Email me at michelle@makingsenseofcents.com or fill out the contact form below if you have any questions, tips, suggestions, partnership ideas, requests and so on. All are appreciated.

Thank you for your interest in advertising on Making Sense of Cents. On this website we blog about money, life, personal finance, goals, shopping, food, travel and everything else! I am here to talk about my journey with my finances, and I hope to help other’s along the way.

Making Sense of Cents offers all types of advertising and sponsorship, so make sure to e-mail and ask any questions that you may have.

This website was started in August of 2011 and since then has grown to have many active readers. I believe that my readers are very loyal to my blog and truly are engaged with my posts.

 

Making Sense of Cents has received several awards and/or mentions including:

1. The Motley Fool’s Women in Investing awards – Investing Blogger of 2022
2. Plutus Foundation’s 10 Best Personal Finance Blogs in 2021
3. Won Blog of the Year by the Plutus Awards at FinCon in 2016
4. Won Best Personal Finance Blog for Millennials by the Plutus Awards in 2015
5. Zillow’s Blog of the Week.
6. Top 10 Personal Finance Blogs to Watch in 2015 by BadCredit.org
7. Top Personal Finance Blog of 2012 Nominee (by One Smart Dollar and Ready for Zero)
8. I have been nominated by the Plutus Awards in both 2013 and 2014 for: Best Personal Finance Blog for Young Adults, Best Blog Contributor/Freelance Writer and Blog of the Year. For 2015, I have been nominated for Best Personal Finance Blog for Millennials as well as Blog of the Year.
9. Top College Blog
10. Bloglovin’s Top Blogs, and Up and Coming Blogs
11. 10 Best Personal Finance Bloggers To Help You With Your Money
12. Top 50 Money Saving Resources by Scratch Wireless
13. Favorite Personal Finance Blogs for Millennials by XY Planning Network
14. 25 Must-Follow Personal Finance Blogs From Around The World on Blogtrepreneur
15. Top 27 Stories of ‘Life After Debt’ by ClearPoint
16. Blogger of the Month for the site Ready for Zero.
17. One of WiseBread’s Top Personal Finance Blogs
18. eCollegeFinder’s Top Finance Blogs
19. 10 Best Inspirational Blogs for Debtors by BadCredit.org
20. 10 Personal Finance Blogs You Should Be Reading by The Frugal Cottage

 

I have been featured or mentioned on the websites below:

