Good Morning!
I hope you had a good November! I’m fairly certain I’ve got the flu right now so I’m doing my best to push through the week. If you see a bunch of typos in the post just bear with me, I’m doing the best I can 🙂 I’ve pretty much stayed wrapped in blankets snuggled up in the recliner with my computer on my lap this week.
Kailyn’s six birthday is Saturday so I’m hoping I feel better by then so I can take her to Chuck E. Cheese. (And btw, I ended up buying the American Girl Doll! I got her that and a couple of knock off American Girl outfits for much, much less off of Amazon. She ordered a pet and some accessories for it with her own money. She’s gonna be a happy girl come Saturday!)
November Income
Just as a reminder my income from November is what I actually got paid for. Therefore the majority of this income comes from work that was done in October. Only a small portion of this money came from work that was done in November.
I’ve worked way more over the past month than I normally do (probably close to double the hours) and you’ll start to see that reflected in my December and January income reports. Yay!
Without further ado here’s what I actually got paid for in November:
$2,583.04
Freelance Writing and Virtual Assistant Work – $1,878.40
Blogging – $704.64
On the blogging side October is pretty slow on the ads front because my posts that do well with ads are popular from about June to September. However, since joining Elite Blog Academy my pageviews are continuing to climb at a very fast pace and you’ll see that next month my Ad earnings started to climb back up because of that!
I thought I’d break down the blogging income a little further so that I have an easy way to track that progress. Here’s how it broke down:
- Google Ad Sense – $357.57
- Yahoo Ads $211.11
- Direct Advertising – $100
- Affiliate Commissions – $35.96
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Right now I’m already fairly close to doubling the money I made from blogging versus last month. And I really owe that to EBA. If you’re a blogger (beginner or advanced) I’m telling you, you need this course!
The doors close on Friday and won’t reopen until the spring when the course will then be $100 more.
I can’t really break down the freelance payments any further because they are bundled. For example, one of my jobs is just a set weekly amount – sometimes there’s a lot of writing and other weeks there’s very little.
I’ve also got a couple other things in the works and I’m going to have to really hustle to get them done by the time I want.
I would list some goals but my head is kind of spinning right now so I’ll save those for another day 🙂
How was your November?
Wow nice job! Affiliate marketing is one area that I totally suck at right now but want to get better at. Hope you feel better and happy birthday to your daughter!
I feel ya on the affiliate marketing. I think the real problem with that is finding a product that is actually good enough to promote! I certainly don’t feel comfortable promoting something that I don’t absolutely love and finding things that I love that much is pretty hard to do!
Those are really impressive Adsense numbers, I need to learn your ways!
My ways are pretty simple 🙂 I just put ads in the posts that do really well in the search engines!
November was OK. We came from our honeymoon early in the month and had to play catch up with a few things. The blog front is finally picking up a bit. I signed up Friday for the class Friday after reading your post. 😉 Thank you.
I hope the honeymoon was awesome! You’ll be so glad you joined EBA!! If you want an accountability partner email me. I’m still working on a lot of the things in the course. There’s a lot to do but you’ll see the payoffs very fast!
Thanks Alexa!
Good job!! Feel better and take care of yourself.
Thank you 🙂
My freelance income is quite solid now, but I’m not really bringing in much income from my blog itself. I’ve got some affiliate ads running, but maybe it’s time for me to re-add google ad words.
Congrats on the solid freelance income. I see you all over the place 🙂 I don’t do too well with affiliate ads but ad networks are definitely on the rise.
Awesome job! Especially with adsense and affiliates.
I hope you feel better! I got the flu a couple years ago (the one year I forgot to get the flu shot) and it really knocks you out.
I remember my niece going through the American Girl doll and watching my aunts spend all of this money. It’s great that you got a good deal!
Love the new look of the site! Not sure when you switched over, I might be slow on the update, but the design is excellent. Hope you’re flu-free soon!
Thank you! I wasn’t sure about the design yet so your input is very much appreciated!
Wow, that’s awesome news Alexa!! Keep it up, lady! 🙂 Also, I love your new design! Not sure when you changed it over, but it’s really striking. EBA looks like its seriously paying off! 🙂
Hmmm.. need to take a look on that academy course, seems good. Congratulations for the great job this month, keep it up 🙂
Thank you!
Great job! Hope you’re feeling better!
Thank you. Just starting to feel better 🙂
Wow! Nice job. I just started my blog back in September. With two little ones I am hoping for it to eventually be my “hub” for a freelance career. My husband and I want to homeschool our kids and the only way that is going to happen is if I can find a way to work from home.
I would love to start a blogg to make so extraomey and help people out but I’m stuck on what to write about and what company’s to contact