I’ve been a follower of Caroline Middlebrook’s blog almost since the beginning. In September 2007 she quit her job to start a career as an Internet Entrepreneur, and look now, 5 months later she has hit the $2,000 dollar mark of monthly revenue.
I must admit that at first, I didn’t like very much what she wrote, because she didn’t have a clear idea of what to do, and she complained a lot about several things, but who am I to judge her? I also started blogging in September 2007 and look at myself, I haven’t done anything interesting nor made any money.
I know that there are more succesful bloggers on the Net, like John Chow, but what like about Caroline is that she is more closer to my personal case, as she started from zero and without any previous successful background as Internet Marketer.
Where does her money come from?
In the particular month of February 2008, around 75% of Caroline’s income came from promoting BlueHost affiliate program, she made $1,560 dollars only by promoting this affiliate program. It’s interesting to note that she admits that almost al thoe affiliate sales came from her book:
“I plug the BlueHost package both in the ebook and using a banner on this blog. Their affiliate statistics are only allowing me to see details of the last two weeks which is annoying as I use different tracking ID’s so I can see where people are signing up from. However I know that the majority of the sales have come from the ebook. “
I already read her ebook, it is well structured although I’m not very sure I’m in agreement with her approach, because her strategy is to build several niche sites with WordPress using mainly static pages. I belive that building just a few authority sites with a blog as the main vehicle is the best road to take.
Things learned from her success
1.- We need to have some kind of viral vehicle to deliver free valuable information, preferebly an ebook, with lots of affiliate links embedded in the text.
2.- Adsense is a bad business. Caroline only made $25 dollars this month, but I just noticed that she doesn’t have any adsense ads in her blog, so they probably are located in her other niche sites.
3.- We need to post a lot of content, as she confirms that older posts keep sending her a lot of traffic, thus, every post, is an asset that keeps sending traffic over and over again, so the more posts, the more traffic we get.
So congratulations to Caroline, I hope that I also follow her lead and someday I also start making a few bucks enough to make a living.
Héctor Sánchez is a blogger from Ocotlán, Jalisco and he is currently residing in Guadalajara. Héctor is a Public Accountant from Universdidad Panamericana with a Posgrade in Corporate Finance from the same university, and he is currently working as financial analyst for Hewlett Packard. Even though he works in Finance for a living, in his spare time, he is a geek and he likes to build blogs, websites and studies everything related with Internet Marketing and several ways of building businesses online. He is also an active member of Toastmasters, where is the President in turn of his local club, Toastmasters Atlas Chapalita Club.
Thanks very much for the review
Thanks to you Caroline, and thanks for visiting my blog and taking your time to write a comment on my blog. I really appreciate it.
cool, I wish I could earn that amount of money
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