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9 Strategies to Make Money Blogging

The question "How to make money blogging" sits high on every blogger's mind.

In fact I received many questions on "How to make money blogging" when I conducted my first webcast to answer my subscribers' most pressing questions on Blogs and Rss.

You can make money Blogging in a number of ways, and in this article I share with you up to nine ways in which you can make money blogging.

1. Make Money Blogging by Selling Advertising Space

Before the advent of Blogs, we have e-zines and selling advertising space on ezines was a popular way to earn extra money. If you run your own Blog, you can let others advertise in your Blogs with banner ads, solo ads, sponsor ads, classifieds and so on.

Now that we have Blogs, you can repeat the same business model that e-zine publishers do, that of selling advertising space.

One popular advertising company that helps Bloggers look for advertisers is Blogads (www.Blogads.com).

Besides placing advertisers ads on your Blog, you can also make money Blogging by placing Google Adsense into your Blog.

In my "Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS" Videos, I show you how you can customize your Blog template to include the Google Adsense into your Blog template so that you can make money blogging.

2. Make Money Blogging by providing technical services such as Blog hosting or setting up Blog

You can also earn money blogging by providing technical services such as helping people to set up their Blogs or providing your own Blog hosting service.

One example of this is www.typepad.com . This is a Blog hosting service provider that charges a monthly fee. Typepad lets you create your Blog and they will host your Blog for you, and provide you with a number of Blog features.

3. Make Money Blogging by setttin up joint venture marketing

Joint Venture marketing is a powerful marketing strategy employed by many top online marketers.

Basically how joint venture works is this: You promote person B's products to your subscriber and customer list, and you get a cut from whatever sale that follows from this promotion.

You can apply the principle of joint venture marketing to Blogs as well. If you have a substantial readership to your Blog, you can also promote or endorse certain products to your Blog readers and this way, and split the profits from the sales generated. This is another way to make money blogging.

4. Make Money Blogging from using the Membership model

Over time, if your weblog has lots of postings and provide good quality content, you can consider turning it into a membership site and charge access for it, again giving you another avenu

5. Make Money Blogging by turning your products into

Another way in which you can make money blogging is to repackage your Blog contents into an e-book or an audio product and sell it. For example, if you run your own Podcasting show or an 'online radio show', you can easily compile your podcast recordings into a CD compiliation and sell it.

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6. Earn Money Blogging by swapping blogs

You've heard of ad swapping when it comes to e-zine publishing, where publishers publish each other's ads in their own e-zines. This way, you save on adveritising costs.

You can repeat the same model to Blogs, as swap ads on Blogs as well. So instead of paying up front, you get to save, which means more money for you to spend!

7. Earn Money Blogging by turning yoyr weblog content into RSS feeds and sell it as premium feeds

Your weblog contents can be turned into an RSS feed. If the content is good, you can look for web businesses that are looking for good content for related topics and sell their feed to them.

8. Make Money Blogging by well, asking!

Hey, who's stopping you from putting a PayPal donation jar or button on your Blog? After all, there are lots of generous people out there you know.

9. Make Money Blogging as an Affiliate Marketer

Another way you can make money blogging is by promoting other people's products on your Blog. This is also known as affiliate marketing.

In affiliate marketing, you get paid a commission when someone clicks on your affiliate link and makes a purchase. Depending on the subject of your Blog, you can recommend products that solve people's problems.

For example, I had a subscriber who asked me how she can weblog about cats and make money from blogging about cats.

I shared with her that firstly, perhaps she might want to go niche instead of targeting the broad category of "cats", and using the example of a Persian cat, which is a niche by itself, she can start a weblog on Persian cats, providing valuable information as well as recommended solutions and products to the upkeep and maintenance of Persian cats.

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Blogging Etiquette

Have you ever thought about the reasons that blogging has become so popular? Enter the word weblog into any search engine, and the results are overwhelming. The phenomenon known as blogging has become one of the fastest growing features of the internet. It's an advocate for free speech, a chance to imprint our thoughts and - ultimately - our individual selves on that vast unknown entity called cyberspace. By blogging we become part of the internet. It may be a miniscule part, but our blogs establish and affirm our presence in cyberspace.

My weblog was born on 24 March 2005. I had no idea how the seed I planted would grow, nor the direction it would follow. Today I read through my first entries, and I see it hasn't changed radically in the first ten months of its life. I think it's become a bit more refined... but that's my humble opinion! The inspiration for that first entry was the cell phone ring tone advert on VH1, featuring the character called "Crazy Frog". Two days later I wrote about Easter in Greece. I followed that with a piece about reviewing on WDC. The fourth entry was about the news channels on TV, and the final one spoke about Zimbabwe.

