How to Make my Blog Profitable – My Proposal
Hello to you All.
As long as I know myself I wanted to have a company of my own because I always wanted to be my own boss. Actually after studding almost 7 years on a degree in Applied Mathematics for Technology, and 2 years on an MBA with the concentration in Marketing, I managed to open my own Business. This should been the happy ending of this story, but nothing of that happened.
My Business went down south and my dream become my nightmare, I managed to close my company and pay all my debts, but to do so I had to use all my side money and I had to ask the help of my Family, and you can´t start to imagine the hard that this attitude was for me, this was the confirmation that I had Failed.
I was forced to get a job as an IT Consultant working for other Company. That’s not so bad, but isn’t the fulfilling of a Dream. So I turned to the Internet to try and find some way of earning money, and I’m telling you that I tried and fail to use several Golden Proposal of getting easy-money. Once again I just Lost Money.
After having a beautiful daughter. I decided to dig deeper and analyze one or more real ways to earn legit money on the web. And after almost 3 years I stumbled into Make Money in the Blog Business. For this I must thank some People for their Blogs:
- StevePavlina.com a Blog from Steve Pavlina that helped me to see my life from another angle;
- Entrepreneurs-Journey.com a Blog from Yaro Starak, This was the one that drove me to create MoneyinBlogBusiness.com;
- BecomeaBlogger.com by Gideon Shalwick and Yaro Starak that gave me all the tools could be hear righting this post for you.
With this Blog I will explain all my experiences to become a successful Blogger and how to make Money in the Blog Business. This Blog will describe all my efforts to make it a profitable one. In this Blog I will post all my attempts to make my blog profitable, all the techniques and, most of all, if those attempts did or did not represent the good way to make my Blog Profitable.
I spend almost 5 hours a day finding and testing all the tips I can to achieve my goal, and it is a very stressful process, so this blog will help you all to avoid all the programs and techniques that I tried and didn’t work out.
Before I start, if you see some terms that you don’t understand what they are or how they work you can always look into them on Google or Wikipedia. For your own good please do not pass on terms just because you don’t know the mining of them, they can be important.
To be clear about it all this is the first post of this blog, much more will come with the entire story.
To resume the first steps of this journey I will need:
The Niche
Decide the right niche to be the center of all my blog topics. This niche must be big enough to both drive traffic to my site and I can have quality ads related to that niche. As you can see my niche will be the around earning money on the web and in particular make this blog or any blog profitable.
The Technology
There are 2 different systems to create a Blog, one is to host it in an external service, such as Blogger.com or WordPress.com, the advantages of this systems are that it’s a FREE service and it’s almost instantly that a blog is created and the posts are being written but those systems has some limitations and restrictions. The other system is the internal host, I can register my own Domain name (Blog Name) and I am the owner of that domain and it’s very cheap (for MoneyinBlogBusiness.com I decided for Namecheap), Then I needed a host service to host my blog, I am the owner of all my Blog sources. (for MoneyinBlogBusiness.com I use Host Gator). After the Domain and host Service I needed the software, I decided to use the WordPress.org, note the difference between WordPress.com that is the external systems of hosting a Blog and WordPress.org that is the software to use in your own Site/Blog.
The Layout
Decide the layout of my blog is very important so my readers can come back over and over again. If a reader doesn’t like the looks of the blog it will not be coming back to it. So I chose a theme from several that I found on WordPress.org.
The Traffic
Decide which methods of driving traffic to my blog. This is the most important thing in a web based business, so in this topic I will make experiments and tests in all the methods and techniques that I can.
The Incoming methods
This is the way of earning money on the web. there are thousands of self proclaimed million dollar methods and miraculous ways to get rich in very short period. My personal experience is that you can earn money on the web but that is a Long path to walk and that path is not easy, but in other way once walked the incomes will be increasing month after month.
My first methods are:
- Affiliate Programs;
- Google AdSense;
- Product Sales;
- Donations (via PayPal).
I will post my experience about these methods later.
So Stay tuned to see more and more information about this journey, make my experience worth for your own.
See you soon,
PEACE
Carlos Lima
