Are You Making Money Online Yet?
“The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.” -Keith Ferrazzi
The question I get asked a lot is the question I get a lot when I started my blog back in Late 2007 was this.
“Oh cool your blogging but how do you make money from that blog? ” Truth is there are many ways to make money from a blog.
Here is a list of just a few.
1. Affiliates- (having banners on your blog that pay you money when someone buys a product).
2. Adsense (Get paid whenever someone clicks on your ad).
3. Ebook (Get paid whenever someone buys your ebook).
4. Sponsorships- (Having a company place a banner on your blog and pay you monthly)
These are just a few ways you can make money from a blog. Those 4 I
mentioned have been ways I’ve been making money online from my site
bakerthebrand.com
But the problem with that model and the reason people don’t see as
much success as I have with that model, is that you have to be very
patient, and be in it for the long-haul. The statistics show very
clearly that an overwhelming number of people starting as a new blogger
will quit their blog in the first 6 months.
Some argue that if you get past your first year of blogging consistently you have reached a threshold of being a “real blogger.”
The point I do want to make here is this. You don’t get rich off of
blogging alone if you’ve been only blogging for less than a year. A very
tiny percentage of people actually get very lucky and do start
receiving great traffic and great opportunities early on to really make
money online, but that is very rare.
For the average person, it takes a good 2 years to really start
seeing some good income on a blog. A lot of people don’t have the time
commitment or desire to stick it out that long, that’s why the number of
people actually making money from a blog, and online is very small.
Don’t Be Discouraged.
I don’t mean to say this to discourage you. After all, I do make
income online. I’m not a millionaire. But, I do get passive residual
income from blogging and also earn residual passive income from my
ebooks.
I work from home and have the time freedom to do more of the things I
enjoy nowadays. Being mobile is one of the great things about making
money online. So many people get the wrong impression that you have to
have so much money to start living the life of your dreams, and become
more mobile and have a very flexible schedule outside of a regular
boring 9-5. It’s not true. You can start living a more mobile and time
freedom life with less money then you probably think. It just depends
on what lifestyle you really want.
Residual Income Is Great
The ability to earn residual passive income online should be your
goal. The residual passive income coming in every month is what will
take you closer to financial freedom.
The great thing about residual passive income is that it continues to
come to you all the time, regardless if you are working or not.
Residual income has given me an awesome life. I enjoy time freedom and
money freedom and I love every moment of it. It’s a good time. =)
Are You Tired of your 9-5 Job?
So if you are tired of your 9-5 job, or have been laid off and are
looking for alternative ways to earn some residual income, blogging may
be for you.
The great thing about blogging also is that once you get to a certain
point, if you want… and it makes sense for your blog is to hire other
writers to blog for you. You don’t have to write your own blogs. Which
is great.
The Benefits of Blogging
1. A Nice Home for your Marketing and Promotions.
Imagine having one place or a home for all of your marketing and
promotions? That’s what blogging essential is. It’s a nice home for all
your marketing and promotions. Blogging acts as an ongoing marketing
and promotions home for any product or service you recommend. For
example let’s say you are in the make money niche. If you tried out a
new product that actually brought you more traffic to your blog or
website, and you have the stats to prove it. Then your blog is where you
share what the product did for you, write up a real and honest review
of the product, and bam! You are an affiliate marketer, earning money on
your sales ! Just link back to your affiliate link (Provided by your
company’s product site) and you get a percentage of the income you get
from simply reviewing and recommending the product.
2. Creating Your Own Product.
There’s a lot of room for creativity for someone starting and operating a
blog to earn income. I personally like writing, so creating ebooks for
me is wonderful. It is a lot of work putting it together, but creating
an ebook once regardless how long it takes, and having that ebook
produce royalties for me after I do the work once, is truly rewarding.
If you like the idea of creating a product or ebook once regardless of
how long it takes to complete it, and then recommending it on your blog,
and sitting back watch the money come in your bank account, then
blogging might be the right vehicle for you to get to financial freedom.
