The Money Blog - Making Money Blogging And Enjoying It Too

What is the best job in this world? Is it that of being the CEO of a top company? Is it programming? Or is it the job of being an Entertainer? None! In my opinion, the best job in the world is the job which enables you to earn revenue while having fun at the same time. I remember my previous day job where I sued to spend 8 hours per day! To be honest, it was like living in hell!

To be frank, I would like to work when I want to! I want to make money by indulging myself in my favorite hobbies. And blogging is one job where I can do just that!

Blogging Gives You the Scope for Expressing Your Ideas

I am sure you are good at one thing or the other. You may be good at basketball, you maybe knowing every basketball player by heart, and you may even know each and every trick of the game! Or you may be good at car driving, as well as have knowledge about every machine and every race of cars. The point is that you must be good at SOMETHING, and in fact, I am sure you ARE!

Blog can give you a platform where you can write about something you are good at. It doesn't need to be a great skill or topic; it could be as simple as how to grow rose. And as a matter of fact, there is a 70 years old granny out there who is paid $5000 per month for writing about nothing other than rose!

You don't need to be a writing expert in order to write something. Everybody, even a 10 years old kid can write a blog these days! In fact, I have a niece who started writing a blog about her school days, and one day there was a kid magazine offering to pay her $200 per month just to put advertising on her blog!

Different Source Of Income

Now you might be wondering how a blog in itself could make you any money. Well, there are some several sources of income for bloggers! Let's start with my favorite source of revenue: advertising. During the time when your blog grows in posts, your readership base will also start growing by leaps and bounds. At that time you can leverage your blog with advertisement. Being paid for writing something you already love to write about - can anything be better than that?

You can either offer advertising space to selected vendors or join an advertising network like Google Adsense for free. It is fairly simple; don't think too much about the technical details. If my 10 years old niece can do it, so can you!

Another way to make money is by offering monthly memberships to the readers of your blog. If your content is really that good, you can get away with $2000-$4000 residual income per month.

One friend of mine earns money by doing just this. He started writing about real estate investment since he had almost 15 years of experiences on the subject! The money he makes nowadays from blogging has been more than what he has earned during his 15 years' real estate investment career!

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Timing - The Key To Exploding Your Blog Traffic Is Timing Your Blog Posts.

Few days ago, I was writing a blog post promoting different kinds of music equipments! A week after that, that blog post received only 10 comments. But I have noticed that there are times when I write a new blog post and receive 76 comments instead of 10. It is the same message, the same music equipment, but how could there be such a big gap between the response rates of those two posts?

I quickly scoured through the net, trying to find an answer, until one day I stumbled across one term: "response rate". Have you ever heard about this term? To put it simply, response rate is the likelihood of your readers performing the type of action you want them to do.

My study solidifies my opinion that the timing difference has a great impact on the response rate of my blog post. Actually it is not a new concept in the marketing world. Marketers and entrepreneurs have learned since a long time ago that the ads they put on Monday will get different response from Saturday.

Let's discuss the different timing elements that you can use to maximize your blog's response rates:

Timing Element No 1 - Avoid Public Holidays

Publishing content on public holidays…I would say that is just crazy! With modern life already being too hectic, public holiday is like an oasis in the middle of a desert. Everybody wants to go out, play with their friends or loved ones and that means nobody will read your post. So avoid publishing content on public holidays! Instead, use those days to prepare yourself with hectic tasks that you would be having once the holiday over.

Timing Element No 2 - Wednesday Is Better Than Monday

Scientific research has proven that putting ads on Monday is a useless effort. People are usually very busy on a Sunday, with a lot of meetings, tasks and negotiations to do. This is the reason why advertising rate is much lower on Sunday.

The same principle also applies to your blog. On the same token, Wednesday is the best day of the week for publishing content on your blog, because you will usually get the highest response rate on this day. The reason behind this is that people have much more free time on Wednesday compared to Sunday but compared to the weekends, they are still in a working mode on Wednesday.

Timing Element No 3 - Avoid Bombarding Your Readers

There is an old adage that "less is better". That can be applied to blog as well. I remember subscribing to one blog which was about soccer. At the beginning it was fun, but soon the blog drove me crazy with a new update almost every 2 hours!

Remember that your readers have a life outside the realm of internet, so don't drive them crazy by bombarding them with too many posts at a time. Generally speaking, just two posts per week are enough.

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