GarryConn.com December 2008 Income Report
I decided that I am going to start publishing my monthly income reports. However, I am going to be doing this a little differently than most would expect. Rather than publish my entire monthly online earnings, I am only going to reveal to you how much the GarryConn.com brand is earning each month.
Making money online with a blog about making money online is very difficult and a challenge for most people who try within this niche. For whatever the reason may be, so many people are attracted towards trying to make money online within this niche, and it puzzles me because doing so often leads to failure.
I can tell you this much, my December 2008 earnings may look appealing and they may motivate and push you to work harder. But mark my words, if I had used the time and energy placed towards my GarryConn.com brand and applied it to my private niche building business, I would have earned four times the amount shown here. The reason why I devote the time to GarryConn.com is because it is fun and very rewarding knowing how many people I help. And let’s be honest, they pay really isn’t all that bad.
With that said, I hope by me showing you that it can be done, perhaps this will motivate you further in your own success. I know one thing, I have tried to change your mind many times, yet you still continue to push forward on a niche that is super competitive. I do like your determination. If you want to continue your ventures in the make money online niche, here is my income report on the GarryConn.com brand for the month of December of 2008.
- HostGator Affiliate Program: $1,100.00
- GarryConn.com Advertisement Program: $464.95
- Google AdSense Earnings: $442.49
- ScratchBack.com: $108.77
- PepperjamNETWORK: $55.32
- The Niche Doctor Promotion: $44.85
- ClickBank: $40.51
- Premium Article Downloads: $29.00
- Paypal.com Donations: $10.00
- MarketLeverage: $8.00
Total Earnings: $2303.89
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Congrats on the earnings Garry. I see you made $4000+ in Adsense revenue in November, I am assuming you made more than that in December, and the $442 of it is only from this site, correct?
Good earnings from this single blog Garry
Hostgator does pay you well :p
Hi Giancarlo Massaro,
Thanks for sponsoring the post. You have some neat prizes available on your AnyLuckyDay.com web site. I am sure that it will interest many people.
To answer your question, you might have missed this in the first paragraph, I’ll bring it back down again so there is no mistake:
So yes, I made much more in December than I am reporting here. Also, I made much more in November that I reported prior as those totals were calculated from one of my AdSense accounts. I have three.
Thank you Chetan! HostGator.com will pay anyone well. It’s a matter of being creative and taking their affiliate program and owning it. HostGator.com is a most wonderful business to not only work with but also to provide me with amazing web hosting services.
Very nicely done, I must say, and thanks for sharing your numbers. Mine are quite paltry, but they’re better than I probably could have hoped for a year ago so I’ll take them.
Interesting Garry. Do you plan to reveal your total online income reports for each month, or are you planning to keep it strictly blog related income reports?
No. I am only going to reveal each month how much money GarryConn.com earns. Nothing else. Everything else I do online will remain private. In 2008, one of the biggest mistakes I made was revealing too much of my own business to people. Needless to say, it created unneeded competition.
With that said, keeping things housed under my GarryConn.com brand will provide a lot of encouragement for my readers. 2009 is going to be a most excellent year for not only myself, but most importantly for my friends and followers.
I should probably also take this moment to encourage anyone who hasn’t joined my private mailing list to do so. Here is the link:
http://www.garryconn.com/garry-conns-mailing-list
I am offering exclusive material within my private mailing group that isn’t available here on the blog. When the material eventually makes it way to the blog, it will come at price or even a higher price to receive.
And that is all you can ask for my friend. Time is a wonderful thing and as long as you have forward momentum, time has a special way of taking care of the rest.
Garry, what service do you use for the mailing lists?
Thanks for the late update. I waited for this for so long now. But i’m glad i found this one. Keep it up..
It’s so hilarious how trying to “mmo” on an “mmo” blog is probably one of the hardest ways to “mmo”. lol
Great job on the HostGator signups! I did notice you push them through creative ideas here now and then.
Good stuff.
Cheers!
