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Mindful blogging for beginners, what not to do.

What if your blog isn't making money?

What can you do to get that money flowing in abundance?

Just in case you missed it...

A reminder:

Don’t despise small beginnings.

This category of Money Tips and How To Make Money Online is a way to document the journey of this blog, howtoliveintime.com

We officially loaded the first post on 10/20/20, however the goal was to start tracking our earnings for the month of November.

Please click here to learn 3 ways we started making money online so you can too.

I shared the income report here for November.

You will see what not to do as a beginner blogger that we did in December.

So this is somewhat of a December earnings report or income report for blogging.

How Much Did We Make In The Month Of December?

But first - Let’s Look At Where Traffic Came From

Right now, organic traffic has been the focus.

If you look at the screenshot below, you will see how many visitors decided to check out the blog in December.

I'm so stoked because the traffic has almost doubled in a month!

Most is still direct traffic from my blog posts.

Keyword searching has been a huge help -

in learning how to craft a blog post, being more mindful of what is posted, instead of just throwing content out there.

You know how it is...you want to get that blog post out so bad, you don't take time to see if the topic is searchable.

A More Detailed Peek- A -Boo

So what the crap is baidu?

Do you know?

Apparently, it's a search engine mostly catered to the Chinese Market. Interesting...

I was very shocked that my traffic from Pinterest was low to my website. It's getting lots of eye balls on Pinterest.

Check out my Pinterest and follow.

Part of the Pinterest traffic has to be included in the (Direct) Source. Because all of my blog links are listed in my pin description.

If you want to get more traffic - get a Pinterest account my friend.

How I monetized using free ads

Let’s look at Google Adsense.

Google Adsense - for the month of December, we made....drum roll please….

$0.27 Sucks right?! Totally wasn't expecting this to be so low! This is something that definitely needs further investigation.

Affiliate Marketing Reject

Ok, so glad that you are still here.

The income from all of my affiliates that are currently promoted on my blog, Godaddy, Namecheap, Office Depot & OfficeMax, Vitamix, and Amazon. is $0.

December was the month to make that money, with the holidays and so many fun things to purchase. But something stopped the money flow.

A Light Of Hope

You try all the things to get traffic to your website.

The hours spend reading and searching for the right keywords.

Doing all the things to get organic traffic from Pinterest.

All of the affiliate marketing training videos that you have stock piled, to be left with a blog that isn't as profitable (not even close) as to what you would have liked.

Then you see this...

So global distribution revenue sucks for Lulu.com.

Now do you see why my own printing company is needed. However, the fact that my journals are selling is gold to me.

Sales have been happening almost every month. But

Now the next step is figuring out how to make more money with my own book! $27.99, sold on lulu.com translates to $9...

But when it's sent by them to Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other platforms, I only make $0.61.

***UPDATED 2/27/21 - MY JOURNAL IS NO LONGER ON GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION! YES! SO YOU CAN GET YOUR COPY AT A LOWER PRICE POINT DIRECTLY ON AMAZON.***

That's some SH$%%^ Yes, ok, so you understand right?!

You can support my future printing company efforts by joining my patreonhere

I, Hicunni, am being super transparent here.

In a previous state of mind, I would have been very embarrassed to show this data.

It’s great to see how we are starting out and see:

how we can put better strategies in place -

✅ increase traffic to our website

✅ earn and make more money online.

What Not To Do

If you don't start handling your business as a beginner blogger, you will get crappy results.

If you become more of a mindful blogger and really change your hobby ways...

then you can have much success.

Here are 5 things on What Not To Do so you can start winning at blogging

P.S. learn from me, you have encouraged me to take this advise...thank you!

1️⃣ If you don't have a goal it's just a dream.

Do you have a goal for blogging?

It has to be more than to just make money.

Part of mindful blogging is taking notice of what you are doing.

Do a self-care check to see what is the real motivation.

2️⃣ Posting content without doing prior research is dumb.

Keyword research is a must...

Unless you want to get crickets instead of

Customers!

Shout out to https://straycurls.com/blog/ for recommending this book ➡️ ➡️ ➡️

My analytics are getting better...just saying :)

3️⃣ Always have a way to capture emails or keep your hobby.

Finally there's a popup on this blog! Girl...get that popup up asap!

You need optins all over your blog as well.

When you find out who your niche is -

create optins and a popup as a call to action...

the next steps to fulfill what your customer is looking for.

4️⃣ Too many offerings can leave you broke.

This one should bring you to tears...

Especially if you have been around for a while.

