Make money with a Blog: How does this blog generate $40,000 per month?
"Dear Mom, I want to be a blogger!"
What do you say son, this is almost worse than wanting to be youtuber.
This is not a trade.
You can not make money with a blog.
It does not give you to live.
There is no job security.
But mom, I do not want to be sure. I want to be able to have fun working and helping the whole world.
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Son, I think it's great that you want to save the world, but first earn a salary, if you do not end up living under a bridge. "
I would say that this conversation of sea bream could happen in 99% of families today.
What parents want their child to be a blogger?
Of course, mine did not want it and even my partner did not want it at first.
Now, with the passage of time, with the arrival of income and with incredible foresight and consistency, the result of the system that I designed in my blog, things have changed a lot:
On average, this blog generates $ 43,800 monthly. Now to see who tells me that you can not make a living as a blogger.
And that is today. Tomorrow the logic tells me that it will be more since I am multiplying by 3 the billing every 2 years and I do not see any symptoms that the thing is going to stop in the near future.
So, can you make money with a blog?
I think it's pretty clear.
But the question is not whether you can or can not, we already know that. The question we must solve is more complicated: how do you make money with a blog? What is the system to know how to make money with my blog, whatever the topic?
I will dedicate this post to talk about this delicate subject and I will do it in a simple way: explaining everything I would tell my twins in case they wanted to be bloggers one day.
6 important things you should know about making money with a blog:
# 1 Making money with a blog is not easy.
Nop. It is not.
Success in the world of blogging does not depend on how well you manage with technology.
Nor how well you write.
Not how much you work, although it is always better many hours than few.
Everything is necessary, but this is not enough.
The really important thing is to be clear about whom you are writing and to know how you can help your readers.
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Call it Experience.
Call it Clarity.
Call it Focus.
A blog is not about you, your story, your products, your solutions or your Lifestyle.
A successful blog is about them: your readers, their desires, their concerns, their goals, and their problems.
Maybe you know and understand what it means to put yourself at the service and listening of your readers, but the practice has shown me again and again that it is not so easy to really listen to your readers and get to work for them.
And no, copying is not enough.
I have hundreds of clones, but only 2 or 3 are doing well because they know how to masterfully execute what any successful blogger has to do.
Here there are no 2 equal days, you are always doing new things and leaving your comfort zone.
For each win, there are 4 failures that sleep in the closet of posts that you will never post on your blog.
Of course, blogging is a very interesting path but not suitable for everyone.
# 2 You'll have to become an info product or yes or yes:
A good blog is nourished by great content.
It is the key today to stand out in an increasingly competitive market.
Therefore, your first task as a blogger is to produce content, and not just any content.
No, you need the best possible content to attract the best possible visits to you. And it does not matter if you produce them in text, audio or video. Without this content base, you will not get anywhere.
Then you will have to master the art of recycling your content to increase your reach by writing little and trying to achieve maximum reach so as not to exhaust yourself.
After mastering the contents, you will have to learn to write in the email channel and in social networks.
And, to finish, you will have to create info products if you want to have a successful business without being a slave to it.
You better be a creative person and have communication skills to be able to teach.
And I'm not talking about teaching in a room of 5,000 attendees, but to overcome a much more damn challenge like teaching a small group in a training room.
If you are wrong to explain things to people, you have a problem.
# 3 It is not passive to make money with a blog:
Oh, Tim Ferriss and his 4-hour workweek ... how much damage this pirate has done by forcing himself on his wonderful idea!
I admire the writer Tim Ferriss and the marketer Tim Ferriss, but not so much the trainer Tim Ferriss.
Be very clear from today that making money with a blog is a very active process.
Terribly active
The question is NOT to work 40 hours (or 60 better said at the beginning). The point is that, since you know that you are going to work so much, you better do it in something that you really like so that your work is not a hell.
The best way to make money with a blog is to sell services, but it is not passive.
The info product have to be made and sold. Nor is it passive.
Advertising does not give you to even pay you a coffee a day, or passive or anything.
Obviously, after a good journey, things get easier to attract visits and "automatic" sales, but you always have to feed the beast: your blog.
You will have to write paying with your hours or pay advertising online to get those visits. Be that as it may, this is NOT passive.
