Lol I totally forgot about this post. Anyway, to cut a long story short the first 6 months of 2017 were a bit crap. I promoted some high CPA offers foolishly thinking the small traffic I had at the time would be enough. I did get a couple of conversions after stepping up my game with emails, but really I learned that you need to have substantial traffic to profit from them on a more consistent basis.
I continued work on sites I started back in 2016, a casino review site and binary options site. The former was a bit of a damp squib but the binary options site worked well until the industry died out. Both were very competitive in the rankings and difficult / expense to use paid promotion. It was then when I started looking at my options for making serious money (none of this $10/day nonsense).
So I went ahead and created some products based on the hype trend of crypto and took a chance. It cost a lot and was a gamble. Went off to a rocky start but I managed to secure some affiliates and made a small bit of profit to prove it worked and pay back what I spent on it - then I teamed up with an affiliate network and got myself a good deal which means I am fairly hands off on the day to day operations. Each month has basically doubled on the previous figures which is great but obviously it could die out any day. I'm not going to give out what I earn but let me just say that after tax it would be enough to buy a pretty upmarket car every month