How I Made Money in My Second Month of Blogging

Well, it was a busy month! I’ve been working my booty off. I am actually making money, and that’s awesome. I did go a little crazy on buying courses this month, but I’m hoping that will have a great return on investment. So without further ado, let’s take a look at what happened on the blog in October! (My second month of blogging!)

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Income

Ads: $2. I joined about halfway through the month and haven’t put them everywhere yet. Also, I don’t have the mobile ads activated because I felt they were too intrusive. I don’t know if I’ll stick with them. My RPM has dropped to zero, and I’m not happy.

Sponsored Content: $0. But I got free product.

Affiliates: $196. This is where I made all of my money. I’ll break it down for you.

• Zazzle: $76 (Please note that I’ve been on Zazzle for years so this isn’t specific to my blog. I’m including it because I have had a lot of traffic from my Ultimate Guide to Earning Extra Money with Zazzle post.)
• Amazon: $6
• Ebates: $88
• ShareASale: $26

Free Product/Credit: $209. This isn’t actual income but, hey, it’s worth something.

• Tailwind credit: $30
• JORD Frankie 35 Series Watch: $179

Expenses

Courses & Ebooks: $302

• Book Boss: $197. This is an amazing course and I highly recommend it if you want to create your own ebook and have a successful launch.
• Genius Blogger Toolkit: $58. I got the affiliate discount.
• Daily Productivity Guide for Bloggers: $47. I, unfortunately, bought this before I knew it was in the Genius Blogger Toolkit.

Totals

Income: $198 (not including free product/credit)

Expenses: $302

Net Income: -$105

So I invested a bit. I got a lot of great information and I’m really looking forward to getting started actually filling out my productivity guide and writing my book. There’s so much that came with the toolkit that I’m going cross-eyed. My goal for next month is to not have any expenses. I justified buying these courses by counting it as my Christmas gift from my parents and my husband.

How much traffic did I get?

Sessions: 4,204

Users: 3,649

Pageviews: 5,441

Where did it come from?

Social: 85%

• Pinterest: 72%
• Facebook: 20%
• StumbleUpon: 4%
• Twitter: 3%
• Instagram: 1%

Direct: 12%

Referral: 2%

Organic Search: 1%

Top Posts for October

1. 5 Things You Can Do with Ball Pit Balls
2. Is Your Child Behind in Development?
3. How I Made Money in My First Month of Blogging
4. 9 Mom Hacks to Make Shopping with a Baby Easier
5. Ultimate Guide to Earning Extra Money with Zazzle

Goals for October

• Join 4 more Pinterest group boards – PASS
• Have a rough draft of my Zazzle ebook done – FAIL… I have an outline
• Gain 1000 Twitter followers – FAIL but I was very close with over 900.
• Publish 2 quality posts per week on Mondays and Thursdays – PASS plus I had 3 some weeks.
• Increase pageviews by 50% – PASS!!!
• Update all of my unbranded images to match my new style – FAIL I still have a few left.
• Comment on at least two other related blogs per week (setting the bar low here) – PASS

I’m most proud of the increase in pageviews. I need to work on rebranding my old images and start working on my book. I think my productivity guide will help with that as well.

 Check out last month’s blog income report and how I made money in my first month of blogging!

Goals for November

• Finish rebranding my images.
• Publish at least 2 posts a week if not 3.
• Grow email list. I’ll be happy with any growth.
• Fill out productivity guide.
• No expenses for the month.
• Increase pageviews by 33%.

I’ll let you know next month how all of this turns out!