If you're an expert in your field you might consider writing e-books and selling them through your blog. This would be a good way of expanding on some of the information blogged about in the past. Check your stats to see which topics garnered the most interest and take it from there. If you have loyal readers and good traffic, you might have a best seller on your hands!
Some bloggers place "tip jars" on their blog's sidebars. Tip jars are donation buttons leading to the recipient's paypal account. Some bloggers report earning hundreds of dollars through tip jars alone. While this isn't recommended for every blogger, those who put in hours to provide a useful service are certainly justified.
The famous Rich Jerk program. I have tried it out for myself.
The price of this program has dropped over the years. Started out around $200, it was about $50 a while ago. Now it costs just under $10. I don't know what that means, does it mean this smug fellow's business is decreasing or does he just want a lot more customers? I don't know, and don't care. I can be a jerk too :p
Being only $10 I wanted to give it a go after hearing about it for so long (I actually paid $20, $10 extra for the mp3's which are not necessary to buy).
Come on, how many scams, or internet business opportunities, cost you $10?
So I paid the $10 and got my Rich Jerk e-book.You get an opportunity to get a "free" website too (must sign up with his host of choice), and there are other bits to it, but it pretty much revolves around the e-book.
So what are my findings? The e-book has loads of valuable information. Very useful. There are many different ideas, one being about using unusual advertising strategies. It's all about thinking outside the square. He gives tips to succeeding with eBay, website revenue basically. He also lists wholesalers, and other online marketing and business ideas. There is a section that, while probably very effective, seems morally questionable (creating hope and fear to sell a product). But I overlook for now, as you do not have to resort to such tactics, there is much more in the e-book.
If I have time, I will try the website deal also and let you know my findings.
Another benefit of joining the program, is rather ironic. You get to become a Rich Jerk affiliate.
If you want to become an affiliate, join ClickBank here . You will need that when the Rich Jerk builds ads for you. ClickBank is a company that acts as a go-between for sellers and affiliates (will review in another article).
Yes folks, you can use his teachings to actually sell his product, resulting in a win-win situation for you and the jerk. Win-win-win if people who join through you make money also. At least you know they can't lose much. It's a packet of cigarettes, who can't afford $10? I can be quite cheap (I mean frugal...) and even I gave it a shot. He's a clever little jerk.
After becoming an affiliate, you're supposed to make 2 sales and you get your money back. Anything after is profit, plus you have the e-book, which is rather informative. You put ads on your website and people do indeed join. See the Rich Jerk ads on this page? They look like that. Very attention-grabbing.
His whole program and moniker is attention-grabbing. He thinks outside the box. That's probably why he's rich. A jerk, but still.... he's rich...
Note clever use of breasts. Anything to make a sale...
This idea is closely related to the previous way to make money through your blog. The difference is that in this case the intellectual property you’re selling is just part of or incidental to the blog you’re writing; it’s not the raison d’etre for the blog. For instance, you might have a blog about beekeeping and be selling an ebook about how to build a mason bee house on your pages.
So the answer is, yes, you can make money from your blog. And with blogging becoming increasingly popular, there will be even more opportunities for making money from your blog coming – ideas that haven’t even been thought of yet. For the moment, for maximum income, you will need to focus on multiple income streams and perhaps even multiple blogs.
Blogs are fast becoming the trendy alternative to the classic salesletter site. In this case, the format is the only real change; the message is the same. Typically, the pitch is woven into as many blog entries as possible – or even used a tagline to every blog entry.
Jim Kukral’s 99 Ways to Blog for Business blog is a good example of a blog designed to move a product (in this case, his strategy guide for creating blogs for businesses).
Hubs or networks of blogs appear to be springing up all over the ‘Net, some of which are looking for people to write blogs and are willing to pay for it. Payment models vary. At Creative Weblogging, for instance, bloggers have the option of choosing either a fixed monthly payment in exchange for 10 posts a week, or a percentage share of the ad revenues. Two more examples of blog networks looking for bloggers at the time of writing are:
Weblogs.Inc.
AllBusiness.com’s Business Blogs
