Make Money Blogging Pt 1: What Not To Do

The next saga in our fast and furious failures is here… (and we’ve had many more than these movies, I can assure you).

This episode is Part 1 of 3 in a series on making money with your blog.

And as we often do here, we’re first sharing what did NOT work out for us before we share what did.

Including our first attempt at webinars, which I consider our real rock-bottom, most cringe-worthy moment.

I won’t spoil the story here, but it was an epic catastrophe — and one that our MOMS were there to witness. 🙈

Y’all, we tried everything:

And they were all failures.

But the really cool thing here is…

Almost all of the methods to make money that we tried weren’t complete failures. They were just failures at that point in time.

We ended up making money using these same methods several months later when we had a better idea of what the heck we were doing.

That’s what we’ll talk more about in Part 2 and Part 3 of this series.

And I’m excited to announce that joining me in this first episode of the series is my co-founder, Alex Nerney!

I couldn’t really tell this part of the story without him.

[3.10] Digging through the Internet to try to figure out how to run a blogging biz.

[5.49] How it shifted for us based on our audience.

[7.25] What we tried and what didn’t work!

[12.08] The dangers of following “robot articles”.

[13.43] Putting ourselves on camera for the first time and our “rock bottom” webinar fail.

[22.00] Improving our fails, failing less each time. Finding small success with Amazon affiliate links.

[23.58] Evaluating what felt right for our business and what didn’t feel ethical for us.

[31.00] This was sweat-filled shirts, pity, and problems but after failing at it we were able to do it successfully.

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