Long Overdue Update
Hi fellow online fanatics, its been a while since I posted here again.
My initial goal was to hit $10,000/month by end of February, but after some setbacks, I am no where close to it. I have no one to blame but myself. Let me update you guys of what happened over the past 3 months.
During the end of December 2014 and early January, I was spending a lot of time developing video game app guides on Google Play.
It was actually doing really well until this happened:
My Google Play Developer account was suspended. My two apps were doing really well and I was on course to generate another extra $500/month from them.
Basically they were saying I was using “copyrighted images”. I am not going to get too much into it as I see other apps doing the same exact thing and they are still out there. My app is still on amazon app store but there is way less traffic there.
That really put a dent on my plans as I have invested about $2500 to develop both apps. Overall, I would report approximately $1500 loss.
That is a great lesson however. With that going down the drain, I decided to shift my focus back to building video game niche sites. One of my sites is doing particularly well and I have found a true gem! I put a lot of effort on this site and it is really paying off!
I have created a long term video game power house site very similar to Dragon City Egg! I am now looking forward to making a super site for a long standing game that is due to release globally soon.
With Failure Comes New Opportunities
I have now realized that I shouldn’t focus on hitting $X/month, and rather just focus on taking action and making things happen.
Having failed my goal to diversify my income, I have decided to focus on expanding my YouTube channel. It is not making much at the moment, but it is going in the right direction!
I will be looking grow my YouTube subscriber list to about 10,000. This is where the views will start racking up quicker and also more potential earnings. This will be a long term project as well!
Future of Online Fanatic
I have lost quite a great deal of interest writing on this blog. Back when I started this blog, it was to document my journey to make some income online.
Now I lost that spark. However, I will still update the blog on new business ventures and also anything related to SEO. I have a new blog dedicated to gaming and I will be building my user base strictly for video gamers.
I will keep you folks updated!
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Thanks for sharing. I’ve followed your advice and created a site for upcoming video game (currently in open beta) but it doesn’t make much money. It is getting about 500 visits a day and it will grow with the popularity of the game. However, I find difficulties monetizing this traffic. Adsense is a joke (I think I’m making whooping $5 a month through it) and clickbank products which I promote don’t sell well. I’ve stopped investing any time into this project, hopefully I will get my money back from it.
The good thing is that I’ve got few local clients and that seems to give much better ROI than any affiliate schemes, at least for now.
I am in a similar position to you where I’m having a bit of a lapse in ‘drive’ to actually expand and continue creating content for my blogs.
I currently have quite a diverse portfolio of websites. From my own Marketing business, to a wrestling blog, to some gaming niches, as well as even a equestrian based blog (It was a $10 PR4 domain I couldn’t turn down!)
Perhaps what you need to do is speak to like minded individuals with similar goals. I find that just chatting to guys on Skype etc who are doing the same thing as me really helps me.
Thanks for the encouragement. I think a Mastermind group should help!
I’ll send you an email. Let’s connect!