These are my online business finances for October 2023.
I spent the month in Andorra 🇦🇩
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 | € 24,814 | $ 26,229 |
| Total Business Expenses | € 8,432 | $ 8,913 |
| Profit | € 16,382 | $ 17,316 |
🤑 INCOME
| Affiliate income (see below) | € 24,337 | $ 25,724 |
| Newsletter sponsorships (info) | € 473 | $ 500 |
| Book sales (via Amazon) | € 4 | $ 4 |
| Total Income | € 24,814 |
$ 26,229 |
| Previous Month | € 34,176 | $ 36,181 |
I was expecting my income to be around $24k for the month. Did a bit better than that.
👍 Affiliate Income
Affiliate payments in October came from…
(Btw, we don’t necessarily recommend everything we earn affiliate income from. Sometimes we’ll write a negative review of something and people will still sign up to it via our affiliate link. Humans are weird like that.)
Here’s a progress chart for affiliate income since starting eBiz Facts…
💸 EXPENSES
🤝 Hired Help
| Hired Help 1 | € 5,051 | $ 5,339 |
| Previous Month | € 4,905 | $ 5,192 |
📆 Subscriptions
| Beehiiv (annual) | € 945 | $ 999 |
| Virtual Post Mail (monthly) | € 14 | $ 15 |
| YouTube Premium (monthly) 2 | € 13 | $ 14 |
| Copycall (monthly) 3 | € 9 | $ 9 |
| Adobe Photoshop (monthly) | € 8 | $ 8 |
| Total | € 989 | $ 1,045 |
| Previous Month | € 193 | $ 204 |
🤓 Hosting & Domains
| Dreamhost 4 | € 24 | $ 25 |
| Kinsta (annual) 5 | € 0 | $ 0 |
| Total | € 24 | $ 25 |
| Previous Month | € 39 | $ 41 |
🏦 Transaction Fees
| Transaction fees 6 | € 794 | $ 839 |
| Previous Month | € 1,041 | $ 1,102 |
💻 Office Expenses
| Internet | € 41 | $ 43 |
| Cellphone service | € 31 | $ 32 |
| Total | € 72 | $ 76 |
| Previous Month | € 115 | $ 121 |
📋 Admin Expenses
| Total | € 0 | $ 0 |
| Previous Month | € 16 | $ 17 |
🤔 Courses
| Simple Profit System (review) | € 92 | $ 97 |
| Ski Slope Strategy (review) | € 5 | $ 5 |
| Secrets Of Success (review) | € 1 | $ 1 |
| Total | € 97 | $ 103 |
| Previous Month | € 0 | $ 0 |
🎁 Gifts & Donations
| CAMFED 7 | € 350 | $ 370 |
| Student reviews giveaway winner | € 95 | $ 100 |
| Total | € 445 | $ 470 |
| Previous Month | € 94 | $ 100 |
🤷♂️ Miscellaneous Expenses
| Beehiiv Boosts 8 | € 946 | $ 1000 |
| Amazon Web Services 9 | € 15 | $ 16 |
| Total | € 961 | $ 1,016 |
| Previous Month | € 29 | $ 30 |
💸 Expense Summary
| Hired Help | € 5,051 | $ 5,339 |
| Subscriptions | € 989 | $ 1,045 |
| Miscellaneous | € 961 | $ 1,016 |
| Transaction Fees | € 794 | $ 839 |
| Gifts & Donations | € 445 | $ 470 |
| Courses | € 97 | $ 103 |
| Office Expenses | € 72 | $ 76 |
| Hosting & Domains | € 24 | $ 25 |
| Admin Expenses | € 0 | $ 0 |
| Total Expenses | € 8,432 |
$ 8,913 |
| Previous Month | € 6,431 | $ 6,808 |
I expected to spend about $8,000 in October, spent a good bit more than that.
🗓 2023 So Far…
Here’s how we’re 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 |
| May | € 14,585 | $ 15,538 |
| June | € 15,091 | $ 16,477 |
| July | € 15,251 | $ 16,805 |
| August | € 15,528 | $ 16,830 |
| September | € 27,745 | $ 29,373 |
| October | € 16,382 | $ 17,316 |
| Total | € 166,889 | $ 179,994 |
🔮 Outlook For November
Expenses will be about $7,000.
I expect income to be around $20,000.
📲 How I Track All This
Curious as to how we track everything we earn and spend? Check this video…
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🗂 Archived Finance Reports
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Hi Niall,
Thanks for sharing this information.
Just want to know, the major income generated is from the affiliated links on this website?
Thanks.
Regards,
Marcus
Hey Marcus. Yeah, mainly via affiliate links on this website, and some in the newsletter as well.