Archive for make money

Quick Cash

Last week we talked about ways to bring in some extra money, specifically because I am looking for ideas to pass on to the members of my husband’s Dave Ramsey class. Here are some more. Have a yard sale- we have found that we make more money at a yard sale on Thursday. So we [...]

Posted by: DeputyHeadmistress on Friday, July 1st, 2011

Monetize Your Blog, part 10: Traditional advertising

If you want to learn how to monetize your blog, start here: Don’t do it for the money Take your time Get your own domain 13 Great ways to build your traffic Getting the goods Giveaways! Make it sticky Keep an eye on traffic Affiliate advertising Affiliate advertising may be a natural fit for most [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Your first $10 from blogging

Readers, I’ve been writing a series on How to Monetize Your Blog, and here’s an offer that you might be able to use.  If your blog has a page rank of 3 or higher (check your page rank here), you can earn $10 or more by accepting a sponsored post from our recent guest poster, [...]

Posted by: kimc on Monday, June 27th, 2011

Monetize Your Blog, part 9: Affiliate advertising

If you want to learn how to monetize your blog, start here: Don’t do it for the money Take your time Get your own domain 13 Great ways to build your traffic Getting the goods Giveaways! Make it sticky Keep an eye on traffic Beyond Adsense If all is going well, you’re probably ready to [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Monetize Your Blog, part 8: Keep an eye on traffic

If you want to learn how to monetize your blog, start here: Don’t do it for the money Take your time Get your own domain 13 Great ways to build your traffic Getting the goods Giveaways! Make it sticky Keep an eye on traffic If you already have a way to watch the traffic on [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Monetize Your Blog, part 7: Make it sticky

start here: Don’t do it for the money Take your time Get your own domain 13 Great ways to build your traffic Getting the goods Giveaways! If you’ve been following this series and working the points, you should have a good amount of traffic arriving on your blog now.  But what good is a visitor [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Monetize Your Blog, part 6: Giveaways!

start here: Don’t do it for the money Take your time Get your own domain 13 Great ways to build your traffic Getting the goods Have you read all 5 parts in this series so far?  I hope so, because this is where it begins to get exciting! Part 4 mentioned 13 ways to bring [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Monetize Your Blog, part 5: Getting the goods

start here: Don’t do it for the money Take your time Get your own domain 13 Great ways to build your traffic Now you have some good content, and you are probably receiving modest but growing traffic.  You might not be ready to start advertising in earnest, but it’s not too early to start reaping [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Monetize Your Blog, part 4: 13 Great ways to build your traffic

start here: Part 1: Don’t do it for the money Part 2: Take your time Part 3: Get your own domain You love blogging, and you’ve been pumping out the content.  You put a lot of thought into choosing the right domain and are now blogging at www.myblog.com – or working on getting there. Now [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Monetize Your Blog, part 3: Get your own domain

start here: Part 1: Don’t do it for the money Part 2: Take your time Well, you are sure you are passionate about blogging.  You’re not just doing it for the money. You are ready to start pumping out content – good content, on a subject you really know.  Maybe you’ve already started. Now it’s [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Monetize Your Blog, part 2: Take your time

start here: Monetize Your Blog, part 1: Don’t do it for the money So, you really want to try this. You love blogging, and you want to see if you can make a little money in the process.  Maybe you’ll even make a lot.  You’ll never know if you don’t try! TAKE YOUR TIME. Blogging [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Monetize Your Blog, part 1: Don’t do it for the money

When I began blogging way back in 2005, I hardly knew what a blog was and I had no idea that an online personal journal could become a source of income.  Things have changed a little, and now it seems like everyone with a blog aspires to make money with it. Things have changed for [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Weekend links and a $10 Giveaway

Good reads this week 233 Ways to Make Money – I think I counted 24 ideas that hubby and I have used to make money in the past, and several more that might be worth looking into. Scared Broke – Scare tactics work just as well in advertising as they do in politics.  In spite [...]

Posted by: kimc on Saturday, November 20th, 2010

SAHM Jobs

Although I love staying at home with my kids, I am not opposed to making extra money. The Proverbs 31 woman did it, and so do I. When my husband and I were first married, I worked as a grocery store cashier until my pregnancy became too much and I quit. When my son was [...]

Posted by: guest on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Find unclaimed money

I’ve never paid much attention to the idea that I could have unclaimed money out there in the wide world, but when Jim at Bargaineering posted links to search all 50 states for free it was just too easy to take a quick look. After checking both states where hubby and I have lived as [...]

Posted by: kimc on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009