Well the whole of February yielded £4.80 adsense and £0.89 in amazon income , pus a recurring (passive) renewal of income from a referral at wordpress goldmine earning me £6.57 for a total of
Adsense: £4.80
Amazon £0.89
Clickbank: £0.00
Overall “site building” passive income is: £5.69
Factor in the wordpress goldmine affiliate income and we get: WPGM: £6.57
Overall Total for Feb is £12.26
Now I want to move on to March.
A month where virtually nothing has been done as it is a period in time where I am leaving my job, emptying a relatives house, setting up an accountant and writing sales pages for others.
Lets see what I earned from “no extra effort” in site building.
Adsense: £7.08
Clickbank: £16.75
Amazon : £3.26
That’s a passive site building total of £27.09
That’s an increase of 376% (new amount, minus old amount = difference between the two figures = £21.40. £21.40 divided by last months amount of £5.69 = 3.76. Multitply 3.76 x 100 to gve the percentage increase of 376%)
I can cope with that.. Sure beats an increase at any job.
I also continue to earn a recurring income on a previous sale of one wordpress goldmine referral, and a second referral who has taken the $1 trial and who may upgrade if he sees the benefit in all of this, so that came in at:
WPGM: £6.89
So overall passive income was £27.09 + £6.89 = £33.98
I also did 3 “sales page” writing contracts earning good 3 figure amounts, but I don’t want to include that, as I am tracking “passive income” with a strict focus on the 3 major ones of Adsense, Clickbank and Amazon (for now)
That concludes my “no effort” month (sorry had to put that in because it’s quite funny that I’ve earned even when I’ve not been working on them – imagine if I HAD BEEN!)
Anyway once this month of April has been dealt with and I’ve gotten over all the offline things I need to do I am hoping to start seeing some pretty big jumps in income.
As noted above, I am focusing on the 3 main totally passive opportunities of adsense, clickbank and amazon, but I will also report in the earnings from additional sources.
I am not sure if the nice clickbank sale was a fluke or is likely to continue but I sure intend to see things go in the right direction.
If you want to do the same as me, join wordpress goldmine or read my wordpress goldmine review.
THANKS!
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Apr 1st, 2010. Comment. 
Well we’ve just emerged from the other side of the Easter holiday period – 4 days of officially “no work” for many people here in the Uk.
Ironically most revenues have dropped “all that time”, as have the number of traffic visits. I’m sure when there are a lot more sites up, lots more daily traffic that this will still mean a drop in income, but will not affect the “minimum I need” on a daily basis too much – as long as I aim for way over that “minimum – i.e. double should be my, and everyones targets to shoot for. Why not?
During this week, last week and most probably next week I am not providing regular daily updates because of the offline commitments I am working through.
Still on the 1st April had a rather interesting day when one site pulled in over £1.55 on it’s own.
Then there has been next to nothing.
Today though had another 17pence to add to the pot.
While my dream means I want to shout out that I made another $200, $300 and more, it’s important to recognise the small increments and “ongong progress made in small bite sized chunks”.
So the totals “for this month” so far, are:
Adsense: £1.72
Clickbank: £0.00
Amazon: £0.00
I have put a few new backlinks to a couple of sites though, and have launched another new site, so progress IS being made, just frustratingly, not yet at the rate I am desperate to achieve… couple of weeks Shauny… couple of weeks…!
Over, and out…
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Filed under My progress by on Apr 6th, 2010. Comment.
It’s kind of a logical thought process that we all end up going through at one point or another.
What would you “personally” prefer to handle yourself, 50 websites or 5000 websites?
When you’ve got 50 websites you can tend to one or 2 almost every day. Add a new post to them and create a couple of new backlinks.
When you’ve got 5000 websites it’s impossible to do by yourself. It can be done with help from outsourcers, and when you’ve got a very solid infrastructure you can make as much money as you wish. The concept would be scaleable and all you need to do is ramp things up. Simple.
However for a very large number of people they may not even be able to think that far ahead.
