Want to start a blog that makes 6 figures in one month? Then copy these monetization strategies these 12 bloggers are using to make more than $120,000 in a single month.
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How to Start a $100k Blog: 12 Monetization Strategies Used by Top Bloggers to Make $124,074 Per Month
1. How To Start a Blog That
Makes $124,407
REPLICATE THESE 12 MONETIZATION
STRATEGIES
2. Blogging is largely considered
a hobby. People consider it as
an outlet to occasionally
share their thoughts, have
fun and get compliments.
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3. But when you talk about
money, bloggers aren’t
expected to be well-off. If
you tell people that you blog
full-time for a living, they
might pity you. And wish
you all the best for finding a
real job.
Numbers tell that those
people aren’t completely
wrong. In a 2015 survey of
thousands of women
bloggers by iBlog magazine,
only 11% claimed to earn
more than $30,000. 68% of
bloggers said that they
earned less than $5,000.
THAT’S SAD!
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The bloggers we profiled below made a collective
$124,407 in a single month. This being Wise Startup
Blog, we examined exactly what each of these bloggers
is doing to produce this massive income and made it
easy for you to replicate their results on your own.
5. Pat Flynn has created a passive income
cult. He was among the first few
bloggers that practiced transparency by
sharing an income report publicly every
month at Smart Passive Income (SPI).
Since Jan, 2015 he has consistently
touched the $100k mark every month
(not year). And he makes a major chunk
of money through affiliate marketing.
Let’s dig into 3 specific sources from his
March, 2016 Income report.
PAT FLYNN MAKES
$100,000/MONTH
PAT FLYNN1
6. Pat Flynn earned a massive $53,400
from Bluehost in March, 2016. Here are
two rules that Pat Flynn adheres to when
promoting products as an affiliate.
• Only promote products that you’re
very familiar with. Preferably you’ve
used them and it helped you to
achieve something.
• Don’t tell anyone to directly buy a
product. Only recommend them in
the context of how you’ve used them
(maybe as a case study in a blog
post).
1. PAT FLYNN PROMOTES
BLUEHOST AND MAKES
$53,400/MONTH
PAT FLYNN 1
7. PAT FLYNN 1
Pat started the SPI podcast back in July,
2010. Back then, podcasting wasn’t
mainstream and setting up your own
podcast wasn’t easy.
Fast forward to Aug, 2015 and SPI
podcast has crossed 17,000,000 total
downloads. Moreover, Pat has started
three more podcasts including AskPat.
2. PAT FLYNN MAKES
$16,399/MONTH THROUGH
PODCAST SPONSORSHIPS
8. PAT FLYNN 1
Creating a software is a great
monetisation strategy if your
audience demands it. But you need to
have (or hire) software development
skills to pull it off.
In March 2016, Pat earned $12,307.60
through c Licenses. Read the 7
lessons he learnt from building a
software product (including how he
dealt with his main software
developer exiting the project).
3. PAT MAKES $12,307 BY
BUILDING A CUSTOM
SMART PODCAST PLAYER
9. REGINA 2
@byReginaTV calls herself a sidekick
to infopreneurs. She is committed to
helping freelancers, coaches and
teachers profit from their knowledge.
In her January, 2015 income report she
revealed that she made $16,382.91.
She made a couple thousand chunk of
affiliate income from Bluehost. But
we’ll look at her 3 other different
approaches that helped her make
money.
REGINA MAKES
$16,392/MONTH
10. REGINA 2
Regina achievesher brand’s mission of helping people sell their knowledge with her
premium information products.
And Zero to Blog is one such self-guided class with added incentives in community,
checklists and more. In Jan, 2015 Regina earned $5475.00 with this class.
4. SHE SELLS HER CLASS
50 WORKDAYS – ZERO TO
BLOG AND MAKES
$5,475/MONTH
11. This is a physical blog calendar that
helped Regina make $3,224.22. She
also offered this in her physical
welcome kit to her Zero to Blog
students.
Listed at $18.5, the planner helps
bloggers for one-year worth of content
planning. And it has received 56
positive reviews.
