2. Write great content. Click here to see example of blog
3. Drive Traffic
4. Build Newsletter List
5.Monetise
Before you go ahead with the above steps, I want you to bear in mind the
following expectations.
Writing great content for your readers is the hardest part, but it gets easier
overtime, especially if you want to build a real business that will provide a
solid income for you for several years.
Blogging is easy, but it takes a while for relationship and profit to start rolling in.
The model I teach is the fastest blogging model to make money and it’s opposed
to the popular model that others spend 1 – 2 years before they start making
money.
Attracting visitors to your blog is the single most important factor that will
make it possible for you to make or earn money from your
effort. Fortunately, if you know how to pay for traffic, you can easily attract
up to 1000 – 2000 daily visitors to your blog.
Now let’s move on to the 5 steps you need to build in order to create a
profitable blog that you can leverage your business upon.
1. Setting Up Your Blog
I’m sure many people know how easy it is to set up a free blogger account at
blogspot.com. Other blogs can also be set up on the free WordPress platform.
However, I do not recommend you start a blog on a free platform because it
doesn’t look professional, and it make the person behind the blog appear
unserious and unprofessional.
Truth is a free blog account can be lost at anytime. Sometimes, the owners of
these blogspot accounts start deleting accounts if they feel you’re not following
some rules.
However, when you are serious about setting up a blog, you should buy a
domain name and hosting and set it up there so that you have full control of the
blog and publish whatever pleases you on that account. And if you don’t know
how to set up a blog, you can find a tutorial here .
2. Write Great Content
Writing great content is one area many people find difficult to do. If you are a
beginner, you may think that it’s impossible to consistently write great content.
If you want to write great content, you will need to subscribe to many
newsletters in your market. This will give you an idea of the area that people
who are in that market want article written on.
So when you get emails from these newsletters, you will need to look at those
ideas, and pick an area that is applicable to your local market and write about it.
And if you’re blank or you don’t know what to write, Google is there to help you.
Just type the subject line of what you want to write about, and you will get many
results. Sort them, read as many as 10 different pieces of information, select and
highlight ideas that applies to your local audience.
Then sit down and write. Add your own experience and at the end of the day,
you’ll come out with a very unique and original article that your readers will love.
Granted, in the beginning, it will be hard, but when you continue to write,
overtime, you’ll start getting good with researching and writing, and above all
you will become more educated in that area that you can sit down and write a
whole article from the top of your head on that market.
3. Drive Traffic
Traffic is the life blood of any business. If you don’t have visitors coming to your
website, no matter how good your contents are, you will not get anyone to
interact with you on your blog.
It’s just like setting up a shop in the middle of the desert and expecting people
to come and buy your goods or services.
Traditional blogging employs SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to get website
visitors to their sites. And that is why many people do not believe in blogging
because it takes a lot of time to optimize your website and get it to start
receiving targeted visitors.
You know what?
I hate SEO because you simply can not control the traffic and you’re helpless
when you depend on SEO to power the traffic to your blog. If you depend on
SEO, you’ll wait for as much as 6 months – 3 years before your blog picks up and
start making you money. I’m sure you don’t have that type of time to wait.
Because Google is crazy. They change their algorithm anytime they wish, so even
if your blog start receiving visitors, a single change from Google will suffocate
your blog from receiving visitors.
So what’s the solution?
Buy the traffic. Forget free traffic
To buy the traffic, you simply visit high trafficked websites and place banner
adverts there that redirects to your blog. Huge websites like Nairaland.com,
Punchonline newspaper etc offer services like this.
If you want to scale your business up, you better buy clicks from giants like
Facebook, Google Adwords or Ad Dynamo.
And with funds as low as N5000, you can start getting the exact type of audience
you want to your blog in 15 minutes or less. And if your blog is well monetized,
you should be able to triple any amount you spend in adverts from the traffic
you funnel to your blog.
If you’re confused on how to set it up, then the advanced blog training will help
you figure it out.
4. Build An eMail List
Most people who set up blogs do not have a newsletter list. That is so sad
because these bloggers are simply leaving a lot of money on the table. If you
want to start commanding huge income from blogging, then you should be
building a list from day one.
When you build a list as you blog, something magical starts to happen to your
blog career. You’ll be in total control of the people who visits your blog.
How?
When someone subscribes to your newsletter, you now have the person’s name
and email address and that person has given you permission to send him
updates and tips on your market.
That permission to send email to subscribers is the most powerful asset you
have and you need to work hard to protect that trust. And when you give real
value in response to this, you become a money magnet when you publish any
newsletter. I will tell you how this is done in the last point on monetizing.
The purpose of building a list is to continuously afford you the privilege of
emailing your readers each time you publish a new post on your blog.
5. Monetising Your Blog
Have you ever imagined sending an email out and making as much as N100k –
N200k?
Do you know that it is very easy to send out just one email and make as much
as N100k in a single week if you have a blog that has a following of thousands of
people?
In my own case, each time I write a blog post, on those days that these posts go
live, I make as much as N50,000 – N150,000 in a single day.
Or how else could you explain why I keep writing you great articles like this each
week. It is because it is profitable for me to properly educate people on how to
do these things.
Now take a look at this blog you’re presently reading this article from, did you
see any adverts that resemble Google Adsense adverts?
I’m sure it’s only one advert you can see, that advert is there for a reason.
Now let me ask you.
Would you prefer being paid $50 (N8500) per week from clicks on adverts on
your blog when 1000 people visits, or would you rather prefer making
N70,000 from clicks from the same number of people?
I’m sure any sane person would go for the latter.
Now this is what happens when you have Google adsense on your site.
Let’s assume Google is paying you 25% of the bid amount that each subscriber
pays per click. Now let’s say that the advertiser pays Google 20 cents per click
($0.2).
25% of $0.2 = $0.05 (Google pays you 5 cents per click)
That means if you get 1000 people to click on those adverts, you’ll make
1000 x $0.05 = $50 = N8500
On the flip side of the equation, what about if you own the same advert that
people click, and that advert has a product that sells for N3500.
Let’s assume that the same 1000 people click on that advert, and just 2 percent
(2%) of those people purchase that product.
That would be:
0.02 x 1000 = 20 sales
20 x N3500 = N70,000.
So in the first case with someone who had a Google Adsense, he will only
make N8500 which is $50
And in the second case (Smart Blogging), this blogger makes N70,000 with the
same amount of website visitors.
And guess what!
In the first case where you’re paid $50 from Google, the owners of those adverts
placed on your blog by Google and clicked by visitors you generate actually made
that N70,000 while you are there struggling for crumbs.
So you can see, it’s more powerful and profitable to blog the smart way like I do
because you will be totally in charge of both your traffic and your income.
And to monetize your blog to profitability, you will need to place banner adverts
that you own with products that you are affiliated with or that you own directly
in other to be paid from the proceeds of the traffic that you generate.
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