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That said, the system is the key in a blog. If you do not have one, your blog will enslave you and you will meet the worst boss you have ever had in your life: yourself.
Of course, no matter how much you automate with your system, do not expect to earn a lot of money without doing anything with your blog in 30 days.
# 4 Yes, you can make money with a blog even if you are a newbie:
Totally, although I would say that without the help of a mentor it is unlikely that you will achieve it.
In my latest Extreme Blogging experiments, I'm taking bloggers to launch new blogs and generate hundreds of subscribers and get dozens of sales in less than 30 days.
It works great, but obviously the turnover is low.
First, you earn little money and then more in the world of blogging as in any other.
The key is to know from the beginning what you are going to sell and produce the best possible content to attract the target audience of your reference solution.
# 5 Yes, anyone who really loves him can make a decent living with a blog:
It is one thing to have a blog and earn a few thousand euros a year.
That's great and it's an extra for you and your family. For example, a trip in the Tropics to recharge batteries with paradisaical images is a nice purpose.
But another thing is to be able to live with your blog.
First you will have to reach $ 1,000 / month subtracting what the government removes + expenses. You will stay with more than half, net, in your pocket.
Yes, I know that no one lives with dignity at $ 500 / month. Many multinationals pay this in Spain, but it is not a decent salary.
If you want to be a full time blogger you will have to have the capacity to generate 2,000-3,000 dollars monthly in a consistent manner.
To achieve this you will need a mix of consulting / services, life-long face-to-face training, and info products.
This is a reasonable objective, but the problem is to reach it as a "side-project" blogger, also having a Full Time job that feeds you and pays your bills.
This phase in your blogger project is the authentic crossing in the desert where you will understand the meaning of the word sacrifice.
You will have to get up early, go to bed late and sacrifice time of your family and / or friends to make your blog take off.
It is essential that you do not let this phase last too long, since your family will make you pay bills (with good reason!) And your body will tell you enough. Never play with health.
Someday, if you really want Lifestyle, you'll have to take the leap and risk your blog alone.
Entrepreneurship is coexisting with risk, although we try to minimize them.
# 6 How much time do I need before generating income with a blog?:
The million dollar question, right?
Well, here is my best Galician answer: it depends.
- It depends on when you will get to sell.
- It depends on what you will sell, to whom and at what price.
- And it depends on how you will sell it.
Some have been blogging for more than 2 years and have not generated a single euro. Maybe they have earned money with advertising to pay a round to their friends a weekend, but little else.
In general I think it is very healthy to start selling as soon as possible and overcome the barrier of the first sale before reaching 90 days of your blog.
Why?
Because if you do not generate money with your blog, you'll end up throwing in the towel. A blogger needs visits and sales to continue giving everything in his blog.
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Without visits your blog is already condemned. No sales also because it means that something is wrong with your blog (and it's usually something you do not know how to solve alone).
Go to a mentor to solve this problem. You have nothing more important and urgent to do to save your blog.
6 types of income that you can generate from your blog:
Before explaining anything, I want you to stay with a very important concept: to make money with a blog you will need much more than being a blogger.
Perhaps this message is the most important of all this post: your blog is not the purpose.
If you are an entrepreneur, the purpose is to sell. In other words, help your readers in the best possible way to move forward on their life path.
Prepare to be an entrepreneur before becoming a blogger.
A good entrepreneur should have a clear value proposition (how I help my target audience) and what their business model is (how I generate money with my business).
I know that you are more interested in that second part about business models with which to generate income, right?
Well let me introduce you the 6 great pillars with which you can earn money with your blog.
Income flow No. 1 - Services.
What is the best way to earn money very fast with your blog?
Hang a "hire me" button and sell hours of your time in exchange for a fee.
It is not optimal for your lifestyle, but it is for your portfolio.
Think of services for people more than for companies, since you will have access to more market (and also to a market that consumes blogs every day).
The top 8 of the services sold on the network is this:
Related:
- Consulting
- .Programming
- Design
- Writing
- Marketing
- Virtual assistant
- Social Networks
- Accounting / Finance
Now, you can be more creative. Nowadays, an army of new services is being born in the SER line, more every day of the year:
- Personal trainer
- Wedding Planner
- Personal Shopper
- Dog canister
- Cookman at home
- Turnkey parties
- Space organization
- Feng Shui
- Yoga / Meditation
- Health Coach
- Spirituality / Tarot
- Digestion and repair
Think of something that makes a person happier, richer or freer, sells an experience more than a service and there will always be someone willing to pay you.
