Some people asked me earlier when I started affiliate advertising to share how well or poorly it worked out. The answer is that is resulted in roughly $100 in revenue for January, plus some spare change in December, which is pretty solid, especially considering that my traffic isn’t all that high. I only reviewed four books for the whole month (although I linked to some others also). It’s about 5x what I thought it would be for the first month, so that’s nice. That’s off of over $1,500 in purchases.
I way prefer this to begging for donations, but I expect to have my first book out soon…ish… and this works well with that, so I have no plans to switch to that.
The bulk of it came in from books of various kinds, some home goods, the odd piece of furniture,tools, and a couple Kindles. I am not likely to branch out into those categories, but it’s interesting to see some of the kinds of things that my readers are buying.
If there’s a particular book you want me to review, or are an author, e-mail me your suggestions.
As soon as your book comes out I’ll be purchasing it.
As for book reviews, It’d be great to read your opinion on “The Woman Racket” by Steve Moxon. In this book Moxon uses available scientific data to demonstrate the absurdity of gender equality.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Woman-Racket-Science-Explaining/dp/1845401506