Have you ever attended a free show? How do you think they make money?

Well, it is true that they make money, not directly from the viewers, but Advertisers. Also, they earn some diehard fans from the audience, so, if they ever organize a paid show, these fans show up. These fans even buy their products.

Your blog is like a free show. People come and gain information free of cost; it’s your chance to make them your fan, so that next time, if you offer some paid content or release a product, they come forward to purchase it.

How to make your visitors, your fan?

Well, it’s easy to get visitors but, little tough to make them visit your blog again and again. For that, you need to be consistent about your blogging, both in terms of quality and quantity.

• · Don’t make your blog look like as if the author has died in a car accident, hence the blog is not updated. Plan content for you blog in advance. Say like 10 posts in advance, so that you can keep your blog in flow while you are busy with something else.
• · Give your visitors multiple options to get the content of your blog, like via Email, RSS Feed, podcasts, videos etc.
• · Use simple language which everyone can understand, read other blog in your niche and write those topics on your blog in the simplest way possible.
• · Show that you are popular, this can be done by showing your feed readers (if you have a large readership), comments (encourage visitors to comment on your blog posts), Site Traffic,( shoe that how many people visits your blog.
• · Help you visitors in any way. Encourage readers to ask question the doubt, answer them, this will make them feel that you are really helping them.
• These all tips are like 100 thousand years old, but I wanted you to apply them. It will not help if you know them only. So, if you really want your blogging to work for you, you will have to work on your blog.

Look at the Picture, It is my AdSense Earning for all time. This all time is from Feb 2008 to June 2009.

This is because none of my sites receive a great amount of traffic. they get little traffic but those are returning and trustable visitors, which helps me earn money by other means, like affiliate marketing.

They are well qualified, and know the difference between site links and links shown in Google Ads. this is why my Google Adsense doest not get a lot of clicks.

But Still I Made around $2500 from Feb 2008 to June 2009. from different methods, such as Affiliate Marketing and Paid Reviews.I live in India and $2500 is a lot of money here. So, I can say that I made a decent amount of money by working very little.

So, The reason I am Making this Post is to let you all know that you also can make money from other methods if your are in the same situation like me with Google Ad sense.

So, Try different ways of making money, because it will take another year or two to get  $100 from your Google Adsense.

Thanks to Technology that it has enabled us to do so much. It’s the one, which has created this brand new profession called Blogging, It has Enabled us to blog from anywhere, anytime. We can even post on our blogs from our Mobile Phones.

But, lets get back to basics, when there was no Computer, No Mobile Phone.

What did people do to remember things?                                                              

They used a pen and paper to writing things they needed to remember and kept it with themselves all the time.

Why don’t You use this in Blogging?                                                                             

I mean you can use Pen and Paper to collect your Ideas for your Blogging. You will have to agree that your best Ideas about blogging come to your mind when you are away from your computer. And sometimes you forget those Ideas before you reach to the Keyboard to write them on your blog.It has happened to me many times. You also will have to agree that you can not take your computer everywhere you go, but pen and paper can always be with you anytime, anywhere.

It can help you in Many ways                                                           

Writing your Ideas on Paper not just helps you remember them but it can help you in many ways.

It Saves Times

You can’t just sit in front of your computer and start writing. Writing doest not take much time, It’s, to think "what to write?", which taken a lot of your time. But when you are already  having your Ideas on paper, you already know what to write, so your thinking time is saved. You can utilize this time by doing some marketing of you blog.  

You Work When you are not Working

You are actually working for your blog, even if you are way from your Computer. This increases your productivity, and you can do other profitable things when you are sitting in front of your Computer as thinking about blog Ideas does not require a computer (in most of the cases)

It makes everything systematic

When you write something you tend to remember it for a loner time than just reading it. That means you will be able to do blog posts systematically as you will be remembering that what topics you already have covered and what topics you should covers later.

There are many other uses of writing your blog ideas on Paper. You can discuss about  your experience in the comments, or you can also add some more uses of writing blog idea on paper.

I have written about many ways to make money, one of the ways to make money is to first collect the emails address of people who visit your blog or have same interest on the topic you blog about. Capture their email address and then sell your own products or recommend the products your are affiliated with. But, You need to make sue that they are looking for the same thing you are selling them or recommending them.

Here is a Service called AWeber, which solvers all your problems from capturing emails, building a list, and sending them emails to sell your products, or recommend your affiliated products.

With AWeber, you will be able to

• Send Email Newsletters
• Publish a Signup Web Forms To Your Website
• Create Autoresponders
• Manage Unlimited Email Campaigns

You can get started with AWeber is $19 a Month. The Service is pretty affordable if you look at its potential, you can make a hug amount of money if you are able to make a huge list of emails, Read How to Create an Email List, Where I have written way to get more people signup.

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If you still not sure weather this is going to work for you or not, then here is a solution for you. You can try it for One month for just $1 and its totally your wish to continue there after,

When you click on sign up today,and take to the create account area, just click on Have Gif Card? (shown in the Image above) and then type the coupon code onedollar415. and Apply.

You will be able to sign up for trial for just $1, instead of $19, that means you can start making a list with an investment of just $1. Fill the form and completed your order.

If you are wondering why to create a web form to give away a free report, read about How to Create an Email List.

This is one of the ways of capturing an email address to make a huge list. If you still are wondering, why to make an email list, Read Make Money with Email Marketing.

