Is your blogging business really a business? Or is it something that your doing for fun? Whatever your case is, sometimes you need a little inspiration and/or motivation to continue posting and pumping out fresh content for you blog. Well, I just found a great post written by fellow blogger Darren Rowse of Copyblogger.com. It is a true eye opener for those looking to make a full time income via blogging cash.

Darren is one of those people who I absolutely look up to when it comes to modeling a successful blog. He consistently provides valuable resources to help those struggling in the blogoshpere..

Read the article now by clicking this link——— Copyblogger.com

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A great one! Let’s have some fun with it! Here’s how most people tell you to do it:

• Get a free Blogger blog
• Put some content on it
• ad some Adsense ads
• promote
• promote
• promote

Now, let me tell what doing the above did for me. It made me about $37 in adsense earnings. I bet you can’t guess how long it took me to earn that $37.

If you can guess the correct answer to the above question, I’ll build you a blog for free. No strings attached.

I wanted to make money online without money. I wanted to make some fast money online. I wanted to make money with my blog. So I bought a $97 E-book and dove in head first believing what the author told me. I really thought that I could do it. Well, I did make money online without money.

Can you guess how long it took?

Contrary to popular belief, very few people reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who set about to earn money with a blog do not succeed for two reasons.

Reason #1 Having unreasonable expectations of how fast your readership will grow and how much money you will make. When these expectations are not met, the letdown oppresses the desire to continue following your dream of having a profitable blog and you give up to quickly.

OR

Reason #2  Simply, the lack of planning. If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to succeeding is to have  a realistic plan and follow through with it.

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Naturally, even if you are a super duper socialite or have a genuinely great idea for your a blog, success is not going to materialise in a week. Sorry You will not make $100,000 next Thursday. Building up the kind of readership that blogging for profit requires takes time, and in reality it will probably take at least one to three months before you are able make money blogging. However, staying committed to your blogging project during this initial rough period will pay off in the long run.

Keep motivated, set goals for how often you will update your blog, know how many readers you want to attract, and then reward yourself with your favorite drink for sticking with your plan. Blogging for profit can be achieved, if you don’t make the above mistakes.

YOU CAN SUCCEED!

How do you blog? – is a question that tends to keep rising when I’m engaging in conversation. A simple question, yet there are so many different ways to interpret it. Hence there are many different answers. So, I thought it would be appropriate to take a stab at trying to clear the confusion here.

When someone asks this question, I always respond, “Do you mean how do you start a blog?” Seven times out of ten the answer to is a simple “yes”. However, some people are asking something totally different. Here’s some examples of how this question can be interpreted:

• How do you set up a blog?
• What platform do you use? i.e. wordpress, blogger
• How do you make your own blog?
• How do you get your blog noticed?
• How do you make money with your blog?
• How do you use a blog?
• How do you promote a blog?
• How do you start a blog site?
• Do you use your blog for leisure or money?

Whew!! And these are just a few different answers that I get from people.

With that said, how do I answer the question of “how do you blog?” I’m not sure. I, myself, am pretty confused about which direction to take in answering the question on this forum. I really don’t want to confuse anyone.

What I can tell you is that anyone can learn to start a blog. It’s rather simple. Whether you want to blog for fun or blog for profit, it can be learned by anyone. It’s also fun and exciting to help other people by sharing your thoughts and knowledge.

Sidenote** I shall tell no lies – there is work involved in creating a blog for profit. If you want bad enough to make money from home blogging, you can do it. Just don’t believe that you’ll set it up and forget it and the blog profits will suddenly fill up you bank account. I learned the technical stuff pretty easy. Now I’m in the process of learning to monetize and becoming an expert on blogging. Who am I learning from? None other than Jack Humphrey.               Click here to get Jack’s free book on how do you blog. End Sidenote**

Okay, so how do I answer this simple question of “how do you blog?” Well, I blog to learn, I blog to share, and, last but not least, I blog to eat.

How do you blog?  What’s your spin on the question?

]]> http://makemoneyfromhomeblogging.com/265/how-do-you-blog-a-simple-question/feed/ 0 http://makemoneyfromhomeblogging.com/207/blogging-for-profit-in-two-simple-steps/ http://makemoneyfromhomeblogging.com/207/blogging-for-profit-in-two-simple-steps/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:22:33 +0000 Deb http://makemoneyfromhomeblogging.com/?p=207 Here’s two steps that will lead you to blogging for profit. First let me state that developing a blog for the intense purpose of making money online can be fun or frustrating. I am sure you’ve heard the term niche. Well a niche blog is something that can be fruitful and simple, or challenging and arduous depending on how you address the day to day duties of staying abreast, maintaining, networking and keeping your blog up to date with relevant content.

Niche blogs are generally blogs related to one or more particular industries or areas, including politics, cooking,  sicknesses, or sports etc.. The more niche, or in-depth your blog is, the more challenging it may be for folks not involved with in that niche to get in. It’s for this reason that you should think long and hard about the most effective way to make the most out of niche blogs, and coming up the right niche is a very good place to start.

When you are doing your research (please do some research) for the right niche for your particular blog, make certain you look at the prospective audience, and your ability to continue providing them with fresh content on your blog that is current within that niche. For example, if you’re thinking about blogging for profit in the dating niche, yet you have no desire or interest in what’s happening on the dating scene, it really will not make any sense to go into that subject. Alternatively, try to find a niche by considering what you do have an interest in and create your money-making blog on that instead.

