One of my favorite parts about blogging is watching my friends “win!” at blogging. It could be that they pay off a ton of debt (I’m in the personal finance space), grow a national brand, motivate other people to better their finances, and make money blogging. Today’s guest has KILLED IT at making money blogging and has done so well that she will no longer share blog income reports-she no longer needs to. Michelle Schroeder-Gardner is the founder of Making Sense of Cents and is a super chill, scary motivated, blogger that I’ve known for years now. This episode specifically focuses on how she was able to build up her blog income to consistent $10,000 months. Enjoy the show!
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Show Notes
- Do you want to make passive income? Then, this show is for you!
- Michelle shares some of her backstory, when and why she started her blog.
- The first $100 dollars
- When she decided to leave her day job and blog full-time.
- Ummm….sooo, she made $1.5 million last year. Just saying.
- Blog income reports and the mysterious income mix for each blog.
- I ask when she decided to give up some income streams in order to focus on other streams of income.
- Focusing on the blog.
- Making “the jump”
- What did Michelle focus on in order to make the blog income grow.
- Affiliate income-discovered that it was easier than expected
- Blog content
- She shares what blogger’s need to make affiliate income.
- Blog content frequency-it might surprise you.
- Blogging in 2011 vs. Blogging Now
- The value of blogger shout outs
- What went into creating her course “Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing“
- She shares some of her fears that affected the launch process for the course
- “Making Sense of Sponsored Posts” her new course!
- If you’re on the fence about starting a blog/vlog/podcast-her advice
- She shares what her life is like now…
- I try to figure out how they learned to sail…I was thinking way too hard.
- What Michelle’s work days look like
- I offer to be a crew member
- What priorities did Michelle focus on in order to earn more.
- She writes her own blog posts for her blog.
- What are her plans for 2019?
Follow or Contact Michelle
Website: http://makingsenseofcents.com
Email: Michelle@makingsenseofcents.com
Instagram: michelleschro
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Michelle’s Courses!
Get started with Michelle’s course “Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing“ I’ve taken it and it has definitely helped me grow my affiliate income.
I’m incredibly excited to take “Making Sense of Sponsorships” and will keep you posted on how that goes after I purchase it and work through the content.
Thinking About Starting a Blog?
I love blogging! It has been an incredible experience, transformed my life, and connected me with a ton of amazing people. Blogging is a pretty cheap activity and I recommend hosting your blog with Siteground. Many bloggers have begun leaving HostGator and BlueHost and moving to Siteground. Myself included! Read why I’m leaving HostGator and BlueHost (I have 2 blogs one on each hosting platform) and moving to Siteground. If you’re a new blogger Siteground will cost around $3.95 a month (depending on the size of your audience). They have great customer service and tutorials on how to host your new WordPress blog on Siteground
Online Business Resources
If you’re thinking about starting an online business, the resources below are a great way to get started.
- The Ultimate List of FinCon Community Products
- Courses
- Books
- Swag
- Make Money with Ebooks–There is more than one way to make money with your writing skills. I’ve created this course to help inspire, educate, and support writers who are sitting on a book idea…and are afraid to write it. This is YOUR year.Make Money with Ebooks is offered at three different tiers to meet different student needs.
- Self-Study
- Group Program-Includes access to the closed Facebook Group and twice a month live office hours.
- VIP Program-Includes access to the closed Facebook Group, twice a month live office hours, and 2 meetings with Michelle to work on book related strategies, goals, etc.
- $10KVA–Are you curious about becoming a Virtual Assistant as a side-hustle or a potential full-time gig? My friend Kayla Sloan is killing it as a Virtual Assistant and schooling other entrepreneurs in how to become a VA that earns on average $10KVA. This course is what I recommend as the first part of creating a virtual assistant business.
- Making Sense of Affiliate Income-If you’re looking to make affiliate income with your blog, Michelle Schroeder-Gardner’s course is the course that I recommend. She makes well over a $1 Million a year blogging and the biggest chunk of her income comes from affiliate marketing.
- IMark Interactive–Grayson Bell helps me with all of my website related tech issues and he is THE go to guy for WordPress related tech in the several different blogging niches (all the Personal Finance peeps work with him).
- Elite Blog Academy-Many bloggers have gone through this course and I consider this course the “Granddaddy” of all blogging courses. It’s not cheap, but in additional to getting all of the resources that are key to building an incredible blog, you’re also become a part of an insanely supportive (and huge) community of bloggers. Many of whom are making crazy money.
Latest posts by Michelle (see all)
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Thank you so much!
Had fun hanging out digitally!