Freelance Writing Income: May 2008
In April, my freelance writing income totaled $5,842.42. This was far from being my best month ever, but when compared to my goals, I was satisfied for the most part. Going into May, I was relatively confident that I would be able to exceed $7k thanks in large part to several new clients coming on board.
Despite concerns about a slow down early in 2008, May proved to be quite profitable. So how did I do last month?
Number of Completed Projects: 22
Payment by PayPal: 18
Payment by Check: 3
Payment by Bank Wire: 1
Total Income: $9,260.91
As you can see, I earned approximately $3,400 more in May than I did in April. What was the reason(s) for this jump in income? As mentioned above, I managed to land a couple new clients that offered a lot of high paying work. To go along with this, I completed 22 jobs in May compared to only 11 in April. In most cases, when I complete more jobs I earn more money. This is not the case for all freelance writers, but for me, it usually holds true.
Will I be able to earn more than this in June? Like always, this is a question that is hard to answer. While increasing my income from month to month is always a goal, as long as I stay steady above $4,500 I’ll be happy. Although it is hard to say what the future holds, I am confident that reaching $7k to $9k in June is more than possible.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 am
Congrats on a profitable month. I think these income reports could be even more valuable if you went a little more in-depth into specific projects that were completed. If not down to the actual project itself, perhaps broken down based on type of project rather than how you were paid?
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 am
Michael – Thanks! I think you may be right. Maybe next month I’ll break down my income a bit further; great idea!
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 am
Great work Chris! You’ve really got my wheels spinning about how I can become more profitable in the coming months. I have been slack about marketing myself and it seems to have caught up with me during May. I can always count on your blog to motivate me to do much more!!
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Congrats Chris. Looking forward to more detailed posts from next month.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Congratulations! Thanks for posting this on the wahm forum. I look forward to looking around your blog
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
You rock! I still haven’t met my monthly goal this year, but I’ve been coming close. I like having this for some inspiration.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Wow! Great going, Chris! You are the inspiration that keeps many freelancers going! Thanks for sharing with us and showing us that it can happen!
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Congrats for achivieving your financial goal but I don’t know why you say “To stay up to date with my progress and learn how to earn a living through freelance writing, subscribe to my RSS feed.”
This post doesn’t provide information on how seek for markets to duplicate ongoing projects as you did, or advice on strategies to implement.
You are simply talking in first person and your achievements are applaudible but I don’t need inspiration, I need kinda practical case study to find using my time on track your progress.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Watcher – Thanks for the kind words! If you are looking for information on finding jobs or setting up your career take a look at my past posts. This is simply my income roundup!
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Chris, I discovered your blog a couple of weeks ago. You’ve got me hooked. Thanks for sharing all the juicy details. You know it keeps the rest of us motivated.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
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June 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 am
Hi there,
Thats a good figure.
Congrats and hope you will earn much better than that in future…. Thats obvious.
Could you help me with some tips ” on how to as a starter? ”
Could you please drop in to my blog once and review if my writing skills would suffice for what all it takes to earn as a freelance writer?
I am subscribing via RSS to your blog.
I would highly appreciate that!
Regards
Rome
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June 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Hi Chris,
I read all your monthly earning posts at DP. I earn around 4K/month currently and my target is to reach 5K in the next couple of months.
I’ll just go through your blog to get some ideas. I don’t have a freelancing site or a blog yet. Do you suggest that all freelancer writers have one? Does it make a huge difference?
Thanks
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June 8th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Consider yourself Stumbled! This is definitely an amazing post–very inspiring…
June 8th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
When you write 22 projects, roughly how many articles will that be? Is it the standard 22×10=220 articles or perhaps some are 50 articles package?
June 8th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Michele – Thanks so much. By the way, I love your blog as well!
BobbyT – I’m not 100 percent sure what you are asking. One project would be equal to something such as one feature article or one sales letter…
June 9th, 2008 at 10:09 am
You’re most welcome, Chris, and (wow!) I’m so honored that you “love” my blog!
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June 10th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Excellent job. I hope you reach the 10k
June 12th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Great work if you every need to subcontract some one then i am ready to work !
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June 17th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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June 21st, 2008 at 9:51 pm
9k a month is some good income for freelance writing. I beleive that it holds true that completing more jobs increases the revenue stream.
June 24th, 2008 at 3:02 am
nice job… congrat!
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June 25th, 2008 at 3:05 am
Congratulation. Its amazing you handled 22 projects, that’s quite a lot.
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August 17th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I don’t get it. Your are clearly making a good income and lots of people are impressed but are you just bragging and trying to get links? I was hoping you might flesh out how you are doing so well. For example, what are you writing? who are your customers? where do you advertise? what do you charge? etc.
Maybe it’s all in here somewhere but I got bored looking. I don’t mean any ill will towards you and in fact I wish you well. I was just hoping for a little help and inspiration which I cannot find in seeing how much you earn.
I saw you reference your income reports and as far as I can see that’s nothing more than a list of how many paypal payments arrived in your inbox.
Am I missing something?
August 17th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Iggy – Nope, you aren’t missing anything. The income report is just that; it shows my income for the month. If you want information on improving your career and moving in the same direction you should check out the other posts that I make.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:28 am
That is a good reward for hard work. Of course there generally is no substituting hard work. Well done. Its probably worth saying that the quality of the clients is a major factor.
August 19th, 2009 at 2:47 am
I’ve found your blog and when read your article, Wow…it is a very good income as a freelance writer. You really motivated me