Hello friends, here is the conclusion of my story, to reveal to you the remaining 10 ways to monetize your Blog, now let observe the other 10ways to make money through your blog, so in Conclusion.
11. Product Reviews
Basically the same as
Affiliate Marketing, but more obvious. You can write
detailed reviews about products and publish them on your
site. Obviously it is better to review products that are
related to your website, as you are catering to your
target audience. There is no point writing a detailed
review about a solar panel for your roof, if your
website is about scuba diving.
Many people can build a
website solely around product reviews, writing about a
variety of subjects such as, hotels, holidays, cars,
gadgets, films, etc. If that product has an affiliate
program, then you can make quite a bit of money from it.
12. Create & Sell Your Own Product
We are a society of
consumers! If you have a product that you have made,
then why not sell it on your website. Perhaps you are a
software programmer and have designed an app to help
people track stocks on their mobile phone. You could let
people download it from your website for a small fee.
Maybe your hobby is pottery and you want to sell off
some of your work, then sell it on a website. If they
are popular, there might be a full-time business for
them!
The good thing about this
is that compared with selling a product in a shop that
has a small customer basis, online you have the world to
sell your product to.
Check out our ‘Create
A Product To Sell Online On Your Own Website‘ post
for more details.
13. Write an eBook
Everybody seems to be
writing an eBook these days, so why don’t you give it a
try. These have become very popular in the last few
years with the introduction of commercial eReaders such
as the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle.
You could write an eBook
about almost anything. Maybe you are good at DIY, you
could write a book about renovating your house that
people might find useful. You can then sell it through
the Apple iStore or on Amazon.
You can sell it directly
on your website as well! This way you get 100% of the
sale price and you get traffic to your website. Selling
your own eBook can be an excellent way to monetize your
blog!
14. Write a Hardback Book
This could be a
continuation from writing an eBook. If you are a good
writer you could publish your book in Hardback or
paperback form. You could sell this on your website and
send a copy to buyers.
This method is usually
only successful for authors that have an existing
following. An author may have a successful book that
they then build a website around to promote it to a
global audience. It can work the other way however. Many
people have built a successful blog first and then
written a book that has sold well.
If you are a good writer
then this could be a good option for you. You can then
find a self publishing site, such as iUniverse that lets
you publish your very own book.
15. Write Tutorials & Guides
The internet is a great
place to find information. Everyone searches for
tutorials detailing how to do something. You are reading
a guide yourself on ’30 ways your website can earn you
money’ right now!
I myself know very little
about cars, so I would find tutorials and guides useful
explaining technical things that I don’t know. For
example, a guide listing ‘Help on buying a new car’ or
‘How to service your own car’ would be very useful.
Everybody knows something
that they could teach to another, so why not write about
it and publish it on your own website. If its a
particularly popular niche that you are writing about,
then you could attract a lot of traffic!
Check out some brilliant
ways to create content for your website:
- 10 Steps to Write Amazing Content!
- 20 Pages Every Blog Should Include
- How To Use Images In Your Blog Posts!
- How To Write Great Headlines
16. Teaching Program
The next step from writing
tutorials would be to create an online teaching course.
You could charge people a membership fee (see #22) or a
fixed amount for joining a course that you have set up.
These courses could be
about anything and could include podcasts, videos,
tutorials, etc.
For example, you may be an
expert photographer. You could set up a 2 week online
training course detailing how to be a better
photographer. You could make videos describing all of
the different equipment that you might need, techniques
that help achieve excellent quality photos, how to
develop photos in a dark room, etc.
You need to make sure that
the information that you offer to your paying customers
is different to any free content that you offer on your
site. You will receive a lot of complaints if you just
charged people $100 for information that they just read
in your free blog! You can only charge people premium
prices for premium content.
17. Live Workshop
The next step from
creating an online teaching course is to have a live
workshop. Live workshops let you interact with your
audience and find out what they like about your website.
People who come to your workshops get to meet you and
ask you questions face-to-face.
Many people find these
types of workshops appealing as they can get so much
more out of it, than just following an online tutorial.
This is why some people are prepared to pay a lot of
money to attend these workshops.
