Even at just 28 days long, February was a good month for me and Dorm Room Biz. Here are some of the updates and what is to come over the next month.

Moved my RSS feeds from Feedburner to Google – this was an automatic thing that happened the last time that I went to log in to Feedburner. I was asked to move them and went for it. Now, I’ll be able to manage my RSS feeds, Analytics, AdSense, AdWords, Analytics, and Gmail all from the same account. Sounds pretty nice to me! I haven’t been using it long enough to tell if the transition really has any effect on anything. If you are not subscribed via RSS, do so! Have any of you guys experienced problems with the transition or even good things come from it?

New Dorm Room Biz Theme – I know I’ve mentioned it before and eluded that something new was coming. Well, the time is finally here and in the next couple weeks it will be launched. I have a programmer assisting me with the WordPress customization and everything is going well. For an idea of what the site will look like, it will be based off of the Open Air theme from WooThemes. Look out for this exciting change coming soon!

More Videos! As you have probably noticed, I have started making and posting more videos. I love the way that the video blogging or “vlogging” arena is headed and definitely want to be involved in it. For this reason I have been utilizing my Flip video camera more than ever shooting different videos for blogging tips, business tips, and interviews. Keep coming back or subscribe to the RSS feed (or email updates) to catch them all. You can also follow me on Twitter for updates of posts.

New Advertisers on Dorm Room Biz – I’m happy to welcome GreenerBilling.com as a new advertiser on Dorm Room Biz. If you are looking for a “green” way to do your businesses billing and invoicing online, then I suggest you check out GreenerBilling. They have some great updates coming to their site soon and we will be putting together a full in depth review of the site shortly. Also, back with us for another month are the great guys over at Uprinting with some links in the sidebar. If you need printing services, check them out. I recently got some postcards printed with them and they turned out great!

Chance to Meet other Young Entrepreneurs – With February came Yanik Silver’s Underground 5 held in Washington D.C.. Although I didn’t attend the actual conference I did head down to D.C. to meet Michael Dunlop who was over from the U.K., as well as Ryan Allis, and some other young entrepreneurs. I love networking and meeting new people, and try to take advantage of it any time I can, so if you are ever in the Washington D.C. or Baltimore, MD areas for a conference, event, or whatever, feel free to drop me an email or tweet and we can try to get together!

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Now, on to the blog income. This will be a little skewed because I had an advertiser pay for 2 months up front but everything else should be pretty solid amounts. This detail is also a rough estimate and a combination of Dorm Room Biz as well as a couple other sites of mine.

Private Advertisers: $100.00
Product Commissions: $22.50
CashCrate: $26.61
Text Link Ads: $12.76
Adsense: $7.25
TOTAL: $169.12

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I think that’s pretty much all I have for this update. I do have some exciting news that I’ll be sharing in a separate post but just know that it should affect the blogging that happens here on Dorm Room Biz for the better!

If you’d be interested in writing a guest post, I’m always open to them! Drop me a line.

Earnings:

• Private ad sales – $90
• Google AdSense – $12.46
• Text Link Ads – $18.00
• Reviews – $100
• CashCrate – $8.93

Total: $229.39

More than a third of the income from this month earned by the blog came from reviews that I wrote for another website. This was a great arrangement that came up. I was contacted by the site owner who was looking to have a few reviews written that he had in backlog. I wrote them and got paid, but did not have to deal with any interaction with the companies or with posting the reviews. If you can get yourself into this sort of paid posting arrangement, goo for you!

A Major Thank You To Our Sponsors!

This month, many of our sponsors were back again. That is because they were smart and prepaid for multiple months instead of going month by month. This move will save them money over the next few months as advertising rates have already increased and probably will ago sometime soon. If you’d like to advertise on Dorm Room Biz, check out our advertising page for more detailed information. You can also contact me with any questions.

If you are looking for an affiliate marketing company to gets started with, then I suggest you check out Motive Interactive. You can read the review we wrote on them. They have an awesome system in place to help you be successful.

If you happen to be in the United Kingdom and looking for any kind of virtual office locations, services, or help, then we highly suggest checking out Regus. I’ve had the opportunity to talk to their people a few times and it seems like a great operation that they have. Even if you want to make your presence known in the country and are not really based there, a virtual office is a great way to get a local phone number and answering system set up.

Finally, if you are looking for ways to make money or credit cards for your college expenses, we have recommendations for that too!

If you’d like to be a sponsor of Dorm Room Biz, I’d love to talk to you! Check out our advertising page for rates and details and then get in touch with me via email, Twitter, or leave a comment here!

Calling All WordPress Theme Designers!

I’m looking for quotes for a WordPress theme. If you’re a WP theme designer, please drop me an email and I will give you details on the project. I don’t want to share much more in public to ruin any surprises! Thansk

Finally, if you do not already, please follow me on Twitter. This is the best way to keep up to date with what I am working on and talking about. It is also a great chance to get links to other articles and stories you may find interesting!

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For the month of June, I made money blogging the following ways:

• AdSense – $14.41
• SponoseredReviews – $38.35
• CashCrate – $6.65
• Review Me – $30.00
• Text Link Ads – $25.06
• Blogrolled.com – $7.50

In a nice pretty chart, the total of $121.97 looks like this:

ReviewMe.com worked out to almost be this past month’s largest income provider. I had accepted a bunch of smaller reviews (around $10 each) but only managed to complete 3 of them and 1 got canceled before I could make the post. If I had crunched out the another 2 or 3, this amount would have doubled.

The same idea goes with the amount from SponsoredReviews.com, which was the biggest earner. I accepted a few different reviews and applied for others but only 2 were accepted by the advertiser. But, $38.35 is not too bad for writing 2 posts.

The amount that I was not that happy with for the month was my earnings from CashCrate. I personally only completed a survey or two which did not amount to much and the referrals underneath of me earned me about $5.50. If you are looking for an easy way to earn a decent amount of money for an easy task, I highly recommend checking out CashCrate. I have written about it a bunch before as well.

Finally, Blogrolled.com is a new service I signed up for and tested out. The premise of the business is pretty simple – like Text Link Ads and other services, they sell text links on your website. However, unlike other sites where you need to put a widget or code on your site, when Blogrolled sells a link on your site, all you do is add the link to your own blogroll until you are told to remove it (the advertiser cancels).

A couple other facts:

• 20 blog posts
• 22 comments throughout the month
• Besides Google and direct visitors, Bobbyhash.com and Collegebeing.com were the biggest referrers of visitors for the month.
• Most popular posts:
  • Did you choose the right major during college?
  • May Blog Income Earnings
  • Frugality for college students