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4 Business Blog Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: October 8th, 2024

Struggling to find a niche that combines creativity, expertise, and a flexible lifestyle? Consider starting a business blog. At its core, a business blog covers industry insights, trends, and advice tailored to your target audience.

This venture involves conducting thorough research, writing informative posts, and leveraging SEO to drive traffic. Quality content is king. You'll need to position yourself as an industry expert, attracting readers seeking valuable information and solutions to their problems.

For monetization, options include sponsored content, affiliate marketing, or offering digital products like eBooks and courses. A business blog provides an accessible entry point into the digital landscape, requiring minimal upfront investment but demanding consistency and dedication.

If you're passionate about a particular field and enjoy writing, starting a business blog can be an incredibly rewarding journey, both intellectually and financially.

In this list, you'll find real-world business blog success stories and very profitable examples of starting a business blog that makes money.

1. Making Sense of Cents ($996K/year)

Michelle Schroeder-Gardner came up with the idea for Making Sense of Cents as a way to document her personal finance journey.

She started the blog as a hobby, but after readers suggested she monetize it, she leaped and quit her stable job as an analyst.

Making Sense of Cents now earns over $100,000 a month and has made over $5 million in total.

How much money it makes: $996K/year
How much did it cost to start: $100
How many people on the team: 1

How I Started A $100K/Month Blog About Personal Finance

Michelle Schroeder-Gardner earns $100,000 a month from Making Sense of Cents, a personal finance and lifestyle blog where she writes informative and fun articles about financial freedom and her life on the road, thanks to a diversified traffic approach and monetization strategies, such as affiliate marketing, sponsored partnerships, and course sales.

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2. Financial Samurai ($360K/year)

Sam started a personal finance website during the 2009 economic crisis. An advertiser offered him $1,000 to advertise on his blog, which he saw as an opportunity to focus on his financial advisory blog.

How much money it makes: $360K/year
How many people on the team: 0

I Left My 13 Year Career To Start A $120K/Year Financial Advice Blog

Financial Samurai founder, Sam Dogen, shares how he turned his cathartic writing hobby into a personal finance site that generates over $10K a month in passive advertising revenue and has over 1 million organic visitors a month, as well as his tips on starting and growing a business, and diversifying clientele.

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3. Ghana Talks Business ($60K/year)

Amma Antwi, the owner and Managing Editor of Ghana Talks Business, came up with the idea to fill the gap in knowledge-based content on business management and personal finance in Ghana. As management consultants with a passion for writing, they realized the need for a platform to publish their content and reach a wider audience. With a unique approach to simplifying business topics and conducting webinars, Ghana Talks Business has attracted a loyal audience and seen steady revenue growth.

How much money it makes: $60K/year
How much did it cost to start: $5K
How many people on the team: 4

We Launched A Niche Media Company About Entrepreneurship In Ghana

Ghana Talks Business is a successful niche business content platform, earning between $3000 and $5000 monthly through expert knowledge-based content on business management and personal finance catered towards business professionals, entrepreneurs, and students.

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4. Innovations and More Ltd ($24K/year)

George, the founder of Innovations and More, was inspired by a video showcasing the commercial success of a simple everyday product idea. Utilizing his design acumen and resurrecting an idea he had conceptualized years prior, George created the UStop Pee Stopper, a universal fit urine deflector that solves the problem of spillage beneath toilet seats. Since its launch in 2018, the product has exceeded expectations and the company continues to develop innovative products to solve common problems.

How much money it makes: $24K/year
How much did it cost to start: $500
How many people on the team: 0

How I Created A $2K/Month Patent Pending Urine Deflector

Innovations and More's founder George launched the company in 2018 with "Essentials you never knew you needed" such as the UStop Pee Stopper and the Cell Phone Holder, with sales increasing by up to 50% each month since March 2020 with a range of different products at various stages of development.

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