September Review (Revenue & goals)
Monthly Revenue - $4,066
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Freelance: $1736
Side projects (Below): $2,330
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The revenue is a combination of sales from my side projects:
GrowYourClicks _ Total Revenue: $1,078 (Down $846 from Aug)
Cooee Network _ Total Revenue: $199 (Down $50 from Aug)
MouseCrafted _ Total Revenue: $380 (Up $132 from Aug)
Desket _ Total Revenue: $400 (Up $44 from Aug)
WorkForThem _ Total Revenue: $231 (Down $19 from Aug)
Five Ideas a Day Ebook _ Total Revenue: $277 (Down $40 from Aug)
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Highlights:
Gained 60,000+ followers across my Instagram network, which means a bigger audience to sell my products too.
Growing fast on Dribbble and Behance, starting to see it paying off with sales on MouseCrafted.
Facebook pages are growing steadily, one page received over 700 likes this month alone.
Started to cross promote my sites on each other as backlinks in the nav, hopefully, this will increase traffic across the network.
- side note * I took on a design freelance job which took up a fair bit of my time, as a result, my side projects took a small hit. I'm thankful growth didn't suffer, it actually increased.
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October changes:
Keep focusing more on MouseCrafted growth - Really focus on growing my presence on Dribbble & Behance
Keep riding the Instagram growth wave - try hit 70,000 new followers for Oct.
Focus on growing my Facebook pages.
Also, revisit my[Cooee Network](https://cooee.network landing page, I don't think businesses fully understand the value they are getting for $199.
Time to redesign my own personal website.
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Feel free to as any questions :) I will do my best to get back to each question as quickly as possible.
How did you grow your Instagram following so dramatically?
I've spent the 16 months building up a network on Instagram, trying out many different methods and techniques. I have put together a course where I show you just exactly how to I did it http://www.growyourclicks.com/p/instagram
You inspire me!
Btw, how you get client on workforthem ?
Thanks my man :)
Inspiring stuff! Multiple income streams is the way to go. Congratulations on this.
Cheers Phil ;)
Nice work David!
Cheers my man :D
Hi David,
Would love to check out your Instagram network. Could you list the usernames?
I have a list of them here: http://www.growyourclicks.com/p/instagram
Great progress and thanks for sharing once again :-) I'm wondering about WorkForThem: I thought revenue can only come from people posting a job but the number doesn't add up. So how else is it making money?
Man, sincerely this is such an inspiration for me! I'm a freelance software developer and i'm gonna try creating a stack of products with low revenues target (at least at the beginning) that summed up make a decent living (as your $2,330 monthly revenues) as you are currently doing.
Thank you very much for sharing this, please keep doing it, i need to stay motivated :D
Two questions:
1 - what's your marketing stategy? Content marketing or something else (how do you promote mousecrafted? I don't see a "blog" or something like that section...)
2- what's your tech stack to quickly develop these products?
Again, thank you very much for sharing
Thanks my man, means a lot :)
I will do my best to keep up this monthly check-in for sure.
Good question. I'm actually in a very fortunate position where I've built up a decent network of followers that I promote my side projects too, it's basically free advertising whenever I want it.
I''m not a developer but I do know how to build using existing platforms. My products are built on the following:
Desket - Shopify
5 Ideas a day - Podia
GrowYourClicks - Teachable
Cooee Network _ Carrrd
WorkForThem - Outsourced
MouseCrafted - Outsourced
I will ALWAYS see if I can build it but if I can't then I outsource it to a developer. I'm a designer so I get the bulk of the work done to cut down costs.
Hope that helps :)