Why Publish A Blog Income Report?
Why not? My goal is to create something of my own and create a passive income stream in the process. Publishing my blog income report allows me to continue writing and more importantly, reflect back on the month to see what I did or didn’t do so well. Lastly, I have read other blog income reports such as SmartPassiveIncome, amongst others, and I like to see what they have tried. It is a form of motivation for me and I hope that this can be one for someone else. Be sure to check out CashFlowDiaries for other bloggers that share their blog income reports.
About ApexThis
ApexThis, as a whole, is my publishing arm for my creative writing in short stories, ebooks, music, apps, audio and video content. ApexThis is the publisher of the first Atlassian focused podcast, Admins of Atlassian, launched in 2015.
ApexThis originally started life as a car forum for a group of friends until it went dormant. I have resurrected this domain in 2014 as I found a new focus in life. Jan 28, 2015, my Welcome post went live signaling my restart in blogging and my path to publishing my own work as well as others.
The focus of this blog is about Life, Tech, and Food. I share things that I do to help me be better as a person or to accomplish a task more efficiently so that you too can benefit.
June 2016 Finance Report
Disclaimer: Any income reported will only be reported as “cash” in hand. If it did not deposit into my account, or if I didn’t cash a check, then it does not count as income. Additionally, income will only be reported for ApexThis business and not for personal income. I may discuss side hustles for additional side income, but only income in which I represent ApexThis will be counted.
Income/Investment Report
Personal Investment – $0.00
Expense Report
RawVoice – $12/month
RawVoice is a service I used to host the podcasts for Admins of Atlassian. It has built-in integration with WordPress making it vastly easier to upload, and maintain the podcast.
Google Apps – $5/month
Buffer – $10/month
Hours Worked
Time Logged – 4hrs
It’s hard to tell if this is the actual number or if I am missing time. I certainly haven’t gotten back onto schedule with things which are really impacting what I can output.
Overall
- Total Income/Investments – $0.00
- Total Expense – $27
- Total Net – $27
What Happened?
Lack of focus on the blog and the ‘business’. This disappoints me and I need to double down.
What’s Next?
Here are a few goals that I’ve outlined for myself in July:
- Weekly blog posts on ApexThis.
- One short story submission to a creative writing forum I frequent. This elicits feedback and contributes to my goal of publishing an anthology series.
- 3 new chapters for my e-book.
- Outline for a fictional podcast. I’m super excited about this. I did something similar for a previous short story competition where I used a dramatic narration of my story combined with a song performance. It was bad, but fun.
Let’s see what this month brings.