$100 a Day Challenge: September 2024 Income Report – Entry #4

ByMike Byrd
September 2024 Income Report

This is the third 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. So September wasn’t a great month as far as updates go. My full time job took a ton of time and I spent some time traveling back and forth between Charlotte and NoVa. I had great plans to make some serious updates to the sites but got very little done. (October preview: much more new content)

Brass Tacks…How did I do in September 2024?

Month# OrdersEtsyShopifyTotal ProfitAds ProfitDaily Profit
July 202410100$55.84$0.12$1.80
August 2024880$30.03$0.14$0.97
September 2024550$8.12$0.11$0.27
September 2024 Income Report

Orders are trending down which is a real bummer. Possibly not adding any new content or products played a roll in this. BUT, there is one thing I need to discuss. Etsy is asking all of their users to change their shipping to under $6 in order to rank higher in ETSY results. So I made some shipping changes in Etsy. I created unique shipping options for the Coffee mugs and missed a setting for international shipping. And wouldn’t you guess it…I received 3 international orders in September (2 to Canada and 1 to the UK) and shipping was set at $0.00!!

This means I actually lost money on those three orders because I had to eat the shipping costs (between ($10.99 and 11.99 respectively). I guess I’ll chalk this up to a learning lesson. My earnings/profit would have been similar to August had I not made this error in my Etsy shipping settings.

Content Creation in September?

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:

  1. YT Shorts – These are shorts that I created for any of the Youtube Channels
  2. YT Video – These are long form videos
  3. New Blog Posts – (Self explanatory)
  4. 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.
  5. New Products – I’ll keep a total of new products that have been added to any of my e-commerce sites
  6. Etsy Updates – Similar to blog updates, anytime I update an Etsy product, I’ll track it here.
  7. 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.

MonthYT ShortsYT VideoNew Blog PostsBlog UpdatesNew ProductsProduct UpdatesEtsy UpdatesShopify Updates
August 2024210130550
September 202400542200
Content Creation Tracking

It’s pretty obvious, September wasn’t a great month for content updates. I’m getting to this report late in the month, but October has started off much better from the Content Perspective. Be sure to subscribe to our Newsletter at the end of the blog post to be notified when I publish the October Earnings Update.

September Website Traffic Update

Below are the the traffic reports from August.

WebsiteMonthGoogle UsersGoogle SessionsGoogle Search ClickGoogle Search ImpressionsBing ImpressionsBing Clicks
TheBikeRacer.comJuly 2024788299881
August 20247287071.1K3
September 2024901090391.4K1
TheBikeRacer.com Traffic Updates
WebsiteMonthGoogle UsersGoogle SessionsGoogle Search ClicksBing ImpressionsBing Clicks
HoveringHelicopter.comJuly 2024664693012.3K72
August 2024316392040.5K291
September 202415.4K105
HoveringHelicopter.com Traffic Updates

WebsiteMonthGoogle UsersGoogle SessionsGoogle Search ClicksBing ImpressionsBing Clicks
CoffeeMugandHats.comJuly 2024161161134.57K3140
August 2024142149176.15K5031
September 2024275288107.18K8112
Coffeemugsandhats.com Traffic Updates

WebsiteMonthGoogle UsersGoogle SessionsGoogle Search ClicksBing ImpressionsBing Clicks
CloudSeedingtheSky.comJuly 20240000290
August 20240000291
September 2024222201
Cloudseedingthesky.com Traffic Updates

WebsiteMonthGoogle UsersGoogle SessionsGoogle Search ClicksBing ImpressionsBing Clicks
TheFoundationisCracking.comJuly 202466017192
August 20242020011220
September 2024324509350
TheFoundationisCracking.com Traffic Updates

Social Media Review

September wasn’t a great month. The only thing I really did Social Media wise was post/interact on TheFoundationisCracking X account.

*I want 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.

  1. TheBikeRacer (138 Subscribers) (No Change)
  2. HoveringHelicopter (1 Subscriber) (No Change)
  3. Coffeemugsandhats (3 Subscribers) (No Change)
  4. Cloudseedingthesky (1 Subscriber) (No Change)
  5. TheFoundationisCracking (8 Subscribers) (No Change)
  6. Finditandbuyit (4 Subscribers) (+2 in August)

Twitter

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.

  1. Mike Byrd (169 Followers) (No Change)
  2. Hovering Helicopter (722 Followers) (+6 Followers)
  3. Coffee Mugs and Hats (20 Followers) (+10 Followers)
  4. Cloud Seeding the Sky (16 Followers) (+1 Follower)
  5. The Foundation is Cracking (312 Followers) (+17 Followers)
  6. Find It and Buy It (245 Followers) (-11 Followers)

Instagram

I did very little on Instagram in July. The results show it.

  1. The Bike Racer (517 Followers) (+1 Follower)
  2. Hovering Helicopter (7 Followers) (No Change)
  3. Coffee Mugs and Hats (152 Followers) (No Change)
  4. Cloud Seeding the Sky (1 Followers) (+1 Follower)
  5. The Foundation is Cracking (0 Followers) (No Change
  6. Find it and Buy It (1 Follower) (No Change)

Facebook

  1. The Bike Racer (218 Followers) (No Change)
  2. Hovering Helicopter (2,914 Followers) (-3 Followers)
  3. Coffee Mugs and Hats (18 Followers) (-2 Followers)
  4. The Foundation is Cracking (2 Followers) (No Change)
  5. Find it and Buy It (76 Followers) (No Change)

Rumble – (Rumble really needs to work on their interface)

  1. The Bike Racer Videos (0 Followers) (No Change)
  2. Hovering Helicopter (0 Followers) (No Change)

Pinterest

  1. 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.

WebsiteTask/IdeaNotesCompleted?
Coffeemugsandhats.comDaschound 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.NO
TheBikeRacer.com Youtube Channel1. 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.NO (Finished two videos…need to create channel and post videos.)
CoffeemugsandhatsCreate 30 New ProductsNo
EtsyAdjust Shipping PricesEtsy 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.YEs

Conclusion

September was pretty much a wash. I’m going to keep the September list of ToDo’s above and hopefully get some things accomplished in October. Fingers crossed we see some better results in October from a creation and earnings perspective.

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