$100 a Day Challenge: August 2024 Income Report – Entry #2

This is the first full income report on My Journey to $100 Per Day. My goal is to capture any increases or losses in income and traffic to my current websites. I will star off by saying that August started off good but really tapered off during the second half of the month. My guess is that people’s extra income is lower after summer vacations and back to school expenditures.
Brass Tacks…How did I do in August 2024?
Month | # Orders | Etsy | Shopify | Total Profit | Ads Profit | Daily Profit |
July 2024 | 10 | 10 | 0 | $55.84 | $0.12 | $1.80 |
August 2024 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $30.03 | $0.14 | $0.97 |
So you can see…I made roughly half as I did per day in July. The main difference is that the orders were coffee mugs vs. hats. The profit on hats is much greater. Like I said in the introduction…I was on pace to double the number of orders in August vs. July until the well went dry in the middle of the month.
What else happened in August?
Below is a table I’m going to use to track content creation. The goal is to give you an idea of what I’ve been doing to tray to drive traffic to my websites to increase conversions. The table is pretty self explanatory but I’ll add a little context:
- YT Shorts – These are shorts that I created for any of the Youtube Channels
- YT Video – These are long form videos
- New Blog Posts – (Self explanatory)
- Blog Updates – Any time I edit or update a blog, I’ll include it in the total. This could be rewriting a paragraph, adding links or new images.
- New Products – I’ll keep a total of new products that have been added to any of my e-commerce sites
- Etsy Updates – Similar to blog updates, anytime I update an Etsy product, I’ll track it here.
- Shopfiy Updates – Similar to blog updates, anytime I update an Shopify product, I’ll track it here.
Click Here to see a running tally of changes per website.
Month | YT Shorts | YT Video | New Blog Posts | Blog Updates | New Products | Product Updates | Etsy Updates | Shopify Updates | |
August 2024 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
August Website Traffic Update
Below are the the traffic reports from August.
Website | Month | Google Users | Google Sessions | Google Search Clicks | Bing Impressions | Bing Clicks |
TheBikeRacer.com | July 2024 | 78 | 82 | 9 | 88 | 1 |
August 2024 | 72 | 87 | 0 | 1.1K | 3 |
Website | Month | Google Users | Google Sessions | Google Search Clicks | Bing Impressions | Bing Clicks |
HoveringHelicopter.com | July 2024 | 664 | 693 | 0 | 12.3K | 72 |
August 2024 | 316 | 392 | 0 | 40.5K | 291 |
Website | Month | Google Users | Google Sessions | Google Search Clicks | Bing Impressions | Bing Clicks |
CoffeeMugandHats.com | July 2024 | 161 | 161 | 13 | 314 | 0 |
August 2024 | 142 | 149 | 17 | 503 | 1 |
Website | Month | Google Users | Google Sessions | Google Search Clicks | Bing Impressions | Bing Clicks |
CloudSeedingtheSky.com | July 2024 | 29 | 0 | |||
August 2024 | 29 | 1 |
Website | Month | Google Users | Google Sessions | Google Search Clicks | Bing Impressions | Bing Clicks |
TheFoundationisCracking.com | July 2024 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 2 |
August 2024 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
Social Media Review
The results from social media are what I expected. Why? The only accounts that I really focused on were the Foundation is Cracking Youtube and twitter accounts – because they are fun to do focus on. Moving forward, I need to stay more consistent on creating more videos and following them up with social media posts. I wanted to track each post, but that’s just way too much work at this point. But I did track the major items. You can review the table below to see what I accomplished. I think this will be an interesting table moving forward.
Youtube
The only mover in shaker in August was my TheFoundationisCracking Youtube channel. It picked up 3 new subscribers. The portfolio gained a total of 5 new subscribers in August. Nothing to write home about. I added 3 new videos to the FinditandBuyit channel at the end of the month and stayed consistent with Shorts on the FoundationCracking channel.
- TheBikeRacer (138 Subscribers) (+2 in August (but lost 1)
- HoveringHelicopter (1 Subscriber) (No Change)
- Coffeemugsandhats (3 Subscribers) (No Change)
- Cloudseedingthesky (1 Subscriber) (No Change)
- TheFoundationisCracking (8 Subscribers) (+3 in August)
- Finditandbuyit (2 Subscribers) (+1 in August)
My The Foundation is Cracking twitter account had some significant growth because I was active on the account. That being said, my estimate is that 80% of the followers are spam or AI generated accounts. I’ve tagged Elon Musk a lot asking him to eliminates these fake accounts…but apparently he hasn’t heard my message yet.
- Mike Byrd (169 Followers) (No Change)
- Hovering Helicopter (716 Followers) (No Change)
- Coffee Mugs and Hats (20 Followers) (+10 Followers)
- Cloud Seeding the Sky (15 Followers) (+1 Follower)
- The Foundation is Cracking (295 Followers) (+44 Followers)
- Find It and Buy It (256 Followers) (-2 Followers)
I did very little on Instagram in July. The results show it.
- The Bike Racer (517 Followers) (+1 Follower)
- Hovering Helicopter (7 Followers) (No Change)
- Coffee Mugs and Hats (152 Followers) (No Change)
- Cloud Seeding the Sky (1 Followers) (+1 Follower)
- The Foundation is Cracking (0 Followers) (No Change
- Find it and Buy It (1 Follower) (No Change)
- The Bike Racer (218 Followers) (No Change)
- Hovering Helicopter (2,914 Followers) (-3 Followers)
- Coffee Mugs and Hats (18 Followers) (-2 Followers)
- The Foundation is Cracking (2 Followers) (No Change)
- Find it and Buy It (76 Followers) (No Change)
Rumble – (Rumble really needs to work on their interface)
- The Bike Racer Videos (0 Followers) (No Change)
- Hovering Helicopter (0 Followers) (No Change)
- Coffee Mugs and Hats (8 Followers) (No Change)
Plans for September 2024
August was really a get organized month and start writing these blog posts. I’m really winging it at the moment trying to develop my format. But I think I’m off to a good start. Below is a table of what I’m working on for September. I’ll come back and edit as necessary. But it might be fun to have a checklist to ‘check things off’ as I move through the process.
Website | Task/Idea | Notes | Completed? |
Coffeemugsandhats.com | Daschound Coffee Maker 1. Blog Post 2. Daschhound Products | I was looking through Search Console and the keyword, “Daschound Coffee Maker” is getting impressions and clicks. I want to follow up on this because I think it’s a AI image, but google thinks it’s important on my website. | |
TheBikeRacer.com Youtube Channel | 1. Finish Vacation Videos 2. RC Car Videos | I’d like to finish my vacation videos. I also bought an RC car that I want to create a video series around. The goal is to build a YT channel and get monetized. | |
Coffeemugsandhats | Create 30 New Products | ||
Etsy | Adjust Shipping Prices | Etsy is now saying that shipping pricing is going to be a factor in their search algorithm and is telling me I need to adjust my shipping rates. I guess we have to play the game. |
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