FOUR Incredible Ways to Make Money From Blogging ... Starting Right Now!

'Blog', short for 'web log', is a kind of journal, a diary if you like, into which bloggers key postings about their special interests sometimes with a view to making money from their writing. That means someone in it for the money might blog about how to train dogs and at the same time recommend an eBook about dog training at his blog; a freelance writer might add regular new articles to her blog for publishers to visit and hopefully commission her to write articles for them.  From what was once a social interest, blogging has recently developed into a powerful moneymaking tool.  Although there are many hundreds of ways to monetise a blog, it's the following that many bloggers find most profitable:

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*  Write and upload your own articles to your blog and hyperlink your article's title to a sales page for your own product or one you are selling as an affiliate.  You might also add those same hyperlinks to a 'resource box' at the end of your article.  A resource box, very basically, represents a few lines that mention the author and that person's expertise in the subject concerned.  The resource box might also hyperlink to products that earn commissions for the writer from sales generated by the article.  

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*  End your articles and shorter blog postings with mention of free reports readers can access by adding their names to your mailing list.  You'll need to use html to add sign up boxes linked to professional email database and processing companies but the process is actually very easy, even for newbies, and will be comprehensively explained by the company providing your email listing service.

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*  Write reviews about products and services that might interest your blog's visitors.  Be honest in your review and do not give glowing testimonials purely to get your readers to buy whatever you recommend.  Recommending purely to make money is a quick way to alienate your readers who will relate their experience to other Internet users and turn your blog into a no-go zone.

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*  Add text ads like Google AdSense to your blog, as well as affiliate product links from companies like ClickBank (for digital products), Amazon (for hard copy books and numerous other product types), alongside countless other affiliate providers.  Just one click on one link at your site can earn you double figure dollar commissions from AdSense, for example, and other pay-per-click companies and is a good way to grow your list fast.

 

Why Blogging Will Sky-Rocket Your High Street Business Profits

Most high street sellers find reaching new customers difficult, risky, and very expensive.  That's probably because they are paying hundreds of dollars for offline magazine ads. and spots in telephone advertising magazines.  Little do they know that many free online marketing methods can attract many more customers to their business, not only cheaper, but also faster and more efficiently that any offline  marketing technique.  One such technique is blogging!

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A blog is a kind of social networking tool, a way for people to communicate with other people, sometimes friends and colleagues or, in our case, more appropriately to communicate with buyers, actual and potential, and to turn those people into regular buyers.

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Let us consider a couple of ways for offline and Internet marketers to use blogs to grow their business profits:

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*  High street sellers are used to targetting customers from a short catchment area, sometimes just a few miles, often from word-of-mouth recommendation and local newspaper advertising.  Blogging allows retailers whose products have international appeal to attract customers from all over the world who can request information or order products online.  So, for example, someone selling craftwork materials offline, might also sell their products on eBay or from their own Internet site and use blogging to grow back end sales.  They might do this by adding their blog address to compliments slips and business cards included in outgoing deliveries and invite customers to sign up for some useful free gift in exchange for adding their names to the seller's mailing list.  Once on the list customers can be emailed every time the seller has new products that might interest them.

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*  A simple blog can be used in place of complicated html squeeze pages designed to get potential buyers to join a mailing list to learn more about an online seller's products and services.  Some people prefer to know more about sellers and their products before spending their hard earned cash on products they don't get to see before buying, from people they may never meet face to face.  Getting people to join a mailing list for more information allows sellers to develop a relationship with potential buyers and to send regular promotional emails in expectation of a high proportion of list members becoming regular buyers in the near future.

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*  Sellers in outlying areas or whose location is poorly signposted might use their blog to direct visitors to their premises and to give information about opening times and current special offers.  

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*  There are many products people prefer not to buy face-to-face with sellers, usually potentially embarrassing products like marital aids, sex toys, cures for baldness and piles.  So a blog is the perfect place to write about and promote potentially embarrassing problems and special requirements and to grow an ongoing and very confidential relationship between buyers and sellers.  

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*  Businesses can grow their own customer base by posting comments on other people’s blogs featuring similar content to their own and inviting readers to visit the writer's own blog, ostensibly to obtain useful free information or to download a special report, while in reality the objective is to sell to those people as soon as you possibly can.

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*  Some buyers hate contacting sellers for product support or to arrange a refund especially if it also means a long trip back into town.  A blog can benefit customers who prefer not to travel or approach sellers in person and the fact they can achieve their objective impersonally, via a blog, can generate customer loyalty and repeat business. 

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A blog can be created in less than an hour, regular postings take just a few minutes each, in return for which the seller can grow his business worldwide and grow a huge and loyal customer list that could send his profits sky rocketing, even in the short term.

 

Blogging for Quick, Easy, Also Spectacular Profits

Blogging serves lots of useful purposes, some social, some charitable, some designed to grow traffic and generate profits for your business.  But getting visitors to visit your blog and buy your product just once is a waste of your blogging skills; you need to turn your visitors into regular visitors and send your profits soaring.  It's called making your blog ''Sticky' and you do it like this:

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*  Update your blog daily and end each posting by mentioning what you'll be blogging about next time.  And make that 'something' appealing, a little mysterious, and generate curiosity that forces your visitors to call daily to read your blog.

