As you all are well aware, I’m not in the “Make Money Online” blog crowd. Like I said the other day, I blog when I’ve got something I think will be useful to other writers. I write about common mistakes, ways to improve your writing, and even about some of the online writing tools that I use.
I tend to focus on the “how to be a better writer” and “how to be a better freelancer” side of things, rather than “how to make money online.” There are plenty of folks out there who are willing to tell you how to make money online, I don’t need to do it.
Unfortunately, a lot of those folks are little more than charlatans and thieves. There are lots of bad guys, and just a handful of good guys. One of the good guys is Yaro Starak. Yaro’s free Blog Profits Blueprint was in many ways the inspiration for this blog, and is a good part of the reason that this blog is so successful today.
Yaro’s got a new free 30-minute video, just released today, called “Conversion Blogging.” The video focuses on leveraging your blogging efforts into a full-time income. In the video, he talks about how to get away from becoming a “page view slave” who makes pennies a day on their blog, and making a real income.
Obviously, the video is a way for Yaro to introduce you to his blog mentoring program, in the same way that the Blog Profits Blueprint does. But even if you just watch the video and read the blueprint, I promise you’ll find something that’s worthwhile, that you can apply to your blogging efforts. Even if you’re like me and use your blog more to get clients than you do to make money, Yaro’s got plenty of sound ideas about generating blog traffic that you should listen to. On top of that, his ideas about “pillar content” are especially insightful and tremendously useful, particularly if you’re just starting out blogging.
Give it a whirl, and then feel free to come back and let me know what you think about it.
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You couldn’t be more right about the multitude of sharks circling out there.
I think one of the great things about the relational aspect of blogging is that it allows the good people to rise to the top while keeping the charlatans at the bottom.
That’s opposed to the business world where too many climb to the top using dirty tactics and bad business practices, but that’s because the prevailing mindset in business is about competition and blogging is about collaboration. And that’s why I prefer not to look at my own work as a writer from a competitive point of view.
I like Yaro, not least because he’s an Australian.
Good post and recommendations, Bob. And we miss you on Twitter!
Hi Bob,
This seems to be a growing theme around the blogosphere. I’m not really interested in affiliate ads on my blog either, but I do want to explore the possibilities of efficiently using a blog as a marketing tool to attract new clients. I am currently writing a series of blog posts exploring that issue.
Question for you: do you measure how many clients/projects you get directly from your blog? Do you know roughly how much income your blog generates vs. the time you put into it? I’m not looking for your financials here, just an overview about if and how you measure results.
Thanks!
~Graham
P.S. - Forgot to mention — great post title! Love it…
Hi Bob - I totally agree - there’s so many sharks out there when it comes to “make money blogging” sites. I like Yaro too and I didn’t know about the free video - thanks for letting me know.
Yaro’s video was pretty good. The last 10 minutes or so were probably the most useful for me.
Of course, I started wondering what screencast application he was using. I found it. It’s called Screenflow. Very cool and easy to use… If you’re on a Mac.
So I guess I got a two-for-one!
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