Jeff Proctor

Is your goal to eventually become a full-time blogger? In August of 2015, I took the leap from my 9-to-5 job at an investment firm and dove into the online business world. “Blogging” isn’t what I originally set out to do when I left my job (I tried running an investment research membership site). For…

Earlier this month Ben and I had, what we’d deem to be, a successful blog launch for our completely new personal finance site DollarSprout.com. It was a rebrand of our old blog, VTX Capital, but the new blog has all unique new content, new social media profiles, new everything. We effectively started over. From scratch. Here’s…

Getting Starbucks on the cheap isn’t easy. Still, that doesn’t make people any less hooked on it. If you’re a Starbucks addict, then you probably wouldn’t mind knowing how to get cheap (or free) Starbucks drinks. After all, there’s a story on the news every week trying to make viewers feel guilty about how much…

It’s been an exciting summer for Ben and I as we continue to build our blogs and learn more about the online business game. I wanted to give our readers an update of how our business is doing, what’s new with us, and share some pretty exciting changes we have in the pipeline. As many…

Instead of publishing a monthly “blogging income report” as many bloggers do to document their online business income, I’ve decided to do things a little bit differently. If you’re at all familiar with online income reports, you probably know that they can get a bit boring and repetitive. That’s why I’m only going to post them…

A lot of bloggers like to post regular income reports on their blogs. I always thought that was the weirdest thing. I mean, you never hear anyone outside of the blogging world shout out to their friends, “Hey guys, I made $___ from my job last month!” Um, cool? And now here I am, posting…

If you’re just starting out, it may be useful to know that the easiest way to make money blogging is through a revenue model known as affiliate marketing. Since the overhead cost of starting a blog is so low, virtually anyone can create a blog and immediately start applying to affiliate marketing networks (and then…

First things first, that’s not a click-bait title. I actually did increase our account engagement by 115,726% in 100 days, all while using Pinterest to market our business. And I’m going to show you how I did it. Here’s a screenshot of our Pinterest for business analytics: If you think Pinterest is just for women…