There is a lot of money to be made as a seller on eBay. Thousands and thousands of sales are made each day, resulting in a lot of income for a lot of sellers. And there is still room for you if you want to get involved – whether you want to earn some part time cash or set up a whole new full time business on the side.
But where do you get your stock from? How do you get started? And how can you build a business that gives you PowerSeller status? Relax – you’re about to find out.
It’s easy work to get started earning money on eBay. Once you’ve signed up for your free account the best way to get a feel for what selling is like is to auction off some of your personal items that you no longer want. If you are going to start buying stock to resell, you’ll do better by getting some basic selling experience first.
While we are on the subject of stock, you’ll need to decide what kind of business you are going to set up. Of course you can sell anything you like, but if you want to make a name for yourself it helps to become known for selling a specific type of product.
Now that doesn’t necessarily mean your product area needs to be a small one; on the contrary it could be quite large. You could sell toys for example – there’s plenty there to keep any seller going for months on end without selling the same thing twice. You do need to pick a popular product though, and it’s worth doing some research using eBay’s advanced search feature to find out what is selling and how much it’s selling for.
So let’s say you want to sell computer games, for example. There are hundreds of games you could buy to sell here, but if you don’t know which ones will sell you could lose a lot of money buying the wrong stock. By searching the ended listings you can see which titles consistently sell well, and which ones will produce the best profit for you.
Okay – so you know how to figure out what to buy. Now you need to know where to get it from. It stands to reason that no seller is going to tell you where they get their stock; that would be like giving away the keys to their business. In order to find the best sources for stock you need to do a bit of legwork.
We should mention here that there are two main sources for stock – wholesalers and dropshippers. Both have their pros and cons; it just depends on which method you personally prefer.
Dropshippers hold all the stock for you, so you only actually pay for an item once you’ve received payment from the customer. You may have to pay a fee to join the scheme in the first place though. If you choose to go with one or more wholesalers you will need to have the room to buy the stock, and the money to buy it in advance. This comes with more risk since you could buy stock that doesn’t sell, but with the tactic we’ve already covered for checking completed listings before you order anything, the risk here should be kept to a minimum.
So – back to where to find these sources. If you have a particular product in mind that you want to sell, the simple act of looking at the packaging can often reveal the name of the supplier. You can then check out their website to see what else they do.
Another method is to search for what you want on Google. This sounds deceptively simple and in fact many people don’t think of doing this. It can be a bit hit or miss, but it’s possible to find some excellent wholesalers through this method. Over time you will go from having one wholesaler to a handful of sources to get your stock from, and you can build up your product range as you start to grow.
Building your feedback is an important part of being a good seller and the higher you can get your score the better. It sets you apart as being a dedicated seller. And the faster your score climbs, the closer you get to attaining PowerSeller status.
The PowerSeller symbol is highly prized among serious eBay sellers, and there are five levels to strive for. The first is Bronze, and it’s a lot easier to reach than you might think. While you might set a goal for yourself to reach PowerSeller, you will find that if you build up your product range and gradually increase your sales, you will reach it in no time. And if you get off to a great start you might just do it in three months – the minimum time you can actually do it in.
Many sellers have their own shop on eBay, but it’s not necessary when you first get started. In fact you are often better off waiting until you have a good range of stock before opening a shop, since it can look rather empty if you only have a handful of items.
The final thing to think about is the price of the items you are selling. It stands to reason that if you sell a hundred different products in the $5 to $10 price range, you won’t make as much cash as you would selling a hundred in the $50 to $100 price range.
But you need to work out what you enjoy selling and what you can sell lots of to experience real success on eBay. Don’t go for expensive products just because they might bring a bigger profit. Go for your calling – that’s where you will experience the biggest success.
Above all, remember that it can take time to build a successful business – but if you’re determined to achieve real success on eBay you should be enjoying the journey.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
How to make money blogging
More and more people are realising that blogging is one of the best ways to start your own online business. It requires minimal start up costs, you can build an impressive and loyal readership over time and once you know how to monetize your blog it can also bring in a decent income that will keep on coming even on the days when you don’t update your blog.
There are several ways to set up a blog online. You could use WordPress, Blogger, or another free site that hosts your blog for you; or alternatively you can set up your own blog under your own domain name.