5. REGINA MAKES
$3,224/MONTH SELLING HER
EPIC BLOG: ONE YEAR
EDITORIAL PLANNER
REGINA 2
12. Regina only made $273.49 off this
source. But Amazon Associates is an
incredible way to earn money for niche
websites – they pay upto 8.5%
commission on sales through your
advertising efforts.
Many websites listed at Empire flippers
pull huge incomes from Amazon. A great
example is Zach Garry. He bought a
website from Flippa and after building
good traffic, he now makes a living from
the Amazon Affiliates program. He made
over $8k in July, 2015.
6. ZACH GARRY MAKES $8/K
MONTH SELLING PRODUCTS
VIA AMAZON ASSOCIATES
REGINA 2
13. @JohnnyFDK has a fascinating life story
of how the 4-hour work week inspired
him to quit his corporate job and follow
his passion of becoming a scuba diving
instructor. And later a Muay Thai
kickboxer.
But as he turned 30, he was short of
cash and that’s when he started his blog
JohnnyFD.com.
In March, 2016 Johnny made $18,391.06.
JOHNNY FD MAKES
$18,391/MONTH
JOHNNY 3
14. Mentors can shorten your learning
curve and sail you through many
business struggles, right?
After rejecting a couple of people,
Johnny thought that he could help the
people just starting out or those
struggling to achieve their goals.
So he started offering phone coaching
services in areas off niche selection,
drop shipping, affiliate marketing,
lifestyle and more.
7. JOHNNY MAKES $99/HOUR
WITH PHONE COACHING
JOHNNY 3
15. Once you’ve built your list, it’s easier to
get book deals and get more sales.
Johnny made $264.89 from the Spanish
version of his book ‘Life Changes Quick’.
If you’re interested in becoming an
author, Tim Ferris has compiled an
awesome resource on how to write a
bestselling book.
8. JOHNNY MAKES
$264/MONTH SELLING HIS
EBOOK IN SPANISH
JOHNNY 3
16. Udemy takes courses to the next level. It
has adopted a marketplace model
pooling studentsand instructors under
one platform.
Johnny made $551.20 through Udemy in
March, 2016 from his two courses –
Small Talk Networking and Relationship
Ready.
9. JOHNNY MAKES
$551/MONTH BY CREATING
UDEMY COURSES
JOHNNY 3
17. Johnny has been running drop
shipping stores since 2013 –
working about an hour a day. And it
has played a huge role in
replacing his 9-5 job. In March
2016, Johnny made a net profit of
$5,324.24 from his two drop
shipping stores.
10. JOHNNY MAKES
$5,324/MONTH FROM DROP
SHIPPING
JOHNNY 3
18. @JustAGirlAbby started her blog in 2013
to share her passion for building a
beautiful, thriving home, life and
business. It was supposed to be a hobby
blog.
In Feb, 2016 Abby earned $36,234. Let us
look at two income sources used by Just
a Girl and a Blog during their journey to
$30k+/month.
ABBY MAKES $36,234/MONTH
ABBY 4
19. ABBY 4
While Abby writes high-quality content on her blog, she has gone into a
greater depth on certain subjects in her eBooks.
Whoever said you can’t make money by selling eBooks was lying:
In Feb, 2016 Abby managed to make $10,668 from the Framework eBook and
course, $1,956 from the Simplify eBook and $814 from Paperless home
eBook.
11. ABBY MAKES $10,668
SELLING HER EBOOKS
20. ABBY 4
The international life planner was announced by Abby in November,
2015 and it focused on helping her audience achieve their goals while
keeping them productive.
The response to the planner was positive – Abby managed to make
$2,240 in Jan 2016, $2,100 in December 2015 and $5,070 in November
2015.
12. ABBY MAKES
$5,070/MONTH SELLING
HER INTENTIONAL LIFE
PLANNER ON AMAZON
21. $100k isn’t usual income for
bloggers… But the actionable
strategies and resources in this
article will help you get on the right
path.
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