So, maybe 50 websites suddenly becomes more appealing.
However if you’re only hitting 30 cents a day per site this isn’t quite so exciting – $15 a day…
I’m going to ask you one simple question and the answer needs to be understood as a two part answer..
PART 1: Is your domain in the top 3 in Google (or at least on page 1)?
PART 2: How many “indexed” backlinks point to your site?
If you have a group of sites, say 5 sites, and all you get is 30 cents a day from all five then you can either create hundreds of new sites or think differently.
Positions 1,2 and 3 get a significant boost in traffic levels via the search engines so you need to be there.
You also need to work out how many backlinks you’ll need to get there, and how many maintenance backlinks to create to keep you there.
That, my dearest friends, is the answer.
More backlinks(articles) gives more direct traffic and moves your site higher in the organic search engine results.
So.. do both…
Spend a full week, 40 hours creating backlinks and backlinks to just one site… create backlinks to inner pages as much as the main domain.
Each site can yield as much as £1 a day just in adsense ($1.52).
This could get you to $70 a day, or $490 a week… passive income within 1 year.
50 weeks.. one a week = $76 a day.
2 years you could hit 100 sites, still managing them yourself, and pulling in $152 a day.
Imagine now if you paid someone part time to take over then maintenance of article writing and backlink creation for $70 a day.
You are now getting a “hands free” utterly passive, ever-growing income.
Yes you may be giving away 50% of the money but you are gaining most of your personal time freedom back…. and still getting paid… for “nothing”… ahem…
In 5 years time, if you do the ame thing over this could mean an income of $350 a day for YOU… passively… witha team of people growing your websites for you.
So…
would you rather go to a job for 5 years or grow your websites for 5 years and go to the beach?
I do think 5000 websites is better than 50… but I also think you have to get to 50 yourself… first.
Learn it.. immerse yourself in it, go for it.
Don’t forget that this is just based on adsense. You can make a lot more if you sell products (liek on Amazon or clickbank) and boost those numbers by a factor of 3, 5 and 10 or more.
If you want to do the same as me, join wordpress goldmine on a $1 trial – and send me a PM (my id is: shaunbaird).
I’ll happily answer any questions you’ve got, although the forum itself is far too good at doing this…
Thanks
Shaun
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Filed under Random Thoughts by on Apr 7th, 2010. 1 Comment.
Last night I watched an episode of How the other half live.
It’s a show where some rich family sponsors a poor family who deserve breaks in life. It’s just another way to be charitable but with a more direct approach.
Last night featured David Abingdon was the rich man, along with his family. He sponsored a woman called Cal and her 8 year old daughter Iris.
Cal has been a traveller all her life, never having a permanent address until her daughter was born. She wanted to do all she could so she went and did a masters degree in law which she passed, but because of her background she found it impossible to do her “pupillage” with an already established barrister. This is essentially a 1 year understudy before she could do it for herself.
Anyway, that was that program.
I was inspired by the kindness and generosity of David Abingdon and family that I looked him up online and saw he has written a book, which I have now gone and ordered:
out of the box marketing david abingdon
If ever there is a book you should buy this one would be in, in my opinion anyway.
David Abingdon grew up in a terraced home in Birmingham, uk and made his career helping businesses become “mega” successful.
He actually helped 3 businesses go from zero to incredible multi million success storiesd within just 12 months.
One time is a fluke, 2 is lucky, but three is a real success.
David talks a lot about the tall poppy syndrome. Something I am personally familiar with. It’s when people try to cut you down through resentment because you are aiming for your dreams. Its actually listed in wikipedia.. so its a real concept.
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Filed under Random Thoughts by on Apr 9th, 2010. Comment.
How To Earn Passive Income
Learn How To Get To $5000 A Month By Making Your First $5 Online.
This information is for the people who don’t make money online and who would like to.
My name is Shaun Baird and for the last 20 years I have been a serial optimist who starts businesses, joins MLM’s, looks at business opportunities, seeks out anything to do with “being a boss” or working for myself.
