June Sales
- Consulting: £44.08
- Design & Web Services: £1469.44
- Hosting: £306.69:
- Pre-Mades: £782.36
Total sales: £2602.57
Pre-made sales went down, but everything else went up! I was loaded with design work in June. My calendar was pretty freaking insane. I also had to create a new category for “Consulting” because I did some work that wouldn’t reaaally quality as “web services”. I almost threw it in there, but decided not to because it doesn’t really fit with design/coding at all.
June Expenses
- Commissions: £5.85
- Hosting: £186.33
- Licenses & Subscriptions: £194.00
- PayPal Fees: £73.74
Total expenses: £459.92
More design work in June means more PayPal fees. Bleh. 😛 I hate those! You don’t even realize how much they add up until the end of the month.
Nice! Speaking of design work, if I want to get on the list for a redesign post-wedding (my wedding next month LOL), when should I do that? Guess I’m wondering how long of a wait list you have! I’m also migrating to a new domain. I’m basically crazy!
Well I was booking designs for September, but I’ve temporarily closed bookings because I have a couple things I’m thinking about and whether or not I follow through with them will determine my availability after September. So I could either not be open for a while, or I could re-open my bookings soon.
Sorry that’s kind of vague. 😛
And omg so exciting about your wedding!!! eeks!
You are basically launched. I’m impressed you created such a profitable service right from the start. Well done 🙂
Thank you! 😀
Love these monthly reports 🙂
Thank you! 😀
I always feel like such a voyeur reading these posts, but I love it! It’s fascinating! 🙂
Haha that’s always how I feel about other peoples’ income reports. 🙂
Hehe, sorry to complicate your charts 😉
Congrats on the continued success. I wish I had your design talent. I would love to learn how to do blog designing in all my “free time.” 🙂
I love these updates. Congratulations!
Holy crap! This makes me so insanely jealous. I want SO bad to be a designer and work from home it’s not even funny, but I don’t know where to start. I don’t want to pay for school but I don’t know how to teach myself. You make three times as much as I do in a month doing something you love…my job makes my life miserable and I’m sick of it. I hate working for other people who don’t care about you at all. I just want to work for myself! I have no idea how to get there 🙁
You can learn a lot reading tutorials online. Like, if you want to start making websites, just make a ton of practice ones for yourself. And whenever you get stuck, Google “how to do xxx”. Example: “how to make a navigation menu html css”, or “how to align two boxes next to each other html css”.
You could get started with a design framework like Bootstrap. Here’s a guide that might be decent: http://www.sitepoint.com/twitter-bootstrap-tutorial-handling-complex-designs/
Just keep practicing, practicing, practicing and you’ll slowly improve. You’ll also start to remember things and rely less on guides/tutorials/Googling.
Thank you!! It’s just so overwhelming. Especially when I try to look at PHP >.<
PHP can be overwhelming. I really recommend you take it one step at a time. Don’t even look at PHP until you can make pretty good static websites with your eyes closed. Then, don’t set out specifically to learn PHP. I tried to do that several times and NEVER succeeded. Instead, try to learn PHP because you need it for something—like WordPress.
When I first wanted to learn PHP I looked up PHP tutorials and it never made sense to me. I couldn’t get it to click. So I kind of gave up. But then eventually, I started wanting to learn WordPress. Well, WordPress has a bit of PHP in it! But instead of feeling like I was learning PHP (scary) I was learning WordPress, which introduced a tiny bit of PHP at a time. And I think with that slow, non-direct approach it actually made it so much easier.
Okay, I’ll keep that in mind! I think that’s what my problem is…I tried PHP on w3schools and it was so overwhelming I quit doing any kind of self-teaching for almost a year now. Thank you SO much for the advice!!!