Blogging is like building a business and unlike any other businesses, it needs some regular cash flow to keep it going. Running a blog needs more than monetary commitments. It needs time, research, technical support and most of all, your special attention.
In this article I will outline how much does it costs to run a blog. I will also share how much money I am spending to maintain this blog.
Continue reading What is The Cost of Running a Self Hosted WordPress Blog?Oct 27, 2017 marks my 10 year anniversary of working online. Ten years from now, on this day I started looking for ways to build a website. I started with no money or knowledge and was able to make a career in this field.
My reason for writing this look back:
10 years of working online is nothing to be bragged about. I wanted to share my story for me to read and reflect on what I have done. It should also be an inspirational post to all of those who are reading and in a tough situation right now.
Continue reading 10 Year Anniversary of Working OnlineIf you want to build a business, you need paying customers.
So how do you bring customers to your brand?
Answer: Ads.
But here’s the problem: not everyone has the big budget to spend on advertisements.
On the other hand, you must be starting out, and you may not have a product or service yet. But you would like to build and grow your audience with low cost methods.
My friend, I give you blogging: the best audience builder of the 21st century.
And I don’t just mean text based blogging, now days blogging can also mean:
No matter how you call it, blogging is a fine way to grow a faithful audience around you or your brand.
I read other people’s blogs.
Reading other people’s blogs have helped me be what I am today. Their experiences, advice and tips helped me build a successful online business.
Blogging is a form of inbound marketing, which can actually out perform traditional advertisement methods. Continue reading Blogging: The Best Audience Builder of The 21st Century
What type of content should I post in my blog?
If you had asked me in 2008, I would answer that you should definitely write articles for your blog. Now over the years the definition of content has been changed. Now there is more than one type of blog content. Back then we would say content writing, now we say content creation. There is video, audio, image, flash, animation, slideshow, documents and many more forms of content you can create for your blog.
Now article writing is the most basic form of blog content creation. More people prefer reading text articles because it is so easy to consume. Creating text based content is a no-brainer for a blogger. Search engines like google & bing can easily read the chunks of text and can rank your page easily.
Now what if you are not good at writing?
Face it, not everyone can become a blog writer. For some people it’s a boring little thing to write in a blog. Now the question is, if you cannot or don’t want to write, will you still be able to create a successful blog?
For every successful blogs, it needs engaging content; content that people will love to consume and share with their friends.
So let me share what are the types of blog content you can produce for your blog other than written content, Continue reading 16 Types of Blog Content for Those Who Are Not Good at Writing
For years I have blogged and made money by selling advertisements in my blog. However I haven’t got the chance to share how I got ad deals from my blog. Frankly speaking I haven’t done anything special to get advertisers in my blog but in this article I like to share how to do it. In this fresh new article you will learn how to get the advertisers emailing you for putting ads in your blog.
Some advertisers want visitors and some want backlinks. And there are other advertisers who just want to be all around the market. So they are more like focused on brand & awareness building. So let me give you a small overview for all these types of advertisers,
