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15+ Deals For Bloggers And Those Starting A Work From Home Business

Last Updated: November 26, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 1 Comment

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Hey!

The deals have started.

Today, I have created a Black Friday and Cyber Monday roundup of the best deals that I have found.

Some of the deals will help you grow via Pinterest, learn about SEO, make money blogging, add legal templates to your blog, start your own course, become a virtual assistant or proofreader, and more.

The resources included here are all my favorites!

And, as I come across new deals and discounts, I’ll be sure to add the details to this roundup as well.

Blogging Resources

The many blogging resources below will help you to grow your blog.

Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing – 20% off!

Want to learn how I went from $0 in affiliate income to over $50,000 per month? There are over 9,000 students in my course, with great results!

Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing is a step-by-step guide to creating and making money from your own affiliate marketing strategy. This course explains all of the ins and outs, so you are never left wondering where to go next when creating and implementing your affiliate marketing strategy.

You can use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY21 or simply click here to take advantage of this deal on the full payment. It starts today and ends on Monday night (November 29th) at 11:59 pm.

Making Sense of Sponsored Posts – 20% off!

Learn how we made our first blogging income, and how we now regularly earn over $10,000 a month with sponsored partnerships!

Making Sense of Sponsored Posts is a step-by-step guide to creating and making money from your own successful sponsored partnership strategy. This course explains all the ins and outs of sponsored posts and working with brands.

You can use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY21 or simply click here to take advantage of this deal on the full payment. It starts today and ends on Monday night at 11:59 pm.

Pinterest Traffic Avalanche – 25% off!

This is my TOP recommended course for anyone who wants to learn all about Pinterest.

You’ll learn how to set up your Pinterest profile, automate with pin scheduling, how to create eye catching customized images for Pinterest, use Pinterest for email collection, and more.

You can use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY2021 and simply click here to take advantage of this deal. It starts today and ends on Monday night at 11:59 pm.

Want to learn SEO or improve your Amazon strategies?

If you want to learn about SEO and grow your blog, I recommend the books and courses for bloggers below.

There are three different deals that you can take advantage of:

Easy SEO Ravamp – $30 off (use code BLACKFRIDAY30)
Journey to the Center of Amazon – $30 off (use code BLACKFRIDAY30)
Easy On Page SEO + Easy Backlinks For SEO [Bundle] – $20 off (use code BLACKFRIDAY20)

These deals start today and end on Monday night (November 29th).

Launch Your Blog Biz – 25% off

This course will teach you how to make your first $1,000 per month blogging.

You’ll learn how to master WordPress, design your blog, create content, get readers to your blog, make money blogging, and more.

You can use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY2021 and simply click here to take advantage of this deal. It starts today and ends on Monday night at 11:59 pm PST.

Six Figure Blogger – 25% off

This course will teach you how to earn six figures with your blog from digital products and services.

This is a highly recommended course and I personally know bloggers who have seen success after taking this valuable course.

You can use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY2021 and simply click here to take advantage of this deal. It starts today and ends on Monday night at 11:59 pm PST.

Start your own course – Up to 58% off

Have you been wanting to create your own course?

I use Teachable for my two courses, and I highly recommend using their platform.

Plus, they are having a great Black Friday deal of up to 58%.

This deal starts today and ends Tuesday, November 30th at 11:59pm ET. Simply click here to take advantage of these Black Friday deals.

Start your blog for less than $32

Right now, you can start a blog for just $2.65 per month, for 12 months, through Bluehost. You will also receive a free blog domain through my link too.

This deal starts today and ends Monday night, November 29th.

Simply click here to get the low price + free domain name deal.

Website Legal Templates Bundle – 25% off + Bonuses

I have received so many questions over the years about legal templates, and this is what I recommend using.

With the Website Legal Templates Bundle, you can protect your blog with a privacy policy, terms and conditions, and disclosures and disclaimers.

25% discount on the Website Legal Templates Bundle with a bonus of all the legal sessions from the Blogger Breakthrough Summit (topics include: copyright and trademark, hiring freelancers from California, the importance of terms and conditions, email marketing & GDPR).

Simply click here to take advantage of this deal. It starts on Friday, November, 26th and ends on Monday, November 29th at 11:59 pm PST.

