Comments on: Its Spring! End of a Quarter Report – How To Manage the Dollars

By: hospitalera@Gummi Crib Rail

hospitalera@Gummi Crib Rail — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:11 +0000

I agree to a certain extend, but believe me, this “on off” expenses add up! They might be more then your running costs. SY

By: Lis

Lis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:51:01 +0000

I did specify fixed expenses, not one-offs To me the important expenses are the ongoing, fixed ones – one-off expenses such as themes etc are discretionary, if I needed the cash for living costs I would use it for that, not buy the theme/software whatever and not directly affect my income – but the fixed expenses I have no real choice about, I have to pay them.

By: hospitalera@Gummi Crib Rail

hospitalera@Gummi Crib Rail — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:54:16 +0000

Nice success for you, I also would go for outsourcing first when it comes to re-invest my money. But aren’t you a bit incorrect with your expenses? Just from the top of my head I know that you had also expenses for buying a new theme, buying Niche Devil plus a bunch of .info domains… I personally keep track of my income as well as my expenses (even more of the expenses!) as it tells me what kind of investments bring me the most income in return, just my 2 cents, SY

By: Lis

Lis — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:18 +0000

I’ve never bought traffic but can see how it would make worse the cash flow juggle. Unfortunately its nothing that any of us has control over – it is what it is

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:50:49 +0000

You mentioned shortly that some affiliates takes over 90 days to pay out your income and I truly hate this. Last few months I have spent more time working with SEM (search engine marketing), meaning I buy traffic directly to affiliate programs.

Directly when the user clicks on my add I have to pay the money, but then it takes over 90 days before I can use the income I made from the sale. To be honest, it’s worthless.

By: Lis

Lis — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:26:14 +0000

Haha Terry its my new USP – Vic and Grizz can’t be Sistas LOL In fact ocaisionally I get an email asking for a women’s view point – not sure what that is not having ever been a man LOL! Yeah the bloody US$ is tanking even against the NZ$ – but then its probably gonna drive my mortgage rate down – so swings and roundabouts on that! Thanks I carefully didn’t do the image tagging properly I just liked the pics I dodn’t need Googles’ image search to rank me for “wild flowers in Perth”

By: Lis

Lis — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:20:03 +0000

Hi Shane – yeah I don’t do winters well – I need to get truely location independent and just keep on moving so I don’t have to do winter -oh except proper snow I like the odd bit of skiing!

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:23:30 +0000

Sistas United eh? Ha! had to laugh. I didn’t bother replying on Griz’s as it would have been buried under his 200+ comments! Nice pictures btw!

I’ve always used my own excel spreadsheet to keep my finances in some kind of order, but have a similar problem to you in that I get paid in $US and €uros (and have to pay the odd thing in £ sterling too) but have to account everything in € for… um… who, oh yeah…!

By: Shane@Master Dayton Freelance Writing Blog

Shane@Master Dayton Freelance Writing Blog — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:00:26 +0000

Hey Lis,

Appreciate the great post! I second Allyn’s comments about the sunny pictures being a nice shot in the arm. I’m currently in Iowa – better than Alaska in the winter, but it’s already looking like it’s going to be a long, rough, and cold one this year! Always glad to hear about the updates. I’m still working away, and making sure to push myself since the “I can’t believe I’m doing this!” novelty of the $100/mo. from Google has worn off. Call me greedy…but I’d like to make enough to truly get away with being lazy, LOL.

By: Lis

Lis — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:52:45 +0000

Basically I want to invest more in my business- by reinvesting I can buy the one thing none of us can make more of – time : if I spend $100 on content and it means I can have a site up and earning a month sooner than if I’d put it on my own writing to do list – that’s good – even better if it makes back that $100 in the month- may not happen but that’s the basic idea. Its the basic principal of working ON your business not IN your business. Thanks for the spreadsheet – now if you could just adapt it to include a April start for the New Zealand tax year and a July start for the Australian tax year- do the appropriate currency conversions and take into account the different write-off rules each country has – LOL just kidding – it looks like a good start for many people.