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18 Best Restaurants in Cambria, California [Must-Try Places]

February 9, 2023January 31, 2023 by Mimi McFadden
Best Restaurants in Cambria

Here are the best restaurants in Cambria for casual dinners, fine dining, tasty breakfasts, and stunning ocean views.

Categories Central Coast Tags Central California, Food, San Luis Obispo County Leave a comment

Best Ziplining in California: 13 Places for Aerial Adventures & Canopy Tours

March 27, 2023December 21, 2022 by Mimi McFadden
Best Ziplining in California

Soar through forests, over vineyards, and into canyons on the best ziplining spots in California.

Categories California Tags Catalina Island, Lifestyle, Northern California, San Luis Obispo County, Southern California Leave a comment

Morro Bay Camping Guide: Best & Most Scenic Morro Bay Campgrounds

February 1, 2023January 13, 2022 by Mimi McFadden
Morro Bay Camping

A detailed guide to the best Morro Bay camping, including the most scenic campgrounds and what to expect at each campsite.

Categories Central Coast Tags Camping, Central California, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County Leave a comment

26 Things to do in San Luis Obispo, California | Ultimate Bucket List

February 1, 2023November 9, 2021 by Mimi McFadden
best things to do in San Luis Obispo, California

The best things to do in San Luis Obispo, California – from hot springs to vineyards and where to eat, stay, and play.

Categories Central Coast Tags Bucket List, Central California, San Luis Obispo County Leave a comment
What a beautiful day for a banna đź’› Day 2 of the What a beautiful day for a banna đź’› 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 ❤️ 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

đź’°Breakdown of incomeđź’°
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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