[ My Journey] How i made $376,288.03 in 2022
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My 2022 Stats
1. Push Traffic Stats
This year was quite challenging. I mentioned in my 2021 journey thread that 80% of my revenue came from calendar traffic. But in November 2021, after IOS 15 update came out, the entire calendar traffic collapsed. I was not prepared for it. I had to rebuild my entire business from 0.
2. Native Ads Stats
I am doing search arbitrage with native ads. Initially, i did search arbitrage in partnership with someone. But things didn’t work out, so from September 2022 onwards, I went solo. Search arbitrage was doing great in August, September, and October, but from November onwards, it tanked. I tried desperately to make things work but it didn’t work out for me. Primarily because during the end of the year, the price of native ads had skyrocketed. And all my campaigns were at break even or loss, so, I didn’t try to scale much. I still haven’t given up on search arbitrage, one way or another, I’ll make it work. But these are the stats for this year.
Investments
1. Real Estate
I invest all my affiliate marketing earnings into real estate. In my last year’s journey thread, I mentioned that I’ll be purchasing 2 properties every year. And I’ll keep doing it, until I am 28. This is part of my exit plan (from affiliate marketing), so that, after I have 7-8 properties, I can move full-time into the real estate business.
In 2022, I purchased 2 more properties. Bringing my total count to 4.
This year I made MORE money through my real estate investments than I made through affiliate marketing. The 2 properties that I bought in 2021, their price has already increased by 80% and 50% within 1 year.
My real estate purchases are very strategic. I usually purchase properties that are being auctioned by the banks because their owners have defaulted on a bank loan. Or properties where people are in hurry and need money quickly.
For example one of the properties that I bought this year was from a family who recently got their Canada visa. They were selling away all their belongings, so, they could move to Canada. I bought their real estate for a 30% cheaper price than the market rate because th ...