As well as charging people
for a ticket, you can make money in other ways from
these gatherings. You can promote your own products or
books (See methods #12, #13 & #14) at the end of each
workshop. If you invite guest speakers to attend your
workshops, then you can also collect 50% of everything
that they make from promoting their own products.
You can also record the
whole event and upload it to your website afterwards,
perhaps advertising a future workshop.
Workshops aren’t hard to
arrange. Many hotels have conference rooms that you can
book for an event. Once booked, you have a date to
promote to your readers of when the workshop is taking
place. You just have to prepare some kind of
presentation, and keep advertising your upcoming
workshop.
18. Host A Webinar
Webinar’s are basically a
live workshop online. People go on to Webinar’s to hear
you talk about your specialist subject. This is great
for people that live over-seas that can’t get to one of
your workshops.
You make money from
Webinar’s by charging an individual for a virtual seat
on your presentation. They pay to watch you perform your
presentation online and they can interact during the
process.
Webinar’s can incorporate
power point presentations, web-cams, photos,
microphones, polls, etc., making them fully interactive
with your audience. Questions are usually left till the
end of the Webinar, where each viewer has the
opportunity to ask any questions that they want to you.
You don’t have to charge
your audience anything to view a Webinar that you are
conducting. You could just use it as a marketing tool
promoting your website, but the majority of people often
host an initial Webinar for free and then charge people
for the subsequent ones.
InstantPresenter is a
great site that you can use to do this.
19. Be a Consultant
You could monetize your
blog by offering consultancy in your specific niche. You
need to have a large number of followers and have built
a good reputation in your field for this method to earn
you money. You can offer one-on-one consulting to people
over the phone or via Skype for a fixed rate. People
would be willing to pay a premium for this service as
they are paying for your undivided attention for an hour
or more.
For example, you have
built a reputation as being an expert in health and
fitness and have a successful blog talking about methods
of weight-loss and healthy eating. You could offer a
consultancy service, where for one hour a day people can
arrange to talk to you via web-cam to plan out a
personal tailored exercise regime. You might charge $100
for the hour and the individual might not need to
contact you until the next month.
As previously stated, you
do need a reputation for this to generate you any money.
This is not a method for a start up website, but it
could be something to aim for in the future as you grow
your website.
20. Find Sponsors For An Event
If your website involves
organising events, such as a workshop (See Method #17),
or a weekly podcast, etc., you could find companies to
sponsor them. Then at the beginning and at the end you
would have to promote the sponsor.
You see this type of
advertising a lot on TV and in Sport. Many TV shows are
sponsored to generate income.
The advantage of this
method is that it gives website owners more options to
monetise each aspect of their site. Advertisers are
attracted to sponsorship deals on high traffic websites
as it allows them to reach a targeted audience.
21. Selling Services (Hire Me)
This is often the reason
why many people start a website in the first place. You
might have a profession in the real world, such as a
stock trader, architect, life coach, etc. You could
build a website advertising your services to increase
your client numbers. Visitors can pay for your
professional services through your website and receive
your help, as in the previous example this could mean
full financial planning and strategies on stock trading.
Obviously, with this
method you only get paid when you are working.
A great way to find
clients is to
have your own ‘Hire Me’ page on your website. That
way, people can see that they can hire you to help them
out.
22. Membership Site
Increasing numbers of
sites offer premium membership areas. The most famous of
these are Newspapers who are switching to more online
content due to decreasing sales of actual newspapers.
Websites attract visitors with free content and then
they realise that they can get added benefits by paying
a membership fee.
An example of this could
be a 3D modelling website. The website could offer free
tutorials, detailing step-by-step instructions on how to
create 3D renderings of objects, perhaps a car. Paying
members can download pre-made 3D models that they can
use in animations, etc.
23. Private Forums
Similar to a paid
membership, private forums can be created to cater to
your audience. Members can pay an annual/monthly fee to
access the forum and interact with the other members.
There are many free forums
out there, so to charge members a fee to access your
forum you need to provide excellent, individual content
that isn’t available elsewhere.
