We share our blogging income reports here as inspiration for you.  Many bloggers, like myself, when I started, thought making money on a blog was “dreaming big”.  I just wanted to make enough to pay for preschool, but I have been able to make far more than that… and you can, too.  I hope that you find this report helpful.

My income this month, as with every month, is calculated BEFORE expenses (expenses are several thousands of dollars!)  This is also my PENDING income (what I am owed for work done in July).

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How many hours do I work a day?

I would say that some days I work four hours on YMF, but other days I don’t work at all.  It really is a toss-up.  I try to work from 8:00 pm- 1:00 am (while the kids are sleeping, taking 1-2 hours off to watch TV with Mickey).   
This is our job – we blog to earn a living. 

I try not to work on anything “important” during the day (sponsored posts or even regular posts) because the kids will probably be around and I don’t want to be distracted when they are talking to me.

PV: My Page views were lower this month (about a million less than they were a few months back), but you can see that my income went up, again.   This to say that it doesn’t matter (too much) what your PVs are… it is what you are doing with your blog that really makes a difference – are you adding affiliate links into your posts?  Are you making products?   Are you using your social media to sell?  You can do these things & increase your earnings.   
Page views this month: 2 million

Monthly Earning RECAP:

First month- blogging- I made about $5 and a free pizza!
A few years later… I was earning enough that my husband was able to quit his job and we both work from home, growing our online business. 

WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

• Tap Influence-
• Izea-
• Others (personal email offers, etc…)
  Total % from Sponsored posts this month: 20%.Affiliates:
• Share a Sale
• CJ.com
• Affiliates
• Newest affiliate (ebates)
• BlueHost
• Amazon
  Total % from affiliates: 20%
• Speaking engagement-
  Linqia
• Moms affiliates- (referral)
• MLM

Total misc. about 5% 

• Collaborative ebook
• My e-books and paperback books
  My books: POTTY TRAIN IN A WEEKEND  and You can be a Stay at Home Mom on One Income and FREED from Clutter and a new printable of my Wall-Bed instructions.Total from my books & products: about 40%
• Adthive ads  (my ad income went down a bit, even though page views were the same)
  Total from ads: about 15%
• I had a few other things (ex: sales of specific products, sponsored social media posts, etc…)

What I want to do BETTER next month:

