OHMYGOSSIP – Building a successful blog is no rocket science. It takes lots of time, effort and patience. Which most of the new bloggers lack. 90% of new bloggers stop updating their blog within 3 months. Although thousands of new blogs are going live each day it is not entirely impossible to build a successful blog.
Monetizing your blog is another thing. You need lots of readers an followers to build a reasonable income from a blog. But again it is not impossible. Just build yourself a popular blog and get your name out there. You’ll see the visitors number grow each day when you persevere and be patient. Most bloggers that want to earn money with their blog turn to Google Adsense, but is it possible to monetize your blog without banners and ads all over the place?
Here are 7 tips how to build a blog that makes money without using ads!
1. Launching your own products is a way to make money online
To launch your own products is a way to gain an income from your blog or website. Informative material, downloadable products that will help people solve their problems are a good way to create an income.
Design fact sheets, infographics, checklists, motivational products and/or e-books on topics like:
*health
*nutrition
*blogging
*writing
*online marketing
*spiritual growth
*personal development
*time management
2. Promote your products
Use the same channels you use for promoting your blog, while promoting your products. Offer a free gift to create more sales or an email-list.
3. Have a marketing plan before you start:
*Who is your target audience?
*How will you reach them?
*What do you need to do that?
4. Use your blog as a medium
Write appealing content about your products with clear call to action, explain, tantalize, provoke if you like, make your visitors eager for your product. Add pictures, make it a positive happy item that give people a feeling their life will never be the same without your product.
5. Be patient, you won’t get rich overnight
Just as it takes time to grow your blog, it also will take time to grow costumers. If you gave your blog a good start by thinking ahead about the concept, your product line will fit right in from that start. Growth commences both way’s from the launch of both website and products. It might take up till 6 months to a whole year of updating your blog 2-3 times a week, before you will notice real growth. I would lie to you if I told you otherwise. Leaving Holland website is up and about for 6 months now and slowly I see visitors numbers increasing. It takes lots of strategic work and at least 10-20 hours work a week.
6. Make sure you have a good functioning website
Monetizing your blog is not only about content and marketing. It also means having your website in good shape:
*Page loading speed
*Good quality content
*SEO combined with powerful headlines
*Informative sidebar
*Accessible menus
*Easy navigation
Those things are inevitable. Combine those with a good theme, a shop area that is easy accessible and good, save payments methods and you offer a complete, appealing package to your visitors. Now all you have to do is to act upon your marketing strategy.
7. Think things through before you start
When you want to start a blog and you want to monetize it you need more than a plan. You need a niche market and a strategy. Everybody can start a blog, but not everybody has the creativity to make it work. Make sure you write a business plan before you start developing a product.
And again answer the questions:
*Who is your target audience
*How will you reach them
*What do you need to do so
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Source /Written by: leavingholland.com