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My Complete List of Monthly Expenses for a Multi Million Dollar Blog

September 20, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 58 Comments

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In all of my monthly blogging income reports, I share not only my income but also my monthly expenses. I usually don't dive too far into my business expenses, as they don’t vary much month to month.

I earn over $100,000 a month through my blogging business, as you can read from my monthly blogging income reports. Here's a detailed report of my expenses. But, today, I am going to go deeper into my monthly business expenses so that you can see exactly what it takes to run my blog each month.

Now to run a successful blogging or online business, your expenses may be different than mine. And, you definitely don't need to spend a lot of money with a new blog – I certainly wasn’t in the beginning.

I created Making Sense of Cents six years ago, and since then, I have earned over $1,500,000 with my blog and around $979,000 in just 2016 alone.

When I first started my blog, I spent almost NOTHING on blogging expenses. In fact, I probably went a few years where I was only spending about 1%-2% of my revenues on blogging expenses.

The funny thing is that I created my blog on a whim after reading about a personal finance website in a magazine. At first, it was just a hobby to track my own personal finance progress. And, when I started in 2011, not only did I spend very little on my blogging expenses, I honestly didn’t even know that people could make money blogging! [Read more…]

Make Extra Income By Playing Games On Your Phone ($100 gift card giveaway ends Oct.3rd)

September 19, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 2 Comments

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The following is a sponsored post about appKarma, and written by me (Michelle).

I recently heard about appKarma, and it's something I think that you, my readers, should learn about too. After all, we are always looking for ways to earn extra income, and this looks like an easy one!

To put it simply, appKarma is a company that pays you to try out different apps and games on your cell phone. You can then turn the points you earn towards PayPal cash and gift cards like Amazon, iTunes, and many more.

AppKarma will be giving away $100 worth of gift cards. See below for details. [Read more…]

How I Made $135,110 In August 2017 Blogging

September 13, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 55 Comments

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Welcome to August 2017's business income report where I show you how I made money online last month. It's time to look at this month's update and see how I did.

If you're new to Making Sense of Cents, you may be wondering why I would want to publish my income report each month. You can simply skip to the next section if you're not new here.

This all started out as my extra income report because in the beginning, it was all about the money I was earning from my side jobs. In my side income reports from the beginning, I included all of the income I made except for what I made at my day job.

However, I left my day job as a financial analyst in October of 2013 and now my monthly income reports consist of the many ways I earn a living.

Many have asked why I would ever want to publicly post my income each month. Some think I'm crazy, whereas some are glad I'm open about what I'm doing. Whatever you think, I enjoy publishing my monthly online income reports and I share them publicly for three main reasons: [Read more…]

How I’ve Earned $434,698+ From One Online Course Without Webinars Or Spending Money On Advertising

August 30, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 51 Comments

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I launched my first and only online course in July of 2016. In the first year of running the course, I earned approximately $434,698. Here's how I did it! I launched my first and (so far) only online course in July of 2016. After only one year of running the course, I earned approximately $434,698.

This was without a single webinar, any guest posts, a “launch” period, or anything else. It's an evergreen course that has mainly spread through word-of-mouth.

While it’s been incredibly successful, that doesn't mean that creating an online course has come easy to me.

I was very nervous when creating Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing. It's my first and only product that I've ever sold, and like all online course creators, I was afraid that no one would want it.

I knew that creating this online course would be a lot of work – it still is! I was also afraid of what I was getting myself into because creating a blogging course was such a foreign concept to me.

PLUS, I had numerous people tell me that your first product usually ends up being a dud. I really didn't want to waste a ton of time creating something that could basically fail. [Read more…]

How I Made $110,897.33 In July 2017 Blogging

August 16, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 71 Comments

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Welcome to July 2017's business income report where I show you how I made money online last month. It's time to look at this month's update and see how I did.

Here's how this blogger earned $110,897.33 blogging in one month, all while working for herself and from the comfort of her home. Plus, she has built a great system that allows her to work less than 10 hours per week! If you're new to Making Sense of Cents, you may be wondering why I would want to publish my income report each month. You can simply skip to the next section if you're not new here.

However, I left my day job as a financial analyst in October of 2013 and now my monthly income reports consist of the many ways I earn a living.

7+ Ways To Make $500 By The Weekend

August 9, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 31 Comments

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Making extra money doesn't have to be impossible. In fact, you can even learn how to make money this weekend! Too many people throw away the idea of making extra money because they think it's difficult, will take too much time, or that it’s just not possible.

However, there are things you can do to start making money in one day or over the weekend!

Sometimes unexpected expenses come up and you need to find ways to make money fast. Maybe it’s a car repair, something broke in your home, you forgot about a bill that needs to be paid soon, or something else.

Perhaps you need extra income and all you have left is the weekend to earn it by.

It is important to have an emergency fund for these types of expenses, but there are still times when you may need to find ways to make money fast.

After all, things come up and sometimes you may not have the cash on hand to cover those expenses. Or, maybe you just don't want to dip into your savings and would like to see what you can do to quickly make some money instead. [Read more…]

How I Made $121,861.28 In June While Sailing to Beautiful Islands

July 10, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 66 Comments

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Here's how Michelle made over $120,000 in one month from her blog. She did this while on vacation for most of the month too! Welcome to June 2017's business income report where I show you how I made money online last month. It's time to look at this month's update and see how I did.

If you're new to Making Sense of Cents, you may be wondering why I would want to publish my income report each month. You can simply skip to the next section if you're not new here.

However, I left my day job as a financial analyst in October of 2013 and now my monthly income reports consist of the many ways I earn a living.

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