You've created all the things, and want to share with the world.

So can relate...

Did you catch the results from my earnings report?

Keep offering the entire spread and you will get those crumbs.

Trust me...I'm taking lots of notes.

Sometimes it takes seeing and hearing it more than one time.

Too tired...let's crush this!

5️⃣ Don't you dare give up.

You better not! It is never too late.

How long are you in for?

I'm here for the long haul and quitting is not an option.

Is quitting an option for you?

Keep moving my friend.

Start with 1, "What Not To Do" tips, and implement.

Stay present, aware of what you are offering.

Do your research for your niche.

Tweak as you go.

Document your journey and keep going.

So this was a long blog, but I wanted to make sure everything is documented -

for our How To Live In Time blog for December.

Please feel free to leave a comment -

What are you going to start on first?

I am still super excited for this mindful living blog and anticipate a very fun and rewarding journey.

Pick up your copy of my new Meditation Journal...

- to get you started with the right mindset -

- start your mindful blogging with this tool here

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Mindfulness Monday Chapter 1 | Pinterest Money Tips

Today is #mindfulmonday where we share tips, quotes, aha moments to help you walk in mindfulness everyday of life. It's about learning to live in the now, with the cards that you have been given.

Learn how to be more grateful and maneuver through your day feeling less defeated but more accomplished.

This week you are going to take a trip to Pinterest. There are 5 Pins that will help you be more mindful of how you spend your money and how to save your money. Great money tips to mindful living, one day at at time.

Feel free to share your favorite or all with a friend.

Happy Pinning!

Where Is Your Next Dollar Coming From?

Make The Customer The Hero Of Your Story

Profitable Tips To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

Know What You Own

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The Untold Story Of Making Money Online

A reminder: Don’t despise small beginnings. This category of Money Tips and How To Make Money Online is a way to document the journey of this blog, howtoliveintime.com

We officially loaded the first post on 10/20/20, however the goal was to start tracking our earnings for the month of November.

There were 3 ways of making money that were tracked for the month of November. You can read in detail our goal here 3 Ways To Monetize Your Blog In November There are so many ways to make money online, but we wanted to focus our attention on 3 to start.

But first - Let’s Look At Where Traffic Came From

Right now, organic traffic has been the focus. If you look at the screenshot below, you will see how many visitors decided to check out the blog.

So 17 doesn’t seem like an awful lot of visitors for a month, however, I am grateful. 7 out of 17 returned so that’s 7 lives that found value and can share with others.

Definitely, Google Analytics in depth training is on my list!!! As you can see below, most of the traffic isn’t coming from a social media platform. So my question is, what are they searching for to find this blog?

I did add Yoast SEO and started playing around with keywords (this is another thing on my to do list...learn SEO! ). Geez, there’s so much to learn. It’s more to it than just posting and putting up pretty images! Hey if you have a great course to recommend for this, drop me a comment!

These traffic sources are a little skewed maybe since I do use BuildRedirects for most of my links to track conversions on that platform. There’s a wonder if I should be using both….hmmm. Who knows! But I will find out! (update per my husband, not true, based on what Buildredirects is used for….the conversion tracking stats is part of the Direct traffic. So, I still need BuildRedirects learn more here

So I need to find out, again, how are people finding me on google!

There aren’t many clicking on the blog logo that I included on the sidebar on my author website, hicunnichandler.com...so we need to add more information about this blog throughout the author website.

So, premium91.web-hosting.com:2083 (the source above) actually is broken up into about 16 pages, and is actually blog posts. (see below)

How I monetized using free ads

Let’s look at Google Adsense.

Google Adsense - so for the month of November, we made....drum roll please….

$1.48 So...looks like this blog is in need of more quality traffic! But there’s still room for celebration...I made money . Ha! It’s a start! There was already $2.73 in the account when I started with this blog.

3 ways we focused on monetizing this blog in November

1. Affiliate Marketing - Unfortunately, this area was dry last month. 3 of the affiliates that were highlighted this month are listed in my CJ Affiliate accout. They are: Godaddy, Namecheap, Office Depot & OfficeMax, and my all time favorite Vitamix. The other one is Amazon. I have screenshots below of our progress.

CJ Affiliate total for November 2020

Amazon total for November 2020

2. Book Sales- UPDATED 1/5/20 I had a sale on 11/30/20, it posted late. I have included the screenshot below.

None posted in my lulu portal, but the last sale I received was the end of October. Do you see how much was made via Amazon?

