Massive Update To Stats Tracking
Well, after a few hours of work I have revamped the way BCC presents its public stats. You can now see everything from one single, easy location: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats
Part of what I’ve been working on recently is taxes for 2008. This required actually paging through and entering my expenses (oh, did I mention it tracks expenses now?), which is going to result in a bit of an earnings restatement for 2008. I think I have everything but one stray freelancing invoice accounted for now.
Sales for 2008 (less returns): $21,116.65
Expenses for 2008 (excludes taxes): $11,782.62
Profit: $9334
You can see the detailed breakdown here — the big green slice is profit (~45% — a bit lower than I expected). If you just want to see the relative expense breakdown that is available, too. Unsurpisingly, my number one cost is advertising — the overwhelming majority of it is Google AdWords but I also paid much smaller amounts Microsoft, Stumbleupon, and a few directories.
Since I’m using this to generate taxes for my business I included some things for my non-BCC projects which I intend to productize eventually but haven’t gotten around to yet. Incidentally, expenses before 2008 aren’t totally entered yet, take that data with a grain of salt. I don’t have easy access to all my old 2006/2007 credit card statements, and don’t even get me started about Paypal.
February 23, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Thanks for the post Patrick, very interesting and informative as usual. Have you thought about tracking your time as well? I have a feeling that by now you’ve put in a lot more than 8 days of work 🙂
February 24, 2009 at 12:01 am
It’s still great seeing your data Patrick and a very impressive upward trend on the sales.
February 24, 2009 at 12:26 am
Interesting stuff Patrick, and it’s nice to see that 9.84% of your expenses provide you with fulfillment! I’m thinking that playing with Flash Charts may be giving you some perverse sort of pleasure as well!
February 24, 2009 at 6:19 am
Cool Post. Its interesting to see the stats. I had an issue viewing the graphs with Google Chrome. I’m actually using OFC on a project and I haven’t had any problems with Chrome before. None of the charts show, they all get stuck on the loading data graphic. Not a big deal, it worked fine in FF.