Year In Review: 2018 And The Start Of My Blogging Journey

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In March 2018, I decided to start this blog. I had no idea what I was doing. This was my first blog post ever: 5 Reasons I Started Blogging (And Why You Should Too)!

Since then, I have written 92 posts and achieved over 92,000 page views on my blog! Quite impressive for someone who is just doing this as a side hustle!

In 2018, my top posts were the following:

1. 10 Things I Stopped Buying To Save Money
2. How I Save Thousands of Dollars Per Month By Living Frugally
3. 62 Ways To Save More Money in 2019!
4. My Third Month Blogging – May 2018 Income Report – $494.07
5. How I Grew My Monthly Pinterest Traffic To 100,000 By Manually Pinning (No Tailwind)
6. 11 Reasons Why I Don’t Plan To Move Back To Canada
7. Blogging for Profit: How To Start A Profitable Blog in 2019
8. How To Pick The Perfect Blog Name
9. How I Saved Over $11,000 Living Abroad As A Student In Switzerland
10. How To Find A Job While Living Abroad

In 2018, I also took a few blogging courses, the ones which I recommend are:

• Pinteresting Strategies – This ebook which has now become an e-course has helped me so much with learning Pinterest and getting traffic from Pinterest.
• Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing – This course helped me to understand affiliate marketing and to make money through promoting products and services that I love. I started making affiliate income just 2 months after starting my blog!!
• Elite Blog Academy – This course gave me a framework to build my blog from scratch!

Some amazing things that I accomplished through my blog were:

1. Helping thousands of people make big life decisions (which include quitting their jobs, starting a blog, and moving abroad!)
2. Finding coaching clients and connecting with people
3. Attending FinCon in Orlando thanks to a scholarship from Rockstar Finance
4. Getting featured on other blogs and podcasts! Yeeks, I did my first podcast on FinCon and it was a nightmare ;P
5. Selling my first ebook ever!

My plans for 2019:

1. Attend FinCon again. I told myself I will do it if I’m able to make over $1,000 a month from this blog!
2. I want to make a full-time income from my blog! I know it’s possible.
3. Rebrand. I want to “niche down” and focus more on creating content about moving abroad, living abroad, and chasing your dream life (abroad)!
4. Continue to work on more products to sell
5. Continue offering coaching

Key take-aways

This was a short and sweet post just to highlight some of my blog accomplishments for the year. I know for some bigger bloggers, this means NOTHING. But to me, it’s quite a big deal! And I’m proud of what I’ve achieved so far!

I can’t wait to make 2019 even better than 2018! Hope you continue to follow my journey!

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