Affiliate Marketing Income Report: August 2014
October 14, 2014 Posted by Tyler CruzOkay, I realize that my blog is now starting to become like 50% of just monthly income reports, so I will leave this one as the latest one for a while, even if it means falling behind on them again.
Sadly, this income report won’t be very inspiring. In fact, it will be a little bit depressing, as I saw a big drop in profit in August – over half of what I did the previous month.
This is even more noticeable when you consider that the past 3 months collectively brought in just under $50,000 in profit ($48,997.44). I feel really disappointed when I net under $10,000 in a month which is payed using a check stubs online software. After salary and taxes, I am not left with very much in company savings.
Anyway, enough moping, let’s see how August 2014 performed:
August 2014 Affiliate Campaign Income:
$27,317.35
Affiliate Network Breakdown:
- Affiliate Network #1: $13,801.60
- Affiliate Network #2: $43.75
- Affiliate Network #3: $280.00
- Affiliate Network #4: $13,192.00
(This includes conversion from foreign currencies to USD)
Expenses:
$21,291.31
Traffic Source Breakdown:
- Traffic Source #1: $13,936.22
- Traffic Source #2: $2,034.89
- Traffic Source #3: $3,035.16
- Traffic Source #4: $542.07
- Traffic Source #4: $1,037.73
- Traffic Source #5: $705.24
Net Profit:
$6,026.04
Ugh… 4 figures. It could be worse though…
2014 Affiliate Marketing Results
First, here’s a recap of how 2013 fared for the entire year:
| Year | Gross | Expense | Net | ROI |
| 2013 | $823,884.01 | $555,024.33 | $258,859.68 | 46% |
| Total: | $823,884.01 | $555,024.33 | $258,859.68 | 46% |
| Monthly Average: | $68,657.00 | $47,085.36 | $21,571.64 | 46% |
And here’s a monthly breakdown of 2014 so far:
| Month | Gross | Expense | Net | ROI |
| January 2014 | $10,922.80 | $8,908.47 | $2,014.33 | 23% |
| February 2014 | $25,941.97 | $15,900.52 | $10,041.45 | 63% |
| March 2014 | $24,202.06 | $15,408.95 | $8,793.11 | 57% |
| April 2014 | $3,486.55 | $3,150.00 | $336.55 | 11% |
| May 2014 | $57,015.00 | $38,765.01 | $18,249.99 | 47% |
| June 2014 | $60,753.58 | $43,095.35 | $17,658.23 | 41% |
| July 2014 | $50,162.81 | $37,073.59 | $13,089.22 | 35% |
| August 2014 | $27,317.35 | $21,291.31 | $6,026.04 | 28% |
| Total: | $259,802.12 | $183,593.20 | $76,208.92 | 42% |
| Monthly Average: | $32,475.27 | $22,949.15 | $9,526.12 | 42% |
That puts my monthly average so far this year back down to 4 figures. I’m at $76K net profit so far this year after 8 months in. That puts me on pace to hit $114K profit this year – which may sound good, but would still only be half of what I pulled in last year.
Hmm… can’t be greedy though… $114K/year is still pretty good!
The Larger Picture: 20-Month Analysis
Below are my overall numbers from my campaigns since I started recording them in January 2013:
| January 2013 to August 2014 | Gross | Expense | Net | ROI |
| 20-Month Total: | $1,083,686.13 | $748,617.53 | $335,068.60 | 45% |
| Monthly Average: | $54,184.31 | $37,430.88 | $16,753.43 | 45% |
Getting close to 2 years of recording my affiliate marketing stats, my monthly average sits at $16,750. I’m quite happy with that. It will be interesting to see what that number sits in in another 6 months from now.
August Recap
August was pretty stressful for me. The month started off strong, continuing off where July’s fairly strong month left off. Then, about a week in, one of the offers I was running went down and it didn’t look like it was going to come back. I focused on a couple of other offers instead which were doing quite well too, but then a couple weeks later, those went down as well.
I was actually at a higher profit earlier into the month but it quickly dwindled I kept spending more money testing new offers, targeting, LP’s, and traffic sources.
Also in August I had tried a new traffic network for the first time. A pretty popular one that a lot of you know. After a lot of delays and headaches (their billing department leaves a lot to be desired, plus I accidentally billed to my wrong credit card…) I finally tried them out with some small tests. Ouch – they were absolutely horrible. I normally don’t give up on a traffic source so quickly, but the results were just horrendous, and they were far too bureaucratic for a traffic source. I likely will never use them again.
I also tried another new source in August for the first time, this time a much smaller network. Results were pretty bad at first, but after a while I started to see some potential. I continued to use them for another couple months before deciding that it just wasn’t worth trying to make work anymore. It’s pretty bad but does show a little bit of potential for some small, select, profitable campaigns. I will likely try them again in the future, but only when I have some better offers running.
Overall, August was pretty busy for me. I was constantly analyzing and optimizing campaigns and trying new traffic sources and offers. I don’t feel like the end result ($6K) was quite worth the effort I put in.
September Plans and Predictions
Normally in this section I list the plans I have for the upcoming month as well as predict how I think the month will fare profit-wise. However, since September has already come and gone, I will be skipping this section in this report since I already know how it went.
Stay tuned to see for yourself!
Tyler, you gotta keep on fightin’ ! 🙂
42% ROI is not that bad Tyler. Keep going.
Expense in Total row seems wrong. expense is 3 times gross 😉
Gross Expense
Total: $259,802.12 $748,617.53
Thanks! I accidentally put the 20-month expense there instead. Fixed.
Good job Tyler! I have a feeling you are going to double or triple it in 2015. Good luck.
Slobodan (Dan) Stojadinovic
Hey Tyler I think you should just knock off the September monthly income report and then you will be up to date. To be honest, I mostly come here for the income reports, so to see such a lull is quite annoying, but having a new one each month to look forward to makes it a lot better.
If I skip the September report people will want to see it.
Well done, don’t give up 😉
Sorry, “knock it off” is Aussie slang for “just get it done”. Haha
Not bad at all. In fact, that was amazing!!!
The reason your ROI is so low is because you’ve got a lot of cash flow to play with, and this makes you use less effort subconsciously. My first 3 campaigns I had well over 100% ROI. Narrow your targets. Position your offers better. You’re leaving money on the table.
I could have 50,000% ROI if I wanted… but I want profit. That’s all I care about. The most profit I can make…
you told that it will be bit depressing but its not! I think that it is inspiring for the bloggers like me. A great income Tyler, keep it up…
Great stats Tyler, well done and thanks for sharing with the community!
Congratulation 🙂 for Your Income which you have achived every month 🙂
Hey tyler,
You’re awesome making huge $$$$$ ! Hope you make 10 figure income one day ! hehe cool keep increasing…
congrats tyler
your Income report is very interesting