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The Side Hustle Show

257: Affiliate Marketing for Bloggers: How Michelle Makes $50,000 a Month Selling Other People's Products

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Entrepreneurship, How To, Education, Business

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

You might know Michelle Schroeder-Gardner from her super-popular blog MakingSenseofCents.com where she gets hundreds of thousands of readers and makes 6-figures a month. Around $50k of that monthly revenue (or more) comes from affiliate marketing. Michelle’s online journey started in the summer of 2011 when she decided to start blogging about paying off her student debts, “I didn’t know what blogs were at the time… I literally didn’t know that you could make money with a blog,” she said looking back. It was when she made her first $100 six months later with a sponsored post that she knew she wanted to build an online business. “It became super addicting,” Michelle said. Fast-forward just two years and Michelle had become a full-time blogger making money through affiliate marketing sponsored posts, working as a freelance staff writer and selling display advertising. She started to focus on affiliate marketing, and with her most profitable post making more than $400k to-date it's fair to say she's nailed the right way to do affiliate marketing. The secret to her success? Listening to her audience and providing relevant content that solves a pain point. Sounds simple, right? Tune in to hear Michelle explain how she finds the right affiliate products to promote to her audience, as well as her tips to maximize conversions, increase your social media following, diversify your traffic sources, and much more. Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: Affiliate Marketing for Bloggers: How Michelle Makes $50,000 a Month Selling Other People's Products Don't have a blog yet? My free video course will help you get started!

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Side Hustle Show 257, Affiliate Marketing for Bloggers,

0:04.0

How Michelle makes 50 grand a month selling other people's products.

0:08.0

What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here?

0:11.0

Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, because your because your 9 to 5 may make you a living,

0:14.8

but your 5 to 9 makes you alive. Awesome show for you today all about affiliate marketing

0:20.4

with one of the best and brightest affiliate markers out there.

0:23.0

She's pulling in consistent $50,000 months as an affiliate,

0:27.0

primarily through her blog, but also through her email list and social channels.

0:30.0

Of course, I'm excited to welcome Michelle Schroeder Gardner from Making Sense of

0:34.8

Sense.com to the program. Affiliate marketing, a quick definition for you, this is my definition

0:40.0

one you probably won't find in Webster's. It's helping other companies sell their

0:43.4

product or service in exchange for a commission. That was the way my original side

0:47.8

hustle made money. The shoe business, Zappos and Amazon and these other shoe stores

0:51.4

would pay me for sending customers their way and it's

0:53.8

really where the bulk of my income has come from over the last decade. Now Michelle

0:58.0

started her side hustle journey in 2011 trying to get out a student debt.

1:01.8

Today she's a full-time blogger and takes

1:04.2

advantage of the location independent lifestyle by actually traveling full-time

1:08.9

in an RV with her husband and two dogs. I was going to say kids but two dogs. In this episode

1:15.8

Michelle's going to share how she finds the right affiliate products to promote and

1:20.4

how she does it in a non-sliny way way, her favorite tools and resources, and some legal

1:24.8

requirements to be aware of to make sure you're in compliance.

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