Revenue flow No. 2 - Training:
This second line of income is also very natural in a blog.
If you have knowledge, in addition to selling services (I do it for you) you can also sell training (I'll train you to do it yourself).
We live the boom of Do It Yourself. People want to learn and not depend on others.
And we have types of formations of all tastes.
In offline for example we have these 5:
- Face-to-face coaching
- Books
- Formations
- Workshops
- Seminars
Find a rental place and serve your customers. The last 4 mentioned allow you to scale your time, since in one hour you will be serving more people.
But obviously, if you want to overcome the geographical barrier, you can think of a digital version of your training materials:
- Ebooks or Audiobooks
- Download courses
- Online courses
- Intensive online program
- Private clubs with membership
A blogger without info products is leaving a lot of money on the table. If you do not create your own info products, other less prepared bloggers will do it for you.
It's not too late to start, so start very now.
I want you to be aware that your Lifestyle as a Blogger depends on your ability to sell info products.
The info products scale almost to the infinite. The services, no.
Revenue flow No. 3 - Digital products:
Digital products are different from info products, since they do not sell content or information. What is sold here is the following:
- Themes / Templates
- Plugins / Software
- Audio / Video
- Music
- Graphic design
- Photography
- Apps
Welcome be if you are a digital native and can design and / or program because the future is yours and you can sell bits or software and also services and training.
If you are not a digital native or have never managed IT projects, I recommend starting with another line of income.
If you do not know what you are doing, hiring a team of designers and programmers without having clear ideas about what they have to do is the best way to lose your savings very quickly.
And they will not have cheated you, you will have cheated yourself. If you do not know what you want or change your specifications every 2 for 3, the only responsible is you.
Revenue Flow No. 4 - Indirect Opportunities:
For many people the best way to monetize their blog is not to sell services, training or digital products.
For many the blog is an enhancer of indirect opportunities.
Let me explain this concept to you better.
Imagine an employee who manages a blog where he shares his knowledge and who ends up creating a Master of his thematic, integrating the training team and getting indirect sales.
Or imagine the employee who gets a raise because his blog makes it more visible, prominent and valuable.Etc.
There are many indirect opportunities that without the blog would not exist:
- Salary increase
- Work shift
- Third party training
- Partnerships with other experts
- Presentations at events
- Book with editorial
- Media
- Trip Blog
Others maybe less, but if you are a travel blogger and they pay you a trip full of activities so that later you write your experience in your blog ... I am sure you will be very happy to be paid to travel and write, right?
Income flow No. 5 - Advertising and affiliation:
Although it is not a model that I like, for some types of blogs it may be interesting to think about advertising.
Well, surely more in the sponsorship that are managed 1 to 1 directly through the blog.
There is a transaction cost and you will have to build loyalty to these brands by showing that you can value your profit and loss account, but at least the margins you will get will be more exciting than those that large display networks give you, starting with Google Adsense.
Except in some very small niches, there is no money with advertising on a blog.
And if you luckily find a winning niche, you will have to become a specialist in this subject and abandon everything you have learned so far.
This does not make sense to me. Nor for many of the bloggers specialists in niches that suddenly start to launch info product.
It's clear what I think about advertising, right?
It is passive and easy to activate, but at your traffic levels you will not be able to overcome the barrier of 100 euros per month.
If later you try to replicate these niches every 2 for 3 in other sectors, I do not understand what passive means in the passive niche concept.
However, there is a topic that I find more interesting: membership.
And more than the affiliation of large affiliate networks (see here) I am talking about the affiliation of info products among bloggers.
These info products can be very relevant to your audience and you can earn 50% for each sale. Much better than the sad 10% that Amazon offers you or the 5% that you will charge from an airline or a hotel.
And finally, I want to emphasize the sponsored posts and / or podcasts.
As a blogger, I am not willing to accept that a brand dictates what I should publish on my blog.
I mean, I write something because I really think about it and I think that bloggers should announce their conflicts of interest with more transparency.