Jay
hi garry thanks for posting your earnings, what you have done is not a show off at all but a way to encourage people like me to work hard enough and surely we would get there, Garry take a look at my site and tell me what is definitely wrong its one of ur wordpress themes but honestly I need to move on
thanks anyway
Ha ha!!
Making money online with a blog about making money online using a blog is very difficult and a challenge for most people who try to even type such a sentence….
Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers. How many packs of picked peppers did Peter Piper pick?
lol
I am thinking of being serious with this Hostgator affiliate program since long time, but never been good with affiliate business.
Any good tips?
Offer to do something special for people in exchange for signing up. That’s The Key To Success!
Signing up for HostGator.com has a cost as low as $4.95 / month for the customer while on the same token, HostGator.com pays you a sales commission.
Many people can’t afford to pay $150 to $250 dollars to have me build them a powerful, professionally designed, and extremely search engine friendly niche blog.
Those Interested In This Service Can Click My “WordPress Install” Link on the top navigation menu or Click Here.
However, when I present a solution to my customer that enables them to receive my services at a cost of only $4.95 / month, this has a much greater attraction.
My customer not only receives the best web hosting services on the Planet, but they also receive my own professional services as a bonus. Ultimately, it is a deal that hardly anyone can refuse.
My challenge, however, is continuing to tap into markets who have never signed up for HostGator.com. I can not provide this service to anyone who has already signed up in the past.
I do believe also that I am one of the first people who came forward and said that I would be willing to work HARD for my sales commission rather than just do what everyone else does and slap up a banner ad and hope for the best.
Needless to say, I live in Tennessee. We like to go fishing. And one thing that I don’t like to do is cast my line into a pond that doesn’t have fish. The same can be said for the hundreds of other MMO bloggers who aimlessly flaunt HostGator.com banners on their blog.
Committing yourself towards providing excellent customer service goes a long way. One thing to consider also, this income report that reflects my HostGator.com earnings is the amount generated under my GarryConn.com brand. Assume not that this is my actual total across the board.
Good luck with your efforts towards promoting HostGator.com.
Hi Uzoma,
Yes, I would be a “show off” if I revealed my income report that reflected complete earnings rather than just the earnings under my GarryConn.com brand.
My advice to you is as follows. Your problem is not with SEOAdMax. While I will admit, that is one of my earlier designs, I know for a fact that it serves hundreds of people very well. Believe me, I get the incoming emails of people thanking me.
Your problem is that you are using AdSense while targeting the wrong type of people. Not many people can successfully monetize their blogs with Google AdSense if the target audience happens to be people conscious and aware of the concept of making money online.
Only bloggers who have a high volume of traffic can significantly pull this off. While my report does reflect earning of $400+ dollars on GCDC, what I didn’t explain was my low conversion. It took a lot of traffic to generate that income on GCDC. The same amount of traffic on a micro niche site could easily generate thousands.
You’re welcome.
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I love your in post adsense placement. Is that the best for conversion? I’m guessing you would have done some testing…
Wow thats really high earning for only from One site Garry. Congrats!
Goonie
I actually believe that they perform better on the right than the left. Ironically, that seems strange because statistic on other sites have proven different. I am always testing, and in fact, I think I have tested the vertical ads being on the left long enough. I will place the ads to the right, I want more clicks.
Thank you very much.
Now that is what i call as a brilliant reply. Thanks a lot Garry.. lemme start making my brain work on this Hostgator thing with some ideas
Garry,
Great earnings from Host Gator! Question for you – my host Dreamhost has an affiliate deal where you can take lump payments or you can take a percentage of all future earnings.
I don’t see that Host Gator offers that.
If it did, would you take it?
I want the money fronted to me and I want it as quickly as possible. Screw the long term, because the money I make today will be used towards making even more money tomorrow which will exceed the trickle payments over a longer period of time.
I need money, I want money, I have to have as much money as I can get my hands on. It thrills me, it excites me and I work very hard to have it. Making money online is more than just a survival thing, it is something that just absolutely thrills me and the more I make the bigger this smile gets on my face.
Who ever said that money can’t buy you happiness was a broke man who just had an excuse to make himself feel better.
You’re welcome.
