Doubling my income in a month

The month of March was pretty crazy around here. I worked hard at increasing my writing income, but like all things, it didn’t exactly go as planned. As I said before, my goal was to double my income in one month. Looking back on that goal, it was quite foolish! But that was the goal, so let’s see how I did.

One plan was to ask existing clients for more work, which I did. It worked quite well, for the most part. I greatly increased my writing income with some clients. However, I have one client who has so far supplied most of my monthly writing income. This client didn’t give me any projects at all this month, which means I had a huge deficit to overcome!

Another plan was to apply for more writing jobs. This is the area in which I missed the mark the most. I didn’t significantly increase my job applications, and as a result, got no new clients this way. I will work on this in April.

I did, however, advertise my writing services on craigslist. I received several e-mail inquiries, and one potential client from this. We’ll see how that plays out. I will be trying it again, though.

I looked into PLR income, but so far haven’t made that a reality yet. I’m not sure how lucrative it will be anyway, but I am going to give it a try and I’ll let you know how that goes.

So, did I double my income in one month? That’s the big question, isn’t it? Well, from the methods listed above, no. I actually greatly decreased in income because of the big client I mentioned. However, I did do something unexpected that I hadn’t counted on: I sold a blog.

I didn’t sell it for a ton of money (see Daily Blog Tips for that kind of thing), but I did sell it for a reasonable amount, considering that it doesn’t even have its own domain name. And because I made this sale, I can say that yes, I DID double my income in the month of March.

I have no more blogs to sell (or at least I think I don’t – I’d like to in the future though!), so it will be a bit trickier in the month of April to maintain my income goal. But I think I can do it.