One of my favorite ways to monetize my blog is through affiliate marketing. In fact, it was the first method I utilized when I launched this site back in 2009. The great thing about affiliate marketing is you can start it at any time (you don’t need to have a ton of traffic) and over […]
How This Work-at-Home Wife Found Her Bliss as a Professional Blogger
Angie Nelson has been working from home since 2007. Over the years she’s dabbled in direct sales, customer service, running a virtual assistant business, and publishing various niched blogs. Read on to find out how she finally found her work-at-home bliss with a professional blogging career over at The Work at Home Wife. Tell us […]
Is It Time to Sell Your Blog? – Interview with Heidi Gollub
Heidi Gollub started Free Fun in Austin as a creative outlet in 2010, when she was ten years into being a stay-at-home mom and still had two little boys at home. She’d take her boys on a new adventure every morning and write about it in the afternoon when they were napping. Gradually, she started […]
How Bloggers Can Make Money on Instagram: Advice From the Experts
When Instagram first came on the scene in 2010, I didn’t understand how bloggers could benefit from the platform. Unlike other social networks, its main focus was on the image with text and hashtags being secondary. In fact, the only place you’re allowed to have a link is in your profile. But over the years, […]
5 Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know
Whether you do it for business reasons or purely pleasure, blogging can be an activity that is extremely empowering, fun and informative. However, it also carries a great deal of responsibility, which is especially true if you are a blogger who has built up a large amount of recognition in your industry or in your […]
100K Bloggers Who Are Making Big Bucks From Their Blogging Efforts
I hear it over and over again — bloggers can’t make good money. While I obviously disagree with that statement, I decided to prove the naysayers wrong by featuring some women who are earning big bucks through their blogging activities. The really great thing about blogging is there isn’t one right way to do it. […]
Thriving Freelancers Show You How to Make More Money with Your Writing
One of the most common complaints I hear from freelance writers is that they’re tired of living from paycheck-to-paycheck. While there is plenty of demand for their writing services, it seems that all too often they get stuck writing for pennies on the word, seriously! While I write here on the blog, providing writing services […]