{"id":336,"date":"2008-01-01T10:49:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T15:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/01\/4th_quarter_report\/"},"modified":"2012-01-22T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T00:38:18","slug":"4th_quarter_report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/01\/4th_quarter_report\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Quarter Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

I re-started my Amazon Associates revenue on November 1 since I wouldn’t be paid for November until 2008. As I wrote earlier<\/a>, things started kind of slow, but ended up doing fine. In addition to the camping stuff, I sold a 160 GB iPod for which I earned $13.80 in commissions. That was my most expensive item, but two others included a digital camera and a USB hard drive. The things I sold the most of were 12 Maxell battery packs, 7 TuneJuice2 packs, and 6 EZGear Powersticks. From my Sony car stereo page I sold 7 PAC adapters at $30 each. Total earnings were $109.98 from Amazon in the two months I was selling stuff. That still puts me slightly ahead of my target of $50 per month to keep below the IRS limit of $600 per year.<\/p>\n


\nAdSense has been down, I think mostly due to advertisers being unwilling to pay as much per click but also decclining traffic: SiteMeter tells me my website traffic was off a little, down from 159,000 in 2006 to 137,000 in 2007 (I didn’t get any big spikes from Digg or Hack-a-day this year, but traffic has been trailing off a little). The DeJumbler page earned the most money, $200, with the battery pack page earning $134, and the Sony page getting $74. The DeJumbler gets a little more traffic than the battery pack, and five times as many ad clicks, but the ad clicks aren’t worth as much. My total for AdSense was $466. Revenue is down in the last quarter with November and December coming in less than $30 each whereas last year they were both over $40.<\/p>\n

Still I have enough money for a new iPod if Apple releases something interesting January 15. And, now that I’m getting DSL<\/a> and don’t need my Speedfactory dial-up account (which also provides me the space for my web pages), I will need to move the web site. That could be trouble because the search engines are all used to pointing to my Speedfactory space and I could lose traffic in the transition. I could keep the Speedfactory account just for the web page and for occasional dial-up service for $99 per year, or buy a domain (like uncleted.com) for $10 a year plus hosting for $60 per year from A Small Orange or from Jeb. Anyway, I don’t pay for internet access from my web-generated funds, but I would pay for hosting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I re-started my Amazon Associates revenue on November 1 since I wouldn’t be paid for November until 2008. As I wrote earlier, things started kind of slow, but ended up doing fine. In addition to the camping stuff, I sold a 160 GB iPod for which I earned $13.80 in commissions. That was my most … Continue reading “4th Quarter Report”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}