Can You Monitize Your Knowledge?
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Ever thought of earning an extra income from your hobby or your passion? Why not?
What could be better than doing something you love to do and get paid for it?
The fastest way to set up a net presence and share your knowledge is through a blog. You can
share your knowledge, your ideas, and your experiences and there will always be someone that will gain benefits from what you have to say.
What is your expertise? Because you have one, even though you do not realize it, everyone has, in at least one topic or area. It can be cats, dogs, fishing, fitness, videos, games, garden, flowers, painting, photographs, cooking, cars, anything and everything, you are never the only one in the world with that specific interest in the topic. So sharing what you know will interest others.
Or maybe you would like to sell your product, sell it on your blog.
The first step is setting up a blog and sincerely nothing could be easier.
You can set up a free blog at WordPress or you can buy your domain and hosting service, and set up your blog on your domain. So it is really yours.
If your hosting account offers cpanel with fantastico, it will be easy and fast to set up your blog on your own domain, even if you have to upload WordPress to your hosting company it is also easy. First you download it to your computer and then you upload it to your hosting company.
You can change the theme of your blog, there are great free WordPress themes available.
Or you can buy a theme but it is not necessary.
You should install Filezilla to your computer to upload your plugins, it is a free download.
You will find plugins you should have here, you can always add more plugins later on.
Now you are ready for your first post. The first stone is set and now you are ready to
build your blog and what could become your business.
If you would like to have guest writers to your blog check out Free traffic system , there are many other resources that you can use for that.
Monitize your blog with affiliate links, if you find any interesting books or guides on what you are writing about, set up an affiliate link on your blog. Clickbank is easy to use, go to Resources on Clickbank.Com, check out your topic and what is offered, and if you like one of products, get the affiliate link. There are many other affiliate resources out there that you can check and other ways to monitize your blog later on.
- Buy a domain and hosting
- Use fantastico to set up your blog on your domain
- Choose the theme of your blog
- Upload your new theme
- Get the plugins you need
- Upload your plugins with Filezilla
- Write your first post and the second and….. Have fun.
Find interesting products with affiliate program that you can show on your blog
Just enjoy what you are doing.
Let the idea of earning extra 100$ or 200$ per week from your blog sink into your head, make the idea achievable, then when you reach your goal, sink another idea into our head , make it 500$ per week and so on, every time you reach your goal, make a new one. Make a long term goal also
That in 1 year or in 3 years you will be earning a certain amount from your blog.
Make it clear what you want, having fun and the money will follow.
Have patience, build up your business, no business is build in one night, your blog will be up and running in few minutes but then you need to build the business.
You can do it, everyone can do it, if only one person has done it and there are thousands that have started this way, everyone should be able to do it.
Do not fix on money; do just make what you are doing interesting and enjoyable.
There are excellent guides and resources on blogging out there if you want to have the exact blueprints
like
and much more.
After setting up your blog, what will be interesting to know, is how to get the traffic.
I will be posting the outlines on that shortly, even though you can already find these information here somewhere on this blog.
Have fun…
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