okay hi guys susie here and i have
somebody amazing i'm interviewing today
she's been a long time student of mine
we talked
years ago and i'm so excited to kind of
give an update
on how she has grown her business it is
awesome
um it's tam from activelittles.com and
if you guys are wondering what i'm doing
with these headphones it's the only ones
i could find
um so this is jojo siva headphones if
you guys are interested it's actually my
daughter's
um anyway so super happy to be here tim
can you just give us a little highlight
of like
how much you made this month um or last
month in april
and then we'll get into the interview
just to kind of like what their appetite
okay so the month of april we're in may
first today and
april was such a good month it's been my
biggest month so far
so um with products i've made about uh a
little over six thousand dollars
with products products well products and
advertisements
on my blog wow that is amazing
okay guys so and tam mostly does this
through
printables all right sam so let's get
into it like the background let's get
into that and then we'll get into like
how this month like last month was so
amazing um
what's your background why did you start
blogging and when did you start
so i was actually looking for jobs uh to
work from home because i wanted to be
home with my girls
um and at the time they weren't really
in school then somebody's calling
um so they they weren't in uh in school
they were small you know they're
they're little so i was at home with
them and i had this
love for teaching them myself so um
i wanted to do that but i also wanted to
work from home so i went on this
website i don't know if you guys are
familiar with it it's called rat race
rebellion so you can search for jobs
from home and then i came across
michelle schroeder
um a post about blogging
and then i signed up and then i wanted
to learn more and then i i ended up
typing like
start a blog and susie's court like
suzie's page came up and i was
i loved like all the bright colors
thanks
yeah and then i ended up buying all of
her courses and it's the best thing i've
ever done
because it's gotten me to where i am and
it's amazing
i'm so happy awesome tam like i knew you
were taking this seriously because
you've signed up for coaching calls with
me
throughout the like history of starting
your blog and like it really is paying
off because like look at what you're
doing now
so tell us what you actually blog about
because you kind of alluded to it but
what is your blog
so my blog is kids activities so i like
um
doing like montessori activities or
anything like recycled play
or um printables i like also teaching my
kids so
we do a lot of printables and um just
printables and consecutivities
awesome so how do you find time to blog
you have two girls
i think they're under 10 right how old
are they yeah so now
my oldest is seven and my youngest she's
four
so at the time i started when she was
like
the beginning stages of three and then
my my oldest was like around the ending
stages of five
okay so you've been doing this for about
two years for like about two years yeah
wow okay and then like how do you find
the time to blog when you have two girls
at home
it was hard it was hard in the beginning
um it's still a little hard too but
you know the best times i feel are when
they're sleeping and then at nighttime
um i have a little bit of time to myself
and also in the mornings
right before they wake up so you wake up
maybe like six o'clock in the morning or
something and then
you work on your blog and little steps
are the best thing because
even if you just get an hour a day every
single day you're you're working towards
a goal you know
right and it adds up i know sometimes we
feel like okay i only got 20 minutes
today
i only got a little bit time now but it
really does add up and that's how i
started too because i had
small babies i was pregnant with number
three and it was just a little bit every
day just not giving up
right it's all about the little steps
definitely
definitely so now that you you blog
about kids activities which i absolutely
love
how do you get your traffic because a
lot of beginning vloggers are wondering
okay
where what are your best traffic sources
and how do you promote there
so my best so far right now is pinterest
so i got most of my traffic from
pinterest and then i got
up kind of like equal amounts from
organic search and then facebook and
like other social media outlets like
um so my best traffic is from pinterest
right now how often do you pin what do
you pin what's your strategy if you
don't mind sharing
i don't mind sharing at all um i
actually i do a lot of video pins so
i usually will do my blog post at the
end of the week and then i'll actually
pin on sundays
and then those are my days that i pin
every single week on sundays
every sunday you pin and the morning or
evenings
in the evenings and how many pins all my
pins
all those kids yeah so i'll do okay i'll
do my blog post at the end of the week
and then i'll pin those pins
but my printable pins i pin every other
day because i'm actually
i have a printable business where i
create a printable every other day
and so whenever i post it i pin it so i
pin it every other day
just the printable itself just like the
image of it
exactly oh cool okay so tell us more
about your printables business
it's awesome i'm actually thinking about
creating another one for toddlers and
maybe for kindergarten which would be
amazing because right now we're doing it
uh for preschool that is fantastic like
i'm all about kindergarten so
anything to help like i have two more
going through that
i have one in it right now and like yeah
that would be fantastic so
how do you create your printables and
then like how do you sell them and kind
of what's your price point
so i took susie's course um it was i
believe the pic
pic pic monkey one and um
i love picmonkey i was actually using
canva before and i think
i i love pink monkey now um so
i actually create them from picmonkey um
but i also
sometimes i'll create uh like uh
using templates okay that i buy on etsy
and then i'll use those templates and
canva
oh man there's so many different ways to
do this yeah that was cool
what do you normally price your
printables as so really low
um they're between three to five dollars
and from products that are three to five
dollars you're making
four or six thousand dollars per month
with this yep
yes so how many pr you're selling a ton
of printables then i am not even my
subscription is making
well i have a subscription too for my
printables the preschool printables
so uh the subscription business is
making less money than
people actually buying them individually
so wow
yeah you're rocking this i'm so proud of
you because a lot of people they come to
this
like okay yeah i'm going to sell
printables yeah i'm going to make like
200 bucks
um because they see small amounts what
the printables actually cost
but if you get the volume like it can
really pick up
it can yeah and i started this in
november of last year and we're right
now
in may so it was around that much
in november but now it's picked up which
is really good
i'm like blown away wow so what do you
think like helped you grow from november
to now which is like
six months in six months you grow your
printables business to
a full-time income it might have been
pinterest because that's where my
