Blogging for Beginners – Set up a Blogging Empire

Blogs are instant publishing tools. You can write 200 words, hit Publish, and your words are immediately available online to hundreds of millions of readers.

This makes blogs immensely powerful. There’s never been a tool for writers which is more powerful than blogging. And, as a writer, you’re much better placed to handle the power of blogs than other bloggers: you know the power of words.

If you haven’t yet experienced the power of blogging, I hope that this article will help you to get started creating your own blogs, and experimenting with them.

Types of Blogs you can Write

There are many different kinds of blogs you can write.

Blogs for Publicity – advertise your writing services

Create at least one blog to promote your freelance writing services.

On your promotional blogs, every blog post you write is an advertisement for your skills as a writer. That doesn’t mean that you blog only about writing. For example, the Creativity Factory is part of my angelabooth.com writing site, and on that blog I write about marketing, copywriting, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing):

http://angelabooth.com/wp/

You can write about anything you choose on your promotional blog. I have a writing colleague who blogs about beef cattle, which is a family enterprise. Another colleague blogs about eBay, because that’s her passion.

Just be sure that you advertise your writing services on your promotional blogs; don’t be shy, and don’t leave people guessing. Put a list of your writing services into the sidebar of your blog, so the list’s on every page.

Blogging for Others – get paid to write snippets

Since blogs are powerful, everyone wants one, and companies which don’t have the staff to write blogs hire bloggers.

Blogging for others is a fantastic writing gig; I’ve written an entire course on the topic, Blogging for Dollars.

I know several writers who blog on a stable of 20 to 30 blogs for others each week. As you might expect, they’re doing very well indeed. Their expertise as bloggers for hire has led to many other opportunities too.

When you blog for hire, you’ll usually be paid on a three to six month contract, for a specific number of blog posts each week. (Each blog snippet you write is called a “post”.)

A blog contract might call on you to write: five 200-word posts a week, a link post with lots of links a week, and two longer posts of some 600 to 800 words a week.

Many bloggers make five figures a month on each contract.

Self-published blogs: quit your day job

While blogging for others pays well, as soon as possible you should consider creating your own entrepreneurial blogs; that is, becoming a Web publisher.

This is simply because you OWN your own blog. You can build the blog up, and can sell it. Many writers “flip” (create and sell) blogs as their primary income.

I hope this article has given you a tiny inkling of the power of blogs, and why blogs are so useful to all writers, no matter what you’re writing now, or will write in the future.

Get started building your own blogging empire; you can make the power of blogging work for you to take you to success as a writer… Success beyond your dreams.

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