I’ve investigated get rich quick schemes, franchises and dabbled at most things online that promise quick riches,
The purpose of this post is to reignite the passion within you.
If you’ve ever had that urge, whether it’s a tiny fleeting thought, or a heart pulsing desire to “make it big” then I understand you, and believe in you.
You are most certainly not alone in wanting to be your own person.
I want to help you get to your first $5 online, and then show you how you can simply duplicate what you just did so that it turns and grows into $5000 per month.
I also want to point out that this must be done through generating a “passive income”. Not only that, it needs to be a long term passive income.
Ok, now that’s the waffle, hype, fluff and filler, and a quick introduction out of the way, lets say we begin eh?
I know my time is busy, I’m, sure you’ve got better things to be doing than reading about what this crazy dude called Shaun is up to.
If you weren’t already aware there is a distinct difference between a passive income and an income created through working at a job.
After the job finishes and you go home your income stops dead in it’s tracks.
After you’ve created a passive income the income keeps coming when you go home, and continues on pretty much indefinitely.
How would you like it if I rolled a single coin to you once a day? Would it make you rich? Could it pay your bills?
No? Hope not.
Now, how about if I rolled 3000 coins towards you all at the same time and did the same thing every day.
Sure it’s going to get messy and a pain in the head to count, but heck, if you get to keep it, that’s nice money for free right?
So, build a website and figure out how to make that website send you a coin a day.
What about the beauty of MLM?
Heck! I know a lot about MLM. I mean a LOT…
I must have spent 10 years actively pursuing it, and reaching success at times. I’ve got the tapes and the books and actually “talk a good talk”, often surprising even myself at what I know.
However the reason I never stuck at it, or all the other things is because like most people I had flitted from one thing to another when I hit an obstacle.
The obstacle could have been anything at all. It could have been a problem with marketing, a fear of cold calling, an ability to deal with conflicts.. anything.
You know, a family member (who is a successful printer) once told me that I should just “keep trying all the things” until I find one I could do.
I saw the merit in that, as it also dealt with the notion of getting right back up if you fell at a hurdle.
Now, the good thing with MLM is if you recruited 20 people then some would be bad, some ok and some great, with some doing nothing at all.
The money still comes in though, which is nice, but for this “privilege” you still have the “benefit” of your recruits constantly calling you, asking you to attend meetings with prospects, going to seminars, going out leafleting etc etc.
The passive income with MLM still comes at a price. The price is worth paying if you reach the dizzying 5 and 6 figure monthly earners status, however it’s worth noting that there are still a vast majority of people in MLM who never hit the big time, but still have to deal with all the “privileges” of doing MLM.
There is another way you’ll be glad to hear
The way I prefer to make passive income is through building small websites (without any skills I must add).
I figure out how to build a website in a day, add a way of getting money out of it, and sussing out how to drive free organic traffic to it (none of that paid traffic for me, no no no).
Then I promote that site until it hits around $1 a day or more in “regular income” and build a second site.
All I do is rinse and repeat.
I’ve got a small army of websites quietly pumping out money every day whether I stay in bed or go and sit in the garden.
Anyway, enough of the waffle.
You can, and you can EASILY do the same (yes, I really do mean it). I did it with nothing more than a deep “heart wrenching” desire to get my life sorted out.
Yeah, it was time to sort out the men from the boys.
Ahem…
Now you could if you wanted make $5 quickly buy selling your old socks or knee supports or combs on eBay (joke), although they do say its a place where you can sell anything.
Maybe you’ll get the bug and set up your own eBay sock selling empire.. who knows…
What happens though when one day you want to go on holiday for 10 months or you are unable to get online for 10 months do to any circumstance?
Your income goes…
No more passive income… slaps on the wrists, needing to get a job, talking with creditors… it really isn’t all that pretty.
So, let me introduce to you to the one thing that has changed my life. It’s the one thing that has forced me to cancel all my memberships at other sites, close down all my websites and get rid of all other distractions.
