Today i was checking out a few fellow bloggers blogs. And one mans statement really stuck in my mind. I just had to share it with you. It goes totaly against the general idea of how to make money blogging.
In one paragraph of his blog he talked about how UGLY his blog looked. He said that his wife is always after him to make LOOK nicer.
His answer to her was WHY?
He said I don't care how my blog looks. I am not blogging to find a following of readers. I am blogging to make money. If having an ugly blog will make more people click on my adsense adds to just get away from my blog, Then we both win. They get away from my blog, and i get paid for them clicking on an adsence add.
Now i am not suggesting that this attitude, or way of going about blogging is right. But you have to hand it to the guy for being straight up, and honest about why he is blogging.
After floating around online looking for some good money making opportunities for myself, i have found so many scams out there. And people who are not totaly honest and up front about thier products or goals. That to find a man that will just bluntly tell anyone reading his blog, that he doesn't care if they read it or not. All as he cares about is that they click on an add so he can make money, is kind of refreshing.
Honesty and integrity are sorely lacking nowadays, and i wish that everyone would be upfront about everything, But it has always been that there are disonest people out there, so we must do the best we can to protect ourselves from them. I must be honest, i would not mind making some (ok alot) of money off this blog. But i know that with my limited experience at blogging, that it will probably not happen.
So i am trying to focus on helping others by sharing some of my learning experiences, and hopefuly some of the people who read my blog can make it.
Oh and just so you know. The man i was talking about above..... is averaging 5900 hits a day on his blog.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Make Your Blog a Money Machine
I must appologize for not posting any new tips or money making opportunities in past few days. I have been very busy working on my own web site, which i hope to have up and running very soon. As soon as i do i will leave the web address on here, so you can check it out.
When you do visit it, i would really appreciate any feedback on it. Any comments you may have i would really apprciate them.
3 Tips on Making Your Blog a Money Machine:
1) it is important to add an auto responder to your blog.
- an opt in box gets you a name & email address that you can senp future opportuniteis to.
- you must offer an incentive to your readers to explain WHY they should give you thier name and email.
- the best incentives are to give away a free report, or to Join a news letter.
2) DO NOT use any common blog theme.
- using a common blog theme makes your blog just one of the masses out there. It does not set you apart from the rest, so people will notice you and join your blog group.
- make a unique banner for your blog. One that readers will notice and remember.
- Make your blog different from the others. If your blog looks the same, and has the same content and style of presentation as all the other blogs out there. Then you are again just one of the masses. Try different things Pictures, banners, whatever you can think of to seperate yourself from the others.
3) STOP using blogger.com or any other free blog platform.
- if you are trying to make money from blogging, then these free blog platforms ARE NOT the best to use.
- the reason i say that is because when you are trying to run a profitable business from FREE service, it tends to undermine how Legit your business really is. Many people (myself included) tend to look at a business that tries to opperate for free as a scam. I tend to look at businesses that use free platforms as something that is not a good opportunity, if the marketer has to use a free platform to get his/her message out.
- another reason you should not use a free platform is, the fact that your blog can be shut down by the platform provider at any time, for what ever reason. It would really suck if just about the time you had things really starting to roll, that the platform provider decided to shut you down, because they felt that what you are doing is violating the terms of use, or for any other reason they feel like.
So there you have it....
I hope that all of the tips and information i have given you helps you to become a successful blogger. In the future i will continue to post different tips as i find them. As well as i will post and recomend other money making ventures that i believe are good, and profitable.
If at any time you have a question, or would like me to research a marketing system, and give you a review. Please leave a comment, and i will do the best i can to help you out.
When you do visit it, i would really appreciate any feedback on it. Any comments you may have i would really apprciate them.
3 Tips on Making Your Blog a Money Machine:
1) it is important to add an auto responder to your blog.
- an opt in box gets you a name & email address that you can senp future opportuniteis to.
- you must offer an incentive to your readers to explain WHY they should give you thier name and email.
- the best incentives are to give away a free report, or to Join a news letter.
2) DO NOT use any common blog theme.
- using a common blog theme makes your blog just one of the masses out there. It does not set you apart from the rest, so people will notice you and join your blog group.
