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July – August 2019 Income Report: eZoic Win 🎉, Apprentice Loss😥, My Websites Updates 🐘🐀

Welcome to my fourth bi-monthly income report of 2019!

I am now doing bi-monthly income reports because it saves me time ⏳ and reduces the amount of identical content in my blog 💤

Rather than creating yet another boring IR, I better spend time on writing other posts that are hopefully more interesting than money reports 🤞🏻

So read my income report #47-48 to find out what happened in July-Aug 2019.

🥜In a nutshell, these two months were productive and I made a big leap in terms of increasing my revenue🥜

First eZoic, then…?🤔

Finally, my main website Mother 🐘 Website got approved by eZoic! 🎉 It’s an ad platform that pays 2-3 times better than Adsense, which I used before.

I complained about them taking their time in the previous income report. In July, the situation finally got resolved and I started making money 🎉

In addition to that, I also got Baby 🐘 Website approved. It was a great thing to happen since the Baby 🐘 is just killing it with the ads revenue.

But I do not plan to stop here. The next target is the MediaVine ad platform!

The apprentice 👨‍🎓

My apprentice from Genm (read my review of the Genm platform here) was great and really kicked it with Twitter for Mother 🐘 Website. He showed a lot of initiative and put a great deal of effort into propelling the Twitter account to success. I even had a worry he would burn out and would not want to work on it anymore.

Well, he did not burn out. 

He just quit 💥

Due to personal reasons 😭😭😭

He did not explain much and it did not seem to me that he left because he did not like what he was doing or did not like me. I suspect he had problems with money and needed to get a paying job.

The apprentice worked for me a little bit less than 1 month. It meant that once he canceled our contract, I was still eligible for a refund for an unsuccessful apprenticeship. The refund allows me to find another apprentice free of charge.

I plan to do it in September.

Website updates 🎈

To refresh your memory about what the website nicknames mean, read here.

Mother 🐘 Website

This website is my prime focus. 

I keep working on increasing traffic and pumping money into the content 💸

In July-August, I published over 23,000 words that included a mix of my content and free and paid guest posts.

The majority of it was released in July and was Pinterest-oriented. It gave a traffic boost, which slowed down in August.

Baby 🐘 Website

This website is pretty much a copy of Mother 🐘 Website in terms of the keywords and the growth approach. While it seemed to be working so far 😅, still, Mother 🐘 Website and Baby 🐘 Website have been diverging from each other.

The Baby 🐘 has become my main breadwinner thanks to its more targeted traffic compared to the Mother one.

As I mentioned above, it got approved on the eZoic ad platform and has started bringing in a nice income 😉

Apart from that, not much new happened here. I published only about 4,000 words… and then the writer who was working on it decided to take a break from working with me 😭

🐀 website

As you may already know, I am reviving my old 🐀 Website.

In July and August, my focus was on wrapping up the skyscraper outreach I started in May. Surprisingly, the Skyscraper has been working quite well here compared to my other websites. I guess its niche is more receptive towards giving away backlinks compared to other niches.

However, it is the exact opposite when it comes to Pinterest with this niche. I was dipping my toes in the water with Tailwind and kinda got disappointed with the results. The Pinterest promotion did not go very well ☹

In addition to the above, I also published about 3,700 words of content.

LivingOfCloud (this blog)

In this blog, I was moderately active during this period. I did not write the SEO & Affiliate marketing news for July 😔 but I did write a few other interesting and useful posts! 😁

Here is what I published:

👉 7 ways to fix the Valuable Inventory: Under Construction error: How I got my website approved on Adsense based on my experience getting 🐀 website approved by Adsense
👉 Genm review: My experience with the marketing apprenticeship platform as a business, a review of the platform I used to hire my apprentice for the social media work
👉 How I did not buy a tech website (and what you can learn from my experience) about my recent experience acquiring (or better say not acquiring online businesses 🤣)
👉 LivingOffCloud SEO & Affiliate Marketing News Roundup📰: August, 2019

Personal life 👩🏻

In July, I got on vacation! We went to a cottage located in Muskoka, ON, Canada. It was an epic week of swimming, eating, paddling, and just having enormous fun!

We enjoyed the wonderful nature in full.

In August, I got back to work while trying to keep the vacation vibe. We have a beach near our home so we tried to go there as often as we could.

The fact it was so close allowed me to make a deliberate choice of clothes 🤣

On the downside, our kitties got fleas 😢😿 I had to cut Masa’s fur so that I could treat her properly against the nasty insects.

 

Ok, now let’s go back to the business! ‍

Expenses➖

In July-August, the expenses were again high because I keep investing in content for my websites. 

Income➕

The income in July-August was very good since I switched to a better ads platform, namely eZoic. It pretty much tripled my ads revenue compared to the previous months 😊

Let’s look at the income numbers in the details.

Totals 💵

Here are my totals for July-August 2019.

Total income $3,906.22 minus total expenses $2,033.52 makes a net profit of $1,872.70. This profit should be divided by two since it’s for both July and August.

Here is a chart with my revenue vs expenses history for the last 14 months. I used the 14-month timeline instead of the 12-month one to show you how these months performed compared to the last year. The last year, my income was about 2.5 times smaller and I am beyond happy to see my income growing so much 🤗

September – October 2019 Plans 📅

I have big plans for September – October 2019:

👉 narrow my focus and double down on the websites that bring me the most money
👉 get another apprentice
👉 increase the efficiency of my business by looking more into task automation
👉 have fun! This part is something I often forget about 😆 but it is essential to keep being motivated and to push forward 😉

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