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