How To Actually Make Money Blogging

First off, I need to say I'm sorry I haven't been active. I've been going through complete chaos from my iPhone breaking to selling my laptop to get another phone to just now being able to work this new phone to figure out how to write blog posts on it. If my posts seem a little different or weird, thats why. I figured though that writing on here is better than not at all... Right? Anyways, I'm back and better than ever and in such a better mindset than before which is something else that motivated me to come back. So, lets get into the post. 

Now this post... Its a little different considering the name of my blog is "Makeup by Dawn Craven" the thing is, I want this blog to be about a couple other things that help others and you enjoy this post and think the same please let me know below! I wanted to share something that I see others in my Facebook groups and everywhere else asking... How do I make money with my blog? Now the number one thing I and every other blogger can tell you is that if you are blogging just for the money, you won't make it. That sounds harsh I know... But it takes time to make money blogging and you have to love what you do. When I first started blogging, it was a hobby. Honestly, I just loved the feeling of writing because it made me feel so great and helpful and productive. If you think though that money comes quick when you start a blog, you're wrong. It takes a while to build up an audience and to figure out how the ropes work running a website. The only way you'll make an income blogging is if you are patient, love writing or whatever you write about, and you are willing to put in the work. Just because its an at home job, doesnt mean its not as much of a job it just depends on how you treat it but if you put in the time and effort and a positive mindset, you'll be on the road to a full-time career in blogging in no time. 

So, what are the ways to make money exactly you ask? I'll list them out for you below because there are quite a few. 

1. Ads. Ads are one of the most common and easiest ways to make money through your site. Its something I dont take part in, because I hate going to a site and pop ups coming up everywhere and making the site super annoying and spammy but it is a great way to make an income from your site. You do have to sign up though and it takes a while for some people to get approved and some never even do. If you want to try it out though, go for it! Just remember to read all of the rules first and how to set them up, be careful because Google will nitpick your site during the process of deciding if theyll accept you or not and can turn you down or ban your site overall. As long as you've been a good sport though, you should be fine. 
2. Affiliate marketing. This is my absolute favorite way of making an income through blogging. It's easy, gives you tons of great products to post about, and you can actually make a full-time income just from affiliate marketing itself and all you have to do is find an affiliate program, sign up, and start promoting products you love through your site or social media. If you want to learn more about affiliate marketing and how I actually made $2,000 in the past two months just by selling Amazon products, I used an affiliate bootcamp. The price is reasonable and it taught me a lot, i.e. one little bootcamp helped me start my career in blogging. If you want to join our bootcamp to start making as much as if not more than me, here is the link as well as a link to the social media kit to help you get engaging leads through social media for even more sales! > Affiliate Bootcamp Bundle, Affiliate Blueprint, Social Media Bootcamp  , Audience Toolkit . These are all really great training programs that I would highly recommend to anyone because they helped me out so much and really it taught me how to fully grow my business to its full potential which continues to grow daily. 
3. Ebooks, courses, etc. This is another great way to make money blogging, if you have the time and patience to create your own products. You can make your own courses, printables, or write eBooks and sell them to your audience! Just make sure that you write or make something of great value to them that will help your audience learn something great or new from your work. This is where you'll probably want to start building up an audience so you can start amping them up for your product release! A great tool for growing your audience and engagement is what I used to grow my social channels as well as my site and email list and that is from simple social tools. They have a ton of great programs but I used the Audience tool kit to grow my audience so I could start selling my blogging printables! You can check out the kit here > Audience Toolkit. I HIGHLY recommend it to increase your audience and your sales, get your product out there and start helping others with it! 
4. Sponsored posts. This is the last and final tip I have for you to start making money with your site. Sponsored posts are great because they work in a variety of different ways from free product exchange, cash, or sometimes even both. All you have to do is promote the brand and you'll get to try new free things or get paid for it. Just make sure you loved the product before you write a review, if you had any issues with it be honest in your post because your readers shouldn't be lied to. I recommend going with a brand you love or like, do your research before promoting a new brand as well. 

If you guys are interested in checking out my favorite audience toolkit to help you gain traffic as well, here is the link again > Audience Toolkit!! Those were all of my tips and ways to make money on your blog and I hope you enjoyed reading this post! Comment below if you did and where you're from! Would love to get to know my audience. Well, I'll see you all in the next post. 

P.S. One more quick recommendation for affiliate marketing or growing your business. I started reading this book about a week ago and so far it has changed my whole mentality and look on myself and business. I HIGHLY recommend checking it out and giving it a read it's called Think and Grow Rich .