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15+ Crazy Deals For Bloggers and Those Wanting To Work From Home

Last Updated: December 1, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 3 Comments

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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now over, so I have removed the deals as they are outdated.

If you are looking for freebies, I have listed free courses and resources below:

Enjoy!

What Is A Blog, How Do Blogs Make Money, & More

Last Updated: November 23, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 17 Comments

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What is a blog and how does it work? Can you really make money blogging? How much do bloggers make?

Over the years, I have received many questions about blogging. People want to know what is a blog, how they work, is it really a way for people to make money, and so on.

I completely understand all of the questions. While blogging has now been around for more than a decade, it’s still a fairly new way to earn money. I still have people give me funny looks when I tell them what I do for a living.

But, I didn’t really know what a blog was when I first started mine. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.

I didn’t know how people made money from blogs or anything else like that.

Pretty much everything I learned about blogging was through trial and error, and I made a lot of mistakes over the years, haha! Honestly, it’s because of those mistakes that I’m where I am right now.

My life has completely changed because of blogging. I was able to quit a job I didn’t love, I travel full-time, and I can retire pretty much whenever I want.

It’s funny to think about how far I’ve come, especially since I had no idea what blogs even were. [Read more…]

How To Invest in Real Estate Through Publicly Traded REITs

Last Updated: November 21, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 4 Comments

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This guest contribution is by Ben Reynolds and Samuel Smith of Sure Dividend. You may remember Ben from his other guest posts – How I Became A Successful Dividend Growth Investor and Reaching Early Retirement Through Dividend Growth Investing. REITs are a topic that come up often with Making Sense of Cents readers, so I’m glad the experts at Sure Dividend are talking about this subject today. Enjoy!

Ben Reynolds with Sure Dividend here. Sure Dividend is focused on helping individual investors build high quality dividend growth portfolios.

And to that end I wanted to inform Making Sense of Cents readers about the opportunity for investors to invest in real estate in a diversified manner through Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).

We started covering REITs in detail at Sure Dividend back in 2016 because they have unique characteristics that make them a compelling choice for investors looking for current income and income growth.

Our audience at Sure Dividend was interested in learning more about REITs, so we did our research.

I learned how REITs are required by law to pay out at least 90% of their income to their shareholders.

That’s a powerful concept that means REITs share the vast majority of what they make with investors. [Read more…]

How To Meal Prep On A Budget: 10 Great Recipes To Try

Last Updated: November 23, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 2 Comments

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Would you like to learn how to meal prep on a budget?

Planning healthy and satisfying meals week after week can get exhausting.

Having a family, a full-time job, a side hustle, etc. makes it even more challenging to cook during the week.

I know I have fallen into that rut before, and many times I would end up eating something unhealthy or spending more money on takeout or restaurant food.

If you do that too many times a week, you can end up easily spending an extra hundred dollars or more on food each week. And, even though we all know it’s more expensive to go out to eat, making dinner at home can feel like a lot of extra work.

That is what I love about meal prepping – you do all of the work in advance. You can spend one afternoon or evening cooking your meals, then you divide them into containers, and they are ready to go for the week. [Read more…]

User Interviews Review – Make $50 To $100 An Hour Sharing Your Opinion

Last Updated: November 16, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 6 Comments

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Welcome to my User Interviews review!

If you are searching for paid online studies, then I have a great website for you to learn more about today – User Interviews.

There are many consumer research companies that pay people like you and me to share their opinions. Companies then use these opinions and feedback to improve their products and services.

Pinterest, Spotify, Macy’s, Home Depot, Trip Advisor, and more use User Interviews to gather feedback from users about their latest products, apps, and websites. In exchange, participants make $50 to $100 per hour or more for sharing their opinions and feedback.

This User Interviews review is going to explain what this site is, how it works, and how you can earn extra money by sharing your opinions – which is one of the things I did in order to make extra money to quickly pay off my student loan debt.

Back when I was paying off my student loans, I did a lot of things to make extra money – I sold items on eBay, managed social media for companies, mystery shopped, and took paid online studies. [Read more…]

If You Live In California, You Can Make Extra Money By Cutting Your Electricity Use

Last Updated: November 30, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 7 Comments

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Are you looking to make extra money and cut back on your electricity use? Here is my OhmConnect review that will help you do just that. I have partnered with OhmConnect and I will be talking about if OhmConnect is legitimate and safe, average OhmConnect earnings, and more.

If you live in California, I found a really easy opportunity to save some extra money.

If you’re a California resident, you can earn hundreds of dollars a year by connecting your utility account to OhmConnect. All you have to do is agree to help reduce your electricity usage one hour per week.

Here’s a quick summary on OhmConnect – OhmConnect is a free service that rewards California residents for saving electricity with PayPal cash or gift cards. You receive a notification about once per week to save energy for an hour. If you save energy, you receive cash.

Not only are you helping the environment, which is OhmConnect’s mission, you are also able to make some extra money.

The average OhmConnect member earns between $100 to $300 each year. And, some users have earned over $2,000 in their first year.

It is extremely easy to use OhmConnect too! [Read more…]

How I Grew From 0 Subscribers To Over $100,000 On YouTube In Less Than One Year

Last Updated: November 11, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 15 Comments

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Do you want to learn how to get started on YouTube and how to start a YouTube channel for beginners? Here’s how Erika went from 0 subscribers to over $100,000 on YouTube in less than one year.

Everyone has heard of YouTube, and pretty much everyone has watched at least one YouTube video in their life.

In fact, according to YouTube, there are over 2 billion users who watch at least one video on YouTube each month.

That is a ton of people!

If you’re interested in starting a YouTube channel, then please read further.

Today, I want to introduce you to Erika Kullberg.

Erika Kullberg is a nationally-recognized personal finance expert and has been featured in Business Insider, CNBC, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post and more. Her personal finance YouTube channel has grown to over 70,000 subscribers and 4 million views in less than a year.

Yes, this means that it is not too late to get started on YouTube!

I asked Erika to take part in an interview on Making Sense of Cents about her growth on YouTube. [Read more…]

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