Digital Assets' Income Report Review Nov 2020
Back to loss as expected as my traffic is declining even with more content for a travel blog. My main earning post in a special niche is as expected dropping (that one post earn me probably $40/month)
Got some traffic for a post I self-written again that got the #1 position (Google Snippet) in a few weeks at my super low traffic/low ranking domain. It taught me that you really need to niche down and traffic estimation is inaccurate (most sites on the SERP are low, and maybe forums like Reddit). Got more ideas to work on that niche when I got some time.
Decided not to get any more new content domains until I managed to learn how to monetize/delegate my existing sites
Added 1 more job posting site and getting more applicants again
This month is mostly slow as I was busy with refining some aspects of my sites rather than content
Add Awin into Travel Blog, relatively easy since they have a script that will convert all related links into their affiliate rather than required you to update each link to a special link (Actually, maybe I should have a similar script for Amazon though not sure if it is acceptable). Don't expect much
Finally received approval for Amazon Affiliate officially (lesson learned is not to put a new website among all your sites as it will affect your overall approval)
Did some automation with Sendfox for each blog, LinkedIn with Zapier for related blogs
Also trying to figure other ideas like having a survey style content like ProfitWell (very interesting and useful content that I loved). But after checking around, I think it is too difficult unless I survey my own employees/freelancers (put inside part of my company culture docs for future)
Watched more social enterprise ideas like Youth for Causes that give seed funding to youths to raise funds. Seem a more efficient way to raise money than just direct donate. Will need some partners though.
Looking ahead, I expect Dec to be still breakeven but not too sure as my content mixes are still not really getting much search volume.
Investing Performance for November 2020
Current Value: $244,908.02
Value if 50% drop in price: $81,062.01 (more than 50% as using margin/options)
Realized (till date): $16,917.66
Add a 50% loss analysis from this month to give a realistic feel of what will happen if a March 2020 event happened to me. In my monthly asset check, I fair valuation of my stocks is the cost value since I know it will fluctuate at any time.
My $NET call option is exercised. Still thinking to keep since I think it is something I loved to use personally (it allowed some free KeyValue access and I have a more complete website monitoring page for myself using its edge computing)
I bought more $GE call options as I kinda see it moving up and still believed in it especially its energy portion, though relatively small and strong management. I think Engineering is un-rated.
Bought more $SE call options too as loved it. Its 3rd quarter did surprise me already. Think 11/11 will be big. Not sure thereafter as I am losing grip of how to measure its growth since they are in a lot of markets I have no oversight.
$TSLA inclusion in S&P is good and bad. Good in that prices are up, bad is that shorts are coming in again so I will probably wait till it settled down to buy more.
December will be slow, just my naked puts on $SE for some income if it works. Jan will be messy as I got lots of expiring calls. Might need to sell some to make sure I don’t stretch my margin as I bought them recklessly then. Probably will sell Berkshire one as I don’t think I want to keep 100 of its share.