Informal marketing channel

Big corporate or for that matter small businesses maintain a blog or multiple blogs . These blogs are  purely for marketing. Blogs by themselves cannot be an effective marketing channel but combined with other activities, blogging can become a potent tool for advertising and marketing. More and more customers are leaning towards blogs to provide information about products and services . Traditional advertising is seen as pushy and artificial whereas blogging seems like a soft sell. Marketers realize the potential of blogs and are devising new and powerful ways to influence customers through their blogs.

Feedback loop

Customer feedback can save an advertisement campaign or boost its effectiveness. Timely customer feedback allows marketers and businesses to correct course mid-stream and aligning their marketing efforts more towards customer expectations. Fine tuning advertising and marketing can be done effectively through blogging. This doesn’t mean blogging is only an adjunct of advertising. It can actually stand alone and create a buzz. Viral marketing can be achieved through pure blogging. In all these cases, customer feedback forms a critical part of the whole.

Building reputation on the net

More and more people and businesses are using blogs to build reputation. Once again, the informal nature of blogging is being used to influence public opinion. The advantage of such organic reputation building is permanence. An effective advertisement campaign usually lasts for the duration of the drive. On the other hand blogging can create an everlasting impression on the minds of customers. Obviously, the message has to be subtle. An ‘on your face’ kind of blogging experience can actually do more harm to your reputation.

Projecting image as an expert

Many bloggers use this platform to project themselves as experts in their respective field. The primary aim of these blogs is not to make money but to project their image. Once they establish their expertise online, they use it for lectures, presentations, workshops and talk shows. In a way they are monetizing their blog.

A blog can be used to sell books, biographies and expertise. Blogs can be used to create a roaring buzz.

Conclusion

Blogs can be used more creatively than simply used as money making machines. In the end blogs are meant to inform, interact and network with others around the world. Go forth and blog. Enjoy.

Victor Solovey  is the owner of crazyxhtml , where they do crazy stuff including ‘psd to xhtml’ and ‘psd to wordpress’ conversion. Victor is passionate about his work and also likes to write.

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If you try to go their way, you will need to have cut down all the distractions and do what matters. Yes, you can achieve that, in less time than them.

But lets not talk about it right now, I‘ll do a post or distribute Report in the form of an eBook later in near future.

Let me give you a  shorter version of it right now.

so, Have you heard of membership sites? okay I am sure you have.

So how do they monetize it? they sell membership either on one time payment method or on a subscription basis.

What do they offer?

Exclusive service or content in every possible form ( Text, Audio, Video, Automated Software).

Offer Customer Support, They get back to you ASAP, help you with your query.

A forum to connect and discuss thing with like minded people.

and handful of other things.

You can do that right inside your blog.

I am telling you to add a premium column to your current blog, where you offer the variations of the content, get aweber and start making a list which  pays you for the exclusive content, (either per email or on a monthly basis).

You can do an Audio version of your articles (read podcasts) and add it to your Premium page. you can pitch your users about it’s benefits or listening to it on their iPods, iPhones etc. You can make videos about how to do things and sell it via Premium area of your blog.

The whole idea of premium version of your blog should be, you will take extra care of those people. Well, every reader is special but it’s a fact that people who pay become more special.

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Blogs Running Ads and Affiliate Marketing

If you run a tech blog then you can monetize the blog by Ads as well as using Affiliate links of products you review on your blog. If someone buys that product you will get a cut out of it. Similarly if you blog about any product in your niche which can be purchased online, you can put your affiliate links and make some money from it. I have been doing the same with my technology blog, I put my affiliate links on my top posts and I am also using CPC/CPM Ads on my blog.

Making money from these methods requires a lot of traffic on your blog. You can read how to get 1000 visitors to your post, within few hours of publishing it. Writing proper titles of the post also work well from SEO point of view as Search Engines are going to send a lot of traffic if you get top places in Search Engine Results.

Blogs offering a Product or Service

If you offer a service like Web Design, SEO, Copywriting, Logo Design or any kind of service on the web or sell informational products like an eBook or memberships, you can follow a different profit model, though the method of creating and publishing content would be same for everyone. Try to benefit from every piece of content that you write on your blog. These types of blogs don’t require tons of traffic in order to make profit. You just need to make an impact on every reader of your blog, try to be active on social media sites and distribute free tutorials etc. to promote your stuff out there. Rather than working on getting plenty of traffic, you need to focus on building your brand so that you gain the trust factor which is required to make a sale.

I have come across many blogs posting on various topics, I feel it’s a wrong way of blogging as you fail to make an audience which is looking for a similar thing, but you surely can monetize it with CPC/CPM Ads. You can read what you have been doing wrong in blogging.