Now do you see why my own printing company is needed. You can support this effort by joining my patreon here

3. Patreon - I started to add a little content then stopped. Should more content be added even though no one joined? Should I wait until people arrive so it won’t look too silly having all that content when no one is there to glean from it.

I, Hicunni, am being super transparent here. In a previous state of mind, I would have been very embarrassed to show this data. It’s great to see how we are starting out and see how we can put better strategies in place to increase traffic to our website and earn and make more money online.

Lessons Learned To Improve for December

More posting is needed for Pinterest to increase the number of visitors to my blog. More visitors, more return visitors, the likelihood of someone buying one of my offerings.
Ramp up promotions on my podcast. Which means, I need to verbally share what’s new for the week and month. Yikes, for almost a year since I started my podcast, I haven’t promoted much...mostly just listing my offering on my author website.
Add a popup!!! Oh my goodness! Why don’t we have one already? This needs to be added this week!

So this was a long blog, but I wanted to make sure everything is documented for our How To Live In Time blog for November.

Please feel free to leave a comment if you have any tips for this newbie. I am still super excited for this mindful living blog and anticipate a very fun and rewarding journey.

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Support this website and my podcast at https://www.patreon.com/howtoliveintime

Why Patreon?

Hey there! Hicunni here, Author & Creator

Being a homeschool mom for over a decade and over 5 years building an online coaching and marketing business has been challenging but oh so rewarding. It's been a pleasure showing people how to live a holistic life and being mindful of creating the life that they want. Are you ready to create the life that you want?

How To Live In Time patreon is creating podcast and digital resources for mindful living.

This is a great way to show you:

behind the scenes of how I create my podcast
what we do~how we live as a homeschool family
from fun food creations to sneak peeks of new products and how to's

Also, with your support, it will take care of expenses associated with my blog and podcast, as well as help jump start my future printing company.

What for? To print and publish my own t-shirts, books, and well as assist new self-publishing authors in their endeavors.If this sounds like something that touches your heart, then sign up at http://patreon.com/howtoliveintime Thanks in advance for your financial support!

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3 Ways To Monetize Your Blog In November

Well we are almost 2 weeks into this month and I am still trying to figure out what happened to the time In this section of the blog, well category of How To Make Money Online and Money Tips, I told you in my first post that this space would document how we are making money with this blog. Making passive income, money online has been a focus for us for the last 5 years. Here are a few things that we have done in the past to learn how to make money online:

Affiliate Marketing - through blog posts and email lists affiliate links
Amazon affiliate links
Creating online courses
Other digital products, like recipes, cheat sheets, step by step guides, etc
Mystery shopping and job boards (I still consider myself a mystery shopper)
Social media posting/call to actions/ads (like Facebook, Instagram)
Pitching companies to be affiliates or creating partnerships
Selling physical products, like books online
Online travel agent
Network marketing
Answering surveys
Other side hustle income streams
Meal Prepping/ Meal Planning tips
Coaching
Membership Community

As you can see we have created a lot of businesses/income streams. What a long list of stuff, right?

Ok so after all of that, we are starting fresh with this blog. Of course we have just started and I finally got my Google Adsense Account approved last week! For some reason my website wasn't showing up properly, even after cleaning out my cache and everything. We are experiencing Internet upgrades in the area where we live, so that may have been the issue. A great Internet connection is a must!

At any rate we are up and running. Since my family has been marketing and making money online for the last 5 years, the way we made money was all over the place. We need consistent income for our businesses.

We want consistent Paypal and Stripe notifications. We want to make and earn more money online than we have spent. Having extra cash to fund your family dreams and to get you further to the lifestyle that you want to live, is a beautiful thing!

And guess what? I want to make it to the first page of Google! It's possible! I don't know how, but we are learning more about SEO.

Our goal is to earn our income solely online. This blog will document the training, the tips, strategies, processes, methods we will use to earn abundant passive income by 2025.

Why 2025? It’s a great goal to have…#5 representing big things can happen...and I am going to believe it.

A goal without a plan is just a wish, so we have to put a plan in place.

I want to share with you 3 ways that we will earn money this month. There are so many methods out there, hey we have done quite a bit, but sticking to three seems more doable. Don't you think?

