The dream of every online business owner is to buy a domain, create a beautiful website, send traffic to that website, and wake up every morning with sales notifications via email.
The reality happens to be much different.
You have to constantly check what resonates with your audience via your analytics tools,
These days, if I told you that it really is possible to get your dream job and use it to fund a never-ending adventure around the world, would you believe me?
In the past, the idea of the ‘digital nomad’ lifestyle – having a location independent job that allows you to travel the world as you please –
You’ve probably been slaving away creating a product you hope will generate passive income.
Maybe you’ve spent time cultivating a following, growing your email list and building your blog in preparation for launching your signature product.
With all that out of the way, the focus now becomes on sales.
The alarm on your phone goes off.
Time to get up, shower, grab a bagel and coffee for the road, and drive to work.
It seems every day you’re on autopilot. There’s no need to think – just do.
For many people, having a traditional 9-5 job,
Let me ask you this:
When you first started blogging, did making money from your blog ever cross your mind?
Maybe not.
Many new bloggers view blogging as only a hobby. It’s not until they generate a decent amount of traffic and develop a loyal following do they even consider monetizing their blog.
Picture this: you own several businesses or several blogs.
You do well in the beginning to consistently post, but as your businesses boom and marketing takes more of your time, you realize you can’t do this alone.
You need someone to help you create consistent content that’s quality-driven and appeals to your readers.
You feel the itch.
For months you’ve been churning out post after post, promoting it all over social media and slowly building your email list.
Now it’s time to take your blog to the next level and turn it into a business by launching your first product or course.
If you’re a freelance blogger or you offer some other freelance service online, you probably already have a few of your own stories about clients from hell, don’t you?
I’ve been a full-time online freelancer since 2014 — and over the past two years, I’ve experimented with offering a whole bunch of different services.
Note: this post was originally published on Purcus.com, we have now moved it to it’s new home here on Blogging Wizard.
If there’s one thing we all need to be grateful for, it’s the internet.
Let’s go back in time a few decades,
The most effective way to earn a full-time living from your blog is to become a freelance blogger. The best thing about this is that no matter how challenging it is to make money in your niche, you can make it happen by leveraging your skills and knowledge as a blogger.
We all have something that motivates us to start a blog.
For a lot of us, that motivation is the dream of being liberated from our 9-5 job and make money from the comfort of our own home.
So is it possible?
Most definitely!
I still remember my first day as a freelance blogger/writer pretty clearly, even though it was some years ago.
I was sitting on my computer at my mom’s house, looking at an email from my first ever client and thinking something along the lines of, “So you really want to pay me for writing blog posts?!