Let me show you the framework I used to become an honest-to-goodness millionaire… All you really need to get started is a contact form for clients to reach out to you. If you’re a freelance writer, designer, photographer, programmer, or other service provider where your skills can be sold digitally instead of you having to be there in person, you might want to consider this income stream from day one. For example, Elna Cain continues to sell her freelance writing services: It’s so profitable, even if successful bloggers continue to do it. That being said, I’ve seen bloggers make six-figure incomes with no more than a few thousand readers on their blog, essentially using their blog as a lead mechanism to get clients. Typically, you’ll make more money freelancing than with anything else, but it’s also the most draining and time-intensive. The next step up from consulting is to actually do it for them. You just need to know what you’re doing and be confident in the value you are providing to clients. You can make this work in almost any niche. Going back to Maria, again, she’s been quite innovative in coming up with ways to do design consultations by photo and email, currently charging $1,275 per room: I rarely do consulting anymore, but the last time I did regularly, I charged $1,000 an hour with a six-month waiting list.īut I’m not the only one.
While this certainly isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, doing a bit of coaching or consulting is an online job that can earn you a surprisingly nice living, even when your audience is small. I typically make a minimum of $10,000 per speech and it can go as high as $100,000 when you count product sales resulting from the speech. If your blog takes off, and you start being recognized as an authority in your space, you might be surprised by how many invitations you get to speak at conferences. Nearly anyone can join Google AdSense, for example, and you can later grow into more selective networks like Mediavine and AdThrive. Normally, you make money by joining an ad network. In that case, putting a few banner ads on your site can make sense as a supplementary income source.įor example, here’s a screenshot of a 2016 income report from Share the Yummy: That being said, some niches like recipes, fashion, and news are hard to monetize through many of the other methods mentioned here, and they get LOTS of page views. You need roughly a million visitors per year for the large ad networks to take you seriously, and affiliate marketing is almost always more profitable and just as passive. Normally, we’re not big fans of selling ads on your site as a monetization strategy. Here at Smart Blogger, we make more than $100,000 per year promoting affiliate products, most of that coming from casually recommending products we love like SiteGround (affiliate link) and Elementor (affiliate link).įree Bonus: Click here to get our “cheat sheet” for affiliate marketers delivered straight to your inbox (for free). If you’d like to create some passive income streams from your blog, one of the best choices is affiliate marketing - recommending the services, digital products, and physical products of other companies in exchange for a commission. The most notable success story among bloggers is probably James Altucher’s Choose Yourself, which is now sold over 500,000 copies: Self-published books have also been successful. Millions of readers later, he got a book deal with Harper Collins and went on to sell over 3,000,000 copies in the US alone. Mark Manson, for instance, published a blog post called The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck in 2015. Quite a few writers have parlayed their blogging success into a major publishing deal. Online courses and workshops can bring in one-time payments or, depending on your model, recurring income via subscriptions. For instance, the popular interior designer Maria Killam has quite a few courses and workshops in her catalog: You can find successful blogs on just about any topic or niche monetizing with online courses. Ramit Sethi reportedly crossed $10 million dollars in annual revenue with his suite of premium courses:Īnd it’s not only business or wealth-focused topics that are doing well. Most of the people making a lot of money from their blogs are doing it through online courses. Here at Smart Blogger, we make most of our income from online courses and workshops - over $1 million per year - but we are far from the only successful blog doing this. Here are the top 7 awesome ways to make a good blogging income: 1. Free Training: The 31 Most PROFITABLE Niches for Bloggers in 2022
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