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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
Henry Ford
This Introduction Contains The Following:
Make Money Blogging
What are blogs anyway?
First, let's start with the obvious - you're here because you want to learn how to make money blogging, and we're here to teach you exactly that!
So what's a Blog? Blog is short for weblog. The basic concept is not unlike that of a regular newspaper column, with the goal being to engage and converse with your readership.
Blogs are usually run by a sole entity, although group blogs are also possible. They were created in the mid 1990’s in response to a need for more personal-level sharing of content, opinions, preferences among non-computer experts.
Now, blogging is so popular that there are specific user-friendly programs designed just for bloggers.
The typical blog is made up of multiple entries, displayed in reverse chronological order. Newest entries are displayed first. The basic blog entry is a bit of text enhanced with optional graphics or sound, followed by a comments section.
A Typical blog entry -
Text and Comments Section Below
What makes blogging different?
A blog is different from a web page on a number of levels. On one hand, it is much simpler to create a blog, because it is just one page with multiple entries. On the other hand, since blogs are interactive with the audience, they take on a much different character than a static web page, which only communicates in one direction.
Power to the people
Additionally, most blogs contain RSS (real simple syndication) features that allow the content to be shared and spread to other publications. Entries and comments can take on a life far beyond that which is available to static web pages. The speed of communication and the dynamics of real conversations with your audience are unique to blogs among web applications.
In fact, if you are a web-surfer, you may already know of the near mythical powers in their ability to bring in traffic, revenue, and fame for their writers. We are here to show you how to set up and generate income from your blog.
A whole new marketing and business dimension
People are quitting their day jobs to become professional bloggers. Blogging is thereby adding a completely new dimension to the web. In the past, most blogs were personal projects without a profit-motive. Now, however, blogs are being created to generate or enhance businesses.
Blogging is a unique and powerful web tool with nearly unlimited potential for generating income.
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Benefits of Blogs
Ways to make money from blogging:
- Earning Commissions by Promoting Other Merchants
Individuals (also called 'affiliates') use blogs to promote other merchants. While doing so, they earn commissions each time the merchant sells a product(s) via the affiliate’s marketing efforts.
For instance, let’s say you create a blog about internet marketing and review the best eMarketing training programs available on the net. In that case you may refer users to eMarketSchool and earn commissions when users enroll in eMarketSchool programs.
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This affiliates’ strategy of earning money is common-practice on the web. This is how most internet millionaires make money.
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- Becoming Familiar with the Preferences and Needs of Potential Clients
Freelancers use blogs to communicate with their customers and prospective customers via the entries-section of their blog. This section allows anyone to write responses to the freelancer’s blog-content, products, or services.
In creating this opportunity for feedback and dialogue, blog owners can learn about the needs, preferences, or opinions of others. This, in turn, can lead to dramatic improvements in their business, services, products, etc.
Feedback and dialogues on blogs can lead to dramatic improvements in business, and lucrative profits
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The value of feedback from clients and prospective clients can be extraordinarily valuable for improving sales!! Blog owners may ask for feedback regarding which of the customers’ needs were not met or what the customers liked or didn’t like about the service or products.
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Blog owners may benefit equally well from dialogues with their customers. They may ask their customers to help them with generating new ideas for their business.
By posting ideas or questionnaires on their blog, bloggers can generate discussions regarding the latest product-preferences of their clients’ and blog-visitors’.
In such a questionnaire, blog owners may ask their visitors to tell them which new products and services they would prefer.
- Lead-Generation
Freelancers, affiliates, and businesses can all use blogs to generate leads. For example, a tax consultant can write a blog with relevant and quality information to its readers and offer a free consultation meeting on his/her blog.
He or she may (and should!) include a telephone number or an email address for readers, should visitors decide to seek additional services.
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What You Will Learn
Unfortunately, not everyone who gets into blogging really understands what makes a blog work, or how to leverage their blog properly for income. Instead, they are stuck spinning their wheels when they should be raking in profits!
If you are serious about getting into profitable blogging, you can only benefit from studying it carefully. Let us show you exactly what you need to know, and set you on a smoother path to profitability.
For Newcomers:
In order to ensure that you are one of the people who profit from their blogs rather than remaining lost in obscurity, you need to set up your blog wisely from day one.
This involves first and foremost, understanding the basics of blogging, including:
- What is a blog, and how is blogging unique?
- How do bloggers make money?
- What topics create profitable blogs?
- How can I analyze the market?
- Who are my competitors?
- What tools do I need in order to get started?
- Which blog platforms and programs are best?
For Professionals:
Once you have mastered the basics of blogging, you will be ready to tackle some of the advanced elements and nuances of the blogging process,
such as:
- How to monitor the performance of your blog
- Methods for increasing blog traffic
- Building credibility
- Leveraging social networks, Google Alerts, and Technorati for blog promotion
- Creating direct and indirect income-streams
- Optimizing your advertising
- Working with affiliates
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Every time a basic or advanced blogging principle is discussed here, you should know that all of the information is as up-to-date as possible. This guide has been designed and written by real bloggers and web marketers who have hands-on experience with each and every one of these topics.
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You are NOT being handed last year’s examples!
You are receiving the successful strategies
that are working now!
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