If you want to make serious money from blogging, you must have complete control over your blog – and that’s something the free blogging accounts won’t give you. You’ll be bound by their terms and conditions and that usually includes not being able to actively promote anything. There are plenty of people who have established a blog only to have it removed without notice some weeks or months later.
It will cost you a few dollars to buy your domain name and set up a web server that will host your blog, but the benefits will far outweigh the cost involved. It can literally be as little as $20 a year we’re talking about here – and that buys you total freedom.
Once you’re ready to set your blog up you’ll need to choose a good theme and layout for it. You might find one that relates to your choice of subject (more on that in a moment) or else there might be one you just like the look of. But there are thousands of templates available for you to use – a simple search on Google will reveal the ones that will be best suited to your topic.
But perhaps the most important question is what you are going to blog about. The whole world is your oyster here – some people blog about their lives in general; some blog about their jobs; some blog about their hobbies; some tell the world about their kids and what it’s like to be a parent, and still others blog about the weird world of celebrities. But whatever you choose to blog about it needs to be something you are passionate about. Don’t forget, you are going to be writing about this topic several times a week, and if you don’t have the enthusiasm for it, that will show in your posts – and no one else will have the enthusiasm to read them.
Okay – so you’ve got your subject. Now you have to start writing your blog posts. If you take a look at just a few of the blogs already online, you’ll notice that the length of the posts varies a lot. Some people only write a paragraph or two each time, but you’ll get better results if you go for something a little longer than this. Around 400 to 500 words makes for a good post with a lot of information in it; some people write hugely long posts that are thousands of words long and could be called an e-book by another name.
But you can also take the format of this blog, by posting a short blog entry which leads into a longer article. This has the benefit of highlighting a lot of blog posts on the home page of the site, and people can then click through and read the ones they like the most.
You should remember however that there are no real rules when it comes to blogging. Over time you will naturally find what works for you, and your blog will settle down into a nice pattern that both you and your readers will enjoy. You’ll find your character and personality will start to come through in your writing too; don’t fight against this as it is one of the hallmarks of blogging. It is, after all, a personal account of an individual’s life and experiences, so show people what you’re made of! You’ll get a more loyal – and bigger – audience like this.
So you’ve got your blog up and running and you’re posting to it on a regular basis. The next step is to get it in front of as many interested eyeballs as possible.
One great way to do this is to submit it to as many of the social bookmarking sites as possible. You can also join social networking sites and build a profile which contains a link to your blog. Other no cost ways to generate traffic include writing free articles for article directories with a link to your blog at the end, and creating signatures at the end of any posts you make to internet forums, and also in all the emails you send out. When you really start thinking about it, you don’t actually need to spend anything to generate plenty of traffic.
All we need to do now is monetize the blog itself. You’ll want to generate some money from all the visitors you’ll start getting, and there are plenty of ways to do this easily. Google Adsense is probably the most well known method – you can join the program for free and display contextual ads that your visitors will be interested in to maximise your click through rate.
There are also a handful of websites which give you the opportunity to get paid for each blog post you make on a specific subject. Pay Per Post and Review Me are two such examples, and they will pay you a certain amount of money to review a product or website for the owner. In a similar vein you can also review and recommend other people’s products through affiliate links inserted into your blog posts, and earn money on commissions earned through any purchases people make.
And once you’re more established you can offer ad space on your blog too, and charge a fee for both classified and display ads if you wish. What could be better than setting your own price?
But there is one final step you can take with your blog if you enjoy a change of scene every now and again. You can sell your blog! Once it is established and has plenty of revenue and traffic, you can usually sell it for ten times its monthly revenue.
And then, you can start all over again with a whole new subject!
So that’s it – profitable blogging in a nutshell. If you have any questions feel free to leave your comments in the form below. And once you’ve done that, get out there and get started building your first blog today.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
How To Earn Money Through Internet And Earn Money From Home
Earn From Home is the easy way in these days and you can earn money by receiving SMS through online business process. With this process you can just earn the money by just reading the incoming messages to you mobile that means you can earn from SMS.
Earn Money Online will be the best process for How to Earn Money through Internet. The messages to the mobile and the internet will have bit of connection with these kinds of make money online business process.
The message once received need to check in the online about the message details. Checked message will start to Earn Money Online.
