Alright, 2019 is officially off to an incredible start for my blog. Traffic rose to a new all-time high and my side income doubled my previous high—moving up to a whopping $40,441.47 (which still doesn’t feel real). Everything is still going great over at Close (my remote full-time job) right now and I’ve been able to
Whew! The first month of the year was a total whirlwind, but also one of my most productive on the blog in a very long time. My blog really killed it this month, smashing all-time highs in traffic, email subscribers and podcast downloads (and I almost tied my side income record too). On another note,
Hello 2019! Shelly and I rang in the holidays with a flurry of travel, quality time with family and a New Year’s Eve wedding of two good friends. What a roller coaster ride the last year has been for us both. More on that in another post soon, but today we’re talking numbers. And as
Wow, this year has flown by! And as predicted last month, November brought with it another reduction in side income… I’m now down about $7,000 from my all-time high in September of 2018 (for one main reason—but not for long as we’ll soon talk about). My distribution of side income continues to trend in the right
As I predicted, October took a pretty decent hit to my side income… and I’m down a bit from my all-time high last month (for now 😉). For the fourth month in a row now though, my slow shift of replacing my freelance-based side income with more scalable (and passive) income sources like affiliate commissions and
Woo! The month of September brought my highest side income of the year (so far) 🎉 And for the third month in a row now, the massive content and affiliate experiments I’ve been launching since the beginning of summer have continued to pay off in a big way. I talk a lot about those experiments and the
For the second month in a row, the content and affiliate experiments I’ve been tinkering with this year have really paid off. I’ll do a deep dive breakdown on all of that in a separate blog post soon, and it’s being covered first in my new course, Built to Blog. Overall, I generated $16,008.94 in side
This month, a lot of my investments from throughout this year have started to pay off (which feels great 💪) Overall, I generated $10,650.91 in side income revenue during July of 2018. On the personal side of things, Shelly & I are finally starting to look at places in San Francisco, and we’re expecting to make
A few years ago, when I quit my job to start freelancing, I was fortunate enough to already have a few contracts lined up before putting in my 2 weeks notice at work. But, that’s not the path everyone takes when launching a freelance business (or any business for that matter). And I’m a major proponent