Be careful what you wish for.

I wanted legions of followers.

Instead, I got lesions of followers.

Anyway, so let’s see who can correctly guess where these lesions are and what they are. Answer in the comments! The first person to correctly answer will be the envy of their peers. Maybe.

I have not done a blog income report in a long time. So, I will do one today, and show you an important lesson.

Some days, there will be sunny days. Other days will be stormy. Many days will be cloudy.

Of course, weather patterns vary. It may be sunny where you are, but raining somewhere else.

Business is not much difference, and that means it is very important to diversify. That way, you’ll have a better chance of always having at least one sunny spot where ever you might be.

Here is my blog income chart for January through July of this year:

First, look at the red line. It was quite high in January and February of this year, but then took a nose dive. Had that been my only source of blog income, well, you can see how bad things would be!

Now, look at the green line. It had a fairly steady increase throughout the year. February was slightly higher than January and March, but it’s hard to tell here. But, you can see that it took a slight dip in July.

Now, look at the blue line. It dipped in March, climbed, took a nose-dive in June and came back in July.

Even though the green line went down in July, the blue line going up compensated for it, making July a better month than June. And, though the blue line went down in June, the green line going up in June made June a slightly better month than May.

Of course, with the red line static, the best months of the year were January and February, though July began to inch towards January and February totals.

The bottom line here is that you don’t want to rely on a single source of income for your blog or any other website you might have. And, if multiple streams of income is not a possibility on your site, then you’ll want to have multiple sites so that you can be diversified.

My goal this month is to bring that red line back up!