Earn From Home is the easy way in these days and you can earn money by receiving SMS through online business process. With this process you can just earn the money by just reading the incoming messages to you mobile that means you can earn from SMS.
Earn Money Online will be the best process for How to Earn Money through Internet. The messages to the mobile and the internet will have bit of connection with these kinds of make money online business process.
The message once received need to check in the online about the message details. Checked message will start to Earn Money Online.
Earn From Home is the easy way in these days and you can earn money by receiving SMS through online business process. With this process you can just earn the money by just reading the incoming messages to you mobile that means you can earn from SMS.
Earn Money Online will be the best process for How to Earn Money through Internet. The messages to the mobile and the internet will have bit of connection with these kinds of make money online business process.
The message once received need to check in the online about the message details. Checked message will start to Earn Money Online.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Earn Money Google Directory
Earn Money Without Spend Money
more details at http://earn-money-google.com
Easy ways to earn money with Blog or Website !!!
follow step by step :
1. Create a blog with blogger.com
2. link exchange example : linkalizer , linkexchanged , gothimatch , religiousmall , linkadministrator
3. Join advertisement program, earn money with advertisement. example : adsense Google , revenuepilot , adbrite , bidvertiser and others
4. Join Affiliate program, earn money with affiliate program. example : SFI , clickbank , roiroket , LinkShare Affiliate!
5. Join Forums. Example : preCharge Community Forums , Free Advertising Blog
6. Join Articles. Example : article marketer ,
7. Join Press Releases : PRWeb.com , Pressbox.co.uk
8. Join Hit Exchanges. Example : trafficswarm , 123click , Hit Pulse
9. Join Building Network. Example : Your Luck List , 241Lead , Viral traffic list , List Dot Com
Search engine Positioning
you have submitted your blog at search engine and link exchange with others website company.
example : link exchange with earn-money-google.com
Reach On Top Ranking Position
Almost everyone uses search engines to find sites, and if your site doesn't turn up on the first page of results you're losing valuable traffic. Achieving a Top 10 ranking is vital to your success on the Web.
We will explain more details in the future as following :
1) What is a blog ?
** A blog is a simple web page that anyone can set up in minutes.
** Blog is a part of website. We take an example : XXX.com is a website. YYY.XXX.com is a blog. Are you understand now ? So, we can register a blog at blogger.com or wordpress.com or others.
** Having a blog is a vital part of making money on the internet.
** If you are looking for a way to start making money on the internet, and you have a budget that is very small or zero, blogging is a great way to get started.
2) How to create a blog ?
** Firstly, you have to prepare a blog address which includes a keyword phrase. (example : YYY.blogspot.com ,YYY is blog name) , title which includes your keyword and content info.
** After that, you can register at blogger.com or wordpress.com or others.
Example :
** Register at blogger.com step by step **
** (1) Click on " CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW "
** (2) Fill out the form
** (3) Enter title and blog address
** (4) Choose a template
** (5) Start Posting
** (6) Enter title and Content
** (7) Click on Setting
** (8) Click on Publishing
** (9) Notify Weblogs.com change to "YES" (Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many individuals and services use to track blog changes.)
3) What we can take advantage from blog ?
** You can make money with a free blog
** Join advertisement program is free, earn money with advertisement. example : adsense Google , revenuepilot , adbrite , bidvertiser and others
** Join Affiliate program is free, earn money with affiliate program. example : SFI , clickbank , roiroket , LinkShare Affiliate!
** The cost for all is absolutely nothing
4) Why ping a blog ?
** Once you finish posting, you need to ping it. Pinging lets the blog directories know that something has changed. The search engines will come crawling / updating.
** Every time, you post new content to your blog, you need to ping it
5) How to ping a blog ?
** Click on http://pingomatic.com
6) How some people can make money & earn money over USD $ 20,000/month on the internet ?
** Some people use blog or website to create fortune online : such as advertisement , promote affiliate program, deliver newsletter, sell text link , sell ebooks and others.
** example : They use blog freely to earn money.
** 1 blog earn money at least $ 20.00 for one month , they create 1000 blog , how much they could earn ?
USD $ 20,000.00 . Is it easy ??? . They just join advertisement and affiliate program (all is free).
7) How to submit your blog or website to search engine ?
