Q: DO I MAKE MONEY BLOGGING? AND IF SO, WHAT IS MY STRATEGY?
A: YES.
I got this question from someone in my community and wanted to answer it VERY FULLY.
Do I make money blogging? I do.
I make a lot of money blogging.
But here is the challenge I found when I first began “contemplating” the whole idea of making MONEY as a “blogger:”
I HATED THE “AVAILABLE” INCOME STREAMS.
I mean, I know I’m over-simplifying here, but the way I saw it:
I could sell OTHER PEOPLE’s crap and get a portion of the sales as an income stream. (As an affiliate.)
Or I could try to get a BUNCH of traffic, so I could sell ADS on my site… effectively cluttering my own message.
Either way, I didn’t like it. I didn’t like selling someone else’s crap and I didn’t like not making ANY Money while I built up TRAFFIC so I could then SEND THAT SAME TRAFFIC elsewhere via an ad someone paid me PENNIES to post.
Yuck.
I loved to write,
loved to blog,
loved ALL of that.
The ART.
The MESSAGE.
The FREEDOM of it all.
Hated the way bloggers (back then) made money.
So, I went for a hybrid model.
I call myself a “glorified blogger,” in fact. =)
I’d blog for business, and sell my own stuff.
And in 2007, I jumped in and did just that.
I made money right away,
gained some expertise,
some credibility
and maybe even some small measure of “fame,” in the process.
But mainly,
I made money doing what I LOVE to do.
MY STRATEGY?
I wake up every single day and throw my art onto the internet, in the form of a blog. And in EVERY single post, I have a call to action.
In a nutshell..
I sell stuff.
MY stuff.
Stuff I believe in.
Stuff that is PROVEN to work.
Stuff I’m proud of.
Stuff I love.
I sell this “stuff,”
every day
to people i respect,
and love
and admire.
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