When it comes to eLearning platforms, there are a lot of them to choose from. And, it can be hard to decide which one is the best for your business. In this blog post, I'll be reviewing Thrive Cart Learn, an e-course platform that many people are using nowadays. I'll be sharing my experience using the platform and giving you my honest opinion. So, if you're interested in learning more about Thrive Cart Learn, then keep reading!
Creating online courses is a booming industry right now - and
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Monetization
What To Discuss Before Starting a Sponsored Post
What To Discuss Before Starting a Sponsored Post
Over the years, I have done a lot of sponsored posts.
Some of the experiences have been amazing, and I look forward to working with those companies again.
Others? Well, let's just say there are a handful of companies I would rather eat dirt than work with again.
For the most part, I've been able to figure out the best way to weed out potential disasters before they start, and thankfully, most of my working relationships nowadays go pretty
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Sponsored Blog Posts: Everything You Need to Know
Sponsored Posts for Bloggers 101
Some of the questions I get the most have to do with sponsored posts. As much as I would like to respond to each of those questions individually, I decided it would be most time effective and, hopefully, helpful, if I wrote a post about everything you wanted to know about sponsored posts!
I've been involved with writing sponsored posts since very early on in my blogging career. I felt like it was a good way to make money, get involved with brands I love, and
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Three Simple Tips to Maximize Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing has been kind of my jam lately.
I shied away from it for so long, and I'm kicking myself for that. It's quickly becoming my favorite monetization method.
If you aren't a fan of ads or doing outright sponsored posts, affiliate marketing is an awesome option for you.
But even if you do like ads and sponsored posts (which I do!), then you should still be doing it. It's an amazing passive way to make money.
My friend Kristina are going to be writing an affiliate marketing class
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How to Get Started With Amazon’s Affiliate Program
Well, if you are a blogger in Colorado you have may heard the news - we can officially use the Amazon Associates Program for affiliate marketing.
This is HUGE news. While Amazon doesn't offer the highest commission rate, the fact of the matter is this - people LOVE Amazon and do a lot of shopping on there. I was making a good amount of money from the program when we moved to Colorado and were banned from participating. I tried to swap out links to Walmart, Target, etc., but they just did not
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How I Monetize Our Blog – The Details
I'm in a lot of Facebook groups for bloggers, and these groups have varying levels of bloggers. There are people who are just getting interested in blogging, and there are others who make six (and even seven) figures from blogging. There's definitely a huge range!
Something that I find most valuable in this group is when people are transparent and willing to share their tips for success and monetizing a blog. I've always felt so blessed by our success with blogging, that it feels almost selfish
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Three Ways to Make a Mobile Friendly Website
More than likely, the majority of your site visitors are visiting your site on a mobile device. For our site, Clarks Condensed, we get about 70% of our traffic from mobile devices. After talking with others, this is definitely the norm. Because of this, ensuring your viewer's mobile experience is pleasant is more important than ever.
I've looked into a lot of different options and weighed the pros and cons of most of them. I've come to the conclusion that there is no perfect solution, but a lot
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How to Make Money Blogging
A few months ago, my friend Katelyn from What's Up, Fagans? mentioned on Facebook how she was grateful for the income she was able to bring in from blogging. A few people quickly asked her to tell them what she did to make money blogging. While I'm sure people are generally interested a lot, a lot of people seem to think it's a get rich quick scheme.
Well, let me dispel the rumor right now - blogging is not a get rich quick scheme.
Developing a blog, a following, and promoting your posts
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How to Make Money on Popular Posts with Media.Net
UPDATE:
In the past several months I saw a decrease in earnings. After talking with my account manager and a few others, I found a new technique you may want to consider trying. After you've been running the tags for awhile, take the code from your top performing post and add it to the other popular posts. This has proven successful for many. Also ask your account manager to make sure you have asynchronous codes.
Affiliate links are use in this post
I'm always trying to find new ways to increase
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Ad Backfill Tutorial
Setting up backfill for your ads is a great way to increase ad revenue and work with multiple ad networks. This ad backfill tutorial will teach you how to get started.
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Like it or not, display ads are one of the best ways to make money blogging. To make a decent income from ads, it's important to know it takes more than just throwing up a couple of Adsense ads and calling it good. There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes, and it takes a lot of monitoring,
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The Best Sponsored Post Companies for Bloggers
I've been blogging for a little over a year now, and in that time, I've really gotten to know a lot of the sponsored post networks that are out there. In case you aren't familiar, these groups work with large companies to bring bloggers an opportunity to write about their service or product, and get money for it. They are super helpful to get your foot in the door with some companies you may not have otherwise had the opportunity to work with.
As you might have guessed, there are a lot. And I'm
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