** Search Engine : Google , Yahoo , Msn and many others.
** Go to Google's search engine, just type "add url google" , the listing will be displayed, you will see the title "add url google" on the listing, just click on and register it.
** Go to Yahoo's search engine, just type "add url Yahoo" the listing will be displayed, you will see the title "add url Yahoo" on the listing, just click on and register it.
** Go to Msn's search engine, just type "add url Msn" the listing will be displayed, you will see the title "add url Msn" on the listing, just click on and register it.
** Or, go to submit free to 50 Search Engine
BuildTraffic.net
8) How to promote blog or website on the internet ?
** Write an article relevant with your blog or website. Example : article marketer
** Join Forums. Example : preCharge Community Forums and others.
** The link exchange strategy is what will give you traffic in the long term and most important. example : linkalizer , linkexchanged , gothimatch , religiousmall , linkadministrator
** Join Hit Exchanges. Example : trafficswarm , 123click , Hit Pulse
** Join Press Releases : PRWeb.com , Pressbox.co.uk
** Join Building Network. Example : Your Luck List , 241Lead , Viral traffic list , List Dot Com
** Join PPC advertisement
9) What is PPC advertisement ?
** PPC - Pay Per Click.
** Earn money from your website or blog - get paid for every click
** Earn money with affiliate program that pays you for every click
You get paid for every visitor that clicks on an ad. You to make as much as possible from your advertising space, by letting advertisers bid on your ad space.
** Example PPC advertisement : adsense Google , revenuepilot , adbrite , bidvertiser and others
10) What is an Incoming links ?
This is a very important thing, because to reach TOP 10 in Google, Yahoo!, MSN and other major search engines, you have to get as much quality incoming links as you can. What is an incoming link? It is when someone links to your site from his webpage. And when you have more links to your web site, your rank goes up. The better quality of the link is, the better ranking boost your site receives in search results.
How to get such links?
There are many ways to develop a high number of incominig links to your website.
1. reciprocial linking - asking other webmasters for links and linking back to their websites in exchange. It used to be an effective method, but right now search engines discount the value of such links to zero.
2. cross linking - asking other webmasters for link from to your website, and linking back to their website from your OTHER website. A similar method may be used when you have only one website, but your linking partner has 2 or more websites - ask for link to your site from one of his sites, and link back to his OTHER website in exchange.
3. context linking - writing articles with links to your website in the article text (target your keyphrases or keywords!), or sponsoring other articles, that have high Google PR
4. automatic link building - with a help of an automated link building system
11) How/Where to register domain name ?
** Register domain name : Example Doteasy.com
more details at http://earn-money-google.com
more details at http://earn-money-google.com
Easy ways to earn money with Blog or Website !!!
follow step by step :
1. Create a blog with blogger.com
2. link exchange example : linkalizer , linkexchanged , gothimatch , religiousmall , linkadministrator
3. Join advertisement program, earn money with advertisement. example : adsense Google , revenuepilot , adbrite , bidvertiser and others
4. Join Affiliate program, earn money with affiliate program. example : SFI , clickbank , roiroket , LinkShare Affiliate!
5. Join Forums. Example : preCharge Community Forums , Free Advertising Blog
6. Join Articles. Example : article marketer ,
7. Join Press Releases : PRWeb.com , Pressbox.co.uk
8. Join Hit Exchanges. Example : trafficswarm , 123click , Hit Pulse
9. Join Building Network. Example : Your Luck List , 241Lead , Viral traffic list , List Dot Com
Search engine Positioning
you have submitted your blog at search engine and link exchange with others website company.
example : link exchange with earn-money-google.com
Reach On Top Ranking Position
Almost everyone uses search engines to find sites, and if your site doesn't turn up on the first page of results you're losing valuable traffic. Achieving a Top 10 ranking is vital to your success on the Web.
We will explain more details in the future as following :
1) What is a blog ?
** A blog is a simple web page that anyone can set up in minutes.
** Blog is a part of website. We take an example : XXX.com is a website. YYY.XXX.com is a blog. Are you understand now ? So, we can register a blog at blogger.com or wordpress.com or others.
** Having a blog is a vital part of making money on the internet.
** If you are looking for a way to start making money on the internet, and you have a budget that is very small or zero, blogging is a great way to get started.
2) How to create a blog ?