The second step to blogging for profit with your niche blog is to become an expert. Never mind how much you believe you know about your niche blog topic, chances are you could use some polishing up on the matter. I suggest you accomplish this by simply joining other networks in your market and/or doing research on the  blog topic, and spending at least an hour studying the subject matter each day. It is imperative that you investigate your competition, as they will give you a great idea of what’s the happening in this niche and what is not. You competition is generally the pages that show up on the first two pages of google when you do a search for your niche.

**Remember though, there is room in every niche to blogging for profit as long as you have the right up (more on that later), education, determination and will to take action.

In conclusion what you want to become is the go-to-person or place for information in this niche. What that means is blogging for profit can be obtained by constantly updating your blog with fresh accurate information that folks can relate to.  If you work hard and stay focused, you will and make money blogging.

I welcome your comments, good, bad or indifferent…:-)

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Okay. Okay. So you are not  a dummy. It’s just a figure of speech. Hold Your Fire! This blogging for dummies article is, for the most part, about the blogging vocabulary, or lingo. To understand how to make money blogging , you are required to know a few key terms. For example, domain, platform, blog, and web host are just a few. Once you’ve got the hang of these key components of blogging, you will be able to enter any conversation about blogging with self-confidence. After you know what incisively a blog is, you’ll be on your path to passing the final examination of blogging for dummies.

Here goes:

• Blog is short for weblog, which simply means a series of online posts presented in reverse chronological order. Simple enough!

Most blogs are presented in text format (like the one you are reading right now), but there are also photo blogs and video blogs. The rest of blogging for dummies has to do with the technical side of things.

If you’re going to start a blog to make money, you’ll have to have a platform, a web host, and a domain name, or web address.

• A blogging platform is a computer software program that permits you to publish your posts and to update your web log. In addition, your platform allows you the capability of designing your blog from the size of the font, to the color, to the graphics you choose.

• The web host is sort of like the virtual file cabinet where your blog is stored. Your computer communicates electronically with the host when you make any changes to your blog, such as, upload or edit a post.

• The domain name is the online address of your blog. If you want to make money blogging, you probably should choose a domain name that ends in “dot com” or “dot net.

What that hard? Of course not. Give yourself a pat on the back. You now know what a blog is, what a platform is, and
what domains and web hosts are! You have passed blogging for dummies.

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Gideon, the guy who created the video, tells me
that he tried these exact same strategies on one
of his own YouTube channels, and got like 67,400
views in just 8 weeks!

At first I thought he was just kidding me but then
I saw his channel, and my jaw dropped at the
results (he actually shows the same channel inside
the video).

So, yeah… if you want to get more traffic from
YouTube, you’ll like this stuff…

10 Easy To Follow Videos Showing You How To Create Your Blog From Scratch!

Let me know what you think of the videos.

Be Different by pasotraspaso

Why You Need More Than An Extraordinary Idea For Your Blog

Reportedly, there are 900,000 blogs being developed everyday. With so many blogs and websites about blogs on the World Wide Web, it is not so easy differentiate your blog from all of the others. Whether you are starting up a new website aimed at a particular audience  or you’re calculating reconstructing your existing blog to be a bit more distinguishing, the key to constructing and sustaining a website or blog that will capture the interest and attention of the crowd that’s in your niche.

If you are able to satisfy a demand in a way that no other authority blogger does, you will be able to establish a list of satisfied readers. Don’t think for one second that once you’ve discovered your unique niche,you done working. You will still have a great deal to do. However,determining your particular place in the blogosphere is the place you will definitely want to commence.

All great blogging internet sites begin with a great idea, and you will not establish a prosperous web site that will last without one. There are a lot of great sites targeted at today’s audience, and rivalry for the attention of this growing demographic is ferocious. That’s why you’ll have to make your blog leap out from the crowd. You’ll want to offer up something that no other site is currently providing, or perhaps do the same thing that an already popular blogger does but in a much more impressive or innovative way. In other words, you’ll have to get a bit creative.

A simple trick to discovering an ideal model for your blog is to look at the sites that have already successfully captured an audience and determine if you can legally copy some of their strategies to help realize your own vision. Naturally, you will need to add a unique style to your project in order to stand apart from your competitor.

Some folks agree that the blogs that perform the best in today’s market are the sites that have the most
personality. The fiercely individual surfers, who are your audience, is a demographic that responds especially strongly to personality. So consider how you will be able to give your site a unique and attractive feeling by adding your personal voice and sensibility to your blog’s design and content.

Once you’ve got the perfect idea for your site, realized that you are well prepared to fill a somebody’s need, and have infused the site with your own personality, the next step is calculating how to articulate to your audience.

Ultimately, a great idea just isn’t adequate to propel your blog into a money making success story. You’ll need to muster up a smart and realistic marketing plan in order to attract readers to your site. Once you hook a reader with some great content, you’ve got to do it consistently so they keep them coming back. It is crucial that you instantly establish who you are and what you have to say or you and/or your blog will not have an opportunity to make a dent in cyberspace.

I Dare Say; Be Bold! Be Different!

What do you think? In what ways can we be different?