3. Speaking Your Truth. Lots of people that just
want to make money online quickly forget about this one key ingredient
to success with blogging. Speaking your message and writing about things
that you feel are important to you is essential to a successful
blogging career. You have to be able to get a tone in your writing that
the readers know it’s you, by stating and claiming what you believe most
about. This means being bold and courageous in your message and staying
true to your core foundation. For example, when I write a blog post I
write from my own voice. I don’t try to copy others voices. I’m me and I
enjoy my life and what I write. Sure there’s an influence there, but I
try to cater my message to the people that will really resonate with
what I’m talking about. The benefits of this are many but you want to
give your reader the real you. Why is this a benefit? Because you get to
connect with the reader one on one. You also get to get some things off
your chest, which can be therapeutic as well. Making a difference in
others lives by recommending something that works for you and will then
work for them is a great feeling. Even greater is the inspirational
messages you know that you are helping to empower others with.
4. Earning Money Online. Lastly, as we have already
discussed is the benefit of blogging is the potential for you to earn
some money online. The best part as I’ve mentioned about earning money
online for me is the time freedom it gives me. I’m a rather active
person. I like to exercise and go for a nice jog everyday. If I worked a
9-5 job I don’t see how I would have time to put that desire to have a
nice jog daily into my schedule. You see with a 9-5 job you are very
limited on many levels.
First, you are limited on time because you are supposed to show up at the time the boss tells you to show up everyday.
Second, you are limited on income because
you are told exactly how much you will get paid every 2 weeks. So you
can never really grow financially.
Third, employees are taxed at the highest
rate. So even though you work so hard to get your income to increase and
getting your pay raise, the higher your income gets as an employee the
more you pay in taxes.
Fourth, you can’t speak your mind. You
have to answer to what the boss says all the time. You can’t really
speak or spread your real message to a larger audience, so what you
really feel just germinates in your body like a plague, while you work
so hard for your boss to get rich and call all the shots.
Get Back Your Freedom.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear
has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are
free. -Jim Morrison
I hope this post sparks some real interest in you to start your blog.
If it doesn’t that is fine too. But, I do want to say that what I’m
really talking about here is freedom.
You see, when people stop doing the things they actually really
enjoy, they start to give in to the pressures of the world to start
doing what they don’t really enjoy doing. Such as get a job, for the
money. Sure, There are times when that is necessary. I get it. But how
much of your own freedom are you really giving away when you settle for a
JOB that isn’t aligned with your true purpose in life? How much time
are you spending away from the people you love, just to get to work at a
job you hate? With coworkers that you don’t like? How much money are
you leaving on the table of potential passive residual income that can
get you the life you always dreamed of?
Are you really happy at your JOB? Or are you really just settling for
what you were conditioned to do and aren’t really happy with how much
you are getting paid for your efforts? Truth is so many people are in
that position. They aren’t willing to finally fight for their freedom.
They give into peer pressure, and end up living quiet lives of
desperation.
What’s The Alternative?
So what’s the Alternative? Going Online. Many people now are
flocking to the internet, trying to do all these things online to have
an income that will one day set them financially free. They go around in
circles trying to find the best thing. They spend time, energy money,
with very little to show for it. There is plenty of money to be made on
the internet, but you have to have the smarts, integrity, confidence,
and dedication to move forward with making a good income online. You
need the patience to start a blog and keep it running.
But I Don’t know How to start or set up a Professional Blog ?
You can start a free wordpress.com or blogger.com, but to be very
blunt with you those aren’t considered “professional blogs” The free to
use WordPress.com or blogger.com sites aren’t for people that are
serious about making income online.
Wordprss.com and blogger.com Is more for people who see blogging as a
small hobby. That’s fine, but setting up blog that you will treat as a
business is different.
One of the hardest things about setting up a professional blog, is well.. Setting it up!
Aside from the money you will spend on setting up a professional
blog, you do have to know a lot of technical stuff to get started, and
it can be big headache. You still have to research some good hosting
service, buy hosting, setup your wordpress.org account, plus tons of
extra things like creating converting capture pages, learning marketing
etc. etc.
It takes about a good long and hard full week to set up all that
stuff. Some can do it faster, but it’s because they already have done
it. But, starting a legitimized professional looking blog from scratch
is a grueling process.
Is There an Easier and Faster Way To Start Blogging and Earning Money ?