** Firstly, you have to prepare a blog address which includes a keyword phrase. (example : YYY.blogspot.com ,YYY is blog name) , title which includes your keyword and content info.
** After that, you can register at blogger.com or wordpress.com or others.
Example :
** Register at blogger.com step by step **
** (1) Click on " CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW "
** (2) Fill out the form
** (3) Enter title and blog address
** (4) Choose a template
** (5) Start Posting
** (6) Enter title and Content
** (7) Click on Setting
** (8) Click on Publishing
** (9) Notify Weblogs.com change to "YES" (Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many individuals and services use to track blog changes.)
3) What we can take advantage from blog ?
** You can make money with a free blog
** Join advertisement program is free, earn money with advertisement. example : adsense Google , revenuepilot , adbrite , bidvertiser and others
** Join Affiliate program is free, earn money with affiliate program. example : SFI , clickbank , roiroket , LinkShare Affiliate!
** The cost for all is absolutely nothing
4) Why ping a blog ?
** Once you finish posting, you need to ping it. Pinging lets the blog directories know that something has changed. The search engines will come crawling / updating.
** Every time, you post new content to your blog, you need to ping it
5) How to ping a blog ?
** Click on http://pingomatic.com
6) How some people can make money & earn money over USD $ 20,000/month on the internet ?
** Some people use blog or website to create fortune online : such as advertisement , promote affiliate program, deliver newsletter, sell text link , sell ebooks and others.
** example : They use blog freely to earn money.
** 1 blog earn money at least $ 20.00 for one month , they create 1000 blog , how much they could earn ?
USD $ 20,000.00 . Is it easy ??? . They just join advertisement and affiliate program (all is free).
7) How to submit your blog or website to search engine ?
** Search Engine : Google , Yahoo , Msn and many others.
** Go to Google's search engine, just type "add url google" , the listing will be displayed, you will see the title "add url google" on the listing, just click on and register it.
** Go to Yahoo's search engine, just type "add url Yahoo" the listing will be displayed, you will see the title "add url Yahoo" on the listing, just click on and register it.
** Go to Msn's search engine, just type "add url Msn" the listing will be displayed, you will see the title "add url Msn" on the listing, just click on and register it.
** Or, go to submit free to 50 Search Engine
BuildTraffic.net
8) How to promote blog or website on the internet ?
** Write an article relevant with your blog or website. Example : article marketer
** Join Forums. Example : preCharge Community Forums and others.
** The link exchange strategy is what will give you traffic in the long term and most important. example : linkalizer , linkexchanged , gothimatch , religiousmall , linkadministrator
** Join Hit Exchanges. Example : trafficswarm , 123click , Hit Pulse
** Join Press Releases : PRWeb.com , Pressbox.co.uk
** Join Building Network. Example : Your Luck List , 241Lead , Viral traffic list , List Dot Com
** Join PPC advertisement
9) What is PPC advertisement ?
** PPC - Pay Per Click.
** Earn money from your website or blog - get paid for every click
** Earn money with affiliate program that pays you for every click
You get paid for every visitor that clicks on an ad. You to make as much as possible from your advertising space, by letting advertisers bid on your ad space.
** Example PPC advertisement : adsense Google , revenuepilot , adbrite , bidvertiser and others
10) What is an Incoming links ?
This is a very important thing, because to reach TOP 10 in Google, Yahoo!, MSN and other major search engines, you have to get as much quality incoming links as you can. What is an incoming link? It is when someone links to your site from his webpage. And when you have more links to your web site, your rank goes up. The better quality of the link is, the better ranking boost your site receives in search results.
How to get such links?
There are many ways to develop a high number of incominig links to your website.
1. reciprocial linking - asking other webmasters for links and linking back to their websites in exchange. It used to be an effective method, but right now search engines discount the value of such links to zero.
2. cross linking - asking other webmasters for link from to your website, and linking back to their website from your OTHER website. A similar method may be used when you have only one website, but your linking partner has 2 or more websites - ask for link to your site from one of his sites, and link back to his OTHER website in exchange.
3. context linking - writing articles with links to your website in the article text (target your keyphrases or keywords!), or sponsoring other articles, that have high Google PR
4. automatic link building - with a help of an automated link building system
11) How/Where to register domain name ?
