Blogging For Profit: (BFP 102)

Blogging For Profit: (BFP 102)
Do you want to make money blogging? If you do – you’re not alone. More and more bloggers are finding that blogging is a profitable venture. Be it in few extra dollars or making enough money to stop you from getting a part time job or getting it point where they are able to make a full time living from their blogging – there are tens of thousands of bloggers who make money blogging.
what about you?

In this page I want to share some information for beginners on how to make money blogging. For a very quick and broad visual intro – check out this Making Money Blog Mind Map which visualizes just SOME of the ways bloggers make money blogging.
#1 – keep in mind that every blog is unique on how it can make money. Some of the following streams of income will work on someblogs a lot better than others – the key fact is to experiment with as many as possible and see what works best for you.
The following are streams of income.
1. Continuity Programs. This is another newer category for me but one that continues to grow. A continuity program is a site where you earn a recurring income from people who subscribe to a service you offer. For me this includes two sites – ProBlogger.com and ThirdTribe Marketing.

Both programs are membership sites and generate monthly income from the thousands of members that they have as a part of them.
2. Private Ad Sales/Sponsorships Private ad sales directly to advertisers have fallen in the last year. This is partly due to a change in the economy as it is. Note that this area does vary a little from month to month depending upon the campaigns you’re asked to run – we’ve had a couple of months where it actually ranked #2 in the last year. This includes ad sales of the 125 x125 ads as well as a campaign or two at Digital Photography School .
3. Chitika Chitka continues to be a great performer for bloggers. They traditionally have worked best on product related blogs although their Premium ad units now convert well on a larger range of blogs. They do continue to perform well when you use them over and over again.
4. Amazon Associates. Amazon’s affiliate program has been one of the big movers. used to make a few odd dollars from it – how ever in recent times it has become a significant earner.
5. ProBlogger Job Boards The job boards here at ProBlogger continue to grow each month in the number of advertisements that are being bought. This enabled you to invest most of the money that they’d earned a while back into getting a new back end for the boards and to redesign them. These job boards now bring in over $1000 amonth in revenue which is pretty nice considering that they are so low maintenance to run. They also offer a service to readers and add value to the overall blog . The only problem that you can face with the job boards is that there are so many bloggers looking for work that the demand for jobs far exceeds the supply. On the good side of things is that advertisers are reporting getting amazing quality of applications.

What do understand by blogging?

What do understand by blogging?

A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts")

Blogs have been around for about 10 years. The word stands for 'web log' and they're effectively online diaries. Anyone can set one up, that's the easy part. Thinking of something interesting to say each time you blog is the tricky bit.

 

Assuming you don't understand or want to learn about writing websites in code, you're probably best off looking at one of the sites that offers free blogging. A couple of the more popular are WordPress, LiveJournal and Blogger. Others are available.

 

Both of these will offer you a free blog site with its own address – so it becomes, for example, http://www.yourblog.blogsite.com. This is the address you give friends who might want to take a look.

Example of a blog

http://ipadoriphone.bogspot.com

http://affiliatemin.wordpress.com

http://felixa254.blogspot.com

Before we get to the office, you need to think about why you want a blog in the first place and how often you're going to put an entry up in your blog.

 

Is it for a small business? People won't thank you if it's just going to be one long sales pitch.

Is it for a club or society? Great, but do the members want to contact you online? Or is it a personal thing? In any case, how often will you be blogging and can you be sure to have something to say each time you post an entry?

7 reasons to hire a freelance affiliate program manager rather than train an in-house affiliate manager

7 reasons to hire a freelance affiliate program manager rather than train an in-house affiliate manager
Posted by julian_mills Published in Articles on Affiliate Marketing by Julian Mills

If you are a merchant looking to launch an affiliate program or revitalise an existing program then the biggest consideration is who is going to manage the program. It is easy to underestimate the amount of time required to manage and develop a successful affiliate program. A common error merchants make is believing that it is simply a case of setting up the program and putting a link to it on the home page of the main website -then wait for affiliates will flock to promote your product -nothing could be further from the truth. To give your program the best chance of success requires an affiliate manager – either in-house or freelance to take ownership and develop the affiliate program.

Below are 7 reasons why it makes sense to hire an external freelance affiliate manager as opposed to training an in-house member of staff.

1 A freelance affiliate manager already has experience of setting up and managing programs. There is no training and learning required.

2 The work may not be a full time job and so not require a dedicated member of staff. A freelance affiliate manage can accommodate this in their schedule.

3 An in-house member of staff may have other duties which are priority -so the affiliate program does not receive the attention it requires.

4 Does your in-house staff member have all the required skills? Affiliate managers have to be an online ‘jack of all trades’. They have to be confident selling and promoting your affiliate program to prospective affiliates. A mentor – encourage affiliates to promote your offer and to increase sales. They have to be technically competent – working with HTML code, graphics, affiliate network applications, results analysis for example.

5 An affiliate manager needs to have industry contacts. An external freelance affiliate manager is networking within the affiliate marketing community day in day out.

6 Affiliate management is a self contained role that can be outsourced easily. Clients can keep in contact with a freelance affiliate manager with regular meetings and phone calls. A freelance affiliate manager is independent and does not require micro management.

7 A freelance affiliate managers’ results are easily measured and performance can be rewarded with a commission structure.

At the end of the day each merchant has a different set of requirements and it depends on the situation and for the merchant to decide which route to pursue.