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Blogging For Dollars: 4 Models To Maximize Your Returns

Here are different types of blogs that I have personally started and profited from. While all these blog models are based on the wordpress platform each has a different monetization plan. Lets explore each one of them individually.

    Standard Blog Model Most bloggers start their blogging journey from here. This is a model that can define you as a blogger, but making money from this will involve consistent content creation, community build up and PR. This is a good model if you want to get into selling high end products.

    Review Blog Model Reviews are pretty powerful and they inject very well in the buying thought of the visitor. Imagine providing a crucial review of ipad to a target visitor who is just one click away from buying it. If your review stands out, there are chances that your will make a commission from the sale.

    There is a lot that happens in a review site. The layout, content, structure, reviews all matter. You cannot take a standard blog, write a bunch of reviews and expect to make money from the page. Even though people do that all the time. If you are getting 40,000 page views a day probably you don’t care much about layout and presentations, but to get some serious conversions on small amount traffic you have to focus on the presentation, otherwise the conversions could be pretty frustrating.

    Article Blog If creating unique content on a daily basis is not your forte then you can explore this option. Install a few auto-content plugins and your blog will be populated with content pretty much instantly. You can build lists, monetize with small ads etc. But again you cannot make $1000s of dollars a day with this model unless you start 1000s of blogs.

    Forum Blog Want unique content? then focus on User Generated Content(UGC) imagine how much money sites likes warrior forum make on a daily basis. Go to BigBoards.com and do a search for forums in your niche and look at the traffic numbers, you will be astonished. There is money to be maid if you understand the power of a community.

    Let your users create the content, google provide you the ads and you make money just by doing nothing. Like it? and yes you can start a forum using wordpress.

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4 Simple Ways To Make Money Online

Just pick anyone of the following, you will become golden.. :) -

  • #1. Blogging: Despite the face-books and twitters, blogging continues to grow & dominate. Thanks to Wordpress and other blogging platforms that have started to become marketer friendly over time. If nothing else, just start blogging.
  • #2 Local Business Consulting: This is a big one, lately we have seen a lot of product launches in the space. Too many unqualified service providers are ruining this space. If you acquire some decent stills you can pretty much dominate your local markets with your SEO & SEM services. Imagine each client paying you $500 a month. All you need is 20 of them to create a serious six figure yearly business.
  • #3 Design Services: The days of creating HTML designs and making a lot of money from that are over. Get into motion graphics, there is a lot of money there. If you cannot make that shift then try creating custom facebook fan pages and twitter backgrounds. There is competition there but the demand still beats the supply.
  • #4. Done For You Service: This is a big one. Can you write articles, blog posts, newsletters or Auto-responder messages?. You can create an instant six figure business. Where do you find clients? just signup as a provider across all the lance sites and start bidding. Don’t ignore Craigslist.org.

Do you have a better idea to share on this topic of Making Money Online, please post a comment here.

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7 Ways To Re-energize Your Affiliate Marketing Success

Do you know nearly 80% of the information products that are sold online have no externally advertised affiliate program. Most marketers just setup affiliate programs using some tools and that’s the extent to which they go. They hardly promote the program to new affiliates.

Here are some tips on how you can re-energize your affiliate program.

  • Create an affiliate signup page for your best selling product. Most affiliate program management companies ( 1shoppingcart and Infusionsoft) make this process very easy.
  • Hire an affiliate manager
  • Test your own marketing channels by becoming your own affiliate
  • Promote your affiliate program to your existing customers
  • Create an Affiliate Week. In other words don’t do anything other than Affiliate Marketing for an entire week. This will create momentum
  • Raise the price, Offer 100% commission. This technique will help build you a strong buyer list and a JV list for a major launch in future
  • Place your product on a high traffic CPA network
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