How Much it Costs to Run My Blog

I created my blog using WIX, its an online website building platform. I currently have a free account. With a Free account I get to pick a website template and edit it as much as I would like. But if you have noticed on my site at the very top it has an ad displayed for WIX and my website address is one I created years ago and has nothing to do with my current website. So my first goal is to upgrade my WIX account to their premium option which just happens to be on sale until July 1st. The package I want to upgrade to is called Entrepreneurs and Freelancers. It's now $8.50 a month instead of $17 a month. I think I might go for it because it will remove the WIX adds and allow me to create a website address that makes more sense. The only thing holding me back is I want to make this blog happen for as little money as possible. Since starting the blog I haven't made one cent. I did have a plan to make money for the blog that I'll explain below.

My goal with this blog is to create passive income that I can help support my family with. So I wanted to figure out a way to make money with little to no cost to support my blog (getting rid of the WIX ads and a better website address). So I was on Etsy one day and saw that people were successfully selling downloadable items such as resumes, planners, etc. So I thought how easy that would be.

I am currently selling resumes, baby feeding formula guideline, a coloring book and a weekly planner all for around $1.50. My goal was to sell enough of these items to support my blog. I have made 0 sales so far, ugh! So my next thought was okay I think I may need to advertise these items. What is great about advertising with Etsy is you can pick your daily budget. Because my items are priced so cheap I knew I wanted a cheaper budget until I started making sales, so I set my daily advertising budget to $1 a day.

Here are my stats so far:

I have only been advertising for 4 days and so far I have over 1K ad views and 12 Ad clicks (you only pay when someone clicks on your ads) and 0 orders.

Here is the breakdown showing my 4 listings and how they are doing with views and clicks:

As you can see my weekly planner has had the most action so far.

So the next thing I will need to figure out is, do I need to create more Weekly Schedule Planners? Maybe create a bundle or create individual ones and just change the colors or is there a way to advertise just this listing more?

I need to start making sales before the WIX promotion ends on July 1st. So in the meantime I am going to share this post on Facebook (don't forget to like my page!), put in some affiliate links and hopefully make a sale!

Here is the link to my Etsy store, your feedback and support are appreciated!