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Yesterday marked 4 years of running and blogging here at Cleverhousewife.com. It has been one whirlwind of a ride! Blogging is one of those jobs that many people still don’t understand. For the most part when I have questions, I just have to search, dig, ask other bloggers and sometimes wing it. There is always more to learn, and I just figure it out as I go. When asked what I do for a living, I tell people I am a blogger. Then comes the half puzzled, half amused look on their face. “You can make money doing that?,” they say. Blogging was originally thought of as a place where people just talk about what they did that week, and post pictures of their family. That still exists, but it can be so much more!
It didn’t take long into my blogging “career” before I figured out that one can actually make money blogging. At the time there was no guide to be found online, to calculate how much one could earn blogging. It was all pretty foreign. I had no idea how much money I could make, but I wanted to find out if it could really happen. Originally as a coupon blogger, I only knew about making a commission through affiliate marketing.
Over the years, I stopped blogging about couponing and took up blogging about food, travel, products, parenting, etc. I learned the art of connecting with brands and creating mutually beneficial relationships. That’s where some of the money comes in.
I want to help some of you on your path to being able to do what you love, all while earning money. I love my job as a blogger and I love the freedom that comes with it. I also love getting behind a brand that I love and support, and having it count for something. The fact that doing so helps pay my bills is icing on the cake. I am here to tell you how you can get paid to write for brands using Markerly.
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Sandy McFadden says
I have always wondered what goes into making a blogger a great blogger. Having someone market for you or help you would definately up your game.