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Here is the simplest rule to make more money from blog or websites.

The Larger your audience is, the more money you are going to make.

Now, this fits for every niche. Yes there are few niches which don’t require a lot of traffic, but it’s too technical and there is a lot of game to be played. So let’s talk simple in this post and talk about something which can be implied everywhere. Well, try to get more traffic to your website or blog and try to make people visit again and again, try to go out where they hangout on other social networking sites. So they can recognize you.

Here is a mathematical calculation, for 100 visitors you are making 1$ (or whatever) try getting 1000 and this is obviously increate your profits too. What if its 10000o visits? Well your profit may not go to $1000 but it will obviously be great. This is the simplest way.

Now, your motive should be, to get more traffic for your blog. Read How to get 1000 visitors to your new post.

Once you get a decent amount of traffic, you can always try different methods to make money from your blog or website. Read few ways to make money from your website.

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Every successful blogger out there has a huge list  with which he makes money again and again. This is one of the biggest mistakes of a blogger not to have a an Email list. But, this is what every marketer says about it.

Making an email list is easier said than done, I mean, it’s little tough to get a lot of opt ins in order to make your list huge. Getting 9 or 10 subscribers per day will get you somewhere 1000 subscribers in three months time. This might be a cool number for many people, but imagine if the figure is 3000 subscribers. This means you will make three times more money than you can make with 1000 subscribers.

Using The PopUp Domination Plugin.

Light box is the ultimate way to triple your opt ins. This is actually a light box, which pops up on a Web Page after a fixed time and fades the background. There is no way the reader will not notice this box as he is left with two options, either to subscribe or to close the box to continue reading the blog.

There is a plugin in the market which makes it east to set up this box.

Called PopUp Domination.

It seems to be cool product, I’ll be using it in few days on my blog.

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.Co is actually an extension for Columbia, like Ca for Canada, In for India etc. But it could be used for a Company also or imagine your first Name.Co. Cool isn’t it?

The Registration for .Com domain names for general public starts from 20th July, but GoDaddy is offering a pre-registration, just to get you in the line and it will try to grab your desired domain name. They are charging a big amount though.

They are offering two way to pre- register the domain name you want.

Priority Landrush

If You want a better chance of securing your popular domain before General Availability opens. They are charging around $299 out of which $289.99 is refundable. You can add $29 for additional Year.

Standard Pre-Registration General Availability

If you opt for this, they will get your name in at the top of the list. After July 20, all names will be first come, first served. You will get your Domain name if you are 1st on the list. for this, they are charging the regular fees for .Co domain, which is $29 per Year.

As this domain extension is really new and is not out yet, you have a high chance that you get your desired domain name.

You can also make some cash out of it if you plan to make some investment on it.

For Example: Imagine if you get to register Money.Co or Dating.Co or anything popular one word. You can sell it for a great amount of price.

I think it is going to be the most popular domain extension after .Com, and all the popular names would be gone within few hours of the public release.

Where to sell Domain Names?

If you really get to buy some cool names then you can go to Sedo, Flippa.Com or Digital Point Forum to sell them for some quick cash. or try searching few other domain name selling websites.

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This isn’t new technique but very less has been written about it, more often we see people talking about creating a website, then develop it and then sell it for some amount of money which normally the total of 10 month revenue.

But, it still requires a lot of time and risk.

It takes time as you need to do a research, buy a domain name set up a blog, write content of the site, then wait for search engines to index your site. then, in order to get some good price for the site, you need to monetize the site and then sell it.

Also there is a risk of all your effort going in vain. that means you will have a website burden on your shoulders.

The Trick

My trick also requires a little research but you will save a lot of time as I am talking about buying already established sites from one place, track where the site lacks, work on it and then sell it at a different place.

Where to buy

Digital Point Forum (DP) is the place where to can buy websites that have huge potential, but the website maker run behind small cash.

Where to sell

Flippa is the best place to sell websites, you can buy sites form here also, but i would suggest you to buy the sites from DP, develop it and then sell it on Flippa. Flippa charges $19 for a listing, but you get nice value for your website,

Here is an Example

You bought a sports website from DP for $100, you redesigned the site, did a logo ( most of the site on DP doest not have a logo), did a little bit of branding thing (I suggest you to reach archive posts of 86blogger for more tips on this). monetize the site , with Affiliate Sales, or PPC or CPA ( these are best ways to monetize if you need to sell the site instantly). all these things will requires less than 30 hours in a month, and after one month you can list it of Flippa for a quick sale and your site can sell for $499.

This is what I have done in past and this is one of the reasons Flipping Websites is on top in my income report for 2009. Just remember, this method requires a bit of rick too, but you will find risk in everything.