My goodness, if that doesn’t sound like something I said to someone at a party this weekend! lol
Interesting – I would have though the concept of a never ending stream of revenue would be appealing to you. Particularly since you have relationships with many of these bloggers where your assistance helps ensure their longevity – and future earnings for you. With lump sum you have to continue to find new signups and if you don’t you get nothing.
For people that you don’t have any relationship with and you have no idea if they will be successful then clearly lump sum is the way to go.
However it seems to me that if you know someone, such as someone who is paying you in some way to help them, and if you know that over the years you will be able to help them be more and more successful, then I think that is a relationship worthy of taking a cut of.
I certainly understand wanting the money now – it’s gaurenteed. But I am thinking long term and if I had a stable of successful bloggers under me all paying me a percentage of their annual hosting fees that seems like a pretty good deal.
You haven’t convinced me otherwise, lol!
I have a follow-up question related to lump sum. Another feature that Dreamhost offers which is pretty cool (again I don’t think Host Gator has this that I have seen) is that I can offer you a cut of my profits as a discount to you. So, let’s say that if you sign up for Dreamhost under my affiliate ID that I get a $97 payout from DH.
Would you not offer any discount and take the maximum payout or do you think it could be beneficial to add a discount for the purpose of increasing conversions? For example, if I offered you a $50 discount on your first year hosting that $50 comes out of my $97 so suddenly I am making less – but maybe more people sign up. If your conversions rate increases at a higher proportion than your discount then you make more money.
But would you play that arbitrage game or would you go the simple route, which is clearly working for you, which is maximum profits on each sale?
Congratulations Garry, very well done… Are you affiliated to hostgator through cj?
Truly inspiring Garry. I feel like such a loaf now. lol
Can only say great job! If I could bring those numbers in, I’d have my Harley in no time…
That’s great Garry, congratulations, now it’s the time to tell us your deep step by step secrets in your next post…lol
Well done. I can attest to Garry’s helpfulness first hand. He helped us upgrade our blog from 2.01 to 2.7 when we switched hosts.
Those are good numbers. We’ve never done well with affiliates but Adsense has done well. Will be working on getting improvements.
Thanks for sharing your earnings and your knowledge.
cd :O)
Great earnings Garry. I’m always impressed with how dedicated you are to helping people succeed even when it takes time away from what you could be doing to make more money else where.
Steve
Oh believe me it does, and unlike most people who chase that rainbow, I am one who bathes in the big pot of gold.
The problem with doing what you suggest is that it creates an imaginary rope that ties me to people who will require a lot of assistance.
No problem. And when I consume that resource, I will move onto the next venture and consume that market like a virus.
I agree, but becoming a slave to providing free web hosting tech support is not the answer.
I am thinking long term too. And if I were to expose myself to providing something like this, it would put me in a position where I would have to devote time towards something that I clearly don’t want to do.
Let me bring this quote down one more time….
Think about this for a minute… do you really think that I have no attraction to having an endless stream of revenue?
John, I do have an endless stream of revenue… I get paid every day for doing nothing. Well, not nothing… but something I have built and let go. I’ll be honest with you, I am not building that many more niche sites anymore. I thought that in 2009 I would keep building and building, but why? What’s the point… I am at a level to where I could literally shut the computer off and never turn it on again and I would receive monthly checks of a very impressive amount.
If one day I don’t receive these checks, well… then it might interest me to turn my computer on and see what is wrong and fix it.
Now with that said, I don’t turn my computer off. Instead, I am finding new things to focus on. But, make no mistake… anything I do, will not require me to commit myself as a slave to someone else. I have no problem helping people, but believe me, I am going to be compensated for doing so and compensated very well.
When I am done helping someone, the transaction is COMPLETE. Meaning, if additional help is needed, then a new deal will have to be made.
I don’t think this is an issue of what HostGator.com has or what DreamHost.com has. Each company wants their affiliates to make sales. Only the top affiliates earn sales because they bring their own skill and creativity to the table.
Who is to say that I can’t reduce my commission to close the deal with a potential HostGator.com customer? Who is to say that I can’t say, “Hey Bob… sign up and I’ll send you $25 via paypal.com in 45 days.”
