Yep, sold my site on Flippa, crazy thing is it went for $500! I think I may have been able to get more for it too.
Sadly they charged a lot in fees: $19 listing, $25 escrow and I think it was $12.50 for the final sale fee. On top of that I had to renew the domains which cost around £25.
All in all I think I made $400, which isn’t bad considering it took me 4 hours to setup the site and probably a further 6 hours to write content, plus the research was playing Modern Warfare 2 
I thought I’d do a little summary to everyone out there about how well my book did over the last year and how my online earnings have been doing.
In the end the book sold around 86 copies and has made me $472.88 so far, not really worth the time I put into it, but since I was unemployed at the time I can hardly complain. Obviously I’ve had to pay tax out of that too, you should have seen my tax return, 3 jobs, 2 self employments and 1 foreign income!!!
It looks like February will earn me almost next to nothing from my book, which is a shame, but I am hoping to start earning more money with my website, Site Juicer and perhaps also from my personal website ranking for various seo keywords, including seo specialist and seo in ripon both of which have brought me a few leads in over the year, but I am yet to still get my first SEO client.
So far this month I have made a little bit of money by encouraging businesses I have previously worked with to sign up with PRWEB to do their press releases, this has earned me £18 in credit, but I need to get up to £50 before I get paid (I think).
Well a lot happened in 2009, for quite some time I closed the Inventive Millionaire blog, this was only to reopen in January 2010 (tonight in fact).
I’ve decided to turn Inventive Millionaire into his source for people wanting to start a business who are looking for inspiration and that perfect business idea.
I will be adding profiles on famous British entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson, the entrepreneurs from Dragon’s Den and Sir Alan sugar.
I also plan to do free e-book on business idea generation, as well as talk about various business ideas that are starting up around the world and highlight changing and future trends.
Well the new Call of Duty game is out in November, so I thought I would try and cash in. This time I am not going to write a book as the effort required was just too much – so instead I will be keeping everyone up-to-date with Modern Warfare news and sharing my ideas.
Check it out: Modern Warfare 2
Well guys and gals I’ve found something I have passion for and I’m going to see it through, the last time this happened I wrote a book on Call of Duty.
This time I’m going to write one on Internet Marketing – encompassing a shed load of stuff. I think it is going to take me a year, but hopefully it will add more value than around 50 books combined – I can’t stand people taking 80,000 words when they could have probably used a few sentences.
So I just bought two domains for £19.76 – one is for my call of duty guide blog and the other is potentially for modern warfare 2 – if I decide to do anything related to this (I might do).
old balance: £135.31
money spent: £19.76
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new balance: £115.55
Now my balance has gone up from £107.64 to £135.31 – not too shabby!
My Call of Duty Guide blog is also gaining in traffic – I’m guessing this is because the approach of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – so I am considering buying a domain name and creating an online resource, rather than writing another book, dedicated to Call of Duty help. We’ll see. In the meantime I have ordered the original SWAT Team manual from 1976 – so hopefully I can learn some interesting new things to apply to first person gaming!
Oh my fourth cheque has arrived (I took ages to cash my other one) so I guess I’ll be getting another £26 or so in a weeks time. I’ve also sold 7 books in June (I’ve sold 7 for the last 2 months) – I’m hoping to exceed this amount now I have a four star review – the conversion rate should increase a bit, I hope.
So I decided to check out how many books I’d sold this month and whether anyone had reviewed my book – dreading someone had given it one star. So I searched for my book in Amazon.com and found my book had been reviewed! Four stars out of five. I must say I’d have to agree with the review – it should have included more references, pictures etc. But on the whole it has some good advice. Apparently it’s more about stealth and assault – I guess thats where my strengths lie.
Read more…
Ok so my 3rd cheque has arrived, thats another £27.80 to add to the total, making it £107.64.
I really need to do something useful with this money…
