income report

Hello and welcome to our first official Niche Website Update and Income Report for 2015! Since 2013 I’ve been trying to take my hobby of blogging and really turn it into something of a long-term, stable.  My ultimate goal is for the niche sites I create to generate several streams of positive passive income that will continue to roll in no matter whether I’m working, sleeping, or whatever I’m up to. I consider all the extra income I make to be a huge blessing because its money that I made outside my job and beyond the budget we’ve set for our family.  Plus – it’s a lot of fun to see how far I can take this entrepreneurial effort and see where it goes. Unfortunately January started off with some pretty big delays due to my BIG … [Read more...] about Niche Website Income Report 026 – $1,155 for January 2015

Welcome to another edition of the My Money Design monthly niche website update. For the last 2 years now I’ve been working very hard to develop a collection of sites that will serve as a stream of sustainable income.  I’m doing so by treating this blogging effort like a business rather than a hobby; meaning every month I come up with goals and new strategies to try that I anticipate will make next month better than the last. I feel so fortunate to have discovered the concept of passive income and invested energy into it.  All the money I’m making is money that I make OUTSIDE my job.  That’s income that I control, not my employer. 2014 capped off as the biggest year for me yet!  Together we made more money on the side than I ever … [Read more...] about Niche Website Update 25 – $1,577 in Income – Thank You Amazon!

Hello again to another edition of my monthly niche website update. As many of you know this is the part of my wealth building ambitions where I charter my attempts to create more and more passive income streams that will increase my monthly income.  This is being done by building up my online business portfolio of various niche websites; each one targeting very specific strategies for making money online. October was an interesting month to say the least.  There were more surprises from Google and a few other let-downs.  But all-in-all progress wasn’t too bad.  And most importantly my Amazon-based site is finally starting to show signs of growth! Here’s what happened in October:   Niche Website Income Report – October … [Read more...] about  Niche Website Update 23 – $1,052 Income – Finally Growth for My Amazon Site

As much as I like to talk about saving and investing, the most lucrative way I’ve found to improve your overall financial situation is to simply earn more money.  While making a side income might be an impossible task for some, I’m here to show you that it is in fact possible if you put your mind to it. Especially if you’re a blogger (like me) or even thinking about starting your own website, then you’ve got a wealth of opportunity sitting right in front of you.   You just have to be willing to be an entrepreneur and work your way at it. This month my collection of niche websites took me by surprise in terms of earnings.  I had a huge bump in revenue – and from a place I never expected (but warmly welcome)! Here’s what I’ve been up … [Read more...] about Niche Website Update 22 – $1,203 in Income – Exploding Success with ClickBank!

Its official – summer is over.  The kids are back in school, the pool is closed, and I’m scheduling the sprinkler system to be winterized. In terms of my online business, that also means that I’m running out of time to hit the goals I had set with my niche websites before 2014 comes to a close. Personally I feel like each of my websites has got a LONG, LONG ways to go.  Which can be both a fun and creative thing.  I’m not just talking in terms of making money.  I also mean in developmental things like content, SEO, traffic, etc.  Those are the kinds of activities that I believe will ultimately bring in the money if you do them right for the long run. … even if no one wants to help you get those activities done (a funny story about … [Read more...] about Niche Website Update 21 – Getting Interested Again in Affiliate Marketing – Plus $853 in Income

When you’re like me and depending on your hobby of blogging to supplement your income, you start to take a very active interest in how exactly you can do things better.  Why?  Because better = more money! That’s exactly what I’ve been up to this month – trying to figure out creative ways how to do things better.  Though I’ll get into more detail about it below, I’m confident that the things I’m doing will have long lasting positive benefits on my niche websites. Even though I declared in my last Niche Website Update that I wasn’t going to invest much more effort into my latest niche site #4 (which I call NS4), ironically that’s the one that I’ve been working on the most when it comes to “experimenting” with a few new … [Read more...] about Niche Website Update 20 – Copying My Competition – Plus $1,226 in Income

Before we get to the latest developments with my side-income generating efforts using my niche website portfolio (and what a great month it was), I wanted to pause for a minute and have everyone try a short exercise I used this month. I was on vacation recently when I had a moment of clarity and decide to try out this little exercise.  It’s amazing how much your perspective on things can change when you’re physically in a new location and removed from the everyday grindstone of your normal routine. Here is the exercise I tried: Take a pen and paper and on the left side begin jotting down a list of all the things you or your virtual assistant work on every week to make your niche sites or blog money. Now add some kind of monthly … [Read more...] about Niche Website Update 19 – Using the 80-20 Rule to Adjust My Priorities – Plus $1,295 in Income