Thursday, April 16, 2009

Business Idea: Blogging for Profit, No Previous Experience Required

Blogs – it seems like just about everyone has one.

If you don’t know what a blog is, it comes from the phrase “web log”, which is an online diary or journal of sorts. People have all kinds of reasons for starting a blog. They may do it for fun, because they love writing or just to have an outlet to express their thoughts, vent frustrations and more.

But you can make a blog into a money-making business, even if you have no blogging or business experience.

How to Get Started

You can actually start your blog completely for free. There are services like Blogger.com and Wordpress.com that make it super easy. But note, John Yeo, profitable blog and creator of the
Blogger’s Paycheck recommends that those seeking profit should Wordpress, but in a different way than is explained at Wordpress.com and he goes through it in detail in the course.

How to Make Money with a Blog

Simply put, pick a theme or major topic for your blog and start writing. Even if you have no product of your own, you can still make money from your blog by selling and displaying advertising, earning commissions recommending products and other activities. This is also something John Yeo covers in detail.

What if You Don’t Like to Write

Many people think they can’t blog if they don’t enjoy writing or feel they aren’t talented writers, but that shouldn’t stop anyone. A blog is about sharing thoughts and you don’t have to be an award-winning writer to do that. In addition, the growing popularity of online video and audio open up more possibilities for sharing content. You can also hire a ghostwriter if you want a text blog and want to avoid writing.

The Keys to Profitable Blogging

To profit from blogging, there are a few key ingredients:

1. Target a highly interested audience of readers who happen to be consumers. In other words, people who readily spend money to pursue their hobbies, interests and desires that you’ll be writing about.
2. Create interesting content that people are readily looking for, that they’ll talk about to their friends and come back for over and over again.
3. Sign up for the Blogger’s Paycheck course that will take you through setting up your blog, building traffic, making money and more.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Why it’s Impossible to Make Money With Blogs.

I was a little surprised this morning when, after I’d given a talk on business blogging, a seminar attendee asked if I’d seen the Newsweek article this week on why it’s impossible to make money with blogs.

“Guess I’ll give it all back, then,” was my off-the-cuff answer.

But out of curiosity, I picked the mag up on the way back to my room. If you haven’t seen it, Daniel Lyons, a talented blogger known for two years as “Fake Steve Jobs,” has an editorial that explains why none of us can make money blogging.

Big traffic, no money
Fake Steve Jobs’ best month came with a traffic spike. His actual identity was revealed in the New York Times, sending more than a half-million people to his site in a single day.

His payout? For that half-million-visitor day, about a hundred dollars in AdSense earnings. For the entire month, he made $1,039.81.

Not quite what he was hoping for when he became a celebrity blogger and earned an impressive amount of attention and notoriety.

So if Fake Steve Jobs can’t monetize a blog, the rest of us are doomed, right? He worked hard, he created quality content, he had a terrific angle that went nicely viral. He was at the pinnacle, and he’s broke. So we will be too.

It must be true, he said it in Newsweek.

I learned the hard way: while blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn’t one of them.

The expert weighs in
The article then tapped another source for a little expert credibility, Paul Verna, an analyst with eMarketer.

Verna’s take was that the real issue was “the lack of a clear business model that can generate substantial revenues.”

Verna’s on the right track, but we’re still a long way from the core problem.

If your business model is “I want to make money on the Internet,” you’re not going to get very far. The Internet is profoundly indifferent to your desire to make money with it.

Please notice that this does not mean that “there is no possible viable business model for any blog, other than a few fortunate exceptions that prove the rule,” which was the conclusion Lyons reached.

It just means that Fake Steve Jobs didn’t come up with a working business model, so he didn’t make any money.

Blogs are not television
I’ll confess, I have no idea how to monetize Fake Steve Jobs. His readers aren’t coming to his site to solve any kind of real-world problem, other than “how can I kill 10 minutes before my boss gets back from lunch?”

Television networks produce entertainment. They either make money from advertising or, for premium cable channels, from subscriptions.

If you want to watch Lost, you have to watch ads. Tivo dented that model considerably, but it still works well enough for now.

Advertising can work on some content web sites, but it usually works best when the reader is coming to the site to figure out a solution to a problem. If an ad presents a relevant solution to that problem, the ad can be effective.

For a complex bunch of reasons, advertising isn’t especially effective on most blogs. Unless there’s a terrific message-to-market match, ads on blogs tend to underperform wildly.

If you want to make money in the real world, solve real problems
Too bad Lyons wasn’t a Copyblogger reader. He might have seen Brian’s post about the smartest monetization strategies for blogs and content sites, and why advertising is no longer on that list.

