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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