Surely the brands do not want to do it, but the law forces you to do so and your audience deserves to be reported.
Another thing is that a brand supports an event, a podcast or a blog (or a category of a blog) without ever interfering with the editorial line.
That's what I call sponsorship.
There are brands that believe in them, although the vast majority is worried about generating short-term sales.
For all these reasons, right now there is no advertising on my blog.
I accept sponsorship without interfering in the contents and I affiliate other bloggers products for which I would put my hand in the fire.
This line of activity is attached to me and does not exceed 3% of the income generated.
Income flow No. 6 - Physical products:
Yep!
A blog also serves to sell physical products, especially if you sell unique products as in the case of crafts. You want to make known how these products are produced, how you work and what you believe.
If you sell art or craftsmanship without a mark, these issues are more important than the product you create. Also if you sell Premium products and want to position yourself more as a seller of experiences rather than products.
In other words, if you sell more expensive products a blog can help you sell.
So Franck, does not it make sense to have a blog to sell in an e-commerce?
In many cases no, because you compete for prices with little margin and the blog is an additional effort that your customers will not value.
Before setting up a blog, I would invest in advertising campaigns in Ad words, Facebook Ads, email marketing, etc. There is a learning curve, but I am sure that the return would be better.
You can also distribute merchandise from your blog, if your brand is already consolidated.
In many niches, think of sports and nutrition, there are many hyper-relevant physical products in categories such as electronics or nutritional supplements.
Again, I do not think that e-commerce is the best business model for a blog, but in some cases it does make sense to integrate it.
Diversity is key if you want to minimize the risks
It is always bad to depend on a line of cannibal activity that monopolizes 50% or more of the capacity of generation of your blog.
Do not depend on a single client.
Do not depend on a single digital product.
Do not depend on a single source of visitor generation either. If Google or Facebook change their algorithm, your business may disappear overnight.
When you are small, to avoid a disaster, it is always healthy not to depend too much on a single actor involved in your business (the famous "stakeholder").
The best way to generate diversity today is to carry out lifelong offline actions (training, workshops and seminars) along with a digital version of them.
There is no cannibalization of income from offline to online (or vice versa) and you get different customers who prefer different formats.
The perfect road map for newbies who want to know how to make money with a blog
OK, now that you have very clear ideas about the kind of things you can sell from your blog I will explain how to activate these revenue streams.
There are 5 essential stages in the life of a blog designed to sustain a digital business.
Keep reading and you will discover them.
Stage # 1 - Write great content to attract the right readers:
Everything begins by writing or at least producing content.
You can be more comfortable producing audios and / or videos. But in this case, it retrieves the transcripts and re-works them as posts. Google still needs texts before any other format even though YouTube is your best friend.
And, since you have started writing, you better write great posts.
And Franck, what is this about a great post?
Excellent question
A great post is a post that feeds on the most acute problems of your readers and tries to answer them as best as possible.
It does not have to be long, but if you need many words to answer this question well do not be afraid to write 5,000 words. For example, this post will exceed 8,000.
Why? Because I can not seriously explain how to make money on a blog with a 750-word article.
Although Google positioned it on the front page of its results, it would be useless because, dear reader, there is no way to deceive you.
You are much smarter than Google and you can unequivocally identify an epic post from an SEO post that says nothing.
We go with the third and last step.
Since you write with art, I hope you have defined well the business strategy of your blog and that you do not write for a lambda reader without a face. If you do, you'll be wasting time writing unintentionally.
Stage # 2 - Convert these readers into subscribers:
OK, the next stage is to capture the email of this reader. Without your email, you will not be able to contact this person.
And to catch an email, today, you need a great Lead Magnet. It is nothing more than a magnet of attraction in the form of a free gift that will help you to encourage registration to your mailing list (eBook, free course, private video, ...).
If you want to know how to create this Lead Magnet from scratch, check out this post.
Now you can start your work as an entrepreneur.
With visits, you control nothing. But with a mailing list you are building a digital asset that is worth money for your blog.
Put $ 0.5 / month for each subscriber.
Stage # 3 - Share content that sell alone:
And now it's time to sell, Franck?
No, not yet.
Without relationships, there is no sale on the Internet.
You will have to share certain types of content.
