Blogs – it seems like just about everyone has one.
If you don’t know what a blog is, it comes from the phrase “web log”, which is an online diary or journal of sorts. People have all kinds of reasons for starting a blog. They may do it for fun, because they love writing or just to have an outlet to express their thoughts, vent frustrations and more.
But you can make a blog into a money-making business, even if you have no blogging or business experience.
How to Get Started
You can actually start your blog completely for free. There are services like Blogger.com and Wordpress.com that make it super easy. But note, John Yeo, profitable blog and creator of Blogger’s Paycheck the recommends that those seeking profit should Wordpress, but in a different way than is explained at Wordpress.com and he goes through it in detail in the course.
How to Make Money with a Blog
Simply put, pick a theme or major topic for your blog and start writing. Even if you have no product of your own, you can still make money from your blog by selling and displaying advertising, earning commissions recommending products and other activities. This is also something John Yeo covers in detail.
What if You Don’t Like to Write
Many people think they can’t blog if they don’t enjoy writing or feel they aren’t talented writers, but that shouldn’t stop anyone. A blog is about sharing thoughts and you don’t have to be an award-winning writer to do that. In addition, the growing popularity of online video and audio open up more possibilities for sharing content. You can also hire a ghostwriter if you want a text blog and want to avoid writing.
The Keys to Profitable Blogging
To profit from blogging, there are a few key ingredients:
1. Target a highly interested audience of readers who happen to be consumers. In other words, people who readily spend money to pursue their hobbies, interests and desires that you’ll be writing about.
2. Create interesting content that people are readily looking for, that they’ll talk about to their friends and come back for over and over again.
3. Sign up for the Blogger’s Pay Check Course that will take you through setting up your blog, building traffic, making money and more.
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Top 10 Favorite Daydreams
Although I am not the type of person that will spend $100.00 of a $150 dollar support check on lottery tickets... I do like myself a nice daydream.
I have arranged my daydreams in the order of importance, with 1 being the lowest but still wouldn't turn it down, and 10 being the best, daydream on the planet!
1. The team from DIY shows up on a nice saturday morning and surprises me with plans for planting, landscaping and privatizing my large backyard.
2. Stacy and Clinton from "What Not To Wear" happen to be at the quick chek while I am buying my morning coffee and take pitty on myself and my girls and take us all on a world wind shopping spree....(pssst. Stacy we are right here in NJ, and don't get insulted being only #2)
3. I clean out my closet and find an old scratch off that hasn't been scratched... and I win a large amount of money, not life changing... but enough to help with the bills.
4. I meet a nice successful, handsome 40 something man, who doesn't mind staying in and hanging out on the deck, cooking burgers, while the kids run around.
5. Becoming suddenly famous as a blogger or a writer and earning a good living writing or consulting.
6. Earning a living playing around on my computer for 6 hours a day.
7. Winning a life changing amount of money, to be paid in large generous sums for the rest of my life and the life of my children. (realizing of course, that money doesn't buy happiness, however it certainly makes it easier to live comfortably)
8. Invent something and be able to market and sell it for a comfortable residual income.
9. Earn a living reading popular fiction and writing reviews
10. Raise my three daughters to be happy, smart, empathetic, hard working independant thinkers, productive participants in society and healthy energetic adults.
Yup that's about it.
You will notice I didn't mention Brad Pitt. If what I read in The National Enquirer is true, then he and AJ are on the rocks... and quick frankly, I'm not interested in a 2 time loser.
I have arranged my daydreams in the order of importance, with 1 being the lowest but still wouldn't turn it down, and 10 being the best, daydream on the planet!
1. The team from DIY shows up on a nice saturday morning and surprises me with plans for planting, landscaping and privatizing my large backyard.
2. Stacy and Clinton from "What Not To Wear" happen to be at the quick chek while I am buying my morning coffee and take pitty on myself and my girls and take us all on a world wind shopping spree....(pssst. Stacy we are right here in NJ, and don't get insulted being only #2)
3. I clean out my closet and find an old scratch off that hasn't been scratched... and I win a large amount of money, not life changing... but enough to help with the bills.
4. I meet a nice successful, handsome 40 something man, who doesn't mind staying in and hanging out on the deck, cooking burgers, while the kids run around.
5. Becoming suddenly famous as a blogger or a writer and earning a good living writing or consulting.
6. Earning a living playing around on my computer for 6 hours a day.
7. Winning a life changing amount of money, to be paid in large generous sums for the rest of my life and the life of my children. (realizing of course, that money doesn't buy happiness, however it certainly makes it easier to live comfortably)
8. Invent something and be able to market and sell it for a comfortable residual income.
9. Earn a living reading popular fiction and writing reviews
10. Raise my three daughters to be happy, smart, empathetic, hard working independant thinkers, productive participants in society and healthy energetic adults.
Yup that's about it.
You will notice I didn't mention Brad Pitt. If what I read in The National Enquirer is true, then he and AJ are on the rocks... and quick frankly, I'm not interested in a 2 time loser.
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