It’s not about trends in advertising or trends in the blogosphere. It’s about returning to a fundamental marketing truth.

If you don’t offer customers something they dearly want, whether it’s to gain some great pleasure or escape some great pain, you’re not going to make any money.

People do want entertainment and relief from boredom, but selling pure entertainment online is tricky. Right now the expectation on the web is that entertainment is free. You’ll have to get creative to escape that context, the same way musicians had to get creative to make a living when free music sharing became the norm.

It’s time for online business to grow up
For a long time, we believed that “online was different,” and that we didn’t need to accept any of the normal rules of business. We’d put something on the web and Magic Internet Dust would come along and make up for our total absence of business knowledge.

“Leap, and the net will appear,” was the mantra.

That sort of worked for awhile, but it doesn’t work now. If you don’t have a solid understanding of who your market is, how they’ll find you, and what problems you solve for them, it’s now “Leap, and the floor will appear.”

So focus on what does work now, and has always worked.

Provide value. Solve actual problems. Uncover what’s bugging people and fix it for them.

The real Steve Jobs sells beautiful, easy-to-use, loveable tools that make his customers’ lives better. If Fake Steve Jobs wanted to make money, he would have had to do some work to figure out how he could do the same.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Make Money Online Blogging With A Niche Blog

Did you start your blog to make money blogging or to share a passion without any plans to make money with your blog? Since you are reading this make money blog, I think I can safely assume you are blogging to make money. Starting a make money blog to make money blogging is a big mistake since a make money blog is one of the most difficult and competitive ways to make money blog with a blog.

That’s also one of the main reasons why so many bloggers who start make money blogs fail and give up. A better way to go about to make money with your blog is to start a niche blog with other topics and not a make money blog. If you can find a niche that is also your passion, then good for you. But mostly, if your objective is for your blog to make money, then you need to put passion aside to find out on what people want and focus on meeting that demand.

It’s pointless to start a niche blog about something that no one except you is interested in. You can use your personal interests as a starting point to search for a niche by using free online keyword research tools such as WordTracker and Google Keyword Tool.

See how many searches there are for a particular topic and see if there are any advertisers when you key in the term to do a Google search. If there are many advertisers spending money to sell products and services in your chosen niche, it means there is substantial interest.

You can then use this basis to start your blog to make money and monetize your blog in a variety of ways and effectively turn it into a make money blog. For example, you can sell advertising space on your blog, sell affiliate products by blogging about them.

Monday, April 6, 2009

How to Create a Blog

It's Easy With the Right Instruction.
Learning how to create a blog can be incredibly intimidating if you have never done it before.It can seem awfully technical; especially when you hear talk of having to install scripts and deal with MYSQL panels.

The good news is that there is a way to substantially cut down on the time it will take you to learn exactly how to become a successful niche blogger.
In fact, your best learning tool is called "The Niche Blogger". This is simply the best program on the Internet because it will help even the newest of new Internet marketers start their niche blogging empire.
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There are complete screenshots and incredibly detailed directions that show you step-by-step what you need to do for everything from niche research, to installing, marketing, and making money from your blog.
This isn't some program that is overhyped and created by some "guru." The owner's name is Amy Bass and she makes it very clear that she is just like her members.

She knows what it is like to want to make passive income so she can change her family's life for the better.

Her honesty and compassion for helping people has really stood out in my mind and has separated The Niche Blogger membership from anything else I have purchased online.

In fact, before joining The Niche Blogger I wasn't sure how to set up my blog or even if blogging was the right path for me.Since joining this membership I have been able to start several profitable blogs -- the instructions are so easy that I now feel like I am an expert in blogging too! I really can't get over how easy these instructions are.
If you're not sure how to create a blog you really shouldn't spend frustrating days or even weeks trying to get your first blog on the web.

In fact, doing that will only serve to frustrate you. There are many people who set out to earn money on the Internet and have to give up because of the technical details (don't be one of them!).The price of The Nich Blogger is so low that it's really hard to pass up because it saves you so much time and energy.