Make more money blogging – up to 30% off these resources

My friend Lena is having a huge sale on her blogging resources. If you want to learn how to increase your page views, maximize your blog earnings, and more, these resources are all super helpful!

Simply use the coupon code 30DEAL on the blogging resources below and you can get 30% off.

This sale starts today and runs through Cyber Monday (November 29th).

Home Business Ideas

In this section, I have included deals for starting a new home business. Enjoy!

Become a virtual assistant – $200 off

Want to learn how to become a virtual assistant?

My friend Kayla teaches you exactly how to make a consistent $10,000 per month as a virtual assistant.

From Friday, November 26th to Monday, November 29th at 11:59 pm CT, the Black Friday deal on this virtual assistant course is that you can enroll in $10K VA for $200 off! Enroll with code BLACKFRIDAY2021 at check out!

Become a transcriptionist and work from home

Transcription is when you turn audio or video into text.

There are many businesses looking for transcriptionists too – since general transcriptionists convert audio and video to text for virtually any industry, there really isn’t a typical client. Some examples of clients include marketers, authors, filmmakers, academics, speakers, and conferences of all types.

Beginning transcriptionists earn around $15 an hour to start, and many jobs don’t require any previous experience.

Starting today and ending at midnight on Cyber Monday, you can get 60% off the Transcribe Anywhere course. This is a great deal!

Find proofreading jobs – 60% off

If you want to learn how to become a proofreader, now is the time. The Proofread Anywhere courses are on sale for a huge discount this weekend.

General Proofreading: Theory & Practice – This is normally $597, but it’s on sale today for only $238.80.
Transcript Proofreading: Theory & Practice – This is normally $1,174, but it’s on sale today for only $469.60.

Starting today and ending at midnight on Cyber Monday, you can get up to 60% off of the Proofread Anywhere courses.

I hope you enjoyed this list of deals and found at least one that suits you well.

Enjoy!

How I’ve Made $80,000 Selling Blogs

Last Updated: November 12, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 3 Comments

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Hello! Here’s a great article from Dale. Dale has made $80,000 selling blogs. Today, she is going to talk about how much you can sell a blog for, the best ways to make money blogging, where to sell a blog, and more. Enjoy!

Hi, I’m Dale, and I’m the founder of Blogging Her Way. I started blogging over four years ago as a way to get clients for my web design business.

Pretty soon, I realized I enjoyed the blogging side of things a lot more than web design!

I enjoyed blogging so much that I started and sold four additional blogs on the side over the course of three years. While I enjoyed what I wrote about on Blogging Her Way, I wanted to have an outlet to write about other topics I was interested in too.

So I started blogs in the travel, lifestyle, and college niches. I was able to successfully monetize and sell all four blogs that I started, earning over $80,000 between selling the blogs and what I earned from them before I sold them.

Here’s a look at the blogs I started and sold:

Blog A: Sold for $4,000 profit, earned $5,600 total from blog (lifestyle)
Blog B: Sold for $1,800 profit, earned $2,450 total from blog (travel)
Blog C: Sold for $17,600 profit, earned $27,250 total from blog (college)
Blog D: Sold for $18,250 profit, earned $44,500 total from blog (travel)

I did all of this working very part-time on my blogs. I would estimate that I never spent more than 5-10 hours a week working on the blogs that I sold.

For most of the blogs, I only actively worked on them for two to six months.

Selling blogs can be a great side hustle or a way to add an additional source of income to your current blogging business.

If you’re interested in learning how to make money selling blogs, read on for my best tips! [Read more…]

How My Blog Made $59,977 in Affiliate Income In One Year

Last Updated: October 30, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 4 Comments

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Hello! Today I have a great article to share from Jorden Makelle, owner of Writing Revolt. Jorden is a student of my Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing course, and today Jorden is going to share how she made $59,977.50 through affiliate marketing on her blog in one year. If you do not have a blog yet, I recommend joining my free How To Start A Blog course. Enjoy!

When I started my blog in late 2015, I barely knew what affiliate marketing was.

But when I learned that I could help my audience and create an extra income stream for myself just by promoting products I already used and loved, I realized…

It was a win-win situation!

So, I went all in.

These days, I’m able to bring in a steady revenue stream from affiliate marketing. In fact, my affiliate marketing efforts in one year – from July 2019 to July 2020 – resulted in about $59,000 in revenue.