Looking at the beginning of my weblog I see it's like a diary. The first entries covered Michael Jackson's trial, Terri Schiavo, Prince Rainier of Monaco and Zimbabwe's elections. I sit here, amazed that all these things happened almost one year ago - where has the time gone? And if it wasn't for my weblog I wouldn't have a record of the events and the way they made me feel at that particular time. I suggest you all go back at look at the first few entries in your weblog . You'll probably see your writing has, over time, become more confident and more streamlined. Mine certainly has.

Blogs are representative of their writers. They reflect our thoughts, our minds and our attitudes at a specific moment in time. They are also a permanent record of the events at that particular time. There only limit to a weblog is your own mind - how far are willing to let your mind go and how much of yourself you are prepared to divulge? You can write about any subject that interests you and take your writing in any direction. Bottom line - how much of yourself are you willing to share with the World Wide Web?

Which brings me to the most important feature of blogging - the readers.

They are the reason for the rapid growth of the blogging phenomenon. Without readers blogs would not exist - they'd be diaries or personal journals kept under lock and key. The comments and contributions to our entries feed the weblog , inspiring our own entries and helping it grow. I find the feedback I receive encourages me to keep writing. The same applies to the blogs I read and to which I contribute. I can't tell you how many blogs have inspired one of my own entries. Over time a blogger develops a fairly close relationship with regular readers, and the way these relationships are conducted are important if you want your weblog to grow.

I recently read an entry in an offsite weblog where a blogger's entry claimed he didn't care about the kind of responses his weblog attracted. His reason: "the people contributing aren't my kind of people." My answer - and I did actually post this - was: "So why are you blogging? Keep a private journal if you don't want or need interaction from other web users." I stopped reading his weblog after that, and when I checked yesterday I saw he's still writing, but he's removed the offensive entry!

Those who take the time to read a leave a comment in a weblog are people, whether we agree with their opinions or not. I know - the difference is that we're interacting in cyberspace with a screen replacing the face of an actual physical presence. But that doesn't mean we have to lose our manners! Someone who's read through an entry that's made enough of an impression upon him or her to want to write a comment deserves some respect, even if his or her opinion is contrary to our own. Think about how you would answer that person if he or she was physically in front of you before committing fingers to the keyboard and pressing submit. Words typed and sent in anger are even more damaging than the spoken word, because a record remains in black and white for as long as the blogger chooses.

Let's put the shoe on the other foot for a moment, and consider our response to an entry we find offensive. Perhaps it goes against our moral, political or religious beliefs. It may also be written in a way we personally find insulting. Instinctively the first reaction is to fire off an angry, critical response - but that's not necessarily the right action to take. Many a time I've found myself wanting to respond immediately to an entry containing an opinion contrary to mine, but I've managed to restrain myself. Words spoken in the heat of the moment can be very damaging, and in this case attack is not necessarily the best form of defence. The chances of saying something you may regret later are very high indeed, so I suggest you think about what you want to say before responding. Ask yourself if the words you want to write are something you'd say to a person standing in front of you in a room full of bystanders. Remember the blogger isn't the only person who will see your comment - everyone reading the weblog will know what you've said. And once it's there you cannot take it back. Only the blogger can remove your comment.

Conversely there should some respect afforded to the blogger. It takes courage to share one's beliefs and deepest thoughts. My husband often says: "consider the source". It's a good guideline to use when reading blogs. We're all "victims" of our own personal circumstance, products of different cultures, ethics and traditions. We bring our different personalities and beliefs to the world of blogging, which is one of the reasons blogging is so exciting. My own weblog is a link to people from all over the world, and the fact that I would never be able to interact with such a diverse group in my daily life makes blogging a truly exciting experience... well, for or me anyway! When I write a potentially inflammatory weblog it takes me a while, because I try to convey my own opinion in a frank and honest manner, without offending those whose beliefs may be contradictory to my own. It's not easy, and requires a lot of tact and diplomacy - not to mention forethought! That's probably why I don't do it very often...

