Make More Money as a Passionate Blogger
November 11, 2011 by Linda
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If you looking to make money with blog marketing , you need to blog about something you love. Don’t think for a second that’s misplaced sentimentality, either! What role could your feelings play in your success? If the numbers look good, you have a moneymaking niche on your hands, right? No. It’s a simple fact that marketers who feel passionate about their topics tend to earn more than others do. There are good reasons to choose a niche about which you feel passionate. Let’s consider four of them. First, you’re more likely to create quality content that really answers the concerns of those looking for relevant information. If you really know your topic, you’re less likely to supply inaccurate information. You’re also more likely to supply content that connects with the audience. If you want to know how to make money, you need to realize the power of working on topics that interest you. Second, you’re much less likely to abandon a project if you care about the subject area. Motivation is a critical part of internet marketing success and it’s much easier to find the motivation to work on a project that interests you than it is to labor on something that bores you to tears. Blogging involves more than a one-time effort. Success relies on updates and ongoing attention. The failure to choose a niche that excites you can lead to project abandonment. Third, making money in a niche you love opens doors to other opportunities. If you’re working with your passions, you’re more likely to find ways to expand your operation in profitable directions. If you don’t really care about widgets, you’re not going to notice many of the ways that you could improve your widgets blog to maximize profits. You’ll miss great content ideas for your site. You can’t hope to see the best opportunities to profit if you’re not fascinated by your niche. If, on the other hand, you love your niche, you’ll be motivated to discover new and profitable ways to transform your business. Finally, it’s fun. It’s just more enjoyable to work with your passions. We’re all interested in making money online. That doesn’t mean we need to measure those returns exclusively in terms of dollars and cents. There’s nothing better than actually enjoying both your work and the money it generates. Remember to consider your feelings when you choose niches for blogging projects. Go beyond simply getting rid of options that are patently unappealing. Actively search out ideas that match your personal passions. Keeping your passions in mind is one of the best things you can do for your business.
How To Make Money Online by Blogging
October 7, 2011 by CK
Filed under News & Articles
Sign Up With Some Good Affiliate Networks
To start off with I recommend you use Clickbank to review ebooks, membership sites, video tutorials or software and Amazon to review real products like technology equipment, books, cd’s, and much more.By signing up with affiliate networks, you can obtain affiliate links not just banners, and with those links make them active on certain keywords in your blog post.Then of course you can get commissions for whoever clicks on your affiliate links to buy a product that you have mentioned on your review pages.
Doing Your Keyword Research For Your Blog Post Titles
Making sure your keywords for your headline are low competition and have a healthy overall search volume for the month and are trending upwards over time are the first key elements any blogger should concentrate on before posting about a product they want to make money on.
I know this for a fact as I have made good money from my blog and enough to earn a good living, my best converted pages on sales are about reviews and indirect marketing approaches using keyword research.
You will notice other bloggers like John Chow who is one of the top pro bloggers in the world that every post he makes normally each headline is not only optimized but also aimed in some way or the other to attract buyers.
He is a great example of this as he clearly states that he makes $40k per month blogging, and believe me folks this is no joke.
One big example is I recently did a product launch on my keyword research plugin for bloggers – [Keyword Winner ] and when John Chow got his hands on it he could not stop using it, and then he referred others to use it and made money that way. So when you are passionate about a product and review it you can sell a lot more, readers can usually smell this from a mile away, so the trick is to be fully passionate about a product first before you review it.
Mobile Blogging
January 21, 2010 by CK
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Mobile Blogging is on the Cutting Edge
Mobile blogging is an exciting phenomenon that is
sweeping the blogosphere. One of the reasons why a lot
of bloggers are attracted to the medium of blogging in
the first place is that they enjoy being able to make
frequent updates and posts that keep all of their visitors
up to speed with current situations. Mobile blogs, or
“moblogs,” take this to the extreme by allowing users to
post things literally as they happen. This new wave of
moblogs and mobloggers keep web surfers up to date
with good and bad events of importance as they occur
all over the world, helping to make international
communication faster and more accurate.
Many people feel that the limitations of blogging have a
lot to do with geography. After all, there is only so
current that a blog can be when you need to run home
and boot up in order to update it. However, mobile
blogging marks the beginning of an thrilling new era
when web-based communication can happen
spontaneously from any location. Moblogging devices
mean that there is almost nowhere on the planet that
remains off-limits for bloggers.
