This blog post is in partnership with Everlane. Would you believe that I’ve gotten more work in 2020 and made more money in the first 6 months of this year than I had all of last year? One of the things this pandemic has taught me, and it’s taught me a lot of life lessons, is that online businesses are…
Every day I get an email from someone who’s New Year’s Resolution is to finally start a blog or a YouTube channel. I’m frequently asked about how I got my start and what tools to use for both, so thought this would make an excellent blog post topic. Times have changed. When I first started this blog in 2010 there…
MY STORY If you’re new here, I’ve been blogging since October 2010. That means, I’ve had this website (although its changed 3 times) since then and I’ve been updating it with blog posts consistently for the last 5 years. I started my blog for free on the website www.blogger.com and 4 years later switched to www.wordpress.com where this website resides.…
The number one question I get after how to go about starting a blog, is how do I make money from blogging. People are genuinely curious because this creative job is so new and still pretty much in it’s infancy when it comes to being taken seriously as a reputable career path. I get tons of DM’s from people who…
You ever heard the saying that when you assume you make an ass out of you and me? (ass-u-me) Well, I can’t tell you how many super rude assumptions are made about me everyday, especially as a full-time blogger/influencer or even when I was working my 9-5 and blogging on the side. A lot of people seem to have very…
[one_half padding=”0 15px 0 0″]I’m sitting at 21.7K followers on Instagram right now (3:29pm EST on November 27th). By the time this post goes live on Saturday, I’m almost positive I’ll be at 21.9K. I’ve gained a steady 100-150+ followers every day for the last 3 weeks even though I barely get 1K likes a photo. I can’t lie not…
