Yikes. May was a busy, busy month. Unfortunately, it was not busy with business-building activities, but with personal business and travel galore. We drove down to Vancouver, WA three times to assist my parents with a move and to attend a wedding, plus we flew out to Boston for another friend’s wedding, and stayed for five days. As a result, not a lot of productive work got done on the larger goals for Thatch Mound.

However, thanks to fundraising drive at Seattle Bubble (which I admit is a bit of a cheat), I was still able to meet and even exceed the raw revenue growth goals for the month. Let’s have a look.

First up, the total revenue versus goals:

Revenue in May was over 1/3 higher than April, which is a slower growth rate than the prior month, but still totally acceptable in my book. Especially when you consider that we still came in 20% over the minimum goal, and even slightly (5%) above the moderate goal. Nice!

Here’s the breakdown of where the money came from:

Obviously not the ideal mix, and definitely not one that can be relied on long-term. However, the fundraising drive did help tide me over through a month in which it was difficult to be very productive.

The real challenge will be getting back into the swing of things this month, and growing revenue with a renewed passion.  I’ll be looking into making better use of Google Ads, finally getting a subscription newsletter off the ground for Seattle Bubble, and also sending out as many advertising contacts as I can to try to get more direct ads going.