What I did today
I feel really busy but my income has been dropping (as you’ll see below). I’m not totally sure why I feel so busy, but man am I really, really feeling it.
I have that really big recurring client, and then another client who will pay $1,000 for work, and then another who pays me ~$50 here or there.
I think the source of my feeling weird is that I haven’t been prospecting for new clients in a while. I’m too busy with my existing clients, but that also means that one of those clients going away means that I’d be in a world of hurt.
Either way, I need to continue to do more work and do whatever I can to secure new clients who like my work and stay around to work with me.
I need to boost the income, essentially, to pay off some debt.
What I made today
Job: $128
UpWork: $0
KDP: $4.18
Catalant: $700
Interview Coaching: $0
Medium: $1.00
Total: $833
Today’s pro-rated amount of monthly expenses
Expenses: $212
Today’s Income
Made: $621
My plan for tomorrow
Tomorrow, which is really today, is a busy day. I was up early and working, and I’ll continue to work through the day. I need to make sure my clients are still happy and that results are moving in the right direction.
So, let’s keep on working. One day at a time is the strategy until the debt is gone, then it’s one day at a time to build back up from there.
Past Pieces
About the Author & The $0-$1K/Day Case Study
Dean’s goal is to create $1,000/day in passive income through entrepreneurship. Too many people write “success porn” that skates over the struggles many face in entrepreneurship
The reason he writes brief posts here every day on Medium is to share his progress and his struggles. You get the unvarnished truth: what worked, what didn’t, and how much farther is there to go.
The hope is that this series of posts will inspire someone else out there to make their entrepreneurship dreams happen.
Dean Woods is currently a VC-backed startup executive by day and a bootstrapped micro-startup CEO by night. Prior to working in startups, Dean was at Boston Consulting Group. Dean graduated with honors from The Wharton School.
