A great reason to start a blog is because they can be a great businesses. Do you know how to make money from your blog?
Let me explain a few ways this is possible
Ways To Make Money
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 quick 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. You can make a huge income from this as the potential is uncapped
Sponsored Posts
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
Various companies like to use influencers and micro influencers to help promote their products, you can read my post on micro influencers here
Sell Something
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
There are lots of opportunities and as your blog and readership grows, so can your business
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
The possibilities amount and the sooner you are creating your blog, the sooner you are creating more ways to make more money
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.