• CNBC’s This 33-year-old mom makes $760,000 a year in passive income—and lives on a sailboat: ‘I work just 10 hours a week’;
• Business Insider’s I only work 10 hours a week and made $4 million in revenue over the last 5 years. Here’s how I built multiple income streams and reached financial freedom;
• Time’s This Blogger Makes $2,000/Day While Sailing Her Family Around the World. How She Became Financially Independent at 30;
• Forbes’ Feature How This 27-Year-Old Made $1 Million Last Year;
• Forbes’ 6 Secrets For Getting Rich Enough To Retire Early;
• CNBC’s This 28-year-old earns over $100,000 a month blogging and traveling full-time;
• Reader’s Digest I Live in an RV Year Round. Here’s What It’s Really Like, also on MSN and Business Insider;
• Forbes This Blogger Earns Over $1 Million Per Year While Sailing;
• Forbes’ 10 Legitimate Ways To Make Money Online;
• Huffington Post Live (on-air interview);
• MSN’s How this expert paid off $40,000 in student loans in 7 months;
• Oprah’s How This Woman Created a Blog That Generates $1.5 Million a Year;
• Time’s This Woman Paid Off $40,000 in Student Loans in 7 Months. Here’s Her Secret;
• Business Insider’s 5 people reveal how they made a million dollars before turning 40;
• Elite Daily’s How To Finally Stick To A Budget When You Suck At Saving Money;
• Entrepreneur’s Why a Blog Gets You Further than an MBA;
• MSN.com’s 28-year-old blogger earns over $100,000 a month while traveling full-time;
• Huffington Post’s Can You Profit from Buying and Selling Websites? and Why I’ll Never Buy A Timeshare;
• Motley Fool’s 4 Ways to Make Up for Lost Income in 2020;
• Bigger Pockets’ Retirement Accelerator: 7 Steps to Reach Financial Independence in 5-10 Years;
• The Consumerist (twice – one time was here);
• Forbes (see here);
• Channel 3 WRCBtv’s What the Tech? Make money by blogging;
• Million Mile Secrets’ “If You Want to Reach Your Financial Goals, a Mixture of Both Frugality and Growing Your Income Is Extremely Beneficial”;
• Inc’s 11 Smart Personal Finance Blogs You Should Read This Year;
• Credit Sesame’s 5 Real Grads Share Their Extreme Student Loan Debt Payoff Stories: How They Did It;
• Well Kept Wallet’s 18 Best Debt Blogs to Help You Tackle Your Debt;
• Kiplinger’s Proven Tactics to Overcome Big Debts;
• Time’s 6 Ways You’re Cheating on Your Budget;
• Nasdaq’s 23 Reasons Why You Will Always Be Poor;
• Mic’s How to make money on Instagram and get paid for sponsored posts;
• Lifehacker (here’s one mention and here’s another);
• Apartment Therapy’s Lessons You Can Learn From People Who Paid Off Debt Quickly;
• Forbes’ 5 Steps To Building A Million-Dollar Business With No Employees;
• Living Low Key’s How Michelle Ditched Debt To Travel Full-Time;
• Forbes’ 21 Ways To Earn $100 Every Day Online;
• Yahoo! Finance (I am a regular contributor);
• Get Rich Slowly (see my guest post here);
• Amanda Abella’s 24 Best Money Bloggers Every Millennial Should Follow;
• Reuters’ Your Money: How college fast-trackers save time and money;
• Run The Money’s 8 Money Blogs To Help Keep Your Finances in Check;
• MSN’s 6 bloggers making six-figure salaries;
• The Street’s 5 Money-Saving Questions to Ask Your College Financial Aid Officer and Road Wage: Take These Key Financial Steps To Buying A New Car This Fall;
• Cosmopolitan’s 6 Useless Excuses That Keep You From Saving;
• TripAdvisor’s Travel Tips from a Digital Nomad RV-ing Across North America;
• Career Contessa’s 11 Personal Finance Resources to Successfully Manage Your Money;
• Wisebread’s How Are People Retiring in Their 30s?!;
• Lifehack (regular contributor);
• Forbes’ 12 Ways You Can Absolutely Make Money Online;
• Victoria Heckstall’s 19 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch;
• Where My Soul Belongs’ The 4 Best Blogs to Keep You Motivated About Your Financial Goals;
• Farnoosh So Money Podcast’s Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, $1MM Blogger;
• The Everygirl’s Starting Your Own Business? How to Prepare Financially;
• US News (I was mentioned here);
• The Globe and Mail’s Should well-off people shop at thrift stores?;
