My November 2008 Monthly Income Report

Welcome to my second income report, where I share my income and the activities that have helped me grow it over the last month.

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This is the second of a series of reports that I will post each and every month summarizing my progress. I’ll first mention the major events that may have happened within the month that could have made a difference in my earnings. I will also break down the sources of my income so that I can keep track of how each one is doing. Lastly, I’ll conclude with the most important things that I learned and what I have planned for the near future. I’d love to respond to any questions or comments that you may have. Thanks!

Important Goings-On for November

Note: Items with an empty difference percentage were not present on the previous month’s income report.

Definitely a record month for me, in all categories. I attribute the increase in ebook sales and AdSense earnings on GreenExamAcademy.com to a few things:

  1. Basic word of mouth. I can see more and more people being satisfied with my product (both the ebook and the website), and word is spreading. If you can create any word of mouth publicity with your website—that’s gold.
  2. The SEO help that I hired for at the beginning of the month. I specifically asked for certain keywords to rank higher for me, and those keywords are now at or near the top of the search results. I’m getting more and more organic visitors (aka. from search engines), which directly correlates to my traffic, page views, AdSense earnings and ebook sales. Wonderful!
  3. I simply asked my ebook customers for a review. This is a two-fold method. One, I got suggestions that could make my book even better, which is always a good thing. And secondly, I got some rave testimonials, which I put on my ebook sales page for future customers to read.

Important Things I Learned in November

What’s Next

Well—I have to get health insurance, that’s for sure. But furthermore, I’m going to work hard on my audio guide this month, in hopes to have it finished and on sale by January 2, 2009 (crosses fingers).

Next, I’m going to explore some podcasting. I’ll probably test it out on this website, and I hope you’ll have a listen. I’m not sure exactly what I’ll talk about, but I’d love to highlight some eHow articles that I find and give credit to their writers. I think that would be a cool way to help people out, and get more people to listen to the podcast.

Oh, and Christmas shopping, of course.

To My Loyal Readers

First of all, thanks for reading my blog. I’ve made it to 50 subscribers! That’s awesome! If I can get to 100 subscribers before the end of the year, I may have to hold a contest.

Next, feel free to check out the new photo of my fiancee and me in the sidebar. We’re getting married on 2/21/09, so the 2-2-1 on the Ladanian Tomlinson jerseys do have significance. (I always point out that it also signifies “two to one”, like two families becoming one, but April hates when I say that . . . haha. Cheesy!) Also, there’s a new poll in the sidebar as well to participate in.

Please feel free to leave any comments, suggestions, criticisms, shout-outs—whatever you’d like. I’d especially like to hear any plans you may have for the near future that will help you earn more passive income online.

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  • Pat Flynn

    Hi, I’m Pat, founder of SPI and host of the Smart Passive Income Podcast. Let’s continue the conversation over in our communities.

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