Ever wondered how much money I’m making? This covers October, November, & December of 2017. As I’ve said previously, I really enjoy reading similar reports and figured sharing my own would entertain someone and also keep me accountable to keep track of these things. You can read my previous income reports
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Average Daily Visit Count
October: 2219
November: 2465
December: 2486
Slightly improved over last year at this time, any growth is good growth, right?
Subscribers
[October 2017 vs December 2017]
Same old same old, similar slow growth patterns. I haven’t changed much in my strategy on any of these platforms, so it’s no surprise that the numbers are slowly trucking up.
Money
Income
As always, a reminder that I record income as it’s received as opposed to when it’s earned! As I share at the bottom in reflection, other life issues prevented me from taking on as many sponsored posts but the good news is that the ad money and affiliate money was ‘passive’ – it kept earning even after I had posted the posts, without any additional work.
My
Last quarter, I sold over $518 of this product via
Expenses
I took probably my biggest expense ever this quarter, buying tickets for a blogging conference in 2018, SNAP. I also paid someone to speed up my site, Wpopt, and ordered a new laptop.
Total income earned: $3802 Total outgoing expenses: = –$1755 Quarter overall profit: $2047
Year to date profit=$10,472 Life to date profit= $28,919
(note, these are rounded numbers for estimate purposes, and none of this takes taxes or in-kind income (i.e. gifted fabric for a sponsored post) into account)
Traffic In/ Out
Out
1. imaginegnats. People love my
2. Delia Creates. Also from the super popular beanie post, lots of clicks over to her pattern.
3. Affiliate window – this is the program I use for Etsy affiliate links; most popular were
4- Share a sale – the program I use for Craftsy affiliate links; most popular were this
5- Pinterest, my favorite. Same as q2, people have checked out
In (Referrers)
1. Pinterest — most popular pins were
2. Search engines
3. Facebook
4. All Free Sewing – most popular including
5. Craftgossip.com, my DIY twill tape labels post is very recent but a huge hit through them!
Top 5 most popular posts
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Reflection – Year In Review
I shared
I’ll save bigger reflections for my full year in review post!
Did anything surprise you? Let me know if there is anything I’ve left out, you know I’m an open book.
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