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35 BEST Travel Deal Sites [2023]: Flight, Hotel & Tour Deals

June 1, 2023May 17, 2023 by Mimi McFadden

Looking over the shoulder of a dark-haired woman who is holding her phone and typing on it, with a white suitcase in front of her.

Looking over the shoulder of a dark-haired woman who is holding her phone and typing on it, with a white suitcase in front of her.

Our ultimate list of the best travel deal sites to make sure your money is well spent when planning your next trip.

27 BEST Gifts for Flight Attendants [2023 Gift Guide]

May 18, 2023May 17, 2023 by Mimi McFadden

A brown-haired female flight attendant in a dark blue uniform seen from behind as she walks through an airport, pulling a suitcase.

A brown-haired female flight attendant in a dark blue uniform seen from behind as she walks through an airport, pulling a suitcase.

A guide to the best gifts for flight attendants to brighten their day and show how much you appreciate their work.

31 BEST Gifts for Bourbon Lovers and Bourbon Drinkers [2023]

May 19, 2023May 17, 2023 by Mimi McFadden

Best Gifts for Bourbon Lovers

Best Gifts for Bourbon Lovers

Read on for a guide to the best gifts for bourbon lovers, full of sweet and spicy ideas.

Disneyland Magic Key Pass: The Ultimate Guide From an Avid Park Goer and Pass Holder

May 31, 2023March 2, 2023 by Mimi McFadden

A colorfully-dressed barbershop quartet standing outside on Disneyland's Main Street.

A colorfully-dressed barbershop quartet standing outside on Disneyland's Main Street.

Find out everything you need to know about the Disneyland Magic Key Pass from someone who uses it all the time.

31 Best National Park Books for the Avid Park Explorer

January 9, 2023 by Mimi McFadden

Best National Park Books

Best National Park Books

Thirty-one of the best national park books, including some you didn’t know you needed!

48 Best Christmas Gifts for Parents in 2023 [That They’ll Actually Want]

May 19, 2023December 21, 2022 by Mimi McFadden

best christmas gifts for parents

best christmas gifts for parents

The ultimate guide to the best Christmas gifts for parents–for every budget!

31 Best Gifts for Snowboarders and Skiers (That They’ll Actually Use)

May 22, 2023November 21, 2022 by Mimi McFadden

best gifts for snowboarders and skiers-Snowboarder getting some hair off a ramp with the snowy mountains in the background

The ultimate guide to the best gifts for snowboarders and skiers that they’ll actually use.

51 Best Gifts for RV Owners (That They’ll Actually Use)

May 19, 2023November 21, 2022 by Mimi McFadden

Woman lounging on a camp chair at her campsite next to her RV, looking out toward the trees. Best Gifts for RV Owners featured image.

The ultimate guide to the best gifts for RV owners that they’ll actually use.

33 Best Gifts for Rock Climbers That They’ll Actually Use

December 26, 2022November 17, 2022 by Mimi McFadden

Image of a woman climbing a rock, gifts for rock climbers featured image

Image of a woman climbing a rock, gifts for rock climbers featured image

The best gifts for rock climbers from an avid climber.

41 Best Gifts for Outdoorsy Women (That They’ll Actually Want)

May 22, 2023November 11, 2022 by Mimi McFadden

A woman on a hiking path in Lake Tahoe, looking out towards the trees--best gifts for outdoorsy women.

The ultimate guide to the best gifts for outdoorsy women written by a fellow outdoorsy woman.

What a beautiful day for a banna 💛 Day 2 of the

What a beautiful day for a banna 💛 Day 2 of the wedding festivities and my now most favorite photos of Suneel [3,4, and 5].

Mehndi part II ❤️The best way to start off the

Mehndi part II ❤️The best way to start off the wedding weekend = delicious Indian food, music, henna, and hanging out with some of my favorite women. 🥰

Mehndi vibes, part I ❤️

Mehndi vibes, part I ❤️

4.29.23 ❤️

Since it’s that time of year for reflection and

Since it’s that time of year for reflection and goals, I just finished tallying up my budgeting spreadsheets. Here’s a look at The Atlas Heart’s growth in the past four years, and our projected growth for 2023. Letzzzz go!

✨2019✨
Annual revenue = $4,787
Total pageviews = 256,245

✨2020✨
Annual revenue = $12,600
Total pageviews = 349,658

✨2021✨*started working on TAH full-time
Annual revenue = $66,797
Pageviews = 872,919

✨2022✨
Annual revenue = $194,974
Pageviews = 2,386,618

✨2023 (Projected)✨
Annual revenue = $470,000
Pageviews = 3,600,000

✨Milestone Goal (projected to reach by 2025)✨
Become a million dollar business

💰Breakdown of income💰
Ad revenue = 56.5%
Affiliate revenue = 43.3%
Products = 0.2%
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Happy New Year!! ✨🍾

Even though I’ve been running my website since 2

Even though I’ve been running my website since 2012, it always used to be my passion not my main source of income.   It was a way of sharing my experiences and perspective about the places I traveled. I never had a business plan or looked all that much into how to make money from it.

Over the next six years, I went from bartending to running a somewhat successful consulting business as a freelance marketer that still allowed me to travel and work remotely.

Although I always imagined being able to make a living from my website, it honestly seemed unlikely that I’d be able to make money from something that I enjoyed so much.

It wasn’t until 2018 that I started teaching myself SEO and invested in numerous courses.   It took another year after that to start looking into how to monetize my website, and that was only after I lost one of my biggest clients and my monthly income was cut by 80%.

I thought it was as good a time as any to finally give it my best shot to create a successful blog that supported me.

I started building up a monetization strategy, intertwining my SEO skills to start making a little more money, one month at a time.

And then seven months later, March 2020 happened. And we all know how that went for the travel industry.

l was very close to walking away at that point, but I had seen how much growth there was in just seven months before everything came tumbling down. I couldn’t unsee that potential. So, after three months of a lot of languishing, I kept working on my site, more determined than ever.

It took another year and two months after that to finally be making just enough to end all my client work and start focusing on my website full time. I wrote an income report a month after that in June of 2021.

It was called “How I made $6,598 from my blog in June 2021.” When I wrote that article, I had big goals to hit 100,000 page views in a month before the end of the year (which I did!) and to make over $6,000 in a month again.

Secretly, I was hoping to double that amount by the following year, but looking back, I probably should’ve dreamed bigger.

Continued in the comments below👇

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