Some content designed to prepare the sales ground in order to generate:
- Authority
- Confidence
- Sympathy
Here we talk about mega guides, tutorials, success stories, etc.
Stage # 4 - Have something to sell and make the sale:
Sure, to sell you need some solution.
If you have nothing, start selling the product of a blogger in your niche as an affiliate or try to sell a service. Both things do not require you to create an info product.
You will do it later, once you have shown that your business idea has selling capacity.
Set yourself a sales goal and, until you achieve it, do not blur. Keep selling that affiliate product or service and nothing else.
The time has come to extract greater profitability from this newly acquired customer.
A buyer is not the same as a subscriber. The subscriber is a person who has shown you, with your credit card, who is willing to invest in solutions of the theme of your blog.
Focus on it and try to make it go up in category. If you have bought a very cheap product, have you buy something around 300 euros. And if you have already bought a service for $ 300, try to sell another complementary service to $ 1,000.
A client is worth much more than what he pays you in his first transaction.
Integrate this concept in your digital business or you will be losing a lot of money with clients that will eventually spend their money with your competition.
In this context is when a tool like the sales funnel takes on its full meaning.
I summarize the 5 key stages to make money with your blog.
Download this graphic if you want, it will serve as a reference in case you ever lose focus.
You are clear step by step to make money with a blog, right?
Well we have not finished yet because now I'm going to present some markets where you can position yourself with your next blog.
But first of all, I want you to stay with a concept: you earn more money blogging in a booming market.
In this case, if you change the word blog for business, I think this statement would also be true.
It is easier to sell in a booming market than in one that dies.
Who would assemble a video store today? It does not make much sense with Netflix in just one click.
And since I do not want you to make a mistake in the niche, I'll tell you what those 3 markets are that are going to peter in the next decade. In fact, they are already very successful today.
You probably know the first one, but I'm sure that when you discover the other 2 you will have a revelation. A revelation that will explain why you feel attracted to these markets.
3 booming markets to make money with your next blog
Future Market No. 1: e-learning & consulting for business:
This market is nothing new, but it is exploding more than ever.
We will focus on the B2B world, from company to company.
Companies want e-learning solutions for their employees, suppliers and their clients because the technological environment is changing and the cycles are very short.
It is an ideal job to work as a consultant. There where there is complexity, there are organizations that get stuck and the consultants are the solution.
In this market, the long queue is also arriving: ever smaller and hyper specialized consultancies.
The market is no longer in the hands of the Big 5. There is a dis aggregation that makes many opportunities.
The difficulty is knowing how to reach your potential customers.
Focus on the actors that consume digital content on a daily basis and think of educational solutions (info products), digital and / or Sass services such as Squander APP designed to provide services to these micro-businesses.
The consulting in the USA is a market valued at 449 billion dollars / year. To this we must add the e-learning market and now make a global forecast.
Come on, if you dedicate yourself in any way to consulting or business coaching, your future is assured as long as you update your knowledge by training with the best.
Future Market No. 2: the sale of info products:
This is already a new trend, because you yourself will be seeing that every time there is more offer of info products. Most are obviously eBooks, but also online courses, memberships and paid content.
It is not a passing fad, it is the direct consequence of the liberation of knowledge on the Internet: now people can form above all and nothing.
Join this situation to the long tail factor, which has already paid off in the book market, and start doing the accounts for yourself.
Whenever you know something that others want, you can position yourself as an online trainer and sell your info products.
Being a digital product, the distribution cost is almost nil and you can operate instantaneously in the whole world.
The reference is companies like ClickBank.
ClickBank. is the largest market of info products in the world, since it works in several languages ??and already invoices many hundreds of millions of dollars a year with an accelerated and unstoppable growth.
The reality is that the distribution of info products is mainly done directly from blog to clients, without going through an intermediary like ClickBank., which makes the market much larger than these numbers.
There is no exact estimate, but the market is exploding and the info products are here to stay.
Future market No. 3: coaching for people:
Either to accelerate a professional career (Executive Coaching), to grow as a person (Life Coaching) or to enjoy a healthier life (Health Coaching), now it seems that if we do not have one or several coaches in our lives we are "Has Been "totals.
In the West, there is more and more wealth and more time, but there are fewer jobs and I believe that the work of the future involves working less.
