Monthly Recap: April 2024
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Alrighty, April is behind us, so it's time for my monthly recap post! As always, I'm gonna be diving into the numbers behind my sales and socials!
On the sales front it was a good month. I did three events in person (though I only sold at two of them (and one of the ones I did was not really a sales type event (damn, how many qualifiers am I going to work into these parentheses?))). Any month where you sell over 900 in person is going to be a good month I feel like, at least at the level I'm on. Amazon has continued to be a tidy little place for shirts, but TeePublic continues to be down. I wonder if there is something at work there, like not having uploaded a design there in some time causes them to lower my search results? Who knows. Otherwise it's business as usual, even if book sales online were a bit sluggish.
On the social media front, things are moving right along as per the norm. My email list ticked up a bit as I logged in some in person sign ups I had. And adding 3 subscribers to YouTube is neat, as that is pretty much my slowest growing account (other than discord). I think that will continue to grow as I keep uploading my educational videos. I have one I will be making this week, so we will see how that helps my May numbers. As for Discord, I am coming to a point where I need to either shit or get off the pot. Its super stagnant, and while that is partly my fault, it's also just hard to have a small discord be active I feel. So I think my strategy is going to be reaching out to a few authors to see if they want to also use this as their discord. I've been kinda idly doing this already, but I haven't really pushed it. So we'll see.
Social media Growth:
TBB Facebook Follows: 931 (+4)
TBB Insta: 638 (+19)
TBB Fan Group: 275 (+0)
YouTube: 107 subscribers (+3)
Email list: 677 subscribers (+28)
Discord Server: 36 (+0)
Income:
250.00 - Appearance Fee
52.88 - Amazon Merch.
5.10 - Redbubble.
6.00 - TeePublic.
5.00 - Itchio.
2.28 - Drivethrurpg.
18.16 - Patreon (patrons: 11)
76.63 - Book sales/KENP
910.00 - In person book sales
0.55 - Amazon Affiliate Income
0.00 - Random
Expenses:
17.00 - Podcasting Fees (Hosting)
Monthly total made:
1,317.60 (939.07 last month)
Increase of: 12.26
