How to blog
Who wants to make money blogging?
Most folks have no idea where to look next beyond the oft-referred to but not overly dependable Google Adsense income stream.
Although advertising revenue can be significant over the long haul it is not prospering during your earlier months as a blogger.
In the world of blogging, it’s easy to get distracted or lose interest in your blog if it’s not getting enough traffic or making as much money as you like.
What most people don’t realize about blogging, is that it’s a very long journey before you actually start seeing big traffic and financial success.
With over 300 million blogs in the world today, that’s a lot of sites you are going to have to compete against while also standing out from the crowd.
Whether you are finding a lack of interest in your blog or simply can’t figure out how to bring in more traffic and revenue, I have some great methods and resources to help you along the way.
I am writing these words from the Upper West Side of New York City. This part of NYC has some …
You want to know something weird?
Most people believe it’s more difficult to make money through blogging if you tell the truth.
The opposite is true.
It is actually easier to make money blogging short term and long term if you tell the truth.
Why?
Trust is the prime currency in the money making equation.
If people trust you, they will buy from you and hire you.
A high volume of bloggers do not get Twitter.
I understand.
I was once in the same boat.
I would tweet my latest post. Sit back. Wait for all of those Retweets to skyrocket. Waiting…..waiting…..waiting.
After a few weeks I noted only a few Retweets and even more scant blog traffic flowing through Twitter.
For good reason; I had no clue what in the Hades I was doing on the network.
I just received payment from one of my blog consulting clients.
These days I receive $200 an hour for my services.
It wasn’t always this way though.
A while back I had the posture of a jellyfish.
I foolishly accepted $25 an hour for my coaching services.
I commanded a similar skill set to my current day skill set.
Not much was different.
Except back then I had like zero posture concerning my:
I ran into some serious financial struggles and worked like an animal just to make end’s meet because I allowed my fears around money, my lack of confidence and other folk’s fears around money to infect my mind, like a mental virus.