How to Make Money with a Blog

in #blog6 years ago (edited)

Many people come to Steemit to earn money from their writing. A lot of those people have blogs or other ways they express themselves to get noticed. I have had a blog for almost four years now that makes 5 figures a month. There are many ways to make money with a blog and I have learned a lot over the years. The way I make money now is nothing like how I thought I would make money in the beginning or how many others think they will make money.

Why did I start a blog and how did it become successful?

I started investfourmore.com back in 2013 to talk about how I bought rental properties. I had not written anything since college (ten years prior) and had no clue what I was doing. I had a friend set up a wordpress site for me and I started to write. I wrote at least three articles a week. They had horrible grammar, were poorly written, and people loved them. They loved and information I was providing and ignored the bad grammar. I promoted my articles a number of ways:

Linkedin (mostly groups)
Other websites (I commented but never spammed or linked back to my site)
Forums ( I again learned the best practices for not spamming)
Facebook
Twitter
Reddit

I learned rather quickly not to link back to my site as that was spam. You have to gain trust however you choose to promote yourself. If you become an authority people will start to pay attention to you and find your stuff. I also wrote a lot about things I knew a lot about and Google picked me up. I was over 100,000 unique visits a month after a couple years thanks to organic SEO.
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How did I make money with my site?

I tried a lot of different ways to make money. I tried Adsense, amazon books, eBooks, Commission Junction (CJ now), other affiliates, banner ads, and more. I did not see much happening especially compared to the money I was making with real estate.

Then I created some of my own coaching programs and people bought them. I did not make a ton of money, but I was encouraged that people liked my stuff. I created programs on how to be successful in things I knew a lot about. I made more programs and improved them over time. I make from $3,000 to $10,000 a month with those programs based on what sales I have going on. https://shop.investfourmore.com/

I also networked with a ton of people in the real estate online world. I realized that the affiliates on CJ were junk, at least for my site. I found people in my nice who had really good affiliate programs. I looked at my best articles and searched for people or companies who had programs to help in those areas. Getting a real estate license, rental property software, wholesaling programs, and turn key rentals, are all great affiliates for me. I make a couple thousand a month with affiliate sales. I am not one to push every program to my email list either. Most my affiliate sales come from my site.
https://investfourmore.com/2014/01/30/how-to-invest-in-long-distance-turn-key-rental-properties/

Instead of making a short crappy book, I spent a ton of time writing a real book. I wrote a full length book on rental properties that did awesome. It still does awesome a couple of years later. I wrote more books, I made them paperbacks and audiobooks. I make over $10,000 a month from my books on Amazon and Audible. I promote my books heavily in my articles. http://amzn.to/2BNbQVa

I do not use adsense as I think it mostly sends people to my competitors for less than $2,000 a month. I do not use other advertising either. I advertise my own stuff or my affiliates. I also work hard to capture emails and use those emails to promote my books or products. Sales seem to be the best way to make money with my own stuff. I have email funnels but they do not sell nearly as well. Webinars have worked well too when I have the time to do them.

It has been a learning process, but an awesome one. I am proud of the site and built it having zero knowledge about blogs or internet marketing before starting.

happy to answer any questions!

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Good advice for us newbies.

I hope it helps!

It sure will please let me know what is needed to be a investor

What about your journey on Steemit? It would be great to hear about that in your next post.

I do talk about Steemit as well. I will. Chronicle my journey for sure.

When I joined here on steemit for days now. I actually don't know what to post, coz this is my first time blogging myself, Coz i always put my low profile on facebook, not even putting other people ideas on what I am doing actually, and they don't know my personal life. So when I started blogging myself, I'm now having troubles what to post again. haha. So I just post whatever I have in mind. And I was surprise then when I know that I can imagine a lot of things and practice my ability to write anything. And even can't believe when I finish doing it. a thinking of "did I do this?.hehe.

Very cool to see you writing! I think it is easiest to write about what you are passionate for. That's all I do.

Congrats @investfourmore for your success with Blogging. I have been doing it well over 10 years and it can be quite rewarding.

Look forward to reading in the future how this Steemit blog over takes that other one in total Revenue :)

That would be fantastic! Of course I am Constantly improving the other blog as well. My goal is to mKe 100k a month with it, but that will be tough.

This an Awesome read! I think it inspired me to write some more and someday make my own book. I'm really astonished by the fact that you have earned lots per month by just the power of writing.

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