I’ve been pretty stressed out lately; mostly due to the combination of not doing as well as I’d like to be doing sales-wise and the fact that my boyfriend is currently unemployed - I’m pretty much supporting the entire household on my craptacular earnings right now, and it’s been keeping me up at night. As much as I like running websites, I’ve been very discouraged and the notion that I should throw in the towel and get a “real” job keeps nagging at me.
Even though I am working at something, being productive, and getting paid, I still always have this underlying feeling like I’m lazy for not going out and getting some shitty retail job for $7/hr like everyone else. I’m sure part of this comes from the general attitude among most people I know IRL that what I’m doing can’t REALLY pay the bills, that any online/work-from-home money-making scheme is a scam or a cop-out. The other part is that at its heart, this type of thing is unreliable. Even if you usually make a certain amount of money every month, it’s not set in stone. I was raised to always be SURE that I had income, so taking this sort of chance is challenging for me. It’s kind of funny when I think about it; I was raised by a woman who worked contingent for most of her life, but she still managed to instill within me an aversion to risks/not having a normal, steady job.
Steve and Kimo have pretty much been giving me a crash course in being a successful webmaster lately; with Steve especially it’s totally like web school. Dude could totally write an e-book and make loads of cash, he’s awesome at teaching dumbasses (me) how to functionally run websites (see the newly-relaunched-as-a-Latina-blog Caramel Cams for my new skillzzzz… ha). Kimo’s got the motivational skills in spades, too - Tony Robbins needs to move the fuck over.
Lastly, I decided to start promoting the affiliate programs that are currently doing the best for me, on the off chance that anyone reading this hasn’t heard of them. As you can see on the sidebar, it’s currently Widget Bucks (a mainstream company that I’m averaging $0.30/click with right now) and Adult Webmaster Empire (hands-down my best converting/money-making adult sponsor - plus hey, they gave me a free $250 this month). So Kimo, whenever you actually do something with winebeerliquor.com or your mainstream toaster fan site or whatever the fuck, sign up for Widget Bucks, okay?
Happy New Year, everyone! My new year has already gotten off to a good start - at least luck-wise. Adult Webmaster Empire has a drawing every pay period for their active webmasters (read: those sending in sales) and I was just notified that I won $250. Free money is always good! I love AWE, though. Their camgirls are probable in my top three moneymakers, I even made their top 50 webmasters list once. For a small-time webmaster like me, that was awesome.
I’ve been dedicating a good amount of time to my newest website, Gamer Fetish. I’m actually incorporating some all-text posts into this one, trying to make it a tiny bit more than just another porn website. The galleries feature, of course, hot chicks playing video games naked (or in other states of sexiness) and most of the text posts are either reviews of games/gaming websites or recaps of cool shit I find across the internet that would probably interest a gaming crowd. It’s been fun thus far, though I’m surprised more solo girls don’t have photo sets of themselves playing video games… it seems to be something guys find really hot.
Mainstream websites have been slowly but surely drawing income; Amazon’s Omakase widget seems to be the best converting tool I’ve used thus far. Basically, it shows products that the surfer has either recently viewed, or products related to the website the widget is on… so you get people seeing something they’d looked at earlier and being all, “hmm, I should really buy that after all”… and boom! Sale. The fact that the mainstream websites are making money at all is REALLY impressive, because honestly… I have yet to find a really good source of traffic (other than google search engine) for any of them. So the traffic is miniscule, but targeted, at least.
I’ve got to get back to work on my newest project, so I’ll be back soon with more absolutely FASCINATING! posts and ramblings. Don’t miss me too much.