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New bloggers want to know how to make money.
Figuring out how to monetize your blog from day one may be tricky.
Most beginner bloggers resist monetizing their blogs. Doubts may cloud your mind. Perhaps you feel like an imposter.
At the end of the day, consider monetizing your blog at the beginning to cut through these fears.
Conquering money fears related to blogging is the only way to make money through your blog.
How to Monetize Your Blog from the Beginning
Adding income channels from day one of your blogging career conditions you to blog like an entrepreneur. Most bloggers struggle horribly to make money blogging by not thinking like a business owner. Add income streams from day one to feel good about receiving money for the helpful content you publish.
Think like an entrepreneur who blogs. Monetize your blog to hit the ground running.
Start profiting early to think, feel and act like an online business owner who happens to blog.
Two Income Channels to Avoid
Most new bloggers want to monetize their blog through two income channels.
For travel bloggers it seems that landing advertising or sponsored posts is the Holy Grail of monetizing manna.
Here’s the problem; until you become famous no brand with deep pockets will want to advertise on your website.
Advertisers need high traffic blogs for promoting their businesses.
Remove greedy or desperate emotions from the income stream selecting process. New bloggers who seek a quick profit often turn to Google Adsense for the alleged ease of opening the stream.
Plastering an Adsense widget on your blog sidebar seems like an easy way to profit quickly. But if you barely drive traffic as a beginner blogger – just like all new bloggers – you will get no clicks and make no money through ads.
Pay Your Monetizing Dues
Learning how to write effectively in order to become a freelance writer requires ample practice executed over a sustained time frame.
Coaching clients demands you to learn the in’s and out’s of your blogging niche for months or even years.
Pasting advertising code seems like the ultimate profit shortcut. Why would you work patiently for months or years to prosper through freelancing or coaching channels when you can work for a few seconds to prosper through advertising channels?
Here’s why: bloggers who earn steady advertising income worked patiently for years to drive 100,000’s of highly targeted readers to their blogs. In reality, the big profits come after 1000’s of blogging work hours, not seconds.
Blogging profits find bloggers who generously create and connect for a long time.
“Day 1” Meaning
“Day 1” means the first day that you publish a blog post.
The first day you publish a blog post may be weeks or even months after you begin research, writing and scheduling blog posts.
I suggest preparing yourself for weeks after buying your domain and hosting by:
- researching blogging diligently
- researching your niche closely
- starting to actually blog intelligently from day 1 with a clear plan in mind and research to boost your blogging confidence
Consider these three income streams to monetize your blog effectively.
Offer Consulting Services
Bloggers specialize in one niche. Knowing a niche inside-out positions you to become a consultant in that niche.
Consider consulting income as a learn, teach and lead on the fly endeavor. Successful bloggers know that learning and teaching is the way to prosper online.
Imagine blogging about social media. Covering the topic in detail for months gives you skills enough to be a social media consultant. Intelligently profit by helping people with your blogging experience.
Build your client base patiently through referral marketing. Do a smash up job helping clients to land more clients through word of mouth marketing.
Avoid bending over backwards for non-resonant clients. Know when to pass on potential clients and when to fire individuals who demand too much for your rates. Developing the skill of releasing individuals takes time and a willingness to feel uncomfortable.
Potential Downsides
Consultants trade time for money. Being a consultant works poorly for a passive income model.
However, being a consultant can be a solid beginner blogger income channel to build a foundation for your online business.
Few strategies nudge you outside of your newbie comfort zone and increase your confidence than offering consulting services.
Generate eBook Revenue
Write and self-publish eBooks to take advantage of burgeoning writing skills.
Bloggers write diligently to publish blog content. Monetize those writing skills by writing and self-publishing eBooks.
Writing eBooks makes sense since you already possess increasing writing skills. Learning the eBook income model does not seem as taxing as other more detailed blogging income streams like coaching clients.
After a few false starts before creating Blogging From Paradise I wrote and self-published my first eBook.
Solve pressing problems from your blogging niche through your eBook. Ask your readers for feedback. Poll your community to spot their biggest problems related to your niche. Write “practical tips heavy” eBooks to boost blogging income through this channel.
Practical Tips
- pick an in-demand title; your readers, Google, Quora and Reddit can verify your idea based on feedback and questions
- create an outline of chapters
- write 500 to 1000 words daily to devote to your eBook; wrap it up within a few weeks
- hire a professional proof reader or ask an eagle-eyed observer to edit your work
- considering selling eBooks through multiple platforms to diversify your blogging income streams; I sell mine through Gumroad and Payhip
Prosper through Affiliate Marketing
Open affiliate marketing income streams to profit intelligently.
Most new bloggers do not possess the:
- skills
- experience
- confidence
- knowledge
to create a full-fledged online product. But anyone can sell something created by another entrepreneur.
Opening affiliate income streams leverages the skills of fellow entrepreneurs. Save time and energy to publish detailed content to your blog.
Affiliate marketing offers bloggers a seamless income channel to establish. Being approved as an affiliate gives you a wide range of products to promote.
Tips
- promote only products related to your niche to maximize your earnings
- publish detailed, thorough content to gain credibility in your niche; readers purchase affiliate products from trusted bloggers
- optimize blog posts for SEO to drive targeted, passive, traffic to your blog; Google traffic tends to be ready to purchase affiliate products for its highly qualified nature
Google users specifically want to fulfill some pressing end. Highly targeted Google traffic can slowly and steadily increase your affiliate income.
Avoid the common error of publishing thin content solely to promote affiliate products. Readers see through this strategy. Resist promoting a high volume of affiliate products too quickly. Avoid looking like a shill.
Conclusion
Deliberately think through your blog monetizing campaign.
Open the right income channels from day one.
Think like an entrepreneur who blogs to monetize your blog early.
