9 Simple Steps To Make Money From Your Blog

One of the first things which crossed my mind when I started blogging was, How could I make money from it. Although, that is not my focus anymore, I think everyone who blogs at some point of time thinks about it and there are many bloggers who simply blog because they want to make money from it.

A successful blog is certainly a fantastic tool to create an income stream, and sometimes a good blog is all you need to improve your business. If you do want to know how to make your blog successful you could read “How To Promote Your Blog Effectively!”. However, the reason for this post is to share with you all the simple 9 step formula to get on the fast track to making money with your blog.

So without any further ado, read through for the 9 simple steps to make money from your blog:

Step 1. Your blog is a tool to attract your customers or clients

Utilize your blog to promote your expertise. Your blog is your platform to connect with your audience and convert leads and generate an income. Share your expertise, knowledge and experience via your blog to reach your prospective clients or customers. Your blog in itself is just a free give away, use it rightly.

Step 2. Stay away from selling advertising on your Blog

Selling ad space on a blog sounds like a good idea to make some income, it sure is. But, you will make more money if you use that space to sell your own services or products or even promote your affiliate programs. You could always display affiliate programs which give out hefty commissions and make a lot more money than just showings ads. If you want help in finding the best affiliate programs around, look this up “Top Affiliate Marketing Networks”.

Step 3. Reverse your sales funnel

A cheap product is just that, a cheap one. Most bloggers tend to launch cheap products in the beginning and then complain about how they are not making any money. The best one can do is to build a sales funnel in reverse. Instead of expecting a sale, in the end, build a funnel to create a sale in the beginning. Create and sell your most valuable products right at the start. You will see a difference in no time.

Step 4. A cheap market is a MYTH!

A valuable product costs more, and pricing your products or services in the premium bracket works best to monetize. Even, if you have a small subscriber base, selling just a few premium products will help you make more money than a combined sale of cheap products.

Step 5. Charge premium prices for your services

Do not undersell yourself by feeling guilty about charging premium prices for your products or services. By charging premium prices, you are assuring your customers of premium service. Your customers are paying for results and with a premium offering, you can do everything possible to get your customers what they desire.

Step 6. Do not waste time on Facebook, Twitter, Google+

Yes, you read it right. Though I do regularly post to all these social media platforms, what I have realized is that social media generated visitors per hour is by far the lowest. Focus on building your subscriber base instead of wasting time on social media forever. However, social media can also be leveraged to help you monetize, but at a later stage.

Step 7. Focus on building your email list

The size of your email list is directly proportionate to the amount of money you can make. That is how simple it is if you are starting up target making a dollar from every subscriber you have and slowly build on that. So, it all trickles down to how many subscribers you have because the more subscribers means more money for you. Focus on building an email list from the beginning and distributing relevant and valuable content to them. I will be writing a “How to build your email list” post pretty soon, so check back.

Step 8. Don’t wait to sell

Many of us postpone selling and wait to build an email list or followers first. Don’t make that mistake, if you want to scale your reach you will need money, so start selling from day one. Do not make your blog look like a sales presentation, but do make your services or products available from day one. Make sure you know your audience and offer them what they want.

Step 9. Share your expertise

Probably the most important Step for your success in making money with your blog is to share what you learn with others. Not only will it gain your a loyal following, but it will also build credibility for you and what you have to offer. Also, by sharing your experiences, you will inspire your fellow bloggers to make money and become successful.

Conclusion

These are some of the steps which I am currently practicing and have seen lots of bloggers get successful with. I do believe this is not a definitive formula, but a simple and easily implementable one. So, I will encourage all of you bloggers to use them and let me know if it worked for you.

How To Promote Your Blog Effectively!

Writing a blog is not the difficult part, promoting it is.

Blogging comes with its set of challenges, it can sometimes get difficult finding what to write about but mostly what is difficult is to find your audience, and promoting it consistently to them. You may be an expert in your chosen field, and you may have loads of topics and subjects to write about but when it comes to finding and reaching your readers, you may be lost. More often than not, most bloggers sometimes really good bloggers fail to succeed only because they did not know how to promote their blog. In this post, I will share with all of you out there some simple yet effective means of promoting your blog and improving your blog readership and visitors.

Here you go!

Begin with Facebook

There is absolutely no better place to start promoting your blog than on Facebook. Make facebook your entry point. With the largest social media reach on the planet, facebook can be the best platform you can ever have to promote your blog and blog posts. With multiple options of creating your own page, groups and joining innumerable relevant groups facebook gives you an opportunity to connect and reach your targeted audience early on. But, do keep in mind to be rational with your posting and abstain from just posting links. Do try and make your posts personalized and with a consistent summary.

