Blogging for Money: Three Vital Secrets for Success
Want to make money blogging? Hundreds of thousands of people are doing exactly that, and you can too, provided you approach it in the right way. Let’s look at three vital secrets for success.
1. You Must Have the Right Content
Before you start your blog, work out who the audience will be, and what your audience wants to know. Be as precise as you can. Once you know who your audience is, you can choose a topic for your blog which will appeal to that audience.
This is where most new bloggers make a mistake. Once you’ve chosen your topic, do a search online and find out whether people are looking for information on your particular topic. If no one’s looking, no one will find your blog, so choose another topic.
In a nutshell, the right content for your blog is content for which people are actively searching.
2. Readers Must Be Able to Find Your Content
You’ve started your blog, and you’ve created ten posts. This is just a beginning. A-list blogs have many thousands of blog posts, and the top blogs have at least ten new posts every day.
Of course, this is a deluge of content, and as a single blogger, you can’t compete with it.
However, you need to take note of what the top blogs do. This means that you’ll need to create at least one new post every day, preferably more.
Why? Because readers must be able to find your content.
The first way they’ll find your content is via the RSS feed. Your feeds will be indexed within a month of you creating your blog. You can speed up this indexing by submitting your blog’s RSS feed to blog directories.
Remember however, that basically readers find your blog when you create new content: for new readers, post every day.
3. Readers Must Respond
Once your blog is established and has some readers, you want those readers to respond. However, you don’t just want comments. You want your readers to take action.
You want your readers to do what you’ve created the blog for — whether that’s to click on your advertising links, to buy affiliate or other products, or to buy services which you provide.
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Web Writing: Make Money Now With the Content Bonanza
Want to make money writing web content? There’s a huge demand online for expert content writers, so let’s look at how you can build your business fast, in three steps.
1. Understand Your Buyers: Use Your Creativity
Firstly, think about your buyers.
If you’re just starting out in Web writing, you won’t have any experience to call on, so developing that experience is essential.
Go to the outsourcing sites and get as many jobs as you can. Spend at least two months on this. You’re earning while you’re learning. You’ll learn what buyers want, how they want it delivered, and the kinds of content which are in demand.
In addition to using the outsourcing sites, use your creativity to get Web writing jobs. Jobs are everywhere, and some of them are in your home town.
You can get as many jobs as you want — just pick up the phone and call businesses in your local area.
In the first couple of months, take on as much writing work as you can. You’ll find that each buyer is different, and you’ll be learning with each project you get.
2. A Retainer Is Good for You, and for Your Client
Let’s talk about retainers. A retainer is an up-front payment before you begin the project. Professional writers demand a deposit, and so should you.
As a web writer, you’re selling your time and your writing skills. When someone pays you a retainer, you know they’re committed to the project. Without a retainer, they have no stake in the content you’re providing.
3. Look Beyond Articles: Think of Yourself As a “Full Service” Web Writer
If you start your career by writing articles, as many writers do, leave that behind as soon as possible. Web articles are a commodity, because there’s little skill required, and the market place is overcrowded.
You’ll make more money if you write content for complete websites, so keep learning and developing your skills until you have the skills you need to do this.
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Make Money With Web Writing: Basic Questions to Ask Yourself
Want to make money with Web writing? Many Web writers are making a great income, while other talented writers are not. If you’re starving in the midst of plenty, it’s time to ask yourself some basic questions.
For best results, WRITE down both the questions, and the answers. You can only plot a route when you know both where you’re starting from, and where you’re headed.
Here we go.
1. What’s My Hourly Rate?
Start by deciding on your hourly rate. Yes, your hourly rate is something that you set for yourself. $30 an hour is a very basic hourly rate for a competent, beginning Web writer. Top Web writers make $150 an hour and more.
However, you’ll need to work your way up to these high hourly rates, because achieving them depends on the experience that you have, and the results that you get.
2. Where Can I Find Clients Who Will Pay My Hourly Rate?
The best way to find clients is not to hunt for them; you’re wasting time when you do this. Clients should be coming to you either because you advertise, or because you take the time to brand yourself online. “Branding” means marketing yourself.
If you’re a new Web writer, sign up at one of the many outsourcing sites.
Your aim in signing up is to get jobs AND testimonials. Testimonials are vital. As a complete unknown, you’re asking buyers to take a chance on you. Unfortunately there are many people who call them selves “writers”, so many people who buy writing regularly have been burned.
Therefore, it’s essential that you build your credibility. You do this by getting testimonials.
Once you have testimonials, advertise your Web writing services and you’ll find people who are happy to pay your hourly rate.
3. Where Do I Go from Here — How Do I Increase My Income?
To be able to increase your income, you need to provide more value. You provide more value by learning more, and putting that knowledge into practice. There’s only one difference between a writer who’s earning $30 an hour and a writer is making 150 or $200 an hour and it’s this: the more highly paid writer provides more value, and is able to prove that he provides value.
There are literally unlimited opportunities in Web writing today, and for the foreseeable future. Answer these basic questions, and your income as a Web writer grow exponentially.
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Freelance Writing: Target the Jobs You Want
Want to quit your day job and go freelance? There’s never been a better time to be a freelance writer. Now’s the time to build your career, and enjoy writing from home, making more money than you ever could while working for a boss.
Start your freelance writing career the right way, by targeting the jobs you want. Here’s how, in three steps.
1. Decide on Your Niche
Your first step is to decide on your niche — the topic you you want to write about. To discover profitable niches, think of the topics covered by magazines.
For example, perhaps you have some experience in technology. Check out the magazine rack in your local bookstore to see what magazines there are on the topic. You will find many magazines covering PCs and Macs. Either topic could become your specialist niche.
Initially focus on one niche. Become established in that niche first, by getting some writing credits. When you have credits in a niche it makes you attractive to people who want to hire you. They know that you will be able to write authoritatively about the topics they’ll assign to you.
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