Interview with Sarah Titus Pro Blogger

Sarah Titus, Pro Blogger

We often take for granted our middle class suburban lifestyles and complain about not making enough money to afford luxuries. Sarah Titus’ rags to riches story is truly inspiring. Her abusive husband of 14 years left her and their kids after his third affair. Sarah and her kids lived in a women’s shelter for weeks as she described it as her rock bottom moment.

Sarah turned to God for support, inspiration and grace. She needed the bare essentials we take for granted. She needed food, income, a home for her kids, and the confidence to pick herself up and succeed in what seemed to be a hopeless dark hole. Sarah needed to earn income fast and provide for her kids.

She had a strong desire to work from home so she could be with her kids and she made it happen because she didn’t relent to pressure to work outside the home. Her first goal was to earn only $1000 per month selling items on Ebay and blogging because she knew they could survive on that. She went on to make $10,000 per month after only one year of blogging writing posts about how to save money. Then, her blogging income went upward to $20,000 per MONTH!

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In only one year, Sarah became a six-figure pro-blogger sharing her inspirational success story with other women seeking to work from home so they too can be with their kids. She didn’t give up on her dream and neither should you!

I too did not want to go back to my corporate career and be away from my small children for 10+ hours per day. I turned to blogging to make my dream of starting a successful business while being home with my kids a reality.

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How I Scored this Important Interview with Sarah Titus, Pro-Blogger

About six months into blogging, I wrote a post about How to Cope with Losing Friends to Jealousy. Shortly after, I found a comment on the tweeted post from Sarah Titus stating it was a “great article to put things in perspective.” She said it helped her. She retweeted it on Twitter! Then she followed little ole me on Twitter and Pinterest (Sarah has 207k Pinterest followers.) She also invited me to collaborate on her “Top New Bloggers to Follow” Pinterest board!

I’m astonished and honored. I then read her post 5 Things a New Blogger Should Do Everyday which discusses how interviews and guest posts are very important ways to generate traffic to your blog. I commented on that post asking her if she’d answer just three interview questions. Expecting a polite no, she said she’d be honored! What?!

I am so thankful for this opportunity interview with Sarah Titus! She is a success story and an inspiration to all bloggers.

I researched and carefully considered my interview questions. Without further delay, here is the interview with Sarah Titus, pro-blogger:

1. What is the single most thing women do inadvertently to obstruct their own career success?

Sarah: The biggest thing that every blogger does, sooner or later, is get in their own way. They try to follow all this free advice online and end up so overwhelmed with information and to-do lists, that they never get around to actually accomplishing anything. They feel as though they have to be EVERYWHERE and do EVERYTHING in order to succeed, but the opposite is actually true.

The solution to becoming a successful pro-blogger is found in doing one or two things at a time. Not trying to be everything to everyone, but simply, doing one or two things extremely well. Digging deep and really finding out how to make whatever they are working on, a success. Because, as a mom and business-woman, we CAN’T do it all. We tend to have this martyr personality, feeling the pressure like we must, but we can’t. When we stop trying to please everyone, step back, and just be OURSELVES, our unique self, THAT is when we start to grow. We can’t be out there chasing other people’s dreams or trying to be LIKE other bloggers. We have to be ourselves and more importantly, trust ourselves.

2. What are 2-3 of the biggest lessons learned you recall in the first year of blogging that you would tell new bloggers to do differently.

Sarah: I’ve been making money online for nearly 19 years now, so I understand very well the importance of investing money into a new business endeavor. However, when I first started, there wasn’t a lot of blogs teaching blogging that I could find and the ones that were, weren’t telling me what to invest in and what not to invest in. I spent on things I never needed.

One of my favorite posts I’ve written personally is, How to Create a Successful Blog For Under $350. The post includes everything a blogger needs and nothing they don’t. The truth is that, unfortunately, there are a lot of scams out there, and you don’t want to lose money. Knowing where to invest and where not to, is half the battle.

3. How has blogging in general changed since you started blogging? What would you do differently if you started blogging in 2017 instead of 2013?

Sarah: There’s more social media. 🙂 A lot of new bloggers ask me if I would start blogging now. They feel like somehow the market is saturated. I don’t feel it is. Everyone has the same opportunity to follow their own dreams. The bloggers that work hard to that endeavor and wisely invest in their blogs and educating themselves in their business idea, are the ones that grow the fastest.

The most important thing is to not depend on any particular social media for traffic. I went through a time in my blogging career where I depended on social media and an algorithm changed. I went from 1.7 million page views a month to, I’m not kidding, 147,000/month.