Utilize Twitter

An equally important social media network, Twitter is one of the best places to find your audience. For every blogger, Twitter can be a boon provided you leverage it to your advantage with some knowledge. The best way to utilize twitter is by finding and following relevant users who may have an interest in your content. Follow, retweet and like aggressively and build a following to whom you can tweet your links. Twitter is a great place to find and connect with influencers in your domain.

Take advantage of Blog Networks

Many overlook joining blog networks and focus extensively on social media reach. That’s a mistake you should not be doing. Blog networks are the best place to connect with fellow bloggers and help each other with promoting your blogs. Not only are blog networks a great place to meet other bloggers, you can also learn a lot from some of the more experienced bloggers on the network. I personally feel a couple of networks which you all can try out are Triberr and Viral Content Buzz.

Make sure to join Inbound.org

I personally think inbound.org is one of the best forums out there for sharing top content. Join this forum and share the best content on this platform. Be sure to share content from all sources you find interesting other than just yours to this platform. Comment and upvote and get noticed. I recommend inbound.org for every blogger who wants to get active.

Build your email list

This one is not very easy and might take some time. But it is a fundamental activity which every blogger should focus on from the time they start. An email list can be that critical factor which defines your overall reach. Once your blog is up and running, try and set up a simple email sign up form so that your readers can subscribe to receive your updates. if you have a facebook page, you can easily create a facebook sign up which will help you collect emails from your facebook page. I will explain how it can be done and how you can leverage it one of my future posts.

Reach out to other bloggers and influencers

I am sure we all draw inspiration from many people in our lives. Sometimes, when we write articles or blog posts we draw our inspirations from other bloggers and social authorities. If so, do mention them in those posts and tag them. Every time you link or mention other bloggers, companies or influencers do let them know. Most often than not, they will further share it and give you access to new relevant readers and visitors.

In conclusion

Please do remember that just writing content and bringing out articles and posts won’t get you an audience. You will have to extensively and consistently promote each one of your blog posts to your audience. Always, promote at places where your audiences hang out. So, next time you publish a post be sure to promote it and use some of these tips which I have written about.

If you have some suggestions to add? Drop me a comment.

 

 

Top 5 Blogs To Follow For Blogging Tricks, Tips and Inspiration.

Everyone who wants to starts blogging or is a new blogger looks for information online to know how to do it or how he or she can become a better blogger. Starting a blog is perhaps the easiest part. But, running a successful blog is not. For a blog to  become successful you need to constantly come up with interesting content, unique content which will consistently drive visitors to your blog and give you a loyal audience. I am writing this post keeping this aspect in mind.

I was thinking of coming up with a topic about blogging, I wanted to write a post about what makes a blog a good blog. I know how important it is to know what you need to know before you do it. I know this personally because I have failed at keeping blogs afloat in the past. I am writing this post to share with you what I learned from following these blogs which I have listed here in the Top 5 series. These blogs have not only taught me what I have to do and how to do it, but they have all been instrumental in keeping me inspired.

The Top 5 Blogs in my opinion

1. Quicksprout

Without a doubt, QuickSprout is one of the best things that happened to me. This is a well rounded blog run by an extremely talented, passionate and accessible Neil Patel. I literally learned everything that I had to learn in terms of blogging, content, SEO and digital marketing as a whole from QuickSprout. Hence, it takes the first spot in my top 5 list. Please do go here and you will find an immense amount of resources which will help any level blogger to surpass his current experience in the blogging domain.

2. Copyblogger

CopyBlogger is by far the best source for upgrading your content marketing skills. Everyone knows that Content is King and how critical it is to have fresh, interesting and unique content on your blog to stand out. I have learned many interesting aspects of content marketing from Copyblogger. This is one content marketing blog you do not want to miss if you want to ace up your content skills.

3. Hubspot

Hubspot had to be on the list. Personally, I have felt that Hubspot is the place where you have infinite resources of useful content. Hubspot Blog is a direct access to the many amazing bloggers in the global arena. If you want to learn and become better at doing what you do , you should not skip Hubspot.

4. Content Marketing Institute

CMI, primarily a content marketing training institute has some key resources which can point you in the right direction in terms of attaining digital marketing success. A blog, being a tool for many of us to promote our businesses, understanding digital marketing becomes a necessity. CMI, addresses this necessity nicely by giving us every bit of information with which we can survive in the highly competitive blogging world.

5. Post Planner

Last but not the least, Post Planner gets on my list purely because they are the best resource for learning and understanding the dynamics of social media marketing. I learned this early on, and vouch that social media is certainly essential for a blogs popularity and if you follow Post Planner, you will know exactly how to leverage Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn , Instagram etc to your advantage.

In conclusion, I would like to say that this list is purely based on my experience. It can however be different for you. If you do know about other blogs which have helped you in your endeavours do not hesitate to share it with me. Also, take a look at these blogs and let me know if it helped you in any way.

Happy Blogging!