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Earn Money From Your Hobby (3)

Steve — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:16:41 +0000

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 March 2009 : 80

April 2009 : 11 (But no analytics code due to template change)

May 2009 : 78

June 2009 : 81

March, April, May & June 2009 Earnings :

1 .Google adsense - $1.34 Running total ($1.49)

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

Glue £4.98

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

I decided not to update each month as I had somewhat neglected the model building due to other committments. I am pleased to report that July will show the first ebay earnings for the blog. I shall now try to go back to my mothly updates. Additional expenditure this month has been epoxy resin glue.

HMS V W Wair Class Destroyer Neptun Ship Model 1169
£6.47

REVELL GERMAN HEAVY CRUISER BLUCHER MODEL KIT 1:720
£9.99

block (single roll, 2 holding points) for ships & boats
£3.20

Elbing Class Torpedo Boat T 31 Neptun Ship Model 1067B
£6.47

REVELL GERMAN SUBMARINE DEUTSCHES U BOOT TYPE VII 1:144
£19.99

VoyagerModel 1:350 IJN 11m Motor Pinnacle
£11.00

Earn Money from your Hobby Update (2)

Steve — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:27:54 +0000

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.

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.