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| All ProBlogger Ebooks Are $10 for the Next 10 Days Only Posted: 27 Nov 2012 11:08 AM PST Today is my tenth anniversary of starting blogging and to celebrate I’m offering all ProBlogger ebooks at just $10 each—that’s a 50-90% saving on their normal price. 10 Years of BloggingTen years ago when I hit Publish on my first blog post, I could never imagined how that moment would change my life. Having read my first blog only minutes before I spontaneously decided to give it a go myself—registered a Blogspot blog and quickly wrote my first post. In that moment before I hit publish I had mixed feelings:
I had every reason not to start that first blog but for some reason felt compelled to hit Publish. Fast-forward to today, ten years later, and I’m so glad I did! Blogging has opened up some wonderful opportunities to meet great people, learn so much about the topics I write about and to travel and experience some amazing things. That it has also become a business and the way that I feed my family is an unexpected bonus! What’s made the last decade all the more satisfying to me is that I’ve been able to bring others along on the journey of making money through blogging—through starting ProBlogger in 2004. Over 34 million readers have visited ProBlogger since that time—considerably more than the number of people who live here in Australia. By no means has everyone of them become a full time blogger but almost every day I hear stories from readers telling me about the opportunities reading the blog posts and eBooks at ProBlogger has helped open up for them. $10 ProBlogger Ebooks for 10 Days OnlySo to help celebrate my ten-year anniversary of blogging, and to hopefully help you continue to grow in your blogging, I’ve decided to throw a little party on ProBlogger this week and to offer readers the opportunity to pick up ProBlogger ebooks at a price I’ve never gone to before. It’s been ten years of blogging, so for the next ten days only I’m offering our ebooks at just $10 each. Given our ebooks are normally priced at between $20 and $100, that’s a 50-90% discount, depending which ebooks you choose. Buy them individually below or get the full library of eBooks for just $60 USD (a 76% discount). Here are the ebooks you can choose from31 Days to Build a Better Blog
31 Days to Build a Better Blog is a downloadable ebook designed to help you revitalize your blog by giving you 31 tasks that will all help to turn it into the pageview powerhouse you've always dreamed of. Each day in the project contains:
31 Days to Build a Better Blog has been downloaded by many thousands of bloggers and has been recently updated into a second edition for 2012—discover more about this best selling ebook here. ProBlogger’s Guide to Your First Week of Blogging
Bloggers starting out quickly discover that there’s a lot more to this medium than just setting up a blog and quickly slapping up a post or two. Your first post is just the beginning and you’re then faced with the tasks of finding readers, coming up with more post ideas and thinking about the long-term strategy of your blog. This ebook is jam-packed with practical activities and exercises to do in your first week to make sure your blog is heading in the right direction. Broken down into seven days, there are actually a total of 32 achievable tasks that will not only get your blog going, but that will help you develop the skills you need to achieve your potential as a blogger. Learn more about this exciting new resource at ProBlogger’s Guide to Your First Week of Blogging. ProBlogger’s Guide to Blogging for Your Business
Written by Mark Hayward, a successful business owner, activist, and blogging coach, the guide takes readers step by step through how to set up a blog, thinking through goals for a blog, developing a content strategy, finding readers and growing traffic, establishing and growing a social media footprint, and much more. Practical tasks at the end of each of the 12 chapters let you implement Mark's mentoring in a way that suits your business, and your customers. Learn more about ProBlogger’s Guide to Blogging for Your Business. Blog Wise: How to Do More with Less
One of the most common obstacles to successful blogging among our readers is simply finding time. So we sat down with nine prolific and successful bloggers to find out how they not only blog successfully, but balance that with busy work, family, and social lives. Bloggers interviewed include Heather Armstrong from Dooce, Brian Clark from CopyBlogger, Abby Larson from Style Me Pretty, Leo Babauta from Zen Habits, Gretchen Rubin from the Happiness Project, Darren Rowse from ProBlogger and Digital Photography School, and more. These bloggers juggle a lot, but they get things done and will give you insight into what it takes to run a successful blog but also how to use your time effectively. Learn More about this powerful ebook here. Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers
Your blog posts are the cornerstone of your blog and will be the difference between you reaching your goals or not. This scorecard resource is designed to help you analyze the most important elements of your content to make sure they’re engaging, readable, professional, and optimized for search engines. It’s the ideal resource for all bloggers who are just starting out and want to learn the basics of SEO or those who’ve been at it a while but want to grow their search engine traffic. Discover more about the Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers. The Blogger’s Guide to Online Marketing
The Blogger's Guide to Online Marketing—31 Steps to a Profitable Blog is a comprehensive, 31-chapter blueprint for your blog's ongoing profitability, from the ground up. Backed by an extensive library of practical templates, printable worksheets, and in-practice example documents, this kit delivers all you need to make your blog turn a profit now, and over the long term. Discover more about the Blogger’s Guide to Online Marketing.
