$9500/Month From Her Blog Within 2 Years

Kristin Larsen writes about taking her new blog from zero to $9,500/month in just 20 months, allowing her to quit her day job 🥳

She started off blogging about personal finance, then started figuring out how to drive traffic via Pinterest and blogged about that…

I wrote a blog post about how my traffic went from 5,000 to 17,000 page views in one month [via Pinterest] and the post received a lot of social media shares and traffic! Fellow bloggers reached out to me and ask for assistance in helping them with their Pinterest accounts.

Kristin was about 8 months into blogging at that point and was publishing 3 articles per week. But she had yet to crack even $100/month in revenue 😩

She decided to help those fellow bloggers as a freelance Pinterest Manager, and that was her first reliable source of income.

Over the next several months, she kept up the freelance work, got display ads on her blog, and started releasing her own products.

One of her first products was a course about driving traffic via Pinterest… basically the productized version of what she was doing for her freelance clients 😎

20 months after starting her blog, she pulled in $9,566 in one month from 5 sources…

affiliate income, freelance income, ad income, product income (three products!), and sponsors/brands.

Kristin’s story sounds like an overnight success but she earned literally $0 her first 4 months and less than $3000 her first year, despite putting a ton of work into her blog.