Total income for November 2015: 

My page views in November:

Page views: 2,479,451

Number of posts published this month: 39

Average time on page: under a minute.

What I changed this month: 

This month I changed a few things.  I feel like I am working a lot, but not MORE.  I have actually cut back on my work time because the kids were home from school.  This meant that I had to cut back on Facebook (socializing), etc… to make time for my ‘work’.

1. I increased the amount that I charge for a sponsored post.  (I still charge a little less if the client is very easy to work with for a post.)    I was undercharging for my page views.

2. I started using BoardBooster for my Pinterest account and it has made a WORLD of difference.   I have multiple campaigns running and I have all of my boards looping, so I can literally pin it one time and it is being repinned all of the time, without my help!  Yay!    This cut my pinning time down by SO much!  I literally pin for maybe 5 minutes a day now.

3.  I made a list of books that I wanted to create and started working on them.
A- Paula and I published a new book about how to start a blog and it has been successful.
B- Mickey, Paula and I started working on a tax book for our BeckyandPaula.com page.
C- I was also asked to write a book for a publishing company and I have been busy working on that one.
D- We wrote a Christmas book
E- I started writing a book with Janae (Icanteachmychild.com) that we will finish in the spring. (we were both teachers)

4. If a company wrote to ask me to do a review of the product, I would instead offer a tweet for them instead (I would not have done this when I started, by now that I have a better Twitter following, I can do this).  I ended up having almost all of our kid’s Christmas gifts sent to us for free because of this.  I even bartered for tablets for my niece and nephew this way.

5. Sharing more of my own stuff on Facebook, in the evening hours.  I share most other’s people’s things all day long, but the nighttime hours are for yourmodernfamily.com

6. Asked my VA to run my share groups for me.  This was a time suck and I was forgetting about it.  Once she took over, it was such a load off of my mind.   Rule of thumb: I hire someone if I think that I can spend that hour doing something that would make me money.

7. Start adding more affiliate products & links to my top 10 posts on Google Analytics.

8. Made a spreadsheet (well- Paula made it for me b/c I am awful at making them!).  I then filled in my top 100 posts from G/A so I would know which ones to share on Facebook more regularly.   I went back & tracked the reach (after 3 days) on that same spreadsheet.

9.  I worked on my e-mail list.   I started being more consistent with once a week blog e-mails.  I made them less about “what my blog is about this week” and more about “here is one post that I thought you would like”.  I am playing around with titles.   It’s funny because when Mickey sends one out to his 500 subscribers, he gets a 50% open rate.  When I send them out to my 25,000 subscribers, I get a 22% open rate.  I am determined to figure it out & increase my rate.  (note: the average opening rate is 21%, so I am doing OK, but I want to do better… my mentality for my blog is always this.  I am doing my blog for my family and the better I do, the better for them.  My goal is to have my blog be 100% passive income in a few years, leave my time 100% open to my family, so I will work hard NOW, with many late nights and many early mornings, to make that happen THEN.)

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10. I started working for other bloggers that I look up to.  I want to point this out to everyone… you will learn when you work for other bloggers (I spend a lot of time studying).   You may be paid in shares, in education, or with money, but you will learn and it will make your blog better.  You are never too old/smart/experienced, etc… to learn.

11. I started doing much more on my Instagram page.  I want to grow that following.  It has grown over 1,000 this month (I think… I should be keeping better track than I am!) 

Highlights this month: 

My Motrin commercial with Kelly Ripa was released.   This was so much fun & so exciting!   Our son asks me every week “When do you think we can go back to New York and do another commercial with Miss. Kelly?” 😉

Blog Travel: 

In October:  Mickey and I went to Social Media on the Sand in Turks and Caicos.

We also went to Dollywood, for free (free hotel, trip and tickets to Dollywood and a museum) – I write about bartering for trips here. 

In November:  Mickey and I went to a Type A Mastermind group in Asheville for two days (just a two hour drive for us).

