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You can make money from your free coupon blog each time a visitor prints a coupon. Once your blog gets traffic and you have built an audience, you can make money from your free coupon blog in various ways. Starting a coupon blog is easy. You can have one up and running in just about 30 minutes. The next question may be which blogging platform should I choose? However many bloggers including myself recommend WordPress because of all the features and the ability to customize your site's appearance. The next step is choosing your domain name. The choice is up to you! Write blog posts often to provide relevant information to your audience.
Make sure to promote your blog and content through social networks, SEO and other marketing channels to get more people to visit your coupon blog. Focus on building an audience who is already looking for coupons. Here's some tools and resources I use for building traffic that I strongly recommend. Starting a free coupon blog is easy but making money from it is a real challenge. Having a coupon blog can be financially lucrative. It is about building your brand and an audience who is already looking for your coupon codes if you want success with a free coupon blog.
There are several ways coupon blogs make money. Here are some ways to make money from your free coupon blog: First of all, you can save money by using money saving coupons yourself. If you have a free coupon blog, you will be the first to know about the latest deals offered via the newest coupons. Sign up as an affiliate with a reputable coupon company such as Escalate Media and Coupons.
Find coupons that might interest your target audience, then put them on your blog. Your coupons will look similar like these below: Every time someone prints a coupon off your blog, you make money. You will usually get a few cents per print of a coupon but your earnings add up quickly if you get lots of people to print coupons. You can join the Amazon Associates Program to promote products on Amazon on your own coupon blog.
When someone buys an item by clicking your affiliate link to that item, you will earn a commission. There are many affiliate networks. Following bloggers who routinely post their own grocery lists and prices as well as compile limited time offers will speed up your learning curve. You need their expertise if you want to move beyond beginner status. Most of them have an engaging story behind why they seek bottom line prices and provide fun, casual, and current content.
They also frequently host giveaways for subscribers. Bargain Babe Julia focuses on providing shoppers with sensible ways to save money while shopping and advice towards reaching their money saving goals. Hip 2 Save This is not your Grandma's coupon site. Let Bryn take you o.
Hip 2 Save is a great resource for coupons and freebies. Saving Cents with Sense Find advice on saving money and grocery coupons from Melissa. This might sound obvious. Here are some simple ways to find coupons. I get the Sunday paper. Now I get extras from the food bank to which I regularly donate. I date the front of each insert. I then 3 hole punch and binder them. I never clip coupons until I am ready to use them.
This is not a couponing rule. This is my preference. Most sites allow you to print each coupons 2x per computer. I also subscribe to free coupon alerts. Magazine subscriptions pay for themselves quickly with all the money saving coupons.
Thanks for including my site on the list too! She only highlights the best deals she can find. They have proven to be very reliable with great customer support. My husband and I have 3 children and would love to work from home. I was wondering what it was like to run a coupon site, and whether one person can really do it all. Ok, so she is a normal stay at home mom, just like me. Amanda from Simple Saving Savvy.
You can purchase a subscription and save money or it can be purchased at WalMart. These are example of local stores in my area, Central OH. I recommend checking out your area as well. Now that you have some coupons, I recommend finding some coupon blogs to follow. They do all the work for you.
The best way to really save money or get things for free is to couple your coupons with sales. These blogs do weekly match ups. Many follow their local and even national chains. They review the weekly ad and tell you what coupons to use. They tell you where their coupons are from and even link to the printables. I am not kidding.
They do ALL the work! When I get ready for a shopping trip, I review my latest blog, decide what I am interested in purchasing and get my coupons in order. Really, it is that simple. I mainly shop Meijer and Kroger. Jolyn does an amazing job of matching both stores, especially Meijer.
I am impressed with the amount of detail Jolyn provides. I am pleased that she is so dedicated to making my couponing life easier. I had the opportunity to ask Jolyn a few questions as I was curious about what all goes into this blog I love. Jolyn is a stay at home mom to 3 kids ages 7, 5 and 1. She lives in the Detroit Metro area.
In her previous life which seems so long ago now , she was an elementary school teacher and coach. She loves that her website gives her the flexibility to spend time with her family and manage their sick days. Her husband is a high school teacher and she is looking forward to summer like you wouldn't believe! Ok, so she is a normal stay at home mom, just like me.
I was curious how long she had been couponing.
She was unsure how or when she officially started couponing. As a kid, she used to add coupons to her mom's shopping list. In high school, she began finding deals that matched up with sales. She recalled that during the summer when she was on break from college, she worked at a small Spartan chain store. Over time, she tried just about every position there.
She filled in for all the positions ranging from cashiering and stocking, produce, ordering and management. This gave her a good basis to start with and a chance to pick up a few things now and then with coupons. She would say that she started couponing more seriously in the fall of She decided to leave the elementary classroom to stay home with her son.
Following bloggers who routinely post their own grocery lists and prices as well This blog is a news and project reporters view of frugal living and helpful hints. This coupon blog is so current, we can barely keep up! Online deals for retailers like Target and Amazon are included alongside supermarket-specific coupons.
They knew this was a financial move that was risky. She looked into coupon resources online and started ramping up coupon use while shopping. This made a decent impact on our spending and they were able to resist living off our savings. In January , she explained that a friend called. Her friend was working part-time and her husband was laid off. They were trying to stretch their limited income to feed 4 teenagers.
She said to Jolyn, "You have to show me how you shop. When her friend called back a week or two later, she explained that that method wasn't working for her. These deals and coupons weren't always valid in her area. Jolyn searched for something that covered Michigan or Metro Detroit and it just wasn't there.
Even though friends had encouraged her to start a blog before, she felt that she had nothing unique to offer. There were so many other frugal blogs. She had been occasionally sharing deals with friends via email, but would accidentally leave someone out. That friend would be disappointed. Therefore, she offered to put the weekly shopping lists, highlighting only the best deals, on a free blog. She is doing most of the work for them. She hopes that they're using it to save on groceries for their families and to pick up a few extras as donations.
She only highlights the best deals she can find. She also feels strongly about ethics in couponing. She will not allow anything questionable on her site. I was curious how long this weekly process takes. She explained that it is tedious, but it is something anyone can do. She scours each weekly ad, and then searches coupon databases for coupons that match up to the sale prices.
There is even a coupon database on her website. She assured me that it just takes attention to detail and persistence, week after week. She surprises herself when thinking how long she has been doing it! She also admits that she might spend too much on her blog, considering that first and foremost, she is a wife to a very supportive husband and mom to 3 young kids. She tries her best to find the time to work on it a little bit every day. But the Meijer match ups are the most time consuming. She can easily spend hours just on that one post.
I am glad she does. This is my favorite part! This sounds like a ton of work for anyone, even more for a mom with young kids. I was curious if she had help. She has helpers now, simply out of necessity. She just couldn't keep up.