Affiliate Marketing - In most of the posts this month, already, there are affiliate marketing offers. These offers are not presented in a cheesy way, it's actually things that we are using to maneuver through this life...to live in time.
Book Sales - Ok so I am new to this book thing. Earlier in 2020, I and 24 other women were involved in a book collaboration. Our book hit best-seller on amazon within 24 hours! I have an ebook pdf included in my How To Live In Time Starter Packet, free just for you! Click here to get it! Months later as we were well into the pandemic, I created The Body Love Mindset Meditation Journal, a 365 Day journal prompt, and mindful living journal. I plan to create more Pinterest pins centered around this and make sure the book information is easily accessible on this website. You can read more about the journal and purchase below.
Patreon - Whoa! So there were a lot of steps to set this up! Oh geez, I forgot to screenshot all of the steps! I will have to do a video of some sort on this later. I am going into the 3rd season of my podcast, Conversations w/ Hicunni. This Patreon was created to help support the podcast and this blog. You can check out my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/howtoliveintime. I have also included the verbiage in detail of why Patreon...below.

Did you get all of that? So this homeschool mama will be popping in this month to keep you updated on all these things! I hope this encourages you to start your own blog and start monetizing it.

Blogs are still a thing, so get started! Even if you don't have a virtual assistant, build right where you are. This is what we are doing.

Although, our kids are getting skills in graphic design, being a virtual assistant, WordPress, social media (Instagram and Facebook, YouTube, etc. They are learning that blogging is more than the pretty image and quick blog posts.

It takes work. I don't know if we will ever hire someone again for Fiverr or hire someone from Upwork. We are a homeschool family, who are creating online businesses to leave a legacy for generations to come. At this point, we are teaching our kids the skills.

Maybe later on we can expand to Upwork, Fiverr, or even hire a more skilled virtual assistant. Until then we have experts and Pinterest enthusiasts (we love Pinterest) in-house. We are using that extra money to pay our kids to earn extra cash part-time. Um yes, they do charge for their services.

So this has been a very lengthy email full of a lot of details. I am usually a very detailed person anyway, but we wanted to make sure you understand that you can start making money online in your spare time.

There are so many brands that you can create but from experience, it's great to narrow your focus just a little bit. If you google brands or niches that you are interested in / YouTube Channels, you will be sure to find some ideas on how to make some extra money, creating the online business that you want. Even looking on Craigslist or a local retailer may give you a few ideas to get you started part-time.

My husband loves the term digital marketing. Affiiate Marketing, Online Marketing, Content Marketing, etc it's all included. Digital marketing is here to stay and will continue to soar, and I want to hear more about yours gigs soon! We have a lot to learn, it doesn't stop here.

We are learning to spend our time more wisely. My husband loves to market on Facebook, but I actually took a break from Facebook and Instagram. I am starting to get used to not being on those platforms. I will share more details about that later.

If you need anything or have questions, please feel free to leave me a comment.

Chat soon:)

Hicunni Chandler

Author & Creator

Timeless Treasures Mentioned Above (the journal)

Awesome Mindfulness Journal

The Body Love Mindset is a daily journal created to guide you into self awareness, increase body positivity, and discover more mindful living. This tool of love, features 365 days of journal prompts centered around self love and shifting your mindset to become a better version of yourself. There’s plenty of room for reflection after your daily meditation. Did I mention as a bonus, this journal includes my signature, The Body Love Mindset guided meditation to get you started?

This guided journal will help you:

Set positive intentions and daily reflections to create the life that you want.
Feel more confident in your body by meditating on words of self love and kindness.
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Create a safe space to face your shadows and keep you grounded.
De stress and start healing your relationship with food and body, through mediation and writing.

By the end of the 365 days, you will feel more vibrant, more confident in your body, and have the tenacity to create the life that you want. A mind shift happens when you decide that you want it. Are you ready?

It's time to do something for yourself. Don't forget to gift this journal to a friend who needs this journal as well.

Get the journal

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Why Patreon?

Hey there! Hicunni here, Author & Creator

How To Live In Time patreon is creating podcast and digital resources for mindful living.

This is a great way to show you:

behind the scenes of how I create my podcast
what we do~how we live as a homeschool family
from fun food creations to sneak peeks of new products and how to's

Also, with your support, it will take care of expenses associated with my blog and podcast, as well as help jump start my future printing company.

As an Amazon Associate and Affiliate For Multiple Companies, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Still here? There's an awesome FREE Affiliate Marketing Bootcamphere

Money Tips | Welcome

Welcome! In this space we are going to share tips on how to make money online. Our journey with this blog will be documented here! I haven't added Google Adsense as of yet (more on that later), so I will be sure to give you the date and screenshot once it is started. That way, you can see how we are starting fresh!

So, grab your smoothie or cup of tea and join the conversation. Let's Go!

Chat soon:)

Hicunni Chandler

Author & Creator

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