Thursday, October 22, 2009
Make Money Blogging With Leverage
Chances are you're doing what 90% of the marketers
out there do and simply have a blog where you post
great content and then periodically promote
affiliate products or CPA offers.
After all, that's the commonly 'prescribed' method
of making money by blogging. While that does work,
to a degree, there are more advanced methods that
could be way more effective.
One of these is: Leverage.
Even if you have no introduction whatsoever to
leverage, you'll find that you can use your blog as part
of a plan that uses it to perfection.
In fact, the only thing you need (apart from your blog,
of course!) is an eBook product of your own.
Without your own product you'll find that you can
carry out this plan in different ways - but it won't be
as effective.
So let's say you have an eBook. Were you to just go
about marketing the 'normal' way via your blog,
you'd probably dedicate a post or two to it, and
maybe even set up a sales page.
However, you're not going to do that. Instead, you're
going to take that eBook and extract a chapter that you
feel is particularly interesting, and make it into a 10 page
report or so.
Now you have two products: An eBook and a report.
From that report, you can then create blog posts that
talk about various topics that are covered in the report
itself.
Try to aim for around 5 or so. Each of these blog posts
should be aimed at eventually leading the reader to the
report itself, which you're going to be giving away for
FREE when your readers sign up to your list.
Basically, this means that when people read your blog
posts, they'll have the option of finding out more by
simply signing up to your list and downloading the
report for free.
In the report, there should also be an option to find
out even more by purchasing your eBook!
See how you're now using a linear plan for marketing?
Truth be told, you could branch things out even further,
and create various other blog posts from your eBook
itself to promote both the report and eBook.
By not promoting the eBook directly though, you're
going to be simply 'providing value' to your readers,
and it is far less likely to come off as simply trying to
palm products off onto them.
At the same time, you'll be building your list and
starting to be able to market more and more products
as and when you come up with them.
Using this strategy, you should be able to pull in far
more profits from your blog simply by maximizing the
effectiveness of your marketing.
That in itself will set you apart from the minnows of
the marketing world, and let you swim with the big fish!
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Monday, April 13, 2009
How To Finally Make Money Online By Blogging
If you've been researching internet marketing or blogging for any amount of time, you probably have heard of Yaro Starak. He's a professional blogger but so much more. The first thing that struck me about Yaro is how humble, honest and downright lovable he is!
These traits have been the reason I've been hanging on every word spoken by Yaro Starak and I recommend you do as well. If you want to learn about blogging from the best blogger out there.
With his permission, I reprint his article here for you to enjoy.
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This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.
There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it's hard for reporters to become experts, but it's easy for experts to report).
If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.
I'll be frank; you want to be the expert.
Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven't established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it's easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc� experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.
Most Bloggers Are Reporters
The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).
There's nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it's a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.
Don't Replicate Your Teacher
If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a "guru" (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.
The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it's next to impossible to succeed.
Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it's fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.
How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It's a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let's face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.
If the key is to become an expert and you haven't spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.
Report on Your Process, Not Others
The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people's work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.
It's okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it's fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there's. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don't regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.
Expertise comes from doing things most people don't do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.
You Are Already An Expert
Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don't leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.
Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of�well fear.
Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven't much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.
Reporting Is A Stepping Stone
If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from �scratch�, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.
Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.
Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it's okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that's all most experts really are.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.
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Well, that's Yaro for you. He gives away more in an article than many do in a report! So if you're interested in learning from the best, click on the link below!
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
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Monday, February 16, 2009
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Make Money Online By Being A Copy Cat
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