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Are you blogging for fun or to build your
business or create a side income ?
Are you one of the 3.9 million “lifestyle
bloggers” who blog to support a flexible,
family-friendly lifestyle?
Do you blog for money and fame or is it a
way to express yourself?
Is your mission to help others, share your
personal experiences or connect with a
like-minded community?
If the answer to any of these is YES! then
you need to build a blog and treat it as a
business
If you treat your blog as a business you can
achieve all of these
And get your blog to pay its way
What could be better than that?
Why Build Your Own Blog?
There are something like 181 million blogs
in the world, up from 36 million only five
years ago
According to stats from Blogger.org:
 81% of bloggers make less than $100 a year
from their blogs
 9% are lifestyle bloggers
 8% earn enough to replace a salary and support
their families
 The remaining 2% make over $150k!
So, if you’d like to be in the 17% of bloggers
who mean business with their blog and
generate a profit keep watching
Remember, if you’re not making money from
your blog, it’s not a business it’s a hobby
Follow these 4 Steps To Build A Blog
That Will Earn You Money From Home
1.

Plan for Success
Firstly, understand why you’re blogging and
what you’re trying to achieve
What does success look like for you?
Being clear on your goals and motives is
crucial to success
Are you blogging to create a side income, to
replace a salary or to create a luxury lifestyle?
Or do you want to make enough that you can
work from home, be available to pick the kids
up from school and enjoy the freedom and
flexibility of being your own boss?
Perhaps your goal is to support a worthy
cause or help others in your community
Whatever your “WHY” be clear on it
Who Are You Blogging For?
Be laser-focused and clear on the market
you’re serving
Blogging as a business isn’t about you it’s
about the market you serve
Having said that one of the great advantages of
blogging is how you personalize your writing
because people like to buy from people they
“know, like and trust”
So, focus on how you serve your market,
but inject your personality into your blog
posts so you stand out
Having a clearly defined “niche” (a narrowly
defined segment of the marketplace) will help
you focus your marketing message, the topics
you write about, your communication style and
how you promote yourself and your blog
For example, blogging for work at home mums
is very different to blogging for professional
photographers or organic cheese makers
Blog Planning 101
Once you’re clear on why you’re blogging
and who you’re blogging for create a
simple 1-page plan
Write a plan for how often you will update
your blog, how you will promote it and
retain readers, and whether you will
feature photographs or video
Test out different strategies, see what your
competition are doing and ask your readers
 Do they want daily blog posts or one long weekly indepth post?
 Will your blog posts be a mixture of information to
promotion (80/20?)
 How will you keep your blog fresh, relevant and
exciting?
 How will you engage your readers and keep them
coming back?
2.

Act like a CEO
Now that you’re running a business, you
must act like the CEO
Take your blogging seriously
Blog regularly, be professional and be
consistent with your message, your
style, your brand and your topics
Avoid obvious spelling mistakes and use
professional-looking, relevant photographs
Get Organized
Create an editorial calendar and feature a
different topic or tips and tricks each month
Plan your posts in advance and use the
WordPress scheduling feature to queue up
content if you’re going away
Or just to streamline your workflow
Expand Your Reach
Connect with other bloggers and key
influencers in your field
Get to know them and remember that
what used to be seen as competition is
more likely potential collaboration
See who else is serving your market that
you could partner with and look for ways
to work together for mutual benefit
Perhaps consider running joint webinars or
Google hangouts with others providing
complementary services to your potential
customers
3.

Smart Marketing
Too many bloggers spend all of their time
writing posts and almost no time marketing
Once you’ve got a good base, say 50 posts,
the search engines will start to index your
site and you should start to focus more
time on promotion than writing
Keep blogging consistently but perhaps write
fewer, longer posts (one long post a week say,
rather than 2-3 shorter posts) and spend the
rest of the time promoting your blog
Get Noticed (In The Right Way)
Promoting your blog is about
omnipresence and standing out
Test out a combination of promotional
strategies and social media platforms and
see which works best for you
Syndicate your news feeds, link to social media,
and engage
(with readers, and with other bloggers and
influencers in your field)
It’s all about getting noticed, but in the
right way
Use plug-in’s and apps to optimize your
blog for the search engines, and automate
the syndication of your content
For example, there are WordPress plug-ins
that automatically distribute new blog
posts to hundreds of social media and
bookmarking sites
And others that automatically send new
posts to your email list and RSS feed
Be Chocolate With Sprinkles
How can you stand out? Stand for
something. Don’t be “vanilla”, bland and
another “me too” blog
Stand for something you feel strongly
about or take your own angle
A great example is Natalie Sisson who’s
branded herself as
“The Suitcase Entrepreneur”
4.