One example could be a
networking forum where people can interact within a
professional environment. A forum focusing on academic
scientific research could attract scientists from around
the world to collaborate with one another.
24. Email Marketing
Email marketing can
generate you lots of money. The key is to build a large
email list of your customers/visitors. When people
register to become a member, you get their email
address. When people sign up to your weekly newsletter,
you get their email address. The more ways there are to
get someone’s email address the better.
With an email list, you
can build a brand, recommend products, promote any
events/workshops that you may be holding and more
importantly to can encourage people to keep returning to
your website.
Email marketing isn’t a
direct way of making money, but it is a powerful way of
increasing your income from your other methods by
driving traffic back to your site. Just don’t go
overboard with emails so that they are viewed as spam!
Nobody likes spam!
Check out this list of
software to help manage your email newsletters:
- AWeber
- PopUp Domination
25. Surveys & Polls
You can place surveys and
polls from certain companies on your website that will
pay you for the privilege. You can sign up to these
sites and choose a particular survey/poll that will fit
in with the content on your website. Visitors of your
site can participate in voting, whilst you get paid for
displaying it. Most of these polls operate on a Cost per
Mile basis.
26. Paid Directory Listings
This method is an
alternate way of selling advertising. Unlike displaying
adverts on a page, you allocate space on your website to
list links to different companies and services that are
related to your niche.
For example, a blog about
graphic design could have a separate page that displays
links to professional graphic design companies and
freelance graphic designers.
You can charge for the
privilege to display these links on your website. You
can guarantee that the links will be seen by X amount of
people per month and you can charge a monthly fee. If
you had a list consisting of 500 people and charged them
$5 a month, you would make $2500 per month!
27. Job Boards
An advancement of a direct
listings is a job board. You can create a web-page that
allows companies to post job vacancies. You can charge a
small fee for the listing and maybe even a small finders
fee if the job is filled by one of your viewers.
This method is very
competitive, there are many job boards out there, so a
small site will have a very hard time surviving. This
could be a suitable method for a larger site, as the
more traffic you have, the more listings you are likely
to attract.
Check out these great job
boards that you can use in WordPress:
- Jobpress
- Jobpress Professional
28. Sell Your Custom Template or Theme
If you have spent time
making your OWN custom template or theme, then you can
consider selling it. An increasing amount of people are
making their own website, therefore there is a demand
for more templates that people can use.
The amount of money that
you can make from this method depends on your website
skills. A high quality template can be sold for as much
as $100+ but that is the top of the range themes. If you
have a skill for making these then you could build a
small business around making and selling them.
This website runs on a
theme that was purchased. The professional themes at
WooThemes is a great place to buy high quality
templates.
There are loads of sites
that make money selling themes:
- WooThemes
- DailyWP
29. Donations
A method that a lot of
people don’t even think of, Donations can provide an
alternate source of income from your website. You can
get a donate button from
PayPal to place on your site and ask people to
donate a small amount to you for the service that you
provide.
This method is a good way
to generate some income if you have a small website, you
could ask people to donate an amount to help you pay the
upkeep of the website. This method can work for much
larger sites as well, generally sites that offer helpful
information to its users, can benefit from this method
as it allows readers to donate a small amount of money
if they feel that you have helped them in some way.
Some people may not like
the idea of this, but the advantage of this method is
that it can be easily set up and left. If people want to
donate anything then they can, if not they don’t have
to. You’ll be surprised how many people are willing to
give you some money if you have genuinely helped them.
Why not buy me a coffee
30. Auction Your Website
Some websites just don’t
make money for whatever reason, but before you just give
up and walk away, you could consider selling your
website. You can find many sites that offer to list your
site for sale for people to bid on. You would be
surprised to see how much some websites can go for.
Why would anybody want to
buy your website? Well that is because people are lazy!
It takes time and effort to build a website from
scratch, so a lot of people like to buy built websites
and build upon them. Some people do it for a living,
building websites and then selling them on for a profit.
The advantage of this is
that you can make quite a bit of money selling your
website, it just depends on the quality of it.
So what do you think? How many of these methods do
you use on your website/blog? Do you use any other
methods to monetize your blog that aren’t listed here?
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