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Work, Live, and Travel Where You Want

February 22, 2019 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - Leave a Comment

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Remote Work 101: Work, Live, and Travel Where You Want #remotework Today, I want to introduce you to my friend, Camille Attell. Camille travels and works full-time in an RV with her husband and cat! She also runs a website called More Than A Wheelin’ dedicated to RV Life, Travel, and Remote Work.

Camille worked in corporate America for 20 years, and her husband, Bryce, spent 20 years working in finance. These two traded in their corporate jobs and traditional lifestyle for RV life when they found themselves facing the question: “Why are we doing this?”

Since choosing RV life in 2016, Camille and her husband have traveled over 20,000 miles in their RV, have visited 27 states, and 32 national parks and monuments. While on the road, she has worked as a Pinterest virtual assistant, course creator, blogger, project manager, and more.

Knowing that there are many others out there choosing this non-traditional lifestyle, Camille wanted to help others find success and happiness as they live and work on the road. [Read more…]

How One Blogger Grew His Blog to Over 2 Million Visitors In A Year

January 23, 2019 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 15 Comments

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Here's how one blog grew to over 2,000,000 visitors in a year. This blogger has earned over $750,000 in income from their blog due to this one trick! #howtomakemoneyblogging #howtostartablog Today, I want to introduce you to my friend Bobby Hoyt of Millennial Money Man and Facebook Ads For Bloggers. In just three years, Bobby has been able to earn over $750,000 in income from his blog, and I don't see that slowing down anytime soon.

Bobby is a former band director who left his teaching job after making $3 from his blog (yes, just $3!). He’ll tell you that was not the best idea for everyone, but it worked for him and he now blogs full-time.

See, he's doing something a little different than the average blogger, which is focusing heavily on Facebook to drive his traffic and increase his blogging income, and he has seen great success from it!

He grew his blog quickly with Facebook advertising, and he is here today to teach you all about it. He strongly believes that Facebook ads is a great way to grow your blog’s email list, increase your page views, increase your affiliate income, and more. He’s seen it work for him, and he uses this course to teach others how to have the same success. [Read more…]

How I Made $90,189 Tutoring In One Year Part-Time

December 28, 2018 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 6 Comments

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Do you want to learn how to become a tutor? Here is how Making Sense of Cents reader Trevor Klee earned $90,000 in one year working part-time with his tutoring business! If you have a laptop, an Internet connection, and enjoy taking standardized tests, you can make 6 figures part-time. He shares his expertise on how to start a tutoring business below.

Unlike a lot of people, I graduated college with a job. Unfortunately, that job immediately fell through. So, like a lot of people, I graduated college and was pretty quickly back in my parents’ house. I very quickly got tired of my mom’s dirty looks, and started applying for new jobs.

Then I got one: a tutoring job in Singapore. The tutoring part was not so new to me: I had always been good at taking tests, and I worked part-time as a tutor in college. But the Singapore part was, admittedly, quite new. I had never been to Singapore. [Read more…]

Want To Be A Rideshare Driver? Tips From The Rideshare Guy

October 3, 2018 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 10 Comments

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Today, I want to introduce you to my friend, Harry, the owner and founder of The Rideshare Guy Blog and Podcast.

Harry started driving for Uber and Lyft in 2014, while working as a full-time aerospace engineer. After finding a need in the driver community, he started his website to help drivers like himself. He has since quit his day job to focus on his incredibly successful website that provides drivers with insights and a database of tools to help grow their ridesharing income. Plus, he still drives regularly!

In this interview, you'll learn:

How Harry got into rideshare driving.
How much a Lyft or Uber driver can expect to make.
How Lyft and Uber drivers get paid.
Whether or not he thinks there's room for more rideshare drivers.
The positives and negatives of being a driver.
Tricks to increase profits as a driver.
The kind of car you'll need.

[Read more…]

The exact template that helped my site earn $95,000 in affiliate income last year

August 10, 2018 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 74 Comments

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Hello! I have a great guest post from Mike Pearson. He is very knowledgeable when it comes to SEO and used his expertise to earn $95,000 as an Amazon affiliate, with 88% of his traffic coming from Google. He only works a few hours per week on this and has had huge success! Below is what he did and he teaches you this in this HUGE guide that is over 5,000 words. Enjoy!

Hi all, my name is Mike and today I’m going to show you how you can really increase your affiliate income by following the SEO and keyword research blueprint that I’m about to lay out below.

If you can execute on the steps I’m about to show you, then your SEO will improve and your Google rankings will go up and your organic traffic will increase, allowing you to make more affiliate sales for your blog.

By the end of this post, you will know …

What a user’s intent is when they’re searching in Google and how to capture them along the sales funnel
Why your blog’s “relevance” is so important to ranking in Google and how to use this to your advantage
How to uncover dozens of keyword ideas that are perfect for generating affiliate income
How to find keyword ideas that your competitors are already ranking for
How to analyze a keyword’s competitiveness and whether it’s worth going after

(Also, I have a bonus at the very end that will help you create epic pieces of affiliate content that rank in Google). [Read more…]

How This 34 Year Old Owns 7 Rental Homes

July 25, 2018 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 26 Comments

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My monthly Extraordinary Lives series is something that I'm really loving, and I’m back with another great interview. First up was JP Livingston, who retired with a net worth over $2,000,000 at the age of 28. Today's interview is with Paula Pant, a 34-year-old who owns seven rental homes, which last year grossed $125,000 and netted $43,000 after expenses!

You probably know her from the super informative blog Afford Anything. I've been a big fan of Paula for a long time, so I'm so happy that I was able to interview her.

In this interview, you'll learn:

How she got into real estate investing.
How she was able to afford so many rental units.
What she looks for in a rental unit.
The types of property she invests in.
How much time and money it takes to invest.
How she manages rentals in a different part of the country.
Her worst renter.
The sacrifices she had to make to make this all possible.

And more! This interview is packed full of valuable information!

She also created a freebie for my readers – download her free step-by-step guide! [Read more…]

How This 25 Year Old Earns $15,000 A Month From Her Blog

July 13, 2018 BY Michelle Schroeder-Gardner - 45 Comments

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Hello! Today, I have a great article from my sister, Alexis Schroeder at FITnancials.com. This was edited this morning to reflect an update. Below is her story.

A little over a year ago I decided to go full-time on my blog, FITnancials.

This was incredibly scary since I was used to working for someone else for over 8 years. Becoming an entrepreneur never even crossed my mind in school.

Then, I started a side hustle, my blog, which eventually turned into a website that earns over $15,000 and over 150,000 page views per month.

I remember telling Michelle that I would be grateful for $10,000 per month, and that I'd be content with that amount of money for the rest of my life. It's crazy to think that I hit that number at 25 years old, while a senior in college.

If I can do it, you can, too. Seriously. A lot of people say that but it's true. I never thought I'd be my own boss, and look where I am.

Get rid of the negative mentality and stop telling yourself you can never meet your goals. You'll complete your goals a lot sooner when you get rid of that way of thinking. [Read more…]

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