Project #1 | Affiliate Marketing w/Outfit Collages | Month 2

December 25, 2024

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Table of Contents

Project idea
What I’ve been up to
My plan for this month
Did I hit last month’s goals?
Goals for this month
Stats

Project idea

For my first side hustle project, I’m working on affiliate marketing in the fashion niche with outfit collages! You can see this post for a full introduction to the project.

What I’ve been up to

I finished making all the initial content that I wanted to make on my blog! I started promoting to my friends and family and I also made a post on reddit about it that did not reach as many people as I had initially hoped. I’m growing though albeit slowly!

At the time of writing I have 15 subscribers to my blog newsletter!

I’ve established a routine publishing schedule that I’ve stuck to for the last three weeks. I’ve cut down the time I work on my blog by basically 1/2 now that I’m done with all the setup and loading the blog with content. It’s really nice to not have to think about setup or anything I just purely focus on making content and everything is already nicely setup for me.

I also figured out how to make a free newsletter that has all the bells and whistles that I was looking for which was something I had planned to figure out during this month! I did write an article about that which you can find here.

I did apply to some more affiliate programs but I did not get accepted in to any. I think it’s because I still didn’t have enough content, and in Etsy’s case, they did cite that specifically as the reason why they rejected me. I did however get officially accepted into Amazon’s affiliate program which is good!

I did switch to a new server so my blog runs much faster and doesn’t crash randomly both of which were problems I was having that I wanted to iron out before starting to promote my blog.

My plan for this month

This month I want to reapply for a bunch of the affiliate programs that rejected me last month and seek out some more. I want to make an extensive list of fashion affiliate programs that are tested and tried (by me). I think I will wait until I post another blog article before I do that though so I will apply around the beginning of January.

I want to continue to make posts according to my scheduled routine, but I also want to create a bunch of back up scheduled posts in case I have some weeks where I don’t feel like posting or if I have an emergency pop up.

I don’t really have anything besides that that I’m planning on doing- basically just continuing what I’ve been doing so far and see what happens. I think it’d be a good step forward if I could get into more affiliate programs besides just Amazon.

Did I hit last month’s goals?

I hit 3 out of 4 of my goals!!!! I did not get into any affiliate programs, but I did launch and promote my website. I also got 15 subscribers which is ten more than I was hoping for. And last but not least, I made 2 whole affiliate sales, I was hoping for at least one!!!!