| The question "How to make money blogging" sits | | | | 4. Make Money Blogging from using the |
| high on every blogger's mind. | | | | Membership model |
| In fact I received many questions on "How to | | | | Over time, if your blog has lots of postings and |
| make money blogging" when I conducted my first | | | | provide good quality content, you can consider |
| webcast to answer my subscribers' most | | | | turning it into a membership site and charge |
| pressing questions on Blogs and Rss. | | | | access for it, again giving you another avenu |
| You can make money Blogging in a number of | | | | 5. Make Money Blogging by turning your products |
| ways, and in this article I share with you up to | | | | into |
| nine ways in which you can make money blogging. | | | | Another way in which you can make money |
| 1. Make Money Blogging by Selling Advertising | | | | blogging is to repackage your Blog contents into |
| Space | | | | an e-book or an audio product and sell it. For |
| Before the advent of Blogs, we have e-zines and | | | | example, if you run your own Podcasting show or |
| selling advertising space on ezines was a popular | | | | an 'online radio show', you can easily compile your |
| way to earn extra money. If you run your own | | | | podcast recordings into a CD compiliation and sell |
| Blog, you can let others advertise in your Blogs | | | | it. |
| with banner ads, solo ads, sponsor ads, classifieds | | | | 6. Earn Money Blogging by swapping blogs |
| and so on. | | | | You've heard of ad swapping when it comes to |
| Now that we have Blogs, you can repeat the | | | | e-zine publishing, where publishers publish each |
| same business model that e-zine publishers do, | | | | other's ads in their own e-zines. This way, you |
| that of selling advertising space. | | | | save on adveritising costs. |
| One popular advertising company that helps | | | | You can repeat the same model to Blogs, as |
| Bloggers look for advertisers is Blogads ( | | | | swap ads on Blogs as well. So instead of paying |
| Besides placing advertisers ads on your Blog, you | | | | up front, you get to save, which means more |
| can also make money Blogging by placing Google | | | | money for you to spend! |
| Adsense into your Blog. | | | | 7. Earn Money Blogging by turning yoyr blog |
| In my "Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS" | | | | content into RSS feeds and sell it as premium |
| Videos, I show you how you can customize your | | | | feeds |
| Blog template to include the Google Adsense into | | | | Your blog contents can be turned into an RSS |
| your Blog template so that you can make money | | | | feed. If the content is good, you can look for |
| blogging. | | | | web businesses that are looking for good content |
| 2. Make Money Blogging by providing technical | | | | for related topics and sell their feed to them. |
| services such as Blog hosting or setting up Blog | | | | 8. Make Money Blogging by well, asking! |
| You can also earn money blogging by providing | | | | Hey, who's stopping you from putting a PayPal |
| technical services such as helping people to set up | | | | donation jar or button on your Blog? After all, |
| their Blogs or providing your own Blog hosting | | | | there are lots of generous people out there you |
| service. | | | | know. |
| One example of this is . This is a Blog hosting | | | | 9. Make Money Blogging as an Affiliate Marketer |
| service provider that charges a monthly fee. | | | | Another way you can make money blogging is by |
| Typepad lets you create your Blog and they will | | | | promoting other people's products on your Blog. |
| host your Blog for you, and provide you with a | | | | This is also known as affiliate marketing. |
| number of Blog features. | | | | In affiliate marketing, you get paid a commission |
| 3. Make Money Blogging by setttin up joint | | | | when someone clicks on your affiliate link and |
| venture marketing | | | | makes a purchase. Depending on the subject of |
| Joint Venture marketing is a powerful marketing | | | | your Blog, you can recommend products that |
| strategy employed by many top online | | | | solve people's problems. |
| marketers. | | | | For example, I had a subscriber who asked me |
| Basically how joint venture works is this: You | | | | how she can blog about cats and make money |
| promote person B's products to your subscriber | | | | from blogging about cats. |
| and customer list, and you get a cut from | | | | I shared with her that firstly, perhaps she might |
| whatever sale that follows from this promotion. | | | | want to go niche instead of targeting the broad |
| You can apply the principle of joint venture | | | | category of "cats", and using the example of a |
| marketing to Blogs as well. If you have a | | | | Persian cat, which is a niche by itself, she can |
| substantial readership to your Blog, you can also | | | | start a blog on Persian cats, providing valuable |
| promote or endorse certain products to your Blog | | | | information as well as recommended solutions and |
| readers and this way, and split the profits from | | | | products to the upkeep and maintenance of |
| the sales generated. This is another way to make | | | | Persian cats. |
| money blogging. | | | | |