HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR BLOGGING

HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR BLOGGING

1. Create excellent content

Once you have a blog, you must add high-quality content. In order to make money, you have to have visitors, but in order for you to have visitors, you must have something worthwhile to visit.

To create your content, you can draw from the expertise or experience you already have. Start there. After that, never stop learning. Keep growing in your knowledge of your craft so the content you produce gets increasingly great.

The equivalent for a musician would obviously be music. They have to have music in their repertoire. And it has to be good.

2. Establish real relationships

While you grow your blog, start building sincere, no-strings-attached relationships via social media, commenting, forums, promoting others and the like.

If no one knows you exist, it’s unlikely you’ll get many visitors. People won’t naturally find you if you don’t put yourself out there. Plus, these relationships may benefit you when it comes time to promote your stuff later on.

“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” There’s a lot of truth in that little saying. Never underestimate the power of connections.

Don’t we hear about this all the time in music? People go out on auditions, they network, they take lessons, they attend gatherings and parties and do their best to establish relationships with people that might be able to help them along in their musical pursuits.

3. Build your platform

A lot of people don’t realize that for many bloggers most of the money they make does not come from blogging directly. For many, a blog is a platform. It’s online property. It’s where they establish an “official” digital home. It’s where people can get information about them. It’s like a modern-day business card, headshot, calling card or resume.

Bloggers use their blogs as springboards to launch other projects that bring in income, such as ebooks, books, speaking, other products, etc.

Your blog is a way to get exposure, build authority, gain trust and be helpful.

Call it your brand. Call it your platform. Build a consistent, trustworthy reputation and digital presence and it will help you rise above the noise online.

4. Choose and implement streams of income

Developing income streams is the last leg of the 4-legged chair. Many people want to focus only on this leg, but without the other three, it won’t work too well.

Income streams ebb and flow, so successful bloggers are constantly exploring new ways to make money. The key to making good money as a blogger is to have multiple streams of income. And small trickles of money coming from various places over time, can really add up.