Alright, I know a few of you find my blog somewhat interesting, but these are the posts you all wait for. The one thing a make money online blog must do is post earning stats – to give out advice, you have to be doing it yourself. I stay extremely wary of bloggers that don’t post their statistics – it is easy to talk the talk, but not so easy to walk it – and if you can’t walk it, then why am I taking advice from you?
Now, before I post – my statistics are by no means exemplary; heck, they could have been a lot better but ah well. Family stuff and me relaxing a bit too much (happens when you get a tonne of holidays 
) means that I was fighting an uphill battle.
Paypal
Last month I earned a decent amount – being someone that doesn’t like to keep too much in his Paypal, mainly due to all the hundreds of stories of people being limited, hacked or whatnot I’m wary of keeping more than $2,000 in there. Another bad thing is that I don’t empty my account every month, so have to do all this calculation crap (Paypal should do it themselves 
) – if I remove all funds, I’m scared I’ll come across an amazing deal (like some idiot selling an LLL.com for $100) and not have the money to purchase.
Anyways, at the end of last month I didn’t remove funds, because I was of course waiting for the site money to come in – let’s try and put this together.
At the end of last month, I had $1307.94 sitting in my Paypal account. (from December)
Soon after I received the money for my eBook site, I withdrew $2,500 on January 2nd.
Leaving $2,500 – $1307.94 = 1192.06 so far this month (which was withdrawn).
At the end of the month, I currently have
Which means the total in Paypal for the month is $1192.06 + 1346.02 = $2538.08
That’s my main earnings; the rest are minimal. Anyways, to round them up:
Affiliate Marketing
My goal was to earn $100 through affiliate marketing this month. For that, I used Hostican and NeverBlue Ads.
Hostican
I made one affiliate sale, mainly due to this article.
One of those a month and I’ll be a happy bunny. Considering they pay $70 for a $90 sale, it’s worth joining Hostican just for their affiliate program. Make sure you use the coupon code BestHosting-12 to get $50 off
NeverBlue Ads
I started off with a bang – earning $18 with a $3 investment on my first day, and thought I could easily do $100 by the end of the month – my Adwords account stopped working and it ended up getting me one click per 100,000 impressions or similar. Anyways, I’ll be working on it a bit more once I can get it working, but earnings for the month were $23.7.
Total from affiliate earnings in January, 2008: $23.7 + $70 = $93.7
Goal failed. I’ll work harder next month, if I have time – sadly, the Text Link Ad Network brought in zilch 
Adsense
At the start of the month my earnings died because I got rid of most of my proxies and failed to switch over the others onto a decent server. Anyways, I’m not going to be promoting them until I get my PIN – it’s been three months already without it, despite contacting them quite a bit.
Adsense for January: $33.23
Total earned in January, 2008: $2538.08 + $93.7 + $33.23 = $2665.01
Better than last month, which is improvement in my book – yes, it could have been more, but I wouldn’t mind the same amount of improvement next month
Last but not least, I’ve bought advertising (in rotation, but it’s still advertising ) on Shoemoney for the next four weeks through Adtoll. Go there and refresh the page a couple thousands times, and you should see it at least once. So far I’ve had eight clicks at a CPC of $0.34 each… not bad, I guess
How did you do in January, 2008?
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February 1st, 2008 at 11:58 am
Looks like you did alright Jason.
Myself haven’t earned a dime in January, but hopefully this will change in the end of this month. 
Good luck with your ad on Shoemoney, I wrote a post about my experience today:)
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February 1st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
You still earn a lot of money
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February 1st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Wow–You are already relaxed and yet you earn so much.
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February 1st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Your earnings are great…. But Jason , can you be sure that they will last ? or are they just a temporary burst ?
Just my 2 Cents
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February 1st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Nice earnings Jaosn – very jealous…
The Wordpress theme idea I had doesn’t seem to have worked – I hate DP!
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=683245
lol!
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February 1st, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Stats, especially those with $ signs is a great puller for a make money online guide blogs like yours. We don’t think people who don’t make money online to teach us how to make money online.
Great ebook you have there. Just a question. Do you have any thoughts of selling the book via affiliate sites like PayDotCom?
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February 1st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Nice earnings! Mine were quite a bit lower, around $500. I’ve already posted about them today too. It’s hard to know what to expect for February, though. I sold off my biggest earner, much like you did with your proxies. Guess we just have to come up with new ideas and make them great.
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February 1st, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Nice earning I am going to write one on my blog too.
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February 1st, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Nice, Jason. Now where’s my free dinner?
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February 1st, 2008 at 9:10 pm
@ VB, will have a look when Analytics updates for statistics. 1 second a visitor is really, really lame, especially when compared to what you normally get
@ DC/GP, cheers
@ UDKL, if I knew that, I’d retire from school. No joke
@ Dan, lolz. Pwned badly, eh?
@ Wayne L, cheers. As for the eBook… well, PDC take a cut of every single sale I think, and with Paypal already taking fees, and me selling at a pretty low price, it’s just a pain in the ass
@ Chris, as long as you’re improving, no matter how slowly, alls good. Aye, gotta start some sites, dunno when though…
@ Usman, I’ll look out for that post
@ Sammy, I just bought it for you. You better come and pick it up quick, it’s getting cold
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February 2nd, 2008 at 12:50 am
Good job man. If I could earn $1,000 a month on the side with my job I’d be super happy.
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February 2nd, 2008 at 1:22 am
Actually, I might be stopping by Dubai during the summer. Seriously. If I do I’m going to let you know and see if you’re down to hang out. LOL. So save it till then!
P.S: “How did you do in January, 2008?”
January was b-e-a-utiful!
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February 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 am
Nice earnings man! Seems like you are doing well, especially for someone that just started out last summer! I’m jealous.
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February 2nd, 2008 at 5:09 am
I wrote the post hope you check it out
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February 2nd, 2008 at 7:00 am
Good show Jason but there is lots of room to improve in your
affiliate earnings. Do blog about your experiences in affiliate marketing.
Would love to read about it.
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February 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
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February 2nd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Great earnings you got there Jason
Keep it up
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February 2nd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Hammered more like it – I am really started to hate DP, too many n00b’s thinking they own the place!
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February 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Soz, ignore the one above, my posts, are going towards the scoring!
Hammered more like it – I am really started to hate DP, too many n00b’s thinking they own the place!
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February 3rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Congratulations on the earnings mate!
I hopefully think that your problem with your thousands of impressing and one click comes to an end.
Also, it seems your alexa rank has gone up due to the shoemoney ads!
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February 7th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Great earnings.
@SawanM – The Alexa rank has increased due to the Shoemoney ads?
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February 10th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
u will gonna challenge problogger if you run such contests for a year or 2….and your site will be worth for everything
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February 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
one more thing….y didnt you opt for CPM ads…..you surely gonna have gr8 traffic in cuming days just chip in for that too
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February 11th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Your revenue with NeverBlue Ads got me thinking
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