Posts Tagged ‘earning from blogs’

Top 5 Tips for Profitable Problogging

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:

  1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.
  2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.
  3. Be an ‘expert’. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the “go-to” blogger on that topic.
  4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).
  5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.

Problogging for Money

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term “blogging” refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term “blogger” refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.

Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:

  • Personal bloggers – people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.
  • Business bloggers – people who focus on promoting products and services.
  • Organizational bloggers – people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.
  • Professional bloggers – people who are hired or paid to do blogging.

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:

  • Advertising programs
  • RSS advertising
  • Sponsorship
  • Affiliate Programs
  • Digital assets
  • Blog network writing gigs
  • Business blog writing gigs
  • Non blogging writing gigs
  • Donations
  • Flipping blogs
  • Merchandising
  • Consulting and speaking

Business Blogging

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Business blog is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great business opportunities in just one click. Blogs are user-friendly, customized and flexible medium for disseminating useful information for effective positioning of your products in the market.

Here are some advantages with business blogging:

  • Word-of-Mouth. Imagine how much gain your company will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.
  • Awareness and loyalty.  Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them.
  • Feedback. Blogs is good for product research and reviews.
  • Community halo-effect. Bloggers are reasonable, friendly and helpful. They are more than willing to create blogosphere of comments regarding your product. The only thing you have to do is embrace and take active part in the culture and your product will surely be considered in their next stop to the supermarket.

For better marketing results, actively promote your business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Do not forget to paste in with your blogs, your URL.

The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important too in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. In this way you have better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs.

If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and targeting sales increase, your company is now ready to start blogging. But first, you have to be in tune with your company’s business objectives and determine if blogging will really help you achieve your goal.

  • Several blogs are dedicated to teaching people the do’s and don’ts of blogging, READ them! Include in your reading materials blogs that are consumer-based too to give you an idea.
  • Setup several test blogs right away.