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| Can You REALLY Make Money Blogging? [7 Things I Know About Making Money from Blogging] Posted: 27 Nov 2012 06:09 AM PST Every now and again I am pulled aside at a conference or am emailed and/or tweeted by someone wanting to get the “real” scoop on whether it is possible to make money blogging.
I completely understand the questions and would probably want to add one more:
I’ve written many times here on ProBlogger about this in the hope of giving a realistic picture of the topic, but I think it is worth touching on again because there is a lot of misinformation out there right now. On one hand, we see hype on the topic. Periodically someone will claim to be able to make millions from blogging quickly. These claims are usually accompanied with the release of a product or service (i.e. they are marketing spin). On the other hand, I periodically see people writing about how it is impossible to make money blogging (or that anyone claiming to be full time is either a scammer, a liar, or is selling something on the topic of making money online). The reality is somewhere between these two extremes. 7 Things I know about making money from blogging1. It is possibleI’ve been blogging for just under ten years and for nine of those I’ve been making money blogging. It started out as just a few dollars a day but in time it gradually grew to becoming the equivalent of a part-time job, then a full-time job, and more recently into a business that employs others. I used to talk about the specific levels of my earnings when I started ProBlogger but felt increasingly uncomfortable about doing so (it felt a little voyeuristic and a little like a big-headed boasting exercise and I didn’t really see the point in continuing to do it)— but my income has continued to grow each year since I began. On some levels I was at the right place at the right time—I got into blogging early (in 2002 … although I felt I was late to it at the time) and have been fortunate enough to have started blogs at opportune times on the topics I write about. However I know of quite a few other bloggers who make a living from blogging, many of whom have not been blogging anywhere near as long as I have. For some it is a hobby that keeps them in coffee; for others it is the equivalent of a part time job/supplementing other income from “real jobs” or helping their family out as they attend to other commitments (raising a family). For others it is a full-time thing. I’ll give you some examples below. 2. There is no single way to monetize blogsRecently at our Melbourne ProBlogger event I featured numerous Australian bloggers in our speaker lineup who fit somewhere in the part-time to full-time spectrum. They included:
The year before, we had others, including:
Most of these bloggers are full-time (or well on the way to being full-time bloggers). They come from a wide array of niches and all monetize quite differently—doing everything from selling advertising, to having membership areas, to selling ebooks, to running affiliate promotions, to promoting their offline businesses, to selling themselves as speakers, to having book deals, and so on. Many have a combination of different income streams. They are all also Australian, and are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is happening here in Australia—the same thing is being replicated around the globe. There are many ways to monetize a blog. To give you a quick sense of the many methods check out this “money map” I created a year or so back, which outlines just some that I brainstormed (click to enlarge). I also recorded this free hour-and-twenty-minute webinar giving an introduction to the topic. 3. There are no formulasFrom time to time, people have released products that claim to be formulas for success when it comes to making money online. They outline steps to follow to “guarantee” you’ll make money. In my experience there is no formula. Each full-time blogger I’ve met in the last ten years has forged their own path and has a unique story to tell. They have often acted on hunches and made surprising discoveries along the way. There are certainly similarities in many of the stories but each blogger has their own personality and style, each one is reaching a different audience, and each niche tends to monetize differently. The key lesson is to be aware of what others are doing and to learn what you can from each other, but to also be willing to forge your own path as well! 4. Many niches monetizeOne common critique of the topic of monetizing of blogs is that the only people making money from blogging are the ones writing about how to make money blogging. This is simply not true. In the above list of speakers from our Melbourne event you’ll notice I included topic/niche of each blogger. None sell products teaching others to make money blogging—all are on blogging on “normal,” every-day topics. My own experience of having a blog about blogging (ProBlogger) and a blog about Photography is that it is my photography blog that is by far the most profitable blog (I’d estimate it’s ten times more profitable). I’ve interviewed numerous full-time bloggers of late in a webinar series including: Interestingly, none of them make money by teaching others to make money online. Sarah largely blogs about health and wellbeing, Tsh blogs about simple living, and Ana blogs about woodwork. 