My SA affiliate marketing earnings for 2009.

As promised, here are my affiliate marketing earnings for 2009, the first year that I started playing around with affiliate marketing:

AdGator:

R 7153.99

Traffic Synergy:

R 974.88

Kalahari:
R 9919.02

Mantality:
R 5233.73

AdDynamo:
R 248.09

Grand total for the year:
23529.71

That gives me a monthly average of R 1960.81 per month. I was hoping for a R1500 per month average at the beginning of 2009 and halfway through 2009 I upped my expectations to R1800 per month by the end of 2009. I have achieved and somewhat surpassed this goal.

Is that worthy as a 13th salary? I should think so. What did I spend the money on?

* I bought a digital camera of R4500
* I bought a video camera of R4000
* Paid R13000 extra into my bond which probably means a whole lot more money in terms of what I save in interest over the 20 year period.

What is in store for 2010?

I am not going to up my expectations too much in terms of earnings that much more for 2010.I will try another couple of extra programs this year which I will tell you about as I pick them up. For January and February I don't expect much, as people are still suffering their December holiday financial hangovers. So let's say no more than R1000 for each month.

For now I would expect an average income of R1900 per month for the first 6 months (using the 2009 overall average as a new baseline).Ideally by then end of 2010 i would like to have an overall average of R2500 per month, resulting in a total payment of R30000. All this extra money, I would like to put towards my bond, instead of buying luxury items.

As you can see, I am down to 4 programs. Throughout 2009 I experimented with a couple of more programs that I dropped along the way. I might drop TrafficSynergy soon if it doesn't pick up and when I do so, explain my reasoning behind it.

Also, I have already added 2 new programs already in 2010, but will wait for my first earnings report before announcing their success. Also, I want to see if and how payment of the earnings work before suggesting it to other people that would like to try it out.

Talk soon.