July 2015 Income Report

Randomly one day, I noticed there was a deposit in my bank account which I was not expecting and upon further investigation, realized Amazon had sent over a commission payment. Sweet!

I started documenting my earned income because one, I am super excited to have my blog bring in some money and two, I want to build Cook With A Shoe to be a viable side business providing additional streams of income.

Income

Amazon Affiliate – $10.52

Most of the products I recommend to you are linked to my Amazon affiliate account and while the price remains the same for you, I do receive a percentage of the final price. So thank you if you have purchased something through my Amazon links! You can read more about my disclosure here.

Total income- $10.52

Growth

During July, I decided to start focusing on one social media and picked Pinterest. I have had several blogger friends be so gracious to help explain how to be successful on Pinterest and give me their feedback and tips, which I have started to implement.

Even though I have just barely scratched the surface of applying new strategies, there has already been a huge jump in traffic.

At the beginning of July, I had an average of 447 for monthly viewers and now thereare an average of 4,285 of monthly viewers. Wow! Just think what the numbers will be once I utilize more tips.

I am starting to Pin more strategically and have worked to improve some of my pictures and descriptions. Pictures from older posts need to be redone in order to be more Pin-worthy.

Another thing I am doing is co-hosting the Pinterest Game (which if you have pins that need re-pinning, you will want to join the Game and see if you can win with the most pins! The Pinterest Game is open to anyone until Wednesday 12p EST).

July also saw a huge spike in traffic resulting from my guest post, 31 meals from 1 chicken. My newsletter subscribers went from 34 to 50 in a month. What?You aren’t a subscriber? You can get in on the action and sign up now.

I am so thankful for the opportunity to guest post on Don’t Waste theCrumbslast month and am thrilled to announce that I have been offered an ongoing Contributing Writer position at Don’t Waste the Crumbs. My next post will be in September and I am working on it now.

I will have another guest post published this coming week over at Cents and Order. Yay for guest posts!

Goals

My goals for August are to continue to increase my Pinterestfollowersand viewers by reworking some of my pins, automating my pins, andpinning to group boards.

I am also focusing on increasing my newsletter subscribers by creating content upgrades throughout my site and more opportunities to subscribe.

Interviews are in the works! I am developing a series where I will interview people about their money habits and money wins.

My interview line up will include people who are working their way through paying off debt, people who have been handling their money well, and people who have become debt free.

If you are in one of these categories and would like to appear on Cook With a Shoe in an interview, please get in touch with me.

I am seriously considering hiring a Virtual Assistant a couple hours a month to help me with social media. Since I am working so much between myfull time job and my part-time job, there is more behind the scenes work on Cook With a Shoe then I can keep up with.

Do you, or anyone you know, work as a Virtual Assistant? Let’s talk! Charissa(at)cookwithashoe(dot)com.

That's a wrap and I am off to work on my August goals.