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How To Create and Set Up Your Custom Blog Email Address

Last Updated: October 30, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 1 Comment

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Want to learn how to create and set up your blog email? Here’s how you can create a professional email for your blog domain.

Do you want your own custom email address for your business? For example, mine is [email protected]

If you want something other than [email protected], and something more professional, this is something that you can easily do too.

In fact, I recommend that all business owners do this.

When it comes to creating your website, having a business email is important because it helps create a professional image as well as builds trust for your business.

Today, I will show you exactly how to do this, either free with Bluehost, or paid through G Suite. Either way is easy and I highly recommend choosing one of them.

If you haven’t started a blog yet, I recommend first starting with my tutorial – How To Start A WordPress Blog. [Read more…]

How To Launch Your Website in WordPress

Last Updated: October 30, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - Leave a Comment

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Are you wondering how to launch your website in WordPress?

Perhaps you have the “Coming soon” message still on your homepage, and you’re not sure how to get rid of it.

No worries, this is extremely easy to do and is simply just a few clicks.

In today’s tutorial, I will show you how to launch your website in WordPress.

If you haven’t started a blog yet, I recommend first starting with my tutorial – How To Start A WordPress Blog.

Related content on how to create a blog:

How to launch your website in WordPress.

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How To Write and Publish Your First Blog Post On WordPress

Last Updated: October 16, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 1 Comment

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After you have created your blog, you may be wondering what to do next. Today, I’m going to teach you how to publish a blog post on WordPress.

If you’re new to blogging and/or WordPress, then learning all of the little steps can be intimidating at first. However, that is completely normal!

Blogging is new to most people, so there will be things that you have to learn. I don’t consider myself very “techy” and I still managed to learn, haha.

If you haven’t started a blog yet, I recommend first starting with my tutorial – How To Start A WordPress Blog.

Once you have designed your website, you’re probably going to start wanting to publish some blog posts. No worries, though, this is easy!

With the easy steps below, you will learn how to publish a blog post on your new blog. [Read more…]

What You Need To Know About Affiliate Marketing For Beginners + How 17 Bloggers Earned Their First Affiliate Income

Last Updated: March 8, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 16 Comments

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Are you interested in learning about affiliate marketing for beginners?

Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular ways to monetize your blog because it’s somewhat passive, and it’s something that can truly help your readers when done well.

That’s why, today, I want to talk about affiliate marketing for beginners. I’m going to start with some background on myself, why I love affiliate marketing, what affiliate marketing is, and how you can get started.

I’m also sharing what other bloggers have to say about affiliate marketing. I asked bloggers who took my Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing course to answer a few questions, such as:

When they started their blog
When they earned their first affiliate income (how long it took them to earn it, how much it was for, and how they felt)
Their top tip for bloggers trying to get their first affiliate sale.

Their answers are super motivating, and I am so excited to share them all with you. [Read more…]

How I grew my blog to over 80,000 page views a month in 14 months

Last Updated: February 19, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 17 Comments

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Today, I have a great guest post to share from Steph from the Debt Free Family. She is sharing her blogging journey from the start until now, and how she built her traffic to 80,000 page views a month. Enjoy!

A little over a year ago, I decided to start a blog.

In that time, it’s grown from 0 visitors to over 80,000 page views a month. I’ve been able to go part time in my day job and I’m now earning more from my blog than I do at work which feels fantastic, and so I’m super excited to share with you how I did it!

Hi everyone, I’m Steph Addison, mum of 3, and I own Debt Free Family, where I write about anything to do with family finances, whether it’s savings, increasing your income or budgeting.

For the longest time, we never had any money.

There was never enough left towards the end of the month (or usually about half way through it!) and we spent way too many years not understanding why we were always broke.

Cars were financed, holidays went on credit cards (because how else would you pay, right?!) budgeting didn’t exist in our world and honestly…we didn’t give it a second thought. [Read more…]

How I Make Money On TikTok – How I Grew To 350,000 Followers and Made $60,000 In 6 Weeks

Last Updated: April 17, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 12 Comments

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Do you want to learn how to make money on TikTok and how to get paid on TikTok? Here’s how Tori grew from 0 to 350,000 TikTok followers and made $60,000 in just 6 weeks.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have probably heard something about TikTok. TikTok is one of the most popular social media networks currently, and it is growing like crazy.

There are already over 500 million active monthly users on TikTok around the world.

So, you may be wondering if you can learn how to make money on TikTok, and any TikTok tips so that you can see success too.

That completely makes sense!

Today, I want to introduce you to Tori Dunlap.

Tori Dunlap is a nationally-recognized millennial money and career expert. After saving $100,000 at age 25, Tori quit her corporate job in marketing and founded Her First $100K. She has helped over 200,000 women negotiate salary, pay off debt, build savings, and invest. [Read more…]

9 Things I Love and Have Learned After 9 Years Of Blogging

Last Updated: December 22, 2020 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 58 Comments

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I still remember the month I started my blog. I don’t really remember the exact first day, but I remember the first month and how excited I was.

In August of 2011, I started Making Sense of Cents.

That was exactly 9 years ago!

Back then, I had no idea what I was doing, and I also had no goals for my blog.

I didn’t even really know what a blog was, or that they could make money.

I also didn’t even like to write at that time!

In the past 9 years, so much has changed for me.

It’s crazy to think that I started my blog nine years ago, especially when I consider all of the amazing things it has done for my life.

It was something I started and worked on in addition to my full-time day job as a financial analyst, and around two years after I started this blog, I quit my day job to blog full-time.

Some numbers on Making Sense of Cents:

My first blog post was published on August 10, 2011. You can read it here.
I have published 1,878 articles here on Making Sense of Cents. That number was higher about a month ago, but I recently deleted several hundred articles that I thought weren’t good enough.
I have 70,816 comments on my blog posts.
I’ve personally replied to 21,080 comments.
It took me 6 months to earn my first $100 from Making Sense of Cents.

First, a little backstory on how I began. [Read more…]

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