10th Year Blogiversary: How I Made Money Blogging In July/ August 2019

Hello!

Welcome to July/August 2019's business report where I show you how I made money online and traveled full-time last month. It's time to look at this month's update and see how I did.

August marks 10 years since I first started blogz like Making Sense of Cents. It is just so crazy to think about how much life has changed since I first started this website.

I started this blog and worked on it in addition to my full-time day job as a financial analyst, biz EDP Tech-Security/ Auditor and around two years after I started, I quit my day job to blog full-time.

Blogging changed my life for the better, and it allows me to earn a great income, all by doing something that I love.

You may have heard this from me before, but the funny thing is that I created my blog on a whim after reading about a personal finance website in a magazine. It started as a hobby to track my own personal finance progress, plan my retirement and I honestly didn't even know that people could make money blogging!

I knew absolutely nothing about blogging and I didn't have any goals & objectives for Making Sense of Cents or any of the other blogz.

In case you are new here, I used to work as a programmer/  analyst at an investment banking and valuation firm. I chugged along working the 8-5, Monday through Friday grind and didn't see myself having an enjoyable future there. I had a stressful job filled with lots of deadlines and responsibilities that just didn't interest me. Yes, I know this is the norm for some people, but I just couldn't imagine myself living like that for 40+ years.

Blogging was an outlet for my stressful day job, and my interest quickly grew, even though it was just a hobby. It gave me space to write about my personal finance situation, have a support group, to keep track of how I was doing, and more. I did not create Making Sense of Cents with the intention of earning an income, but after only six months, I began to make money blogging, so I was hooked.

A friend I met through the blogging community connected me with an advertiser, and I earned $100 from that advertisement deal. That one deal sparked my interest in taking my blog more seriously and learning how to make even more money blogging and taking it to the next level.

Today, I earn a great income from my blog, and it all started on a whim, not even knowing that blogs could make money and allow me to live location independent.

Some of the things that  planned on doing in order to grow Making Sense of Cents include:

• Getting more media mentions. I'm about to take a course that will teach me how to be featured in the media more, and I'm super excited. I will share more information on this course soon.
• Focusing on SEO. I am taking an SEO course soon from start to finish, in order to start growing Making Sense of Cents in this area. I tried a few years ago, but stopped. While I get decent traffic from SEO without much effort, I do think this area can be a great way to further grow my website.
• Learning about Pinterest advertising and  IG/ Facebook advertising. I would like to use social media advertising to grow traffic as well as to grow my email list.
• Adding an online shop to my blog. I would like to create a shop for Making Sense of Cents, where I sell products such as printables.
• Creating new optins. I don't have many optins for my email list, and haven't added a new one in quite some time. This is currently on my to-do list so that I can reach new readers and gain more subscribers.

Please head to My 10 Year Blogiversary: How I Made Money Blogging In July 2019 and  to My 10 Year Blogiversary: How I Made Money Blogging In August 2019. to read the full blog post. If you'd like to read this later, please save it to Pinterest.

Also, are you looking for some blogging freebies? Here are my recommendations.

1. First, if you don't have a blog, then I recommend starting off with my free blogging course How To Start A Blog FREE Course.
2. Affiliate Marketing Cheat Sheet – With this time-saving cheat sheet, you'll learn how to make affiliate income from your blog. These tips will help you to rapidly improve your results and increase your blogging income in no time.
3. 8 Easy Tips To Make Money From Sponsored Posts On Your Blog – Sponsorships on your blog are a great way of earning a living online. Learn how I made my first blogging income, and how I'm now making $10,000-$20,000 a month with sponsored partnerships! This is a free cheatsheet.
4. The Small Business Roadmap - Are you thinking about starting your own business? The Small Business Roadmap will show you what steps to take to start your own business.
5. 120 Awesome Blog Post Ideas – Are you struggling to come up with new content for your blog? Here are 120 great blog post ideas that will help you beat writer's block and create great content.
6. The New Blogger's Guide To Guest Posting – Guest posting is a great way to improve your blog traffic. However, there is a right and a wrong way to go about it. Here's exactly what you should do!
7. Facebook Ads For Bloggers 101 – This free training will show you how to increase your blog's traffic with Facebook ads. This is the top area I'm working on this year, and I recommend you do the same!

Thanks!

Jon &  JoAn

Four sites inline below:
1) The income report for August 2019...
2) What I was working on: The income report for July/ August 2019... 
3) The Blogiversary: The income report for July 2019... 
4) How to quit your job and become a Full-Time Blogger?

P.S. Here's what I'm/ was working on...

1) The income report for August 2019...




The income report for July 2019...




3) How to quit your job and become a Full-Time Blogger?

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