I've been blogging for a while...well since 2010. I've been blogging on my main blog since 2011 and the blog was set up to drive leads for my business. And, it worked. I had no idea that blogs could make money. It was just one of my marketing vehicles to drive customers to my "store." (Now I had a shop at home flooring store, so it wasn't exactly a store, but you get the idea). And, it worked very well. I believe the key to my success was learning SEO early and writing blog posts about the

I'm still relatively new to the affiliate world. I really started to take this seriously 2 years ago (almost to the date). I did take a course on affiliate marketing and that really helped, but it has really been the networking in FB groups that helped me more as I learned things much faster that way.I also did tons of research on how to do better with amazon (there are a lot of great articles out there. I started to make some more, and then just did a lot of trial and error.In November 2018

Hey guys. I'm new to this site, so just learning the ropes. It sounds like I'm supposed to write about my blogging journey and the progress I've made. So apologies if I've made some mistakes along the way.As background, I have been blogging for 8 or 9 years. But, I was not monetizing. In fact, I didn't even know that was a thing you could do.Instead, I created a blog as a marketing tool for my business. I had a shop at home flooring store, so I blogged about flooring in the hopes that I w

Over the last 5 or 6 years, gray stained hardwood floors have been on the rise. This has been followed by a steep increase in whitewashed floors, and now over the last couple of years, more and more are looking to do a combo of gray and brown floors.These colors are super stylish and of course trendy. If you have solid hardwood flooring, the "trendy" aspect isn't a real concern (unless you're about to sell your house) as by the time these go out of style, it will be time to refinish your hard