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The Ultimate Guide to Self Employment in College.

The Ultimate Guide to Self Employment in College.

When people ask me what I do, I usually don’t come right out and say, “Oh, I’m a blogger.” Usually I’ll say something along the lines of, “I’m self-employed” or “I run a small business.” Most of the population doesn’t realize that blogging is a viable career option, so I try and ease them into the idea. As of now, I don’t think a single adult outside of my close circle has taken me seriously when I told them that I am a self-employed blogger. People are typically suspicious, curious, or irrationally rude. The rude people figure that because I…

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September Income Report.

September Income Report.

So I’m a bit later than usual with my income report this month –  sorry about that! But I’ve finally crunched the numbers and analyzed my analytics and despite lack of growth on both ends, I’m actually pretty excited about this report. I’m going a little more in depth and telling all when it comes to what I charge (something many bloggers keep very hush hush!) But before we get into that, I always like to add a little disclaimer about why I write these. People who I know in real life and are outside of the blogging world are always…

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4 Ways to reduce blogging stress.

4 Ways to reduce blogging stress.

I’ve gone on and on about how much I love blogging a million times and I could probably spend hours going on about how great it is – but any blogger can tell you how it’s not all sunshine and collaborations. When you start blogging seriously for business, things can start to get more than a little stressful. A big question that I’ve gotten lately is how do I deal with the stress that comes along with blogging. And if I’m being honest – that question has come at the perfect time. The past few weeks I’ve stressed more about…

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Why you should start a blog.

Why you should start a blog.

Ok, I get a lot of emails from bloggers and people considering bloggers. The latter group’s emails always tend to go a little something like this: “Hi Morgan! I was thinking about starting a blog but….” The only thing that is different is their ‘but.’ But I don’t have time. But I don’t know what I would write about. But I don’t know anything about coding or website design But I’m afraid people I know in real life will find out. Well, I’m here to calm those fears. Anyone who knows me in real life can attest to the fact that…

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August Traffic & Income Report.

August Traffic & Income Report.

So it’s that time again – time for me to publish my traffic & income report! Last month I started publishing them at the very beginning of the month rather than the middle because of changes made to how The Blogher Ad Network presents our income. We used to be able to see our final income figures 15 days after the month, but now it’s 35 days, so rather than publishing my income report over a month past month end,  I’m just going to publish without finalized figures. Why I do income reports. I know I add this disclaimer every month, but…

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