Blogging - Monetizing Your Blog (2) Part 6

Your Own Products

Another great way to monetize your blog is to simply sell your own products. This is a great way to build even more credibility and popularity for your blog. Having your own ebook or video course will help you to be seen as an authority in your niche and someone to go to for information. Plus you get to keep 100% of the sales!

Creating Products Yourself

Two of the most popular forms of products are ebooks and video courses. For ebooks, all you need to do is have Microsoft word or open office (free open-source software you can download from the internet), and convert your word document into a pdf so your customers can download it.

For video courses, I suggest making power point slides with Microsoft Powerpoint or Open Office and then using a screen capture software such as Camtasia or Camstudio (Camstudio is open-source software so it’s free, just do a Google search for it), to record the PowerPoint slides as you narrate them.

Using PLR Products

If you’re not up to making your own products or you’re short on time, a good option is to purchase Private Label Rights Products. If you do a search, you will find plenty of ebooks, and video courses in all sorts of niches that come with PLR. Simple purchase the products you want, edit it to suit your brand if you want to, and then it’s ready to be sold as your own product on your blog!

List Building

If you’re serious about long-term success on the internet and making enough money for your online business to be able to replace your day job, then building a list is vital. Almost anyone who makes a substantial amount of money on the internet has a mailing list of targeted subscribers who are interested in their niche. Imagine being able to wake up in the morning, send out 1 email to your list of subscribers, and making more money in 1 day from that email then you do working a month in your regular 9-5 job. It’s entirely possible and very worthwhile.

The best way to do this is to offer your visitors something of value to them for free in exchange for their email address. It could be something like a free report or an ebook, or a 7-part eCourse. Below your offer have an opt-in box where they can enter their email so they can be sent their free gift.

As you can see, building a list of targeted, potential customers is very valuable and is an excellent asset, because since you now have their email address you can email them directly with your product offers and affiliate links, as well as plenty of helpful, free info!

Traffic Generation Strategies

So now we’ve picked a profitable niche, we have our blog set up and optimized, and we’ve monetized our blog, we now have one thing left to do; get visitors to our blog!

Blog Commenting

A great way to get targeted visitors to your blog that will be interested in your content and products, is by leaving comments on other similar blogs in your niche with a link back to your blog in you comment or ‘signature’.

Do a search on Google for other blogs in your niche that are relevant to your own blog and try to find blogs that have a lot of traffic, a lot of activity, and are seen as somewhat as an authority in your niche.

Try to engage constructively in the conversations and threads and offer useful advice. Try to help people the best you can, the more you positively contribute to forums and blogs, the more clicks you will get on your link back to your blog and the more traffic you will get.

Don’t ever try to spam blogs by leaving comments of little value like leaving one liners like ‘great post’. This will never work and no one will even click on your link.

Try to actively participate in the community and build up a bit of a reputation for helping people and you will see a huge jump in your traffic!

In my next blog article I will go even further and cover many more monetizing techniques.