Final yr Michelle Schroeder-Gardner made nearly $1 million — $979,000, to be actual. Guess how this 27 year-old made $1 million in a yr. That’s proper, running a blog. From an article in Forbes, her ticket out of debt and into monetary freedom has been her weblog, Making Sense of Cents, the place she affords tips about saving and being profitable — and publishes earnings reviews. Schroeder-Gardner stated: “I had really began my weblog in August 2011, earlier than I graduated with my finance MBA. I acquired the concept sooner or later once I was studying Cosmo and so they had an article that includes the non-public finance web site Day by day Value. I began studying that web site and I grew to become super-interested in private finance blogs. I began my weblog as a interest. I didn’t begin it pondering I’d make an earnings from it. Six months later, I made my first $100 from my weblog when a blogger good friend who was already benefiting from her weblog related me with an advertiser. I didn’t even know blogs might earn a living.” She retains creating her running a blog interest right into a profession and her incomes retains going up: In 2013, she earned $117,000. In 2014, that elevated to $164,000. In 2015, her earnings jumped to $321,000. And eventually he made near $1 million final yr. (forbes.com)