• Time.com’s 50 Ways to Save for Holiday Shopping;
• Business Insider (How To Pay Off $40,000 in Student Loans);
• WiseBread (one mention is here – How One Young Entrepreneur Paid Off $40,000 in Student Debt By Age 24);
• Lauren Greutman’s 6 Ways You’re Wasting Money By Trying To Save Money;
• H&R Block’s 5 Budgeting Tips For New Homeowners (regular contributor);
• Rockstar Finance;
• Entrepreneur’s How to Start a Blog and Make $100,000 a Month Before You’re 30;
• Wallet Hacks’ Millennial Money: How Five Premier Millennial Bloggers Think About Money;
• Yahoo (12 Tips to Stop Wasting Money on Food);
• Small Business Trends’ 10 Online Business Tips Suggested By Our Community;
• Mint.com (here is my interview);
• NerdWallet’s How I Ditched Debt: Making Sense of Cents;
• Daily Finance;
• Houston Chronicle’s This blogger makes $100k a month from her sailboat;
• Insider’s 14 people who turned their hobbies into million- and billion-dollar careers;
• Principles Of Increase’s 10 Women Bloggers who Retired Their Husbands;
• Investopedia’s How to Get a Personal Finance Education for Free;
• Local news What the Tech: Blogging for profit;
• XY Planning Network (see here);
• His and Her Money’s How Michelle Turned Her $0 Blog Into a Million Dollar Blog;
• MarketWatch’s Nearly 100,000 members of Generation Z own a home (they’re 23 and younger);
• GO Banking Rates (see here and here);
• The Dollar Stretcher’s Creating a Side Income in Retirement;
• ProBlogger’s How To Make Time To Grow A Successful Blog When You Have A Full-Time Job;
• CreditCards.com’s You did WHAT to pay off your debt?;
• ClearPoint (see here);
• BlogProfits Michelle Schroeder-Gardner from Making Sense of Cents;
• BankRate.com’s article 5 true tales of crazy credit card rewards buys;
• The Professional Hobo’s Financial Case Study: Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, Millionaire Blogger;
• HuffingtonPost (see here);
• Grasshopper’s article 5 Biggest Fears For Small Business Owners (And How To Fight Them);
• Well Kept Wallet (here);
• Kara and Nate’s Travel Hustle Interview: Michelle Makes Sense of Cents for Us
• Think Save Retire’s What they don’t tell you about living on the road;
• Forbes’ How To Use Technology To Own Your Finances As A Millennial;
• Retire by 40’s Why I Gave Away Nearly All Of My Belongings To Live In An RV;
• “Goodbye Sallie Mae” – Round 1 on BrightCents;
• The Debt Myth (here);
• Debt Roundup’s article The 54 Best Personal Finance Tips of 2014;
• Money Under 30’s article The Best Personal Finance Writing Of 2014;
• The Centsible Life (here);
• Forbes’ The 33 Cheapest Places To Travel In 2018;
• Inc.’s Want to Start a Freelance Business? 12 Successful Freelancers Share Their Best Advice;
• The Work At Home Woman (here and here);
• Credit.com (here);
• Be a Freelance Blogger’s 15 Real-Life Freelance Bloggers Who Prove You Can Create a Successful Business from Nothing;
• FEInternational’s How To Grow A Niche Website: Experts Reveal Secrets;
• Stacking Benjamin’s The 23 Worst Pieces of Financial Advice We’ve Ever Heard;
• The Simple Dollar’s When Enough Is Enough
• Time’s How to Make the Most Money Being a Mystery Shopper;
• Daily Finance’s What To Do When Your budget Exceeds Your Income;
• Studenomic’s The Article About Money I Wish I Read Before College (Open Letter to All Students);
• Careful Cents’ 8 Entrepreneurs Prove You Can Earn an Honest (and Lucrative) Living Online;
• The Daily Interview (here);
• MoneyTalksNews;
• CouponPal’s article Best Of The Web: Tips On Saving Money From The Pros and Interview With A Savings Expert;
• The Penny Hoarder’s How to Buy and Sell Websites: Expert Advice on Maximizing Your Profit;
• MSN Money’s 23 Reasons Why You Will Always Be Poor;
• Investment Zen’s How One Blogger Accidentally Built A $320,000/Year Income;
• allBusiness’ 5 Steps to Building a Million-Dollar Business With No Employees;
• The Wicket Wallet’s Top 25 Female Bloggers & Podcasters in Personal Finance;
• Forbes’ 9 Investments That Made Higher Returns Than Index Funds – More Than 11%;

