By skyforbes 
I want to help your blog succeed (free to you).
If you start a blog using this blog post, you’ll get free one-on-one text coaching with me personally for thirty days. That way, I can personally help you get your blog started on the right foot. I’ll be there whenever you have questions, want feedback, or just want to talk.
All you have to do to get the free one-on-one text coaching is start a blog using this blog post or my free email course, then fill out the form linked at the bottom of this page.
How did I get started blogging?
Before I walk you through how to start a blog, I thought I’d give you a little background on who I am and how I got started blogging.
This all started a few years ago, shortly after marrying my husband. We were poor newlyweds; I’m talking food stamps poor. We couldn’t even afford to go on date nights or stop by Starbucks for coffee, and we didn’t get to go on a honeymoon.
I was in nursing school and working as much as I could. I hated my job, and I hated nursing school. I had just realized I didn’t want to be a nurse, and I felt like my whole life was falling apart because I thought I was stuck becoming a nurse and hating my whole life from that point forward. Eventually, I realized I couldn’t do it anymore, I couldn’t go on hating my life that much and living for the weekends.
So I began using Pinterest and Google to try and find a way to make money from home so we could travel, pay down our debt, save for a house, and save for a baby. I came across people saying, “Try Etsy print on demand,” “Create UGC for brands,” or “Become a virtual assistant,” so I tried it all….
I kid you not when I say after working for months on all the above things, I had made like $9.
I mean, great, that’s $9 extra dollars, but that would buy me like a Starbucks coffee and a chocolate cake pop, not allow me to live out my dreams of being a work-from-home mom and wife.
While I was looking for ways to make money on Pinterest, I eventually started to come across pins like ‘“How I Made $10,000 Last Month Blogging”, and just like you, I decided to bite the bullet and invest the $50 into starting my own blog to see if that would be the thing that changed my life.
What happened after I started my blog:
I thought the day after I started my blog, I would make $300, and to my surprise, I couldn’t even figure out how to make it look good, how bloggers made money, to begin with, or how to install plug-ins. So, needless to say, I certainly wasn’t making money.
I got so annoyed with all the bloggers talking about how much money they made blogging because they had inspired me to start a blog, but none of them were actually teaching you how to blog successfully.
During my frustration, I promised myself that If I ever actually figured out how to have a profitable blog, I would help other people who wanted to find a way to make money from home.
By the 7th month of blogging, I had more than replaced my income and quit my job.
By the 14th month, my husband left his job to work on my blog with me.
Now, in 2025, I make over $10,000 every month from my blog, and we get to live in our dream house, drive our dream car, and go on vacations I couldn’t have ever dreamed of taking before.
I finally recently decided that it’s time to keep my promise to myself and share my best blogging advice to help people like you build blogs that will change your life.
Trust me; there is no reason I’m special. I had no clue what I was doing when I started. YOU’VE GOT THIS!
What do you need to start a blog?
Don’t get scared! Like I just said, you don’t need any special knowledge to blog. You don’t even really need any special technology or a lot of money!
If you don’t know what any of the things on this list are, I’ll explain them all; don’t worry.
To start a blog, you are going to need:
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A computer.
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An internet connection.
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An email address.
A Computer: The reason I say you need a computer is that, for one, it is almost impossible to scroll through this guide and sign up for a blog at the same time. If you are on your phone right now, copy this link, and email it to yourself so you can follow along when you get to your computer.
Also, it is easier to be on a computer when you are working on your blog, in general, writing blog posts or editing your theme, so if you can, I suggest heading over to your computer before getting started if you have one.
When it comes to the other two things I listed, I’m guessing you already have some kind of internet connection and email address, lol. If not, you are going to need those things to get started.
SIDE NOTE: Don’t let your mind get the best of you.
I was hesitant to put the $50 for Bluehost on my credit card to create this blog because that Is a lot of money (especially for a poor newlywed like I was), and I had no idea If I would ever get it back. My blog hasn’t failed. It has become a full-time job.
And just like I didn’t fail, I know you won’t fail! Just to make sure:
I MADE YOU SOMETHING: I created a FREE ( did I mention it’s free?) 6-day email course, which will teach you step-by-step how to set up a blog, install your theme, make a logo, and create monetized content. It will completely kick-start your blogging success.
It is much like this blog post, but it gets sent straight to your email so that you won’t lose it, and you can come back to it anytime.
So, if you want to start a blog right now, follow this very blog post you are reading! However, if you want to start a blog maybe tomorrow or this weekend, follow the email course. Here is what it goes over:
Here is what the FREE email course goes over:
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Day 1: How to start a blog from scratch with no experience (& get a free domain name)
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Day 2: How to make your blog look ready for readers.
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Day 3: How to write killer blog posts & make money from them.
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Day 4: Other ways bloggers make money.
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Day 5: How to start using social media as a blogger.
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Day 6: How to stay motivated & not overwhelmed when it comes to blogging.