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How I Made $131,448.35 Last Month While Traveling Full-Time

May 10, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 73 Comments

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Welcome to April'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 I made $131,448.35 in April of 2017 while traveling full-time. Making money blogging is something that has completely changed my life. 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 To Spot Work From Home Job Scams And Avoid Them At All Costs

April 26, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 36 Comments

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You probably see work from home job scams all the time. Scroll to the comment section of any popular article and you'll see “Work from home and make $1,000,000 in the first 5 minutes!” Or, “Do nothing all day and make $5,000!”

Do you know the differences between work from home job scams and legitimate work from home jobs? Here are my tips to find real online jobs from home! You can find work from home job scams all over the place – in your email inbox, phone calls to your home, online articles and more.

Sadly, many of these work from home jobs are actually scams.

Now, this doesn't mean that every online job is a scam.

There are many, many legitimate work from home jobs. Many of them are great and allow you to work from home, earn a good living, be your own boss, and more. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 24% of employed people did some or all of their work at home in 2015. This number is growing, and it doesn't even include self-employed people! In fact, according to Forbes, one in five Americans work from home, and this is a statistic from 2013. I'm sure this number has grown significantly in the past 4 years.

However, you should always be careful because there are probably 10 work from home job scams for every legitimate one. [Read more…]

How I Successfully Built A $1,000,000+ Blog

April 19, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 77 Comments

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Are you interested in learning how to make money blogging and how to start a blog? Read below to learn exactly how I built a $1,000,000 blog.

Here's how to make money blogging so that you can stay at home and how I've built a $1,000,000 blog. I have earned over $1,500,000 with my blog and around $979,000 in just 2016 alone. Here are my ideas, how to make extra cash in this business with a blogging website. I created Making Sense of Cents almost six years ago, and since then, I have earned over $1,500,000 with my blog and around $979,000 in just 2016 alone.

Blogging changed my life for the better and it allows me to earn thousands of dollars a month, all by doing something that I love.

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, I honestly didn't even know that people could make money blogging!

My interest in blogging quickly grew, but like I said it was all just a hobby. I wanted a space to write about my personal finance situation, have a support group, to keep track of how I was doing, and more. I did not create Making Sense of Cents with the intention of earning an income, but after only six months, I began to make money blogging. [Read more…]

How I Made $130,856.35 Last Month Blogging

April 5, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 93 Comments

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Welcome to March'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 Michelle made $130,856 last month blogging. In her monthly income reports, she shows you exactly what she's working on, shares her best blogging tips, and more. 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.

How to Use Your Tax Refund to Scale (or Start) Your Own Online Business

March 31, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 7 Comments

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Hello! Today, I have a great blog post about how to use your tax refund from my friend Jeff. Jeff began his career at a private wealth management firm, but now runs two blogs full time. Between VTX Capital and Breaking The One Percent, he's dedicated to helping millennials and young entrepreneurs grow their online businesses and dominate their personal finances.

How do you plan on using your tax refund this year? Have you thought about starting an online business with it? Yes, this is a great idea! Each year when tax season rolls around, I like to take a step back and look at the Big Picture when it comes to my personal finances. Most years, I end up getting somewhere between $500-$2,000 back from the IRS.

Usually, I put a little bit of that towards my student loan debt, throw some money in my IRA, or just cushion my emergency savings a bit. And of course I'll occasionally splurge on a fun toy.

Hey, I'm human.

But in 2014, I decided to do something different with my tax refund.

I decided to make the biggest investment of all, and put the money towards starting my own online business.

Why? [Read more…]

Cutting College Costs: Understanding The Cost And Value Of Your Degree

March 27, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 49 Comments

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There's a myth that expensive colleges are always better than the cheaper ones. As if higher college costs means that you'll automatically get a great job, you'll have an extremely high salary, and more.

Are colleges with higher college costs always better? Here are some other things you'll want to think about when paying for college and college tuition. Well, that's not always true.

According to an article in The Wall Street Journal:

From the academics [who have studied whether students from elite institutions outperform their peers or not] we know that in terms of future earnings, 1) your choice of field matters more than your choice of college, 2) after controlling for ability, the earnings differences of graduates from elite and non-elite institutions are small at best, and 3) any earnings advantage that may emerge over the long run is difficult to concretely tie back to the effects of one’s college choice.

According to Forbes, tuition for an in-state public college averages around $28,000. Private college tuition was double that amount at an average of $59,000.

For a four year elite university, the cost jumps to $68,000. [Read more…]

How I Run A Business While Traveling 365 Days a Year

March 22, 2017 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 57 Comments

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Do you dream of learning how to become a digital nomad? Today, I'm going to share with you how I run a business while traveling 365 days a day – yes, we travel full-time! You'll learn how to work and travel, find remote working jobs, and how to manage digital nomad life.

Interested in how to become a digital nomad? Today, you'll learn how to work and travel, find remote working jobs, and how to manage digital nomad life. Around two years ago, my husband and I bought an RV and unknowingly became digital nomads.

We thought the RV would just be a weekend thing or for short trips back home to see family.

We fell in love with the RV lifestyle as soon as we bought our first RV, and we quickly decided to get rid of our house and move into our RV full-time.

And, we were able to do this because of our business.

See, I started Making Sense of Cents in August of 2011. It was all just a hobby at the time, and I never thought that I would make money blogging, that it would turn into my full-time career, or that I would learn how to become a digital nomad.

Eventually, Making Sense of Cents was earning enough for me to quit my day job to blog full-time. I now earn around $100,000 a month through my blogging business AND I am able to travel full-time. [Read more…]

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