CategoryMaking money
How to Monetize Your Influence Type: Platform-Specific Superstar
When we think of influencers, we generally think of people with huge followings on their blog or social media platforms. There is more to influence than just audience numbers though, which is good news for the majority of us! Different influence types means there are different ways to monetize your ...more
Blogging for Dollars
The 4 Rs That Show a Brand Your Blog is Influential
One way to monetise your blog is through working with brand partners. This could be anything from sponsored content and affiliate promotions through to ongoing ambassadorships or sponsorships. In any case, there are a number of factors I consider when it comes to determining if a blogger is “influential” and ...more
Blogging for Dollars
8 Tips for Crafting a Winning Subject Line for Your Email Pitch
Creating effective subject lines for your email pitch can be the difference between success and failure. Crafting a compelling subject line will increase the likelihood that your message is opened and read, making it essential to ensure that your emails stand out in the recipient’s inbox. Subject lines should be ...more
General
How to Make Money Blogging – What We Wish We Knew
This post on how to make money blogging is part of the ‘What I wish I knew when I first started Blogging’ Series. In this post I’ll share readers comments on the topic of making money from blogs as well as some of my own experiences and advice. When I ...more
Making money
Get Off the Plateau: Growth Tips for Mature Blogs
Do you feel like your blog has reached a plateau? Maybe your readership has stalled, subscriptions seem to be maintaining momentum but not growing, and you’re having trouble squeezing more value out of your already-loyal customer base… What should you do? There are a number of ways to kick yourself ...more
Blogging for Dollars
Creating Products: Which Product Should You Create?
Darren says: Today Shayne Tilley continues our series on creating products for your blog by examining the important question of “what product should you create?” This is a question I know many ProBlogger readers are pondering because I get asked it many times. “Should I create an eBook, a course, a ...more
General
Creating Products: Before You Even Think About Creating Products, Think About This
Darren Says: Today we’re continuing our ‘creating products’ week here at ProBlogger by looking at some of the areas of groundwork you might need to do before or while creating a product. Our Marketing/Product Guru Shayne’s written this post but I’ll chime in along the way with some thoughts too.Over to ...more
General
Why Are Your Affiliate Promotions Not Converting?
I had an email this morning from a blogger who has built a great loyal readership to their blog and who has been attempting to monetize that readership lately by doing some affiliate promotions on that blog. The problem – nobody is buying anything that they promote. I spent a ...more
Affiliate Programs
How to Turn Your Business Blog Readers Into Paying Customers
This is a guest contribution from Alicia Rades. You started a blog for your business because you recognized the importance of content marketing. You know that businesses that blog get more traffic than those that don’t. But more traffic doesn’t necessarily mean more customers. You have to be able to leverage ...more
Making money