Are you a student looking for means of doubling your allowance? Are you a worker unsatisfied with your earnings and looking for a side job? Are you seeking self-employment with a little capital? The below tips are for you.
Gradually, online income earning has turned into an anthem amongst individuals of the 21st century. It is currently seen as one of the best means of independence and work freedom — it offers you the opportunity of working freely from your desired location, at your desired time and, at your personal convenience.
People often tend to misinterpret it as being all about scamming or duping people and illegally extracting funds from them. However, this is absolutely a false perception by unfortunate victims of certain online mishaps.
Online income earning is simply about promoting your certain skills to a larger audience through the platform with individuals from all parts of the world, the internet. This easily helps you to create an awareness of such skills to a larger audience whom may be in need of it.
Amongst the tons of ways of living off an online business either as a side job for doubling your earnings or as a lifetime profession, blogging is one the commonest and most effective.
Hence, the tips below will be of more help to beginners because they are well-broken down to show you how money is earned via blogging and how you can instantly join the thousands and millions of online income earners. Also, if you’re already a blogger, these tips will serve as a refresher for you and will guide you to remain on the right track in your blogging journey.
Blogging
Presently, blogging is the fastest-growing online income source with over 152 million blogs worldwide.
Blogging is the best means of creating a voice via writing and making it heard by audience across the globe. Most interestingly, perhaps, is the fact that you can earn lots and lots of money to afford a decent living from blogging.
Notewise, blogging requires no special qualification or degree; it only involves you being a good writer and being able to coherently pass a message across and enchant an audience with your writing.
Once the mass perceives you as a good writer and you’re able to build a reputable online platform with lots of audiences, there is practically no limit as to how much money you can earn from blogging.
How to create a successful blog
Creating a blog is quite easy. However, creating a blog that withstands the struggle and stands out from the crowd requires series of planned out strategy and hard work. Below is a guideline on how to instantly create a blog and tips to bear in mind while striving to create an exceptional one.
1. Chose a good niche
What do you want to write about? Are you interested in Technology, Politics, Lifestyle, Self-improvement blogs like Dream Chase Achieve or any field of interest at all? Get clear about that and write down your desired niche (field of interest).
Don’t get me wrong, every niche is a good niche. However, choosing a niche for the wrong reasons often makes blogging in such niche more complex.
What kind of audience do I want to build? What is my aim? Will I enjoy writing about this? These are the question types to ask yourself before choosing a blog niche.
Some authors will advise you to pick a popular niche in order to draw a rapid attention. However, doing this will lead to a lack of consistency and demoralization when you fail to get speedy results. Pick a niche you have fun writing about.
Also, pick a niche that’ll attract little or no attention to your qualifications — people will tend to disregard articles on a medical niche if the author has no medical degrees.
2. Pick a smart domain name
Your domain name is your brand name. Your domain name can even go a long way to attract or chase visitors away from your site. How? Imagine people typing in a different keyword while attempting to type yours or, people forgetting your domain name after visiting once.
Pick a domain name that reflects on your niche; a name that’ll instantly pass across what your blog is about. Be sure to make it as short and unique as possible.
After choosing a domain name, you can register it via domain sites like GoDaddy, Namecheap, etc. Afterward, you can create your site with WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, etc.
After creating your blog site, the next thing is to make it accessible by all by allowing service providers to run it on the world wide web; this is called hosting. How do you do this? You simply register with hosting providers like eHost, Bluehost, etc.
Dream Chase Achieve was registered with Namecheap, created with WordPress and is currently being hosted by Bluehost.
3. Choose an attractive theme design
Because user interface and experience play a big role in bringing site traffic, it’ll be wise to pick an attractive theme design that fits your blog’s contents.
Not to worry, as a beginner, WordPress offers a variety of free good-looking themes that can get your blog going before you decide to purchase premium themes — you just gotta take your time to explore through the available themes to see which fits your aim.
4. Post quality contents
Once all the above is completed and your blog is successfully created the next big thing, and basically the main thing is creating quality contents that’ll make your blog stand out and draw in an audience.
While striving to consistently post good articles, avoid plagiarism as it’ll be a big turnoff to readers. Develop a writing style and build in it in such a way that your articles can be distinguished from others’ by a fan.
Think outside the box to create articles that’ll interest and impress your audience.
5. Gradually grow a reliable audience
Growing an audience is certainly the biggest struggle in it all. However, certain methods like advertising, google SEO and social media can help hasten the process and get your articles to a larger audience.
Associate your blog with your social media accounts, send guest posts to other bigger blogs, and consistently publish more and more good articles until you have as many audiences as possible. Just then, making money from your blog becomes a history.
Ways to make money from your blog
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After successfully creating a blog with lots of audiences, money surely comes in one way or the other. However, below are guaranteed means of earning money via a blog with a reliable audience.
1. Advertising
You can earn lots of money by placing targeted ads on your site. Some ad providers use the pay per click system which offers site owner certain sum of money for every single click on an ad placed on their site. Hence with a large audience, lots of users are likely to click on the ads on your site on a daily basis and make you lots of dollars with no stress.
2. Selling products
An audience who admire your writing style tends to readily purchase products from you. Be it an eBook or a PDF file, lots of products can be sold to an audience via a blog.
Likewise, your subscriber’s list built through your blog can be used to sell products for others after which you’ll get a fraction of the pay depending on the deal.
3. Sponsorship
Companies could need enchanting reviews to help hasten the sale of their products. Once such companies learn about your writing and how you successfully built a large audience, they will want you to write about their products after which you’ll be handsomely rewarded.
4. Doing client works
Clients are often disguised as one of the daily readers. Clients take their time to inspect your writing type before endorsing you with deals if they find you talented and competent.
Writing for clients is a major income source in blogging as you can charge as high as hundreds of dollars per article depending on your level of experience and the article length.
Conclusion
There exist lots and lots of other ways in which money can be made as a professional blogger. As a matter of fact, most people who blog for a living earn much more than most successful professors and career people.
It’s often easy to disregard the talents we have. However, as a talented writer, you should never fail to venture into online income sources that deals with writing as there are many of them with lots and lots of benefits.
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Joseph Chukwube
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