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*  Offer regular free gifts and get visitors to sign up to your mailing list for these free gifts.  Give clues to what future gifts are about, but don't give too much information, give just enough to make readers curious and keen to know more and eager to visit your blog daily.

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*  Be friendly and approachable to visitors, get them to trust you, get them to email you for help and advice.  Once you get their trust you can use blogging to pre-sell your own products and others belonging to affiliate vendors.  You should only recommend products you like, not products you find lacking, otherwise all that trust you gained will be lost forever.

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*  If you promise regular postings make sure to keep your promise or visitors will become disillusioned, they'll accuse you of wasting their time, they'll lose faith in you, and they'll eventually stop visiting your blog.

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*  Include postings that require visitors to call back for updates, such as competitions for which you'll reveal the winners later, let readers ask questions which you again answer later at the blog, treat them to a few jokes and anecdotes, and let visitors see there's more to your blog than just making money.

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All in all, give lots of reasons for people to visit your blog and one day, maybe soon, they'll buy one or more of your products.

 

FIVE Major Mistakes Bloggers Make that Fatally Affect Their Profits!

If you are new to blogging and still feeling your way around, or if you've been blogging for some time but you're making less money than you expected, it could be time to examine your blog for simple mistakes that most new bloggers make.  Correct those mistakes then set your course for a lifetime of profitable blogging!  

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These are the most common early blogging mistakes:

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*  Failure to Plan.  Which means if you don't plan your blog by choosing a layout that suits your purpose and determining what to blog about and when, you will just end up wasting your time, and making nothing.  Spend time planning your blog before posting to it, look at other people's blogs and adapt their ideas to suit your purposes (do not copy too closely and do not breach trademark and copyright laws), study ways to grow traffic to your blog or else you could be blogging forever with no one ever to admire your work.

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*  Failure to Focus.  Be focussed and choose a definite subject for your blog.  Niche blogs tend to rank higher in search engine listings than blogs having no special order or theme.  This is because, when people search online, search engines look for sites rich in information to benefit their customers and will choose themed blogs over others containing information about anything and everything and sometimes nothing!

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*  Expect immediate visits.  Don't expect people to visit your blog from its first day online and do not stop blogging if your blog doesn't attract visitors or profits during its first month.  As for any web site, the more content you add to your blog the higher your blog will rank in search engines and the sooner you'll attract regular visitors.  

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*  Create boring posts and titles that no one wants to read.  Make your posting titles unusual, make them cryptic, this way you'll incite curiosity and ensure your visitors actually read your postings and probably also join your mailing list or buy one of your recommended products. 

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*  Failure to promote.  Promote your blog every day, use free and low cost traffic generating techniques.  Write articles, for example, featuring your blog in the resource box; post on other people's blogs and link back to your own; post in forums and mention your own blog as a source of helpful advice to solve common member problems and queries; place free classified ads. on and off the Internet offering free gifts to people who visit your blog.

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After all that you really can expect regular high traffic and good overall profits for all your hard work.

 

Blogging Success: Do's and Don'ts that Guarantee Your Blogging Success

With millions of blogs existing online and new ones arriving daily, only a fool would expect to upload a blog today and begin making millions tomorrow.  Blogging doesn’t work that way and there are many things you must do to grow a popular blog, and many more things to avoid!  They include:

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DO

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*  Update your blog on a regular basis, daily if you can.  That way you'll keep visitors interested and keen to visit you often.  Visiting often gives you more chances to sell to your visitors and more time to grow a relationship that turns visitors into regular repeat buyers possibly for many years to come.

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*  Stay focused and aim to please a niche audience all of the time rather than trying to please everyone some of the time.

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*  Create interesting posts with unusual titles that make visitors want to click on your titles to read more.

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*  Offer free gifts, free updates, give free advice, write free articles!  All help generate trust and confidence in visitors to your blog and will turn them into regular visitors and many of them into regular buyers too.  

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DO NOT

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*  Complain or unfairly criticise other people or their products. Be impartial always and gain a reputation for truth and reliability and be seen as someone whose products and recommendations your blog visitors will trust.

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*  Breach trademark or copyright laws by stealing images and huge chunks of other people's articles and using them on your blog.  Not only might you face legal action but you could also be banned from search engine rankings or even have your blogged closed down.

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*  Ignore your visitors, especially those who ask questions or leave comments at your blog.  People like to feel wanted, and welcome, and if they don't like how you treat them they'll stop visiting your blog.  More than this, if you ignore most questions and reply only as part of a selling exercise people will soon see you as a money grabbing good-for-nothing and move to buying elsewhere.

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*  Sit back and wait for your blog to draw traffic and begin making money.  That's because it isn't the blog that makes money, it's the traffic you drive to the blog that makes money.   So write articles about your blog and add them to online article directories, visit other people’s blogs and offer incentives for people to visit your own blog, place free classified ads. on and off the Internet, and do whatever else you can do - legally - that drives traffic your way!