Want to Learn More About Blogging? Join This Free Training!
I have been writing this blog, Living Well Spending Less, for a while now, since July 2010. If you’ve been reading for that long, you’ve certainly seen this site go through its fair share of changes. From it’s humble beginnings on Blogspot, where I mostly shared snippets from my day-to-day life and my coupon shopping adventures, to what it has since grown into—an extensive resource site offering practical solutions to everyday overwhelm.
When I started LWSL, I was a stay-at-home mom to two toddlers, trying to find a way to fill my very long days with something other than filling my cart at Target. My husband and I had been fighting a lot about money, and I figured blogging about this adventure of trying to live well on a budget would give me something to do.
Little did I know!
But almost immediately, I knew I had stumbled upon something special, this whole other world of blogs and blogging and bloggers that I wanted to be a part of. Within just few weeks of starting this blog I told my husband that my goal was to make enough money blogging that he could quit his job.
He told me that was quite possibly the dumbest thing he had ever heard.
“You can’t make money on a blog,” he said, “it’s just not possible!”
I can’t really explain what made me keep going, even in the midst of my husband’s complete and utter disbelief, but I just somehow knew that this was the path I was supposed to be on.
And so I set out to learn everything I could about blogging—how to be a better writer, how to grow my traffic, and how to actually get paid for all the time I was putting in. I’m not going to lie—it was hard sometimes. I got very frustrated. I made a lot of mistakes. Often I felt like giving up.
Eventually, though, it started to get a little easier. Though I made my share of missteps, I learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way too, and things started to come together. My traffic started growing, as did my income. My husband gladly ate his words (and even apologized!), and in April 2013, he left his job as an aerospace engineer to be a stay-at-home dad.
Living Well Spending Less continued to grow too, to a thriving community of more than one million monthly readers, and into a business that supports not just my own family, but the families of my team members as well.
But more importantly, the resources that I share here are helping people live better lives. Every day I receive emails from readers whose lives have been impacted by words I’ve shared, who feel more organized, more balanced, more motivated, and more financially free. So while I’m thrilled that I am able to make a living doing what I love, what I’m most excited about is the opportunity to truly make a difference in the lives of the community here.
But this story doesn’t stop with me.
You see, I’m sharing this today, even though I very rarely talk about the business side of blogging here at LWSL, because I know there are some of you out there who have a message you want to share with the world as well. Maybe it is a struggle that you’ve managed to overcome, or a passion for something that you know others would relate to. Maybe you have an idea for a small business that you would like to promote, or maybe you feel called to ministry but aren’t sure how to best reach people where they are.
Maybe you’ve thought about blogging but aren’t sure where to begin, or whether it is even right for you. Or maybe you already have a blog, but you feel stuck spinning your wheels, and don’t really now how to gain the traction to get it going.
If that’s the case, I’d like to invite you to join the free video training series that I am hosting next week called Blogging Made Simple. It is sponsored by my blogging course, Elite Blog Academy, and it offers some very practical tips that you can implement right away for creating content that gets noticed and shared, and for building a successful blog.
The training is absolutely FREE to join, and it will give you a great idea of whether blogging might be the right path for you, and what to focus on first if you do think it is something you want to try.
The first video in the series will be sent out on February 16th, so be sure to get signed up before then! To join, simply click the button below!
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