PB048: How to Make $30,000 a year Blogging

Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. How to Make a Full Time Income From Your Blog Today's episode is all about how to make a full time income from your blog. There are no guarantees, but earning a full time income from your blog is not an unrealistic goal if you're willing to get very specific about your money goals, be patient and consistent, and break the work down into achievable chunks. I share my own personal journey, and my tips for how you can work out a realistic journey for making a full time income from your own blog. In This Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode: How to work out the exact dollar amount you need to earn from your blog to make a full time living Why it's useful to work out a daily target for how much money you want to earn from your blog 9 different ways to earn money blogging 3 case studies of how different types of bloggers can earn their full time income from blogging - a fashion blogger, photography blogger, and recipes blogger Further Reading and Resources for How to Make a Full Time Income From Your Blog 12 Blogging Income Streams [And the Story of My 10 Year ‘Overnight’ Success] My April Blogging Income Breakdown How I Diversified My Blogging Income Beyond Having All My Eggs in the AdSense Basket 11 Ways I Diversified Traffic Sources for My Blogs to Become Less Reliant Upon Google [With a Surprising Twist] Here is the breakdown of my blogging income streams when I hit my $50,000 a year target: Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Good morning and welcome to the ProBlogger Podcast episode 48 where today, I want to outline a plan for you to make at least $30,000 a year from your blog. Now, I’m not going to guarantee you’re going to get hit that, but I want to break down how you might go about doing that. You can find today’s show notes at problogger.com/podcast/48. A few years ago, I was chatting with a blogging friend who was feeling completely overwhelmed with their goal of making a living from their blogging. Through the conversation, I asked him a whole series of questions, but one that started this conversation going was getting them to identify how much they actually wanted to make from blogging. They had this goal that they wanted to be full-time, but I really pushed them to try and come out with a figure, to actually work out what full-time meant for them. This is actually where I would encourage you to start with your goal of making a full-time living. What does it actually mean for you? For this particular blogger, they said that they wanted to make about US$30,000 a year. That was probably not what they ultimately wanted to make. They wanted to make more, but that was the point where they had in their mind that they would be able to quit their current work to focus fully upon blogging. For some of you, $30,000 a year sounds like way more than you’d need to be able to quit your job and go full-time. For others of you, it’s not enough. It doesn’t really matter what the amount is, but what I want to talk about today is actually starting with that figure and then try to work out what does it mean to be able to achieve that because for a lot of people, even with that figure in mind, still feel completely overwhelmed and doesn’t really help to have that figure, but it’s a great starting point. Here’s my advice for you. Firstly, if you’ve got your figure in mind, don’t give up your day job yet as a lot of people who do give up their job to start blogging. I’m not sure that’s the wisest move because it’s actually going to take you a while to get to whatever point you have nominated in your mind, and there are no guarantees either. So,