We already have many material things, so it's time to HAVE and begin the era of BEING and enjoy more today.
To kill oneself working for disposing of goods does not make sense and that is where coaches come in, who help and accompany people in transforming their lives for the better.
If you want to see it in another way, anyone who provides a counseling service to people (not companies) is now a coach.
Although some very smart organizations claim that an accredited degree is necessary to be one, I speak here of the market and not of the title.
The one that knows how to help people, that shows it really with or without title.
These services are also exploiting in many areas of life:
- Clothing purchase
- Organization of the house
- Sport
- Nutrition
- Health
- Personal development
- Interpersonal relationships
- Professional career
- Professional reinvention
This is another trend that has come to stay. I'm sure you had intuited it, but by reading it now you understand better what is happening.
If you position yourself in one of these 3 booming markets with a value proposition congruent with who you are and what you know, I tell you already that the only problem you will have in the next 30 years is not to become Workaholic.
Sip, a workaholic, because you will not lack work or money.
Now, I have almost 6,000 words talking about making money with a blog, but I think we have to go to the heart of the matter.
Yes, you can make money with a blog and it is proven, but ... are you really so committed to this idea that you are willing to pay the sacrifice that being a full-time blogger represents?
How to make money with your blog is not the ideal question
No, it is not.
What is really relevant is:
1. How much or little do you believe in yourself and your project to live from your blog?
2. What time do you get a week to be able to realize your dream in a reality?
Do not be naive: succeed with a blog is a lot of work.
Let me ask you a few questions before you really think about it.
# 1 What availability do you have for your blog?
I see 4 different profiles of bloggers:
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- Amateur blogger: if you have a job as an employee and less than 5 hours a week, you are an amateur blogger. In the best case you can earn some extra money with an ebook, but you can hardly get to live on your blog if you do not find more hours a week. If you do it by pure and simple hobby, the monetization of your blog should not interest you
- Professional blogger: if you are a professional and you sell services, you can do it with less than 10 hours a week, so you are a professional blogger. Even so, the blog makes more sense in your life because you know that it generates new opportunities for your business. I encourage you to explore the wonderful world of info products, since they can give you back the freedom that your best customers have stolen from you.
- .Blogger info products: if you are clear that your professional future is to become an info products and that the blog is your platform of attraction and loyalty, you can pretend that someday live your blog. I have not said it will be easy or fast, but you are aligned with your dreams. You assign the vast majority of your time in the life project No. 1 that you have in hand and you live of the contents that you produce.
- Blogger corporate: if you blog for an organization, either as an employee or as a partner of your own startup, I doubt that blogging ends up being your trade. The blog will continue to be a tool that you use, perhaps daily, but it will not become your tool No. 1 either. You are a corporate blogger and they pay you a salary to blog.
The question is what kind of blogger you want to be.
If you want to be an info products blogger, go looking for 25 hours a week from now and give yourself a maximum of 24 months to be working full time with your blog.
# 2 What money do you have to train on blogging (and with whom will you do it)?
In the world of blogging, time is not everything.
If you want to accelerate your learning, you will have to train with:
- Books
- Ebooks
- Online courses
- Face-to-face workshops
- Intensive programs
- Individual or group coaching
- Individual or group mentoring
Go preparing a budget of several thousand euros for 2 or 3 years and watch how you spend these 3,000-5,000 dollars per year.
Choose as mentors people who have been positioned where you want to be in 5 years.
And do me one last favor: have the decency to listen to what your mentor says and implement what he recommends.
No, you do not know how to do it alone.
No, your ideas are not better.
No, not everything will work.
But give your mentor the opportunity to transform your life.
There is no money worse spent than money put into a mentor / coaching with resistance to change and pay attention.
Experiment, stay with what you like most and go looking for another mentor, that's how it works.
# 3 How much do you believe in your dream of becoming a blogger?:
This question is also fundamental.
We all want to be in a paradisaical beach and have a very fresh mojito and coconut, but ... is this the life you want forever?
If you go to 5 star hotels and millionaire cars, very good. This is your goal in this case.
My dream is not the goal, my dream is the path that leads to success.
It consists of helping people and drawing smiles on their face, as if each smile you get gives you more days of good life.
This is why it is so important to understand your own engine: what motivates you? Why do you do everything you do?