** Register domain name : Example Doteasy.com
more details at http://earn-money-google.com
Monday, August 16, 2010
How To Make Money Blogging
More and more people are realising that blogging is one of the best ways to start your own online business. It requires minimal start up costs, you can build an impressive and loyal readership over time and once you know how to monetize your blog it can also bring in a decent income that will keep on coming even on the days when you don’t update your blog.
There are several ways to set up a blog online. You could use WordPress, Blogger, or another free site that hosts your blog for you; or alternatively you can set up your own blog under your own domain name.
If you want to make serious money from blogging, you must have complete control over your blog – and that’s something the free blogging accounts won’t give you. You’ll be bound by their terms and conditions and that usually includes not being able to actively promote anything. There are plenty of people who have established a blog only to have it removed without notice some weeks or months later.
It will cost you a few dollars to buy your domain name and set up a web server that will host your blog, but the benefits will far outweigh the cost involved. It can literally be as little as $20 a year we’re talking about here – and that buys you total freedom.
Once you’re ready to set your blog up you’ll need to choose a good theme and layout for it. You might find one that relates to your choice of subject (more on that in a moment) or else there might be one you just like the look of. But there are thousands of templates available for you to use – a simple search on Google will reveal the ones that will be best suited to your topic.
But perhaps the most important question is what you are going to blog about. The whole world is your oyster here – some people blog about their lives in general; some blog about their jobs; some blog about their hobbies; some tell the world about their kids and what it’s like to be a parent, and still others blog about the weird world of celebrities. But whatever you choose to blog about it needs to be something you are passionate about. Don’t forget, you are going to be writing about this topic several times a week, and if you don’t have the enthusiasm for it, that will show in your posts – and no one else will have the enthusiasm to read them.
Okay – so you’ve got your subject. Now you have to start writing your blog posts. If you take a look at just a few of the blogs already online, you’ll notice that the length of the posts varies a lot. Some people only write a paragraph or two each time, but you’ll get better results if you go for something a little longer than this. Around 400 to 500 words makes for a good post with a lot of information in it; some people write hugely long posts that are thousands of words long and could be called an e-book by another name.
But you can also take the format of this blog, by posting a short blog entry which leads into a longer article. This has the benefit of highlighting a lot of blog posts on the home page of the site, and people can then click through and read the ones they like the most.
You should remember however that there are no real rules when it comes to blogging. Over time you will naturally find what works for you, and your blog will settle down into a nice pattern that both you and your readers will enjoy. You’ll find your character and personality will start to come through in your writing too; don’t fight against this as it is one of the hallmarks of blogging. It is, after all, a personal account of an individual’s life and experiences, so show people what you’re made of! You’ll get a more loyal – and bigger – audience like this.
So you’ve got your blog up and running and you’re posting to it on a regular basis. The next step is to get it in front of as many interested eyeballs as possible.
One great way to do this is to submit it to as many of the social bookmarking sites as possible. You can also join social networking sites and build a profile which contains a link to your blog. Other no cost ways to generate traffic include writing free articles for article directories with a link to your blog at the end, and creating signatures at the end of any posts you make to internet forums, and also in all the emails you send out. When you really start thinking about it, you don’t actually need to spend anything to generate plenty of traffic.
All we need to do now is monetize the blog itself. You’ll want to generate some money from all the visitors you’ll start getting, and there are plenty of ways to do this easily. Google Adsense is probably the most well known method – you can join the program for free and display contextual ads that your visitors will be interested in to maximise your click through rate.
There are also a handful of websites which give you the opportunity to get paid for each blog post you make on a specific subject. Pay Per Post and Review Me are two such examples, and they will pay you a certain amount of money to review a product or website for the owner. In a similar vein you can also review and recommend other people’s products through affiliate links inserted into your blog posts, and earn money on commissions earned through any purchases people make.
And once you’re more established you can offer ad space on your blog too, and charge a fee for both classified and display ads if you wish. What could be better than setting your own price?
But there is one final step you can take with your blog if you enjoy a change of scene every now and again. You can sell your blog! Once it is established and has plenty of revenue and traffic, you can usually sell it for ten times its monthly revenue.
And then, you can start all over again with a whole new subject!
