How to Earn Extra Money Blogging

by Laurie · Published April 1, 2015 · Updated August 20, 2015

Five years ago, I shared my favorite affiliate programs for writers who want to learn how to earn extra money blogging. Now that I’ve more than doubled my income as a blogger, I thought I’d update my bloggy quips and tips.

Sarah Morgan’s The Badass Blog Planner: Your Guide to Defining Your Purpose, Creating Clarity, and Building a Year of Killer Content will help you improve your blog content, social media, products and services, email newsletter, marketing, advertising, budget, and website design. You’ll learn how to create compelling and shareable content, promote your brand, organize your blog, set goals for growth, plan product launches, and feel excited and inspired all year long. If you want to learn how to earn extra money blogging, you need to be professional and serious about your job. Blogging can be a CAREER! But what career comes easy?

Learn as much as you can about earning extra money blogging. Go the extra mile – don’t read the same blogging blogs and websites that every other blogger on the block is reading! Get a book. Take your desire to make money as a writer seriously. Learn how to treat your blog like a small business.

You also need to think creatively about blending the two most important aspects of earning extra money blogging: 1) solving problems for readers and 2) being yourself. It may help if you researched what types of blogs earn money.

Last January I started “Putting Parables Into Practice” on all of my blogs. I love this idea because I can write tips to help readers solve problems, I can incorporate my favorite parables into my blogs, and I can email a newsletter that offers a parable. The newsletter isn’t a marketing ploy, it’s just a sharing of the parable of the week. I love it!

Here’s the parable I’m sharing this week, plus my thoughts on how to earn extra money blogging…