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I would like to start off by thanking everyone for voting for my Top Affiliate Challenge Audition. The voting has now officially closed, and the top 10 contestants with the most votes are guaranteed a spot on the show. I came in the top 25%, which means the judges get to pick two people from this category to also be included on the show. I had to write a pitch to why they should pick me, and it had to be under 250 words. Here is the final draft that I submitted:

I believe I am a prime candidate to be on the Top Affiliate Challenge because I am smart, dedicated, and hard working. I am 18 years old and already make my entire income online. I am living proof that anyone can develop a career out of nothing if you have the dedication and the motivation to work hard online.

I try to be an inspiration for dozens of like-minded online entrepreneurs. I am always on a quest to keep learning and utilizing what I know. I know a lot about many forms of online marketing, but affiliate marketing is something I have only gotten my feet wet in. I want to jump head-first into affiliate marketing so that I can leverage my existing skills and knowledge to sell other people’s products and services.

I believe the Top Affiliate Challenge is the perfect place for me because it will provide an excellent learning environment with industry experts, and I will be able to share everything I learn with all of the viewers watching the show, as well as all of my blog readers and friends. I believe the Top Affiliate Challenge is going to be a win-win opportunity for the contestants, the viewers, and most importantly the sponsors, and I hope I can be apart of it.

I submitted my entry less than two hours before the voting will begin, because 50,000 homes were out of power overnight on the 15th, and my family celebrated Father’s Day yesterday (I hope you had a great Father’s day for those who celebrate it). It is all down to the judges looking over all of the top 25th percentile candidates to choose two for who would be the best fit for the show. I really hope I get on the show so that I can learn a lot more about affiliate marketing, and hopefully expand my online portfolio. There is a lot of tough competition in the top 25%, so I want to congratulate everyone else who made it there. I would also like to congratulate the current top 10 contestants for their hard work, as well as the guru’s who will be coaching the teams throughout the entire show. My last thanks goes out to Thor Schrock for the hard work he has poured into the Top Affiliate Challenge.

I will keep everyone updated as more information comes in.

Today marked my last day of high school.  I am heading out to the graduation ceremony in a few minutes,  but I just wanted to give a quick heads up for those who were wondering where I have been.  I have lots to catch up on next week, but for now I am taking it easy.

Have a great week.

-Collin

Every month I make a public blog post about my online earnings for the month. These income posts are never meant to be for bragging purposes, but rather so that I can be completely transparent about what I earn online, so that years down the road I can show everyone my journey to wealth and how much hard work and dedication it involves, contrary to what many ebook sellers tell you.  By being completely transparent about what I earn online also allows me to show you my biggest mistakes, and what I have learned from the most. The more mistakes I have, the more I learn from, and the more I show you how to avoid. My monthly online income reports are a summary of where I made my money, and where I lost my money.

Blog Statistics
Numbers in parenthesis are stats from last month to show improvements or declines.

1. Google Pagerank 5 (5)
2. Seomoz PageStrength 4 (4)
3. Alexa Rank 165,703 (135,608)
4. Technorati Rank 7,328 (10,433)
5. Technorati Authority 507 (493)
6. Total Visitors 5,058 (6,794)
7. Total Pageviews 12,770 (14,519)
8. RSS Subscribers 555-587 (542)

Advertising

• Adsense $35.03 ($37.79)
• Paid Reviews - $210 ($40)
• 125×125 Ads - $95 ($60)

Affiliate Marketing

1. NeverBlue Ads - $26.33 ($98.75) (Sign up for Neverblue Ads)
2. Market Leverage - $74.75 ($5.25) (Sign up for Market Leverage)

Consulting Clients

• Link Building & Viral Marketing - $2050 ($2400)

My Ventures

I have invested a lot of my earnings from last month into a new internet startup that will be launching very soon. As of last week, the programming and designing is completed and now I just need to finish up some small edits. I also just acquired a large new site that I will be making a blog post about when everything is setup and transfered over. Stay tuned!

