Monthly Recap: January 2025

TRANSPARENCYMONTHLY RECAP

1/31/20252 min read

Alright, alright, alright! It's been a good start to the year, so let's dive in!

Sales!

The year started off with two good events, Fan Expo Nola and Chattacon. Those two events combined for just over 1,900 bucks! I could get used to starting each year off like that haha. Outside of that, I had a good month for online sales, essentially the same as what I had over the Christmas season. I suspect this is largely thanks to my new covers and such! I'll be doing a post about that later on, so keep an eye out for that I suppose. Shirt sales and sundries were low, but that's normal for January and the post holiday shopping slump. As a point of reference for the slump, here are my totals from past years:

  • 2022 Dec - 202.74

  • 2023 Jan - 101.26

  • 2023 Dec - 869.25

  • 2024 Jan - 684.66

Socials!

In short, good steady growth. In detail:

I am in the process of having a big rethink about my social media. For now I am not making any big changes, but if you put a gun to my head and forced me to make some changes I think I would cut potentially as many as three of my social medias out altogether. Maybe just cut back to instagram, my facebook page, and my patreon. And consider doing few posts, but making the posts I do more meaningful. It feels like there is a bit of a tidal shift on social media at the moment, so I am not going to rush to any decisions though. I'll sit on it for a bit, think on it some more, talk with folks I respect, and then make some calls.

I am however making more of an effort to get folks on my Patreon, especially now that folks can join as free members. Not just Free Trial members, there is now a totally free tier. All my blog posts are going in that tier, and you can leave comments and ask all the questions you want there. You will see in the stats below now that I am tracking Paid/Total members for Patreon now.

In other news, I added a pop-up on my site that invites folks to sign up for my newsletter, and it seems to be working. I think I have been able to do that for some time, but I only just discovered the option. Consummate professional, I'm a consummate professional.

Social media Growth:

Podcasts:

  • Podcast Downloads (Monthly): 166 (-23)

  • Podcast Downloads (Lifetime): 3,412

Income:

Monthly total made:

  • $2,261.33 ($325.51 last month)

  • Increase of: 1935.82

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