Thursday 19 March 2009

A New Tally

No grab today
I got home this evening ready to hit the blog, but I didn't go cash back hunting or matched bet hunting. I decided to do a bit of maintenance work instead. The way I've been showing my progress has been bothering me. It's not very clear and it was a pain for me to maintain.

My cunning solution
Being a programming type I went looking for a better way. The result is the tally widget you can see on the right. It's built from a google spreadsheet that I'll be maintaining online as I do the deals. That means it will be right up to the minute and may even contain info that hasn't made it into a blog post yet.

If you click on each of the rows it will expand to show you where the total numbers come from. Click again and it will shrink back up.

What the headings mean
Cashflow
This is a track of money going in and out of my bank account. I figure this will be the ultimate track of how well I'm doing. I'm theoretically well in profit at this point, but I won't be happy until cashflow is showing a big positive number.

Cashback
This is expected earnings from cash back sites. It will show purely the amount of profit I expect to get, without factoring in how much I may have spent to earn it. (Spendings are already shown in the cashflow section)

Betting
This is expected profit from betting. This will show losses and gains made from my betting activities. I'll also have a float at various bookies which I use to make the bets, but this won't be shown here.

Surveys
This section will show how much I've earned through doing surveys. I'm not sure how big a number will end up here. I've signed up for a bunch of survey sites, but I'm not getting a whole lot of offers to actually do surveys. Maybe I'm the wrong demographic?

Expected Earnings
This is a total of all the above except for cashflow.

Blog by blog earnings
I'll still be showing how much I've made in each blog, but it will now be much easier to distinguish how much was earned by the the day's grab and what the total is over all.

If you think things are still unclear let me know. I'm happy to shuffle things around to make them easier to follow.

5 comments:

  1. that's quite alot of cash back you have there. How long till quidco pays out?

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  2. I'll be adjusting the cashback amount for quidco downwards by about £40 to take into account how much I spent earning the offers.

    Quidco doesn't pay out with extreme speed. At the moment I'm showing £13 as received and to be paid at the end of this month.

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  3. Wouldn't you have already taken into account the amount you spent earning quidco offers in the cashflow?

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  4. Yah, it'll be in the cashflow. But if I include the money I spend on earning offers for cashback you won't be able to see how much profit cashbacks have earnt me.

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  5. yo! hmmmm interesting... I shall think upon this as I eat brain food (veges and tuna!) maybe...
    just started a spread sheet to figure it out. requires a bit of thought doesn't it ....

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