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I'm completely new to blogging, where do I start?
I’ve managed to build my blog from $0 to over $10K while raising two under two, and you can do it too. I’ll share with you everything I know.
If you are brand new to blogging, here is a great post outlining the different ways you can make money with a blog. It features moms just like yourself who have built successful blogs on different topics, from fashion, to home decor to finance. It always inspires me!
Once you’re inspired and you know you want to do this, then head on over to my Blog by Number course. It’s a step by step course with printables, lessons and video tutorials to guide you in building a professional blog. At the end of the course you’ll have a blog ready to share and be able to make money from home.
If you’re ‘newish’, you know a bit about blogging and you may already have a blog up, but you need a better plan. Then you are welcome to download my 12 Month Plan that helped me grow my blog to over $9,000 per month. Get the 12 Month Blog Plan here.
How long does it take before making money with a blog?
How much time does blogging take?
Now that my blog is established I spend about 2 hours a day on my blog, and most of that time is answering emails. In the beginning you won’t have many emails to respond to, so you can focus on creating content and building a network.
Blogging is a marathon, not a sprint. It is extremely flexible and you can work early in the morning (like I do), over nap time, or super late at night when the kids go to bed.
Most bloggers get overwhelmed in the beginning and stop. But once you get into a good rhythm, it is not difficult to maintain a successful blog while raising little kids.
Here are my favorite time-saving tips:
How much does it cost to blog?
Click here to start your blog today! You can do this, I’ll be with you every step of the way.
When I started blogging the only things it cost me was the $5 for my self-hosted blog and lots and lots of coffee. 🙂 It wasn’t until my blog was 4 months old that I bought an upgraded theme, signed up for an email marketing service and started using services to sell my products (Blog by Number – the course just for moms). Now my blog makes over $10,000 per month and it costs me under $500 to run it. Most of that money goes to my email marketing service and the course platform I use to host my products.
Compared to any other work from home job a mom can do, blogging is one of the LEAST expensive with a HUGE potential for amazing income!
Is it possible to make money with a blog?
There are five main ways to make money with a blog:
- Affiliate Marketing – promoting a product with a special link unique to you. When someone makes a purchase through that link, you get a commission.
- Sponsored Posts – being paid for writing a blog post promoting a product.
- Products – creating your own products such as ebooks or online courses.
- Services – offering virtual assistant services writing content, managing email or offering online consulting.
- Advertisements – placing ads on your blog that generates money based on traffic and clicks.
For more detail, read how to make money with a small, medium or large blog and how to start a profitable blog.
How do I find a profitable blog niche?
- Your Passions: What do you love to do? What can’t you stop talking about?
- Your Strengths: What are you really good at? What do people compliment you on?
- Your Growth: What do you want to learn? Where do you want to improve in your life?
- Is it Profitable? And most importantly, what problem are you solving? People are willing to pay to fix a problem 🙂 So if you want to monetize, you need to provide a solution. What niche are you going after and how do you want to help them?
Read more about how to find your blog niche. When you are stuck on deciding a blog name, this post will help too!
What should my first blog post be about?
So before you advertise your blog, I would advise having 3-5 pillar posts published. These are in depth, 2,000+ word articles that each address a certain main problem of your niche. They will lay the foundation for your blog and share very well on social media. People will see them as ultimate guides or resource tutorials.
Take your time crafting these and share all of your best advice. You want people to come to your blog and be blown away by your posts, even if there are just four.
For example, if you blog about breastfeeding, here are a few examples of great pillar posts:
- The Ultimate Guide to Breastfeeding a Newborn – 6 Month Old
- The 100 Benefits of Breastfeeding
- The Pros and Cons of Breastfeeding vs Bottle Feeding
- Everything You Need to Know about Breastfeeding and Bottle feeding
- The Essential Products You Need If You Decide to Breastfeed
Below are the pillar posts I had on my site before I started pushing traffic to it. It took me about a month to complete them all and be ready to launch. It may be quicker or slower for you. But ultimately you want your readers to find a few really good posts on our blog when they stumble upon it.
