At the beginning of 2019, a Facebook memory popped up that caught my eye. It was from 10 years prior, February 2009, and in the way that Facebook used to make you write about yourself in the third person, it said Ali Garland “wishes there was a good way to make a job out of […]
I love blogging as a career. It has literally changed my life in many ways. I met my husband through blogging and Twitter. It allows me to work from almost anywhere in the world, as well as at home in my pajamas. Earning a full income from blogging means I don’t have to work in […]
I know I’ve been writing these blogging income reports for several months now, but it’s really only just starting to sink in that I earn enough from blogging to live off of. For a long time, one of my goals was to earn more than I did at my first job out of college, and […]
May’s income is mostly based on what I earned in March, and March was a weird month. The amount I earned from my blog started picking up again in some ways but dropping in others. Amazon made some big changes, which I’ll talk about more below, and it had a big effect on my blogging […]
My blogging income for April was lower than March’s income, but still pretty good. Since April’s money was for February traffic, it doesn’t come as a surprise that it was a bit lower. February is a slow month in general, plus there are fewer days. But overall, not a bad month. Here’s how much money […]
“So what do you do?” “I’m a blogger,” I respond with dread. I know what’s coming next. A confused look. A pause. And then, some form of the question, “how do you make money from a blog?” It’s often hard to explain to someone who doesn’t know how blogging works. It seems like a platform […]
Imagine earning money without having to drive through rush hour traffic. Think of what it would be like to skip the high heel shoes and office politics. Picture yourself in the comfort of your own home or at a beach-side cafe earning money doing something you enjoy.
In March, I expected things to take a dip. It’s when I got paid for what I earned in January. January is typically a low month as far as advertising rates, and people aren’t often buying much or booking much travel. And while the totals did go down as compared with February, it wasn’t nearly […]
As February started, Andy and I were finishing up our last few days in Panama and getting ready to travel to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. It was soooo nice to be in the warm sunny weather, to not have to wear a heavy coat and scarf and hat. And when we came back to Berlin, […]
I recently got back from a month-long trip in Central America. We spent four weeks traveling in Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, soaking up the sun and warm weather and skipping out on a small part of Berlin’s winter. Whenever we talked to other travelers, many were surprised that we were traveling for so long. […]