This is a follow up story for Leader Connecting Leaders. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published about 6 years ago, check it out here.

Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

Hi, my name is Jodi Carlson I currently run the blog Leader Connecting Leaders, and recently in 2020 started a sister blog Mom Connecting Moms which is also my brand I am working on launching physical products from.

I currently bring in between 5000 and 8000 a month before expenses and paying contractors. Over the past 8 years, I have credited my success with collaborating well with others, offering to promote their business and material vs trying to sell my own. Everyone learns how to blog manual says charge people to promote them, charge for sponsored posts, use your readers to prove you are worth earning money from other businesses. I have never done a Sponsored post but have dozens of people I have promoted and shared their products with my readers. Sometimes sure I have an affiliate link so if someone purchased from them I get a commission, but there have been several times I just really thought the product or service they had would benefit my readers.

I have a few blog posts to this day 3 years later that get some of the most traffic of all my posts and I don’t make a dime from the post itself, but the...

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