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!

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.

Earn You a Six-Figure Income with Blogs

The advancement of the World Wide Web has brought upon us several kinds of income opportunities that we have never seen before! I just read about a kid who has made $1.5 billion! Ordinary mom and pop have generated over $200,000 per year selling their cooking recipes, while high school students are suddenly being looked upon as political advisors!

Just few years back, building your presence on internet through a website could cost you thousands of dollars, something that most of us unable to afford, but today, you can build your presence online for free using what is popularly known as blogging.

Blogging, most popularly known as online diary, has exploded in popularity in recent years. People with no web design and development skills whatsoever can start blogging in just 5 minutes. Thanks to the recent free popular service called blogspot.com, blogging has never been easier!

The Income Potential of Millions Dollars

I remember that just few years back in 2006, there was this 23 years old school dropout kid making 5 figures income every month from blogspot.com. From that day onwards, I knew that there is a potential of earning millions of dollars from blogging.

The ever growing popularity of blogging in recent years just confirmed my belief. Can you imagine working from anywhere, at anytime and being paid $100,000 per year simply for writing blog posts? Actually, there are several people who earn even more than $100,000 per year from their blogs!

Share Your Ideas With The World

Perhaps, just like me, you too love to write and want to share your opinion with world. A blog can make your dream come true. People from different countries can read your blog. You can share knowledge about anything, from political issues to teenager issues. What is even more interesting is the fact that you can build friends from many different countries from the comfort of your bedroom!

The First Step Toward Your First Million Dollars

Don't have any capital to invest at all? Don't worry; you don't need money in order to setup a blog. You can start blogging using blogspot.com which is a free blogging service!

Personally, I prefer wordpress.com; nowadays web hosting has become very affordable and most good web hosts will have a 1-click install feature for Wordpress, so you don't need to mess around with technical issues! If you ask me, I prefer doing business and making money rather than handling these technical issues.

Once your blog is setup, you can join several affiliate programs in order to promote their products on your blog and make money every time a visitor buys a product from your affiliate link. Just go to associateprograms.com and clickbank.com and you will find many different products you can promote, ranging from music to satellite TV!

Being an affiliate means that whenever someone buys a merchant's product through your link, you will get paid. Once you sign up with each of these affiliate programs, you will be given a unique link which you can embed into the content of your blog post. The rest of the game is very simple: just keep posting good content on your blog and get backlinks from fellow bloggers!

As a matter of fact, this is how the 23 years old kid about whom I told you earlier in this article could make 5 figures income every month!