Quote: (12-03-2012 04:02 AM)speakeasy Wrote:
I know a lot of people are now promoting blogging as a way of living a location-free lifestyle. I recently went to a little mini-seminar(free, just some guy who who gathered people together at someone's house) where he talked about the ways to do it. I learned some valuable basics. I think where people will get hung up on is just getting started and figuring out what their niche will be. There's a gazillion blogs out there on every topic you can imagine, I can't imagine most these bloggers are making much if anything at all.
Do we have any idea how many bloggers fail to make significant revenue versus those who have achieved a level of blogging success that allows them to quit their jobs and live wherever they want?
Say you had a Mixed Martial Arts Niche Blog. Silvasucks.com
- Google would show ads on your site for the next PPV fight, and you'd get a nickel for every click.
- Tap Out may want to pay for the banner ad on your site. They'd pay you a monthly fee.
- You did reviews and cover books, videos and equipment - you'd add an amazon link to your site, and when your buys click your amazon link, and buy ANYTHING, you get a percentage of what they buy. - 4-10%
- you build up a mailing list for your niche site and continue to send them good information, but throw in some offers as well. Now other people in your niche want to sell things on your list.
- You do a review for an information product sold on Clickbank/Commission junction - "Chump to Champ - better mma training techniques" $47, you'd see 50-75% from the clickbank author. So you clear between 30-40 bucks. Do that once a day, and basically build more sites around the same niche, and you could be living pretty phat in a few months.
- You write an e-book on the best places to train for MMA in South East Asia. You can use a standalone service or amazon kindle. The e-book leads to small consulting groups and private coaching, which then turns itself into another e-book.
- Your MMA community pays a monthly fee to have a message board and you bring in original content (extended interviews with top MMA fighters and industry types for example)
Making the money though...part of it is having good content, a lot of it is having good traffic, and some of it is great persuasion on your part in making people buy things/click ads.
It's not an easy way to make money, but it's available to everyone with an internet connection (and speaking english and having a us bank account really helps)
WIA