Creating a Profitable Blog

By Randy The Hermit

There are a number of ways that you can monetize your blog.

A popular way to monetize your blog is to sell advertising space to other people or companies that have a product or service to sell.

Another way is to create a blog on a topic that informs and suggests products for the readers that are related to the topic of the blog.

If you keep your mind on marketing both of these methods can become profitable blogs.

If your main goal is to sell advertising, you can either you can use a third party system to generate your income or recruit your advertisers yourself and keep all the money.

There are quite a few established third party services you can use to place advertising on your site like Google Adsense and Yahoo! Publishers Network by joining either one of these you can have ads on your site quickly.

This saves you the work of finding prospects and recruiting them to your advertising program.

Unfortunately, most people expect to make thousands a month with this type service and the are usually disappointed by much lower income.

Selling advertising directly to companies who want to put banner ads or sponsored links on your blog can take quite a bit of time, but it is often fairly lucrative.

If you have been in the industry that covers the topic of your blog you might find this a bit easier to accomplish if you contact your existing contacts.

If you have experience pitching products and services you can try to your own direct sales with companies that have products in your niche but this method does require you to know at least a little about salemanship.

The most serious problem with this model is that you often have to build quite a sizable readership before you can attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to do several months of work before you start to make money blogging.

Blogging is becoming more and more popular every day and there are a lot of companies that are looking for ways to get their piece of the pie.

Sometimes they will establish their own company blog that will provide information about their company and product.

Other companies will want to outsource their blogging to experienced bloggers that will let them get the brand recognition and build a relationship with the customer through a third party endorsement.

More than one writer who never even dreamed that he or she could make money blogging has been approached by a company and offered quite a pretty penny for this kind of gig.

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