Blogs are the most cost effective way to start an online business when you don’t have much money. Volume is the first key — both aiming for a large number of sites built and/or a large number of visitors per site.
Here’s a list of ways that everyday people make profits everyday by using blogs:
- Get paid to write new blog posts and/or comments for other people’s blogs (advertise your services on elance.com or odesk.com or guru.com)
- Learn how to build simple Wordpress blogs for other people — get paid to build a website cheaply and quickly using free or inexpensive pre-built WP themes for local businesses, coaches, chiropractors, lawyers, repair services, and more that you find by online and offline methods
- Create a network of blogs and auto-blogs of your own to sell affiliate products from Clickbank.com, Amazon.com, CJ.com, Linkshare.com, ShareASale.com, and more, as well as placing AdSense, Kontera, Chitika ad widgets on your sidebars and other locations
- Sell your WP blogs for quick profits on website sales sites such as flippa.com, digitalpoint.com, and more
- Develop your own personal niche blog and build a loyal following of reader-participants who share your enthusiasm for your topic (e.g., using RSS feed email subscriptions)
- Add your own information products as you develop them for sale on your blog
All of this and more is very possible. It takes a brief amount of training with the right resources, and off you go. The amount of profit (and I can attest to this) is limited not only by how much you do and/or outsource effectively, but especially how you pick the niche markets in which you work.
Check out the different models by which you can do this type of blog for profit business. There are many smaller and larger gurus around – spend carefully and don’t get distracted once you discover a system that suits you.
Some solid choices:
What’s the best tool to help you discover possible niches in which to buy domains with commercially good names and populate the blog with SEO-friendly keywords? Check out MicroNiche Finder for that.
Yes, I am an affiliate of these folks, but yes, I have used their training materials and think they give good value to get you going and keep you going. Don’t throw money at lots of other offers until you settle on one system and see it through. You can build on the basics, but you’ll never have any basics (i.e., a network of blogs) if you don’t stick with one system until you have a business.
If there are only 327 people worldwide who share your passion for staring a a specific type of rock on the ground, chances are, you will remain poor. Pay attention to the potential markets around you and be realistic if your passion does not have hungry buyers associated with it. Move on as a pragmatic person who needs to eat. Find another niche where there are thousands of people looking for updates and products in it (at least 1000 Google searchers/month, for instance).
Let us know how you are doing – please let us know…To Your Success!
