Yaro Starak is a 28-year old professional blogger who makes about $7,000 per month directly from his blog Entreprenuers-Journey alone, teaching people how to make money blogging. He also has a subscription training program, called BlogMastermind.
How much does he earn?
With blog revenues of $7,000 per month and estimated 300 monthly subscriptions bringing in an extra $15,000 per month, it is likely that Yaro Starak is making more that $250,000 per year. He is a quarter million dollar blogger.
How does he make money?
There are numerous ways that Yaro monetizes his blog. He has a breakdown of his blog income on his site, but here is a rough summary.
Affiliate Sales
One of his greatest income contributors is affiliate sales. That is promoting and selling other companies products or services for a commission. Yaro seems to be particularly adept at this practice. He has mastered the technique of subtly promoting affiliate programs. Yaro says he earns between $1000 and $3000 dollars per month from affiliate income.
Advertising
In March of 2008, he made more than a thousand dollars directly selling advertising on his sites. $750 was for text link ads and $300 was for banner ads on two of his sites.
Google Adsense
Yaro made about $900 in March of 2008 off of adsense ads. However, these ads were not on his main site, entrepreurs-journey, they were on other sites he owns.
Text-Link Ads
He made about $560 in March from text link ads.
ReviewMe
He made $375 in March by reviewing other sites or services on his blogs.
Definitely, his largest income source comes from his BlogMastermind subscription coaching course. Here he provides more detailed instruction on how to make money blogging. He opens the course up twice a year to new bloggers. He said that the number of subscribers is 250+, and at $50 per month (The total price is about $100 but half goes towards an affiliate commission for the referring site.) He is likely making more than $15,000 from this alone.
Success Secret
Yaro Starak writes in a very down to earth style with out the heavy sales pitches of some of the other make money online gurus. He offers lots of valuable and free advice and has a constant stream of new content. His affiliate sales prove that he is very adept and promoting products and services. He is a master of monetizing web sites without making it feel like a hard sell.
Yaro Starak offers a free ebook called, Blog Profits Blueprint that you can download just for joining his newsletter. His newletter, ebook and web site are a great source of information for how to make money blogging.
