Hey there! Who’s ready for another income report?
I love pulling back the curtain and giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how things are going with my business (also in full transparency it makes me a better business owner to be forced to review my numbers each month!)
Total for the year so far: $80,598.65
Most of my income comes from working one-on-one with clients, helping them with digital marketing and building online courses. I currently have 7 monthly retainer clients and 2 project-based clients where we are working on something very specific together, but I won’t be on their team after the project ends.
I also earn money through affiliate income (sharing links to products I know and love), speaking engagements, coaching, and selling my own digital products.
People ALWAYS ask me this question so I started including it in every income report. In general I work 40 hours a week, some weeks it’s higher and some weeks it’s much lower.
Those 40 hours are split between client work and tasks in my own business (like writing this blog post!)
I also do work some on the weekends right now. Spreading my work out over 7 days over 5 gives me a lot more flexibility in my weekly schedule.
Client Work: $9,002.2
Affiliate Income: $827.60
This includes:
*Looking at my expenses this month, I can see there was DEFINITELY some fluff here! I forgot to cancel a business membership I’m not using, and I paid for Calendly but booked zero calls with it last month.
1. Travel! DID IT ✅
My husband is currently working very, very part-time as he’s the main childcare provider for our daughter. We knew at the end of August he was going to need to be working full-time for a specific project, so we planned ahead and I went to visit my parents.
The trip was great! My parents were able to help watch my daughter, I was still able to work and I got to spend lots of time with long distance friends I don’t normally see!
2. Record a new money workshop! NOPE!
I didn’t work on this at all. I still plan to launch a short workshop about how I manage my money in my personal life and business, but between travel and several big client launches I never got around to this.
3. Meet with a new podcast editor YES!
One of my goals before the end of the year is to release new podcast episodes. I took a hiatus when we decided our daughter was going to be home full-time with us all year, but I’m so ready to get new episodes out.
I met with a new editor and we’ll be working on a new batch of episodes soon!
1. Plan and promote my free Black Friday Training!
About a month ago I was in an Instagram chat thread with two of my really good business friends (Dolly DeLong and Bekah Read) talking about our Black Friday plans for 2024 and the trends we’re seeing.
We realized that our personal chat thread of 2024 Black Friday trends might be really helpful for other business owners and from that a free masterclass was born!
On October 2nd at 12pm ET/11am CT/9am PT we’ll host a quick, bite-sized masterclass sharing the top 2024 Black Friday trends to help you plan and execute a profitable sale.
Click here to register (a replay will be available to everyone who registers too!)
2. Don’t save money!
Ok this one is weird and I don’t actually mean that I don’t want to save any money, but I want to not save any money for the long term future this month. I’m focusing on short term stuff in September.
I love saving as much money as possible for retirement and buying a future house, but I also know that we have a ton of short term expenses coming up and instead of focusing on the long term things, my focus this month is on stashing cash for a bunch of once a year expenses that are around the corner.
Between now and the end of the year we have bills coming up for:
I’m going to let our automated investments for retirement and long-term savings continue, but anything “extra” this month is staying in our checking account for upcoming expenses.
3. Celebrate my daughter’s birthday
I’m about to have a one-year-old! This last year has been amazing, crazy, busy and filled with tons of sleepless nights. I’m excited to start a bunch of new family birthday traditions as we celebrate the last year and try not to cry about how fast the time has flown by.
That’s a wrap! September is one of the busiest launch months of the year so I’m keeping my goal list super short and sweet this month.
Here’s your friendly reminder that often it’s better to set less goals than trying to stuff everything into next month.
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