So, the easiest way to create web forms and capture an email address before giving to download link of your free report is  to use Aweber. Read Start Building an Email List with Aweber for just $1.

After you signup for Aweber, You are able to send emails to the person who sign ups the form you create for giving away a free report. He will be able to download the link in just Three steps.

• He will have to signup the form you created and put on your website or blog
• He will then have to confirm his Email Address he used in filling the form.
• He will have download the free report by click on the download link in the email which is send to him after confirming his email address.

These three steps are so easy to make with Aweber. Try it if you are looking to make an email list and do Email Marketing.

The Proper Term of Making Money from an Email List is "Email Marketing"

So,

What is Email Marketing?

The Process of giving information and selling something to some via Email is called Email Marketing.  This one of the most simple ways to make money online. All you have to do is, to make a huge list of emails, who are looking for some kind of information (and you must have that information) . Ask for their email address and promise them to send the information to their email. And if you have got a product which is related to the information or is going to help them, sell it to them and make a lot of money helping people. This is called Email Marketing.

How Does Email Marketing Works?

Well, to make a lot of money, you need to have a huge list of emails,

For Example:  If you have a list of 1000 emails, and all of them want to get rid of Dandruff! You can recommend a particular Shampoo, which, you think, is going to help them. The Shampoo Costs $20. At least 50%  people from your email list will be more than happy to buy the products, resulting in 500 sales, which means $10000 from the sales. If you are getting a commission of 10%( its the minimum I have taken), Then you just made $1000 by recommending only one product. and by sending one email.  this is how it works, the more big your list is, the more money you are going to make.

How to Grab Emails of People?

Grabbing email address is not tough either. You Can use Aweber to manages everything for you. you can make web forms and put in on your site or blog, you have got a decent amount of traffic, will be able to make them sign up for the form in return to give quality information to them. Here are few ways you can collect a lot of email address.

Offer Free Report.

People love free stuff, they will not hesitate to give you their email address, if you ask for their email address to give them the free report,  this free report should be related to your blog’s topic, as people are coming to your blog for the same topic and it also increate your future sales if you get it right. I have also used this method to get you can get your free copy here. you can manage this by using Aweber.

Offers a Free Course

Just like a free report, you can offer a free email course, again this could be managed by AWeber. AWeber lets you broadcast follow up emails, You create divide you course into 10 parts of email . and make them follow up emails so that people who sign up will be able to get these email from 1 to 10. During this Course, you can recommend any product which you think will be helpful to subscribers

Offer Blog Updates in Email

You can also offer your Blogs content in Email, So that people never have worry about missing any posts on your blog, if your readers are really worried about missing any quality posts, they will definitely sign up.

Read about Stat Building an Email list with Aweber for Just $1.

Making Money with Email Marketing is every easy, and it does not take a lot of hard work, after you made a huge list of email.

After you make a huge list (Read How to Create an Email List) the only thing would be to send them email on a regular basis and also giving them quality information, the information they are looking for, the information because of which they have subscribed to your Email Newsletter, and Sell some related products to your list, but the product should be useful to them, if you sell them a useless product, just for filling your pocket, you will lose you chance to sell something to them again.

There are many people who are making more than $10000 from their list every month. but for that they have first build a list of more than 10000 emails of people who a re looking for same kind of information. the list of 10000 emails is not an easy task to do, but its not Rocket Science, people who made these list are human beings just like you and me, so  don’t get de-motivated, by that. you just need to work hard and harder.

You just need to take care of building an email list, and after that maintaining is not that tough,  services like AWeber, has the capability to manage a list of more than 10000 emails.

You just need to put all your efforts in building a list, Read How to Create an Email List for more information on this topic.

There is always a struggle to drive traffic to your blog. You do everything, but almost half of the traffic comes from Search Engines, that is something not in your hands, until there is a proper Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

SEO is something really complicated and you are not going to understand it if you have just started off, I mean if you are just a six month old blogger.

You should always research about it, but this is not going to help you get traffic any time soon. Even if you have learned the SEO techniques, it takes three to six months for the results to show.

So, in the mean time, you should look for alternatives for get traffic for your blog.

You can do this by following few steps which are easy and above all, are under your control.

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Its true that bloggers can make money from blogs, but the big amount comes from other sources than directly from their blogs.

Blogs are just a medium to reach other people, it provides platform to grab visitor’s attention, the whole motive is something else. 

There are only

• Sell your Own Product or Service
• Sell Other’s Product or Service
• Sell Text Ads, Banner Ads, or Links

Few bloggers sell their own products, few promote other people’s products, few just sell ad space on their blog, but the motive is to earn money by doing so.

It’s very easy to make a blog, but it’s quite difficult to maintain it.

A successful blog requires money things, from content, to the logo and from marketing to advertising.

I know If you are a write you might not be good at making a logo, or if you make good logos, you might not be able to create that killing blog post, that will drive tons of people to your blog. Well, it’s a universal thing. You can’t be perfect at everything.

Initially it really doesn’t matter to anyone, weather your blog has a logo or not, weather your design it ugly or Cool. But when it comes to creating a band image, all these things count.

So, the best thing to do it to Outsource the Job you don’t like, I mean If you suck at designing, hire a pro designer, or if you suck any writing a sales page, hire someone who has deep knowledge in that field. In this way you will save a lot of time to Concentrate on your best area and give you best.

This way, you blog will be best in every way. A successful blog is a successful company and a company has a nice logo, a pattern of work, marketing strategies etc.