My path to enlightenment (...And $$$)

Ughhhh all these sites are taking so long to get back to me about advertising. One's taken over A WEEK with only one reply.
 
FINA FUCKING LEE

took them 10 days to finally confirm my ads will be going up. Still a little worried as they're not quite up yet, but they do note it takes about 24/hrs to get worked into a rotation.

800k impressions... mMM
 
ALL the good things happening.

Got my first big sale for $40. ($12~ profit)
AND the site finally put up my ad. Already got 9 visitors in the last half hour!

The sale however was from twitter. I made a pretty viral tweet (1.5k+ likes and 1k retweets)

Getting lots of followers on that account too.
 
One more sale since posting that. This time from FB... It's not sustainable so I hope my advertising on that site starts yielding profits.
 
Yay! Got my first sale from advertising there. Within 2 hours of the ad going up seems pretty good! Total profits are almost $20 today!
 
Blehh, lost about $20 in profits cause I can't accept payments from non-US territories. I'll save these emails to hit up when I set up other storefronts...
 
Store is... Profitting.

Been a week and already paid off the cost of advertising on that site. Though even if it keeps that pace, that's only MAYBE $20 per week. A good start but will need to advertise other places, got some ideas though I wanna optimize my shopify store first.
 
Sorry for the late update. Getting lazy I guess =p

Well, no more sales coming from that site. Probably gonna stop advertising there. Twitter advertising is working much better. Getting about $10 a day currently, and only about 20-30 visitors per day. Hope to find a way to scale it up soon.
 
Hmm, got my biggest sale ever today. ($57. $25 profit) But it was from a google search, I don't even know how my SEO or google works honestly. Perhaps I should work on it if it can generate results like this...
 
Well, things are moving though I definitely lost steam and feeling lazy.

I've got about 30k followers overall now. Making an average of $5 per day about. BUT I haven't actually tweeted my ads yet. I've just scheduled quality scraped tweets and have my ad pinned for when people visit my profile. Plan on making fluid, non-aggressive ways to work in the ads for my shop. I got a few ideas, but ideally I want about 14 tweets I can cycle week to week. I'm procrastinating super hard on thinking them up, haha.
 
Hmm, so overall I spent $20 advertising on that site and got back about $28 in profit. ($8 after advert cost) I guess I'll keep it up though I was hoping for more :(

Hopefully I'll stop being lazy soon and optimize my tweeting schedule
 
Alright, converted my lesser performing accts into tangentially related ones to the niche which was working the best. Sales are a bit more numerous now, but not quite what I want to make.

Using free hootsuite now since 3 accts were already hitting the 350 mark.

Getting at least 1 sale per day now. Once I optimize that, I'll look into proxies/other niches though I'm worried about connecting them with my shop. Maybe I should open another?

2 accts in particular are doing very well. (1.5-2k followers per week) and another has a loyal followbase, very like/rt happy. The rest are meh, gonna try optimizing them.
 
Conversion rate is about 1 sale per 50 twitter clicks. But I'm only getting 40 per day :(

It's going up... But it's a grind.
 
Actually checked the stats, surprised to see that while twitter gives me more sales overall... That site gives me a relative level of profit since their users buy more. Most twitter users just get the "free" item.

Currently only at about $7 per day in profit. Though one little thing I started doing is selling plasma to my local blood bank. +$50 per week. Overall roughly $100 per week for about 2 hours of work. By my calculations, I'd need about $250 per week to live off of safely. ($200 per week pays for my living + 50 for savings. Obviously I'd want more though)
 
Nice progress! Slow and steady going up in profits. Keep up the good work
 
Profits holding steady, but daily visitors are going up so profits should follow soon. Currently hitting 75~ visitors per day and 1.3 sales per day. Seems like the trial optimizations are working, gonna work to apply them to all 10 of my accounts. One is nearing 10k already!
 
My first huge sale! $123 ($60 profit!)

Things are really picking up lately. Here's my sales since I started:

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Sorry for not updating in a while.

Store's fine, making about $12 a day now. Haven't optimized yet, very lazy haha

Just follow/unfollowing, not even tweeting anymore. ^^; Probably more money out there...
 
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