Affiliate marketing for bloggers: everything you need to know when starting out. The following content includes referral links. Read my disclosure policy for more info. One of the most frequent questions I get asked by new bloggers is: how do I monetize my blog? Most of the time, people assume that display ads are the way to go, but the truth is that unless you get a ton of traffic, you won’t make a whole lot of money. If you’re just starting out, I’d stay away from ads. With small traffic, you’ll end up making a few bucks a month. With most popular networks, like Google AdSense, there is a $100.00 payment threshold, meaning you cannot get paid until you make $100.00 dollars. When you’re a new blogger, this can take months. Now, with affiliate marketing, you can make anywhere between a few dollars to a couple of hundred dollars PER SALE. The cool thing about affiliate marketing is that you can start making money from day one. So… What is affiliate marketing? It’s an easy way to make money with your blog without having to create (and sell) your own product. To put it in very simple terms, it’s basically earning a commission from a […]

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Updated November 4, 2019 Blog Tips: How to Get Better Results from Pinterest The following content uses affiliate/referral links. Read my disclosure policy for more info. With 175 million active monthly users, Pinterest is the place to be if you’re a blogger. “But my niche doesn’t fit Pinterest!”– that’s something that I often hear new bloggers say. Well, the good news is that Pinterest is also no longer niche and/or gender-specific. There are more and more men who sign up as new users and Pinterest is no longer a place devoted solely to finding DIY projects or weeknight dinner ideas. Yup, this means that regardless of what you blog about, you can get awesome results from Pinterest. The only thing you need to do is put in the work. If you want to know how to get better results from Pinterest and drive traffic to your blog, there are a few things to keep in mind. BLOG TIPS: HOW TO GET BETTER RESULTS FROM PINTEREST   PINTEREST IS ALWAYS CHANGING At least once a year, Pinterest announces a change to its platform. In order to get better results from Pinterest, you need to stay on top of these changes and adjust your […]

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Growing your email list with Pinterest It’s been a while since we’ve discussed the importance of having an email list. If there is one thing that I wish I’d done sooner when it comes to running my blog, I’d be working on building my list. While overwhelming at first, I was surprised to learn that I was able to get my first 1,000 subscribers in short, 30 days. Creating an opt-in form and/or an incentive is easy and pretty straight-forward. Once you have a great article and a way for people to sign up for your mailing list, you need a place to promote that post. Pinterest happens to be one of the best places to grow your list. While growing your email list with Pinterest might seem like a complicated idea, it’s really not. All you need are a few pieces of good content and some determination to put in the work. GROWING YOUR EMAIL LIST WITH PINTEREST YOUR DOMAIN AUTHORITY If you’re running a blog/online business and want to start using Pinterest to drive traffic to your blog, you have to sign up for a business account, verify your website and enable rich pins on your blog. This not […]

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How to get 1,000 email subscribers in 30 days. The following content includes referral links. Read my disclosure policy for more info. If you don’t yet know how crucial having an email list is to monetizing and growing your blog, you can catch up reading this post. One of the easiest ways to grow your email list is by creating content upgrades to your blog posts- we already covered creating incentives right here. Today we will talk about creating a free email course, which is another great way of growing your email list. I’ve had the most success with this method. My free “start a blog* course not only helped me get 1,000 email subscribers in just the first 30 days, but it also connected me with some pretty amazing people, whom I got to introduce to the world of blogging. If I’m being honest, I REALLY wanted to create this course for a while, but kind of dreaded finally sitting down and setting everything up. Turns out, when I finally did sit down to do it, it only took me about 2 hours! See, one of the most amazing things about blogging is that you never stop learning. And, the easiest way […]

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Shooting and editing are my favorite things to work on in terms of blogging. If I could, I’d spend hours, every single night, just editing photos. There is just something incredibly rewarding, satisfying and… a little bit soothing about the entire process. Also, here’s a little secret: my Instagram and blog images never look all bright and pretty when I upload them to the computer. One of the best things you can do, as a beginner, is to understand how your camera works. Despite my love for bright photos, most of my images are actually on the dark side when imported to my computer, and that is because in order to get a sharp image, you sometimes, depending on your light source, have to sacrifice other things, such as brightness of your image. This post explains this relationship in detail. If you’re just getting familiar with Photoshop, YouTube can be your best friend here. There are so many amazing channels out there and so many great tutorials (Phlern is one of my personal favorites), there literally are hundreds of different ways to do things in Photoshop. In this post, I will focus on very simple and quick fixes that you can […]

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