 

Youtube and Podcast interviews:

• Jeff Rose’s She Makes $100,000 Per Month Blogging at 28 Years Old;
• Stacking Benjamins’ From Student Loan Debt to Six Figures a Month;
• The FI Show’s “Retired” at 24, Now Earning $1.5 Million Blogging;
• Zero to Travel’s  Personal Finance and Travel + Is This The Best time EVER to Travel?;
• Heath and Alyssa’s How Michelle Makes Six Figures from a Blog While Full-Time RVing;
• Adulting.tv’s Live in an RV ft. Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
• Farnoosh.tv’s So Money;
• My Wife Quit Her Job 282: Michelle Schroeder Gardner On How To Make 7 Figures With Affiliate Marketing;
• She Did It Her Way Podcast From $40,000 in Student Loan Debt to Earning $100,000 a Month;
• Cheddar’s video interview How to Make $100,000 a Month Blogging;
• Do You Even Blog’s Building a Million-Dollar Blog with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
• Become the Lion’s Creating A Million Dollar Blog with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
• Thriftylittlemom’s Secrets of Full-Time RV Living;
• Noah Kagan’s How To Grow a 7-Figure Blog;
• Simple Pin Media’s Affiliate Marketing and Pinterest: Tips and Strategies for Success;
• Millo’s From financial analyst to million-dollar blogger with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner and ‘Making Sense of Cents’;
• Jessica Moorhouse’s How to Become a Millionaire Blogger with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
• Money Peach’s Episode 062: 27 Year Old Blogger Makes $1,000,000 Per Year;
• Authority Hacker’s #86 – Turning Paying Off Student Loans Into a Million Dollar Business;
• Do You Even Hustle’s We Chat With A 7-Figure Blogger Who Lives Out Of RV!;
• SideHustleNation’s How Michelle Makes $50,000 a Month Selling Other People’s Products;
• Chain of Wealth podcast E14: Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
• New Heights Financial Planning’s Would You Live In An RV If You Made $100K A Month?;
• Heath and Alyssa’s Learning How to Make $5k/Month in Blog Revenue;
• Empower’s On the Road with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
• Daily Grind Podcast’s Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, The Million Dollar Blog;
• Fire Drill Podcast The RV Lifestyle with Michelle from Making Sense of Cents;
• Marc Guberti Scaling Up Your Own $100K/Mo Blog;
• Ryan Robinson’s From Side Project to $130,000/mo Blogging with Michelle Schroeder of Making Sense of Cents;
• Millionaires Unveiled 22: Guest Interview – $100K+ Per Month Blog;
• His and Her Money’s How Michelle Turned Her $0 Blog Into a Million Dollar Blog;
• Marriage, Kids and Money’s Building a Million Dollar Blog in Your 20’s – with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
• The Money and Media Podcast Sharing Income Reports on Your Blog a Good Thing?;
• The Off Beat Life’s How to create a million dollar blog while full time RVing;
• The Financial Grownup Podcast with Bobbi Rebell;
• Choose FI podcast 069 | Making Sense of Cents;
• Beautifully Equipped’s Talking Sense and Cents;
• The Online Course Guy’s Snowballing Blogging into an Ultra-Successful Online Course;
• Young Yet Wise’s Money Tips from Michelle who makes over 100k a month from her blog;
• TruFinancials’ She Went From $40k in Debt to Earning $100k a Month – Mindset of a Millionaire;
• Wealth Without Wall Street’s This Girl is On FIRE! How Michelle Schroeder-Gardner Went from a Cubicle to $100k a Month;
• Michelle Is Money Hungry Podcast;
• House of FI’s How Michelle Created a Seven-Figure Blog and Now Travels the World on a Sailboat;
• Freedom In A Budget’s SIDE HUSTLE | Michelle Went From $40k in Debt to Earning $100k a Month | Mindset of a Millionaire;
• Paychecks & Balances Part-Time Hobby to Million Dollar Business;
• Popcorn Finance’s Life on a Boat;
• Lessons From a Quitter’s How Michelle Schroeder-Gardner makes millions blogging while traveling the world;
• Journey To Launch’s Making 6 Figures Online & Living a Location Independent Lifestyle To Work & Live From Wherever You Want;

 

Statistics and Numbers

In the past couple of months, my average amount of unique visitors amount to over 300,000 per month, with monthly page views being over 500,000. I also have 140,000 e-mail subscribers, 19,000 Twitter followers, 28,000 Instagram followers, 8,000 Bloglovin followers, and 100,000 Facebook likes.

If you are interested in advertising, Making Sense of Cents has a:

• Domain Authority of 60
• Page Authority of 55
• Alexa score of 40,000

 

E-mail me at michelle@makingsenseofcents.com