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9 Strategies to Make Money Blogging

The question "How to make money blogging" sits high on everyblogger's mind. In fact I received many questions on "How to make moneyblogging" when I conducted my first webcast to answer mysubscribers' most pressing questions on Blogs and Rss.You can make money Blogging in a number of ways, and in thisarticle I share with you up to nine ways in which you can m...

...akemoney blogging.1. Make Money Blogging by Selling Advertising SpaceBefore the advent of Blogs, we have e-zines and sellingadvertising space on ezines was a popular way to earn extramoney. If you run your own Blog, you can let others advertise inyour Blogs with banner ads, solo ads, sponsor ads, classifiedsand so on. Now that we have Blogs, you can repeat the same business modelthat e-zine publishers do, that of selling advertising space.One popular advertising company that ...

...helps Bloggers look foradvertisers is Blogads (www.Blogads.com). Besides placing advertisers ads on your Blog, you can also makemoney Blogging by placing Google Adsense into your Blog. In my "Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS" Videos, I show youhow you can customize your Blog template to include the GoogleAdsense into your Blog template so that you can make moneyblogging. 2. Make Money Blogging by providing technical services such asBlog hosting or setting up Blog You can also earn money blogging by providing technical servicessuch as helping people to set up their Blogs or providing yourown Blog hosting service. One example of this is www.typepad.com . This is a Blog hostingservice provider that charges a monthly fee. Typepad lets youcreate your Blog and they will host your Blog for you, andprovide you with a number of Blog features.3. Make Money Blogging by setttin up joint venture marketingJoint Venture marketing is a powerful marketing strategyemployed by many top online marketers.Basically how joint venture works is this: You promote personB's products to your subscriber and customer list, and you get acut from whatever sale that follows from this promotion.You can apply the principle of joint venture marketing to Blogsas well. If you have a substantial readership to your Blog, youcan also promote or endorse certain products to your Blogreaders and this way, and split the profits from the salesgenerated. This is another way to make money blogging.4. Make Money Blogging from using the Membership modelOver time, if your blog has lots of postings and provide goodquality content, you can consider turning it into a membershipsite and charge access for it, again giving you another avenu5. Make Money Blogging by turning your products into Another way in which you can make money blogging is to repackageyour Blog contents into an e-book or an audio product and sellit. For example, if you run your own Podcasting show or an'online radio show', you can easily compile your podcastrecordings into a CD compiliation and sell it.6. Earn Money Blogging by swapping blogsYou've heard of ad swapping when it comes to e-zine publishing,where publishers publish each other's ads in their own e-zines.This way, you save on adveritising costs.You can repeat the same model to Blogs, as swap ads on Blogs aswell. So instead of paying up front, you get to save, whichmeans more money for you to spend!7. Earn Money Blogging by turning yoyr blog content into RSSfeeds and sell it as premium feedsYour blog contents can be turned into an RSS feed. If thecontent is good, you can look for web businesses that arelooking for good content for related topics and sell their feedto them.8. Make Money Blogging by well, asking!Hey, who's stopping you from putting a PayPal donation jar orbutton on your Blog? After all, there are lots of generouspeople out there you know.9. Make Money Blogging as an Affiliate MarketerAnother way you can make money blogging is by promoting otherpeople's products on your Blog. This is also known as affiliatemarketing.In affiliate marketing, you get paid a commission when someoneclicks on your affiliate link and makes a purchase. Depending onthe subject of your Blog, you can recommend products that solvepeople's problems.For example, I had a subscriber who asked me how she can blogabout cats and make money from blogging about cats.I shared with her that firstly, perhaps she might want to goniche instead of targeting the broad category of "cats", andusing the example of a Persian cat, which is a niche by itself,she can start a blog on Persian cats, providing valuableinformation as well as recommended solutions and products to theupkeep and maintenance of Persian cats.