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Michelle Schroeder-Gardner

Founder, Making Sense of Cents

$83K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

Making Sense of C...

makingsenseofcents.com

from Living on a Sailboat

started August 2011

$83,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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1. How I Reached $5M In Total Revenue As A Solo Founder [Update] (2022) ➜

2. How I Started A $100K/Month Blog About Personal Finance (2020) ➜

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

Hey again! My name is Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, and I run Making Sense of Cents, a personal finance and lifestyle website that helps readers earn more, save more, and live more. I also run Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing, an online course that teaches bloggers how to make affiliate income.

I travel full-time, currently by sailboat. I and my husband have been living on our sailboat for almost 3 years now. Before this, we traveled full-time in an RV for several years.

I created my personal finance blog Making Sense of Cents back in 2011, completely as a hobby. I did not know that blogs could make money, how they made money, or even really what a blog was. I started it just for myself so that I could talk about my personal finance journey and talk to others who were interested in personal finance as well.

Two years after I started my blog, I decided to leave my job as an analyst to blog full-time.

After becoming a full-time blogger, I started receiving email after email from other bloggers asking me to...

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