Hello Sparrows Enders,
My October income report awaits and it ain’t pretty. I shall say no more - you can discover it for yourself in the video!
November is going very well though, so if you get to the end of the video and want to weep for me, then let me tell you now, it’s fine. I’m fine. November is making up for October’s unexpected disaster. Honest!
Some Updates
My next Business and Money Book Club video will be coming out soon. It will cover the next chunk of the book The Digital Marketing Handbook by Alice Benham (roughly pages 50-100). I will focus on the thoughts I have had prompted by the book, actions I am planning to take or have already taken based on my reading
I will be taking a break from the Clubhouse over the Christmas holidays. This means it will be a four pieces of content month, rather than 6. I will schedule the content to land across December, so you probably won’t notice much difference - just be aware that I won’t catch up with comments until Tuesday 7th January
Coming up in the Clubhouse in the final weeks of 2024!
How I chose my new brand colours for Sparrows End and a product launch to celebrate
Will I meet my 2024 income targets? - an evaluation of how close I am to the targets I set for each individual income stream
My November income report
December business and money planning/goals
A seasonal (Christmassy) chatty catch-up
Episode 1 of the Dream Office series
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Here’s my usual spiel about my income reports
Income Streams
Vintage Shop (reselling)
Youtube
Adsense
Affiliates
Amazon KDP
Redbubble and Society 6 (Print on Demand)
Substack (membership)
Coursework moderation for exam board
I will be sharing the amounts that were paid into my business account during the calendar month, rather than what was earned. I often earn money in a month that doesn’t pay out for a further month or two. Mixing the two together could get confusing so I will stick to the above for consistency and because that’s how my bookkeeping is done.
Amounts will be given in GBP (as a rule of thumb USD and the EURO is a third higher, Canadian and Australian dollars are ROUGHLY double GBP).
Please use an online currency converter for a more precise figure if needed.
What I’m showing you now is essentially my bookkeeping. In the UK you can use cash-basis accounting where all you have to do is input what comes in and what goes out and all your taxes etc. are calculated for you. There’s a wee bit more to it than that, but honestly not much.
The screenshot in the video (from my ever-evolving spreadsheet) shows the numbers mostly in the way they will be used for my tax return.
I talk about all the different income streams in the video so you get some context for the month ranging from how many listings I have in my Etsy shop to how many hours I might (or might not) have worked on a specific business!
