A very belated round 3! Welcome to my online income report March 2019!
As you can tell from the date of this post, I’ve taken the meaning of late to a whole new level by posting this online income report three months after it occurred!
But as the saying goes, better late than never!
March was a month of change for my web site.
As I mentioned in my February income report, I knew my sponsored post revenue was about to evaporate.
And true to form, it did exactly that.
But it freed up some more time to try some matched betting for the first time in 2019, and allowed me to increase my freelance writing revenue.
So without further ado, let’s dig into those numbers!
Online Income Report March 2019 – £773.37 ($977.33)
As expected this month was down on February, and annoying just short of the $1,000 mark.
I knew this was coming, but it still doesn’t get any easier to take when it happened.
But I’m remaining positive since I’m writing from the future (no, I haven’t time-traveled, although that would be cool) where I’m safe in the knowledge that I’ve managed to turn things around.
You’ll just have to wait for the next few income reports to find out how I did it!
As I’ve just mentioned, I did manage a few hours of matched betting this week.
Matched Betting – £35.99 ($45.48)
March brings around the biggest matched betting week of the year.
Cheltenham Festival.
Now I’ve only got a few bookmakers left so I decided to commit 15 minutes a day to 2 specific offers.
The first of which was Paddy’s “Refund if” which came in a few times, and the Betfair Exchange offer of “refund if your horse trades below 2.00 and loses” which I don’t think I won once.
Literally not even once.
Anyway for about an hour and a half’s work all told I finished the week with £35.99.
Yes, I am acutely aware how small that figure is. But like I said, I’ll take that for such a small time investment.
If you want to trawl through my story of turning £500 into £5000 in less than a year with matched betting then make sure to head on over to the challenge page here.
Don’t forget to sign up to Oddsmonkey (if you live in the UK) to get the ball rolling with around £45 in free money.
Fiverr Freelance Writing Business – £681.1 ($860.73)
I was happy that this figure increased on February’s record breaking month. This was through a combination of Fiverr and one particular client that I managed to secure directly.
I worked on another different client website for that company in Los Angeles and had some meaty Fiverr articles to get stuck into.
Thankfully I didn’t have to get through any more mind-numbing rewriting.
Those projects start off easy (because you already have source material), but quickly turn ugly when you have come up with a different way of saying “make your kitchen countertops pop!” for the hundredth time.
I’ve started to get a few repeat clients on Fiverr which is nice. It gives you a little comfort that you have some money coming in that you can (almost) depend on.
I’m also rapidly approaching the 100 review mark, at which point I am going to increase my prices for the first time in 2019.
Only by $5 per 500 words, but that will start to make all the difference as order volume increases.
If you are getting stuck with your website’s blog content, don’t be afraid to reach out via my Fiverr gig here, and hopefully I can help you out with your content needs.
Advantaged Life Blog Income – £56.28 ($71.12)
Well that’s a really depressing figure.
But here’s the real kick in the balls.
That figure is only going to get lower in the short term.
That’s because, despite that soul-destroying figure, I did receive two sponsored post opportunities before the world ended.
Sorry, I mean before my website’s dip in DA rating. (By the way, if you don’t know what Domain Authority is, head over here for a decent explanation).
Sponsored Posts – £40
Yes, I clung on by my fingernails for two more posts before they turned the tap off.
It’s unlikely you’ll ever see this section of my online income reports again because even if I get my website to a level of accepting sponsored posts I won’t be taking them.
For my reasoning, head to last month’s income report.
Affiliate Commissions – £14.28
Almost not worth having, but I do no real push to sell this service.
It’s what I used to make over £5,000, but if people aren’t interested in learning how to make money using that particular method, then I’m not going to force it.
I’ve been slowly rethinking my monetising strategy with this website, which would rely on affiliate products a lot less (not that I promote any anyway!).
But I’ll elaborate on my thoughts in another post.
Advertising – £2 ($2.53)
I don’t actually know this figure; this is a complete guess.
But it was roughly in the region of three dollars.
This is because in a fit of frustration and depression, I stopped using Pinterest to promote my website, leading to a huge drop in page views, and therefore ad income.
Again, because I am writing this in the future I have picked Pinterest back up but its’ going to take a while before I’m anywhere previous levels.
My Thoughts On March 2019
March wasn’t the best month ever in terms of my extra-curricular online money-making ventures.
But on the plus side I did manage to squeeze in a little bit of matched betting, and my income from my freelance side business continued to pick up momentum.
I also managed to take my total online earnings over $10,000 mark, which seems significant. But it will feel more satisfying when I break through the £10,000 barrier later this year.
So it wasn’t all bad.
At the end of last month’s report, I mentioned that I would be working on a new business idea this month. Well it turns out I ran out of time, and I spent most of April developing it and fleshing it out.
So make sure to stay tuned to see how I got on, and whether I actually made any money from it.