Just as important, my audience is able to benefit from my recommendations, and I get to watch them succeed with the help of the same awesome products I’ve used to grow my business over the years!

Now, if you’re reading this as a beginner blogger, you may be wondering:

“How large of an audience do I need to achieve this?”

…And you’ll be relieved to know that you don’t need massive monthly traffic numbers or a huge audience to succeed.

During the year I made about $59,000 with affiliate marketing, my total blog pageviews were only around 30,000 to 40,000 per month! I’m living proof that you can succeed with a smaller audience.

What you do need is to follow the step-by-step process I’m outlining in this blog post, and with some focused time and effort, you’ll find you can achieve affiliate marketing success too! [Read more…]

Lasso Review – How To Make More Affiliate Income

Last Updated: October 20, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 1 Comment

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The below is a partnership with Lasso. All opinions are 100% my own in this Lasso review. Enjoy!

Back in 2016, I launched my affiliate marketing for bloggers course, Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing. As an affiliate marketing expert, I have received many questions about the best WordPress plugin for affiliate marketing management.

Over the years, I’ve always gone for simplicity and simply used PrettyLinks. But, now, there are so many more robust options that have proven to be much more effective and helpful so that you can make more money blogging.

Due to that, I am trying out a new option that I’ve heard great things about – Lasso.

Whether you are looking for something else to try, or if you’re a new blogger, Lasso is a popular affiliate marketing plugin for bloggers.

Lasso is a WordPress plugin that helps affiliate marketers boost through click-through-rate and simplifies affiliate link management.

I’m a little embarrassed to say that I’ve waited so long to try something new, especially as someone who runs an affiliate marketing course.

But, I’m excited to see how this will help conversion rates and improve Making Sense of Cents and my blogging business.

Today, I will be talking about what Lasso is, the valuable features that are included, the price, and my overall thoughts on this affiliate marketing WordPress plugin. [Read more…]

How To Get $6,309 of Blogging Resources For Only $97

Last Updated: September 28, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 3 Comments

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This deal has now passed, but I have other content you may be interested in:

Enjoy!

How I grew my blog to 100,000 monthly page views in 8 months

Last Updated: September 17, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 15 Comments

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Hello! Today, I have a great article to share from a reader, Madeline, on how she grew her blog to 100,000 monthly pageviews. Enjoy!

Is blogging really worth it? Can you actually make good money blogging? Can you get lots of pageviews without paying for ads?

These are all questions I used to search on Google a few years ago, in my attempt to grow that successful blog I had been dreaming of.

Hi, I’m Madeline, a toddler mum based in the UK, and I run the blog CappuccinoandFashion.com. I write about blogging strategies and social media tips on my blog, as well as fashion inspiration on my Instagram page.

I never knew blogging could be a full-time job when I first started. I simply had a passion for it and I really loved reading other people’s blogs, so I decided to give it a go myself.

I started my blog over 8 years ago as a simple hobby and back then it was more of a personal style diary type of blog. Needless to say, it didn’t really grow at first at all because I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t really know about any strategies that would get me traffic or rank my posts in Google search. [Read more…]

How I Grew a Travel Blog to 100,000 Monthly Readers

Last Updated: September 3, 2021 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 10 Comments

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Hello! Today, I have a great guest post to share from Alex Kroeger from ViaTravelers about how they grew a travel blog to 100,000 monthly pageviews in less than 12 months. Enjoy!

If you read travel articles or follow travelers on social media, chances are you’ve deliberated about starting your very own travel blog. But, of course, the daily grind of a desk job makes us daydream sometimes. But that dream can be a reality!

If you travel for your hobby, you likely have a pretty easy way to monetize your hobby. You don’t need to travel full-time to make money from travel blogging. You can do it even if you only travel sparingly.

When you travel, you likely build a massive repository of photos, food experiences, hotel experiences, lessons learned, frustrations and so much more. These memories make for an excellent way to journal your memories, document them and make some money along the way.

Why not put some of these memories to work and earn from passive income (at the very least) along the way?

Who knows? It may just turn into a full fledged online business…

Don’t let the existence of literally thousands of such blogs discourage you from starting your own. With the right tricks up your sleeve and a true passion to see the world, you can turn your blog into a real money maker. There will come a time when you can finance your travels through that very blog. [Read more…]