Mobile blogging is still in its infancy because the
technology that makes it possible has only recently hit
the global market. The first moblog technology became
available over a decade ago, but it is only the past two
or three years that mobile web devices have become
user-friendly enough to appeal to most consumers. As
camera phones and other mobile technology become
more popular, more and more bloggers are getting away
from their desks and are hitting the streets. Moblogging
is becoming much more widespread that it was even a
few months ago, and mobloggers are quickly attracting
a lot of attention with the blogging community. It is not
yet clear whether moblogs will become the dominant
kinds of blogs in the years to come, but the current
trend seems to imply that moblogs are here to stay.
Mobile devices make it possible to blog from the sites
where current events are unfolding, which is one of the
reasons why mobile blogging has so much thrilling
potential to revolutionize the blogosphere. A moblogger
with a camera phone can post blog entries from, say, the
foot of the podium at a presidential speech, or from the
stands during the final moments of the world series.
This enables bloggers to experience the same real time
thrills that live television coverage provides, but in a
more democratic medium. The combination of mobility
and individual control that moblogging provides
certainly places mobloggers on the cutting edge of
today’s communications technology, and it is hard to
imagine that the number and prestige of moblogs will
not continue to grow in the coming years.
Let Other People Help You Earn!
Wouldn’t you like to be able to generate income by simply providing your honest opinion? Wouldn’t it be
nice to finally tell people what you think and turn that into a residual income stream?
Better yet, have an army of people HELPING you earn?
I know it might sound a bit “too good to be true” but it is possible. In fact I use the very same strategy
for several years and it is called… Affiliate Marketing! I know what a shocker! You probably
expected some “revelation of a secret strategy”, have you?
Well I hate the hype and want to share not only what works but also How To Work It. See what I’m talking about here:
Affiliate marketing is known to all and tried by just as many, and yet 99% of the people fail! Not because they don’t know what to do or how to do it but quite often because they are misled or don’t have the right tools. It only sounds good when someone promises you a solution in the box” because the same is offered to hundreds of your direct competitors!
Affiliate marketing is a cut-throat business, but luckily you can have an advantage. You can monetize the natural desire of people to voice their opinion on anything and everything! In the age of Web 2.0 people’s opinion creates bigger impact than an expert review!
I’m talking about Review Blogs. Loved by search engines that drive traffic to them, they provide an incredible flexibility as a part of the Social Media revolution. In fact they help you merge the two and earn from it, assuming you have all the right pieces in place! And that is exactly what Review Blog System provides – all the right tools to help you earn:
It does not create a push button solution, but rather gives you all you need to pave a way to the affiliate marketing profits. Here is step-by-step action plan for you:
1. Purchase the Review Blog System (or just the Review blog theme if you are familiar with WordPress installation, configuration, etc.) It comes with a guide to help you install and configure it.
2. Do your keywords research to locate a profitable niche that has products in it. I recommend sticking to digital products, such as the ones provided by ClickBank or Paydotcom.com as they tend to carry the highest commissions.
3. Register a domain name within that niche and install new Review Blog using the 3 Click install process (or do it manually if you purchased just the theme.)
4. Begin writing reviews of the products you have located within that niche. Be personal – express your view, do a research if you didn’t purchase the product but don’t write hype or lie. Your job here is to share your opinion based on your knowledge of the product, or on the research you conducted. Concentrate on providing answers to future customers: be honest, share your opinion and open the floor to other people. Allow them to add a Review using a built in option!
5. After each published post use Social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook and other to announce it and invite people to share their opinion.
6. Bookmark the post to add incoming links, use blog aggregators such as “BlogginZoom”, “Blog Engage” and others to share your content with other bloggers.
7. Go to the forums in your niche and post or reply there with helpful advice to get people to click on your signature link.
8. Do a Google search for “CommentLuv Dofollow List” and “keywordluv dofollow list” – visit the blogs with those attributes enabled and comment away to get incoming links to your new post and also new visitors
9. Add your new blog post to relevant blog carnivals: http://blogcarnival.com/bc/
10. Submit articles with links to your post.
Traffic and attention generation ideas above should be sufficient to help you get visitors, generate reviews and help you rank well in search engines for the chosen product.
As result – you get sales!
Although the steps outlined above can help just about any blogger, but in combination with the Review Blog System you can COUNT on the RESULTS.
Get it now at http://budurl.com/Breview
Free Course on Blogging and Making Money
April 23, 2009 by CK
Filed under News & Articles
This free course has a ton of great things that will allow you to make a load of money in literally no time at all
Blogging for Profit, No Previous Experience Required
April 22, 2009 by CK
Filed under News & Articles
Business Idea
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.
Blogging Ideas
NEW ! 50 Blogging Ideas
What’s the hardest thing about blogging? Coming up with fresh, new content! And you have to publish new posts frequently – twice a week at the very least – to keep readers interested and earn search engine love.
