[Kde-i18n-vi] Blogging And Making Money - Edward Palonek

[Edward Palonek]

Edward  Palonek

Today, there are many bloggers who maintains their blog website as a
business. They spend the majority of their time blogging and making money.
This is a trend widely accepted by online businesses. Capitalizing on blogs,
popularity, corporate America has used the opportunity to get closer to
their clients and potential customers.

There are many bloggers in the internet that makes a decent living by just
blogging. If you want to make money out of blogging, it is important to
remember that not every blog is right for making money.

First of all, you should ask yourself why you blog.

Many people have different reasons on why they blog. Some reasons for
blogging include blogging for recreational purpose, promoting an online or
offline business, as a personal diary, to help others, to make friends, for
fun, to become known and finally to make money.

Again, why do tou blog?

If you are blogging and making money, you should first understand the two
types of earning methods in blogging: The Direct Income Method and; the
Indirect Income Method.

In direct income method, you can earn money directly from blogs. In indirect
income method, you can earn money because of your blog.

One great way to earn income from your blog is through affiliate programs.
This program works by getting a commission for referring a visitor or reader
from your blog website to buy a product or service from the company you
signed up as an affiliate. To succeed in this type of method, you should
choose an affiliate that is related to the topics discussed in your blog
website. This is because visitors in your blog are targeted internet
traffic; you don?t want to affiliate with a pet store if your site and blog
is about guns.

Asking your readers for a tip may seem ridiculous, but it might work. If you
already have a large number of loyal readers in your blog and actively
participating in it, you can ask them to donate money for your blog.
Remember that you should first create a large number of loyal readers before
you ask for donations.

Another great way to make money out of your blogs is to sell stuff, like
t-shirts, mugs and other small things that you can personalize. Create your
own logo and post the designs on your blogs. This is great if your readers
are loyal to your blog, they may want to buy something that would make them
part of the group.

You can create a subscription based blog. Asking for payment to view your
blog and participate in it would generate income. However, there are many
blogs out there that may offer the same topic as yours for free. Since free
is preferred more than fee, this type of method can rarely succeed. To make
this work you may need to be a real expert on a specific topic.

Selling blogs is another way to make money out of blogs. For this, you may
need to create a great website in order for it to sell. It should also have
a large readership to make this work. You can successfully sell blogs in an
auction sites, many buyers will take a look at your blog first and determine
if there are a large number of readers and also take a look at the quality
of the website.

Some readers will be someone who seeks writers to employ. If you write a
good article about a specific topic in your blog, these people may probably
hire you to write for them, either for their website or offline as a
freelance writer for a newspaper or magazine. You and your skills are
discovered through your blog. Your reputation is also important for this to
work. Your blog should be able to attract large amount of readers and also
remain loyal to you.

Another way to make money is through speaking opportunities. For this, you
need to impress readers on what you write about in your blog. Readers can
sometimes be a scout looking for someone to speak for their seminars or
workshops. Some request might ask you to speak for a seminar for free and
some might pay you. Do not reject requests on speaking for free; this is
because it will be beneficial for your reputation. Be patient, more offers
will come that will be offering payment for your speaking services.
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