Freelance
Writers' Series
Career & Business
Development Help
How to
Publish a Profitable, Popular Freelance Writing Blog If you’re a
freelance writer who already has a blog or is thinking about starting one, this
24-page ebook covers 8 components that will make it profitable and
popular. Did you
know? 51% of Bloggers Make $0 from Their Blogs! That’s
right – nothing! Less than 20% earn $1,000. Not even shooting for a grand? How
about this? Only 14% earn even $200-$500/month. Read more on
how much bloggers make.
I cover 8 blog components that deal
with such particulars as: Freelance
Writer Blog Questions This Ebook Answers Should You Register Your Own Domain Name, Or
Not (and why the wrong decision could cost you for years to come) (Found in Blog
Success Component #1) Which Blogging
Platform to Use The #1 tool to
Use to Write Traffic-Generating Posts (Blog Success Component #7) The Passive Way
to Drive Massive Traffic to Any Freelance Writing Blog (Blog
Success Component #3) Industry
Widgets to Consider Adding to Your Blog How Long Your
Posts Should Be How Often You
Should Post The Article
Marketing Trick I Use to Drive Short-term and Long-term Readers to My Blog
My blog is an
integral part of marketing my freelance writing services, ebooks and telecourses.
Without it, I don’t think I’d be where I am today. But, it took me a couple of
years before I finally started seeing some real traffic – which is the key to
marketing anything online. 3 Ways My
Blog Has Benefited My Freelance Writing Business My blog has
benefited me directly and indirectly. Indirectly, it
has done much -- on a personal and professional level. Some indirect benefits right
off the top of my head though are: connected me with fellow freelancers, served
as an avenue to vent my frustrations, given me invaluable feedback from readers
and sparked ideas for new ebook and report titles. Directly, in
has benefited me in the following three ways. Yours can too! A number of
clients have hired me based on their reading my blog alone. How cool is that! 2.
Sell Products: I’ve sold a few thousand ebooks via
blog marketing. A blog builds credibility, which leads to trust, then sales.
Without it, I don’t think my ebook sales would be anywhere near what they are.
3. Ad
Revenue: I’ve been approached at least half a dozen
times over the last year or so by advertisers who want to buy space on my blog,
and also by other niche ebook publishers. I haven’t taken advantage of this yet.
I’ve stuck to large, mainstream ad revenue generators like Amazon and AdSense.
I didn’t feel I
was set up to take advantage of these offers in a way that would benefit me
long-term, or that I could charge what I wanted. But, that’s going to change
over the next year or so. I’m in the process of having my site redesigned as of
this writing (July 2008). One of
the reasons for doing this is to capitalize on private ad sales, which I think
is the way to go. For more on this, read successful blogger John Chow’s take in
this
As you can see,
a blog can serve as a profit-producing machine in a number of ways. But, all of
the components that make it
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