Today I want to show you how to start making money with your blog and if you
have traffic already coming to your site then implementing the first two methods
you'll start seeing results immediately. Okay, let's get started. The first method
I want to show you is by adding display ads on your site and specifically when
you're first getting started you'll want to look at adding Google Adsense to your
site. The biggest reason you want to look at Google Adsense is simply because
there is no minimum traffic requirements and that means that as soon as you put
that on your site even if you're getting very little traffic you'll at least
start to see a few pennies a day or a month and I will tell you that first
penny or that first dime or dollar that you make on your site will be a
game-changer in your mind. I remember in 2009 my first Adsense
recording was like a dollar fifty three but that changed my whole perspective on
making money online with my site and it'll do the same for you. Now once your
site starts getting more traffic monthly say ten thousand views or more you'll
want to start looking at other ad networks as well to compare to see which
one will give you more revenue. The next way is also an easy way is to start
doing affiliate marketing. A lot of people nowadays they use Amazon
Associates as their main affiliate marketing and that's simply because it's
way easier, everybody buys things everybody tries things out and you can
create a whole article on the product that you were using and how you like it
and the great thing about the Amazon Associates is once they click on that
link and go to Amazon you will get credit for anything that they buy
whether it's that product that you've recommended or something else that they
buy entirely. Anything that they buy during that 24 hour period you'll get
credit for it. Some other big affiliate marketing
networks are also shareasale CJ which used to be Commission Junction and Rakuten
will do that as well and practically every store that you can imagine every
product that you have ever used, you can go out and do a search on Google and say
your product plus affiliate and find their affiliate program, sign up for it,
and then you can start promoting your favorite products on your website as
well. Honestly doing those two things when you're first
getting started in making money on your blog you'll just see a huge change in
the way that you work on your website. The next one let's talk about creating a
membership website. This is a really good idea if you have knowledge in a certain
topic or area that other people want to know about and it doesn't have to be
professional related it can be in crafts. There are a ton of membership websites
in the quilting, tiny home building, RV living, as well as a lot of online
marketing type sites and with a few different WordPress plugins it makes it
really easy to create a membership site. When you create a membership website
you're basically giving people access behind a paywall where they can log in
and they can see content that's not out there anywhere else and you can choose
to set this up as a ongoing yearly membership fee or a one-time lifetime
upgrades what have you the, the choice is yours.
Next, create a directory website. This can be a paid item and it's typically things
like a job board for a specific area, a business directory typically in your
town that's a big one, you can also do topic related directories and most of
the time you're getting the money by paid submission either on the submitters
part or the people who are looking. Angie's List is a perfect example of
bringing contractors and people looking for contractors to work on their house
Plex jobs is another great directory where people are going to look for
remote work or temporary work. So think of a topic in an area that you can
provide for both people looking for something and people offering something
and then that's a great recipe for creating a directory website. Next, you
can sell an e-book and basically this is just you going out and researching a
topic and making it as useful and informative as you can and it's usually
an entry product for some of these other things like creating a membership site.
Actually a lot of people use an e-book to sell first and then the next step is
they'll either do an online course or a membership website. The next way to make
money is by becoming a coach and this usually involves a one-on-one feature
with you either with one person or maybe a handful but a manageable group of
people that they have a certain amount of your time
and you're helping them with this. Typically this is a business coach or a
life coach, maybe a fitness coach but it can also be in other ways say in design
or development or marketing or even offline stuff. You can be a quilting
coach or a guitar playing coach, music coach, language coach I have seen that as
well and this is a great way to really increase your authority in the area that
your blog is about. Next, you can sell an online course and typically what people
do is they'll do an e-book first to see how it does, the popularity of it, and
then they'll take that ebook and turn it into an actual online course. This can
get you more money because there's a lot more involvement in it on the students
behalf and on your behalf so just know that there's a lot more upfront work
that you'll have to do in creating the videos, in creating the printables, the
things that go with the course. What a lot of people do when they sell courses
is they'll offer different tiers of support where you get a little bit more
interaction with the teacher in the premium course than you do with the
basic and then once you're done creating the course you can use a wordpress
plugin as an LMS or a learning management system that delivers the
course to the students and it's in a progression style so once they finish
one lesson and they'll go on to the next. Two really good popular plugins for that
look into LearnDash and MemberPress. The next way is to sell physical products
online. Basically setting up an e-commerce store or an online shop and
sell things either that you've made, maybe that you import, or even be a drop
shipper where you're simply reselling and somebody else ships it on your
behalf and thinking up ways to make money
online this is probably one of the easiest for people to understand because
they're simply selling a product that somebody wants and they understand that
very well. Next thing you can do is you can offer freelance services so you
already do something as an employee somewhere simply offer your services to
businesses or individuals on your own and then the last one is actually
becoming a WordPress designer or developer. When people first get into
WordPress it's pretty common for them to really like setting up the website for
themselves and then they start doing it for friends
or family and realize that they want to do that for clients as well. So consider
doing that to sell on your site as well. So those are the ten simple ways that
you can get started and making money on your blog let me know in the comments
below which one are you going to start today
and thanks for watching