Income Report – December, 2018
Let’s start the new year!!!
I love starting the new year because it’s filled with so much potential. It’s a way to reinvent yourself with goals to be better or accomplish new things. For me personally, it’s the excitement of launching a new start-up at the end of this month, but I’ll get more into that later.
This income report is broken down into three parts. First I’d love to share the excitement of the income I made last month through passive income (WOOT WOOT). Second I wanted to share that I completed my random drawing of one of Wallet Squirrel’s subscribers and sent them $200 just for being on my email list. Third I’ll share the progress of my start-up!
First – Income Report – December, 2018
It’s been another great month of using interest checking/savings accounts, outsmarting credit card companies to actually make money from cards and affiliate marketing. That all together earned me $222.49 this month and the best part is I can use that money to generate more dividends in my stock portfolio. Keep that snowball rolling!
Here is what my December Income Report looks like!
Yay Passive Income!
Sources of Income This Month – $222.49
$100 – Bluehost Affiliate Income
$42.72 – Cashback Credit Card
$29.89 – Dividends
$15.00 – Wallet Squirrel AdSense
$12.78 – Interest Checking/Savings Account
$8.64 – Stock Photography
$5.44 – Epic Niche Site Affiliate Marketing
$4.29 – Seeking Alpha Articles
$3.73 – Lending Club
Second – Selected A Winner
You may have noticed that I had a little SLIDE-IN that showed up in the bottom left corner of the screen of the blog. It’s only supposed to show up once every 30 days. Despite me hating pop-ups, I wanted to have it to showcase a fun give away for people subscribed to my email list. At the end of the year I’d take my entire email list and randomly choose a winner to give $200 to have fun with investing.
How I did this.
I exported my entire email list from Mail Chimp (yup, that’s who I use for emailing because it’s free for up to 2,000 subscribers). So I then had my entire list in excel. Each email address was on a row and Excel automatically numbers each row. I had a total of 754 rows. Well 755, but I’m not including the title row.
I then pulled up the Google Random Number Generator (yes you can just Google this) and entered 1 to 754 and selected “Generate”. This is what that looked like.
I then found the associated number on my email list and just emailed the person to notify them and sent them $200. It was pretty easy. If you’re that person and reading this. Feel free to share this article on social media! I’m mainly just excited to hear what you’re going to do with the $200. Something peer-to-peer lending like Lending Club or traditional like buying a stock? What about buying a new camera and selling your photos as stock photography? That would be really cool too! I’m excited and want to hear about it! Good Luck!
Third – Status Of My Start-Up
Oh, man, has this been a roller-coaster of emotions. I went from excitement over my idea to paralysis by everything I had to get done. Then I got a little more excited as I started tackling things but soul crushed as things didn’t work the way they were supposed to. That was the worst.
What I thought was a simple idea required A LOT more work than I thought, but I guess that’s the life of an entrepreneur.
I’m now in the home stretch with SO MUCH left to do and I’m launching end of January. However, it’s happening! I’m doing everything I can to have at least some product for launch and I’ll keep editing and tweaking as I go. It’s not going to be perfect but it’s going to be awesome and it’s going to be real, not long just an idea in my head. I’ve met with multiple people and they love the idea. I just need to launch and that’s my intention the end of this month.
Yay for creating a real company while I slowly die of sleep deprivation. =)
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Wallet –
Real awesome and super pumped for you. That’s some massive investments made in December too, as well as a solid month of income – congrats on that BlueHost income. Excited for the launch and talk soon!
-Lanny
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