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How I Made $781.88 In July 2018 Blogging
How I Made $12,379.67 Blogging In May 2019
How I Made Over $30,000+ Blogging In May 2020
$781.88
IN JULY 2018
$12,379.67
IN MAY 2019
$30,000+
IN MAY 2020
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Amelia Theme
This was my exact theme (actually, as of October 2020, my website is now custom designed but I used the Amelia theme by 17th Avenue for three years before that!).
My Favorite Website Themes
From 17th Avenue
Magnolia Theme
If you want clean and crisp, these magnolia theme is the theme for you. I love that it has two menus, just like the Amelia theme but has a little different layout.
Audrey Theme
Audrey has personality to spare and so will your blog! This is the theme I use in Perfecting Blogging and Perfecting Pinterest as an example.
Eek! I love 17th Avenue Designs! They are who designed my first website and they have the best WordPress themes at such good prices.
They have so many options to choose from and I have so many readers who have also used them and have had great experiences.
I paid for them to install my website for me because I was scared I was going to mess something up but you definitely don't have to if you are technology savvy ;).
My blog is run through a self-hosted WordPress blog and it's the only way I recommend to do it! I do not recommend Blogger, Wix, Square Space, etc. Only WordPress! You can find out why I feel so strongly about this on my How To Start A Blog post!
If you're looking to start a WordPress blog for cheap, Bluehost is the way you do it. When I started my blog, I used Bluehost as my host and paid less than $4 dollars a month. It's rated one of the best hosting companies and I recommend it to all my readers who want to start a blog. I give you all the details on how to set up your blog with WordPress and Bluehost on this post: How To Start A Blog.
I wouldn't have grown my blog to be making so much money monthly if it wasn't for Bluehost.
ActiveCampaign is what I currently use to do all my emails. As my email list has grown, we needed a more intensive email system than ConvertKit (what we were previously using) so we switched to ActiveCampaign. It's similar in price for us but offers sooo much more. The customer service has been incredible and the features it offers are amazing.
We did a ton of research on the best email providers - we really wanted one that gave us the ability to make our emails look pretty but also have all the features (and more) that ConvertKit had. ActiveCampaign was by far the most recommended and now we know why! We love it so far.
1. Wordpress
I use Thrive Suite to create every single blog post on my website. If you look at my blog posts, it's easy to see that they are very organized and have more features than the basic WordPress editor allows. This is all because of Thrive Suite (specifically the Thrive Architect tool). With the Thrive Suite license, you can actually get a fully customizable WordPress theme and an entire toolkit of conversion-focused plugins to create your blog which makes it so much easier than having to code your website or keep it super basic looking.
I would HIGHLY recommend checking out their website and watching the video they have that shows you all that it can do - it is awesome.
It is EXTREMELY important that you are making sure your blog is legal, and I use all of A Self Guru products to do this.
Amira, at A Self Guru, is a lawyer who creates products for bloggers like privacy policies, disclaimers, terms and conditions, and more. She sells them at a very reasonable price and has it set up so that you can make it custom for your own website. I personally purchased the Legal Bundle and had a private meeting with her to look over my website.
LeadPages is what I use to make all my email opt-ins, pop ups, and landing pages.
This is totally worth it for me because I love everything to look so beautiful on my website and LeadPages has been a huge contributor to me growing my email list to as big as it has become.
2. Bluehost
3. Activecampaign
4. Thrive suite
5. LEGAL BUNDLE
6. LEADPAGES
I get all my stock images from Deposit Photo.
I either take my own photos, get permission to use photos, or get my photos from Deposit Photo. It is the cheapest stock photo website with GOOD photos that I have been able to find. I've been using their images for more than two years now!
7. DEPOSIT PHOTOS
This is a list of my all-time favorite products that I would buy a million times again. These are my holy-grail products and things I recommend to everyone.
My Best Blogging Recommendations
This was the first course I ever purchased!!
I think when I first took this course I only had like three posts written. Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing is written by Michelle Schroeder-Gardner who is a blogging GENIUS and made over $1,500,000 (yep, MILLION) on her blog in 2018. Yeah, you read that right.
She makes majority of her money from affiliate marketing and her course goes over the exact techniques she used to bring her blog to make that much money.
Do I think this course was worth it? Yes, definitely. I started my blog in September 2017 and by October 2017, I made $300 from affiliate marketing techniques from her course.
In October 2018, just one year later, I earned over $3,400 dollars in one month just from affiliate marketing (can be seen in the January 2019 income report). About 50% of my blogging income each month comes from affiliate marketing.
List Love Masterclass
List Love Masterclass goes over all things email list building!
Okay, I have to tell you how crazy good this girl is and why I bought this course. Jennifer Maker (the women who wrote this course) built a list of over 70,000 subscribers (which is really freakin' good) in less than two years.
BUT WAIT, it gets better. In 2018, she made over $25,000 in two days selling a product just to her email list.
She has a free mini-course that I would also highly recommend.
My Favorite Blogging Courses
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I am a HUGE believer in taking blogging courses. I truly believe the only reason I have found success so quickly is because I have enrolled in blogging courses and followed them exactly from the leaders in the blogging world.
79+ Juicy Blog Post Ideas
One of the most important parts of a blog post is choosing a title that will convert. That seems hard, but it's really EASY (especially with a printable like this that gives you all the ideas!). These are proven blog post titles that will get you traffic to your blog.
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FREE PRINTABLES
The boulevardier Tiktok guide
56+ Juicy Blog Post Ideas
Trust fund gluten-free scenester PBR&B hot chicken. Poke try-hard vegan pop-up. Banh mi meggings before they sold out.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation. Based in New York City & Los Angeles, available for travel.