The program is what you make of it. For me, rather than focus on ways to give people money, I focus on the up sale. A lot goes on in the emails between myself and my customers. Rather than voluntarily discount and refund your profits, why not create ways to keep your profits that also appeal to your customers?
Hi Mr Javo,
No I am affiliated with HostGator through Garry Conn.
Who said that you can’t?
The key is to develop a system that works and the duplicate it a few hundred times. The video shows you my system that works, and the only thing you need to do is to take my system and duplicate it. I am wondering how many people will actually invest the time to do what I do?
You are welcome… you’re an awesome customer and I thank you for your business. You know who to call in the future when additional services are needed.
Thanks Steve, I came into 2009 with some ideas at hand, but quickly I can see that these ideas were not good ones to execute. I am adjusting my thinking on how to manage GarryConn.com and so we’ll just have to wait and see how things turn out in the near future.
You’re right. I just need to commit to it.
I need to drop some projects…
You need to do what makes you happy. And if figuring out ways to earn the money to pay for a motorcycle is something that will reward you and make you feel good, then I would do nothing more than to figure out how or what I can do to get that motorcycle.
Here is an idea for you, and if you don’t like it, then there is no harm.
If you happen to know a lot about Harley Davidson Motorcycles, then I would like to believe that you have an opinion about them.
Meaning, who is to say that you couldn’t start a Harley Davidson Niche Blog?
However, this blog is different… this isn’t a cookie cutter drag drop and forget niche blog.
This is a real blog, it’s personal to you… again, Harley Davidson is your passion…
How does the blog make you money so that you can buy one for yourself?
Ebay.
At the moment, there is over 1,000 Harley Davidson Motorcycles being sold on eBay.
http://motors.shop.ebay.com/items/Motorcycles___harley_W0QQ_catrefZ1QQ_flnZ1QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em282
eBay also has an affiliate program…
Your blog should be a blog that provides your “Expert Commentary” regarding the auctions available.
You have endless material…
Old content, delivers traffic from search….
Old content delivers to auction ended… person simply navigates to the newly listed auctions, your cookie remains….
You can have your motorcycle in about a year or less.
Thanks for the response Garry, I certainly see where you are coming from.
I got to thinking about it. And really, you know… I guess it all depends on what you want to do. So going with long-term payments over time is fine. For me, its just something that I wouldn’t want to fool with because that isn’t the course I wan to take, but easily I can see how doing it the way you suggest could lead to a lot of additional service based opportunities because you are increasing a customer base.
hi garry thanks for your comment my guess is you are trying to tell me to go the extra mile in tweaking my blog rather than using adsense strategy I should work hard on affiliate marketing other than google adsense
right ?
Ok. I’m sold. I can do this. I’ll be contacting you shortly.
I can see a way to replicate this too that I’ll run by you…
Oh with out a doubt… something like this can be duplicated time and time again. Pick a different topic, and repeat the process.
What I am saying is that AdSense will not work very well on your blog if you continue to write about making money online, Internet marketing, etc…
The only reason why I can pull it off is because my blog gets a lot of traffic.
You have a long road ahead of you if you want to make money online with a blog about making money online.
I am not trying to discourage you, I am just trying to help.
If you need money and you need it pretty quick. It would be better to invest time into a topic that monetizes better.
Great numbers Garry… I think I need to be a little more serious with my monetizing… Perhaps after rebranding.
Btw, do you mind disclosing what % of the AdSense income is coming from AdSense for Feeds? I am yet to decide on this part.
Cheers,
Ajith
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Hi Garry, I’m a new reader of your blog since you’re name was mentioned over at PotPieGirl’s blog. I’ve been looking for blogs where the author is not scared of trying to make money using adsense so I’m glad I found your blog.
As for trying to make an income targeting the MMO niche I totally agree with you that it is too much work compared to the income when you compare it to other niches. I’m involved in the MMO niche but I’m not there to make money but to have fun and share experiences with others.
My money is made from niches far from MMO and it is so much easier that it would be stupid to not take that route if all you want is to make money online.
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