5. Most bloggers don’t make a full-time living from bloggingEvery time I’ve surveyed readers of ProBlogger about their earnings, we’ve seen that those making money from blogging are in the minority. In a recent survey of 1500 ProBlogger readers we asked about their monthly earnings. What you’re seeing below is the spread of earnings from readers who are attempting to make money blogging (note: not all ProBlogger readers attempt to make money, so not all are included in these results). Keep in mind that ProBlogger readers are generally newish bloggers—about half of those who took this survey had been blogging for less than two years. So of those trying to make money blogging, 10% don’t make anything and 28% are making less than 30 cents per day. A total of 63% make less than $3.50 per day. Let’s be clear—most bloggers who are attempting to make money are not making a living from blogging. Having said that, of the 1508 bloggers surveyed 65 (4%) are making over $10,000 per month (over six figures per year) and a further 9% were doing over $1000 per month (which is at least a part-time level of income). My feeling, having been attending blogging conferences for six or so years now, is that the number of full-time bloggers is on the rise, and there are actually quite a few more people now at least making the equivalent of a couple of days’ work a week in income from their blogs. However, most bloggers don’t make much. 6. It takes time to buildWhen I dig down into the stats from the survey on income levels above, and do some analysis of those who are in the top income bracket, it is fascinating to look at how long they’ve been blogging. 85% of those in that top income bracket have been blogging for four years or more. Almost all of the others had been blogging for three or four years. This certainly was my own experience. I blogged for a year without making money and once I started monetizing it was around two years of gradual increases before I approached a full-time income level. It would have been four years before I joined that top bracket of income (over $10,000 per month). Blogging for money is not a get-rich-quick thing. It takes time to build an audience, to build a brand, and to build trust and a good reputation. And of course even with four or five years of blogging behind you, there’s no guarantee of a decent income. 7. It takes a lot of workLongevity is not the only key to a profitable blog. The other common factor that I’ve noticed in most full-time bloggers is that they are people of action. Passivity and blogging don’t tend to go hand in hand. Blogging as “passive income stream” is another theme that we hear in many make-money-blogging products, however it is far from my own experience. I’ve worked harder on my business over the last ten years than I’ve worked on anything in my life before this. It is often fun and gives me energy, but it takes considerable work to create content on a daily basis, to keep abreast of what’s going on in the community, to monitor the business side of things, to create products to sell, to build an audience, and so on. The key is to build blogs that matter to people, that are original, interesting, and helpful. But this doesn’t just happen—it takes a lot of work. ConclusionsYes, it is possible to make money blogging. There is an ever-increasing number of people making money from blogging at a part-time to full-time level —however they are still in the minority. Those who do make a living from blogging come from a wide range of niches, however one of the most common factors between them is that they’ve been at it for a while. To help you on your way to make money blogging (or make more money blogging!), don’t miss my special tenth anniversary sale, which is running right now, and which lets you get any of my ebooks for just $10. How long have you been blogging? Are you looking to make money from it—and have you already? Share your experiences with us in the comments. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Can You REALLY Make Money Blogging? [7 Things I Know About Making Money from Blogging]     |
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