1. My goal for months now has been to get ALL of my ebooks onto paperback via Createspace – STILL WORKING ON THIS!  I want to do this.  It is just time consuming.
2. I am working on a project with a few bloggers where we will give 100% of the proceeds to charity – it is called THE MOM QUILT.  We are getting ready to publish it!
3. Working on an E-Course.
4. Start making more YouTube Videos.   Mickey made a few and figured out the editing, etc… so now we just need to do more.   I am still working on this one.
   We are going to do this…   REALLY!
5. Organize my Pinterest page more
6. Turn BeckyMansfield.com into a real thing & not just a page that redirects to YMF (like it has been doing for 3 years now)

~~~ Exciting things on the rise~~~

• I will be speaking at another conference in September.   I was also invited to three blogging conferences as a VIP member, which is exciting.  I haven’t quite decided which ones we are going to go to just yet, but we are weighing each option (we don’t want to be gone from the kids very much).
• I have a VERY exciting commercial shoot with an amazing celebrity coming up, too, but more details on that as they unfold in the media!
• I am going to finally be turning my BeckyMansfield.com into a real page and not just one that redirects to YourModernFamily (as it has done for the past 3 years! haha!)  Mickey and I want to start sharing our daily life happenings over there (along with videos, etc…)

For now- you can keep up with us on INSTAGRAM.  I am YourModernFamily and he is YourModernDad

EXPENSES

Media Kit (I’m having it done- it is almost finished. yay!)
Affiliate payments (I paid out close to $250 this month)
Contributors
Editing sources
Virtual Assistant (she helps with my Facebook shares)
Deposit Photos and Dollar Photo Club – where I am getting my images.  We spend at least $60 a month on this, between YourModernFamily & YourModernDad.  It is worth every penny!
Newsletter cost – it is several hundreds of dollars a month
Picmonkey, ejunkie, etc…
Equipment (desks, office supplies)
Hosting Fees
Programs for our computers.
A quick  books course that Mickey took
Dinner/lunch blog meetings.
Project materials (ex: ingredients)
Young Living Oils
QSciences
Rodan + Fields products
Trips/traveling expenses

Happy Blogging!
Becky Mansfield

My finance goals:

1. Pay off the mortgage.   (we aren’t paying it off all at once because we are putting money into retirement, too)
2. Build up retirement
3. Build up the kid’s college savings account (four kids!)
4. Give more money to charities (I have started dedicating certain books & projects to this)

Do you want to hear more about how we reach our financial goals?  Check out our books…

Or you can get our latest fast-track book:

Thanks!
Becky

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Page views:  2.9 million.
My page views this month were at 2.9 million (I owe a lot of it to my “Mommy, will you lay with me” post that went viral.)  It went up just a touch from last month.

Facebook: 25,215  (I have never kept track of FB or Pinterest, so I can’t really compare it to anything for you… this is my way of keeping track)

Pinterest: 15,770

Background:  

I was an elementary school teacher, before I became a stay-at-home-mom and one-day-a-week play therapist.   My yearly income was $27,000 (we live in one of the lowest-paying states for teachers).   I worked from 7:30-4:00 every day.   I quit nine years ago to have children.  This month, with my blog, Yourmodernfamily.com, I reached that amount, in one month.   I was thrilled and shocked (as I am every month!)  I started this blog in January 2013.  (Really Dec 2012, but I moved it to WordPress & started “over” in Jan. 2013)

If you are trying to make money on your blog, I hope that you will learn a lot from reading this post and walk about with inspiration and tips to put into practice on your blog.  I owe my success to a lot of effort right from the very beginning.  I hit the ground RUNNING (and stay up late, watching hours of youtube.com videos on how to set up a blog… while our kids were snug in their beds!)

Here is where my income comes from: 

Tap Influence
Izea-
Others (personal email offers, etc…)
Share a Sale-
CJ.com
Affiliates
Amazon
Linqia
Moms affiliates
Other (contributor posts, etc…)
My e-books:  (I ALSO SELL MANY PAPERBACK BOOKS, BUT I DON’T HAVE THOSE NUMBERS IN YET FOR JAN.)
POTTY TRAIN IN A WEEKEND  and You can be a Stay at Home Mom on One Income.

I had a lot of outgoing expenses, too:  hosting ($150), editing ($200), tech support ($99),  having someone help me with technical issues ($90), dollar photo club – $20,  pic-monkey royal, e-junkie, paying contributors for writing roundups, buying supplies for posts, etc… Totaling a few thousand.

TRAFFIC TALK: 

~Here are my top viewed posts (that bring in the most traffic): http://www.yourmodernfamily.com/top-viewed-posts-2014/

~Here is my highest viewed post for January:
“Mommy will you lay with me?” – when your children want you to lie down with them at night

~This one does well, too, and has really picked up momentum, resulting in higher affiliate sales: http://www.yourmodernfamily.com/freebie-websites/

FOUR THINGS THAT HAVE WORKED WELL IN JANUARY:

1-  Working on my overall Images.   I have been using dollar photo club for a lot of pictures.  ($1 per photo) and it has been such a huge booster for my blog.  I have taken old posts (like my Mommy, will you lay with me and my How to make a child feel important) and I gave them new life by updating the images.  Both have done extremely well since their “makeovers”)

2. I added a pop-up newsletter box.

3. I am sending out my weekly Newsletter!   I am really excited about this!   It was such a hurdle to do, because I was nervous, but now I’m just excited.  People even respond to them telling me that they liked them, etc…  It just makes my day!

4.  Pinterest- I have gone back to the “good ol’ days”
I felt so overwhelmed by my pinning, fb sharing, tweeting, using G+, etc… so I decided to just go back to pinning like the good ol’ days.   I pin for fun.  If I see something pinned that I like, I re-pin it.  Easy enough!   I do share my post of the day and maybe a few others, but I don’t overly-pin my own posts.  I pin what I think looks good.  I have seen that my followers are really liking that!   They are pinning more & I’m getting more followers.

FOUR THINGS THAT I WANT TO DO BETTER NEXT MONTH:

1. Put all of my ebooks on Createspace so readers can buy them as paper-backs.  It doubled my income on Potty Train in a Weekend, so I want to do this again.

2.  Still working on bettering my brand new newsletter.  

3. Trying to keep up the traffic from January.  (I worry about this EVERY month)

4. YOUTUBE!  I am going on a tour of the You Tube Lab this week and I can’t wait to put into action everything that I learn!   Paula and I are thinking of doing a weekly g+ hangout with each other or a ‘expert’ in an area and we want to put it on our blog for our readers.

TWO PLUGINS I WOULD BE LOST WITHOUT…

1. My WordPress Editorial Calendar.  I love seeing my posts on a calendar!

2. SumoMe.  This is the one that I mentioned earlier- I really love it.  I only wish that I would have done this a year ago or when my Husband vs Wife going to bed post went viral.

I hope that you found that to be helpful! Happy Blogging!

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