In This Episode

This is the September 2017 monthly report. I talk about my goals, focus and what’s next.

Links

* Audible (World War Z & Malazan book of the Fallen)

* Austin Podcasters Meetup

* Cashflow Diaries

* Microcosm Publishing

* Smart Passive Income

* Toggle Time Tracker

* Trello

* Google Keep

Show Credits

Hosted, produced, mixed, edited & music by Mark.

Blog

Why Publish A Business Report?

Publishing my business report allows me to reflect back on the month to see what I did or didn’t do so well. Lastly, I have read blog income reports such as SmartPassiveIncome and I like to see what they have tried. It is a form of motivation for me and I hope that this can be one for someone else. Be sure to check out CashFlowDiaries for bloggers that share their blog income reports. Or one that I’ve recently found from publisher Microcosm Publishing.

September 2017 Business Report

Disclaimer: Any income reported will only be reported as “cash” in hand. If it did not deposit into my account, or if I didn’t cash a check, then it does not count as income. Additionally, income will only be reported for ApexThis business and not for personal income. I may discuss side hustles for additional side income, but only income in which I represent ApexThis will be counted. 

Income/Investment Report

Investment – $0.00

Expense Report

RawVoice (Blubrry) – ($12)

Blubrry is a service I used to host the podcasts for Admins of Atlassian and ApexThis. It has built-in integration with WordPress making it vastly easier to upload and maintain the podcasts.

Google Apps – ($5)

I use Google Apps for email primary, docs and drive. It’s also great to use my Google account as authentication to other services and apps.

Google Domain Renewals – ($12)

Overall

* Total Income/Investments – $0.00

* Total Expense – ($29)

* Total Net – ($29)

Hours Worked

Time Logged – 30h11m26s

 

What Happened?

Surprised

I’m actually surprised by the time I logged for the month of September. In August, I logged 11 hours of work for this side hustle. For September, I put in 30 hours and that excludes a lot of stuff. So let me explain:

Business

I spent 1hr for business stuff which was pretty much reviewing what I spent, or expenses I have upcoming and planning future stuff.

Podcast

20hrs this month was spent recording, editing, writing, and converting podcast episodes. What episodes?

* August Update had 5h 43m 59s

* Post Podcast Movement had 11h 01m 23s

* YouTube video conversion had 3h 30m 41s

I’ve finally started to upload the podcasts to YouTube. They are simply the audio that includes a video waveform I created using the FFMpeg command line utility. Doing this has given me some ideas to play around with BUT the audio is being put there and as I refine my production process, I can do a bit more with the video as well.

Austin Podcasters

For September I also spent 2hrs 54m 16s working on the Austin podcasters ...