Welcome to my September 2024 Income Report!
This is my monthly post where I share a full behind-the-scenes look at my business, including exactly how much money I earned and spent in my online business.
Total for the year so far: $98,943.75
I’m an online course strategist and digital marketing expert. Most of my income comes from one-on-one clients where I help them build, manage or launch their online courses.
I currently have 8 monthly retainer clients and I’m not working on any project based client work at the moment (since my monthly spots are fully booked!)
I also earn money through affiliate income, speaking engagements, coaching, and selling my own digital products.
Client Work: $8,352.25
Affiliate Income: $162.95
What I spent money on:
This goal was a huge success! I hosted a Black Friday training with my friends Dolly DeLong and Bekah Read. We had an incredible turn out, people asked amazing questions and we launched a new product together: The Black Friday Simplified Kit.
2. Don’t save money! DONE
For this goal, instead of focusing on long term savings like retirement, I wanted to prioritize short term savings and build up a buffer for things like doctor visits, dentist appointments, gifts, car repairs and more.
I did this and it was great! I saved up a bunch of money for expenses that I know we’ll have between now which has helped me feel a lot less money stress.
3. Celebrate my daughter’s birthday – Done and so, so much fun!
My daughter turned one in September. We did all the traditional birthday things and more! We took her to build a bear for the “pay your age” bear, spent the day at the zoo, opened presents, had a birthday party and took tons of cute photos of her smashing a cake!
1. Meet with accountants
Before the end of the year I want to finalize who I’m going to work with for our taxes. I’ve previously worked with several different accounts, but I’ve never found the right fit and last year I had a really stressful situation where our accountant become super overbooked, had trouble communicating and our taxes didn’t get done until July.
2. Record a new podcast intro!
I’m still working on relaunching my podcast, Create a Better Course. As part of that I want to update the music and shorten the intro.
3. Go to Therapy
Woah this one sounds intense, but it’s really not. I’ve noticed I have a lot of random emotional and mental clutter lately. In the last year I’ve had some major changes (baby, husband became a mostly stay at home parent, business is incredibly busy). I think it would be super helpful for me to talk to a neutral third party about it and get a few skills to cope with some of the things that cause me a lot of stress and frustration.
4. Try out having a fridge discussion list
I’ve had this weird problem lately where my husband and I get a huge backlog of things we need to talk about. Some of it is small stuff like figuring out what we’re buying a family member for their birthday, other stuff is bigger life planning stuff.
We’re both tired more often these days and we have less free time to just chat. When we do have time we both completely forget all of the stuff we wanted to talk about so we’re going to try a whiteboard on the fridge this month and see if having a spot to jot down all of our discussion ideas makes a difference.
Here’s a few quick notes about this past month that I noticed while writing this.
A quick note – Some of the links below are affiliate links which means I may get a small kickback if you use them. There’s no additional cost to you and all of these products are things I actually use in my own business.
Business Money Tools:
Personal Money Tools:
Productivity and Goal-Setting Tools:
Social Media:
Podcasting:
Email Marketing:
Website:
Other disclosures:
Relay Bank: Relay is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services and FDIC insurance are provided through Thread Bank, Member FDIC. The Relay Visa® Debit Card is issued by Thread Bank pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. and may be used everywhere Visa® debit cards are accepted.
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