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Jan 15
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There’s a lot of buzz about making money writing blogs. Blogs were initially seen as little more than a way to share information with friends and families but they’ve matured. A blog is a powerful business platform and a way for you to turn your thoughts and opinions into big piles of cash!
So is it that simple to make money writing blogs?
Well yes and no.
Here’s the thing. There’s the usual heavy dose of hype and “get-rich-quick” bull associated with pro blogging. There are scams and cons galore. There are also ordinary folks like you and me earning not just good money but extraordinary money from writing blogs. They are doing stuff they love and getting paid a fortune for it. It’s definitely do-able.
I say “just from writing blogs” but then of course there are tips and tricks. Tactics that are proven to work – and there are others that seldom, if ever, produce results no matter how much effort you put in.
Truth is, effort is required. When you compare it with traditional business models the ‘effort” a bit of a joke, as is the tiny investment required. You don’t need thousands of dollars, you don’t need to invest in premises and stock, you don’t have to be up all hours of the day and night, working all weekend (although obviously if you want to change where you are now, you’re going to have to find some extra time).
Perhaps that’s why so many people fail. Is it too easy to make money writing blogs? If the only effort required is to repeatedly, consistently put in computer time until it pays off, do some people fail because they think it should be tougher?
Don’t get me wrong, sometimes it’s hugely frustrating. Sometimes it’s disappointing. Early on you can wonder why you’re doing it…
Then something works. You earn your first dollar, your first hundred… then you “get it”.
Some people quit before then. Not because “it” doesn’t work, not because you can’t make money from writing blogs, but because it just wasn’t for them. I’m not going to say that people who don’t make it are lazy – or stupid – it’s just that some people aren’t cut out for it. It takes a certain kind of discipline, a kind of determination not to quit, not to let the bastards grind you down. Full-time freedom does have a price.
But let me tell you, it’s definitely worth it!
There are two people who helped me enormously when I started, they are Yaro Starak and Chris Rempel.
Yaro produced an ebook a few years ago called Blog Profits Blueprint which changed a lot of people’s ideas – mine included. If you don’t know Yaro he’s an Australian and full-time blogger, something of a pioneer in fact when blogging was still very new. I think it was the year before last that he set off around the world for six months, blogging as he went, whenever he could get an internet connection. When he got back his business was stronger than ever – because of course you can run a blog from anywhere.
Anyway, Blog Profits Blueprint is an in-depth look at how to build a proper business blog. It doesn’t matter which method you use to make money writing blogs (we’ll look at several) the information in here is gold dust – and it’s free! – so not getting a copy would be dumb!
Second guy is Chris Rempel. AKA The Lazy Marketer. I don’t for one minute believe that he is truly lazy, but like me Chris doesn’t believe in doing more work than is necessary or make things overly complicated. What Chris does, although not always blogging, is particularly relevant to us.
His ground-breaking ebook “Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate” is, unfortunately, not free but it’s more than worth the little money you need to pay and a positive investment in your future. Affiliate marketing is arguably the most profitable method of making money writing blogs and Chris is a master.
Let’s wrap things up for now. In my next post I’m going to look at a few of the alternatives for making money writing blogs. In fact it’s more about making money writing, with the blog being the most effective tool.
