September 2019 Blog Income Report $7974 - youramericanmoney
Author: Michelle
Description: I’m typing this report while sitting in my favorite hostel in one of my favorite mountain towns. I’m sitting by the fire and looking at the fire pit glowing outside on the patio. And, I’m recovering from hosting my first ever Money on the Mountain Financial Retreat for Financially Single Women. I plan on writing […]
Date: 2019-10-09T09:00:00+00:00

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# September 2019 Blog Income Report $7974

posted on 9 October, 2019

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I’m typing this report while sitting in my favorite hostel in one of my favorite mountain towns. I’m sitting by the fire and looking at the fire pit glowing outside on the patio. And, I’m recovering from hosting my first ever Money on the Mountain Financial Retreat for Financially Single Women. I plan on writing a post about the experience, but for now, I wanted to share my September 2019 Blog Income Report before I get distracted with some big projects that I’m launching this month. One thing to note is the diversification in earnings. Again, diversifying my earnings has been an ongoing area of focus for the past year and that has started to payoff this year. I’m already getting a little giddy when I start think about what can happen by this time next year with my earnings.

*In order for me to support my blogging activities, I may receive monetary compensation or other types of remuneration for my endorsement, recommendation, testimonial and/or link to any products or services from this blog. Please read my disclosure here.*

## September Income Generated $7974

For this report, I’ve decided to share side-hustle income that I generated (typically I don’t). And, if I had freelance income I would have disclosed that as well, but I don’t have any freelance writing clients right now. My primary area of focus is building up predictable income from my blog, in particular, passive income. But, keeping it real, passive income is not passive in the beginning. It has taken a lot of work to get the blog to generate consistent income and actually have it grow each month. You’ll notice that a significant amount of money was raised for Money on the Mountain. All event income generated went towards Money on the Mountain. I did a lot with the amount that it cost to host the event.

- Incomplete earnings are never shared. They are confusing and it might take a year to hit the cash out threshold on incomplete earnings, so I don’t share them.

- I’m loving how my income shifts depending on the time of year and what projects I’m working on. This will be a shock to a lot of people, I’ve decided to add freelance writing back into my income stream for the next couple of months. I’m testing out my new onboarding process. Basically, I will fully vet future clients and make sure everything is clear before saying “yes” to a project. I’m REALLY trying to finish pay off my unsecured debt by the end of this year. I’m so over it.

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## What Actually Hit My Account $6974

- $147-Make Money with Ebooks Course-I’m actually switching my focus to heavily marketing my course. It’s underperforming as a result of not marketing it enough. That’s about to change.

- $335-Affiliate Income-This is a mix of Amazon Affiliates, a referral to a coaching program, and Ibotta my favorite grocery savings app.

- $1125.30-Side-Hustle Money. I did a couple of fun side-hustles in September.

- $1572.02-Autumn Stone and Michelle Jackson books. I write romance under the pen name Autumn Stone and non-fiction under my actual name. I did release a novella in September but I basically stopped focusing on ebooks as I increased my focus on Money on the Mountain.

- $3695 Money on the Mountain Financial Retreat Ticket Sales and Sponsorships-The majority of this money (think 80%) earned in this category went directly to Money on the Mountain. The retreat was my primary area of focus for the past two months. This is focus is reflected in the earnings.

## Pending Payouts

- $1100 in Autumn Stone and Michelle Jackson book sales. Books sales were down as well as I focused on Money on the Mountain. This will payout at the end of November.

## What to Learn From this Income Report

- Diversification is a wonderful thing. I am rolling out one more product that I created about 2 years ago and sat on. It’s now time to release that product and I’m DONE developing products!

- Events are expensive LOL!

- I love passive income and knowing that I have a minimum income that is coming in. AND, I love focusing on growing that income.

- Growing income takes TIME. But, once you get a feel for what works it’s easy to focus and duplicate the process. I’m finding that everything has gotten much easier.

- Depending on the time of year, my area of focus will change. Now that the retreat is over, I’m now shifting my focus back to the following:
  - Books
  - Affiliate income
  - Course sales
  - Sponsors for Square State (podcast)
  - Picking up some freelance clients-are you a company looking for a writer? Check out my portfolio to see if we would be a good fit. And, my email is: michelleismoneyhungry@gmail.com

## Square State

For those of you who are new to me, you might not know that I have a blog and podcast about Colorado. Yep, I’m an overachiever LOL!

Now that Michelle is Money Hungry is running the way that I wanted it to, I’m now working on Square State again. Ironically, Square State is MUCH easier to run than Michelle is Money Hungry. I will show any earnings related to Square State in upcoming posts.

Those potential earnings will likely come from the following:

- Affiliates

- Sponsors for the podcast

- Colorado Book Sales

- Amazon Affiliates

- Ads (in the future)

## Lessons Learned

I had an epic money mindset block for YEARS. In order for me to get that blockage to shift I did a couple of things.

- Focused on generating money wins in ways that I was excited about pursuing. I love passive income and now that I’ve begun to earn it consistently via books and affiliates, I’m excited to see how I can grow those earnings. As I experienced each small win, I gained confidence in my ability to to replicate the process again and again. The small wins matter.

- Have the right people around you. I have people around me who believe that I’m capable of doing amazing things. And, these are people who aren’t my mom.

- Consistency for the WIN! The more consistent I am, the better my overall results.

- Not traveling for the past two years was super helpful to me as I was able to stay focused on my goals. I do plan on visiting my grandma SOON. And, potentially going to Texas in December. Other than that, I don’t plan on traveling until March at the earliest.

- A lot can happen in a year. I can’t believe that I hosted an in-person retreat!

- What you focus on grows

I’m working on paying off the last of my unsecured debt (which is why I will be doing ALL THE THINGS!) Send me good vibes as I head into the end of the year. I’m so over this debt, it has GOT TO GO.

## Related Posts 2019

- January 2019 $326.43

- February 2019 $387.06

- March 2019 $625.66

- April 2019 $650.24

- May…oops! I forgot to do this report

- June 2019 $1560

- July 2019 $4242

- August 2019 $3269

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### Comments

1. Tonya@BudgetandtheBeach says

   9 October, 2019 at 8:38 am

   Congrats Michelle! Enjoy your time on the mountain and can’t wait to hear how the retreat went!

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   - Michelle says

     9 October, 2019 at 9:49 am

     Thanks Tonya! Am enjoying being on the mountain. Then, it’s back to work!

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2. GIULIA says

   9 October, 2019 at 11:09 am

   Congrats semms is been a great month, well done!!!

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   - Michelle says

     9 October, 2019 at 11:22 am

     Thanks Giulia! It was a good month. I’m exhausted though LOL!

     Reply

3. Tre says

   12 October, 2019 at 9:55 am

   Congrats on hosting your first retreat and developing such a diverse income stream!

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   - Michelle says

     12 October, 2019 at 7:32 pm

     Thanks! It was a lot of hard work and I’m still in a bit of shock that it went so well. But, I’m really proud of what I’ve done.

     Reply

4. Jason Butler says

   13 October, 2019 at 8:43 pm

   The numbers are going up. I know the passive income is feeling good. My 1st book will be released at the end of the month.

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   - Michelle says

     13 October, 2019 at 8:56 pm

     Get it going!

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