My First Month’s Blog Income Report

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Wow, February went by fast!

My blog is already a month old and I cannot believe it. It seemed so long ago that I was just thinking of whetherh to start a blog again or not. I started a website 2 years ago but a lot of personal matters happened that I was not able to maintain it. It was only three months old and I decided to take down the whole website.

Looking back, I realized that I should just have left it alone not take it down. But anyways, I learned my lesson. Now I am back to the blogging world.

I decided to start a blog on personal finance because I wanted to share my journey towards financial freedom. I wanted you to learn from my mistakes and from my successes. In that way I wilI be able to help you reach your financial goals.

Why Am I Sharing My Blog Income Report?

First and foremost, I am sharing my blog income report because I want to document my blogging journey. By doing this, I will be able to have something to look back on with regards to goals and strategies that I did.

Secondly, I want to instill trust and gives inspiration. I want to show you that I am also a real human being, who is starting from zero. I am a wife who works a full time job. Even with my very busy schedule, I still make sure that I have time dedicated to this blog.

Finally, I want to motivate myself. By posting this blog income report, I am motivated to put in the work and take blogging seriously. It makes me accountable.

What Happened This Month?

My Worthy Penny was born this month! Yay! If you haven’t started your blog yet, check out my post on how to easily start a new blog from scratch.

I did a lot during my launch month. I signed up with the following:

• Google Adsense
• Siteground
• Convertkit
• Tailwind
• Smarterqueue
• Amazon Associate
• Shareasale
• Flexoffers

Income

Sadly, I did not earn anything this month on my blog. It is actually embarrassing to be posting this with a title, “Blog Income Report” because I do not have any income.

However, as I’ve said before I am doing this because I want to show you that I am starting from zero. Although a lot of bloggers out there earned a lot on their first month of blogging, there are also those (including me) that takes longer to make any.

But since I blog about personal finance and that includes making extra money online, I will be including earnings from these apps that I use:

• Ebates
• Swagbucks
• Inbox Dollars
• Ibotta
• Checkout51
• Google Opinion Rewards

TOTAL INCOME= $42.84

Please note that these are earnings, not actual payout. Each app has its own payout threshold. I also earn gift cards from these apps but I am not going to include them on the total income.

• Fetch Rewards (Referral Code: AN3AJ)
• Shopkick (Referral Code: SHOP741145)
• Drop (Referral Code: d0m46)
• Receipt Pal

If you want to check out the above apps, I would really appreciate it if you will use my referral codes.

Expenses

Although I signed up with a lot of companies this month, I am still on their trial period therefore, they are not listed on this expense section yet.

These are the companies that offer free trials. Try them out.

• Tailwind-you will get $15 credit when you use this link and a FREE trial
• Smarterqueue– you will get 30 day FREE trial instead of 14 just by using this link. No Credit Card Required during sign up.
• Convertkit-you can try them for 30 days

Siteground– $95.15

P.O Box- $17 for 3 months

TOTAL EXPENSES: $112.15

NET INCOME: -$69.31

Traffic and Metrics

My traffic this month is not encouraging either. However, I am learning a lot along the way and I strongly believe that something is better than nothing.

I use Google Analytics for my data.

Page Views: 674

Visitors: 193

Most of my traffic came from social media most especially from Pinterest and Twitter.

Social Media

As I’ve mentioned before, I used to have a website but I shut it down. However, I kept the Pinterest and Twitter account associated with the old website. I just remodeled it to match my current blog’s vision and goals.

As a result, you will notice that I already have some following on my Pinterest and Twitter accounts.

Pinterest: 3220

Twitter: 6312

Instagram: 122

Email Subscribers: 3

I do not have Facebook because they keep on disabling my account even if I submitted all the requirements that they were asking.

February Goals and Results

I think I had set my February goals a little too high that I was not able to meet most of them.

• Pinterest: 3,200 Pass

• Twitter: 7000 Fail

• Instagram: 100 Pass

• Email Subscribers: 10 Fail

• Page views: 1000 Fail

• Visitors: 500 Fail

• Earnings: $20 Fail

• Write 15 blog posts Pass

March Goals

• Pinterest: 4000

• Twitter: 6800

• Instagram: 300

• Email Subscribers: 15

• Page views: 1200

• Visitors: 600

• Earnings: $30

• Write 1 blog post per week

There you have it!

That is how I did in my first month of blogging. Quite disappointing but it is better than nothing.

But on the other hand, earning from blogging does not come overnight. It does take time so I am teaching myself to be patient and continue learning.

Have you started a blog yet? Tell me how you did in your first month.

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