In November: I went to BlogHer Food in Chicago for the day on behalf of Bounty (I love working for companies that appreciate what you do!)  I learned some great youtube ideas and had a chance to meet the people that I work with via e-mail (for Bounty) & hang out with some blogging friends.

My Goals for next month: 

1- Make more videos & get over feeling egocentric & self-centered about it! 🙂
2- Turn ALL of my books into files that can be downloaded for people to listen to (audio books).
3- Make courses from my books.

Top High-Traffic Posts this month: 

Stocking Stuffers


Why I still carry my kids

Mommy will you lay with me?

Our books that we suggest:

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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).

Before I forget…  you can join us on our private Facebook Group for this website here.  We talk about tips, ideas, etc… with almost 6,000 bloggers

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

PS- are you ready to start a blog?  Start here…

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First- why I share this:
1- You can find anyone’s salary if you look hard enough (when I was a teacher, everyone in the world knew my salary b/c teachers, healthcare professionals, government employees… have their salaries public.  I’m just used to it.)
2- Inspiration for you.   You can do this!  You can reach YOUR goals if you want to… and I want to share how I have made it happen in our lives.   Happy Reading!
ps- for those of you that follow every month, notice that my “disclaimer” is getting smaller & smaller- I’m taking your advice! haha!)  

(that was before expenses of OVER $6,500- this is just a guess.  I haven’t added it up yet.)
(this is income ONLY from my page-  YourModernFamily.com, not including income from this website that I run with Paula… not including our book sales from here.

How many hours do I work a day?  
At least four.  I try to work from 8:00 until midnight or 1… or 2 am.   (My husband and I watch TV, etc… while I work.  I just sit beside him with my laptop & work while we watch.   Now that he has a blog, we work together. haha!)

PAGE VIEWS:
They have gone down from 3 million around Christmas to a little over 2 million now (spring).
Don’t worry… My income has gone UP. 

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BIG NEWS THIS MONTH:
My husband quit his job as a financial manager!  He will be working from home with me, full time.  He will be doing our bookkeeping, finances and he will be building his own blog (with my help) – yourmoderndad.com   (I love it already, if I do say so myself!)
*This was my ultimate goal.   I didn’t think this would happen, but I could not be more excited.  We have been together since we were 14 years old, so we have always dreamed of the day when we could spend our days together and now it will happen.  We have so many plans!

New things that I did this month:

1- Putting a real “effort” into selling Young Living Oils (my goal was to get two people signed up each month & its paying off- literally).
2- Started to share my posts to some Facebook pages again (I had stopped that for a while).
3- Went back & re-vamped old posts (new image, better flow, more SEO friendly)
4- Started sharing affiliate links once a day on my Facebook Page.
5- Get more “personal” by starting my Instagram page and being very active on it.  I don’t do too many personal posts on my blog, so this is a little sneak-peek into my real life.

• WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
• Tap Influence-
• Izea
• Others (personal email offers, etc…)
• Share a Sale
• CJ.com
• Affiliates
• Amazon
  Linqia
• Moms affiliate
• My e-books and paperback books: 50% of my income
  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.
• Adthive ads (I recently switched from The Blogger Network to Adthrive.   It was a rough two weeks waiting for the ads to take over, work correctly, show up on mobile (80% of my readers are on mobile) and increase the rate, but now it is working well) The rest comes from misc. items

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.  I want to do this.  It is just time consuming.
2. My other goal is to write two more books that are already in the works (one with a friend and one on my own)!    I plan on having both completed by May (ahh!!)

3. Utilize YouTube.  I have a few videos (one that has 110,000 views, but that is my highest-viewed video).  I think making more videos has been on my list forever, but I finally have everything that I need to create a studio, so I am just going to go for it now!  I have a huge list of videos that I want to make (I was telling my friend Rachel that I have this list on the back of a magazine... which brings me to #4…)
4. Get more organized.  My friends Paula and Jamie have been telling me to do spreadsheets forever and I still have not done ANY (not for Facebook or anything!)   This will make my life so much easier and thankfully, my husband is willing to take on this role for me.
5. Apply to speak at a few more conferences.   I really just want to SHARE what I know to help other bloggers!   This has been our goal since the beginning.