One of the great things is that you will easily be able to earn back the small monthly fee if you put the concepts and techniques into action.There literally is nothing left out and there are screenshots, videos, text instrucstions, access to Amy, and even an online forum where everyone can help each other. This kind of deal simply can't be found anywhere else on the web.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Blogging Money

Earning Blogging Money -- Full Time Passive Income Is Within Your Reach Earning blogging money is a lot easier than you might think. The most important thing you should realize is that you need a solid plan of action if you are going to have any hope of earning a good income from your blogs.
It's not enough to just put a blog up and hope that the money will start to roll in!So, how do you go about finding a plan of action so you earn as much money as possible from your blogs? The first thing you need to do is find a mentor or model from someone who is already a successful niche blogger. In fact, the best source we've found is called "The Niche Blogger!" This is a complete program that was put together to help new people get their own start in blogging. This will cut down on your learning time and help to ensure that you don't make mistakes that will prevent you from making money. When you join The Niche Blogger, you are going to have to dedicate yourself to it. One of the problems with trying to earn money blogging is that there are many different methods out there. Do yourself a favor and don't fall prey to this. If you choose a good model from the very beginning it will be easy to dedicate yourself to it because you know you will be able to succeed.You should also realize that even though you can start earning very quickly, you won't become rich overnight. Blogging money will most likely start trickling in and then build upon itself over time. Before you know it, you can be earning a great part or full-time income from your blogs!One of the best things about blogging is that once you have your blog set up it is relatively passive income. You may need to tweak things and add posts along the way, but for the most part they will be your 24 hours a day, seven days a week "salespeople".Earning money from blogs can literally change your life for the better. In fact, you might find that you can quit your day job and become a full-time blogger! All you need to do is make sure you find follow The Niche Blogger instuctions, and that you dedicate yourself to it until you are successful. The chances are very good that you look back on the moment you decided to become a blogger a year from now and know that it was one of the best decisions you have ever made. Blogging money is truly the way to go for passive income!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

How to Make Money Blogging - Monetize Your Blogs

Is there anything more natural in this world than self-expression? Express themselves is exactly what people do when they blog. After all, blogs are simply personal thoughts and expressions that are put into a digital format. This the reason why many people consider blogs as some form of online journal or diary.

What many people do not realize though is that this form of self-expression can be a great way to make money online. If you want to know how to make money blogging then read this article in its entirety because here you will discover concrete ways on how to monetize your blogs. Blogging is one of the easiest and most fun ways to make money on the Internet and it so easy to do so that even a 10-year old kid can do it.

So without further adieu, here are the blog monetizing ways for people who want to know how to make money blogging.

1. Affiliate Programs. Blogging is a very effective marketing technique and you can use blogs to market other people's products through the different affiliate programs that are available on the Internet. This is probably one of the easiest ways for you to make money online. All you need to do is drive enough traffic to your affiliate link and for sure you will be making tons of money from affiliate programs.

2. Advertising. You can also make money blogging through advertisements on your blog. One of the most popular online advertising system is Google AdSense. Signing up to Google AdSense is free and setting it up on your blog is easy. Google AdSense will also tailor fit the type of ads to put on your blog according to the theme or topics of your site.

3. Textlinks. This is one of the newest ways to earn for people who want to know how to make money blogging. The use of textlinks is also an advertising method but instead of employing actual ads that can usually clutter a site, ads are embedded through clickable words on your blog.

These are just some of the ways for people who want to know how to make money blogging.
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How to Earn Money by Blogging - The Simple Guide

If you want to learn how to blog, there are some certain things you need to put into consideration. It is possible for you to create money online using niche blogs. You can easily create your own blog and start earning residual income for yourself online. If there is a niche you have in mind it will be better if you focus on that particular niche till you have done well with it, after that you can then migrate to another lucrative niche. In fact, the reason why some bloggers and online marketers don't succeed is because they fail to target what works.

This is the reason why niche or blog marketing is so saturated and you will get the best out of it if you target a working niche. You would earn a lot of money and get targeted traffic if you focus on a particular product or service. This justifies the reason why some online bloggers earn money exploiting it. Some persons believe that multi-tasking is the best method but it's not. The most working way is to target one particular thing and carry it out well.

The best way to be a better blogger is to find out if the niche you want to blog about is in demand. It could be a product or a service. In order to determine this, you should begin with keyword research to discover the number of people that are looking for the niche of your choice. To earn bigger money you need an idea that will outdo other marketers. Blogging requires time and effort in order to test and learn new things.

You need to be wary of competition. If the niche you are marketing is highly competitive, then you might find it hard to earn money from it. The best way to surpass your competitors is to find long tail keywords pertaining to your niche and use it. It is easier to get traffic from long tail keywords for your blogging.

After you have found the less competitive niche which you feel you won't get stocked on the way, then you should start blogging. You need to invest meaningful time working on your blog. Post new contents daily on the blog, if you can't make it daily, then twice or thrice weekly is okay.

You can promote traffic to your blog by article writing, forum posting, add your comments at other blogs similar to yours with a link back to your blog, press release and the rest of others. Majority of these techniques when applied the right way work greatly. You will find it easy to earn money on the internet using these accessible techniques.

Blogging in Action is a site that unveils techniques which you can use to earn a lot of money from blogging. You can earn up to a thousand buck from applying the secrets offered by them.