A great reason to start a blog is because it can be a great business. Do you know how to make money from your blog? Let me explain a few ways this is possible.
Blogs can be hugely profitable and have the potential to ensure you receive a hefty passive income on a monthly basis.
Make Money From Your Blog
Display Advertising
The easiest way to get started with display advertising is to use a service such as Google Adsense. You are not going to get rich quickly but the steady stream will soon add up.
Display the code on your blog and earn some advertising income every time that your advert is displayed. Easy enough right? The more ads viewed the more you earn.
Affiliate Marketing
This is where you promote a product or a service and you earn a commission for every sale that you drive.
This could be through cookie links or affiliate codes, it is still affiliate marketing with ether.
You can make a huge income from this as the potential is uncapped. It is also passive as you could be making money in your sleep. If someone clicks on your link and purchases you make a commission. Granted it is rarely much but it adds up. Sign up now with AWIN if your blog is already established and you can start earning straight away.
Learn more about the potentials with this passive income stream, the comprehensive affiliate marketing guide has all you need to know to get started. Make sure you are utilising free social media channels like Pinterest to share affiliate links and drive readers through to your blog.
Sponsored Posts on Your Blog
A company ask you to write about them, their products or their services for a fee. They are paying you to create a post for them, sponsoring the content
This can be a great boost to any blogger’s earnings. Remember you need to state that the post is sponsored, as discussed in this blog post
Social Media
You might think that only the big names with hundreds of thousands of social media followers can make money, but that isn’t the case. Even 1,000 is valuable if they are niche specific.
Various companies like to use influencers and micro-influencers to help promote their products.
Sell Something On Your Blog
Write an e-book relating to something you write about on your blog
Sell a service that you can do, such as freelance writing or being a virtual assistant
Produce a product and sell it through a shop on your blog as well as on Etsy
There are lots of opportunities and as your blog and readership grows, so can your business. Which in turn so does your income and money
You might also be approached for other work. An avenue you hadn’t necessarily thought about, such as a newspaper article or a magazine column, because of your blog
If your blog really takes off you could consider hiring a virtual assistant to help with the work load
The possibilities amount and the sooner you are creating your blog, the sooner you are creating more ways to make more money. I have a whole section about blogging on my site, I could be worth a read especially if you are a new blogger
Hope this gives you some food for thought
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It’s a really interesting subject, and this is a very handy start to learning more about it.
I have a blog with no income stream at all, only costs. I will have to investigate your ideas a bit further . Thanks for the pointers.
Good advice!
Thanks for this article, it is very informative and something I have been thinking about.
I am a beginner in affiliate marketing and I thinks this information will be useful for me.
I have started and affiliate site. Please share some tips on increasing traffic to an affiliate site.