Expenses:
Affiliate payments
Editing sources
Dollar Photo Club – where I am getting my images.
Equipment (lights for my new studio, video camera, etc…)
Hosting Fees
New Laptop for Mickey (& other office supplies)
Dinner/lunch blog meetings.
Trip to Texas for a blogging trip.

TOP VIEWED POSTS THIS MONTH:

MY BIGGEST MONEY-MAKING POSTS:

My NEW finance goals:
1- Pay off the mortgage (thankfully, this monthly income is doing JUST that!  It goes right to our mortgage.)
2- Put enough into retirement accounts to be covered when we retire.
3- Build up the kid’s college savings account (four kids!)

Do you want to hear more?
I spill it all in our BLOGGING ON THE SIDE 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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November Pageviews:  1, 917, 455

Blogging time:  almost 2 years.

Hi!  I share my income each month, so that you can see how it is possible to earn a living with your blog.  This is only for yourmodernfamily.com  and not for bloggingontheside.com.

I simply share it here for three reasons:

1- My personal family and friends aren’t interested in blogging, so I don’t share my blog with many people in my ‘real’ life.

2- I don’t want to sound “braggy” to anyone, so it is better to keep my personal life personal, (again- my personal friends don’t even know that this blogging website exists).   I hate to hurt people’s feelings and some of my friends have to work a little harder to make ends meet (My husband and I were in that situation not too long ago.  Having a family of six on a single salary is tight.  This blog pays for things that were ‘luxuries’, like sports & preschool- the rest gets saved) 

3- I want to inspire other bloggers to know that they can do this, too, so this is how I am able to do that, because only bloggers are reading this page and you guys know what to do with this info and how to use it.

So, about this report:
This is what I am owed (pending payments)… so this is what I have done and I am waiting for them to pay me for these things.

Example:  I wrote a sponsored post for $950, but they will not pay me for several months (usually about three months).   There are times when a company will close or when they will forget to pay me for my work.
I now have my husband (a finance major) helping me to keep track of this, because I have not been good about this in the past and I know that companies have gotten away with not paying me.   He started managing my income this month to help me out and its been great.

Also, remember that this income does not include my OUTGOING money.  I pay for things like newsletter services, memberships to blog-related things, editors, new camera lenses, products for posts (example- ornaments to make the TMNT ornaments), affiliates for my books, meeting expenses, accountant advice, signing up for Young Living (b/c I see huge potential there!),  website design costs ($300), website hosting ($150 a month, but up to $300 a month), etc…    This accounts for a lot of my earnings, but you have to spend money to make money

November will always be a high-earning month, before Christmas.  December will be just as big.   a great one, and you will find that November and December are usually ‘big’ months, but January and February will slow down.

Also- please note that We DO NOT SPEND THIS MONEY.  This money is being saved, to be used to pay off our house.  My payments are directly deposited into an account that is separate from our family account (in another bank).   I don’t even have checks or a debit card for that account.  In order to take money out, I have to physically go in, with my drivers license and ask for a certified check.   I try to make it as hard as possible to get this money out, to try to deter us from wanting to use it.
Once our house is paid off, we will start saving it to go towards our four children’s college educations.     I don’t think that that we will be “spending it” for a very long time (four kids X $30,000 a year for college = around $500,000 and that is without inflation!)

The exceptions:
1- Donations (church and charities)
2- Preschool payment and the kid’s field trips, etc… (anything school related)
3- To pay for my blog-related expenses

I tell you this because I don’t want you to think that I just go out shopping all day or don’t treat this income like the blessing that it is to our family.

What blogging IS NOT… 

Blogging is not a “few hours here or there”
Blogging is not “my hobby”
Blogging is not “easy money”
Blogging is not “a quick buck”

What blogging is…
Blogging is how I contribute to my family
Blogging is a lot of work, at night, when my family is in bed.
Blogging is how I feel that I can help other moms from home.
Blogging is how I can stay home with our kids, but still earn a living.

