So now you're saying," This is great information, Tia, but how do I know I can really earn an income with affiliate marketing? Well, I'll give you a few examples to see for yourself. Have you heard of these bloggers: Krista Dickson, Eden Fried, Suzi Whitmore, Ana Savuica and Haley Burkhead? These are a couple of my FAVORITE bloggers.

I follow all their blogs and I'm always front row to their income reports because they inspire me to keep promoting. With all of these beautiful ladies' permission, I am going to show you proof that you, too, can earn an income and I'm going to include my very own first income report as well.

Krista Dickson from Blog Beautifully

Krista is the author of, Blog Beautifully. She helps blog-woo babes turn their passion into a profitable blog. She is such a sweetheart and a great inspiration. I learned in-depth knowledge of the Law of Attraction through Krista and it is beautiful!

It helped me come to peace within myself when it comes to my blog. She teaches you more of the Law of Attraction in, *"The Blogging Babe's Handbook. Krista doesn't publish monthly income reports, but she did just publish her Quarterly Income Report where she made $15,000 using affiliate marketing and other streams in income.

Eden Fried from EdenFried.com

Ms. Eden from EdenFried.com is going to surprise you. Guess what she did? Eden dropped out of law school last year AFTER she paid her seat deposit just to blog! IKR, it's INSANE, but deep down, she felt like that's what she needed to do. Now, she's making over $4000 a month with affiliate marketing.

The second biggest part of her income was from selling her own products such as her jam-packed course on building your blog from the beginning, *"Bread and Butter Blogging" and a course on how she got 700 followers in 8 weeks using Pinterest called, *"Pinterest Unpuzzled". Here's a snippet of her April Income Report below:

Suzi Whitmore from Start A Mom Blog

Suzi is the author of Start A Mom Blog where she teaches stay at home moms how to start a blog and make an income. She started this blog right before her second daughter was born. (Her daughters are adorable).

Suzi has done many income reports using affiliate marketing and decided to throw them altogether in her ebook, "Income Journey" where she gives you her successes, failures, tips and tricks on how she mastered affiliate marketing. Here's one of her very first income reports where she made $1007 in one month:

Haley Burkhead from Market Beautifully

Haley is a marketing-strategy GENIUS! I absolutely ADORE her! She's such a happy woman and you can tell she enjoys life to the fullest. Haley's podcast is all about how she can help you grow as a person and online presence. She recently published a post on how she made $1000 while not working for 3 weeks using *Convertkit, the GREATEST email marketing tool you could ever use made FOR bloggers BY bloggers!

Ana from The She Approach

Ana is unbelievably awesome. She is kindhearted and wants to see you succeed. The She Approach is about helping female entrepreneurs build their own empire online.

This is Ana's first income report where she earned over $100 blogging. It was all thanks to this *ebook that also helped her make her first affiliate sale on Pinterest. How cool right?

My First Ever Income Report

Alright guys, now it's time for the first exclusive look at my first ever income report for April. I haven't even written the post yet. I decided to try my hand at affiliate marketing after seeing how other bloggers were successful. I am proud to say I earned $20 and that's WITHOUT me promoting like I should have. I was having complications with my second daughter, Laila, as I was diagnosed with placenta previa or known as low lying placenta. Anyway...

Here's how I earned my first $20:

Color U Bold - $2.50

A Prettier Web - 10.00

Blogmutt - $8.00

Color U Bold is one of my all-time favorite stock photo memberships and I jumped at the chance when she offered. A Prettier Web is a site full of beautiful Wordpress themes. I have the *"Blog Lady" theme that I'm still customizing. Blogmutt is a site for freelance writers to get paid to write post for different companies. Blogmutt is the third party company that these business go to to look for freelance writers.

I made this income on autopilot in....my....sleep. The excitement I had when I checked my phone to see notifications of earning money in the middle of the night. I am a blogger that can attest from the VERY BEGINNING that affiliate marketing helps you make money in your sleep! Convinced yet?

* marks when affiliate links are being used.