

Pingler: $5

Aweber: $20

Social Adr: $94

Ezarticle link subscription: $30

Free Jing and ScreenCast Subscription for
easily explaining things to workers : $10

Whoosh rank tracking subscription: $99

EZarticle spin credits: $0

Copyscape: $0

Article Marketing Robot and Unique Article Wizard outsourcing: $120

Odesk writing, research, and outsourcing: $793.46

Go Daddy domains and Host Gator hosting: $98.28

website creation outsourcing: $22

Header: $40.50

Flippa: $0

Warrior Forum Ads: $80

Create Awesome Interviews: $495

Optin Skin: $47

Contest Domination OTO: $37

Skype Phone Number: $60

Facebook: $99.86

Total expenses: $2,261.10

Revenue

Text link ads: $83.49

Odesk: $150

SocialAdr: $37.14

WP Goldmine: $9.00

Ezarticle link: $119

CTR Theme: $273.32

Long Tail Pro: $172.82

Website sales: $12,110.05

Adsense: $2,461.95

Total Revenue: $15,416.77

Total Profit: $13,155.67

I’m happy to announce that this is the best month I’ve had online EVER! The big difference this month is the amount of private sites I sold. With a total of $12,110.05 in private sales I beat last month by almost 100%. I was able to cut costs this month because a lot of the domains I bought last night weren’t made into websites yet by my outsourcing team. Why not? Since it’s summertime I think a lot of my writers are working a bit slower so it’s harder to find article writers to get the work done. Other then that, things have been going very well with my business.

What’s new this month?

1. I’ve started using the Optin plugin that Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income recommends. I haven’t fully realized it’s potential yet, but it’s great for creating customized and beautiful optin forms for my site.

2. I had my $100 niche site giveaway contest this month. Things went very well with it as I was able to increase the amount of people on my list, Twitter, and Facebook. You can learn more about the results HERE.

3. I didn’t do any auctions on Flippa. Instead of spending money there I put ads on the Warrior website like this one. It costs $20 for each add you place there. I placed 4 ads throughout the month costing a total of $80. I got quite a bit of traffic from there, but unfortunately I can’t give you numbers because my analytics code was removed by mistake when installing another plugin. Next month.

4. I had some nice revenue from referrals this month, exactly $761.28. That’s a real big improvement just in itself. The nice thing is some of that is reoccurring income so I should see some of it again next month.

5. I was asked by Joe and Justin at Adsense Flippers to compete in a debate on Authority and Niche sites as valid income models. It was really fun to do and I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback about it. If you haven’t read it yet you can read it HERE.

6. I published a popular post about a few ways I build rapport with my list. This went over really well and got some great feedback. Read it HERE.

7. I sat down and wrote a history of my experiences making money on the Internet. This is quite a long read so grab a coffee and check it out HERE.

8. I changed my Adsense Starter Sites for sale page to make it easier for interested buyers to find out almost everything important about a site. You can check that out HERE.

All in all it’s been a great month, but I’ve been very busy. I feel like I’m finally getting somewhere online and it’s a great feeling. However, I know that the Internet world changes very quickly, so I’m in the process of diversifying my income. How will I be doing this? I plan on reaching out to a wider audience online by creating a video web show interviewing successful Internet marketers about their experiences online. This will not be an easy project, but I think it could be really interesting and fun to do. In order to prepare for it I purchased David Siteman Garland’s Create Awesome Interviews tutorial. I don’t usually buy info products, but he really knows his stuff and I’m super happy with it. Anyway, just a heads up that you should be seeing some great interviews start up in the next month or two.

That’s it for July…let’s see how August goes

Expenses

ManageWP: $49

Pingler: $5

Aweber: $20

Social Adr: $94

Ezarticle link subscription: $30

Free Jing and ScreenCast Subscription for
easily explaining things to workers : $10

Whoosh rank tracking subscription: $99

EZarticle spin credits: $480

Copyscape: $0

Article Marketing Robot and Unique Article Wizard outsourcing: $360

Odesk writing, research, and outsourcing: $912.19

Go Daddy domains and Host Gator hosting: $1,769.17

website creation outsourcing: $20

Header: $5

Flippa: $235

Fiverr: $5

Welcome Splash Plugin: $17

Total expenses: $4,110.36

Revenue

Text link ads: $83.92

Odesk: $50

Ezarticle link: $51

CTR Theme: $212.98

Long Tail Pro: $79.47

Website sales: $6,393.72

Adsense: $3,278.85

Total Revenue: $10,149.94

Total Profit: $6,039.58

Woah, this was a busy and big month! Things have really started to come together with website sales, Adsense earnings, and a few affiliate sales here and there. It's already half way through July, and let's just say that things are carrying on in this great positive way.

So, what was new in June? I put a few sites up on Flippa which got me some nice sales there plus some new readers for my blog. With Flippa's high listing prices, I really need to take advantage of getting traffic from their listings to my Adsense Starter Sites For Sale sales page. If I can do that then I can justify listing a site on Flippa once in a while. I now understand why the Adsense Flippers started a Buy Our Sites page of their own: to save money.

What else happend this month?

1. I sold TWO listings on Flippa.

2. I added affiliate sales to my revenue stream.

3. I increased my Total Profit by over 200%.

4. My Adsense income increased by $447.

I feel like this month really was a turning point for me. I've started to see some real money flowing into my accounts which is going to give me the freedom to start pursing more streams of income and diversifcation in my business. I couldn't have done it without my loyal readers. That's why I'm always here to help if anyone has any questions about making money online with niche sites.

Updates:

1. You can now contact me easily through live chat right on website. You'll notice a little chatbox in the right-hand corner. If you initiate a chat you'll be speaking directly with me. I was able to add this for free with Olark. For me it's a great way to keep connected with my visitors when they have questions about making sites or when interested in buying websites.

2. Adsense Starter Sites: I've been really pleased with the success of my sites for sale. I've had multiple buyers come back for repeat sales so I must be doing something right. If you're interested in buying a site you can contact me through email at mike@mikefrommaine.com or you can chat with me through the chat box on this site.

3. Podcast: I'm thinking about starting a podcast where I talk about making money online with other successful Internet marketers. I think I'd like to focus on the lesser-known people who are making realistic incomes online, and not focus on the super gurus. It would be interesting for me to speak with them, and I'm hoping that you guys would like to hear the interviews, too.

4. Contest: I've mentioned before that I'll be giving away a free niche website in the near future. For those of you on my list I'll be announcing it to you all first so that you can get a head start on everyone else. I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

Well that's all for now. I apologize for the late income report this month. I was home with my family in Maine for 3 weeks at the end of June, and then I went on vacation with my girlfriend in Turkey. I'm sure you can all understand that between business and family, family comes first

Again, I'm always available if you have any questions, so email me or message me.