If you have a life project like I do, then you will achieve it. The only question is when.
Eye, that many people are not clear on their priorities in life Clarify yours before you start or on the road.
Everything is for me as long as you are happy.
And if you do not need a blog to be happy ... to fuck the blog.
That easy!
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# 1 Do not sell advertising:
It's a waste of time trying to monetize with advertising.
You do not have enough capacity to generate as many visits as to earn more than $ 100 / month with your blog. If you do not want to become a niche amateur SEO expert, forget about this already.
The blog is an attraction, your Lead Magnet captures an email and then tries to sell to this subscriber something you need or want. Point. You are business Sell? solutions?
# 2 You do not monetize your values ? with brands?
Whatever the joint actions you do (sponsorship, publicity and / or affiliation) and whatever the amount of money these brands are going to pay you for, never commit your asset No. 1: your reputation.
It takes many years to build a good reputation and minutes to lose it. Always think about your readers and their needs and do not promote anything that you would not use for yourself or your family.
And when they pay you for doing an action, tell your readers. By the way, it will comply with the law and you will be phenomenal.
Yes, there is no better sales school than selling the info product of one of your direct competitors with affiliate marketing: you earn money, you do not waste time, you confirm what your audience wants and, if you are ready, you can detect new needs to improve the product of your competitor.
How? Offer a bonus that you give away if they show you that they have purchased with your affiliate link. Once you have identified these clients, stick to them and work for free answering their questions. Something good will come out of this, believe me.
If you sell something tailored, sell it really expensive because the pre-sale phase of these tailored services can be eternal.
If you sell a service with a purchase button, like a product, you turn the tables: you eliminate the pre-sale by offering a sales page and you can "sell" at the same time to many customers. And to top it off, they pay you 100% of the service in advance.
Good!
The key? A productized service should be worth 20-30% of what its customized equivalent is worth to open a market to a new type of customer.
Your first info products will mark a before and after in the life of your blog. Income will skyrocket, but it is likely that they will not give you to live with dignity and pay you a salary every month.
When you overcome the barrier of the second info products, you will realize the power of scale of a portfolio of products for clients who love you. Many of your customers will buy without thinking and you will continue to capture many more that you had not activated with the first info products.
Beware, producing info products can be addictive if you like to create.
# 6 Start selling your most expensive products:
In general, they are coaching, mentoring or individual consulting services in 4 figures ($ 997 to $ 9997).
I know these numbers assume, but the logic is implacable: at first you do not have many visits, so if you sell something very expensive with 1 sale you can hold a couple of months.
The best part is that how it works!
If you do not sell anything, even so, anchor in the head of your readers a reference of Premium prices. When you then launch an info product for $ 197, it will seem like a bargain if you feel like collaborating with you.
The other route also works, but the generation of income is reduced in the short term because you will normally be selling an input product below $ 47.
# 7 Making pitches mola an egg:
Making a launch is monopolizing the market's attention for a few days. It is not for novices, nor is it turkey, but it is outrageous.
With the passage of time my releases have exceeded $ 10,000 and now in the last 100,000 euros of sales in about 7 days in which the registrations are open.
The idea is to give something really incredible (3 videos) to make the sale in the room. You can talk about launch times, your planning and your mistakes, but stick with the idea that one day, as a blogger, you'll want to experience this from a launch.
Yes, very much. And they are much more affordable than the releases, although people do not know how to do webinars or manage the pre and the direct post.
The important thing is that you stay with the webinars are a great sales tool if you have your blog and you sell info products and / or services. Put it on your radar of topics to study one day.
# 9 What is cooler is selling with a system on autopilot:
Oh, Yeah, the famous 100% automated funnels.
Right now we are in a massive launch of funnels on the blog and maybe you've noticed. This is the third sales strategy that I want you to know.
The idea is to use a technology called auto res ponder to attract, capture, retain and sell 24 * 7 * 365 in full autopilot. Incredible but real, I'm already generating a few thousand euros a month with this system and that's just the beginning.
It does not matter so much its size, what matters much more is the relationship you can have with your subscribers.
I have seen lists of 300 people generate $ 20,000 in sales in a release in more than one case. Segment and spoil everything you can.
If you do not sell with your blog, it's probably because you're not selling anything concrete.
