Tsh Oxenreider
Tsh Oxenreider earns a full-time income from six blogs that she’s turned into an empire. Learn her tips for breaking through in a universe of over 180 million blogs – then start living the dream in your PJs or at any Wi-Fi hot spot.
Want to make money blogging? Here’s advice from someone who’s been there, done that — and turned the effort into an enviable full-time living, while never veering from her mission of helping people live more simply.
Meet Tsh (pronounced “Tish”) Oxenreider, whose online introduction includes the line “no, my name is not a typo,” and whose self-description reads, “Writer. Editor. Entrepreneur. Drinker of fine beverages.” In fact, beverages prompted her first revenue goal. “I started blogging as a platform to write, a hobby I was good at,” she says, referring to the launch of her first blog, “Simple Mom,” in 2008. “I’d read up on the relatively new concept of pro blogging and thought it’d be nice to earn some latte money. Income was an idea but not a major goal.”
Fast-forward to 2012.
Oxenreider’s revenues have doubled every single year. Her vision has expanded into a six-blog network, Simple Living Media. She works out of “various coffee shops” wherever she’s living (currently Bend, Oregon) or traveling (most recently the Middle East). Her husband, Kyle, now handles accounting, payables, records and trouble-shooting. An ad manager coordinates private ad sales. A freelance team of “wives, moms, sisters and friends” includes an editor for each blog except the flagship blog, “Simple Mom,” which Tsh still edits herself, though she “spends most of her time chasing three little kids around the yard.”
Among bloggers, she’s pretty much living the dream. Here’s how she got there and her advice for others. Read More…
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