Project #1 | Affiliate Marketing w/Outfit Collages | Month 4

February 24, 2025

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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 and you can view the website for this project here.

What I’ve been up to

This month has been honestly quite boring. I haven’t added any new sections and I am quite content with the format of my website and newsletter at this point in time. Last month I added a new section and this month I’ve worked on filling it out so I think it’s in a good spot at the moment.

I have been working a bit on marketing and social media and I tried to mess around with ads but I didn’t want to spend money so I ended up spending like three maybe four dollars total between both pinterest and Instagram, and I can’t say that it was any help at all. It was honestly not the best move and I kind of knew it, since it’s probably only worth anything if you actually spend a decent amount of money, but I wanted to try it anyways.

I think my pinterest should be doing way better than it is doing right now, and I’m not sure what the problem is. I think I will persevere in this manner until next month and if nothing changes I might just have to scrap the account and start over.

I didn’t apply to more affiliate programs, I decided to wait until there was a more significant change in my stats before investing some time and energy into that.

I would classify this month as a slump to be honest, I didn’t make any affiliate sales, nor did I see any significant progress in views/followers/subscribers. Honestly once or twice I even contemplated just stopping cause it felt like there was no point. But I promised myself to stick it out for at least six month so I am going to continue. I’ve put a lot of effort to get where I am now to just pull the plug prematurely.

My plan for this month

This month I plan on continuing to post content consistently. I may make a few adjustments to my routine and to when things get posted/how frequently. I think I also need to look at my marketing techniques and see if there’s anything I can do to adjust and maybe improve my following/monthly views and clicks.

Like I said before, I’m not planning on applying to affiliate programs until I build a bit more of a following so I will leave that until next month.

Did I hit last month’s goals?

I didn’t hit any of my goals from last month :0. I did get somewhat close to getting 25 followers on instagram, I’m two followers short lol. Also I only got one subscriber to my newsletter instead of 5. So it’s not exactly zero progress!