Now for the breakdown of my income:

Sponsored posts:
Breakdown of sponsored posts: 30% sponsored posts
My e-books: 25%
Affiliates 10%
Books: 35%

(I recently moved from using only Google Adsense to letting The Blogger Network take care of all of my ads.  You have to have certain number of Pageviews to work with them, but it has paid off.  We still use Google Adsense for bloggingontheside.com)

QUESTION and ANSWERS….
There have been many questions on our Blogging on the Side Facebook page, so here are my answers:

– I work probably 3-4 a day (every night I work from about 9:00- 1:00 am) I try to hope on throughout the day to check FB messages & emails when I can.

– my initial goal was to pay for preschool

– The first big blogging expense was buying my laptop (macbook pro) and my camera (cannon rebel) – those totaled over $2,000. I spend $150 a month on hosting fees, plus overage costs (this month it went over by $200 b/c of traffic). I have monthly subscriptions to places like Picmonkey, ejunkie, etc… I pay anywhere from $100-$1000 in affiliate fees for my books.   I have spent a lot of money on design things so far, since blogging (over $1,000).  That is my best investment, next to my laptop & camera.

• Just a few off the top of my head.
  – Do  I log into Tap Influence & Izea daily to find posts?   No, they email me directly with offers. I don’t really go looking for any posts anymore. (unless I feel like its a slow month or something)

  – Do I work in the day?  Not really. So today I just got home from work (I am a play therapist & work a few hours on Wed) but normally my day looks like this:
  7:00 – up with the kids 
  8:10- kids to school. Get our younger kids ready to go. 
  8:40- drop our 4 year old off at preschool 3 days a week. 
  9:30- Workout at Burn Bootcamp (local workout place)
  10:30 – run errands with our two year old. 
  11:40- pick up our preschooler 
  12:00 – lunch w the kids 
  1:00 – quiet time (I am working right now during quiet time) for about 30 min.) 
  Make dinner… 
  3:15- kids home from school
  4:00- homework with kids
  6:00- dinner 
  7:00 -bedtime for the kids.

  45 mins · Edited · Like
  – DO I HAVE A VA?   No, I don’t have a Virtual Assistant. I run my blog alone, with the help of my husband on the finances. 

  – Do I message the big bloggers that I mentioned to ask for shares?   No, I just promote & share a post to their Facebook page once in a while, but most of my traffic is organic. I share to other’s FB pages about 1-3 times a week. I find that if I have a share-worthy images and a post that people are looking for, the shares are really organic, meaning the are ‘found’ and shared without me doing much to promote it.–  Why don’t I share my income on my Your Modern Family Page- I don’t want to make my real-life friends & family feel uncomfortable.

  TO SEE MY TOP-TRAFFIC POSTS, THEY ARE HERE ON MY ABOUT PAGE.

You will want to see the post on top pages that share your posts on Facebook.

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I decided to try to start making money with my blog in 2013. I shared a bit about how I went about building up my pageviews and start to earn money, but I’ve never really shared the numbers. Here is a little timeline of how things happened.

January 2013 – Beauty Through Imperfection re-brand and the attempt to make my blog a business became. Goal was to earn $1,000 for the year.

January, Febuary, March 2013 = $0 earnings, working on building up my page views (this is what I was doing).

April 2013 – First blog earnings, $50 for syndicating a post on blogher.

May-June 2013 – $56 Affiliate sales

In July I decided to officially start to focus on monetization. The prior months I was only taking whatever income happened to come my way and not seeking anything out.