Monthly Expenses

1. Google Adwords - $30.21 ($48.61)
2. MSN Adcenter - $0, I still have credit from my $75 coupon. ($5.30)

Total May Online Revenue - $2491.11

Total May Online Profit - $2460.90

Profit per day - $79.38 (89.84)

Advertisers

I want to thank all of the advertisers on my blog. Your support is what helps me continue writing on my blog and giving away a lot of tips that the self-proclaimed professionals wouldn’t tell you.

125×125 Advertisers:

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Paid Reviews:
Publisherspot Review
(Two more were paid for that are coming this week. Visit the Advertise page to order your own paid review!)

Conclusion

This month has had its ups and downs. While I did not do quite as well as last month, I still made an excellent chunk of money. My biggest failure this month was spreading myself out too thin. I tried doing too many different things (writing, link building, consulting, developing new sites, buying sites, learning affiliate marketing, optimizing affiliate campaigns, and school homework). I spent a lot of time experimenting with Market Leverage, and have found one very profitable campaign that earned me about $50 this month with only spending about $15. I will work on optimizing that more if I have time this month, but for right now I need to get caught up on a lot of things.

My time management is something that I need to work on if I want to continue optimizing my monthly profits. However, I graduate from high school next week, so hopefully this month I can have enough time to get all my projects in order and caught up, so that I can increase my earnings this month.

All in all, making $79.38 per day is incredibly far above the average for an 18 year old still in high school, but that statistic doesn’t stop me from wanting to eventually push it into $100 per day on autopilot. Once I get all my new startups in order and spend less time trying to save a few pennies here and there on my affiliate campaigns, I believe the $100/day mark will come pretty quickly.

Update: Thanks to everyone that voted, although being behind 48 hours stopped me from getting into the final 8, however I was in the 93rd percentile, only a few votes away from ranking. There is always next month.

Although I am 19 days behind submitting one of my biggest startup ideas to IdeaBlob ($10,000 grant for the most popular business startup idea), I figured it was better late than never. I am going to need a lot of votes in a very little amount of time if I want to get into the $10,000 finalist round like I did last Thanksgiving with my rssHugger idea.

One of my biggest upcoming startups is going to be a revolutionary RSS reader. Since the biggest details about it are not ready to go public, I can only share a few facts. The name we are deciding on will most likely be Torfeedo (A web2.0 name combination of “torpedo” with “feed” in it).

The RSS format revolutionized content because it allowed everyday internet users to consume a lot more information in less time. What my upcoming startup company will be doing is the same type of revolution, but instead it will be revolutionizing the RSS feeds rather than the content.

My startup will allow everyday RSS users to be able to consume more RSS feeds in less amount of time. If you remember how much time switching from bookmarks to RSS saved you, then you will be ecstatic about my upcoming venture when it launches.

I will be able to reveal more details as the site goes into beta (of which all of my blog readers will get an invitation). However, moving on to the reason of this post.

I submitted my idea to IdeaBlob, and you can find it here: Social RSS Reader - IdeaBlob. There is less than 48 hours left on this months voting for which 8 ideas get into the finals, so I am going to need a miracle to catch up, however if you would do me a huge favor of taking 3 minutes out of your day to register to IdeaBlob and VOTE for my idea, I would be truly greatful.

Again, if you can spare JUST THREE MINUTES of your time:

1. Visit IdeaBlob.com
2. Register for a free account.
3. Visit my idea page
4. Hit the green VOTE button.
5. (Optional): Leave a comment to get my idea noticed on the recent feed.

If I can make up for the 19 days that I missed out on promoting my idea and make it to the finals, I will be all out promoting Ideablob and hopefully taking home the $10,000 grant. This money would allow my partner (or co-annihilator to be grammatically correct!) the power to launch a massive advertising campaign before seeking venture capital or angel investments. If you know me well, you will also realize that a huge blog contest with a lot of money and prizes will fit nicely into my advertising campaign, so it may be in your interest as well!

Thanks a million for all of those who took the few minutes out of their day to vote for my idea and hopefully give the super-duper underdog a chance at catching back up to the finals round. Getting into the finals round this late in the month will be more than a challenge, but as Wayne Gretzky said, “You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” So I figured I would give it my best and see how truly supportive my readers are.