- How to get Traffic to a New Blog without using Social Media
- How to Make Money With a Mom Blog from Small, Medium and Large Mom Bloggers
- 25 Awesome Post Ideas For Your Blog
Lastly, before you launch here are a few other things that should be completed.
- A clear blog menu
- A good profile picture
- An About Me page
- A Disclosure Page – if you are using affiliate marketing
- A way to contact you (you can add this to your About Me page)
- Links to your social media pages
In Blog by Number, the beginning blogging course just for moms, I show you step by step how to do all of the above steps.
I have a blog but need a step by step plan.
I want to share with you the 12 Month Plan I used to grow my blog from $0 to over $9,000 per month in less than a year. Of course, results aren’t typical, but if you put in the time and effort, I am positive you’ll be able to make a few thousand after 12 months of following this plan. Yes, it takes time, but so does anything worthwhile.
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I noticed when trying to do the coloring book pages, that if you search for “cute coloring for kids” it will bring up some outlines of the pictures, instead of having to remove the color. There aren’t a lot, but any little bit saves time.
Hi Suzi! I just joined your Blog by Number course and it’s amazing! I’m just having trouble finding the fill-in-the-blank templates and instant blog mentioned on the course page. I know I’m just missing it, but any help would be greatly appreciated, and thank you for such awesome resources!
Hi Suzi! Your site and your courses have been so helpful as I’m exploring starting a blog–thank you! I’m wondering if you have thoughts on using the Genesis framework, a) when starting and b) at all? Many thanks again! 🙂
👋🏼👋🏼HI SUZI!!
👩🏽💻 Long time student here!
💻 I have A LOT of your courses and could not possibly say enough good things about you!
👩🏼🏫 Your teaching style is wonderful.
👩🏽🔧I have used Blog By Number to start my dream of building my own little space on the internet.
I have been working hard to get my site off the ground, and despite being a LONG time student, I have sort of only recently gotten up the nerve to actually launch 🚀 my site.
😬 So, I feel like I know a lot…thanks to all of your amazing courses…but am just getting my feet wet as far as actually taking action.
👩🏼 However, I would not any other person in the world helping me navigate this journey other than you, Suzi!
⭐️ You are THE BEST!
📺 No exaggeration at all here–I play your YouTube videos ALL DAY while I’m home. They keep me motivated and…even if I’m not sitting there totally focused on it…I am still listening and learning with you in the background of my busy life!
📄 You’ve mentioned in your content and videos before that you like to write most of your blog posts in a Google Doc and then copy/paste them into WordPress (Gutenberg).
🎥 Is there any way you could do a video on your amazing YouTube channel that shows your exact process of how you accomplish this?
📝 Sometimes I have trouble with formatting, etc.
🔲 Also…it separates pretty much EVERY LINE into a separate text/paragraph block. Is that normal? Is that okay? Will a lot of text blocks slow down my page/site?
👁🗨 It would be awesome if you could do a little screen-share video showing us your process.
🔆 You have a way of explaining things that is unlike any other.
🙌🏼 Thank you!
I have bought your courses under my personal email accounts as well as my website email. Somehow I accidentally posted the about comment before completing the guest info form. 😂
So I added my info here…
Hi Suzi, I was wondering to critique blogs? I followed your advice and others about the layout and always concerned about being too salesy. I am not a stay at home mom, but I am a quarantined dad and our site has to do with investing, saving money and time and have never done an affiliate blog before and my instinct is to be salesy, however, I realize it doesn’t work that way – especially on a blog. Would you be able to take a quick look and give me feedback?
