These are my online business finances for April 2023.
I spent most of the month in Andorra 🇦🇩 plus a few nights in Barcelona 🇪🇸
I’ve been tracking everything I earn and spend since January 2011, just a few weeks after quitting my day job. Every month since, I’ve published one of these finance reports.
Sharing this info publicly keeps me accountable and hopefully gives you some insight into how I earn a living online.
Patrons get to see each new report before anyone else.
💵 Summary
| Total Business Income | € 24,787 | $ 27,345 |
| Total Business Expenses | € 8,078 | $ 8,912 |
| Profit | € 16,708 | $ 18,433 |
🤑 INCOME
| Affiliate income (see below) | € 24,034 | $ 26,514 |
| Newsletter sponsorships | € 635 | $ 700 |
| Patreon 1 | € 115 | $ 127 |
| Book sales (via Amazon) | € 4 | $ 4 |
| Total Income | € 24,787 |
$ 27,345 |
| Previous Month | € 25,517 | $ 27,742 |
I was expecting my income to be around $26k for the month. Did a bit better than that.
👍 Affiliate Income
Affiliate payments in April came from…
(Btw, I don’t necessarily recommend everything I earn affiliate income from. Sometimes I’ll write a negative review of something and people will still sign up to it via my link. Humans are weird like that.)
Here’s a progress chart for affiliate income since starting eBiz Facts…
💸 EXPENSES
🤝 Hired Help
| Hired Help 2 | € 4,904 | $ 5,410 |
| Previous Month | € 4,810 | $ 5,230 |
📆 Subscriptions
| ClickUp (annual) 3 | € 392 | $ 432 |
| ExpressVPN (annual) | € 91 | $ 100 |
| SiteGPT.ai (annual) | € 90 | $ 99 |
| Virtual Post Mail (monthly) 4 | € 14 | $ 15 |
| YouTube Premium (monthly) 5 | € 11 | $ 12 |
| Adobe Photoshop (monthly) | € 9 | $ 10 |
| Copycall (monthly) 6 | € 7 | $ 8 |
| Elephas 7 | € 5 | $ 5 |
| Total | € 617 | $ 681 |
| Previous Month | € 46 | $ 50 |
🤓 Hosting & Domains
| Dreamhost 8 | € 174 | $ 192 |
| Kinsta (annual) 9 | € 0 | $ 0 |
| Total | € 174 | $ 192 |
| Previous Month | € 0 | $ 0 |
📚 Books
| Total | € 0 | $ 0 |
| Previous Month | € 0 | $ 0 |
- See my book ratings and everything I’m currently reading over at Goodreads
🏦 Transaction Fees
| Transaction fees 10 | € 892 | $ 984 |
| Previous Month | € 927 | $ 1,008 |
💻 Office Expenses
| Samsung monitor | € 398 | $ 439 |
| Internet | € 41 | $ 45 |
| Cellphone service | € 30 | $ 33 |
| Total | € 468 | $ 517 |
| Previous Month | € 70 | $ 76 |
📋 Admin Expenses
| Local business tax (annual) | € 453 | $ 500 |
| Total | € 453 | $ 500 |
| Previous Month | € 0 | $ 0 |
🎁 Gifts & Donations
| CAMFED 11 | € 358 | $ 395 |
| Student reviews giveaway winner (March) | € 91 | $ 100 |
| Total | € 449 | $ 495 |
| Previous Month | € 92 | $ 100 |
🤷♂️ Miscellaneous Expenses
| Amazon Web Services (storage) 12 | € 45 | $ 50 |
| How To Trade Stocks (review) | € 43 | $ 47 |
| Mug Moguls (review) | € 34 | $ 37 |
| Total | € 121 | $ 134 |
| Previous Month | € 215 | $ 234 |
💸 Expense Summary
| Hired Help | € 4,904 | $ 5,410 |
| Transaction Fees | € 892 | $ 984 |
| Subscriptions | € 617 | $ 681 |
| Office Expenses | € 468 | $ 517 |
| Admin Expenses | € 453 | $ 500 |
| Gifts & Donations | € 449 | $ 495 |
| Hosting & Domains | € 174 | $ 192 |
| Miscellaneous | € 121 | $ 134 |
| Books | € 0 | $ 0 |
| Total Expenses | € 8,078 |
$ 8,912 |
| Previous Month | € 6,160 | $ 6,698 |
I expected to spend about $8,000 in April. Went a bit over that.
🗓 2023 So Far…
Here’s how I’m doing this year in terms of profit and loss…
| January | € 13,840 | $ 15,027 |
| February | € 12,403 | $ 13,150 |
| March | € 19,356 | $ 21,045 |
| April | € 16,708 | $ 18,433 |
| Total | € 62,307 | $ 67,655 |
🔮 Outlook For May
Expenses will be about $6,000.
I expect income to be around $20,000.
📲 How I Track All This
Curious as to how I track everything I earn and spend? Check this video…
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🗂 Archived Finance Reports
I’ve been posting these monthly finance reports since January, 2011. You can view all my old reports via this page.
