How To Make Money Blogging With Affiliate Income
You’ve probably asked yourself the same question. Can I do it too?
Yes!
When I started blogging in 2015, I never planned on making money with my blog (making money with your blog is called monetizing). I had other ideas I wanted to pursue that would financially support my business:
• Writing books (did that)
• Building online courses (haven’t had time to do this yet)
• Advertising on my podcast (not pursuing this right now)
• Public speaking (did that)
Building a membership site (undecided on this one because it’s a bit time consuming)
Then I started learning about affiliate marketing and how easy it was to monetize a blog. Eighteen months after starting my blog when I first focused on monetizing it, I made $11,400 in my first month.
I share that with you because there are plenty of opportunities for new bloggers to make money. The thing that gets me is if I had known then what I know now (and what I will share with you), I could have made money with my blog much sooner. Lesson learned!
Keep this in mind? I’m new to blogging too. While Imp not new to online business, I’ve never had a serious blog like I do now. And I’m just getting started. That’s proof new bloggers are still making money.
I’ve met bloggers at conferences that made $50,000 ? $100,000 in their first year! It’s crazy, and it’s possible.
It doesn’t matter how crowded you think a particular topic is (there are thousands of personal finance bloggers like me) there is room for you to carve out a piece of the pie for yourself.
• How can you make money blogging?
I’m going to walk you through each of these topics in the upcoming lessons. But let’s look at the many ways you can make money with a blog:
• Affiliate marketing (which is free to do)
• Selling eBooks
• Advertising on your blog
• Freelancing and writing for other blogs and websites
• Having sponsored posts on your blog
What’s nice about some of these are they are passive income streams. Meaning your blog has the potential to make money 24 x 7.
• While you sleep
• While you’re on vacation
• While you’re watching TV
Katie & I have spent weeks away from home traveling the world Egypt, Greece, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland to name a few all the while our online business continued to make money for us.
