Saturday 21 February 2015

Any Intentions To Make Money Blogging


Do you have any intentions to make money blogging?

If you do have, well then, don’t be shy about it.

More and more bloggers are finding that blogging is a profitable medium and that they are making enough money to stop them having to get a part time job to get through college.

In short, it has reached a point that there are a lot of people out there who are able to make a full time living from their blogging and there are even more who make money blogging.

However, not everyone who tries to make money blogging becomes rich. In fact those who do well from blogging are in the minority. It is possible to make money blogging – but it takes time and a lot of hard work and unfortunately it doesn’t happen to everyone.

The thing is that any fool can make money blogging.


You can also teach people how to make money blogging.

Blogging has the same fundamentals like other areas but with the help of social media.

You could be a blogging expert, a mentor, a teacher or even an entrepreneur and your blog is simply a launch pad for all those things.

Basically, just realize that nearly all “bloggers” who make a decent income have books, courses, a side career as a keynote speaker, or even software. That’s how they make money AND that their blog is just their “freebie” they give away so as to attract clients. So don’t be frustrated if you don’t succeed overnight.
It takes time.

You could sell ads and perhaps that could bring in some income for your blog.

Selling ads is attractive, because it is passive income, but you can usually make four to five times more money using the same ad space to sell your own products and services, or even do some affiliate marketing and promote an affiliate product.

In the beginning, don’t spend time creating content for your blog.

I am not telling to flatly copy content and paste it on to your blog, but... 

In the beginning, your blog is like an empty classroom. Standing in front and giving a lecture is silly, because sure, it might make you feel important, but there’s nobody listening. You are all alone, and you can come up with the smartest, most entertaining lecture in the history of mankind, but it won’t matter, because no one else heard it.

When you first start out, writing content for your own blog is one of the least efficient ways of building your audience. You’re far better off serving a little time as a guest lecturer first. In other words, try writing guest posts, for someone else’s audience, impress the hell out of them, and siphon off a portion of their readership for your own.

That way, you have an audience to share your content when you start publishing posts.

Here’s another shocker - Don’t waste time on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. 

Your dream of building up a huge following on Facebook or Twitter and then using it to promote your blog? Well, according to reports, building our own social media accounts produces the lowest visitor per hour figure. In other words, it’s quite possibly the worst way you can spend your time.

Does that mean having followers in those places is useless?

No. Facebook is nice because you can advertise to your followers. Google+ can help boost your search engine rankings. Even with those benefits though, it shouldn’t be near the top of your list for things to do. In other words, you can use your time more efficiently in other places, such as Promoting Your Content.

The problem is almost no one promotes their content enough. And by promotion, I mean the process of building relationships with influencers and asking them to share your work.

At a minimum, you should spend just as much time on outreach as you do creating your own content. So, if you’re spending 10 hours a week writing blog posts, you should be spending 10 hours a week on outreach too.

Can’t do that? Then scale back how much content you’re creating. Spend five hours on writing blog posts and five hours on outreach. You’ll get better results.

Ignore SEO until you’ve established clients.  In other words, I reckon most bloggers focus on it way too early.

Again, it all comes down to time. When your blog is new, the most efficient uses of your time fall into three broad categories: building relationships with influencers (including guest blogging), creating content worth linking to, and selling your products and services. If you do those three things well, not only will your blog gain traffic and prominence, but you’ll also start getting search traffic without doing anything.

So, start selling from day one. 

Bottom-line, just remember it is a viable career.

Now go make money blogging.

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