traffic is mostly from yeah but it could
also be from other social media outlets
too
um facebook groups you know that helps
too
and then um instagram too awesome as
well
so you're saying you're creating a
printable every other day
yeah and maybe that too because you know
when you post more
it could be good too wow so
how many printables do you have in your
store i don't even know
i don't know so i probably have around
like 300 printables
and this is all for preschools right and
this is all for preschool but you know
uh it can work for toddlers too like
some of the matching activities could
work for toddlers and then some of
the activities can also work for
kindergartners as well um
so i have 101 products so far in my
store
that is fantastic so you're just
prolific you're promoting
and you don't have to sell them for that
much which i kind of like when you're
just starting out and you're starting to
create digital products
like my philosophy is start with a low
priced product so you kind of build your
confidence
and um and then slowly build up to like
that ebook to that course to
the mastermind to something more
expensive but when you come out right
out the gate be like
here's my course for 400 and nobody buys
it then you don't have the ability to
build confidence so i
love what you're doing yeah thank you so
much
awesome so i think i have my goal set in
mind for 300 which is like would
which would be like what i what what i
want ultimately you know
but so my products aren't only for my
website i actually uh use a program
called
uh teacherspayteachers.com okay so i
also get
uh income that way too oh so you post
the same printables on your blog and on
teachers
teachers exactly yeah is it price the
same
um yeah the same okay okay yeah i don't
want somebody
you know i don't want to i don't want to
do that right that makes sense yeah
i would not want somebody to like find
me here and there and it's different
prices so that
definitely i would assume that that is
so smart so you create printables and
you have multiple places that you can
sell them on and on etsy too
yeah i also put them there so what is
how much money are you getting from etsy
for your printables versus teachers paid
teachers versus your blog
so etsy is the least okay um i believe
it's like maybe i've made like fifty
dollars on etsy teachers pay teachers
last month which was april i made 600
and something dollars
on teachers paid teachers and then on um
pay hip which is what i use uh for my
website i made
five what was it four thousand five
hundred dollars
wow i have it all here man i am like so
proud of you for preschool slash
kindergarten
toddler printables yeah it's amazing
it's really cool all right so um
are you also using the printables to
build your email list or only solely
using them to build your income
um i am also using them to build my
email list
so if i have something new that comes
out like a new printable for the season
um i'll you know i'll showcase it on my
eat to my email list
as well because they're the first ones
that i'd like to let them know you know
they're the ones that signed up
so yeah i'll do that um
but yeah i do i do sometimes not to all
of them because then that would be too
much
right right yeah definitely um so how do
you promote on your blog the printables
do you just direct them to hey
here's the store and they kind of buy
what they want or
what's your philosophy there right so
for pinterest and then then that would
be
like they it directs them to my website
but for
the email list yeah um
i'll usually have a blog post so like
easter activities when it was easter
um i'll have like a blog post of 70
easter activities and then i'll have
like easter freebie printables
as well and then i'll have like
something like a printable for them
that's what i came out with yeah so
that's how i usually promote it i don't
it's like with something else just you
know little
little gifts for them exactly delight
your readers make them happy
and then build that good relationship
yeah love that
so you've obviously grown something
amazing
it's you started a couple years ago and
then last six months
you grew this amazing printable store
and website and
business um what tips do you have for
other people who are just like standing
in the beginning lines or they're
thinking about adding a printable
side to their business um
so a tip i would have is uh
facebook groups there are actually
there's actually some facebook facebook
groups out there that you can join and
you can share your printables too and
a lot of people can can learn about your
printables that way
um that would be like the first thing
that i can think of
okay and then um maybe try other outlets
besides your website maybe like
teacherspayteachers.com
um or etsy even there's people who
search printables there as well
um and take your time don't i know i
have like a million ideas and i have
posted notes everywhere of all these
ideas
but little steps always you know takes
you
far so that's what i would say about
that
i love that that is very smart to take a
product that you already created sell it
on your blog but then go to different
traffic sources too that's brilliant
um what do you wish that you didn't do
what kind of mistakes did you do along
the way that
you're like oh that was a complete waste
of time um
it wasn't regarding my printable
business but maybe it was like on my
website
um towards the end i would say pin it
later and it was kind of like the same
text
i don't know if that had anything to do
i don't know if that like
uh was having the same thing on each
post i don't know if that messes it up
messes up the seo i don't know
but i stopped that okay okay was it just
like this a line
just like a sentence yeah yeah i was
just like pin it for later
i think uh for my pin image oh that's
that's okay
like if it's like a big chunk attack so
you're copying and pasting from every
single
blog post that it's more of a copyright
issue but if it's just a line or two
then you're okay um
man that is awesome what advice do you
have for other people as they're
watching this video
um what do you would you tell them to do
um so if you want to start a printable
business
then yeah definitely take those little
steps you know i
i i don't i i've been in the overwhelmed
position before
and you just have to breathe and go
outside and just
enjoy the fresh air and and relax
everything in moderation
um that's one of the biggest things
because
i have been overwhelmed with everything
but yeah it's worked out you know
you have to just find the balance with
it that's it i am so proud of you tam so
where can we find you everybody who's
watching this
guys if you do have questions
specifically for tam then you can leave
them below in the comments so that she
can get back to you with her answers
um if it's towards me i'll answer them
as well but where can we find you tam so
that we can
check out your printables and buy them
and use them for our kids
so you can find me on activelittles.com
forward slash
products um yeah or you can actually
that's my printables but you can find me
on my website as well activelittles.com
awesome tam that is great i will put all
the links to her stuff
in the description below if you guys
want to subscribe and like the video i
would appreciate that
and thank you tam so much we appreciate
you being here
thank you too for all you do