Generate Income From
Your blog
Now to the crux of business blogging –
how to create a side income?
As part of the planning process, consider three
critical questions
(ideally before you start your blog)
 How will you get paid?
 How much will you earn?
 How can you get paid more than once?
Make Money Blogging
There are two major business models for
creating income from your blog
The first and most common way is to sell
advertising to companies and brands who
want to reach your blog’s readers
The more readers you have the more
advertising and sponsorship income you
can generate
The second is to use your blog to promote
your business or to sell services and
products
You can sell other people’s products and
keep a percentage of the profits (known as
affiliate marketing) or sell your own
products and keep 100% of the profits
Of course, with the latter, you’ve got to
create high quality products to sell so I’d
recommend you start as an affiliate and
then move to creating your own products
once your business is established
If you the detailed skinny on more money
making opportunities for your blog, check out
my “Make Money Blogging” email course
It’s delivered direct to your inbox and you
can start straight away
Make Your Blog A Business
To make a profit from your blog take a
consistent, integrated approach and you’ll
see it grow into a business you can be
proud of and that will sustain you
financially for years to come
If it seems overwhelming, start by doing
something (however small) every day to
promote your blog
You’ll soon see results if you stick at it
Now you know how to build a blog and
earn money from home, leave a comment
below and let me know the ONE action you
commit to take today to get started…..
(I love it when you share!)
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Build Your Own Blog And Create A Side Income