If you’re feeling stuck, here is a list of 50 blogging ideas that are sure to inspire you to come up with new content for your blog. Most of the ideas can be used more than once, so you won’t run out of blog posts for months to come.
And by the way, if you want to make more money from your blog, Blogger’s Paycheck shows you how to make passive income from your blog without spending all day at it.
1. Special events – Relate your blog topic to a special event, national day of, or holiday.
2. News – Subscribe to Google news alert on your keywords and write about the latest news in your niche.
3. Book review.
4. Respond to a post on another blog in a niche similar or related to yours.
5. Blog milestone – Write about your blogging milestones, such as publishing your 100th post, getting your 1000th comment….
6. Niche heroes -Blog about a person who made a positive contribution in your niche.
7. Blog memes – Join in blog memes such as “Wordless Wednesday”. There’s at least one for every day of the week!
8. Product review – An excellent way to work in some affiliate links.
9. FAQs in your niche – Write a short Q & A based on FAQs about your niche.
10. Blog comment response – Write a long and expanded response to a comment on your blog.
11. Predict trends – What do you see happening in your niche in a year? 5 years?
12. Historical view – What was your niche in the past? Or what past event influenced your niche?
13. Top tips on any topic of interest to your readers.
14. Best of… – A good year ender, make a list of your best posts for the year.
15. Contests – Organize a contest for your blog readers, or make a list of contests your readers can join.
16. What I learned from… a current event, a person you met, or an experience you had.
17. Definitions – Define terms that are commonly used in your niche but a beginner may not understand
18. New products – Not a review but simply an announcement of a new product relevant to your niche. This is another good opportunity to drop in some affiliate links.
19. Biggest problem – Ask your readers what their biggest problem is about your blog topic or niche. They post their answers in the comments section.
20. Biggest problem follow up – Summarize the comments from #19 in another post.
21. Biggest problem follow up series – Write a separate blog post tackling each question from #19.
22. Interview somebody knowledgeable in your niche, or has succeeded in it, or is otherwise interesting to your readers.
23. Big list – Compile a big list of various resources, just like this one. The bigger the better!
24. Reader Survey – Put up a brief survey online and blog about the results.
25. Be provocative. Challenge a common belief or widely accepted idea in your niche.
26. New idea – What new idea about your blog topic or niche have you come across lately?
27. YouTube – Embed a funny, moving or insightful video on YouTube. You can even have a “video day” once a week.
28. YouTube version 2 – Make YOUR own YouTube video. Publish it on YouTube then embed on your blog. This way, you can attract traffic from YouTube to your blog.
29. Freebie – Scour the ‘net for freebies that your readers will love. Or create a freebie of your own, such as a checklist or special report.
30. Personal story – Use a personal story to illustrate an important concept or principle in your niche.
31. Free to publish articles – Check out relevant articles in article directories such as Ezine Articles… but don’t publish them entirely on your blog. Instead, use an article or a group of articles as your take-off point for a blog post, or several.
32. Link love – This is a post with links to other blogs. Some bloggers set aside one day a week to publish a list of the best blog posts on their topic.
33. Photo – A picture is worth thousand words, right? Search Flickr for creative commons pictures that your readers will like.
34. Hot topics – Look at Digg for hot topics in your niche
35. Pros and cons – Examine what’s good and bad about something related to your blog topic
36. Respond to relevant questions you find in Ask.com
37. Guest post – Invite another blogger to write a guest post for your blog
38. Reader’s post – Invite blog subscribers to submit an article or post to be published on the blog
39. Inspirational post – Write a motivational post for your readers.
40. Update an old post with fresh ideas, new learnings and current research findings.
41. Beginner’s guide – What do beginners in your niche struggle with? Write a post to guide them through it.
Best list – Patterned after “best dressed lists” make a list of the best ___ in your niche.
43. Worst list – Make your version of the “worst dressed list” for your niche.
44. New uses for – Think of new ways your readers can use gadgets and other stuff.
45. Write about a live event that you attended and what you learned from it.
46. Bribe post – Bribe your readers with a freebie in exchange for subscribing to your newsletter or RSS feed.
47. Around the world – Compare how people in different countries do something related to your niche.
48. Seasonal – Relate the month or season to your blog topic.
49. Blog carnival – Join or host a blog carnival, where several publish posts about the same topic on the same day.
50. Host a virtual “conference” on your blog – Invite “speakers” to publish their post on a specified date and time. Q&A happens in the comments section.
Now that you’ve got a steady flow of fresh content, how do you actually make money from your blog? Visit Blogger’s Paycheck for a step-by-step guide on blogging for profit.
