The first thing to understand about “On line Marketing” is understanding your niche and targeting the right audience. One of the best ways to get started is with a Blog. Blogging is a great way to make contact with an audience, share likeminded thoughts and establish what your market is or is going to be (Your Niche). Starting a Blog is easy to do and will teach you the basics if you are just starting out. The return or dividends can be huge if you stay focused and committed.
There are a number of free services available that offer free blog services. Sites like Blogger.com (the site I use) and WordPress, only require a brief registration and set up process. Once you determine a theme for your blog and a template, you’re ready to begin posting. Posts are entries that you make on your blog that are published instantly.
The size of your Blog depends on you and what you want or need to say. You can post Blogs each day or once a week the frequency really does depend on you. I like to call it freedom, there’s no pressure and their never should be. You have total freedom to choose what your theme or content will be on. They can be dedicated topics or random day to day events. The Blogs that seem to do well are focused on a specific niche. These tend to attract likeminded people and generate interaction with Blog followers.
Like anything in life it’s far too easy to say I’ll start in the morning or I’ll do it after lunch. Sign up for a Blog service now. The best way to do that is signing up with Blogger.com as I did (or WordPress). It takes minutes to get your account and once in go to the dashboard and build your Blog. There are plenty of templates to chose from but remember what the goal and what type of commitment you are willing to set. It’s always best to start with something you enjoy and have some background knowledge on. Don’t go mad, start small and keep it simple.
One of the best things about a Blog is the fact that you can earn money from it. By deciding how you are going to monetize your Blog. If you want your Blog to work for you and generate revenue, there are techniques you can apply. One way to monetize is with the help of Google Adsense. A very popular option and very easy to add to your Blog with very little effort from you. Your Blog will generate a small income while you are asleep, how good is that ?
The other method to monetize your Blog is through paid links. This is pretty straight forward, you create a section of your Blog that sells lists of recommended sites. There are tools available you can use to automate this process. This can be a single payment or a subscription and goes through Paypal.
There are many ways to monetize your Blog and plenty of help to get you going. Pay per post is another way to create a great income. This is done by advertisers searching for Bloggers who are willing to write a post to promote their product or brand. All you have to do is sign up for one of these networks and when they feel your Blog is ready for their product, they contact you and you write a blog, post it and get paid for the service.
One thing to keep in mind is that the success of you blog is based on a number of factors. I believe that having a targeted blog that offers original content is ideal and you will build a large following. This is essential because most of the monetization methods are based on having enough traffic to make your blog appealing to advertisers as well as blog readers.
A quick recap,
1. Sign up to a Blog, today.
2. Build your blog page.
3. Have a goal in mind.
4. Pick a niche that suits you and your target audience.
5. Monetize the Blog and start earning money.
6. Start small and build up.
7. It doesn’t have to be every day...............FREEDOM
8. Enjoy it.
I hope this has been of some help and encouraged you to start your own Blog, it could even be the start of a new source of income.
Good luck and I hope to see you all soon.
Ed
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