Email marketing is still the single most effective tool to stay in touch with your loyal readers and valued customers. Every professional blogger should spend time building and nurturing their email list. Having an email list is important because it gives you a direct way to communicate and advertise to those who have expressed an interest in what you have to offer. There are many considerations to make when emailing your list of subscribers to make sure that you make it into their inbox each week. Today I am sharing 5 things you need to know about email marketing to ensure it is a success View Post
8 Tips to Rock Your Affiliate Income
Today I am going to share some tips on how you can rock your affiliate income. Affiliate income has been a significant part of growing our business into a full-time living. It has been such a blessing to our family to be able to share the products we know and love while also getting paid for the referral. Before I go any further, in case some of you are not clear on what affiliate income is, let's cover some of the basics. As a blogger you probably want to learn how to make some extra money with your site and the first programs you find are called affiliate programs. Becoming an affiliate View Post
How to Self-Publish an eBook
Have you ever wondered how to self-publish an eBook? We all have a story to tell or information to share and I promise there are people out there just waiting to read it! If you are a blogger or if you just enjoy expressing yourself through writing, self-publishing is an easy, wonderful way to reach your audience. When we started Elite Blog Academy in fall of 2014, we realized very quickly that in order to build a sustainable blogging business, we needed to self-publish an eBook. When we started creating our first self-published eBook, we had no idea what we were doing. As professional View Post
Best Blogging Courses To Help You Make Real Money
Today we are going to talk about the best blogging courses that will make you real money. If there is one thing that I have noticed in my 6 years of blogging professionally is that those who do not invest in their businesses do not see the results they desire. I personally know dozens of bloggers who started a blog to earn a living for their family but were unwilling to invest the time and money necessary to get them there. And guess what happened? They quit. Now don't get me wrong, I know that some people do not have an extra dime to their name when they begin blogging. And that's okay. View Post
Why I Want to Quit Blogging (and why I won’t)
I can't believe that I have been blogging professionally for 6 years now. During the course of the last 6 years I have owned and operated 8 different blogs, managed over 100 contributing writers, and have created more content than I thought humanly possible. I have spent thousands and thousands of hours writing, re-writing, creating images, recording and editing podcasts, publishing books, curating blog series, networking, using social media, emailing, engaging and building community, and several other things that go along with what being a professional blogger takes. Just yesterday (and View Post
5 Tax Tips Every Professional Blogger Needs to Know
5 Tax Tips Every Professional Blogger Needs to Know Being a professional blogger places you into a different tax scenario than your everyday employee at a big firm. A professional blogger carries similar tax benefits and burdens as those who are listed as independent contractors, LLC’s and self-employed freelancers. As a professional blogger there are some tax tips you need to know and today I am sharing 5 tax tips that will benefit any professional blogger. I hope that this post can assist you in being successful during that tedious and sometimes stressful time of year, known as tax View Post
How to Make Money From Home as an Amazon FBA Seller
Are you looking to make money from home as an Amazon FBA seller? If so, I am excited to share with you an interview with Jessica Larrew of The Selling Family. Jessica and her husband have been able to make over $1 million in sales over the last 5 years selling through the Amazon FBA program. Jessica has graciously agreed to share some of her story with my precious readers through an interview-style blog post. If you are even a little intrigued by her story, you really need to read this interview from start to finish as it's packed with some fantastic information and resources to help you View Post
How to Turn Your Blog into a Business
Have you ever wondered how to turn your blog into a business? Do you love blogging and you wish you could get paid for it? They always say if you can get paid for doing what you love, it won’t feel like work at all. So maybe this is your chance to make a dream come true! I am excited to share that you can turn your blog into an actual business and make a living off of it. Many people, including myself, have been doing it for years. That said, there are a few things you’ll need to know first to ensure you do it correctly. (Psssst! Be sure to sign up HERE for my blogging + business email list View Post
8 Reasons Every Mom Should Write a Book
Every mom should write a book. Moms are some of the most important people in the entire world, you know that right? I mean seriously. You selflessly love your children day in and day out. You pour everything you are into loving them, teaching them, educating them, nurturing them, being a voice of reason for them, providing for them, cleaning up after them, rejoicing for/with them, fighting with/for them, and the list goes on and on... Mom: You are the one God chose to grow and carry the gift of life within your womb. Even if you are not a birth mom, you still carried that gift of life with View Post
Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Blog-at-Home Mom
I first heard the term blog-at-home mom when I began my journey as a professional blogger in 2011. A mom at our homeschool co-op in Germany (we were stationed there with the military) told me that instead of just a stay-at-home homeschooling mom, I was now a blog-at-home homeschooling mom. Cute, right? And now, here I am 6+ years later, still a blog-at-home homeschooling mom. And the funny thing? I love it more and more every day! And now I have a passion to share resources with other moms (homeschooling and non-homeschooling alike) to help them begin their blog-at-home mom View Post