Here we are at Pulicon, a tiny one-day convention held in the Puyallup Public Library!
Now’s the time that we look back at the numbers for April!
The Money Aspect
Amounts in parentheses are losses/expenses.
Hosting: ($17.06)
Stories: ($1,116.00)
Art: ($450.00)
Advertising: ($35.00)
Processing Fees: ($65.98)
Printing: ($163.25)
Conventions: ($40.00)
Donations: $52.71
Ad Revenue: $0.40
Kickstarter: $20.00
Physical Book Sales: $0.00
Online Book Sales: $40.71
Total: ($1,748.60)
QTD: ($1,748.60)
YTD: $3,216.55
All Time: ($12,659.02)
As per usual, I try to list costs for art and stories under the month that the stories run on the site rather than when I pay them. (This does not apply to special content, which does not have a specific month associated with it.) Sales are for sales when they take place, not when it’s actually paid out to me. I also cover Paypal expenses when paying authors and artists as best I can. Paypal has made it more difficult, so I’m not as capable of covering international fees.
The amount for the Kickstarter represents both the money raised through the Kickstarter proper, as well as funds added on in Backerkit.
Submissions
We were closed to submissions in April. All time acceptance rate is now 45.16%.
Followers
At the end of April:
Facebook: 1,333 (+16)
Twitter: 464 (+12)
Google+: 60 (+0)
Tumblr: 143 (+9)
Mailing List: 62 (+1)
Patreon: 12 (-1)
Traffic
April saw a huge drop in traffic. We had 1,138 visits, involving 802 users and 1,945 page views.
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