Ok, ok.. ok. ok…. OK! STOP Before you go running off at the “notion” that “oh it’s one of those stupid blogging things”.. “huh I’m sick of all this online BS”.
Just before you click away, please please please ask yourself why you read this report?
It is probably because you aren’t where you are meant to be.
Even if you’ve tossed this idea aside in the past, I can guarantee it’s probably been cast aside based on some half-weight thought in your mind that it’s either too hard, time consuming, or doesn’t work, or you cant write etc etc etc.
There are always reasons given by people as to why they shouldn’t do this.
I can’t stop you, but I want to help stop you going round in circles.
Do you REALLY want to earn $5000 a month (that’s better read if you say out loud FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS each and every month… passively) ?
Come on, let me do a little bit of hand holding.. is that ok?
If you can type, click a single button and generally work your way around the basics of a computer you will be fine – as long as you have that all important “raging fire” deep within. Think of the Rocky song “Hearts on fire.. strong desire.. rage is deep within”…
If you enjoy writing emails to friends then I guarantee you will really love doing this. Not because it involves emailing friends because it doesn’t but it does involve you doing some general typing so that you can write snippets of information (I promise nothing technical.. all plain and simple).
If you want to earn a passive income online then please, manage to trust me, if that is in any way possible, when I tell you that this blogging stuff works… extremely well, and can be deeply lucrative.
If you read my wordpress goldmine review you’ll realize what I mean.
I am good friends with dozens of members there who are all now actively chasing their dreams.
Many are hitting $100 a month for the first time, others are now hitting $100 a day and others are now going on to reach that elusive 4 figure monthly income that starts at $1000 a month then upwards.
I conducted a poll in the forum not long after I started to ask how much people were earning.
There were some people in there doing over $6000 a month, many hitting $1000 to $2000 and others just starting out too.
Anyway, the point I am trying to get to is to say that WordPress Goldmine has been instrumental in helping me hit that elusive passive income.
Every month I have been there my income has grown, and you could do the same.
If you can commit in your mind to trying this for 6 months, like I did you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
It only costs $1 for a full 7 day trial. You get full access to see if it’s for you, but if you join through my link, and need help, just send me a PM in the forum.. sound fair?
That’s a little bit of hand holding, and your first friend inside!
Come and join me in earning a passive income online through the magic of wordpress goldmine.
Seriously though… this way to earn a passive income online completely knocks spots off of MLM programs. It’s got all the benefits and none of the drawbacks.
This is one of the best examples of passive income I have ever known.
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Filed under Motivational by on Apr 9th, 2010. Comment.
OK…
As you know I am still inside a 4 -6 week timeframe where I can do very little, but should be emerging out the other side within 1-2 weeks (fingers crosssed).
Adsense: £0.43
Amazon: £0.00
Clickbank £0.00
At the moment I am finding this inability to work hard a real frustrating time.. I know I am very impatient though.
Today is the 10th and a third of the way through the month and at leas the adsense seems to be to some degree still in line with last month, which is reassuring at least.
The one site which has prevailed consistently, staying in the number 2 slot behind only wikipedia is the one I did a lot of backlinking to in the early days. In fact I spent almost 2 months on it, but at that time I knew no better.
The latest sites all had a minimal amount of promotion work done and vary in position from position 10 to position 15 and worst, so it just goes to show that the methods offered in wordpress goldmine do work – more backlinks = more success.
While I may still ony have 6 sites, I can now see that (when I am free in 2 weeks) what I need to do. Spend a good solid week initially on each site to push them up through the rankings before I develop new sites. I want to get each site doing £1 a day or at least “regular daily money per site” instead of bits here and there.
This image is the copyright of ranktrackerplugin (http://ranktrackerplugin.com) but I wanted to show it because it helps show and prove what positioning does for your site. I recommend you visit that site because it’s run by Paul Forcey, who is, besides a good friend, a top member at wordpress goldmine.
You can see that instead of starting a new site, if you focus on creating backlinks to existing sites and bumping them up the rankings you can grow the traffic and earnings that way instead.
