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How to Start Your Own Money-Making Blog
2. When did you first learn that blogging for profit was possible?
Side Note – If you’d like to read my review of Michelle’s course, Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing, you can check it out here!
4. What were some of your biggest challenges when you first started?
Side note, here’s a quick list of the tools I used to make $10,000+ a MONTH with my blog:
If you want to quickly start up your own blog for a cheap price (only $2.95/mo through my special link here), then I would definitely recommend Bluehost. It’s what I used when I first started out, and you need a hosting service if you want to make money through your blog more easily.
Check out my step-by-step guide here that shows you how to sign up quickly.
One of the BEST ways to make money blogging is with affiliate marketing. Basically, you recommend a product you love and when they click through your link and make a purchase, you get a commission at no extra cost to them. And a great place to learn is with the online course, Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing. The creator, Michelle, makes over $50,000 a MONTH through affiliate marketing, so she definitely knows what she’s talking about.
Read my review of the course here to learn more!
Also, you can check out my interview with Michelle here.
If you want a course that will take you by the hand and teach you how to become a full-time blogger, then I would definitely recommend Elite Blog Academy (or EBA). They only open up once a year though (in early March), so it’s best to sign up for their waitlist here and they’ll let you know as soon as the cart has opened.
Read my review of Elite Blog Academy here.
One of the most important things you can do as a new blogger is to start up your email list right away. It’s what I wish I would have done when I first started out because then I would have a LOT more subscribers (and having an email list is the biggest way to make money blogging).
The email provider I use is Convertkit since they’re SUPER easy to use and give you 1 FREE month to try it out.
Read my Convertkit review here.
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is one of the most important ways to get traffic to your blog. It’s basically optimizing each blog post so that it shows up in people’s search results on Google. And if you’d like to learn more on how to do that, then check out Stupid Simple SEO. It’s a course that opens up a few times a year and has REALLY helped us out!
Read the review of the course here!
If you’re new to creating images for your blog, and don’t have the money for Photoshop, then I would definitely recommend PicMonkey.com. I started out with it when I was a new blogger and still use it to this day! Also, the monthly price is the same as just a couple Starbucks drinks.
5. Can you please describe one of your biggest breakthrough moments in your blogging career?
6. It’s clear that you’ve mastered affiliate marketing in a huge way. What inspired you to go after this? Where did you first learn? You’ve definitely honed your affiliate marketing skills far beyond almost all your pears. Could you describe this journey for us?
7. Where can others people new to blogging learn to sell affiliates on your scale?
- The basics of affiliate marketing, what it is, etc.
- The positives of affiliate marketing and why all online influencers should be doing it
- The exact steps I’ve taken to earn over $400,000 from a single blog post
- How to pick the correct affiliate products to promote
- How to increase conversions
- How to build trust and not lose followers
- Required disclosures that you need to know about
- The one major tool you need for affiliate marketing
- Different strategies to use to promote your affiliate products
- How to use Pinterest to succeed at affiliate marketing (yes, this includes the newest Pinterest affiliate rules!)
8. What was one of your biggest mistakes on your blogging journey, and how can others avoid it?
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I absolutely loved reading this post. I have been a follower of your blog and Michelle’s blog for a long time. It’s only in the last few months have I decided to take my blog seriously as a business. I fully intend to binge read your Pinterest posts again as well as sign up for Michelle’s affiliate program. After reading 100’s of income reports its truly a blessing to see the difference blogging income has made to their lives. ❤️
Michelle’s story really inspires me when it comes to blogging. Since I followed her blog and started reading all she shares about starting a blog and freelancing in general, my journey as a freelancer has really changed.
However, what I advice is having a positive mind, and a passion for what you do. And all will be successful.
I am looking forward to growing my blog too with this great piece of advice. Cheers!
I am so glad to hear that she and I were able to provide you with helpful info!
And thanks for the great tips! I totally agree with you on having a positive mindset; it’s on the BIGGEST keys to having huge success with your blog.
This is so much motivating post for me. I am also blogger and landed your blog first time via Pinterest.
Keep sharing such articles.