Earn money from your hobby | Model Boats Blog

Earn Money from your Hobby Update (2)

March 16th, 2009 by Steve

In the Objective for this blog page objective 3 reads: "To use affiliate marketing to offset the cost of materials and try to pay for the build"

In the Earn money from your hobby page I set out how this is to be achieved.

The purpose of this update blog entry is to show the performance towards these objectives.

I shall record monthly how the blog is doing in the number of visits and the earnings made. I will point out that if you do make any earnings from such a venture then be sure that you let the tax man know. (This blog is attached to Myfordengineringauction.com which is part of the Silver2treasure business and as such all earnings are audited through the business and declared as earnings)

Blog created on 18th January 2009.

Visitor numbers February 2008: 30

February 2008 Earnings :

1 .Google adsense - $0.00 Running total (0.15)

2. Ebay Partner Network - 0.00 Running Total (0.00)

3. Amazon.co.uk - 0.00 Running Total (0.00)

4. Hostgator - 0.00 (from 150309) Running Total (0.00)

Costs to date:

Building costs

Materials - wood £35

(Web costs not shown as blog is hosted on an existing website)

This is the second month of the blogs existance and I do not expect much in the way of earnings until the blog becomes fully established. I have changed the wordpress theme to an adsense friendly version and have now added my Hostgator affiliate links to the blog to see if anything comes from this link. I use Hostgator for these sites and can highly recommend them. I have also just bought phpBay and am trialing it on this blog.