I think my journalistic training has helped me restrain myself when I want to reply to what I consider an inflammatory weblog . I was taught not to write about something until all the facts are to hand. I'm not saying don't respond; I'm simply saying think before you say anything. And if you really don't know what to say then don't say anything. Why not leave a comment to that effect? Or perhaps write an entry about how that particular topic makes you feel. I've always lived by the adage: "It's better to stay silent and appear a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt".

I find it's a rule that works well when blogging.

The writer is an author on http://www.Writing.Com/ which is a site for Writers. Her weblog can be viewed at: http://www2.writing.com/main/books/item_id/952766

Corporate Blogging For Quality Relationships

The struggle for customer share is as intense as ever, and companies need to shore up their corporate message in anyway they can. Corporate weblogs, or "blogs", are a great, cost-effective way to engage customers, fellow professionals, or merely the curious. This opportunity to reach thousands of interested people requires no hefty advertising budget, yet can significantly strengthen your client-customer relationship. Taking dialogue online means added and valuable interaction with your customers.

A corporate weblog can be used in any number of ways, from an informational hub to an online diary for a sales rep. They tend to be no less varied than personal blogs are. They deliver on-point messages to anyone who reads it. Since weblog entries often have a personal touch, they tend to reach readers in ways a company homepage can't. This is where creative and well written blogs can really count; quality keeps people coming back. A weblog isn't a venue for the hard sale but instead a resource where resource where readers can stay informed or sign up for newsletters and emailings.

Just because lemonade stands can afford to weblog doesn't mean it's not something for the big guys, either. One well known corporate blogger, Bob Lutz, Vice Chairman of General Motors, has found tremendous success with his "Fast Lane" weblog . Thousands of daily readers get his thoughts daily on all things automotive, with a decided emphasis on GM. What's more, these daily readers are usually car buffs and industry and not a motley cross-section. His weblog 's success lends influence to his opinion and GM's corporate message. Just as many readers of Lutz's weblog are in the car industry, those who'd read your corporate weblog would most likely be in your field, too. It's targeted readership, just what the blogger wants.

2005 marks the year that blogs finally got hot, probably because people are realizing how valuable targeted Internet flow is. In an advertising sense, sure, that's value in search marketing. It's somewhat similar for a corporate weblog , especially considering the high interest level of writer and readership. It's high quality interaction where a person and a company can do themselves good amongst some people who really count: their peers and interested customers. Blogs do not generate smorgasbords of readership that resemble radio listening audiences. This is new media, where quality trumps quantity.

Our CEO at ICMediaDirect.com, Vladimir Khomenko, has gotten the chance to implement corporate blogs for many clients. It's his belief that in the matter of less than a year multitudes of companies have identified blogging as a viable means of corporate messaging, whereas it was once a wee minority. He says, "In the corporate world a weblog gets a controlled message delivered to interested parties in real time. Readers will see it either when prompted to or when just "checking in". Simple as it may seem, it still represents incredible innovation because readers of a weblog are usually receptive to their message." Strategists unfamiliar with blogging should visit weblog search sites, like Technorati, and gauge the impact of the blogosphere. Technorati keeps a running tab for visitors on the number of blogs in network they advertise. They are up to 27.4 million blogs and this number ticks up, practically on a daily basis.

These numbers underscore the importance of blogs today. The weblog is a mainstream phenomenon, not a fad. Corporate blogs are growing in number and importance right there with personal blogs, too. Our consulting team at ICMediaDirect.com is approached by more and more companies who wish to weblog themselves and we've noticed that companies are increasingly approving of employee blogs, if not encouraging them.

Employees on blogs communicate with customers, with business partners and anyone else about a wide array of business topics. The topics of such blogs are as varied as imagination will permit. Understandably, these corporate tools tend to focus on the company and industry, but general chit-chat makes for good weblog fodder, too. Because comment boxes make the weblog interactive, general industry issues are often discussed.

Good blogs often have valuable perspective on business issues. None of this is to say that a corporate weblog is a safe place to say anything, far from it. It would be a foolish place to gossip about your workspace or give away proprietary information (yes, people have been fired for this). Whatever content of a business weblog is posted should be done with the idea that a corporate weblog represents the company. It's a fine line, sure, but not a difficult one to navigate with proper consideration. Just as the workplace has become irreversibly entwined with the Internet, so too will the weblog become a part of the company message. We'll continue to see it grow in corporate importance in upcoming months and years and as it does, look to start one of own. And let me know, I'd like to check it out.

Joseph Pratt Media Analyst ICMediaDirect.com http://www.icmediadirect.com e: joseph@icmediadirect.com

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