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Even I have written a post on this blog about Why Adsense Sucks, but you know what, it Rocks sometimes if you know to play your cards. There are many web publishers and bloggers making money from it, even if a problogger claims to make money form other sources, he hides the fact that he either started with this great program or this program is still one of his best working system for making him hundreds of thousands of dollars every month.

Yes, Hundreds of thousands of dollars., if you don’t believe me, here is the proof.

This is Jaremey Shoemaker in the picture holding his $132994.00 Cheque.  But it took a lot of time for him to build this kind of system which can make him this much of amount.

Let me explain this with an example, Say you have got a site about Gadgets, write on the site daily and manage to get 10000 Unique Visitors (UV) per month. You can monetize the traffic in any way, but  here , we are talking about Adsense.  If you are running Adsense you will be getting an average of $0.25 per click, also expect only 1% of the total visitors to click on the ads. That means 1000 visitors would be clicking on the ads making your earning (100×0.25)= $25. This is not something you can be proud of after managing to get a traffic of 10000 UVs. You blog gets this much of traffic if you have got only one blog and you give time to it for six months or so.

For starters, there is an option:

You must have got overwhelmed by the above information, so let me make it simple for new guys who just started out. You guy can make good money by making smaller systems, or say mini sites that make you like $5/day. A mini site is a site with few pages and is easy to maintain and does not eat a lot of your time. Even this is not easy as it sounds, it requires a lot of research and techniques to build sites that can make $5 per day. This is an eBook called 5 Dollar Formula which can help you allot with making mini sites that can make you $5 per day in seven days. If you think $5/day is $150/month which is not so impressive either, you can repeat the process and make as many sites as you want, and it wont hurt you are they take very less time to maintain.

There are many other options to make money from a websites, you just need to find what works for you and what not.

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So,

What is Email Marketing?

The process of giving information and selling something to some via Email is called Email Marketing.  This one of the most simple ways to make money online. All you have to do is make a huge list of emails who are looking for some kind of information (and you must have that information) . Ask for their email address and promise them to send the information to their email. If you have got a product which is related to the information or is going to help them, sell it to them and make a lot of money helping people. This is called Email Marketing.

How Does Email Marketing Works?

Well, to make a lot of money, you need to have a huge list of emails,

For example:  If you have a list of 1000 emails, and all of them want to get rid of Dandruff! You can recommend a particular shampoo which you think is going to help them. The shampoo costs $20. At least 50%  people from your email list will be more than happy to buy the products, resulting in 500 sales, which means $10000 from the sales. If you are getting a commission of 10% (its the minimum I have taken), Then you just made $1000 by recommending only one product and sending one email. This is how it works, the bigger your list is, the more money you are going to make.

How to Grab Emails of People?

Grabbing email address is not tough either. You can use Aweber to manage everything for you. You can make web forms and put in on your site or blog. If you have a decent amount of traffic, It will make them able to sign up for the form in return to give quality information to them. Here are few ways you can collect a lot of email address.

Offer Free Report.

People love free stuff, they will not hesitate to give you their email address. If you ask for their email address to give them the free report,  this free report should be related to your blog’s topic. As people are coming to your blog for the same topic it will also increate your future sales if you get it right. I have also used this method to get you can get your free copy here. You can manage this by using Aweber.

Offers a Free Course

Just like a free report, you can offer a free email course. Again, this could be managed by AWeber. AWeber lets you broadcast follow up emails. You divide your course into 10 parts of email, and make them follow up emails so that people who sign up will be able to get these email from 1 to 10. During this course, you can recommend any product which you think will be helpful to subscribers

Offer Blog Updates in Email

You can also offer your blog’s content in Email so that people never have worry about missing any posts on your blog. If your readers are really worried about missing any quality posts, they will definitely sign up.

Read about Stat Building an Email list with Aweber for Just $1.

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After you make a huge list (Read How to Create an Email List) the only thing would be to send them email on a regular basis and also giving them quality information, the information they are looking for, the information because of which they have subscribed to your Email Newsletter, and Sell some related products to your list, but the product should be useful to them, if you sell them a useless product, just for filling your pocket, you will lose you chance to sell something to them again.

There are many people who are making more than $10000 from their list every month. but for that they have first build a list of more than 10000 emails of people who a re looking for same kind of information. the list of 10000 emails is not an easy task to do, but its not Rocket Science, people who made these list are human beings just like you and me, so  don’t get de-motivated, by that. you just need to work hard and harder.

You just need to take care of building an email list, and after that maintaining is not that tough,  services like AWeber, has the capability to manage a list of more than 10000 emails.

You just need to put all your efforts in building a list, Read How to Create an Email List for more information on this topic.

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