September 2016 Income Report

Why I Publish Income Reports

If it weren’t for other bloggers posting their income reports I would have never started this blog. I am so grateful for their willingness to be open, honest, transparent, and inspire me to get started blogging. I hope I can do the same for you! If you want to start a blog, read my 4 step tutorial here.

This website is about making money from home. If I am going to write articles about how to make money from home, then I’d better be able to do it myself. I want you to see what works for me (or doesn’t work) and give you ideas of what can work for you too! These income reports give you detailed information about how much a typical SAHM with limited time can earn.

In keeping with my desire to be totally open and honest I’m going to tell you that I’m only working about 2 – 4 hours per day about 5 days a week. My piano teaching is obviously very scheduled and easy to track, if all my students come each week then I work 4 hours/week teaching. I try to spend an hour or two on this site each day and then there’s a tiny bit of time on Etsy, almost none on photography, and a little on surveys or swagbucks (15 min. a day about). I really only spent about an hour with photography this month! I’m telling you this so you can get an idea of the time commitment necessary to make money in each of these endeavors. I also invest about an hour couponing every 9 days or so. I don’t know why September flew by so quickly! I will hopefully be able to spend more time in the next few months growing my various jobs and seeing my income increase. I spent a lot of time volunteering at my kids’ school this month and started consistently running again. September is just a beautiful time and perfect running weather! One of my October goals is going to be to actually schedule in my work time rather than let dishes or laundry or running a few extra miles interfere.

Income Breakdown

Photography – $150.62
Shutterstock – $ 108.95 (309 images on file, I only added 2 pictures in Sept.)
istock – $35.51 (169 images on file)
Bigstock – $5.82 (79 images on file)
Fotolia – $.34 (18 images)

Etsy – $82.51
July Sales: 12
Gross Profit: $88.73
Etsy Fees: $6.22
Products Listed: 37

Piano Lessons – $400

Blogging – $346.69
AdSense – $53.44
BlueHost Affiliate – $240.00
ShareASale – $42.70
ShopHer Media – $1.35
Amazon Affiliate – $9.20

Side Hustles – $79.77
ibotta – $58.50 (referrals & rebates)
Checkout51  – $5.00
MobiSave  – $3.40
Amazon Mechanical Turk – $.25
American Consumer Opinion – $0.55
Swagbucks – $8.46
Opinion Outpost – $1.00
Inbox Dollars – $1.99
Vindale Research – $.00
Zazzle – $.62

Total Income: $1,059.59