- make a unique banner for your blog. One that readers will notice and remember.
- Make your blog different from the others. If your blog looks the same, and has the same content and style of presentation as all the other blogs out there. Then you are again just one of the masses. Try different things Pictures, banners, whatever you can think of to seperate yourself from the others.
3) STOP using blogger.com or any other free blog platform.
- if you are trying to make money from blogging, then these free blog platforms ARE NOT the best to use.
- the reason i say that is because when you are trying to run a profitable business from FREE service, it tends to undermine how Legit your business really is. Many people (myself included) tend to look at a business that tries to opperate for free as a scam. I tend to look at businesses that use free platforms as something that is not a good opportunity, if the marketer has to use a free platform to get his/her message out.
- another reason you should not use a free platform is, the fact that your blog can be shut down by the platform provider at any time, for what ever reason. It would really suck if just about the time you had things really starting to roll, that the platform provider decided to shut you down, because they felt that what you are doing is violating the terms of use, or for any other reason they feel like.
So there you have it....
I hope that all of the tips and information i have given you helps you to become a successful blogger. In the future i will continue to post different tips as i find them. As well as i will post and recomend other money making ventures that i believe are good, and profitable.
If at any time you have a question, or would like me to research a marketing system, and give you a review. Please leave a comment, and i will do the best i can to help you out.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Make money with your blog, usinga data base.
Getting a data base on your blog is very important. Without a data base you have no way of really promoting any type of affiliate marketing products.
Once you have choosen your niche, you need a data base. What a data base really is, is a colection of names and emails of the people who are interested in your niche product. This allows you as an affliate to send NON SPAM emails about products and services that they might be interested in. These are cosidered NON SPAM emails because by entering thier Name and email into your Data Base, they have esentialy given you their permission to send them these emails.
Now although there are alot of free auto responders out there i would recomend Get Response. The hitch to this auto responder is that there is a small monthly fee to subscribe. But if you are serious about making money online blogging then the fee is deffinately worth it.
Ideas You Can Use To Capture Leads
1)Use a sqeeze page.
- this is the most effective way to capture leads. Basicly a sqeeze page is an optin box where the contact enters thier name and email so that they can be automaticaly rerouted to your sales page for the given product that you are promoting. Essentialy what a sqeeze page does, is takes a contact directly to your sales page instead of a general search page, where they have multiple sites to choose from, that promote the product that you are promoting.
2) You can make a free gift, and give it away on your blog.
- some examples are if they enter thier name and email they will recieve a free report. Or a weekly newsletter about the new products that you have found that they might be interested in.
3) You can do a survey.
- by doing a survey you can find out more about your readers. Find out what they are looking for, what thier interests are. It is a good way to find out if what you are writing about is really what your readers are after, or if you need to change things up abit in order to really interest your readers in your blog.
Once you have choosen your niche, you need a data base. What a data base really is, is a colection of names and emails of the people who are interested in your niche product. This allows you as an affliate to send NON SPAM emails about products and services that they might be interested in. These are cosidered NON SPAM emails because by entering thier Name and email into your Data Base, they have esentialy given you their permission to send them these emails.
Now although there are alot of free auto responders out there i would recomend Get Response. The hitch to this auto responder is that there is a small monthly fee to subscribe. But if you are serious about making money online blogging then the fee is deffinately worth it.
Ideas You Can Use To Capture Leads
1)Use a sqeeze page.
- this is the most effective way to capture leads. Basicly a sqeeze page is an optin box where the contact enters thier name and email so that they can be automaticaly rerouted to your sales page for the given product that you are promoting. Essentialy what a sqeeze page does, is takes a contact directly to your sales page instead of a general search page, where they have multiple sites to choose from, that promote the product that you are promoting.
2) You can make a free gift, and give it away on your blog.
- some examples are if they enter thier name and email they will recieve a free report. Or a weekly newsletter about the new products that you have found that they might be interested in.
3) You can do a survey.
- by doing a survey you can find out more about your readers. Find out what they are looking for, what thier interests are. It is a good way to find out if what you are writing about is really what your readers are after, or if you need to change things up abit in order to really interest your readers in your blog.
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