July 2013 – $544 total income

• $260 – sponsored posts (3 posts – one was $200)
• $12 sponsored tweets
• $186 Affiliate sales
• $51 ads
• $35 freelance writing

August 2013 – $516.14 total income

• $145- sponsored posts (3 posts)
• $20 – freelance writing
• $83.54 – ads
• $10.60 – sponsored tweets
• $257 – affiliate sales

September 2013 – $1,135.90 total income

• $767 – sponsored posts (8 posts, paying from $12-$250)
• $17.83 – sponsored tweets
• $115.71 – ads
• $235.36 – affiliate sales

October 2013 – $1,044.25 total income

• $567 – sponsored posts (8 posts, paying from $12-$150)
• $70 – sponsored tweets
• $230.25 – affiliate sales
• $177 – ads

November 2013 – $984 total income

• $412.60 – sponsored posts (4 posts, paying from $50-$157.60)
• $65 – sponsored tweets
• $185.65 – affiliate sales
• $321.63 – ads

December 2013 –$1,345.22 total income

• $534 – sponsored posts ( 5 posts, paying from $75-$150)
• $17.37 – sponsored tweets
• $258 – affiliate sales
• $535.85 – ads

Total income for year – $5,675.51 *quite a bit better than my goal of $1k! 

2014 income to date 

January 2014 – $1,225.99 total income

• $389.60 sponsored posts (4 posts, charing $75-$14)
• $105 – sponsored tweets
• $326.39 – affiliate sales
• $106 – ebook sales
• $299 – ads

February 2014 – $1,124.49  total income

• $585 – sponsored posts (8 posts, paying $65-$75)
•  $317.34 – affiliate sales
• $34.15 – ebook sales
• $188 – ads

March 2014 – $1,255.17 total income

• $579 – sponsored posts (6 posts, paying $75-$154)
• $382.27 – affiliate sales
• $58 – ebook sales
• $235.90 – ads

April 2014 – $1353.47 – total income

• $697.60 – sponsored posts (5 posts paying $75-$278)
• $50 – sponsored tweets
• $294.75 – affiliate sales
• $36.54 – ebook sales
• $274.58 – ads

May 2014 – $ 1,381.41 total income

• $720 – sponsored posts (6 posts paying $50 -$175)
• $25 – sponsored tweets
• $261.16 – affiliate sales
• $33.89 – ebook sales
• $341.36 – ads

June 2014 – $1,091 total income

• $600 sponsored posts ( 5 posts, paying $75-$150)
• $2.56 – sponsored tweet
• $218.34 – affiliate sales
• $55.93 – ebook sales
• $214.23 – ads

July 2014 $ 1,854.88 total income 

• $1,215 – sponsored posts (7 posts paying $75-$300)
• $100 – sponsored social media shares
• $277.80 – affiliate sales
• $59.94 – ebook sales
• $202.14 – ads

August 2014 $ 2,640.47 total income 

• $2,001.56 – sponsored posts (10 posts paying $97.56-$350)
• $29.28 – sponsored tweets
• $265.57 – affiliate sales
• $50 – syndication on blogher
• $39.06 – ebook sales
• $25.83 – paperback book sales
• $229.17 – ads

September 2014 $2,950.59 total income 

• $1,625 – sponsored posts (8 posts paying $100-$300)
• $152.92 – sponsored social shares
• $543.38 – affiliate sales
• $62.33 – ebook sales
• $29.52 – paperback book sales
• $150 – freelance writing
• $360.13 – ads
• $27.31 – the blogger network

October 2014 – $3,316 total income (Pageviews currently around 170,000 a month)

• $1,515 – sponsored posts
• $145 – sponsored social media
• $262.67 – affiliate sales
• $81.50 – ebook sales
• $89.88 – paperback book sales
• $450 – freelance writing
• $135.77 – ads
• $ 637.43 – the blogger network

There it is, from beginning until now. Starting out I had no idea what I was getting myself in to, but we’ve been able to buy our house three years before we thought it would be possible and we are well on our way to paying it off before we are 30…because of my blog.

If I can do this, at home with my crazy kiddos. You can definitely do this!

— For more info about my stats and growth you can start here – how I grew my blog in a year

—How to go from 300 views a day to 3,000 (10 steps)

—Go from no income to $1,000 a month

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