Thanks,
Mark
Hi Suzi! I absolutely love your work! Thanks so much for helping us moms start our blogs! Just had a question about the updated Blog By Number course. In regards to the social media plugin, is there something wrong with the old one that was recommended in the first version of the course? I ask because I am hoping to launch a YouTube channel and I want to grow my following on Instagram as well so I think the plugin recommended in the first version of the course would be a better fit. Just because Social Pug only has Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest options. Your advice means so much to me! Hope to hear from you regarding this. Thanks so much ❤️
I’m trying to get my domain to work on BlueHost…but I purchased it elsewhere (before I learned about your class/ebook). HOW do I connect the two sites? I’m not even sure what to search for ‘HELP’ on at the BlueHost site! Thanks!
*to clarify – trying to get the domain NAME to work with BlueHost. BH recognizes it in the My Domains page, but I can’t transfer the name or redirect it from BH.
Hello Suzi, I’m starting a blog called Patina & Roses. I have already purchased my domain. I started in Bluehost / WordPress. I am switching to WIX, because WordPress was driving me crazy!! It is NOT user friendly. There are many ways to get into WordPress which made it very confusing for me. I couldn’t quite understand what to do. I gave them up. Let me explain also, I had a website about 11 years ago through SBI. I went through a self taught course through SBI and had a big site. It was called Plan An Elegant Tea Party {plananelegantteaparty.com}. I also had a Tea Party Catering business to go along with it. But due to health reasons, I had to give it up and so I closed my web site too. Back then I couldn’t understand the monetizing through the web site and I was giving away a lot of information just for free. So anyway, I guess my question is, would you recommend WIX which has their own hosting. I haven’t committed to a host plan yet. I have however started to design my site and I written some blog posts for it. [they let you do that with out paying anything, you just can’t go live until you pay for hosting]. I am rely looking forward to your reply. Thank you so much for your time and have a Blessed day!
hi there im taking your course and loving it! I was wondering where is the info on setting up the disclaimer page? you’ve talked about telling us how, but haven’t run into it yet, maybe i missed it, thanks!
Suzi,
I saw you on the Teachable Summit and watched your Printables video. Awesome and thank you. I am 63 and creating a career change to convert my live courses to online with Teachable. I need a coach and tech answers. I have studied Teachable Support thoroughly and the Facebook community but it’s not meeting my needs. Is there someone you can recommend? I have even Googled “Teachable coach” without leads. Your advice or guidance is most appreciated. Respectfully, Mark
I have read your “what to blogg about when you don’t know what to blogg about”; but nowhere does it say how the money is actually coming in. Regards, Hasso Schröder
I started my blog through your link through Bluehost. It is frozen on the installing WordPress. I’ve refreshed the page and reentered my setup and it freezes again. I’m lost. Help!
hi suzy I have been interested in trying to start a blog however I am not very computer savvy and things just seem to intimidate me for no reason. its like a lack of confidence or just afraid of failure. want to pay off debt have a fence put around house and some other general things tha need to be done at my residence. so today I went to sign for your ebook by numbers course and want to know if I can use my debit card to pay. I am 63 this year and I need to have order before I can semi retire
At this time I am unable to continue this program
Hi Suzi I just read your blog post about starting a grandma blog. Do you think it’s a good idea to have the name grandma or granny or nana in my domain name? My granddaughter calls me MiMi so I’ve thought about using that but a lot of the grandparent sites I’ve seen have the other names listed in them. Thoughts?? Thank you.
Can you tell me if your course is built to only use with Bluehost? Or can you use another web hosting service?
Hi, Suzi! I’ve just been turned down by two email companies because I don’t have any subscribers and because I will be blogging about wah jobs. I’m so disappointed. Any suggestions for reasonably priced companies for beginners who won’t turn me down?
Ann, who did you apply with? I would recommend MailerLite or Convertkit.
The freebie in your opt-in that’s on every page is one I love but already have, and I can’t get rid of the pop-up! It blocks your entire page on mobile, and a good chunk of text via computer browsing. Can you alter the way it displays? I even get the same freebie/opt-in combo as an additional pop-up on the same page (but that one has an X to close it). Thanks!
Thank you Jess! I just changed it a few days ago – so thank you for letting me know!! I’ll go adjust it now!