How to Blog Money: – 5 Easy Ways to make money by blogging

How to Blog Money: – 5 Easy Ways to make money by blogging

4b414cb49c771b89213fac92_1920Blogging can be a great deal of work. And no one wants to work for free. So being able to make money with your blog can be a great incentive to keep your blog going.

But how to blog for money?

In this blog entry, I’m going to share five of the easiest or at least most straightforward ways to make money from blogging. Of course, easy is a relative term. Blogging itself needs to be done in a disciplined manner if you want to be successful with it. And that does involve work.

There are actually a number of ways to make money with blogging. Some are direct and some are indirect. However, five easiest ways are:

1. Freelancing
2. Advertising
3. Selling Someone Else’s Product
4. Selling Your Own Product
5. Memberships

While not all of these are direct with respect to the blog. They are all ways to use your blogging to make money.

1. Freelance Blogging

This is probably the most frustrating and the easiest method. Frustrating because most blogging work pays very, very little. Unfortunately, many internet marketers and entrepreneurs treat their blogging in a very cavalier fashion. They simply haven’t realized how powerful a blog can be. However, other groups cannot afford to have unprofessional blogs. And they are willing to pay a reasonable amount for freelancers to write their blogs.

2. Advertising

This is probably the most common method of making money by blogging. It is passive. Doesn’t require much to arrange. And depending on the amount of traffic you gather, can be quite lucrative. Generally speaking, most advertising is sold through a third party. The most obvious version is Google AdSense. Google arranges with marketers to deliver ads through its AdWords service. Google is  paid every time someone clicks on the ad. Bloggers and other content producers arrange to display those ads for which they are paid a portion of the click fee. However, there are a number of services other than Google which do the same thing. Some pay based on clicks and some pay based on displays and size. Some services, Google amongst them, also sell ad space to other advertising networks. This allows one network to serve more ads to their publishers. Ultimately, this should produce more income for you the blog publisher.

3. Selling Someone Else’s Product

Often the next step after advertising is to sell other peoples’ products. There are a number of variations on this technique. For example, you can sell physical products. The manufacturer often ships these directly to the customer. You can also sell affiliate products. These are usually virtual products but they can be physical.

4. Selling Your Own Product

If you are able to sell someone else’s product with your blog, what is to stop you from selling your own? Sometimes these are your own physical products. However, the most common and easiest product is the virtual product. For example, blogging is a common technique to sell training courses in audio or video format. EBooks are also sold this way.

5. Memberships

Selling your own product often involves selling information in the form of books or courses. But there is another form of information. Your blog itself. The most obvious technique is simply to sell access to the blog itself. This has an advantage of being a recurring income. Unfortunately, it can be quite difficult to carry off without irritating the potential reader of your blog.