Let us be honest and say that making money from a blog is not that easy. It is not impossible but takes some time and action on your part. Making your first $100 is the difficult one. But creating more income from there becomes easy because you get to know what works for your blog and whatnot. Take action to make your first $1000 blogging.
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If you are serious about making money, you have to do the right things from the beginning.
- Starting a self-hosted blog
- Choosing the best CMS for your blog (WordPress)
- Using SEO ( At least the basic SEO)
One more essential aspect of blogging is TIME. You have to put some time towards your blog. Otherwise, it will always remain your dream. There is nothing wrong with dreaming but making those dreams real takes some time and consistent work.
Blogging is no different. You will make mistakes on the way, you will get disheartened but keep going.
This has happened to me for another blog; I just don’t want to work on it. Even if it is making money. So consistently working on your blog will help you make your first $1000.
1. Work consistently
Consistency and patience is the key to stay true to your goals. Work daily on blog-related tasks. As a blogger, you wear many hats, and you have to do everything yourself if you cannot outsource your work.
Even if you don’t need to add a single code yourself, there are so many things you need to do to grow your blog and turn it into an online business.
10 things to do after installing WordPress and before launching your blog
Writing great content is the initial step. Publishing your content, promoting, outreach, networking all are important things in the life of a blogger.
Being organized and consistent work helps you to keep going.
2. Create goals
Always remember to have blogging goals and stick to it. I know blogging consists of so many things and you forget many tasks.
Whenever I lie down on the bed, all the tasks surface my mind that I forget to complete. You always have something to do. Creating goals helps you relieve yourself from some of the overwhelm.
3. Stay motivated
It takes time to build a blog and make money. Losing motivation in the meantime is a possibility. You have to save yourself from overwhelm and stay motivated.
To stay on the path, always look at the end goal and think about the time when your goal will be accomplished.
How to make your first $1000 blogging
There are a few ways you can start making money. Before that, you need visitors to your blog. Your audience should become to your blog to read about the solutions for their problems.
So, writing about your target audience is so important.
How to start getting traffic to your blog
1. Advertisements
Having ads on your website and making money is the easiest route to make money. There are different ad networks that you can use to have ads on your website.
Google Adsense:
It is easy to start with Google Adsense, but the money is not that great if you are just beginning your blogging career.
Mdeia.netMedia.net is known for conceptual ads that mingle with the content of your blog. But then, my experience is not so great with this ad network.MonumetricTo sign up with this ad network, you should have at least 10000 pageviews. And also, you have to pay $100 to get started. You can recover this money in some time, so not a big deal. I have applied with monomeric and waiting for their reply. MediavineIt is a premium ad network that works with blogs with 50,000 sessions or more. They have some traffic requirements too. Earlier, the need was only 25000 sessions, but as soon as I got 25000 sessions on my other blog, they changed their condition. ( my bad luck).
Iknow about these because bloggers have them and have good reviews about them.
2. Affiliate Marketing
What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is when you like a product, you recommend it to somebody and get paid for referring the customer. These are the third party products which you recommend and earn commissions for.
A blog post is the best place to use affiliate marketing as you can make money by sending visitors to the product page. The most straightforward example you may have come across is the cashback sites.
Most of us love online shopping. If we shop online through cashback sites, they give us some money back. Also, they pay us for referring customers to their sites.
Tip: Ebates is one such company that pays $25 for referring a person to their site. It is a win-win situation for both as the person will get $10 for signing up, and you will earn money for referring.
If you are serious about making money with Affiliate marketing, you should learn it from this course. It is a course by Ana from Thesheapproach.com who is making a good amount of money with affiliate marketing.
It is not easy to slap links in your blog posts and wait for the magic to happen. You have to understand it and then start working on Affiliate marketing.
3. Services
Blogging helps you pick many skills on the way. Or you might have some skills from your previous or present jobs. You can offer those skills to other people who need it and start making money.
Here are the services which you can provide for making money
- Blog audit services
- Blog coaching
- Virtual Assistant Services
- Email Marketing
- Admin services
- Social Media Management
4. Freelance writing
If you love writing and can write well, you can start making money with freelance writing. Many places can help you create your writing career.
You can get paid $50-200 depending on the experience. If you are interested in Freelance writing, you can read more about the places to start Freelance writing here.
Also, sometimes you can get an email from somebody to write about them, and they will pay you maybe $30 to 50. I call these types of emails, but my time is limited, and writing doesn’t come naturally. So I don’t pay attention to these, but it is a great way to make some money ( If you like the product)
5. Creating digital products
Digital products are not for everyone, but if you can create that helps your readers, you can make some money. Some bloggers wait for sometime before beginning their first digital product, and some start it from the beginning.
One of my favorite bloggers, Ana from TheSheApproach.com, created her product in her initial blogging stage. She claims that she didn’t make money straight from her product, but it helped her a lot.
If you think that your blogging niche can support a product, why not give it a try. Create a digital product and start earning money.
There are many digital products you can make
- eBooks
- Planners
- Printables
- Courses
6. Coaching
Creating a blog teaches you a lot of skills that you never thought. I am not talking about coding or techier stuff, other blog-related skills like writing, WordPress settings, social media, SEO. You can teach these skills to other bloggers who are just in their beginning stages.
7. Sponsered content
I have not yet got into Sponsered pots, but a few people I know make a lot of money with sponsored content.
Kelan and Brittany from Thesavvycouple.com make a fair amount of their income with sponsored posts. Their income reports are very inspiring, and they are doing great as a savvy couple.
The sky is the limit when you think of building a blog and make money.
These are a few of the income streams that can help you make your first $1000 easily. Things become accessible from there.
I hope this will help you make some money from your blog.
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