  • 1. Build Your Own Blog And Create A Side Income
  • 2. MMSpark.com Resources…. Freebies & Guides 12 Top Social Media Tips Mmspark.com/mmfreebie Information packed webinars http://mmspark.com/webinars/
  • 3. Are you blogging for fun or to build your business or create a side income ?
  • 4. Are you one of the 3.9 million “lifestyle bloggers” who blog to support a flexible, family-friendly lifestyle?
  • 5. Do you blog for money and fame or is it a way to express yourself?
  • 6. Is your mission to help others, share your personal experiences or connect with a like-minded community?
  • 7. If the answer to any of these is YES! then you need to build a blog and treat it as a business
  • 8. If you treat your blog as a business you can achieve all of these
  • 9. And get your blog to pay its way
  • 10. What could be better than that?
  • 11. Why Build Your Own Blog?
  • 12. There are something like 181 million blogs in the world, up from 36 million only five years ago
  • 13. According to stats from Blogger.org:  81% of bloggers make less than $100 a year from their blogs  9% are lifestyle bloggers  8% earn enough to replace a salary and support their families  The remaining 2% make over $150k!
  • 14. So, if you’d like to be in the 17% of bloggers who mean business with their blog and generate a profit keep watching
  • 15. Remember, if you’re not making money from your blog, it’s not a business it’s a hobby
  • 16. Follow these 4 Steps To Build A Blog That Will Earn You Money From Home
  • 18. Firstly, understand why you’re blogging and what you’re trying to achieve
  • 19. What does success look like for you?
  • 20. Being clear on your goals and motives is crucial to success
  • 21. Are you blogging to create a side income, to replace a salary or to create a luxury lifestyle?
  • 22. Or do you want to make enough that you can work from home, be available to pick the kids up from school and enjoy the freedom and flexibility of being your own boss?
  • 23. Perhaps your goal is to support a worthy cause or help others in your community
  • 24. Whatever your “WHY” be clear on it
  • 25. Who Are You Blogging For?
  • 26. Be laser-focused and clear on the market you’re serving
  • 27. Blogging as a business isn’t about you it’s about the market you serve
  • 28. Having said that one of the great advantages of blogging is how you personalize your writing because people like to buy from people they “know, like and trust”
  • 29. So, focus on how you serve your market, but inject your personality into your blog posts so you stand out
  • 30. Having a clearly defined “niche” (a narrowly defined segment of the marketplace) will help you focus your marketing message, the topics you write about, your communication style and how you promote yourself and your blog
  • 31. For example, blogging for work at home mums is very different to blogging for professional photographers or organic cheese makers
  • 33. Once you’re clear on why you’re blogging and who you’re blogging for create a simple 1-page plan
  • 34. Write a plan for how often you will update your blog, how you will promote it and retain readers, and whether you will feature photographs or video
  • 35. Test out different strategies, see what your competition are doing and ask your readers  Do they want daily blog posts or one long weekly indepth post?  Will your blog posts be a mixture of information to promotion (80/20?)  How will you keep your blog fresh, relevant and exciting?  How will you engage your readers and keep them coming back?
  • 37. Now that you’re running a business, you must act like the CEO
  • 38. Take your blogging seriously
  • 39. Blog regularly, be professional and be consistent with your message, your style, your brand and your topics
  • 40. Avoid obvious spelling mistakes and use professional-looking, relevant photographs
  • 42. Create an editorial calendar and feature a different topic or tips and tricks each month
  • 43. Plan your posts in advance and use the WordPress scheduling feature to queue up content if you’re going away
  • 44. Or just to streamline your workflow
  • 46. Connect with other bloggers and key influencers in your field
  • 47. Get to know them and remember that what used to be seen as competition is more likely potential collaboration
  • 48. See who else is serving your market that you could partner with and look for ways to work together for mutual benefit
  • 49. Perhaps consider running joint webinars or Google hangouts with others providing complementary services to your potential customers
  • 51. Too many bloggers spend all of their time writing posts and almost no time marketing
  • 52. Once you’ve got a good base, say 50 posts, the search engines will start to index your site and you should start to focus more time on promotion than writing
  • 53. Keep blogging consistently but perhaps write fewer, longer posts (one long post a week say, rather than 2-3 shorter posts) and spend the rest of the time promoting your blog
  • 54. Get Noticed (In The Right Way)
  • 55. Promoting your blog is about omnipresence and standing out
  • 56. Test out a combination of promotional strategies and social media platforms and see which works best for you
  • 57. Syndicate your news feeds, link to social media, and engage (with readers, and with other bloggers and influencers in your field)
  • 58. It’s all about getting noticed, but in the right way
  • 59. Use plug-in’s and apps to optimize your blog for the search engines, and automate the syndication of your content
  • 60. For example, there are WordPress plug-ins that automatically distribute new blog posts to hundreds of social media and bookmarking sites
  • 61. And others that automatically send new posts to your email list and RSS feed
  • 62. Be Chocolate With Sprinkles
  • 63. How can you stand out? Stand for something. Don’t be “vanilla”, bland and another “me too” blog
  • 64. Stand for something you feel strongly about or take your own angle
  • 65. A great example is Natalie Sisson who’s branded herself as “The Suitcase Entrepreneur”
  • 67. Now to the crux of business blogging – how to create a side income?
  • 68. As part of the planning process, consider three critical questions (ideally before you start your blog)  How will you get paid?  How much will you earn?  How can you get paid more than once?
  • 70. There are two major business models for creating income from your blog
  • 71. The first and most common way is to sell advertising to companies and brands who want to reach your blog’s readers
  • 72. The more readers you have the more advertising and sponsorship income you can generate
  • 73. The second is to use your blog to promote your business or to sell services and products
  • 74. You can sell other people’s products and keep a percentage of the profits (known as affiliate marketing) or sell your own products and keep 100% of the profits
  • 75. Of course, with the latter, you’ve got to create high quality products to sell so I’d recommend you start as an affiliate and then move to creating your own products once your business is established
  • 76. If you the detailed skinny on more money making opportunities for your blog, check out my “Make Money Blogging” email course
  • 77. It’s delivered direct to your inbox and you can start straight away
  • 78. Make Your Blog A Business
  • 79. To make a profit from your blog take a consistent, integrated approach and you’ll see it grow into a business you can be proud of and that will sustain you financially for years to come
  • 80. If it seems overwhelming, start by doing something (however small) every day to promote your blog
  • 81. You’ll soon see results if you stick at it
  • 82. Now you know how to build a blog and earn money from home, leave a comment below and let me know the ONE action you commit to take today to get started….. (I love it when you share!)
  • 83. MMSpark.com Resources…. Freebies & Guides 12 Top Social Media Tips Mmspark.com/mmfreebie Information packed webinars http://mmspark.com/webinars/