Do you personally know anyone who is making money blogging or instagramming?

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Anonymous wrote:yes, a fairly-well-known (if you're into these things) lifestyle blog that led to a book deal. She also gets paid to shill products on her blog. Knew her from high school.

Oh she's all over the GOMI pages. THey hate her there. There's someone else I must have gone to high school with that posts on GOMI dissing her but I don't know who that is (nor do I care enough to find out).

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I know a woman who started a blog and now calls it a “webzine”. She has now taken it to Instagram where it seems to be gaining a much larger audience, she updates it several times a day. I believe her intentions are to get free stuff, so paid in kind, and to make money. She doesn’t need to make a living off of it because she comes from money and her DH has a very successful business himself. She seems to be enjoying herself and if she’s happy whatever.

However, I know the back story to her life and she definitely isn’t upfront about it. She plugs herself as a mom and marriage guru, with advice on products, restaurants, hotels, clothes, gifts, etc that lead to happy children and a happy marriage. She met her husband when he was married to someone else with whom he already had two kids and became his mistress. She got pregnant, so he divorced wife 1 and married her. Now he has two kids with her too. She definitely photoshops her pictures (you can tell with warped backgrounds sometimes) and uses other pictures as her own without credit. She plugs plugs plugs everything, which makes me think she’s getting paid to plug it or she hopes a company will see her reference and reach out to start a deal. She never discloses things as sponsored or as an ad. I only follow her because she asked me to when she first got on instagram.

I can’t take anything she pushes with any sincerity which makes me think all other instagrams are just one big commercial. Tastemakers are really tastemakers anymore because they’re getting paid to say they like something.

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Does YouTube count?

I know a couple who posts weekly videos and vlogs. They have made about $250,000 in the last two years. They have about 5M subscribers.

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I know an active blogger and an owner of a message board (kind of like this one, but for folks from a specific part of the world). None of them are making any significant money, at least not enough to quit their day jobs.

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A friend of mine has an Instagram account based on legwear, she loves stockings, tights and heels; the IG account just feeds her habit because companies from all over send her free stuff. If I had her legs I would do it too.

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I follow LoveTaza closely bc I find her to be facinating. This whole "oh shucks, just a mormon wife!" thing when in fact she's like a business tycoon and she's pregnant w kids four and five. I'm dying to know how much she makes.

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Anonymous wrote:I follow LoveTaza closely bc I find her to be facinating. This whole "oh shucks, just a mormon wife!" thing when in fact she's like a business tycoon and she's pregnant w kids four and five. I'm dying to know how much she makes.

I think they make quite a bit of money, because her husband quit his job and they moved into a much bigger apartment. She’s part of that Mormon mommy blog circuit. I have followed her off and on for years as well, but she’s getting super commercial lately, however at least she’s upfront about when something is sponsored (and I think all her posts are).

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Anonymous wrote:I follow LoveTaza closely bc I find her to be facinating. This whole "oh shucks, just a mormon wife!" thing when in fact she's like a business tycoon and she's pregnant w kids four and five. I'm dying to know how much she makes.

I think they make quite a bit of money, because her husband quit his job and they moved into a much bigger apartment. She’s part of that Mormon mommy blog circuit. I have followed her off and on for years as well, but she’s getting super commercial lately, however at least she’s upfront about when something is sponsored (and I think all her posts are).

Oh yeah, Josh works on the blog full time/bisically works for her. She is SAVVY. This who me? thing is a smart look.

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Anonymous wrote:Mom of my DD's BFF. Mommy blog. So fake compared to her real life. Hint: she buys clothes and housewares to stage the photos and then returns them.

I knew it! There is no way those people go shopping so often!

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My brothers former girlfriend has an instagram for natural hair products. Companies send her products to review - she opens 1/2 and sells the other 1/2 on an ebay account.

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Anonymous wrote:I follow LoveTaza closely bc I find her to be facinating. This whole "oh shucks, just a mormon wife!" thing when in fact she's like a business tycoon and she's pregnant w kids four and five. I'm dying to know how much she makes.

I think they make quite a bit of money, because her husband quit his job and they moved into a much bigger apartment. She’s part of that Mormon mommy blog circuit. I have followed her off and on for years as well, but she’s getting super commercial lately, however at least she’s upfront about when something is sponsored (and I think all her posts are).

Oh yeah, Josh works on the blog full time/bisically works for her. She is SAVVY. This who me? thing is a smart look.

i have no clue who this is but now i have to look her up

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Anonymous wrote:I know someone who had a successful blog on parenting (and specifically a child with autism) while she was a SAHM. Then her blog became more marketing and reviews of products as she became well known. She was then offered a social marketing job from one of the companies she was advertising and has worked her way up that company. So her blog ended up making her money indirectly. She didn't have a college degree and didn't think she had many job prospects. Her savvy at engaging people online led to a successful career.

Amalah?

This is who I thought of too. I actually knew her personally on a somewhat professional level. She is actually super awkward in person and not particularly friendly.

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Anybody who has a parenting blog, Instagram etc... has a very specific lifespan. I'd say once their youngest turns 7-8 or so it drops off. So I can't imagine anybody planning for it to be a long term thing. I'm actually quite certain that the blogger Amalah mentioned above had her third baby for the main purpose of extending her blog shelf life.

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My 19 year old makes a decent amount of money off her blog and Instagram (maybe $10K plus free products/clothes companies send to her). She started it as a freshman in high school and it’s mostly lifestyle and fashion. I don’t really get it - why would I feel the need to read about a stranger’s “my Morning Routine in summer!” or “how to stay organized in college!” or “what I wore to my sorority’s formal!” but she has fun with it in and it’s something she’s totally been able to talk about when doing things like interviewing for internships and such so I’m fine with it.

Most of her money comes from ads and sponsored content (she’s partnered with companies like Skinny Pop and Neutrogena which is really cool) but she also has this affiliate thing where if someone clicks on something she links in the blog and goes on to buy it, she gets a small % of that profit.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to high school with Glennon frim Monastery. Her husband too. I was friends with Craig but only knew Glennon casually.

I just read Love Warrior. It was great!