The sooner you face your fear of failing before you will conquer it forever. Create something, even if it is a button of contratame with which you sell an hour of your time in exchange for a ridiculous rate.
From the minute 0 your readers should understand that this blog is a business blog. The completely free Taliban that will suck the blood and illusions to blogs in which the owner has a bad relationship with money.
How unprepared we are to live with abundance!
# 12 You already have your best blog inside of you:
You do not need to train in something new or learn more about something that you already master. You may not see it right now, but you already have a great blog inside of you.
If you want help, sign up for this training. I'll guide you in that search of your blog within yourself.
# 13 Time-to-market short no, the following:
On the Internet, the "Beat" is fast, so you'll have to learn to be fast.
If you are not ashamed when you launch a new info products, it is that you are doing it wrong. Do not invest in advanced formats until you confirm that there are sales. It's a mistake.
Give a good ostia to the perfectionist troll you carry inside and listen to me: whenever you are helping your readers with your content, the initial format matters a cucumber.
# 14 Fewer questions, more credit cards:
Yes, another of the great truths of business. They talk to you about surveys, focus groups, etc., etc.
Umm ... Doctor House's theorem: people lie. But if you take your info products in pre-sale with a small landing page without having anything done, at 50% of the PVP decided and they buy it, there are no doubts: they want it.
Do it like this.
# 15 Do not have certainties:
I've been almost 20 years as a consultant, entrepreneur and whatever it is with business and the online world. I have learned to be humble because each case is different and everything changes fast.
For each success there are 5 failures, those are the rules.
It is not about "guruizar" the future, it does not make sense. What does make sense is to experiment like a madman and stay with what works best.
Nobody can tell you or predict if your business will work or not.
# 16 Do not be overbearing:
What you think and what you want has very little to do with being successful with your blog.
Kill your ego and focus on your readers, their needs and their desires. You are at the service of your audience, you are not the hero of this ascension. You are only the unnamed Sherpa who has helped you crown the top.
That is the winning attitude in a blog.
# 17 Everything is very slow:
Your success will be slow. Your abundance will take. The students that take will take much longer than you expect to reap results. Your ideas will take 3 times longer to come true than you expected at the beginning.
It's the law for micro-businesses. We are travelers on foot and as much by bicycle. Enjoy this slowness instead of overwhelming yourself with it, that is what gives substance to your vital search.
Well, no. Never. There is always something to do and you never end a day with your TO DO's topped, so do not be overwhelmed.
Being a blogger is a marathon every week and discovering a new route every day. Again, you'd better like the mambo, because as a blogger you're going to dance it.
# 19 Do not listen to glittering objects:
I'm telling you this because I'm probably getting older, but the things that shine are usually lethal distractions that make you lose focus completely.
In the end, business has not changed much. It is a question between 2 people, one who needs / wants something and another who is willing to give him what he wants in exchange for money. Either you add value or the market will put you in your place.
Strategy is everything and hundreds of hours of information about tactics swarm in the network.
I have stopped reading blogs.
Now I'm directly targeting very expensive training, I learn faster and with more networking opportunities with my mentors.
This is the last, and better that way, because I am transforming into Tony Robbins.
You think too much and badly because you are idle. You will not find any answer in the reflection, only in the action. Stop behaving like a true charlatan, transform yourself and become a real "hazlatan".
Suddenly you will see how by magic, your life begins to transform completely.
So ... how can you start making money with your blog?
I know that after reading this post you may feel overwhelmed by the amount of options, tasks and processes that lie ahead.
At least, if you still did not believe it, you will have seen that making a living as a blogger is very possible and that you have so many options to choose from that you can even combine them. If you do not want to put all the eggs in the same basket, you do not have to do it!
Even so, before such a large number of options, you may be overwhelmed.
Quiet, I'll help you get off to a good start and not try to do it all at once without focus, objectives or guidance.
And for that I'm going to put a very simple task:
- Define what kind of income you will generate with your blog as a priority: choose one of these income channels and say "this is mine". Do not look for more than one and try to focus on that one way for now.
- Name, at least, a competitor who is selling something similar: look for one or more competitors that sell something similar to what you want to offer in your market. The more competition, the better!
- Share your task in the comments: leave a comment with the type of income and the names of your competitors.
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