Income Report: How I Made $1745.60 Blogging Last Month

Welcome to my Income Report for December 2018!

December was a lazy month for me. I spent lesser time on Pinterest and only worked for around 40 hours blogging so I could enjoy the holidays with my family.  Despite my absence, my blog still performed well and generated some income which is cool.

But, due to my longer-than-usual blogging break, there are a lot of things I have to catch up on this month. So let’s get right into the numbers!

 Psst…If you care about why I publish my blogging income, you can read my reasons in my previous income reports. Seriously I got tired of repeating it here today so check out these posts below if you want to know more about why I publish my blogging income:

• Income Report: $1946 November 2018
• Income Report: $977.12 October 2018

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Income Breakdown

Some proofs

Note: This is income before expenses and since Mediavine’s payment cycle is NET 65,  I won’t get paid for my December ads earnings until March. Also, my income is in US dollars.

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Income Analysis

My blogging income dipped a little from $1,946 to $1,745.60 mainly due to a decrease of around $300 in my Mediavine earnings last month and I believe it was because of the expected drop in RPMs near the end of December and into the 1^st quarter. You can learn more about it here.

The good news is that my affiliate earnings has been improving since I took this affiliate marketing course and last month I made $397.41 in affiliate income from $262.35 in November. Not a big increase but I am happy to see that it keeps increasing each month and the strategies I’ve learned from the course are working.  So overall, my income in December only dropped by $192.05.

Still, a big portion of my December earnings was from ads and I am so grateful that I was accepted into Mediavine. Otherwise, my income wouldn’t reach the $1k mark! Thank you, Mediavine!!!!

Traffic Update

• Pageviews : 86,312
• Sessions: 67,190
• Users: 61,626

Goals

I am so excited for 2019 as I have some big plans for my blog this year, including creation of my first digital products. Maybe I’ll talk about this some other time.

In addition, I want to:

• Improve my affiliate earnings to $2-3k per month.
• Hit 100k to 150k pageviews a month.
• Explore other income streams such as sponsored posts.
• Learn SEO by taking a course.

I am really hoping to reach these goals this year but I am sure that these are achievable goals if I don’t give up, keep putting in my best efforts and keep learning.  What are your goals for 2018?

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BLOGGING RECOMMENDATIONS

As in my previous Income Reports, I recommend the following products if you want to grow your blog faster. And I want to say this again: don’t get scared of investing in the right resources. They will help you save time and take the guesswork out of blogging.

These are the blogging products/services that I highly recommend and that have truly helped me grow my blog from $0 to now over $1k per month.

Pinterest eBook

I can’t recommend this Pinterest eBook highly enough. This product helped me grow my Pinterest monthly viewers from 200k to now over 1 million and it is so affordable at $35!

You can read more about this product in my September Income Report:How I Made 596 Blogging and Tripled my Traffic

I definitely recommend this eBook if:

• You are new to Pinterest and have no idea how to use it to drive traffic to your blog.
• You’ve been using Pinterest for some time now but your efforts have not been generating results.

Affiliate Marketing Course

I decided to take this affiliate marketing course in October to improve my affiliate income of $37 (September 2018). I’ve read a lot of great reviews about this course as it was created by a successful blogger who consistently makes $50k a month through affiliate marketing and in this course, she shared all her strategies.

Since taking the course, my affiliate income increased from $37 in September to:

• $65.13 in October 2018 – more details at my October 2018 Income Report
• $262.65 in November 2018 – more details at my November 2018 Income Report.
• $397.41 in December 2018

There’s still a bunch of strategies I need to implement so I do not expect immediate results. However, I can honestly credit the recent increase in my affiliate earnings to this Affiliate Marketing course.

Tailwind

I schedule my pins using Tailwind so I appear active on Pinterest even when I am sleeping.  Tailwind helped me grow my Pinterest followers organically  to now over 5k.

I highly recommend automating your pins through Tailwind because who has the time to pin all day, right? Grab your free $15 Tailwind credit  when you sign up here.

Start a Mom Blog

This was the course that walked me through starting a blog—from selecting a niche to setting up the blog , to creating graphics , building list and more! This is a great course to take if you want to blog but literally have no idea how to start.

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