So that’s it – profitable blogging in a nutshell. If you have any questions feel free to leave your comments in the form below. And once you’ve done that, get out there and get started building your first blog today.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
How To Make Money Blogging
More and more people are realising that blogging is one of the best ways to start your own online business. It requires minimal start up costs, you can build an impressive and loyal readership over time and once you know how to monetize your blog it can also bring in a decent income that will keep on coming even on the days when you don’t update your blog.
There are several ways to set up a blog online. You could use WordPress, Blogger, or another free site that hosts your blog for you; or alternatively you can set up your own blog under your own domain name.
If you want to make serious money from blogging, you must have complete control over your blog – and that’s something the free blogging accounts won’t give you. You’ll be bound by their terms and conditions and that usually includes not being able to actively promote anything. There are plenty of people who have established a blog only to have it removed without notice some weeks or months later.
It will cost you a few dollars to buy your domain name and set up a web server that will host your blog, but the benefits will far outweigh the cost involved. It can literally be as little as $20 a year we’re talking about here – and that buys you total freedom.
Once you’re ready to set your blog up you’ll need to choose a good theme and layout for it. You might find one that relates to your choice of subject (more on that in a moment) or else there might be one you just like the look of. But there are thousands of templates available for you to use – a simple search on Google will reveal the ones that will be best suited to your topic.
But perhaps the most important question is what you are going to blog about. The whole world is your oyster here – some people blog about their lives in general; some blog about their jobs; some blog about their hobbies; some tell the world about their kids and what it’s like to be a parent, and still others blog about the weird world of celebrities. But whatever you choose to blog about it needs to be something you are passionate about. Don’t forget, you are going to be writing about this topic several times a week, and if you don’t have the enthusiasm for it, that will show in your posts – and no one else will have the enthusiasm to read them.
Okay – so you’ve got your subject. Now you have to start writing your blog posts. If you take a look at just a few of the blogs already online, you’ll notice that the length of the posts varies a lot. Some people only write a paragraph or two each time, but you’ll get better results if you go for something a little longer than this. Around 400 to 500 words makes for a good post with a lot of information in it; some people write hugely long posts that are thousands of words long and could be called an e-book by another name.
But you can also take the format of this blog, by posting a short blog entry which leads into a longer article. This has the benefit of highlighting a lot of blog posts on the home page of the site, and people can then click through and read the ones they like the most.
You should remember however that there are no real rules when it comes to blogging. Over time you will naturally find what works for you, and your blog will settle down into a nice pattern that both you and your readers will enjoy. You’ll find your character and personality will start to come through in your writing too; don’t fight against this as it is one of the hallmarks of blogging. It is, after all, a personal account of an individual’s life and experiences, so show people what you’re made of! You’ll get a more loyal – and bigger – audience like this.
So you’ve got your blog up and running and you’re posting to it on a regular basis. The next step is to get it in front of as many interested eyeballs as possible.
One great way to do this is to submit it to as many of the social bookmarking sites as possible. You can also join social networking sites and build a profile which contains a link to your blog. Other no cost ways to generate traffic include writing free articles for article directories with a link to your blog at the end, and creating signatures at the end of any posts you make to internet forums, and also in all the emails you send out. When you really start thinking about it, you don’t actually need to spend anything to generate plenty of traffic.
All we need to do now is monetize the blog itself. You’ll want to generate some money from all the visitors you’ll start getting, and there are plenty of ways to do this easily. Google Adsense is probably the most well known method – you can join the program for free and display contextual ads that your visitors will be interested in to maximise your click through rate.
There are also a handful of websites which give you the opportunity to get paid for each blog post you make on a specific subject. Pay Per Post and Review Me are two such examples, and they will pay you a certain amount of money to review a product or website for the owner. In a similar vein you can also review and recommend other people’s products through affiliate links inserted into your blog posts, and earn money on commissions earned through any purchases people make.
And once you’re more established you can offer ad space on your blog too, and charge a fee for both classified and display ads if you wish. What could be better than setting your own price?
But there is one final step you can take with your blog if you enjoy a change of scene every now and again. You can sell your blog! Once it is established and has plenty of revenue and traffic, you can usually sell it for ten times its monthly revenue.
And then, you can start all over again with a whole new subject!
So that’s it – profitable blogging in a nutshell. If you have any questions feel free to leave your comments in the form below. And once you’ve done that, get out there and get started building your first blog today.
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