Monthly Income Report – October 2016
Please note some of the links in this post may contain affiliate links, which means that if you choose to make a purchase, I will earn a commission. As always any recommendations that I make are always based on my personal experiences with the product and I have not received any free products or anything else by these companies.
Welcome to my fifth monthly income report on How I Make a Living Online.
Each month I will publish my revenues, expenses, learnings, activities and various statistics on how I make a living online.
Latest Going-On in October
October was a great month. I am excited to report this month that I made a total of $872.05.
But before anyone jumps into any conclusion, the income came from two new sources and none of this income was actually generated from blogging.
This month from a blogging perspective has been a very disheartening experience as I look into the statistics with traffic going backwards.
I think a total 9 visitors actually read my blog!
However, this month I did not run a Facebook campaign as originally planned as I have been caught up with other projects.
Which explains a lot on why my traffic is going backwards but I realise now how important it is to promote and network in order to grow this blog.
So in the coming months I have come up with a number of ideas to grow my blog in which I shared in one of my post this month which includes
- Use more social media platforms like Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram
- Do more networking and outreach
- Continue with Facebook Ads
It is a Lonely Game
I find that blogging can definitely be a lonely game, without feedback, without traffic makes it difficult to gauge how I am going.
I feel that I am failing but I am surprised on my resilience and persistence despite zero or negative results.
The plus side is I can really see that I am improving more and more in my writing in terms of speed and getting my thoughts out.
Freelancing
A few months back I contemplated on whether I should do freelancing again and I decided to bite the bullet and get back into it.
The reason was that I knew that I needed an additional income source while I grew my blogging and rebuilt my digital publishing business.
So for the past few months I have been busy building my new Web Development / Consulting Business – Net Shine Digital.
It has finally paid some dividends where majority of this month’s income has come from freelancing.
Niche Websites
The other income came from my Niche Websites where I started to resurrect my original digital publishing business.
I have been hard at work spending crazy hours to get this part up and running again.
I have yet to outsource anything, as I want to make sure I have full understanding of all the moving parts. Which I think will happen sooner than later.
Post Published
This month I published 4 awesome posts and if you haven’t read them check them out.
- September Monthly Income
- 7 Actionable Ways to Grow your Blog today
- How to Escape the Corporate World and Survive
- Keyword Research for Niche Websites
Work by Numbers
- Posts- 4
- Images – 15
Visitor Statistics
Though the image looked like it grew, however it actually went backwards as again these spam in my analytics are really playing a havoc in my reporting. But for a visual sake I will leave it in as just too tedious to fix.
Most Popular Content
This month I am surprised, “How To Start a Blog” is still my most popular post. However the Income Report is the most popular page of the entire website.
Traffic
Subscribers
No movements here.
- Facebook- 80 (80)
- Email – 5
Income Report
I have decided to change this section a little bit to better reflect where my income are coming from.
Blogging Earnings
Freelance Earnings
- Jobs – $825.00
Niche Websites Earnings
- Google Adsense – $44.58
- Amazon – $2.50
Expenses
- $19.95 Domain Name
Grand Total: $852.13 (Previous -$35.00)
Conclusion
Well that’s another wrap for this month but I have one last thing to report on that for the next 2 weeks I will be blogging from overseas.
Yep I am taking a 2 week vacation to Singapore and Taiwan. I be enjoying eating my way through asia.
This is what I love most about my business, the location freedom it offers. I can work anywhere in the world.
Until next month
If there is anything you want to know about this report, please write a comment below. I love to hear from you.