Let’s just say I cried….a lot! 🙂

But I learned my lesson. Never depend on ANY social media. Build your email list, but build it for the right reasons, not so that you can sell someone something, but so that you can HELP people. Truly invest in your audience and you will be successful. If money is your #1 goal in blogging, you will fail, and it’s why many bloggers do fail. Blogging is about creating something bigger than yourself, being a part of other people’s lives. Serve them, invest in them, love on them. You do that, and you cannot fail in ANY business you do.

Sarah Titus Bio:

Sarah Titus, Pro Blogger

From homeless to six-figures, this single mom has a passion for showing women they don’t have to work outside the home if they don’t want to. Sarah has been blogging for four years now and considers it a complete joy to mentor other women on her blog and through her Blogging Binder, which was included in the 2017 Genius Bloggers Toolkit. She is passionate about showing other moms that blogging is not just some hobby, but a viable way of making a fantastic full-time income.

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Be sure to check out my Blogging Resources page where I share all the tools I use for blogging including my awesome web hosting company, Siteground. I show you which camera I use for my much improved food photography and how I increased my Pinterest followers from 38 to 600 in 12 months.

My Inspiration

I am so humbled, successful pro-blogger Sarah Titus, took time out of her busy schedule to answer my questions. She is truly an inspiration to all women. She is proof that if we are determined, we can thrive in the face of adversity. I too overcame challenges in my life and know success can come out of it if you work hard and be strong.

Obtaining the interview with Sarah Titus has encouraged me to continue in my blogging adventure and curb my self-doubt. Even with the success of my One Pot Ham, Potato and Bean Soup and One Pot Jambalaya with Shrimp and Andouille Sausage, I like many new bloggers have self-doubt. However, if I didn’t have the confidence to ask her for an interview, I would never have known she would have done it. She cared to help a new blogger and that means a lot to me. Refer to my Blogging Resources for New Bloggers if you’d like to know what resources I picked when I first started and what I’m using now.

Her knowledge, tips and encouragement not only help me as a blogger but, as a mom who wants to stay home with her kids while still cultivating her career. I hope this interview with Sarah Titus in responses to blogging lessons learned, description of how blogging has changed and motivational advice will help you in your blogging journey and your strong desire to be a work at home mom. I too hope you don’t stand in the way of your own success!

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Comments

Carrie says

May 30, 2017 at 7:24 PM

Wonderful post..I’m working on a blog with my friend and it’s easy to get bogged down in all the how to’s and need to focus on the posts. It seems I/we are still working to find a voice and reading this post helps me realize I can do this. Thanks

- Joanne says
  
  June 2, 2017 at 1:31 PM
  
  Thanks! I’m glad it is encouraging bloggers and give them some things to think about.
  
Lynne (Lynne's Recipe Trails) says

May 31, 2017 at 2:20 AM

Great interview Joanne, congratulations 🙂 Sarah’s story is so inspirational. Looking forward to visiting her site. Thank you so much for sharing 🙂 x

- Joanne says
  
  June 2, 2017 at 1:28 PM
  
  You’re welcome and thanks for the compliment!
  
Kate says

June 2, 2017 at 12:49 AM

I loved reading your interview- I still remember reading Sarah’s story when she talked about how she told the judge she was going to make money blogging- and went on and did it! I think your questions were great ones to ask- I think the advice to concentrate on doing one or two things extremely well is spot on.
I also think it shows Sarah’s generous personality in how she has encouraged and supported you through the ways you mention above.

- Joanne says
  
  June 2, 2017 at 1:27 PM
  
  Thanks. It is comforting to know there are some really big bloggers willing to help out the new ones.
  I am writing a blog post about how to conduct blogger interviews from what I learned from this one. Stop back and check it out.
  
Amy Greene says

June 7, 2017 at 10:26 PM

I loved reading this interview. I found Sarah Titus’ website when I was trying to decide if blogging was something I could do to earn money. Her story was so inspirational that I thought “if she can do that, surely I can do HALF of that!” She seems to be so down to earth and real, and her advice is practical and easy to follow. I also admire the fact she is willing to share her knowledge and help those of us who haven’t reached the success she has achieved. Thank you for sharing this wonderful interview. It was both a blessing and an inspiration on a day when I needed it!

- Joanne says
  
  June 12, 2017 at 8:43 AM
  
  Yes. This is a post I will refer back to when feeling low. Thanks for your meaningful comments!