“I like to define networking as cultivating mutually
beneficial, give-and-take, win-win relationships… The end result may be
to develop a large and diverse group of people who will gladly and
continually refer a lot of business to us, while we do the same for
them.”–Bob Burg
Yes. But, unfortunately even if I tell you what it is many people
statistically won’t get in on it because they are still looking for the
“Catch” Well The real “catch” is that you actually have to blog
consistently (either yourself or hire an experienced writer) and share
your latest blog post consistently. That’s the only catch. That you
have to fill the blog up with valuable content.
But, as far as the actual blogging system that you will get. The
product is solid. If I’ve known about this 3 years ago I would’ve jumped
on it sooner. It’s just way easier and faster way to blog and start
earning money, while still making a positive difference in people’s
lives through your Value driven content and message!!
Luckily, you don’t have to go through the process of learning how to
start a blog, which can be time consuming. The system I’m working with
here, that you see on this blog is being powered by Empower Network.
The great thing about empower network blogging system is that once you join they basically give you the following.
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-Albert Einstein
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4 Types of People
“Position yourself as a center of influence, the one
who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and
you’ll soon become what you project.” -Bob Burg
Either way you know that you are letting money just sit on the table
each day you decide not to join and start blogging. You see there are 4
types of people in the world
….
1. Those that want to be right.
2. Those that want to be liked.
3. Those that want to be comfortable.
4. Those that want to win.
1. People that want to be right, just know the right things to say at
the right time, and always want to prove people they are “right” and
others are “wrong.” These are the people that can be flat broke and
miserable, but they will still prove to you in detail why being flat
broke and miserable is “Right” So they never join something like this
when it slaps them in the face. Being right to them means the world to
them. They have all the right answers to everything. But the problem is
that they suffer from analysis paralysis. Instead of taking action on an
opportunity they analyze it way too long and eventually talk themselves
out of the opportunity, and are comfortable being “right.” and find
happiness in proving people wrong.
2. People that want to be liked. Will do whatever it takes to be
liked by others. Their livelihood depends on being liked by people, and
they are constantly at the mercy of what others think of them. They
never get ahead in life because they are so busy trying to make everyone
else happy. They forget to fight for their own freedom and happiness.
They care more about others views on them then their view of themselves.
You can see the trap in this.
3. People that want to be comfortable. They will do whatever it takes
to not rise above mediocrity. They constantly settle for less than what
they deserve, because it feels safe and comfortable. To them if
something stretches them or challenges them they run from it and rather
stay comfortable. They are very resistant to change, and personal
growth. They think everything is always going to stay the same, and hold
on dearly to whatever feels comfortable. They don’t take risks, its too
uncomfortable for them. People that want to be comfortable make better
followers then leaders.
4. People that want to win. These people will do whatever it takes to
win. Winning to them means they will not only shoot high in life for
their dreams, but they will take the necessary action to see their
dreams become fulfilled in reality. People that want to win get more
criticized then all the other three, because they take risks in life.
They have more guts to be themselves, speak their own voice and want to
make a difference not only in their life, but in many others lives. They
have a better shot at making a positive difference in the world, and
are more leaders then followers. These are the people that like a good
challenge, and are always growing, expanding, and getting out of their
comfort zone. They are the leaders of the world, because they understand
they create their reality. They are the warriors and fighters for
freedom.
It’s Just Perspective. It’s not Good or Bad…
As you know I’m an expert in Law of attraction. I believe life is
just all perspective.So what you focus on becomes your reality. This
doesn’t the 4 types of people I mention here are either good or bad.
It’s just how they choose to create their life. It’s freewill. Either
way I have an awesome life, I blog regularly, share my latest post, and
get paid.
Look, I live an awesome life. Truth is I live an awesome life
regardless of what people think or say about me.I share my truths and
get paid for being a positive person. I don’t know if you can find
anything better than that!!!!
But I do want to say for those that want to win should really consider
watching this video.
You see its not only about the money here, its about making a real
difference in your own life. A life of freedom. Spiritually, mentally,
emotionally, and financially. What are you waiting for, this is your
time to start sharing your own unique message with the world and start
claiming the freedom that is yours!
Get in now.
Yours in Inspiration,