With less sites you can focus more on the ones you own, properly, and move on to more sites further down the line once the existing ones are doing well.
I do agree with building more and more sites as time evolves but it may be beneficial down the line to employ people to continue with content creation and backlink generation.
If you were to move from position 10 to position 1 it can mean your traffic jumps by a factor of 25! 25 times the traffic!
So as long as you’ve researched the niche first and know that position 1(or even 2 or 3) is attainable you can reach at least a nice sizeable income per site.
Sometimes just a bit of promotional work can give your site double the traffic… so if you only get 50 cents a day you could quite conceivably hit $1 a day for that site…
The name of the game is to get as much out of each site as possible.
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Filed under My progress by on Apr 10th, 2010. Comment.
Well.. my online world has been completely overshadowed by the intensity Im now experiencing offline in relation to a deceased relatives estate we are managing.
In the brief moments Ive actually been able to stop and think about all of this Ive achieved the following.
I finished another sales letter and have another in the pipeline so this is all good stuff, and feedback has been nothing short of “WOW”.
That makes me smile in such a huge way.
Even though my heart is here to access passive income, long term its nice to know I can write for other people until the passive income increases.
There has been very litle all week in terms of revenue.
Adsense for 7 days £0.74 pence (still even if its 10p a day thats 10p a day! passive income if ever Ive heard it, lol.
Amazon £0.00
Clckbank £0.00
Revenue from an affiliate sale at wordpress goldmine $0.50 (but may rise to $9.99 if they go on to take the full monthly subscription.
I’ve also been able to solidify my thoughts quite strongly about the progress I will personally be taking.
Ive noted that one of my domains has been in position 2 for 4-6 months.
The GREAT news is that for 4 months I havent added any content whatsoever to it…
So domain age definitely DOES come into things and does help sites rank higher and higher.
So for the turtle and the hare(remember that story?) the turtle definitely wins the race this time round.
That one site, is also the ONLY site that has consistently stayed at positions 1 or 2 in “G”, all because it was my first site and it was the site I spent 2 months building backlinks to and creating a lot of content to.
So thats really the key!
Domain age helps.. a LOT
Add 5-20 pieces of content, and make as many backlinks as possible to each piece of content.. using high pr sites to link to your sites main page and inner posts.
I can also confirm this “concept” because a few years ago I sold a tyre sealant and became responsible for my region.
I developed a very basic website using a cheap piece of website software called “serif webplus”.
The site went on to have something in the region of 80 or so pages.
(I had to write about the history of the company and what it did etc – much of it was copied and pasted from the main company website too!)
It stayed at position 1 in google for almost a year before I left the company due to falling out with head office over an agreement with setting up sales reps for myself.. long story….
Ironically and I didnt realise at the time, I put some affiliate product codes on the site for an automobile service/product(car breakdown cover) and this netted me over £100 every single month… kind of sounds identical to what I do NOW – affiliate marketing!
If only I knew then what I know now…
Anyway… the future is bright…
All around me at wordpress goldmine I am reading of people increasing their money. Heather is now reporting a HUGE jump in earnings from $8 a day to $16 a day with some $20 days coming in (from Adsense alone)
You can read my review about it if you want to (wordpress goldmine review) – its only $1 – seriously you’d have be stupid to be passing up each day for this.
As Nike says….”Just Do It”
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Filed under My progress by on Apr 17th, 2010. 2 Comments.
Hi folks, I have bitten the bullet and made a wordpress goldmine review on youtube.
Why not click the link above or watch it on this blog then return here to join WordPress Goldmine through my link and in return I will be glad to answer any questions you have – sound ok?
I’ve produced enough videos in my time to know and understand that video marketing works and is popular. Enough said 
Because I am such a fan of wordpress goldmine I cant help but get all excited and quivery about it.
Take care, and I hope your Sunday is a pleasant one.
Shaun
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Filed under Latest News by on Apr 18th, 2010. Comment.
