Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
In starting this post, I’m going to get straight to the point:
If you continue to do the wrong things in blogging, you are never going to make money.
This is the plain and simple truth.
Many bright-eyed & bushy-tailed novice bloggers get wrapped up in the grandiose thoughts of flipping “the bird” to their boss, traveling the world, eating lavish meals in various hotels and seeing their bank account increasepassivelyevery time they open up their banking app.
While this is possible feat to achieve — it sure does take a considerable amount of determination, hard work and strategy in order to get there.Your blog isn’t a money printing machine; rather, it’s a tool used for reaching the world with your valuable products/services… and possibly making money in the process.Of course,it takes a lot of work.You must be willing to go through the process patiently, and if you do, success will surely come.
In this post, I will reveal to you the reasons why you will never make money blogging. Furthermore, I’ll also show you how you can reverse this andbuild a money-making blog right now.
A business model is necessary with any endeavor looking to turn a profit (hello…. a blog becomes a business…).
It’s unbelievably important to have a system and model in place that requires you to make the necessary decisions and pivots with your blog in order to progress through the different trails and tribulations that will ultimately surface.
If you don’t have this — you will eventually lose interest in your passion and your blog will also perish.
So what is a business model?
Abusiness model can be defined as:
“an abstract representation of a business, be it conceptual, textual, and/or graphical, of all core interrelated architectural, co-operational, and financial arrangements designed and developed by an organization presently and in the future, as well as all core products and/or services the organization offers, or will offer, based on these arrangements that are needed to achieve its strategic goals and objectives.”
It’s a bit wordy, no?
In other words — a business model is aplanordesignfor the successful operation of a business, the intended customer base, the identified revenue sources, products, and sources of financing.
One of the biggest mistakes bloggers make with the idea of a business model is by thinking it simply means —“I just want to make money.”
Money shouldn’t be the main focus when starting out as a blogger…
Let me repeat that,
Money shouldn’t be the main focus when starting out as a blogger…
This probably isn’t computing too much for you considering the title of this article. Let me elaborate a bit…
The focus should be on creating systems; that includes creating significant and valuable content that takes a reader from where they are to where they ought to be.
Taking it a step further, a good business model will let you:
- Identify who your target audience is.
- Identify revenue sources.
- Figure out how to get yourvoice out to the masses on a viral and global scale.
- Figure out how to serve your customers. (With text, videos, audios, infographics, etc.?)
- Identify products to create that will further educate your audience on what you currently teach them via your blog posts. (Example: You cancreate and sell an eBook.)
- Identify where will you get funds and how will you continue to invest in your business to stay relevant in the marketplace.
- Find the best promotional strategies to get your business out there.
These are just a few facets to consider. This is a very important step when starting out as a blogger. Youmustgive it maximum attention.
Like I stated above — if you are solely focused on just making money in this game, you are doomed to fail.
While the ability to make money is possible (trust me — as someone who isn’t the TITANS of blogging — I have been able to construct a great income),it doesn’t come overnight.I’ve been on the internet blogging for years now.
It took me just over a year to make my first $15.
Through all of the people I’ve met and collaborated with, I’ve never seen someone buy a domain, write a few articles, turn on the publish button and see the floodgates of financial reward come cascading in.
It just doesn’t happen.
Forget all of the Youtube advertisem*nts and Instagram sponsored postspromisingyou that you can make all of your wildest dreams come true in a matter of days or weeks.
If that actually worked — everyone would be doing it.
On the flip side, here’s what you need to remember:
If you want to make real money in the real world, you need to solve real problems.
If you’re serious about making money, learn to shift focus on wanting to be a quick and overnight success to providing a lot of value to your readers.Value is what sells you and your products, and it is what ultimately helps you to achieve your money-making goals.
According toCopyblogger,
“If you don’t offer customers something they dearly want, whether it’s to gain some great pleasure or escape some great pain, you’re not going to make any money.”
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I’ve said it in plenty other articles that I’ve written recent — it deeply saddens me how often I see new and energetic writers and bloggers come onto the fold, guns-a-blazing.
They’re writing compelling and engaging pieces and then they wither out to a mere nothingness along the airwaves.
I think this is due to a misconstrued mindset that people adopt early on in their blogging career:
They think that if they don’t go viral — they aren’t going to make it.
We see people go viral all the time with the help of today’s modern technology tools: Youtube,Facebookand Instagram.
Bloggers often think that they only way to become successful in this game through viral content.
“sh*t — if Justin Bieber and 6ix9ine can do it, why not me?”
If you’re playing the viral game — you’re doomed to fail.
When I lost everything, I made a promise to myself that I was going to write everyday, regardless of the outcome.How Writing Everyday For The Past Year Drastically Changed My LifeUnlikely lessons I learned in finding success with writing so you don’t have to.writingcooperative.com
New avenues opened up as a result of it.
While I did end up going viral (many times) with my articles— it took over a year to get a bump in my views (A lot of that was due to not having my business model in place, and strategy in my providing value).
A hard truth to understand with blogging is —No one cares until you prove to them you’re here for the long haul.
Further resource:
–THE VIRAL WRITING PLAYBOOK: Your Unfair Advantage To Building An Audience, Perfecting Your Brand, And Building a Financial Income
If you take the time to really read through this post, reverse the inefficiencies and implement the strategies into your own blogging career — you will definitely go from making nothing to making a substantial income as a blogger.
So many people are already doing it, and there’s no reason you can’t be doing it too.You can offer the world your own unique spin on the same topic that people have found to be unbelievably popular and profitable.
You just need to make sure you’re doing the right things.
Don’t fall into the“make money online”trap that thousands have fallen for.
Nothing can replace hard work and dedication.
When people can see that you care about what you do, they’ll learn to respect and trust you as an authority in your niche.
When that happens, the money will start rolling in.
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