A lot has happened in the past month since my last income report.
If you didn’t notice, I had another blog (Feather Pixels) for a while there.
I found it way too hard to maintain properly, so I had it moved over here.
Then, we rebranded Sweep Tight into A Magical Mess.
This transition doesn’t affect my income reports all that much since this blog was always the main income source.
Note: This post was transferred over from amagicalmess.com
As always, I am a month behind on my reports.
This is so I can get all of the paperwork and balance the books before pulling all the figures.
This report helps me tremendously, so I want it to be completely accurate.
Due to the awesome feedback from all of you, I will continue to share them.
Okay, let’s get to it.
Monthly Blogging Income Report – July 2016
These numbers are for cash received during the month.
In my quickbooks, I choose “cash basis” instead of “accrual” to get these numbers.
So, it doesn’t include work done during the month.
July Blogging Income
- Sponsored Posts:
- Linqia: $321.60
- Tapinfluence: $485.00
- Other Sponsored Posts: $1,610.00
- Social Posts:
- IZEA: $35.00
- Other Social Posts: $100.00
- Twitter Parties: $400.00
- Affiliate Income:
- Shareasale: $168.13
- Most of that amount is from two-tiered referral income.
- Amazon Associates: $86.25
- Shareasale: $168.13
- Ad Networks:
- The Blogger Network: $144.45
- Sidebar Widget: $300.00 – Paid in gift cards.
- JustSweep.com: $118.00 – My giveaway directory site.
- Shelley’s Income: $1,565.00 – What Shelley made through the blog on her own.
Income Total: $5,333.43
July Blogging Expenses
- Content Purchased: $48.00
- Photoshop/Lightroom: $10.61
- Virtual Assistants:
- Main VA (does daily share threads, ghost writing, and more): $211.00
- Walking on Sunshine who submits to recipe and DIY linkups: $45.00 – Please use Jennifer Soltys as a referral if you sign up. Lois is awesome.
- fonts: $5.00 – Hey, I did better this month. 😉
- Appsumo: Discount programs. They usually have serious savings on some great tools for bloggers.
- Grum: $25.00 – Instagram scheduler from your desktop.
- Camtasia: $49.00 – Video software.
- Mailchimp: $50.00 –
newsletter . Last month because I switched toconvertkit . - convertkit: $29.00 – New newsletter.
- Facebook Boosts: $1.61
- Daniel Morris: $27.00 – BC Stack. It’s a huge bundle of ebooks, courses, and info for bloggers and entrepreneurs. I think it’s once per year, and worth every penny.
- Hostgator: $15.00 – Domain name renewal.
- Jaaxy: $49.00 – Tool I use for SEO keyword research.
- Making Sense of Cents: $147.00 – Affiliate marketing course. If you read her income reports, you’ll want to take her course too.
- MeetEdgar: $49.00 – Social media scheduler.
- RD Publishing: $29.98 – PLR templates.
- Contributors: $279.96
- SSLS: $14.97 – Security certificate.
- Staples: $17.38 – Office supplies.
- Social Warfare: $110.00 – New social sharing plugin.
- Shipping: $13.45 – Shipped a giveaway prize.
Total Expenses: $1,255.96
Net Income: $4,077.47
I added Shelley’s income in there as discussed in the last report.
So, above is what the blog made for the month.
Personally, my blogging income was $2,512.47.
What I Learned from this Report
Just as I suspected, doing these reports makes me give a second thought to what I spend money on now.
It’s so easy to justify business expenses in the moment.
When you type them out and have them in your face like this, it’s eye-opening.
I purchased less content thanks to combining the blogs.
That leaves me with more time to create posts here instead of being so scatter-brained and trying to fill two blogs with content.
Oh, this is kind of funny, but this report reminded me of a purchase.
That RD Publishing — I had no clue what that was for — I had to look it up.
Honestly, if I didn’t do this, I think that would have been money thrown away.
Like checking out at the grocery store and leaving your bag there. {Insert facepalm here}
Once again, I am beyond grateful for the income blogging provides to allow me to work from home.
It’s a ton of work, but I wouldn’t trade it.
I need to increase my bottom line a bit to be a little more comfortable with our household bills, but I have big hopes for the fourth quarter.
If you post a blogging income report, please let me know.
I’d love to read it, or maybe even link up!
Kayla @ TheEclecticElement
Thursday 8th of September 2016
You and Shelley are seriously my spirit animals! I cannot even imagine making $5k a month, let alone $4k after expenses. If I could pull those numbers each month I wouldn't have to get a job and I'd be able to take care of myself without relying on social security. I guess I just have to keep plugging at it! Thank you for writing these reports; while they're helping you they're helping me and everyone else!
Sarah L
Thursday 8th of September 2016
It's interesting to see what you have to spend money for to run your blog.