Monthly Income Report: Recap
Going forward, I’ll be posting my monthly income summary, but first, I wanted to recap my income since I started my own consulting business.
Why am I posting my income online?
- I want to show how much you can earn as a freelance consultant. My results may not be typical, etc., but hopefully it’ll give you an idea of what’s possible.
- Posting my income online will keep me motivated to push forward and continue to make my business even more successful.
On to the numbers!
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And here’s the raw data behind the charts:
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As you may notice, the first several months after I started my consulting business was a bit slow. It also took me a while to get more clients, but things gradually kept growing, and I feel like I’m in a solid place now.
In addition, in November 2009 as well as in December 2010, I had a couple large projects which were unusual–in a good way–and so they ended up boosting my income for those months. For December 2010, my large-project client also asked me to bill them before the end of the year so they could post the expense in 2010; as a result, my January 2011 income is less than it would typically be, since I invoice clients the month after I do work for them (i.e., I send my invoices the first week of the month for the prior month’s work).