Yes! Yesterday. AIS rocks.
Yesterday was a momentous occasion for me and my method of earning money online. As most of you should realise (particularly if you go back aways with me), my method is called "AIS" which stands for Automated Income Streams. You can read much more about AIS by follwing the links at the bottom right of every page the osWorld site.
So, why was yesterday such a special day? Well, it was the first day since I have been making money online, that ALL 7 of my broad income streams have worked in Tandem.
My 7 broad streams are as follows;
- Adsense
- eBook Sales
- Template Sales
- Affiliate Commissions
- Script Sales
- Subscription Income
- Other
All 7 of these brought in an income yesterday. Usually only 3 or 4 bring in an income…
Adsense brings me in an income each and every day without fail. I don't run many Adsense sites anymore, as I am slowly but surely moving away from this as an Income Stream.
eBook Sales. This one is always up and down, and has been since I sold the oscbooks site. But never mind. Yesterday I sold 3 eBooks - 2 of the Monkey eBook and 1 other (higher priced) eBook.
Template Sales. Always fairly decent on a month by month basis. I sold 1 template pack for a piece of software and 1 individual template for osCommerce.
Affiliate Commissions. Another steady earner, nothing spectacular. Yesterday I made just a few bucks from an over-ride subscription.
Script Sales. This is sales of scripts that I have produced. Could be as simple as a little PHP script or as complex as a desktop software tool. Yesterday I sold 1 desktop tool.
Subscription Income. I now count this as an AIS as I outsource 99% of the work. Yesterday saw me bring in 2 ongoing subscriptions, and 1 new subscriber.
Other. This takes into account earnings that cannot be classed into any of the above topics. It usually consists of "Text Link Sales". Yesterday, I earned from a private link sale and from 2 Text Link Ad sales.
Conclusion
As you can see, yesterday was my best day ever in terms of getting each AIS "topic" to contribute something to the overall pot. The monetary amount earned was only around $200 (in fact $273), which is somewhere near $10,000 short of my best ever day. Even so, yesterday gave me far more pleasure than any other day since I have been making money by AIS, and that's coming up for four years!

Comment by ash — September 12, 2007 @ 10:16 am
Good work, Burt!
Comment by SarahG — September 12, 2007 @ 1:48 pm
Congrats on that. This week we had a 24 hour period where we sold from all 4 of our streams - AdSense, Tattoos, Templates and Affiliate which was pretty cool especially as the affiliate sale pushed us over a threshold payment
Comment by Oli — September 12, 2007 @ 9:52 pm
Nice one
It will be interesting to look back on this in a year or so and see if not having income from each stream is the exception…
Comment by Gary — September 13, 2007 @ 10:50 pm
It's taken 4 years to get a day when all the streams have worked in harmony. It probably won't happen again for another 4 years