My blogs were created 14 years ago as a journal to record my daily life as a stay at home mom with two toddlers. Alycia was only 3 years old and Sherilyn 2 years old. Shortly after my blogs were created, I’d read from my blogger friends’ blogs that they were making money from their blogs, in US Dollars. I jumped onto the bandwagon and have never looked back since. Back in the days, the amount of online assignments/opportunities from platforms for bloggers to monetize their websites were bountiful. I used to earn over USD1,000 a month from writing sponsored posts and commissioned writing in my jammies sitting at home while looking after two toddlers. Then the global financial crisis hit in 2008 and my earnings were affected. Nonetheless, there were still assignments albeit on a smaller scale. The timing of the scaled down assignments came at a right time for me as I had just given birth to Cassandra, my third and youngest child in April 2008. She had a medical condition which required 101% of my time to be spent on her with lesser time to blog.
The earnings I got from monetizing my blogs over the years whilst being a full-time SAHM have given me a little financial freedom and self-esteem. Besides getting to monetize my blogs, I’ve made friends with many wonderful like-minded ladies who are stay at home moms like me. We remain good friends up until today. When we met in the blogsphere 14 years ago, we had babies and toddlers. Our children are now teenagers and some are already in college. Some of us are still blogging actively. Blogging has definitely opened up my mundane stay-at-home-mom life to a world of opportunities and brought me to many wonderful friends. Blogging has always been my passion, my outlet to rant and ramble and a great avenue to earn a revenue to save for rainy days — like the pandemic that we’re in now.
The majority of my clients and advertisers used to come from the US and now from China and other parts of the world, including our own country. But no matter which part of the world they are from, I am always paid in USD, GBP and SGD via Paypal.
While I am just an unassuming stay-at-home-mom who blogs during my free time, some bloggers and influencers have made themselves famous social media moguls. They’ve worked very hard to amass a large following organically and have conquered the social media game with their passion.
It’s never too late to start your own blog (it could be on any topic that relates to you) to monetize it. Or you could dabble in You Tube or Instagram, posting photos and videos of your favorite things or hobbies. If you work hard enough and have a large following and subscribers, you could start to earn. You can also reach out to influencer marketing platforms like Intellifluence to monetize your social media platforms. Influencers can join for free and get free products and/or cash in exchange for their reviews and promoting content.
The sky is the limit and with a little creativity, passion and hard work, you can earn a little extra money on the world wide web.
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