A Web Entrepreneur's Journal

The income for April was 447.78 dollars, down $54 compared with last month. Kindle sales and hard copy sales were about the same as last month, but reported Smashwords sales fell greatly. Ad and affiliate income were up significantly, but not enough to compensate for the shortfall in Smashwords revenue. 1. Product income A total [...]

The income for March was 501.87 dollars, up $21.5 compared with last month. Kindle sales doubled while Smashwords sales were down by a third. The hard copy sales are holding steady. Ad and affiliate income were up slightly. 1. Product income Amazon managed to sell 9 hard copy books this month. Another 10 were sold [...]

These past few days I’ve been working on my tax declaration for 2011. So far I’ve been doing the accounting work myself, though for next year I will probably delegate this to an accounting firm. The expenses for 2011 came to a total of 3 230.76 dollars. Divided into items, the costs were as follows: [...]

The income for February grew compared with last month, thanks in large part to new ebook sales through Apple. The various income streams together brought in 480 dollars, which is a new record and takes me yet another step closer to my goal of 500 dollars. The increase in income this month was 27 dollars. [...]

January was a great month. Not only was I able to hold on to the high income seen in December, but the income even increased slightly. I had thought that the Christmas sales would push up the income temporarily, but apparently Christmas did not play a big role in the number of sales made. This [...]

And so December has finally come to an end. I have already examined the income for each week of this month, but in this post I’ll put it all together. I did not manage to reach my goal of $500, but I did set a new record by breaking the $400 barrier. 1. Product income [...]

The last week and a half of December Siforia made 83.54 dollars. 8 Kindle books ($48.01) were sold, but only a single hardcopy book ($6.82). AdSense revenue was $10.81 from the sites and $16.75 from the YouTube Partnership program. Finally, there was one sale through Amazon Associates yielding $1.16. Considering this period was for 10 [...]

The third week of December has not been as profitable as the previous weeks. Passive income was down to 57.42 dollars. Books sold this week were 2 Kindle ebooks ($10.48) and 4 hardcopy books ($29.08). AdSense generated $2.48 from the sites and $11.16 from the YouTube Partnership program. The affiliate income is still zero. Partly [...]

The second week of December has now passed so it’s time for another income report. This week yielded a slightly lower income compared with last week. In total, passive income was at 88.83 dollars. Siforia sold 4 Kindle ebooks ($24.44) and 6 hardcopy books ($42.12). AdSense generated $7.10 from the sites and $15.17 from the [...]